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ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP Writing scam of yore Justin Bieber's Steampunk Christmas video Money is the dark matter of American elections: visualizing political donations since Citizens United Grant money to study technology and human trafficking NYC landmarks recreated with twigs and plant-matter 17th-century Indian paintings that look like 20th-century Western art Future Fossils: contemporary technological artifacts cast in concrete Computer delivery man just throwing boxes around Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries, by Tim Anderson AT&T is the worst carrier in America. Again. Ed Piskor's Wally Wood "Illustration Ale" label Portrait made from 3 million pen dots Jim Woodring: How To Draw Frank Nerdy Baby Coloring Book for very young scientists Hammer Vault: exclusive new book preview Requirements to be a space taxi for NASA Aviation security expert: TSA wasted $56B on junk security Mister Handsome: a short film by Jason Wishnow Chocolate Space Invader Little boy talks to Michele Bachmann about his gay mom People and the fish they resemble Most hated buzzwords Cloning a wooly mammoth: Harder than it sounds Happy Bear Wednesday! Dog decorating competition Motorola "House of the Future" ads from the 1960s, painted by Charles Schridde Boing Boing featured in anthology of best science writing on the Web Afghan Whigs reunite Bikini models in H&M ads are four real heads all photoshopped onto the same CGI body ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 08, 2011 01:22 am Clay sez, "Stuart Ritchie, a psychology doctoral student in Edinburgh, worked with two colleagues to try to replicate the results of a famous recent experiment, claiming people could predict in advance whether they were about to be shown erotic images. When the three failed to find any such evidence for ESP they sent their results ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 08, 2011 12:17 am Short paragraphs? I can write those! Sign me up! Do I need to grow a mustache? 'Cause I've got the glasses. How to Make Money Writing Short Paragraphs
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 07, 2011 11:53 pm Cory, this is your fault. Previously.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 11:39 pm Mike from Mother Jones sez, "For our upcoming "dark money" print package, we chartified the known galaxy of outside political spending groups by their size. As you can see, we ended up with red giants and blue dwarfs." If Citizens United was the Big Bang of a new era of money in politics, here's the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 11:28 pm Noting that "there is little empirical research into the role that technology plays in human trafficking," danah boyd announces a purse of $150,000 in Microsoft money to study the question. Your primer: boyd's excellent Human Trafficking and Technology: A framework for understanding the role of technology in the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 10:24 pm Jessica sez, "The 20th annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden features dozens of NYC landmarks carefully recreated using millions of plant parts, like twigs, bark, berries, leaves, and much more. Some highlights are the Brooklyn Bridge (which trains actually run on!), the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and Radio City ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 09:24 pm From Maria Popova: Astonishing rare 17th-century Indian Tantric paintings that look like 20th-century Western art.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 09:22 pm The Bughouse Future Fossils series are a set of highly detailed, weathered concrete castings of near-contemporary technology, from DJ turntables to film cameras to Atari joysticks. They're a nice memento mori -- a weighty-but-whimsical reminder of our own technosphere's doomed frailty. bughouse :: Future Fossils (via DVICE)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 07, 2011 09:08 pm Submitted by studentrevolt, this video depicts computer delivery al fresco in Beijing. Video Link [youtube.com]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 09:05 pm Amazon Encore has kindly given Boing Boing an exclusive excerpt of Tune in Tokyo, a true story by Tim Anderson. Tune in Tokyo is the true story of what happened when a tall, white, gay Southerner decided to move out of the country to escape a rut. Although he didn't speak a lick of Japanese, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 07:44 pm For the second year running, AT&T has taken top honors in the list of America's worst phone companies -- a hotly contested spot! While AT&T's satisfaction score in 2011 wasn't as bad as its score from 2010, the Dallas-based cell phone provider, which recently discontinued its bid to acquire its better rival T-Mobile, still ranked ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 07:42 pm Ed "Brain Rot" Piskor says: We have a decent cartoonist scene here in Pittsburgh and it seems that the hub of a lot of activity is our very own Toonseum. As a fundraising measure they, along with a local brewery, created "Illustration Ale" and asked a handful of us to design beer labels. I decided ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 07:31 pm [Video Link] Amy Seidenwurm says: "Miguel Endara used over 3 million dots (and only 1 Micron pen!) to make a beautiful ink on paper portrait of his dad.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 07:13 pm If you have ever wondered, as I have, how to draw the "extravagent rack of cheek meat" that makes up the lower half of Frank's head, you will watch Jim Woodring's instructional drawing video with the rapt attention it deserves. Jim Woodring: How To Draw FRANK (Thanks, Jim!)
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 07, 2011 07:05 pm Children's illustrator Tiffany Ard has just published a Nerdy Baby Coloring Book! What fun! From Nerdy Baby: Can you find the complete circuit? Can you identify different types of cellular life? Or help Darwin's finches choose their next meal? Of course you can! This silly collection of coloring pages includes more than 60 pages featuring ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 06:59 pm Here's an exclusive preview of a new book called Hammer Vault, about the maker of famed gothic horror films in the 1950s-1970s. This remarkable journey through the Hammer Vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotional material and private correspondence. Hundreds of rare and previously unseen stills help to create ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 07, 2011 06:51 pm Air & Space Magazine asked NASA's Commercial Crew Program head Ed Mango about the safety requirements private companies must guarantee to land a contract to taxi future NASA astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station. (Above is the concept design for Sierra Nevada Corp.'s "Dream Chaser" transport.) From Air & Space: The probability of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 06:38 pm Ben Brandt, once an aviation security advisor to Delta, has published a scathing indictment of the TSA and its methods, arguing that they've spent $56B on "security" that won't stop terrorists, while ignoring actual threats. But the last several years' worth of plots on the friendly skies indicate the terrorists have switched their game plans. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 06:35 pm Our friend Jason Wishnow made this wonderful short film called Mister Handsome, "a love story between a grown-up girl and a mysterious friend from her childhood (plus a case against moving in with your parents)." Mister Handsome
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 06:24 pm Mark Kizelshteyn says: I've been a hobby maker for a few years, and I recently worked at a FabLab where I learned the "tools," my favorite being the CNC machine. I began experimenting with a chocolate maker friend and we started making all kinds of funky chocolate molds. After lots of experimentation, we decided to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 06:05 pm Eight-year-old Elijah and his mom attended a Michele Bachmann book signing. As Bachmann greeted the little boy, he told her, "My mommy's gay but she doesn't need fixing." The expression on Ms Bachmann's face at that juncture is the definition of priceless. Activist Elijah With Michele Bachmann (via Beth Pratt)
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 07, 2011 05:43 pm Photographer Ted Sabarese takes photos of people with fish that he believes resemble them. From Juxtapoz: With all the recent, fiery controversy between evolution, creationism, intelligent design, science, religion, the political left, right, etc., I thought it might be provocative to throw my visual two-cents into the ring. The images beg the question, is it ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 07, 2011 05:40 pm "Think outside the box" is the most hated buzzword. At the end of the day, however, we have to circle back and touch base with a proactive look at the many other turns of phrase that are no-brainers for inclusion in the list. [Meeting Boy]
Read in browser Cloning a wooly mammoth: Harder than it sounds
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 07, 2011 05:26 pm A Japanese research team has begun the process of cloning a wooly mammoth and thinks it can pull off the job in 5 years. Discover magazine is skeptical.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 07, 2011 05:15 pm Celebrate Bear Wednesday with a peek at the awesome strength of grizzly bears, courtesy National Geographic. First, for some reason, we have a guy wrestling a trained grizzly bear named Adam. It's just for play-play. The action really happens in the second half of the video where two bears are enticed into displaying feats of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 07, 2011 05:14 pm How do you know it's a dog decorating competition and not a dog grooming competition? When the judge says it's is "a dog grooming competition... not a dog decorating competition." Vice visits the Grooming Expo in Hershey, Pennsylvania. VICE says, "These pet owners don't just doodle on their poodles, they turn their finest furry friends ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 05:01 pm Vintage Ads group participant write_light has posted a fantastic gallery of Charles Schridde Motorola "House of the Future" ads, along with some interesting background on the series: The artist who painted these gems is Charles Schridde (who just passed in May of this year). These ads and other vintage television ads can be had (at ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 07, 2011 04:42 pm I am very pleased to announce that two BoingBoing posts made it into The Open Laboratory 2012, an anthology of the best science writing on the Internet. The first was written by Lee Billings, an excellent guest blogger we hosted back in February. Lee wrote a lot of great posts about Kepler and the hunt ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 07, 2011 04:34 pm My favorite band of the 1990s (one of my favorite bands ever, in fact), the Afghan Whigs, will perform for the first time in more than a decade next year at the All Tomorrow's Parties festivals in London (5/25-5/27) and Asbury Park, New Jersey (9/21-9/23). Whigs frontman Greg Dulli is curating the Asbury Park lineup. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 07, 2011 04:26 pm H&M has admitted that the bikini models in its ads are just real models' heads pasted onto a computer-generated "ideal" body. As Jezebel notes, "But man, isn't looking at the four identical bodies with different heads so uncanny?" The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and "completely virtual," ...
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