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Origami stroller: electrified $850 self-extracting stroller Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo Nottingham hackspace growing Croatian transparency activists publish enormous database of government procurements, pointing the way to detecting corruption and fraud Aquarius Records t-shirt: "New Wave music is our specialty" Review of Burzynski Clinic's list of "published research" turns up thin, unconvincing gruel Stand With Science: A Call to Congress Sprint loaded spyware on its Android phones Underground Toy Emporium and Spaceship Parking: Incredible art by Randy Regier Denial of service attacks used to cover up fraudulent bank transfers Heavily gendered Dutch toy advertising Pepper-spray inventor: "It's fashionable to use chemical agents on people who have an opinion" How Mark Zuckerberg apologizes: "stuff happened, and it's unfortunate" (not that it's any of my doing) Shiny orange floor 20 minute documentary of Steve Jobs' NeXT years MAFIAAFire team's latest browser plugin beats the national firewalls of Britain, USA, and China Galaxy Nexus teardown reveals a repair-friendly, tinkerable phone Lego minifig display case Illustration for 1952 Ray Bradbury story, The Rocket Man Lego luggage tag in the Boing Boing Shop Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army German man sues Pope for violating seatbelt laws by standing and waving from popemobile Wall Street Journal reports LAPD made payments to Occupy LA protesters Review of Mint app for iPad New video of incredible model railroad in Hamburg: Miniatur Wunderland Expressive octopus-with-lanterns statue Build notes for a tiny house TED2012 Fellowship applications open Gingerbread AT-AT Terry Gilliam: the difference between Kubrick (great filmmaker) and Spielberg (less so) Origami stroller: electrified $850 self-extracting stroller
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 12:52 pm 4moms has announced its forthcoming Origami stroller, a $850 baby transportation unit that uses wheel-mounted dynamos to charge batteries that power an electronic chair-folding/unfolding system, as well as a pedometer, running lights, a kid-in-seat sensor, and other instrumentations. I've never understood the hostility towards strollers ("Make your kid walk! Carry your kid! Carry your kid ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 01, 2011 12:42 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. For a limited time, Watchismo is giving you the best deals it can offer on hundreds of style—up to 70% off. Check out our Watches On Sale and get your shopping done in a blink. Just for BoingBoing readers, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 09:00 am David from Nottinghack -- the hackspace in Nottingham, England -- writes, "It's been six months since we moved into a 4500 square foot hackspace, in large part thanks to Boing Boing featuring our cause in May. We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to you, and to all of the people who generously donated to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 06:36 am Marko Rakar, leader of a kind of Croatian version of Wikileaks, has once again made a stir in Croatia. Previously, Rakar published a database showing rampant voter-fraud (this triggered a constitutional crisis and reform effort). Now, Rakar's latest project is a database of "All the public procurement data for government spending since July 1, 2009, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 01, 2011 04:25 am My favorite local independent record store, aQuarius Records in San Francisco, has just reissued this excellent t-shirt design from the late 1970s! For the new run, they embellished the classic graphic with a slogan from an old advertisement for their shop from that same era: "New Wave music is our specialty." Indeed it is, even ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 02:14 am A followup to Monday's story about a representative from the controversial Burzynski Clinic (a cancer clinic that is presently treating a British girl whose family raised £200,000 for her care) sending threatening letters to bloggers who questioned the science behind Burzynski's therapy: First, the Burzynski clinic says it has severed its relationship with Marc Stephens, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 01, 2011 01:59 am [Video Link] John Edgar Park says: You might have heard that congressional debt supercommittee has officially failed its mandate to reduce the federal deficit. As things currently stand, mandatory budget cuts going into effect in 2013 will slash 9% of all federal R&D funding (about $13 billion). The US can't afford to stop investing in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 01:47 am Alan sez, "TechCrunch and others are reporting that a program called "Carrier IQ" that comes pre-installed on Sprint phones has some pretty amazing spyware capabilities, right down to keylogging everything you do on the phone." Note the careful use of the words "record," "provide," "inspect," and "report." It's obvious from this video that the application ...
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By Bill North on Dec 01, 2011 01:36 am The Fire Fly has landed! On November 10, "Randy Regier: H. Maxwell Fisher's Underground Toy Emporium and Spaceship Parking" opened at Jim Kempner Fine Art, 501 West 23rd Street, NYC, where it remains on view through December 23. According to the gallery's press release, "Jim Kempner Fine Art, in collaboration with Mr. Fisher's eldest son, ...
Read in browser Denial of service attacks used to cover up fraudulent bank transfers
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 01, 2011 01:22 am Brian Krebs documents a sophisticated offline/online attack on banks. Thieves combine a fraudulent wire-transfer to an innocent jewelry store with a denial-of-service attack on the bank that ties up the IT and other staff. The jeweler has been told that the money is to buy expensive jewels and watches, which are given to a stooge ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 11:48 pm Mataklap sends in this picture from a Dutch toy brochure. For girls, there's a "washing the dishes" playset. For boys, a microscope.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 10:46 pm Amy Goodman interviews Kamran Loghman, inventor of modern pepper spray and developer of police procedures for its use. Loghman regrets his work today, and says it's "fashionable" to use chemical agents on "people who have an opinion": It is becoming more and more fashionable right now, this day and age, to use chemical on people ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 10:25 pm Facebook has an established pattern: they obliterate privacy defaults in their system, wipe out their users' stated privacy preferences, and then, after a hue and cry, Mark Zuckerberg emerges and apologizes, and the system is reset to a level that is slightly less private than before. At All Things D, Liz Gannes runs through a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 09:30 pm Holy crap that's a shiny floor. Congoleum
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 08:44 pm [Video Link] Mel Marton of TUAW says: The NeXT episode was filmed by John Nathan for a TV series called Entrepreneurs produced by WETA in Washington D.C. Some of the most interesting sections are Jobs pressing Joanna Hoffman at the 11 minute mark. Hoffman was one of the original members of the Mac team. His ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 08:25 pm The creators of the MAFIAAFire browser plugin (which allows you to reach websites whose DNS has been shut down without trial by the US State Department at the behest of entertainment conglomerates) have released a sequel: ThePirateBay Dancing, a plugin that anonymizes your connections to thepiratebay.org and other blocked sites by using randomly picked proxies ...
Read in browser Galaxy Nexus teardown reveals a repair-friendly, tinkerable phone
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 08:15 pm iFixIt tears down the Galaxy Nexus, the latest "Google Experience" phone (a phone that ships with a stock Android installation and no telco/manufacturer crapware installed) and finds it to be admirably tinkerer/repair-friendly. The device is held together with standard screws, and very few of the components are glued together, meaning that it will be fairly ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 08:12 pm Lish Dorset of CRAFT made this nice display case to show off her collection of Lego mini figures. She also wrote complete step-by-step instructions for making one of your own. Project: Lego Display Case
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 07:56 pm A stunning two-page illustration by James Bingham from the February 1952 issue of Argosy magazine, for Ray Bradbury's short story "The Rocket Man." I like the futuristic dome shaped house, with tinted panes of glass, and the mid century modern/Googie furniture and decor. The only thing I don't like about it is the kid in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 07:31 pm What a nice way to meet fellow geeks at the luggage carousel! Comes in a variety of colors. LEGO Brick - Luggage Tag: $4.95
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 30, 2011 07:17 pm "I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."—New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 07:07 pm A German man is suing the Pope for violating seatbelt laws on his visit to Dortmund by standing up in the back of the popemobile and waving (rather than remaining seated and buckled in, as the law apparently requires). Sundermann's client surely does not have standing to sue to enforce the seatbelt law, and even ...
Read in browser Wall Street Journal reports LAPD made payments to Occupy LA protesters
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 30, 2011 06:31 pm Well, not exactly. But, "disburse" was an interesting choice of verbs in that there headline up there. (thanks, Alec MacKaye!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 06:22 pm Over at credit.com, I reviewed the new Mint app for iPad. I’ve been a user of Mint, a personal finance website, for several years, and it has become an essential tool for keeping track of my expenses and organizing information that my accountant needs to prepare my income taxes. The great thing about Mint is ...
Read in browser New video of incredible model railroad in Hamburg: Miniatur Wunderland
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 06:13 pm [Video Link] Theresa Schuette of Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg says: The brand new video about the largest model railway of the world is online as of today. Our miniature landscape is worth 15.000.000 Euro and it's being visited by up to 10,000 people on a daily basis. This video depicts our miniature world in a spectacular ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 06:03 pm The expressive insouciance of the tentacles are what really make this wonderful lantern-bearing-octopus sculpture by Scott Musgrove. Scott Musgrove (via Super Punch)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 05:48 pm Caleb says: "I blogged almost every detail of building a small green tiny-ish house to rent out in our backyard where our garage once was. It even includes a public Google spreadsheet of our costs."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 05:31 pm This is a great opportunity for creative people from around the world to present their work. I've met a few TED Fellows and they are some of the most interesting people I know. TED Fellows is an international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. Each year, we ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 30, 2011 05:01 pm This gingerbread AT-AT Walker is on display at Orange County's Discovery Science Museum. It's the creation of Black Market Bakery, and a fine addition to the AT-AT remixes we've featured over the years. Another view of the AT-AT of gingerbread at the Discovery Science Museum... (via Neatorama)
Read in browser Terry Gilliam: the difference between Kubrick (great filmmaker) and Spielberg (less so)
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 30, 2011 05:00 pm [Video Link] Mike Springer from Open Culture says: Terry Gilliam has never tried to hide his feelings about Hollywood. "It's an abominable place," he told The New York Times in 2005. "If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some ...
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