Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories: trove of lost Dr Seuss stories Canon of St Paul's resigns over plans to evict OccupyLondon Sony to take over Sony-Ericsson Edible Venn diagram: the piagram Mark live on Triggla.tv at 5pm pacific 1907 open-top auto accessories Triticum Fever, by Dr. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly Goths age gracefully WFMU Radiovision Festival this Weekend In New York City League of Implict Superheroes 60th anniversary of wind-up chattering teeth 3D printing a mechanical computer Occupy Oakland: video shows police officer throwing "flash grenade" into crowd trying to help injured protester TSA IDs agent who left "inappropriate note" in woman's luggage, "removed from screening operations" Oakland police: "Let slip the kittens of war" Happy 10th anniversary, Patriot Act! Business self-defense kit: stylish, wallet-sized concealed weapons HOWTO make a magnetic "reverse hammer" to remove dents from brass instruments Modern-abstract walnut-wood nativity scene The roots of perennial wheat Coffee Joulies review: the effect is barely noticeable One-percenter: why I support Occupy Beautiful video of the demolition of the Alaskan Way viaduct at night Royal Society opens archive, kills productivity I.D. thief in CA nabbed with over 300,000 victim profiles Tax Dodge scheme, or name of a song by UK post-punk band The Fall? Pete Seeger: To Hear Your Banjo Play Crowdsourcing a middle-school science lab Gaddafi wrote a creepy love song for Condolezza Rice Moroccan bow lathe The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories: trove of lost Dr Seuss stories
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 12:55 pm The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories is a collection of "lost" Dr Seuss stories culled from short stories published in magazines like Redbook in the 1940s and 1950s, collected and reprinted for the first time. The publication of a new Seuss collection is reason to celebrate in and of itself, and Bippolo Seed is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 12:55 pm Giles Fraser, a canon at London's St Paul's Cathedral, has resigned his job and given up his church residence in protest of the plan to forcibly evict the Occupy London protesters camped in St Paul's Square. It may have been that accessibility to the media and willingness to be outspoken, together with his instinctive sympathy ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 27, 2011 11:33 am Sony will finally make its own cellphones, absorbing the joint-venture it established with Ericsson in 2001. The time it took for this decision to move from evident necessity to execution -- about 3 years -- is effectively a benchmark. If you struck Sony on the head with an axe, or punched it in the balls, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 07:12 am I can't find any further info on this Venn piagram, but surely it belongs in the annals of great math related food humor. Update: It only took nine minutes for more context to arrive, courtesy of adamhst in the comments: this was created by Redditor HungryHungryHippy in celebration of the last Pi Day. Venn piagram.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 11:21 pm I'm the guest on The Experts today at 5pm Pacific time. It's hosted by Alexis Diana and streams live on Triggla.tv.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 10:11 pm Pretty much every item for sale on this 1907 ad for "open driving" accessories would make my life better today in 2011, and I don't even own a car. Sleeve protector, robes and apron, raw hide tire bands, and bullet lamps, yes please! Accessories for Open Driving, 1907
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By William Davis on Oct 26, 2011 09:10 pm Quick: Name a common food, consumed every day by most people, that: • Increases overall calorie consumption by 400 calories per day • Affects the human brain in much the same way as morphine • Has a greater impact on blood sugar levels than a candy bar • Is consumed at the rate of 133 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 09:02 pm Surrey University sociologist Dr Paul Hodkinson conducted a series of follow-up interviews with goths he'd studied as teenagers in the 90s and found that the cohort has made a pretty graceful transition into middle age and parenthood: "It's a relatively middle-class subculture, so despite … all the going out and being into the music, goths ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 08:39 pm WFMU presents a festival celebrating radio's future as it takes on new forms in the digital age for the medium's fans, tinkerers and future thinkers. A special opening night performance with Radio Legend Joe Frank, a day of talks featuring Tom Scharpling, Marc Maron, Ira Glass, Kenneth Goldsmith, Gabriella Coleman, DJ /rupture, Brooke Gladstone and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 08:36 pm COSMIC RAYS TURNED HER INTO A FANTASTIC ICE CREAM TREAT. Josh Glenn says John Hilgart, creator of the excellent comic-book detail galleries Comic Book Cartography, 4CP, and Supertype!, has recently discovered a motley crew of what he calls “implicit superheroes” — heroes who were there, all along, trapped in the mastheads of classic comics, if ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 08:05 pm Ben Marks says: "In our latest interview with Mardi and Stan Timm, the couple who collect novelties such as Girlie Glasses and Fake Barf, we drill down on the history of chattering teeth, which were manufactured by H. Fishlove & Co. as Yakity-Yak. The Timm's describe the gag's inspiration (the inventor was riffing on a 'garage' for dentures), ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 08:03 pm Chris Fenton is using his MakerBot 3D printer to print out a mechanical computer; here he demonstrates one of the counting mechanisms. Because I have a 3D printer and I can!
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 07:34 pm [Video Link.] Video analysis by blogger Matt Kresling: "Footage from the Occupy Oakland protest, October 25th, 2011. After protesters ran to the aid of a badly-injured person, Oakland Police deliberately lobbed a flash grenade into the crowd. Whatever you think of the Occupy movement, police behavior of this kind is criminal and should be prosecuted." ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 07:33 pm This really is news: the TSA has identified and fired the screener agent who, upon finding a sex toy in a woman's checked luggage, left a creepy note for her. Update: The TSA has not fired the agent. The TSA announcement states that the agent has been identified, "removed from screening operations and appropriate disciplinary ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 07:32 pm Matthew Yglesias, observing Shani O. Hilton's twitpic of the Washington Post front page today: "It's amazing that Oakland PD managed to disperse the Occupy Oakland crowd solely by petting kittens." Says Shani, "Not teargassing a soul!" She writes more about it here.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 07:10 pm My how time flies and civil liberties fade. Ten years to the day since the Patriot Act passed, making potential enemies of the state of us all. And no signs of retirement in sight. Patriot Act is worse than you think, senator says – Boing Boing Patriot Act search warrants overwhelmingly used for drugs – ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 07:04 pm Tha Business is a concept design by Hoang and Anh Nguyen that rethinks a number of antipersonnel objects (pepper spray, knives, brass knuckles) as stylish, wallet-sized gizmos. Also includes a whistle. Tha Business Self Defense Kit (via Beyond the Beyond)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 06:32 pm SuperMagnete documents a clever method for removing dents from brass instruments using powerful magnets. You insert a steel ball (smaller than the dent) in the instrument, and then use a padded magnet on the outside to "rub out" the dents. A more elaborate method uses a "reverse hammer" that works on harder surfaces. To remove ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 05:26 pm Etsy seller Bunnywithatoolbelt made this "white and walnut" abstract nativity that reminds me of Danish modern furniture crossed with classic starburst clocks. Nativity Set - white and walnut (via Making Light)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 26, 2011 05:25 pm This is not the best photo, but it is pretty damn mind-blowing. What you see here is Jerry Glover, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, holding the root system of a single perennial wheat plant. The photo was taken by Scientific American editor Mariette DiChristina at the Compass Summit in Palos Verdes, California. There's more to this ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 05:24 pm In the spring, Cory and I both linked to the Kickstarter campaign for Coffee Joulies. Here was the promise of these intriguing metallic lozenges: Coffee Joulies work with your coffee to achieve two goals. First, they absorb extra thermal energy in your coffee when it's served too hot, cooling it down to a drinkable temperature ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 05:16 pm Gaius, a self-described member of the 1% ("Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan would save me roughly $400,000 a year in taxes, and President Obama's tax proposals would cost me more than $100,000") writes on DailyKos in support of the Occupy movement and describes the absurdity of the pitched battles over raising taxes on the rich by ...
Read in browser Beautiful video of the demolition of the Alaskan Way viaduct at night
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 05:09 pm [Video Link] 3ric Johanson of Hackerbot Labs shot this beautiful video. He says it "shows the upper deck of the viaduct being demolished by massive jackhammers, while a brave construction worker sprays water to keep the dust down. It looks like we should expect an alien to come jumping out of this video at any ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 26, 2011 05:00 pm 60,000 peer-reviewed papers, including the first peer-reviewed scientific research journal in the world, are now available free online. The Royal Society has opened its historical archives to the public. Among the cool stuff you'll find here: Issac Newton's first published research paper and Ben Franklin's write-up about that famous kite experiment. Good luck getting anything ...
Read in browser I.D. thief in CA nabbed with over 300,000 victim profiles
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 04:51 pm CNET reports that a man in California has been sentenced to eight years in prison for identity theft after federal police GPS-tracked his phone and discovered a hard drive with over 300,000 victim profiles during a raid of his home.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 04:50 pm "See if you can tell the difference between a corporate tax avoidance scheme and a Fall song title, by playing our soon-to-be-household-favourite game."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 04:48 pm [Video Link] Mike Springer of Open Culture says: This past weekend, Pete Seeger marched through the streets of Manhattan with the Occupy Wall Street movement. He was a spritely 92. It was the latest in a lifetime of political engagement by Seeger, dating all the way back to his youthful support of the Spanish Civil War. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 26, 2011 04:46 pm Reddit poster mdrabz is a middle school science teacher who just got a $5500 state grant to set up a lab for his 7th and 8th grade students in the Mississippi Delta. How do you choose what to buy with that money? Mdrabz turned to the Internet for suggestions. Answers range from the inevitable Breaking ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 04:37 pm "And then he said, 'I have Libya's best composer, most famous composer write this song for you,' and it was called 'Black Flower in the White House.'"—Condolezza Rice, describing her stalker, Muammar Gaddafi, in The Washington Post.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 26, 2011 04:31 pm [Video Link] I've never heard of a bow lathe, much less see one in action. This is a fascinating video of a man in Marrakech who uses a hand-powered lathe to cut wooden chess pieces. He uses his foot to hold the tool steady. Moroccan bow lathe
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