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Live-action Animaniacs re-enactment: "I'm Mad!" Rich Kids: "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" Joseph M. Chamberlain, pioneer of planetarium shows, has died Naked lunch Japan premier declares Fukushima nuclear plant "stable" Vader Christmas Choir Flash Mob Gotta get amped. "The Internet is For Porn" entered into official SOPA debate record Bradley Manning Had Secrets X-ray of two-headed snake Darling Pet Munkee: "X-Ray Specs" Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo Brain-eating amoeba kills via neti pot Kickstarter: "█ ██████ SOPA ███ ███ █ ███ ███ ████ STUPID T-SHIRT" Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing under way in Maryland Say Wi-Fi Hi In case SOPA passes: emergency list of IP addresses for popular websites Writer mourns loss of ultimate Victorian reading-chair First Amendment scholar on the failures of SOPA Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works (Gallery) Five questions with astronaut Rex Walheim Man arrested for light saber assault Paracord belt unravels into 80' of survival cord Woman in 1946 vacuum cleaner ad looks unthrilled Festive greetings from Cyriak Male privilege vs. women in gaming Sailing research cruise through the path of the Japanese tsunami to examine the resulting garbage patch Guy Fawkes comes to Starbucks? Live-action Animaniacs re-enactment: "I'm Mad!"
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 07:25 am My daughter's almost four, and we quite enjoy fishing around on YouTube for great cartoons to watch. I've just introduced her to the Animaniacs (don't tell her, but we've got the whole DVD set coming for her birthday!), starting with the classic I'm Mad, which led me to this kick-ass live-action fan-version posted in 2007.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 17, 2011 01:14 am [Video Link] When Glen Matlock (who probably wrote most of the Sex Pistols' best songs) was kicked out of The Sex Pistols he formed a power pop band called Rich Kids. They only put out one album, but it's one of my all time favorites.
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 12:55 am "Give the audience 40 minutes of astronomy and there would be no audience. It has to be a combination of science and showmanship. If there's a sunrise, we furnish appropriate sunrise music."—Joseph M. Chamberlain, who died this week at age 88. His work advanced astronomical education and entertainment "by leading planetariums in New York and ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 12:48 am People walk past an activist during an Animal Naturalis demonstration to promote vegetarianism in central Barcelona, December 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Albert Gea)
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 12:27 am Of course, just because Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl is over doesn't mean it's entirely over.
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 12:19 am Video Link. More about the making of at the Official Star Wars Blog.
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 16, 2011 11:54 pm Video Link. Have an awesome frickin day. (Via Robert Popper)
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 16, 2011 11:51 pm Video Link. Rep. Jared Polis (Colorado Democrat who previously founded BlueMountainArts.com) has entered the complete lyrics of "The Internet is for Porn" into the official record of the SOPA debate.
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 16, 2011 08:14 pm Adam Butcher's short film is a portrait of Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of sending thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. With dialog based on the chatlogs that incriminated him, and pixel-art rotoscoping of live footage, the overall effect is strangely dehumanizing—an echo of what happens when secrets private and political come to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 16, 2011 07:52 pm This is an X-ray of a two-headed albino Honduran milk snake that recently hatched at the home of University of Central Florida biologist Daniel Parker, proprietor of Sunshine Serpents. (via The Telegraph)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 16, 2011 06:41 pm [Video Link] What a treat to find a link to Darling Pet Munkee's new video of their song "X-Ray Specs" in my inbox this morning! See my previous gushing over Darling Pet Munkee here.
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 16, 2011 06:00 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo is offering progressive savings for the Last Chance Big Time Holiday Watch Sale. Save 10%, 15% or 20% off all your watch purchases. Don't waste a minute: this offer ends Sunday. • Use code LASTCHANCE10 for 10% off ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 16, 2011 05:31 pm A cautionary tale for Boing Boing readers who like to irrigate their nasal passages with warm salt water during the cold season: don't use water right out of the tap. (via @heathermg)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 05:25 pm A timely Kickstarter campaign: censored SOPA shirts. Listening the SOPA markup hearings on December 15th left me with a feeling of helplessness despite having contacted my representatives and helping Kickstarter speak out against the bill. When █████ ████ asked me how things looked later that night, I tried to convey how frustrating it was to ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 16, 2011 05:21 pm Kevin Gosztola at FireDogLake is live-blogging/live-tweeting the Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing at Fort Meade today. The military's statement announcing the hearing is here (PDF).
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By Glenn Fleishman on Dec 16, 2011 05:19 pm Mathias Nitzsche had a nifty idea: using Wi-Fi network names to create a connection between the network's owner and those who spot it in their wireless networks list. His aptly named wifis.org site lets you pick a handle and advertise it through your network name, as in wifis.org/glennocschmidt. This creates an account for you on ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 16, 2011 05:18 pm A Reddit thread I hope we never have to use. Here's the Google Doc. (via Submitterator, thanks crisnoble)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 05:15 pm Charlie Stross waxes nostalgic over the incredibly elaborate Victorian reading-chair that he almost bought at an antique shop, but by the time he'd made up his mind to do so, it had already sold. The story predates his first digital camera, so there are no accompanying photos, but Charlie knows a thing or two about ...
Read in browser First Amendment scholar on the failures of SOPA
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 04:51 pm James sez, "First Amendment scholar Marvin Ammori gives a great overview of how Congress has made an effort to protect free speech in the past but are turning a blind eye to the threats to speech rights posed by the Stop Online Piracy Act." Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our ...
Read in browser Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works (Gallery)
By David Pescovitz on Dec 16, 2011 04:39 pm Yoshitoma Nara lives at the intersection of punk rock, Japanese pop art, and Western cartoon culture filtered through the lens of post-World War II Japan. His drawings, paintings, sculptures, and large installations are populated with adorable-yet-menacing children and animals that whisper to the misfit in all of us. Chronicle Books has just published a long-awaited catalogue raisonné of Nara's work, and we're proud to present an exclusive gallery of selections from within.
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Read in browser Five questions with astronaut Rex Walheim
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 16, 2011 04:14 pm Rex Walheim is an astronaut. He's gone to space three times, including on the last flight of the space shuttle. He has spent an accumulated 36 hours outside the ISS on spacewalks. He has tweeted from 240 miles above sea level. Walheim reached those heights the old-fashioned way: Air Force test pilot school (plus a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 16, 2011 04:11 pm Police arrested a man at a Portland Tos R Us on Wednesday after he allegedly assaulted three people with a blue light saber. (Sadly, no video.) The 33-year-old was taken for a mental evaluation. From Oregon Live: Officers tried to arrest the man, but he kept swinging the light saber at them, Simpson said. One ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 04:10 pm Etsy seller SurvivorGeek makes paracord belts and straps like this one. One minute, it's a stylish way to hold up your pants, but if you pull the tab and unravel it, it turns into 550 80 feet of paracord for "survival situations" (so long as those situations don't demand that you be wearing pants, I ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 16, 2011 03:38 pm Her expression says it all. I'm surprised this made it past the review board. (Via Today's Inspiration)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 16, 2011 03:30 pm A delightful send-off for 2011 from British animator Cyriak. [Video Link] Note: the disquieting photo at the end is of English entertainer and spiritualist Noel Edmonds, famed for the bourgeois mediocrity of his Christmas variety shows, etc., and whose head was once compared to "a superfluous extrusion from the main body of an object, such ...
Read in browser Male privilege vs. women in gaming
By Rob Beschizza on Dec 16, 2011 03:21 pm Harris O'Malley takes a run at male privilege in gaming, especially how it manifests as angry refusals to accept womens' complaints about the sexual objectification of female characters in mainstream games. "If a girl wants to see herself represented in video games, she better get used to the idea of being the prize at the ...
Read in browser Sailing research cruise through the path of the Japanese tsunami to examine the resulting garbage patch
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 03:05 pm Travelina sez, "It's not your typical glamour cruise, but it's not cheap either. You travel aboard a 72-foot sailing yacht from the Marshall Islands through the great ocean vortex called the Western Pacific Gyre to Tokyo, and then from Tokyo you follow the path of the Japan tsunami debris with the purpose of sampling it, ...
Read in browser Guy Fawkes comes to Starbucks?
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 16, 2011 01:43 pm Monitorhead sez, "I was sitting in my car, staring at a 4-day old empty coffee cup, when I made the connection. Holy cow! Has the #Occupy movement already seeped into the marketing firms (thinking of the cool/hip ads from the late 60's, early 70's, thanks to the hippie movement), making this a hip commercial/cultural observance?" ...
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