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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 30, 2011 06:04 am Roger Ebert poo-poos the idea that piracy is at the root of dropping film revenues and ascribes the phenomenon instead to crappy movies and crappy theaters that charge too much. 2. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 29, 2011 11:10 pm [Video Link] Accompanied by Joseph Gordon-Levitt on guitar. Sophie Madeleine performs "Oil & Gold" on ukulele -- Boing Boing exclusiveLisa Hannigan performs "Knots" on the ukuleleTaimane Gardner plays Bach's Toccata on ukuleleSavannah Smith performs "Ventriloquism" on ukuleleSarahsukulele plays "Object of the Game" on ukuleleHawaii82 plays "In Your Hawaiian Way" on ukuleleJam Hands plays "Modest Geologist" ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 29, 2011 10:08 pm Demitri Martin has observed that whale watching is often indistinguishable from watching people be disappointed. But not all the time. National Geographic has a short video about a 1997 whale watching excursion when the people got to watch a killer whale take down a great white shark. (Feel free to make heavy metal devil hands ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 29, 2011 09:56 pm This is a page from Lifecycles, a short pamphlet by Manvir Singh. The mini-book collects illustrated accounts of reproductive cycles—how various flora and fauna create replacements for themselves and how those replacements grow into adults. It's a great, short read that would be perfect for a grade-school aged kid to explore. (There is a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 29, 2011 09:25 pm Here's something that's just a little mind-blowing: Synchotron tomography, a type of medical imaging related to CT scanning, allows scientists to look inside the cells of fossils. Check out this post on Lawn Chair Anthropology about a recently published paper that used synchotron tomography to study clumps of fossilized cells and rule them out as ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 29, 2011 09:09 pm If Britain had been attacked by a nuclear bomb during the Cold War, its government would have survived by retreating to a massive, 35-acre complex buried beneath the county of Wiltshire. I call it a bunker in the headline, but it was more like a small town—large rooms linked by roads, built on the site ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 29, 2011 08:55 pm Photo: Shutterstock. At Google+, Tom Anderson argues that Google's "don't be offensive" policy is good precisely because Google+ is a public space. On the contrary, it's the insistence that Plus is a public space that makes such policies troublesome, rather than mere quality control. Conduct rules are, by and large, a good thing for any ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 29, 2011 08:52 pm [Video Link] The Fine Brothers (who make the entertaining "Kids React to Viral Videos" videos) made a "Teens React to Rick Perry's Strong" video.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 29, 2011 06:58 pm [Video Link] Here's a family that works together like a well-oiled machine to steal a case of beer. I wish there were more episodes of their show. They probably have other neat tricks up their skirts.
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 29, 2011 06:19 pm For hundreds of years, Westerners have heard tales from pygmies living in the Congo river basin of a living dinosaur called the Mokèlé-mbèmbé, the "one who stops the flow of rivers." The BBC World Service talks to several explorers on the search for this beast that apparently may resemble a sauropod, elephant, rhinoceros, or perhaps ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 29, 2011 05:47 pm Are electronics dehumanizing music and art? Here's what pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen had to say on the matter back in 1972. Midway through, he riffs on the proto-human scene in 2001. For a nice point-of-entry into Stockhausen's work, I suggest Kontakte (1959-1960), his first composition that melded traditional instrumentation with electronics, including a tape recording ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 29, 2011 05:00 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo has the latest Torgoen T18 Chronograph and Torgoen T30 GMT Alarm watches. Bold black steel cases and carefully selected bright colors combine to put fun back into the fundamentals of analog timing. Torgoen's entire line of Flight Computer ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 29, 2011 03:01 pm Today at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin (28C3), Sadia Afroz and Michael Brennan presented a talk called "Deceiving Authorship Detection," about research from Drexel College on "Adversarial Stylometry," the practice of identifying the authors of texts who don't want to be identified, and the process of evading detection. Stylometry has made great and well-publicized ...
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