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Cory in Zurich tonight Rebar snakes Diana Eng's Smart Scarves: deployable structure pleat pattern, fibonacci knit, and thermochromatic snowflakes Crabfu reviews the Wacom Inkling MAKE's MakerBot giveaway Interview with Marc Franklin, photographer of psychedelic explorers and High Frontiers' art director eBoy does Rio Dicing onions like a pro Coming: Lego Minecraft sets FBI playset for kids! 3.8M children in the UK don't own a book Nonsense Shopping List Prank Copyrights vs Human Rights: big publishing and SOPA Three sad things Sony did this weekend Incredible high speed water droplet photos Beatles "collection" t-shirt Steve Lodefink's pinewood racer bodies A brief explanation of the "Hairy Ball Theorem" Roomba art Ryan Gosling's soulful eyes + smooth statistics Science Christmas tree ornaments Rudy Rucker's autobiography: Nested Scrolls Flying robots build structure How to find out if someone who claims not to speak Russian really can speak Russian Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips - exclusive preview The case of the stolen domain names Alan Moore on Frank Miller's unhinged Occupy rant Cat-butt coffee: A critical review Surrealist animator Cyriak interviewed Enter a word, get fresh techno Cory in Zurich tonight
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 06, 2011 11:39 am Quick reminder: I'm speaking in Zurich tonight. It's a free event at 8PM at the Kunstraum Walcheturm, hope to see you there!
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 06, 2011 04:17 am Mark Rees, an artist in Suffolk, Virginia, makes cool snakes out of rebar (he's also got a line of reworked horseshoe sculptures): "After the head is formed, it is just a process of bending and twisting until it looks like a snake that was going somewhere and was startled into a defensive position." Rebar Rattlers
Read in browser Diana Eng's Smart Scarves: deployable structure pleat pattern, fibonacci knit, and thermochromatic snowflakes
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 06, 2011 12:32 am [Video Link] My friend, fashion designer Diana Eng, has introduced her new Smart Scarf Mini Collection. She says: There are three different styles that are created with math, science and technology as an inherent part of the design. The Fibonacci Scarf is a knit using the Fibonacci formula. The Miura Ori scarf starts out compact ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 06, 2011 12:13 am [Video Link] My friend I-Wei Huang, who makes steam powered remote-controlled vehicles, and also designed all the characters in Sklylanders, reviewed the Wacom Inkling, a drawing pen that digitizes your sketches. He likes it, but has some problems with it. Check out more of his fine sketches on his blog.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 11:54 pm Make is holding a Kit-A-Day Giveaway this month, and we will be giving away five MakerBot 3D printers, along with other fabulous kits from our Maker Shed. To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 10:40 pm R.U. Sirius interviewed Marc Franklin, art director of issue #2 of High Frontiers (the forerunner to Mondo 2000 by way of Reality Hackers), magazine which 17" x 11". I still have the copy I bought when it came out in 1985 or so and it ranks as one of my favorite issues ever of any ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 09:11 pm In their campaign to conquer every major city of the world, our friends at eBoy made a print of Rio. (They made a Boing Boing shirt, too, which you can buy for $20)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 08:24 pm Over at CRAFT, Paul Stern shows how to dice onions like a pro. I find onions almost as loathsome as cilantro, but I like Paul's technique!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 08:13 pm Are they coming too late to give for Yule? Minecraft is about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine in the virtual world. You can build anything you imagine with LEGO bricks in the physical world. Minecraft and LEGO were meant to be together. We’ve invited a couple of the LEGO fans behind the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 05, 2011 07:57 pm Over at our fantastic new Submitterator, Chris Angelucci points us to this delightful FBI playset, complete with tactical vest, lightweight collapsible baton, and real-working handcuffs. Coming soon, the DEA version with real stuffed dope-sniffing dog and concealed "wire" recording device!
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 05, 2011 07:54 pm That's what the National Literacy Trust says. Poorer children and boys were less likely to have books, it added. The survey was carried out in September with school-aged children from 111 schools across the UK. It suggested that a third (33.2%) did not have books of their own. That translates to 3.8m children UK-wide. National ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 07:43 pm Fancy Boy lip glitter, fish poison, left-handed washing glove, turtle mix, non-alcoholic whiskey, daddy butter, and an eye removal kit. These are just a few of the items Greg Benson and Ryan Smith of Mediocre Films asked employees of Target and Walmart to help them find on a recent shopping errand. Also, Greg wrote Ryan's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 05, 2011 06:59 pm My latest Publishers Weekly column is "Copyrights vs. Human Rights." In honor of Human Rights Day on Dec 10, I've written a piece on publishing's shameful support of SOPA, a law that will punish the online services that are so key to coordinating and publicizing human rights struggles around the world. The U.N. characterizes access ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 05, 2011 06:46 pm 1. The new Playstation Vita will only permit one account per device. Preventing people from conveniently switching accounts thereby makes it harder to switch between accounts established in different regions, which have different releases and prices. Also, Sony recently added additional DRM restrictions to games: you can only play them on 2, instead of 5 ...
Read in browser Incredible high speed water droplet photos
By David Pescovitz on Dec 05, 2011 06:18 pm Heinz Maier creates absolutely breathtaking high speed photographs of water droplets using the DIY rig seen above right. Cymaii's photostream (via Imaginary Foundation)
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 05, 2011 06:06 pm Our friends at Chop Shop added a terrific Beatles design to their fun "collections" t-shirt series. WeFab
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 06:03 pm Lately, Steve Lodefink, one of my favorite broad-spectrum makers, has been making beautiful pinewood derby cars. I'm sure he will finish them with spectacular paint jobs, but I also like them just the way they are. I asked him how he makes them and he said, "there's a touch of whittling involved, but mostly, the ...
Read in browser A brief explanation of the "Hairy Ball Theorem"
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 05, 2011 05:17 pm Why hairy balls can't be combed to lie perfectly flat and what that has to do with wind currents on planet Earth. Surprisingly, this is all totally safe for work. Via New Scientist and hectocotyli
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 05, 2011 05:10 pm A Flickr pool for art made using colored lights, long exposures, and Roombas. (Via Sii Bo)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 05, 2011 05:08 pm Biostatistics Ryan Gosling will look deeply into your eyes and ask about your p-value. Via Jacquelyn Gill
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 05, 2011 05:03 pm Check out this great series of laser-cut wood Christmas tree ornaments, decorated with the pictures of science heroes. That's Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the United States. You can also get Mary Leakey, Carl Linneaus, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, and more! Thanks for Submitterating, pambamboo!
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 05, 2011 05:00 pm Rudy Rucker sez, "So I decided that I'd better write my autobiography before it was too late. What with death and senility closing in! I didn't want my autobio to be overly long or dry. I wanted it to read something like a novel. Unlike an encyclopedia entry, a novel isn't a list of dates ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 05, 2011 04:50 pm ETH Zurich roboticist Raffaello D'Andrea is collaborating with architects on a new building construction technique using flying robots. Their demonstration installation, Flight Assemebled Architecture, has just opened at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France. Four autonomous quadcopter robots retrieve foam bricks and then a networked computer vision system directs their placement. The installation consists of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 04:36 pm Take the Stroop Test: Look at the 1st set of words and say aloud the color of the letters that spell out each word. Now look at the 2nd set of words and say aloud the color of the letters that spell out each word. It takes longer for most people to complete the 2nd ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 05, 2011 04:32 pm Fantagraphics has released the first volume in a 12 volume series that will reprint the complete run of Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1973). It's called Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, ...
Read in browser The case of the stolen domain names
By Rob Beschizza on Dec 05, 2011 03:58 pm Numerous web design advice sites report that their domain names were mysteriously transferred from GoDaddy to another registrar. Though now registered in someone else's name, the DNS records and websites themselves have generally not been interfered with, suggesting a more cunning plan than usual. At fault seem to be poor account passwords, email-based transfer verifications, ...
Read in browser Alan Moore on Frank Miller's unhinged Occupy rant
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 05, 2011 03:57 pm Comics's most awesome bearded wizard, Alan Moore, responds to Frank Miller's bizarre Occupy rant, in which the Sin City/300 creator tells off protesters for taking to the streets to protest banksterism and corporatism when they should be joining his fight against Islam. "Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I've barely looked at for the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 05, 2011 03:44 pm Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world. At my local specialty coffee bean store, it sells for $420 per pound—or $10 for a 10 oz. brewed cup. Kopi Luwak is very different from that cheap, gauche coffee you and I drink every day. This is because each hand-harvested bean of Kopi Luwak ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 05, 2011 03:33 pm Fast Company chats with Cyriak, the brilliant animator behind these. There are now GIFs and donationware MP3 downloads.
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 05, 2011 03:13 pm Anthony Bowyer-Lowe created Techno Is The Word, which generates techno loops based upon the text you feed it. [via Metafilter]
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