Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Small dog is ready for carnival season to begin in Germany Dozens arrested at late-night police raid on Occupy St. Louis Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London Occupy Salt Lake City must be closed, mayor says, after dead guy found in tent Sex offender serving life sentence in Florida says soy-based prison food is "cruel and unusual punishment" Chinese elderly citizens' choir covers Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Penn State: connecting the dots between child sex abuse and sexual assault of women Slideshow: science tattoos from Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed Scott Olsen, Marine vet injured by police at Occupy Oakland, is released from hospital Scalzi on the suspension of common sense in PSU sex abuse case: Omelas Eviction notices served on Occupy Oakland campers, who then destroy every last one of them NYT writer who investigated secret FBI probes loses fight to unseal information Mexico: Interior Minister killed in mysterious chopper crash 3 years after predecessor's death in mysterious plane crash Bil Keane 1922-2011 Least exciting comic book action sequence ever Documentary about collectors: Finders Keepers: The Heart of Collecting Jennifer Daniel's art based on Playboy centerfolds who have died Barack Obama on his re-election campaign's television media strategy Current cover of Esquire inspired by 1920s pin-up artist? My novella Chicken Little as a stand-alone ebook This 28-year-old's startup is moving $350 million and wants to completely kill credit cards The mystery of the Lower Haight's Peacock Lounge Collie in the coalmine: What's the fallout for pets abandoned in Japan's Fukushima hot zone? Oddballz Circus John Dunivant's amazing Theatre Bizarre Mystery radiation over Europe Flying rhinoceros Safecast draws on power of the crowd to map Japan's radiation Cute Soviet space program statuettes, 1961 Oakland Police ask Occupy Oakland to "please: leave peacefully and immediately" Small dog is ready for carnival season to begin in Germany
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 06:28 am A dog dressed for carnival is pictured in the streets at the start of the carnival in Cologne, Germany, on November 11, 2011. In many parts of Germany, at 11:11am on November 11 people mark the official start of Carnival, a season of controlled raucous fun that reaches a climax during the days before Ash ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 06:06 am Police are raiding the Occupy St. Louis protest encampment. According to their Twitter, at least two dozen have been arrested tonight. "People are chanting, 'Our passion, our freedom, is stronger than your prisons!'" Here's their live web stream.
Read in browser Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 12, 2011 05:53 am Scotland Yard have arrested 179 members of the ultra-right English Defense League for plotting an attack on the OccupyLondon protesters encamped at St Paul's cathedral in London. The EDL had sent a statement to the Occupy camp threatening violence if protesters didn't leave "their" church and "stop violating their religion." EDL members also posted arson ...
Read in browser Occupy Salt Lake City must be closed, mayor says, after dead guy found in tent
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 05:44 am After an Occupy SLC camper was found dead in his tent, the city's mayor has called for an end to the protest. "Investigators believe the man died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning due to a space heater inside his tent and a drug overdose." (via @apelad)
Read in browser Sex offender serving life sentence in Florida says soy-based prison food is "cruel and unusual punishment"
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 05:39 am A 34-year-old inmate in a Florida prison who is serving a life sentence for sexual battery on a child says soy-based prison foods amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Soybeans, according to the convicted child sex offender, threaten his health by endangering his thyroid and immune system.
Read in browser Chinese elderly citizens' choir covers Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 05:31 am Video Link: "Lao Lai Qiao Gaga," from Hunan TV, China. (via @Theremina)
Read in browser Penn State: connecting the dots between child sex abuse and sexual assault of women
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 05:27 am Claire Potter on the PSU child sex abuse case: "The mistake Penn State made was... a simple category error: they mistook these pubescent boys for women." (via @ncecire)
Read in browser Slideshow: science tattoos from Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 12, 2011 04:56 am Here's a slideshow of images from Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, a new book collecting Carl Zimmer's favorite science-y tatts. I still think the Euler's identity brand I photographed a few years back is the most committed science body-art I've seen. Science, Skin and Ink
Read in browser Scott Olsen, Marine vet injured by police at Occupy Oakland, is released from hospital
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 04:42 am Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old Marine veteran seriously injured by a police projectile during a violent raid on the peaceful Occupy Oakland encampment, was released from the hospital this week. Olsen received traumatic brain injury when a police officer (still un-named, from an unknown force, maybe Oakland police but maybe not) shot him with a so-called ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 04:37 am Regarding child rape at Penn State, says John Scalzi, These things should be simple (it's an Omelas allegory).
Read in browser Eviction notices served on Occupy Oakland campers, who then destroy every last one of them
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 04:29 am "Every last one of the 200 eviction notices handed out earlier" were destroyed by angry Occupy Oakland protesters, according to Inside Bay Area. But don't worry, you can read the full text here.
Read in browser NYT writer who investigated secret FBI probes loses fight to unseal information
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 04:10 am Courthouse News Service: "The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously probed thousands of people without reasonable suspicion."
Read in browser Mexico: Interior Minister killed in mysterious chopper crash 3 years after predecessor's death in mysterious plane crash
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 12, 2011 04:03 am There's no evidence of foul play in the death today of Mexico's Interior Minister José Francisco Blake, but amid the country's raging drug war, there's plenty of suspicion. The helicopter carrying the country's top domestic security official and seven others crashed in the southern part of Mexico City en route to a meeting of prosecutors ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 12, 2011 01:31 am Illustrator Robert Ullman wrote a nice eulogy for Bil Keane, creator of Family Circus: The funnies lost another grand old man today with the passing of Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus. Family Circus, along with Peanuts, was one of the very first comic strips I remember ever reading...but though my fondness for Schulz's ...
Read in browser Least exciting comic book action sequence ever
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 12, 2011 01:24 am Sleestack of the blog Lady, That's My Skull presents a comic book story by Frank Frollo for Funny Picture Stories #11 (Nov 1938) that's so dull and lifeless that it is fascinating. The lion threatening one of the characters is about a half mile away, something that doesn't really inspire tension and even the captions ...
Read in browser Documentary about collectors: Finders Keepers: The Heart of Collecting
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 11, 2011 11:59 pm [Video Link] Patrick Rosenkranz is the author of an outstanding history of underground comics, Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution. He just emailed to let me know that he has completed a documentary about collectors of all kinds of things, including "antique telephones and talking machines, confectionary molds, snowglobes, handcuffs, breweriana, and other interesting artifacts." ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 11, 2011 11:43 pm This is a detail from a print called Dead Sexy by artist Jennifer Daniel. The print reproduces the lips from the centerfold photos of the 36 Playmates of the Month who have died since 1963, listing their causes of death. Lots of suicides and drug overdoses! Dead Sexy, by Jennifer Daniel
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By Dean Putney on Nov 11, 2011 08:25 pm "We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim." You're a bold kid, Barack. Real bold. via USA Today. Thanks, Noah!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 11, 2011 08:17 pm Jack R runs a blog dedicated to the great early 20th century illustrator Enoch Bolles. Here, he takes a look at a the November 2011 cover of Esquire, comparing it with this 1920's cover of Film Fun, with a Bolles illo. Do you think the Esquire photographer was inspired by the Bolles illo (or was ...
Read in browser My novella Chicken Little as a stand-alone ebook
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 11, 2011 06:06 pm 40K, an Italian publisher, have brought out a standalone ebook version of my novella Chicken Little, publishing it simultaneously in English and Italian with some lovely illustrations. They're starting it off at a low price (which will go up on Nov 16): $0.99 in the Kindle store; £0.86 in the UK Kindle store; €0.99 in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 11, 2011 05:53 pm Business Insider interviews Ben Milne, founder of an online payment system called Dwolla that charges a flat fee of $0.25 per transaction (unlike Paypal, Square, credit card companies, which charge a percentage). We hear you're making credit card companies angry. How are you doing that? Ben Milne: Ultimately we're trying to build the next Visa, ...
Read in browser The mystery of the Lower Haight's Peacock Lounge
By Dean Putney on Nov 11, 2011 05:41 pm Rose Garrett over at The Bold Italic did some crackerjack investigative work on a little lounge nestled between the bars in the Lower Haight of San Francisco. The Peacock Lounge is almost always closed, only very rarely opened for private events. Rose's attempts to reach someone, anyone, associated with the venue go unanswered until its ...
Read in browser Collie in the coalmine: What's the fallout for pets abandoned in Japan's Fukushima hot zone?
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 11, 2011 05:40 pm PBS NewsHour's Jenny Marder wrote a really interesting feature about the abandoned pets inside the Fukushima evacuation zone in Japan. I encountered some of them when I traveled to the area with Safecast and PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien (our resulting PBS NewsHour report video is here). Jenny digs into what happened with the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 11, 2011 05:38 pm Boing Boing pal Sarah Ruxin just released her first iOS app for children and it's a hit with my little happy mutants. Oddballz Circus is a very simple, silly, and ultracute game in which you mix and match body parts to make various circus characters. Of course, it's most fun when you create wonderfully strange ...
Read in browser John Dunivant's amazing Theatre Bizarre
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 11, 2011 05:26 pm [Video Link] My favorite maker at Maker Faire Detroit this year was John Dunivant, the creator of an "abandoned theme park" called Theatre Bizarre that comes to life with otherworldly performers. He's an incredible artist and visionary who dreams big and executes on his vision. See other Maker Faire videos here. And above are some ...
Read in browser Mystery radiation over Europe
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 11, 2011 05:08 pm The IAEA reports that "very low levels of radiation, which are higher than normal but don't seem to pose a health hazard," have been registered in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The source is unknow, but it's not Fukushima. The "very low levels of iodine-131 have been measured in the atmosphere,", and this ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 11, 2011 05:07 pm This is a black rhinoceros being relocated by helicopter out of its home where poachers would likely kill it. Why? Black rhino horn is valuable as "medicine." From National Geographic: The rhino airlifts were part of WWF's Black Rhino Range Expansion Project, which has moved nearly 120 of the animals to date. In the latest ...
Read in browser Safecast draws on power of the crowd to map Japan's radiation
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 11, 2011 04:51 pm [Video Link: YouTube, PBS.org] I traveled to Japan with PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien to help shoot and produce a series of NewsHour stories about the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters. One of these just aired, and is above. It's the story of how a group of hackers and ...
Read in browser Cute Soviet space program statuettes, 1961
By David Pescovitz on Nov 11, 2011 04:49 pm These delightful porcelain statues from the days of the Soviet space program, circa 1961, are up for auction on eBay. "Soviet Moon Spacemen USSR Rocket Porcelain 3 Statues 1961"
Read in browser Oakland Police ask Occupy Oakland to "please: leave peacefully and immediately"
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 11, 2011 04:35 pm Today, the morning after a homicide took place near the Occupy Oakland encampment, "An Open Letter to Occupy Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers' Association." My guess is that odds are high for another forceful crackdown on the encampment by police.
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