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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 12:49 pm Here's a gallery of advertisements from the Bohn Aluminium and Brass Corporation, illustrated in super-modernist, streamlined style by Arthur Radebaugh. They run the gamut from future farms to future vehicles to exploded engine diagrams, with monorails and super-jumbos and transparent curvy refrigerators for all. They're full of wartime pluck, with ad copy like, "When peace ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 08:04 am Christian Wöhrl has produced a German translation of my 28C3 talk, The Coming War on General Purpose Computing. Thanks, Christian!
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 05:42 am Long Forgotten, the world-beatingly insightful blog on the history and design of the Haunted Mansion rides at Disneyland, Walt Disney World and other parks, has a new lavishly illustrated post up, this one on the contribution of background artist Claude Coats. HBG2, the site's author, makes a compelling case for Coats' draftsmanship and sense of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 31, 2011 01:15 am Apple's design chief, Jonathan Ive, is named a Knight Commander in Britain's new year's honours list. [BBC]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 30, 2011 10:15 pm [Video Link] Here's a great video from Big Think by Penn Jillette called "An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election." I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes and hurricanes were the way ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 30, 2011 09:01 pm Behold the inexplicable Shira Miss Muffin, who appears to be Pittsburgh's answer to Rebeccah Black. [Thanks, Heather! Thanks a lot.]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 30, 2011 08:49 pm [Video Link] This $50 controller looks cool, and the man in the video seems much nicer than Paul Christoforo. 60beat GamePad controller
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 30, 2011 08:35 pm In 1997, Apple gifted the Stanford University Libraries its historical collections of paperwork, hardware, software, artifacts, and other materials documenting the organization since Woz and Jobs founded it in 1976. The Associated Press toured the collection. No, it's not available for public viewing.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 30, 2011 08:06 pm A classic fanboy-type argument has real-world tax implications. If the IRS decrees that Marvel's comic book mutants are human, then Marvel will have to pay more taxes. In the non-fictional world, our world, Marvel is taking the position that mutants are not humans at all. But this isn't an ideological or a moral stance. Instead, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 30, 2011 07:54 pm Now in the Boing Boing Shop, the Robot Tea Infuser, because tea is always better with robots.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 30, 2011 07:31 pm Todd Wasserman of Mashable says "It's time to cut GoDaddy a Break." Marco Arment (creator of the fabulous Instapaper) disagrees: Even if you're OK with their support of SOPA, their sexist and tasteless commercials, and their elephant-killing CEO, they're still a terrible registrar: their upselling is misleading, sneaky, and sleazy, their control panel is horrendously ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 30, 2011 06:15 pm Photo: Aly Song, with Reuters
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 30, 2011 06:14 pm Friday Freak-Out: The 13th Floor Elevators performing "You're Gonna Miss Me" on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1966. The track is available on the essential album "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators." You're Gonna Miss Me - a documentary about the musician Roky ... Roky Erickson's Devotional Number One - Boing Boing Book ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 30, 2011 06:11 pm MIT has long offered thousands of undergrad and graduate level course materials for free online. This month, they announced plans to significantly update and expand that effort, creating an open-source education system called MITx that will basically allow anyone to virtually take an MIT class, participate in laboratories, and get individual assessment on whether or ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 30, 2011 05:58 pm A new study suggests that in the summertime, tornadoes and hailstorms in the eastern US occur significantly more often during the middle of the week. Why? There's more pollution during the workweek due to commuting and other factors. From National Geographic: …Moisture gathers around specks of pollutants, which leads to more cloud droplets. Computer models ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 30, 2011 05:44 pm The English seaside resort of Blackpool is currently coated in a mysterious white gunge, blowing in from the Atlantic ocean on storm-force winds. "We know it happens occasionally and can disappear again quite quickly so we will be looking further into what triggers it," said a spokesman for Britain's Environment Agency.
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 30, 2011 05:27 pm Sam Blackburn is the technician who for five years kept Stephen Hawking's communication systems running. Now Hawking is looking for a new Technical Assistant. To get a sense of the job, New Scientist interviewed Blackburn. Stephen's voice is very distinctive, but you say there might be a problem retaining it? I guess the most interesting ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 30, 2011 04:51 pm One of the most mind-blowing presentations at this year's Chaos Communications Congress (28C3) was Ang Cui's Print Me If You Dare, in which he explained how he reverse-engineered the firmware-update process for HPs hundreds of millions of printers. Cui discovered that he could load arbitrary software into any printer by embedding it in a malicious ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 30, 2011 04:34 pm A couple of weeks ago, Mark told you about Lego's new line of products aimed at girls. It includes new minifigs that look more like dolls and cutesy playsets with names like Heartlake City. This week, Cory introduced you a little girl who is very frustrated with excessively gendered toys. I played with a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 30, 2011 03:49 pm [Video Link] "Go to hell. Go to hell." Maurice Sendak interview on NPRMommy? Maurice Sendak's monstrous kids' pop-up book'The Hobbit' illustrated by Maurice Sendak? The ... - Boing BoingMaurice Sendak's working on a pop-up book about 1930s monsters
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 30, 2011 02:43 pm Miller-McCune's Emily Badger: When members of Congress earlier this month considered the Stop Online Piracy Act — better known to anyone who actually hangs out on the Internet as #SOPA — the most notable feature of the debate turned out to be the sheer ignorance of the elected officials discussing it. One after the other, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 30, 2011 02:14 pm ILLUSTRATION. Photos: Shutterstock, HP. All Things D's Arik Hesseldahl posts the lawyer letter that got Mark Hurd fired by HP: Hurd asked her to stay the night. Fisher's reply: "Absolutely not. I barely know you and you are my boss." An hour later, after more alleged pressure from Hurd, Fisher said she wanted to leave ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 30, 2011 02:06 pm RanTek, a Danish company, is reportedly supplying Iran with censor/spyware technology, which was part of a larger effort that was used to identify a dissident journalist who was arrested and tortured. Until he was arrested, he worked for Mehr, the official Iranian news agency. He received information from all over the country about protests and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 30, 2011 01:08 pm Joshua Wise transcribed my 28C3 lecture, The Coming War on General Purpose Computation. He's released the text under Creative Commons Attribution. The text is on GitHub, in Markdown format, and Joshua says, "The format is both markdown and probably also machine-parseable, with some manual intervention." The Q&A hasn't been transcribed, but I'd welcome that if ...
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