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Nostril-borne lightup draft-sensor jacklanterns your schnozz when you breathe Sorry, you can't buy our time from shifty startup Allthis Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions 1942 Lou Beach's new book: 420 Characters, exclusive preview Street Art Utopia's photo gallery AT&T drops T-Mobile bid Monkey washes dishes InTrade betting market shows Gingrich imploding in Iowa Alex Pearson's film about making a poster about a film Trailer for We Need To Talk About Kitten Pro bono lawyers rescue scienceblogger from naturopath's SLAPP legal threats Law professors explain what's wrong with SOPA, constitutionally speaking Queen Luigi Please take me to space: Letters to the Hayden Planetarium Auction of furnishings from home where Jacko died Last look inside space shuttle Atlantis A powerful personal perspective on NIMBY Keith Emerson fights with the power of prog rock 2011's biggest scandals in science Thief accidentally butt-dials 911 Smurf town in Spain votes to stay blue North Korean diplomacy, with a side of slaw North Koreans grieve loss of Dear Leader (Updated!) Alternative science mnemonics Quantum computing with off-the-shelf hologram tech Contest winners - Contact me! Contrafactual future history of Wikileaks The "random tattoo" SOPA not the only battle; don't forget to help kill Protect-IP Fearless Fodsick: fight crime...with hair oil! Nostril-borne lightup draft-sensor jacklanterns your schnozz when you breathe
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 20, 2011 05:17 am Noda Akira married a draft-sensor to a blue LED and miniaturized the package so that it would fit in his nostril. The result is a nasal prosthesis that lights up his nostril with eerie blue light every time he breathes through his nose. Draft-Sensing Noselight Glows When You Breathe
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 20, 2011 01:15 am A new startup, Allthis, is advertising that you can "buy time" with some of us at Boing Boing, using its service. You can't. We haven't signed up; it's just created a sleazy opt-out system and thrown in everyone it can think of. Allthis, you guys really should knock it off, lest the internet knock you ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 20, 2011 12:01 am (Thanks, Lou!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 11:56 pm Illustrator Lou Beach has a new book, called 420 Characters. I like Jonathan Lethem's blurb about it: "Holy Shit! These are great!" After the jump, some sample stories and art from the book (some of the art is not in the book; consider it a bonus). I OPEN THE CAN, press the oil out of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 09:31 pm Street Art Utopia posted a gallery of "106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year 2011." (Photo by Sandrine Estrade Boulet)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 19, 2011 09:04 pm AT&T drops its attempt to buy the United States' other major GSM carrier. [All Things D]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 08:06 pm [Video Link] Dunchead says: "A truly amazing clip of a monkey washing dishes, and making a very thorough job of it." "Pete had been observing me washing the pots for a few days before he took over and began completely and perfectly imitating me! The monkey on his back is a baby female called Pea. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 07:59 pm Ritholtz says: "So much for the Gingrich juggernaut . . . on Intrade, his Iowa polling data is falling off of a cliff."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 07:03 pm [Video Link] Alex Pearson made a video to show how he drew his latest print, inspired by the 1958 Jacques Tati film Mon Oncle. Title: "A Ride Through Town" Illustrator: Alex Pearson / Familytree Printer: Kangaroo Press 3 color screen print on French 110# Smart White Paper Size: 18" x 24" Edition of 100 Price: ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 06:34 pm [Video Link] Russell Bates says: I noticed that you recently featured the trailer for We Need To Talk About Kevin on Boing Boing. This was a fortuitous coincidence, because I also recently saw the film and decided that it needed a more terrifying villain.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 06:20 pm Ken at Popehat -- a lawyer -- describes the pro bono action he fought on behalf of Michael Hawkins, the scienceblogger behind For the Sake of Science, after Hawkins found himself threatened with a lawsuit by Christopher Maloney, a "naturopath" whose methodologies Hawkins had pointedly questioned and mocked. Maloney's wife, a member of the Maine ...
Read in browser Law professors explain what's wrong with SOPA, constitutionally speaking
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 06:04 pm James sez, "The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a piece by Professors Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post on the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. In Don't Break the Internet, they argue that the two bills -- intended to counter online copyright and trademark infringement -- ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 19, 2011 06:04 pm King Mario's true love. UPDATE: Here's the chess set at hand, available from Amazon.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 19, 2011 05:47 pm In 1950, as part of promoting a new exhibit on space exploration, the Hayden Planetarium in New York City put out the word that it was accepting applications from would-be space tourists. Over the next few years, hundreds of letters poured in. This is one of them, written by a man who would like to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 19, 2011 05:41 pm This weekend, Julien's Auctions sold off hundreds of items from Los Angele's 100 North Carolwood Drive, the address where Michael Jackson and his kids were living when he died. Many of the most sought-after bits were those that were visible in the crime scene photos displayed during Dr. Conrad Murray's trial. The auction house recreated ...
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By Dean Putney on Dec 19, 2011 05:40 pm Submitterator vetran collectSPACE tells us: collectSPACE had the rare opportunity recently to tour NASA's space shuttle Atlantis to photograph its preparation for museum display and capture its glass cockpit powered and lit for one of its last times. The photo gallery starts on Atlantis' flight deck, and then proceeds to its now mostly empty middeck, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 19, 2011 05:26 pm OnEarth magazine has a really interesting essay on renewable energy and NIMBYism, by nature writer David Gessner. A former resident of Cape Cod, Gessner was a longtime opponent of the plan to site offshore wind turbines in the ocean near the Cape. But he recently changed his mind. Why? It has to do with Henry ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 19, 2011 05:18 pm Keith Emerson as a Roman slave battling his enemies with prog rock. (This clip is from the old BBC Two comedy show Big Train. Emerson is portrayed by Kevin Eldon.) (via @chris_carter)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 19, 2011 05:15 pm The Scientist magazine has put out their list of the top science scandals of 2011. I'm not normally a huge fan of overblown scandal recaps, but this particular one is interesting, I think, because it gives laypeople a peek into some major stories that many non-scientists probably haven't heard much about. For instance, number one ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 19, 2011 05:06 pm On Tuesday, two gentlemen stole DVDs and video games from Madison, Wisconsin Target but didn't realize that one of them had accidentally butt-dialed 911. From the Associated Press: A dispatcher listened in for nearly an hour as they discussed what they had stolen and where they might sell it. Police say they even described their ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 19, 2011 04:35 pm The small city of Juzcar in southern Spain was painted blue as a film location for The Smurfs movie. Sony Pictures offered to repaint all the homes but the residents voted yesterday to stay blue. From The Independent: Ever since the pueblo was converted into the set of Smurftown for Sony's hit, it has been ...
Read in browser North Korean diplomacy, with a side of slaw
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 19, 2011 04:33 pm As Dean told you this morning, Kim Jong-Il is dead. (Side note: This has been one of those great moments for me, where I learned about a news story from Facebook first, at least a good 10-15 minutes before stories started popping up on Google News last night. Shout-out for that goes to Kyle Whitmire, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 19, 2011 04:21 pm You should have seen them when they lost the Stanley Cup [John Biggs] Joe Sabia made a surreal Palin-interposition in the classic tradition of Sarah Palin's breaths:
Read in browser Alternative science mnemonics
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 04:05 pm Just in time for the lull in the conversation at your holiday dinner table, XKCD brings us these handy, sure-fire conversation-starting mnemonics for scientific concepts. Click through for the full set. Mnemonics
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 19, 2011 03:56 pm Scientists are making some headway in building quantum computers using holograms. By exploiting the unusual characteristics of quantum mechanics, quantum computers could potentially crank out calculations a billion times faster than today's integrated circuits. The power of quantum computers lies in the ability of a quantum bit (qubit) to exist in a zero or one ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 19, 2011 03:49 pm Last week, I got to interview astronaut Rex Walheim using questions submitted by BoingBoing readers. Those readers (plus one runner up) are entitled to a Jackhammer Jill pin and an awesome BoingBoing sticker. But to get those prizes, you need to email me. Kansas, Scratcheee, spocko, ganman, and Titus: You should email me at maggie.koerth@gmail.com.
Read in browser Contrafactual future history of Wikileaks
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 03:36 pm Lavir Tidhar's gonzo sf story Enter The Dragon. Later, Enter Another tells of a future, contrafactual history for Wikileaks with cameos from me and Bruce Sterling. (Thanks, Lavie!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 19, 2011 03:17 pm Every time you scan Fred Bosch's QR code tattoo, it'll take you to a different picture, video, weather forecast or favorite tweet. [Random Tattoo]
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 19, 2011 03:04 pm Maxwell Kielt writes in: "While much of the media's attention is directed towards SOPA, Protect-IP (PIPA) is nearing completion. PIPA is arguably as bad as SOPA, and while it has received a great deal of criticism in the Senate, it is not as well-known in the public eye. Senator Wyden has promised to filibuster the ...
Read in browser Fearless Fodsick: fight crime...with hair oil!
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 03:03 pm I love the way that parenting, hair oil and crime prevention are, in some way, all equivalent here. Fearless Fosdick
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