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Stephen Colbert explains SOPA Brazen vaporizer heist caught on video Shirky on the nature of institutions Counterfeiting electronics: what it really means Hilarious account of a legal bank-robbery David-Michel Davies on What's Trending 3-D printer makes scaffolding for growing bones Gweek 029: A grab bag of games, apps, books, and sex-farce comics we love RIP world's most adorable vehicle Bruce Sterling keynote from Art and Environment conference An anesthesiologist's view of the human heart Real PACs take their names from satirical PAC-name generator Scooby-Doo is Veggie Tales for secular humanists The fine art of the scathing insult Pablo Escobar's drug cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash Quantum entanglement demonstrated in macroscopic objects Shutterstock models are swell make-believe Herman Cain endorsers Kickstopper: paying Hollywood studios to cease dumb franchise production Hot for Teacher: Criminalizing Sex Between Legal Adults?! Nanny of the Month November 2011 Today in corporate denials: Carrier IQ edition A 16-year-old girl challenges Michele Bachman on same-sex marriage Ken Russell's documentary photos of London teens Christmassy leather decorative balls Unusual anti-tagging sign Sheriff locked in jail named after him State appeals dismissal in Michael Allison case, 75 years in prison for recording the police Massive giant weta insect as big as your hand Saturday in San Francisco: Ralph Bakshi at Tikva Records (free!) Free Buddha Machine iPad app Tired and emotional RIM executives force plane to land Stephen Colbert explains SOPA
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 03, 2011 12:43 am Colbert explains the science behind the net-killing SOPA, the worst proposed Internet law in American legislative history. Stop Online Piracy Act
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 11:46 pm [Video Link] Daniel Maurer of The Local, the NY Times's East Village blog, says: "Here's some rather amazing surveillance camera footage of some kids stealing vaporizers from an East Village head shop. They casually swipe four vaporizers and then not only do they come back minutes later for more, but one of the kids appears ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 11:40 pm Clay Shirky's got another barn-burner of an essay, this one on the call to establish a functional news system with stable places for reporters by creating stable newspapers (Shirky: "like saying that if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread."). Institutions reduce the choices available to their ...
Read in browser Counterfeiting electronics: what it really means
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 11:28 pm Hardware hacker extraordinare Bunnie Huang explains why the new defense bill, which makes it a crime to sell a "counterfeit" chip to the US military, is going to place an impossible burden on retailers, importers, and suppliers: To better understand the magnitude of the counterfeiting problem, it's helpful to know how fakes are made. The ...
Read in browser Hilarious account of a legal bank-robbery
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 10:06 pm Eminent neuroscientist Moran Cerf got his start as an Israeli military hacker and then as a private security/penetration tester, robbing banks at their own behest over the net. In this hilarious anaecdote, he describes what happened when he and his pals decided to rob a bank in person. Moths - Heart
Read in browser David-Michel Davies on What's Trending
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 10:02 pm [Video Link] Last Night on What's Trending our friend and Gweek guest David-Michel Davies, the Webbys' Executive Director, presented a fantastic Webby Talk entitled, "Staying in to Go Out: Your computer as a café, bar, water cooler, classroom, tasting room, and concert hall."
Read in browser 3-D printer makes scaffolding for growing bones
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 02, 2011 09:44 pm This project at Washington State University is incredibly nifty. Researchers use a 3-D printer to make a bone-like material that can temporarily do the job of bone, while serving as a scaffold for new bone to grow on. Over time, it dissolves safely. Read more about it on the WSU website Video Link
Read in browser Gweek 029: A grab bag of games, apps, books, and sex-farce comics we love
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 09:23 pm Boing Boing's Rob, Maggie, and Mark, and cartoonist Ruben Bolling gabbed excitedly for over an hour about books, games, TV shows, writing implements, comic books, and more! • Maggie talks about her book, Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us, which comes out from Wiley & Sons on April ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 02, 2011 09:07 pm A short eulogy for Aptera, and the end of electric cars as futurism.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 09:01 pm A reader writes, "Author and futurist Bruce Sterling wraps-up the 2011 Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art in downtown Reno. 28 minutes of laying it down." Goddamn I love listening to Chairman Bruce lay it down and pick it up again. Bruce Sterling Closes the 2011 A+E Conference - Full version
Read in browser An anesthesiologist's view of the human heart
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 02, 2011 08:28 pm This is a really fascinating entry in The Guardian's multi-video package about heart health and medicine. Bruce Martin, a British anesthesiologist, talks about his job, anesthetizing patients for heart surgery. If this doesn't make your job seem less stressful by comparison, then you're probably a fighter pilot or something. Via Ed Yong
Read in browser Real PACs take their names from satirical PAC-name generator
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 07:57 pm Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, A year ago, you may remember that the Sunlight Foundation launched the PAC Name Generator. It was a light-hearted project to shed light on how political organizations cower behind a circus of patriotic gobbledygook. Turns out some folks took it rather seriously and have used it to create real ...
Read in browser Scooby-Doo is Veggie Tales for secular humanists
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 02, 2011 07:46 pm At Comics Alliance, Chris Sims makes such a good argument that I can only gape and think, "Oh my god, why had I never noticed this before?" Because that's the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars. I can't imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have ...
Read in browser The fine art of the scathing insult
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 02, 2011 07:33 pm One of the things I enjoy about writing for BoingBoing is the opportunity it's giving me to learn how to write reviews of books. That's not something I'd ever done before I started writing here. And I'm only now getting around to experimenting with not only describing books I like, but figuring out how to ...
Read in browser Pablo Escobar's drug cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 07:25 pm During its heyday, Pablo Escobar's drug cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash. Mental Floss has a interesting profile of the drug lord. The profits were astronomical at every step. In 1978 each kilo probably cost Escobar $2,000 but sold to Lehder and Jung for $22,000, clearing Escobar $20,000 per ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 02, 2011 07:24 pm A pair of diamond crystals, large enough to be seen by the naked eye, have been linked together by quantum entanglement. The diamonds are entangled such that manipulating one affects the other, even though they are physically separated. In this case, the crystals were 3 millimeters wide and 15 centimeters apart. (One of the diamond ...
Read in browser Shutterstock models are swell make-believe Herman Cain endorsers
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 07:17 pm Female stock photography models for Cain. UPDATE: Cain's Shutterstock groupies have abandoned him!
Read in browser Kickstopper: paying Hollywood studios to cease dumb franchise production
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 06:52 pm The Dork Tower webcomic has a modest proposal: a crowdfunding site called "Kickstopper" that raises funds to persuade Hollywood studios to halt production on tired sequels, franchises, and adaptations. Dork Tower Thursday (via The Mary Sue)
Read in browser Hot for Teacher: Criminalizing Sex Between Legal Adults?! Nanny of the Month November 2011
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 06:11 pm [Video Link] Ted Balaker says: The Nanny of the Month Award goes to the Wolverine State pol whose so-called "Hot for Teacher" bill could end up criminalizing sex between consenting adults of legal age. The ban on teacher-student sex (even if both are older than 18 and consenting) hasn't received much media attention thus far. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 02, 2011 06:03 pm Spot the difference.
Read in browser A 16-year-old girl challenges Michele Bachman on same-sex marriage
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 05:51 pm [Video Link] A brave girl asks Michele Bachman why same-sex couples can't get married. During a town hall, 16-year-old Jane Schmidt, the head of her school's Gay-Straight Alliance, asked the famously anti-gay congresswoman how she would support the LGBT community. After Bachmann said that "all Americans have the same civil rights," Schmidt pressed her, even ...
Read in browser Ken Russell's documentary photos of London teens
By David Pescovitz on Dec 02, 2011 05:51 pm Before the recently deceased Ken Russell made such phenomenal films as Women in Love, The Who's Tommy, and Altered States, he was a documentary photographer. In 1955, when he was still in art school, Russell shot a series of incredible photos of London's Teddy Girls, an East End teenage subculture. Here's a PDF of a ...
Read in browser Christmassy leather decorative balls
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 02, 2011 05:47 pm Ukrainian steampunk leatherworker Bob Basset's taken a departure from his usual masks to produce these Christmas-themed "Mongol" decorative balls. Xmas ball "Mongol"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 05:40 pm Arbroath says: "Anyone with a suspected marker pen in their trousers is now being closely monitored."
Read in browser Sheriff locked in jail named after him
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 05:34 pm Many years ago, I went to a debate in Boulder, Colorado between a drug law reformer and a law enforcement officer on the subject of ending drug prohibition. I'm pretty sure the anti-drug officer was former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan. Sullivan is a national “Sheriff of the Year.” Today he is being held in ...
Read in browser State appeals dismissal in Michael Allison case, 75 years in prison for recording the police
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 02, 2011 05:22 pm [Video Link] The felony eavesdropping case against Michael Allison (who was arrested for videotaping the police in public) was thrown out by a judge. However the state of Illinois is appealing the dismissal to the supreme court to overturn the ruling. What the hell is wrong with the Illinois government? (Via Cynical-C)
Read in browser Massive giant weta insect as big as your hand
By David Pescovitz on Dec 02, 2011 05:17 pm This is a giant weta, an insect found on New Zealand's Little Barrier Island. But this isn't just any giant weta. It's reportedly the largest ever found, weighing in at 71 grams. "She enjoyed the carrot so much she seemed to ignore the fact she was resting on our hands and carried on munching away," ...
Read in browser Saturday in San Francisco: Ralph Bakshi at Tikva Records (free!)
By David Pescovitz on Dec 02, 2011 04:56 pm Last night was the opening party for the Idelsohn Society's Tikva Records, a pop-up Jewish record store and community space in San Francisco's Bernal Heights. The place is fantastic but it's the upcoming events there that will make it a magical month. (Boing Boing is honored to be the media sponsor.) Tomorrow evening (Saturday, 12/3), ...
Read in browser Free Buddha Machine iPad app
By David Pescovitz on Dec 02, 2011 04:29 pm The Buddha Machine is a fantastically-fun little gadget that plays loops of experimental music. It's very low-fi, simple, inexpensive ($23!), and still wonderfully entrancing. Of course, there's also a Buddha Machine iPad app and I'm told that for the next 5 days, it's free! Buddha Machine - iPad edition Buddha Machine (Forced Exposure) Of course, ...
Read in browser Tired and emotional RIM executives force plane to land
By Rob Beschizza on Dec 02, 2011 03:21 pm In the New York Times, Ian Austen and Susanne Craig report that two executives of RIM were "intoxicated" and unruly on a Toronto-to-Beijing flight, forcing a stop-off in Vancouver to get rid of them.
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