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Talking Heads Chronology: live performances 1976-1983 Lucky iron fish persuades Cambodian women to cook with iron, stave off anemia Bacon squeezins water bottle Watch starfish flee an icy finger of death What the evidence says about pepper spray safety 2012 Boston Science Fiction Film Festival calls for entries Realistically-encumbered adventurers Master bait ad Professional books with booze flasks hidden in them Three great galleries TARDIS fridge Ho, ho, ho, well if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy? Fiskars ShopBoss: multiscissors to the limit What's on Leonardo daVinci's "To-Do" list? 21 lb layer cake containing three pies Teenagers: Enter YouTube Space Lab competition by December 14 A recipe for sweet potato biscuits How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Aussie senator: News Corp offered me favorable coverage if I killed legislation it didn't like The dronecam revolution will be webcast: Interview with Tim Pool of "The Other 99" Syneseizure, Isodrag Typeface, and other amazing results from Science Hack Day SF 2011 Why "earn" is a poor word-choice when describing the profits of the 1% Blazing de-bullshitification of the arguments for militarized campus police forces PKD vs. UC Davis teargassing cop Suburban California crime caper on This American Life Crass, anti-fashion fashionable eco-tote bags Pepper-spraying cop gets Photoshop justice: Xeni's Guardian op-ed on meme-ing of UC Davis police brutality Cops stun-gun a disabled 61yo man while he was riding his bike. He died. High-rez scan of Einstein's brain slide from Philadelphia's Mütter Museum Spacemen 3: "Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)" Talking Heads Chronology: live performances 1976-1983
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 12:40 pm Talking Heads Chronology is a $21 DVD that chronicles footage of the band from every stage of its life to 1983, including rare footage of their performances at CBGBs in the early days of their act. Talking Heads is, of course, the band that put out the greatest concert movie of all time, along with ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 04:45 am Marilyn sez, "University of Guelph student Christopher Charles worked on a project with scientists in Cambodia three summers ago. They were trying to persuade women in poor villages to put chunks of iron in their cooking pots in order to lower the risk of anemia, but the women weren't interested. Then Charles hit upon the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 24, 2011 04:04 am As an unrepentant bacon junkie (and saver of bacon grease to cook everything else I eat), I appreciate this water bottle, which we sell in the Boing Boing shop. Bacon squeezins water bottle
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 24, 2011 03:19 am This clip from the BBC's Frozen Planet is one of the most amazing things you will ever see. "Brinicle" is a clever portmanteau for an icy finger of death that forms naturally in the very cold seawater one finds around Earth's poles. A crust of sea ice can form on top of this water, and ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 24, 2011 02:55 am The casual and close-range use of pepper spray on nonviolent protesters: It's not just morally bankrupt, it's also not evidence based! Judy Stone is a doctor, infectious disease specialist, and the author of a book on how to properly conduct clinical research. She's got a guest post on Scientific American blog network looking at the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 24, 2011 02:29 am Carsten Turner writes in, with a call for entries for the 2012 Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, running Feb. 10-20 in Somerville, MA. "Film-makers can submit projects to withoutabox. Winners will selected for Best Feature and Best Short. This year, two new categories have been established, too Steampunk Feature & Short. Each winning entry will ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 24, 2011 02:07 am Of the many absurdities that have become conventions in computer role-playing games, the nigh-unlimited inventory--packed with items that are not visible[1] on your character's person--is my favorite. Trained as we are to see every last scrap of leather as a potential Chekov's Gun, the results in otherwise realistic sandbox games can get ... ridiculous. Nintendo ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 01:58 am Undated and without providence, this bait ad for "Bloody Good, The Real Blood Bleeding Minnow" needs the word "blood" a few more times, but is otherwise perfect in every way. Sure Fire For Big Ones
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 01:14 am Bender Bound cuts flask-sized cavities into thick, sober (ahem) books in a variety of categories, suitable for hiding in plain sight on a professional looking bookshelf: medical books, law books, cook books, parenting books, even pilot manuals (!). Flask included. Bender Bound (via Lowering the Bar)
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 24, 2011 12:35 am This week, redditors founded a subreddit just to contain the spectacular landscape art generated by the hit RPG Skyrim. The real world is no less beautiful, of course, and it is also no less fantastic, as England's Puzzlewood demonstrates. But journeys are as much about the people as the place; at The Believer, Jon Cotner ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 12:11 am The person(s) behind Time Machine Yeah! turned their fridge into a TARDIS, which is as cool as it gets. Filed under: TARDIS refrigerator I did this I actually did this doctor who (via DVICE)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 24, 2011 12:00 am The Casual Pepper-Spraying Cop has found his niche: he's a droog, and he's up for a bit of the old ultra-aerosol. Droogs (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 10:12 pm Writing for MAKE:, Gareth Branwyn reviews the Fiskars ShopBoss, a sucessor, of sorts, to the multi-scissors the company shipped last year. Fiskars is the Finnish giant of bladed tools, renowned for generations for its knives and other blades. Gareth really likes the ShopBoss though he has a few reservations: The heart of the ShopBoss is ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 23, 2011 09:25 pm The above image is an illustrated and translated version of an actual "to-do" list written by Leonardo da Vinci. It was put together for NPR by Robert Krulwich and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, based on information found in a new book, Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 09:07 pm Chef David Lowery created this "Cherpumple" -- a "dessert version of the turducken," composed of "CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie," baked into three separate cakes, then assembled into an enormous layer cake. Working in the Grand Geneva Resort pastry kitchen, I had some time to make a Cherpumple and serve it at Sunday Brunch. My ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 23, 2011 08:26 pm Scientific American and YouTube are offering teenagers a chance to participate in real science. It works like this: Think up a question that can only be tested via an experiment performed in space. Make a video about your idea and submit it to the contest by December 14. The two best ideas will actually be ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 23, 2011 08:08 pm These look amazing. And you can make them with marshmallows, if you are so inclined. Happy Thanksgiving! (Thank you, Rebecca Berkey)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 23, 2011 07:59 pm View more presentations from Terri Oda A great look at math, and real vs. imaginary Bell curve distributions. Thanks to Gideon for bringing this to my attention!
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 07:52 pm A former Australian senator has accused News Corp -- Rupert Murdoch's media empire -- of offering to give him favorable coverage in exchange for his vote in against media legislation that would curtail the company's profits and influence. Former senator Bill O'Chee submitted a nine-page statement detailing his allegations to Australian police, who are investigating ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 23, 2011 07:40 pm Webcaster Tim Pool of "The Other 99." In recent weeks, one source of live news coverage for the Occupy Wall Street movement stood out above all others. Not a cable news network, not a newspaper, but a 25-year-old guy named Tim Pool. He packs a smartphone with unlimited data, a copy of Ustream's mobile video ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 23, 2011 07:29 pm (photo by Matt Biddulph) Earlier this month, Science Hack Day SF brought together 150+ scientists, designers, developers, and makers to collaborate on science-related projects. Along with US hackers, the event included participants from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa thanks to a grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Institute ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 07:19 pm Dan Gillmor sez, "When we report the 'earnings' of the 1%, the media are often distorting reality. The 99% should demand that we use more neutral -- and accurate -- words." To be sure, one of the meanings of "to earn" is "to profit financially" – but it is not the only one. The other ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 06:15 pm UC Davis music professor Bob Ostertag has written a savagely brilliant editorial in the Huffington Post, denouncing the use of military-style force by campus police, in particular the now-infamous point-blank chemical weapons attack on peaceful students on the UC Davis campus. Ostertag dissects the "health and safety" arguments put forward by the administration, the excuse ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 23, 2011 05:50 pm The Philip K. Dick fanatics at Total Dick-Head provide their take on the meme.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 23, 2011 05:39 pm Josh Bearman did an episode of This American Life episode that features "private eyes, MILFs, undercover informants, dirty cops selling drugs, sting operations in strip malls, and a reality show on Lifetime." He says "you'll be excited to find them all in this modern day, strangely madcap noir true crime story from suburban California."
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 23, 2011 05:25 pm My old Parisian friend Nicole Locher, creator of the wildly success Locher's line of supersweet and crass embroidered apparel, just launched a fun series of cotton canvas bags made from unbleached and undyed cotton. In true Locher style, each Maude & Tilda bag is emblazoned with a charmingly belligerent anti-fashion or suggestive statement. Apparently, "an ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 23, 2011 05:22 pm LALO ALCARAZ The nice people at the Guardian invited me to write an op-ed about the meme-ification of Lt. John Pike's unforgettable act of brutality against UC Davis students last Friday. Photoshop out the students from that picture with your mind. Forget about Pike's uniform, let's say he's just wearing street clothes. Now, instead of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 23, 2011 05:02 pm "A 61-year-old Halifax County [North Carolina, U.S.] man died Tuesday, a day after police shocked him with a stun gun while he was riding his bike, family members said." The tl;dr: someone called the cops because he fell off his bike in a parking lot and hurt himself, and they thought he must be drunk ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 04:55 pm Last week, I toured Philadelphia's Mütter Museum -- the Philadelphia College of Surgeons' astounding collection of pathological oddities -- and was treated to a sneak peak at the museum's latest acquisition: 46 microscope slides from Albert Einstein's brain. They were donated by Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams, one of the College's trustees. Mütter curator Anna Dhody was ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 23, 2011 04:50 pm [video link] I've been on a Spacemen 3 bender as of late. What deeply entrancing, beautiful, and spaced-out music they made in the 1980s and early 1990s. ("Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.") I've gotten an even better appreciation of them as I've dug into their musical influences, from the Staple Singers ...
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