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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 18, 2011 10:05 am A new material developed by scientists at UC Irvine is described as the "world's lightest material," so light it can perch atop a dandelion clock without disturbing the seeds. The material is documented in the Nov 18 Science. The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique "micro-lattice" cellular architecture. The ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 18, 2011 06:15 am [Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, many making their way on to the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying LED candles and chanting. As Occupiers took the bridge in a seemingly endless sea of people, words in light appeared projected on the iconic Verizon Building nearby: ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 18, 2011 01:22 am Glenn Fleishman reviews the Kindle Fire for The Economist: "The Fire is not an iPad killer. But nor does it need to be."
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 18, 2011 01:04 am Video Link: Projections on Verizon building #ows. Thanks, Eric Spiegelman! Here's a partial video of a beautiful sequence of light projections that appeared on the side of the Verizon building while tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street participants marched across the Brooklyn Bridge tonight. More about the march, and more stills, in this previous ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 11:48 pm Marco sez, "My elementary and middle school friend Tom Samui from Switzerland makes these custom sculptures out of recycled car and motorcycle parts." He and his team have been perfecting these sculptures over the last ten years. Once a month they go to a junk yard and cart away a truckload of old car and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 10:50 pm Karl Schroeder sez, "This is a link to a teaser image for my upcoming reveal of the new graphic novel version of Sun of Suns, my far-future freefall steampunk pirate adventure. I'll be introducing the project, the artists and company--and the art--this Saturday night at 6:00 p.m. at the SFContario convention in downtown Toronto." Previewing ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 10:39 pm Looks like Mayor Bloomberg's apparent plan to squash the Occupy Wall Street movement by evicting protesters from Zuccotti Park earlier this week only added fuel to the fire. This morning, occupiers swarmed into Wall Street by the thousands, effectively blocking access to the financial center. And at the time of this blog post, by various ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 10:02 pm The Minnesota Dental Association is worried about super-sour canday, because super-sour = super acidic. Here's a handy chart they've revealted that will tell you how close to battery acid your favorite treat is. The Power of Sour on Your Teeth (TM) (PDF) (via Kottke)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 17, 2011 09:49 pm Gender isn't a simple thing. A person can be male, female, both, neither, and more—and that identity doesn't have to have anything to do with the particular genital plumbing they were born with. But the plumbing itself—the biological sex, rather than gender or socio-cultural sex—is also a lot more complicated (and interesting) than we often ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 09:03 pm Swiss luxury watch company Hublot has announced a version of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator, that is incorporated into a wristwatch. The mechanism is to be displayed at the 2012 Baselworld expo before moving to a permanent exhibit at Musée des arts et métiers in Paris. Hublot painstakingly recreates a mysterious, 2,100-year-old ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 17, 2011 08:05 pm [Video Link] Hans Andersson's Time Twister clock, made from Lego Mindstorms components, is very clever! I have always been fascinated with time and clocks. Time Twister is my first clock invention. Time Twister consists of two LEGO Mindstorms bricks communicating via Bluetooth. The master brick keeps track of the time and handles the minute digits. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 08:03 pm Juha writes, The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, is angry that a conversation between him and a rightwing candidate for Parliament was recorded by a cameraman - so angry that he's reported the matter to the police which is now going to raid TVNZ, Radio NZ, TV3 and another, unnamed media organisation. Key ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 17, 2011 07:54 pm Brian Lam, quoting Lorie Karnath on exploring the past: "Many who venture into the field to conduct dinosaur paleontological research never or rarely have the chance to even see let alone find and touch a bone from millions of years ago. And yet, here was this chance find within minutes of arriving at the site. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 17, 2011 07:41 pm I know it isn't Wednesday, but Subtropic Bob posted this 1961 Cavalier cover today and it's no fun to call it Mean Whale Thursday. See also: Mean Monkey Monday: Macaque vs iPhone User - Boing Boing Mean Monkey Monday (bonus material 1) Mean Monkey Monday 1 Mean Monkey Monday 2 Mean Monkey Monday 3 Mean ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 17, 2011 07:09 pm San Francisco's Asian Art Museum opened an exhibition this week of work by Sanjay Patel, the wonderful illustrator and Pixar animator who we've featured on BB many times over the years. The show, titled "Deities, Demons, and Dudes with 'Staches: Indian Avatars by Sanjay Patel" runs until April. I also highly recommend Sanjay's "Little Book ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 07:05 pm An enormous, diverse global coalition of press freedom and human rights groups have signed onto a letter (PDF) opposing America's Stop Online Piracy Act, the worst proposed Internet law in the USA's legislative history. Included signatories are as varied as India's Center for Internet and Society, the Church of Sweden, Colombia's Karisma, the UK Open ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 06:04 pm The librarians of Occupy Wall Street saw their carefully catalogued collection of over 5,000 books and archive of original writing, art and other material from the historic protest destroyed by the NYPD. There were early reports (spun and promoted by the office of NYC Mayor Bloomberg) that the library had been carefully stowed in a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 17, 2011 05:22 pm Domokatsu Bento from the amazing "Adventures In Bentomaking." (Thanks, Koshi!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 05:16 pm Carey sez, "NYC Deputy Mayors Howard Wolfson and Cas Holloway went on NY1 (our local news channel) last night to discuss Tuesday morning's raid on Zuccotti Park. When the anchor confronted them about the media blackout, they became indignant and firmly stated that the press does not have the right to report in the vicinity ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 05:13 pm The neon Yahoo billboard, which sits by the highway on the way to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, is about to come down. It has been an iconic (and quite lovely) sign of the Internet boom that remade the city starting in the mid-nineties. It's been a San Francisco icon for more than a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 17, 2011 05:04 pm At the always-provocative Edge site, Brian Eno presents his lecture on a shift from the composer as an architect "who carries a full picture of the work before it is made', to 'gardener' standing for 'someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up'." It's been years since I saw Eno ...
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By Henry Kaiser on Nov 17, 2011 05:00 pm Introduction Maggie Koerth-Baker The Polar regions of the Arctic and the Antarctic are both cold. Beyond that, you can't really talk about conditions at one pole based on the conditions at the other. Case in point: Sea ice. Since 1979, there's been a significant decrease in Arctic sea ice—about 4% per decade—correlated closely to an ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 17, 2011 04:28 pm The city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is bankrupt and is holding a fundraising auction of some neat items from its cabinet of curiosities. Oddly, the items are in the "Wild West" vein even though the city, well, isn't in the west. Apparently, the former mayor Stephen Reed collected the artifacts for an unfinished Wild West museum ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 17, 2011 03:12 pm The Samsung SUR40 has a 40" 1,920 x 1,080 pixel display, a 178° viewing angle, and an Athlon X2 Dual-Core CPU. It's just over 1m wide by 71cm, and weighs 39.5 kg, and comes with Windows 7 Professional x64, 4GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. Available through Samsung resellers, the estimated street price ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 03:08 pm "Inglourious Animals" is a rather clever and well-done mashup of footage from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, mostly using the former's footage and the latter's soundtrack. Inglourious Animals trailer (via Kottke)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 03:05 pm Aggregat456 has a great review of a fascinating book called The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper, a heavily illustrated account of the underlying structure, social impact, engineering challenges and urban shifts of skyscrapers. Similarly, The Heights uses its sumptuous graphics to present a performative and descriptive (i.e. anatomical) look at skyscrapers. To do so, Ascher ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 02:06 pm Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen's Sustainable Materials - with Both Eyes Open: Future Buildings, Vehicles, Products and Equipment - Made Efficiently and Made with Less New Material is a companion volume to Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, one of the best books on science, technology and the environment I've ever read. We review a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 01:59 pm UK consumer groups have investigated claims about the health benefits of sea salt as compared to table salt and concluded that they are without merit. They say that the illusion of health benefits from expensive sea- and rock-salt contribute to the UK's dangerously high levels of salt consumption. An online survey of 1,358 members of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 01:19 pm [Video Link] to a "The other 99%" livestream of history unfolding on Wall Street this morning in New York City. Today, OWS participants called for marches throughout the world. Protesters in NYC have come out in such force, with some crowd estimates at 1,000-3,000, that multiple entrances to the Wall Street area have been shut ...
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