Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% If Cormac McCarthy was a Yelp reviewer Russian historian charged with grave robbing after police discover "gruesome tableau" of 29 mummified bodies in his home Climate denier as Borat: what if Christopher Monckton was really a long-running Sacha Baron Cohen character? Then we take Berlin Astounding 3D effects projected onto a building's facade Using a miter box to make straight cuts in wood The future of energy and the future of risk Ask physicist Brian Greene anything News of the World had victims' lawyers followed Asteroid close encounter tomorrow night! Simulations of galaxy collisions prove accurate… also amazing video Kick-ass makeup on Colombian student protesters Burning Man opera soundtrack now available GAMA-GO holiday sale Die Antwoord: "Fok Julle Naaiers" (music video) Photographer shot by Oakland Police with "less-lethal" round, for no apparent reason Lego army invades Chalkfestival to "Free" Ego Leonard Die Antwoord leave Interscope, will release "TEN$ION" on their own new indie label Multitool cigarette case, 1933 Eyal Ophir on the Science of Multitasking If Cormac McCarthy was a Yelp reviewer
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 12:51 pm Yelping with Cormac is a rather arch and very funny Tumblr with a simple premise: what if Cormac McCarthy was addicted to reviewing restaurants and stores on Yelp? Whole Foods Market Noe Valley - San Francisco, CA Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM Four stars. The sheriff and the posse were ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 11:29 am A man identified as Russian historian Anatoly Moskvin has been charged with desecrating graveyards after Russian police found 29 mummified bodies dressed in bright clothes and posed like dolls in a "gruesome tableau" in his home. The national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said Moskvin was detained at a cemetery while carrying a bag of bones. But ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 09:03 am Australian comedy-news program The Hamster Wheel covers archconservative British politician Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, a Thatcherite climate denier, and former editor for The Sunday Telegraph and other right-wing papers. The Hamster Wheel decides that Monckton (who once advocated confining people with AIDS to lifetime quarantine) must actually be a long-running Sacha Baron ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 07:21 am Reminder: I'm doing a live reading in Berlin tonight at 2000h (Sankt Oberholz, Rosenthaler Str. 72, Berlin Mitte). Tschüss!
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 04:32 am This LG mobile phone ad "event" projected a startling and well-conceived montage of 3D effects onto a building's facade in Berlin. It's all very spectacular and beautiful -- pretty amazing for an ad (though I can imagine that if a whole city were taken over by this sort of advertising every night, it would be ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 08, 2011 03:55 am I wrote an article in CRAFT about making straight wood cuts with a cheap miter box. Project 101: Make Straight Wood Cuts with a Miter Box
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 07, 2011 10:07 pm I got to have another great conversation with synthetic biologist and blogger Christina Agapakis on Bloggingheads.tv's Science Saturday. Christina and I chatted about some of the issues that came up at an energy conference I spoke at recently, examined the possibility of using synthetic biology to create fuel, and talked about how we navigate the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 07, 2011 09:49 pm Last week, physicist Brian Greene answered a lot of questions—including a few submitted by BoingBoing readers!—at a live event in New York City. If you missed it, you can watch a recording of the event online now. But wait, there's more! Dr. Greene only had an hour to talk, and a metric crap ton of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 07, 2011 09:31 pm After phone hacking allegations started hurting last year at U.K. tabloid News of the World, it placed its victims' lawyers -- even their children -- under surveillance. [BBC]
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2011 06:58 pm Don't forget that a 1,300 foot asteroid, about the size of an aircraft carrier, will fly by Earth tomorrow even closer to us than the moon. Don't worry, it won't hit. It'll be tricky to catch a glimpse, but you might spot it if you have a telescope with at least a 6-inch mirror, says ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2011 06:39 pm In September, I posted about Bolshoi, the most accurate computer simulation of the universe in the world. (Visualizations from Bolshoi were also seen in Bjork's Biophiliar performance.) Bolshoi's co-creator, UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Joel Primack, has now emailed me this thrilling news confirming the accuracy of his computer simulations. Joel says: By comparing Hubble Space ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 07, 2011 06:20 pm These student protesters in Bogota, Colombia have really got it going on, makeupwise. Student protestors in Colombia know how to get attention (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) (Image: cropped, downsized thumbnail from a photo by AP Photo/Fernando Vergara))
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2011 05:33 pm A couple years ago, I posted that BB pal Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and Visionary State, wrote the libretto for a critically-acclaimed rock opera about Burning Man. How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera returns to Los Angeles on November 20 while Reno and Vegas (!) staging are in the works! Erik informs ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2011 05:15 pm Our pals at GAMA-GO are hosting their big holiday sale in San Francisco this Saturday. Have a cocktail! Save some money! Harass co-proprietor Greg Long about his incendiary comments on this site! "GAMAGO's 8th Annual San Francisco Holiday Sale!"
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2011 05:14 pm [Video Link] The song, and the video, which apparently led to Die Antwoord's divorce from Interscope to go independent. This will be the first single to be released off their soon-to-be-self-released album TEN$ION. Warning: If you are afraid of spiders or scorpions, you should not watch this video.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2011 04:33 pm An Oakland Police Department officer shot blogger and videographer Scott Campbell with a projectile (a "bean bag" round or rubbber bullet, it's not clear which) while he was recording video during Occupy protests this weekend. Mr. Campbell was not threatening the officers or engaged in any violent activity that required this response. Is it legal ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 07, 2011 04:29 pm "Free Ego," a chalk painting designed by Leon Keer, was inspired by Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army "in honor of the arrival of Ego Leonard and to support his release out of his custody." [Submitted by Planet Chalkpainting]
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2011 03:18 pm [UPDATE: Here's the video that led to the "divorce."—XJ] Anyone can not sign with a major label (see there? you just did it yourself!), but to sign with one and then sign off abruptly when the label tells you your work needs to be reworked for more mainstream appeal? That's news. And that, according to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 07, 2011 03:38 pm Ah, the good old days, when it was de rigeur to stick a knife-blade onto every single object one carried, back before the era of aviation confiscation totum: Eight distinct purposes are served by the versatile pocket case, illustrated above. A cigarette compartment occupies the center, supplemented by a concealed writing tablet, a telescoping pencil, ...
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By Avi Solomon on Nov 07, 2011 02:20 pm Photo: Eyal Ophir with his daughter Sahar, courtesy of the subject. Eyal Ophir was primary researcher on the pioneering Stanford Multitasking study. He now designs information interfaces for the browser RockMelt. Avi Solomon How did you get to studying multitasking at Stanford? Eyal Ophir While I was at Stanford, Cliff Nass (my advisor, and a ...
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