Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Commendably honest ad for failed child restraint system Occupier/Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "jumped me" Prisoner's toothpick replicas of Final Fantasy weapons Kum pencil sharpeners Zen and the Art of Making, by Phil Torrone Yarn-bombed music video by Seventeen Evergreen HOWTO make your own skateboard truck lazy-susan table Competitive Sobriety Tests and Automotive Hot Wiring Classes Amongst Offerings at Machine Project's Benefit Worst fonts ever DIY Sous vide cooking Global Village Construction Set: Towards a DIY civilization Is this Jack the Ripper's ripper? Aquaria out for iPad El Tren Fantasma: ambient recording of a ghostly train journey Sophie Madeleine performs "Oil & Gold" on ukulele -- Boing Boing exclusive Love the ocean? Check this out Memory Palace: Rhode Island's 19th century vampire Soundtrack for an abandoned skyscraper Whales, kayakers get a little too close Conan O'Brien officiates first same-sex marriage on a late night TV show Jacketing Lolita Couple adopts Dachsund, days later doses it with LSD, tripping dog wanders into traffic and dies A must-read for college students and professors A quick Q&A with Chuck Hogan, co-author of The Night Eternal As you already suspected, the CIA is reading your tweets and Facebook status updates Fukushima: The first 24 hours Interview with a Stoic: William O. Stephens Science helps old mice age gracefully Commendably honest ad for failed child restraint system
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 05, 2011 10:02 am Here's an innovative automotive child-restraint system from 1961. Clearly this little tyke is enjoying her crash-webbing. Wonder why it never caught on? Contest Entry--Easybaby Car Belt, 1961
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 05, 2011 09:59 am Kayvan Sabeghi, a veteran of the US Army Rangers, is in the ICU at Oakland's Highland General Hospital after a clash with Oakland PD during the Occupy Oakland protests. Sabeghi claims he was "jumped" by OPD officers who severely beat him and subsequently denied him medical treatment. The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 05, 2011 09:42 am A prisoner in Wales made these astounding Final Fantasy weapons out of toothpicks, only to have them confiscated because they were so realistic that the prison authorities felt that they constituted a threat to safety. It's this kind of dogged, enthusiastic creativity that makes dinners with my Welsh in-laws so exciting! Prisoner Builds Final Fantasy ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 10:38 pm Mister Jalopy says, "Coco's sells beechwood, made in Germany Kum pencil sharpeners for $1 each [left]. I knew Kum had been around for about 100 years, but I did not know they made the most awesome pencil sharpener in the entire world [right]." Kum pencil sharpeners
Read in browser Zen and the Art of Making, by Phil Torrone
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 09:14 pm Phil Torrone says: This week for my bi-weekly MAKE soapbox column, I thought I’d share some of my notes I’ve jotted down recently about making things, working with and supporting beginners. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much fun it is when you’re a beginner at something as opposed to being an “expert.” At some ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 09:08 pm Seventeen Evergreen - Polarity Song from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo. [Video Link] (Thanks, Jim!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 08:59 pm Inspired by the skateboard-truck lazy-susan table I blogged last year, Instructables user Wilgubeast has produced a HOWTO for replicating it for about $70, excluding the glass: "Think of the possibilities: Play board games where nobody has to look at the board upside-down. Bring the remote within reach without getting up from the couch. Epic tea ...
Read in browser Competitive Sobriety Tests and Automotive Hot Wiring Classes Amongst Offerings at Machine Project's Benefit
By misterjalopy on Nov 04, 2011 08:33 pm Echo Park's much loved Machine Project offers art, classes and civilized mayhem from Experimental Millinery and Bookbinding to Flame Effects (read: giant fireballs) and Sewing 101. Annually, a month's worth of epic programming is compressed into a single night's party. At this year's benefit, DMV: After Dark, you will experience such phenomena as: car horn ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 04, 2011 06:02 pm Simon Garfield offers his selection of the eight worst fonts in the world. Comic Sans is not included on grounds of lifetime achievement, but loathed classic Papyrus and Trajan make good showings. The winner is London's 2012 Olympic Font, which fits in well with the event's draughtmanship-free "blowjob Lisa" logo and "default shapes in the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 04:44 pm Jon Kalish reports on DIY sous vide immersion cookers. (In a recent issue of MAKE magazine, we ran a how-to article on building a sous vide cooker for about $75. Here are the full instructions. ) Sous vide cooking was once the province of chefs at fancy restaurants and home cooks willing to shell out ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 04:40 pm Meara O'Reilly says: Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set -- a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. They've launched a Kickstarter here. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 04, 2011 04:40 pm Above left is Welsh surgeon Sir John Williams who has long been suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Above right is a knife that Sir John's great-great-great-great nephew, Tony Williams, found that he claims is the Ripper's weapon. The story is in his book, Uncle Jack - A Victorian Mystery. From The Telegraph: He found ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 04, 2011 04:29 pm Aquaria, one of my favorite indie games of recent years, is now out for iPad. [Thanks, Adam!]
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 04, 2011 03:47 pm Chris Watson was a founder of the seminal 1970s experimental music/performance art group Cabaret Voltaire who has since become a highly-respected ambient sound recordist for television, film, and radio. More than a decade ago, Watson spent a month on a train traveling across Mexico with a BBC TV crew documenting the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México's ...
Read in browser Sophie Madeleine performs "Oil & Gold" on ukulele -- Boing Boing exclusive
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 04, 2011 03:18 pm Sophie Madeleine "Oil & Gold" - Live at the Loft from Indaba Music on Vimeo. [Video Link] Shown here, for the first time anywhere, is this wonderful video of Sophie Madeleine performing "Oil & Gold." It was shot at the the Indaba Music offices in New York. Sophie says, "You may already be acquainted with ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 03:17 pm The Scuttlefish, former-Gizmodo editor Brian Lam's newish blog about all things awesomely ocean, is looking for writers and interns.
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 04, 2011 03:16 pm A delightfully creepy, interesting, and real tale on the latest Memory Palace podcast. Host Nate Dimeo says, "1893: a sad dad's neighbors convince him that his dead daughter is a vampire who's after the blood of his other children. Bodies are exhumed, hearts removed, teas are made from ashes, unsurprisingly, none of this cures tuberculosis. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 04, 2011 03:07 pm Sathorn Unique is a 50-story skyscraper in Bangkok that was meant to be a luxury living address but now it's totally abandoned and decaying. Cory posted about this Ballardian behemoth earlier this year. BB contributor Chris Arkenberg saw the building from a boat several years ago and was so inspired that he made a killer ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 03:05 pm This is why whale watchers are warned to stay 100 yards away from whale feeding areas. Or, as National Geographic's Sven Lindblad put it, "Note to self: Avoid kayaking among schooling herring or sardines." Video Link
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 04, 2011 02:46 pm Book industry art director Peter Mendelsund was a judge in a book jacket contest. One of the entries, a proposed cover for Nabokov's Lolita (above left), inspired Mendelsund to write an essay about the historical approaches to jacketing this particularly "complicated" book. So what's a designer to do? Does a designer attempt a (truly) shocking ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 04, 2011 02:39 pm Two assholes in Georgia dropped some acid, ran naked in the streets, and dosed their pet dachsund "Oscar" (at left), who they'd just picked up only days earlier from a Georgia animal shelter. The disoriented and dosed doggie wandered into traffic and was struck dead by a car. I'm all for consenting adults having whatever ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 02:29 pm As much as 40 percent of the people who start out majoring in science and engineering end up switching to other degrees. Why? The answers are complex, and the people who drop out are often the best-of-the-best. The New York Times looks at why college students leave science majors and what can be done to ...
Read in browser A quick Q&A with Chuck Hogan, co-author of The Night Eternal
By Rob Beschizza on Nov 04, 2011 02:28 pm Chuck Hogan is the co-author, with Guillermo Del Toro, of The Night Eternal, which concludes their best-selling Strain trilogy. He is also the author of Prince of Thieves, recently filmed as The Town. Q: Now that the Strain Trilogy is finished, is there anything that you would change about it if you were starting again? ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 04, 2011 02:16 pm According to this Associated Press story, the tinfoil beanie hat crowd was right all along: "In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the 'vengeful librarians' also pores ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 01:51 pm IEEE Spectrum has a big special feature online now about the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its after-effects. It includes an interactive map showing the impact that Fukushima has had on evacuation of residents, contamination of soil, and contamination of food and water supplies. It also includes a blow-by-blow account of what happened during the first ...
Read in browser Interview with a Stoic: William O. Stephens
By Avi Solomon on Nov 04, 2011 01:46 pm William O. Stephens is Professor of Philosophy and of Classical & Near Eastern Studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He plays tennis and chess, is a vegetarian, and tries to be Stoic about being a big Chicago Cubs fan. Avi Solomon What drew you to studying the Stoic philosophers? William O. Stephens William O. ...
Read in browser Science helps old mice age gracefully
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 01:29 pm There was some interesting research out of the Mayo Clinic announced this week. The study focused on a new method to combat aging, though not, significantly, one that could extend life. Instead of living forever, Darren Baker and colleagues would just like to help people enjoy the time they do have—by reducing the physical downsides ...
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