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The Latest from Boing Boing Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WATCHISMO TIME MACHINES - Timing is everything... Robert Anton Wilson talks at a Mondo 2000 event in 1988 Crowdfunding exemption - WeFunder and other Senate nudging On Booth Babes Project Unbreakable Did a UK fashion marketer rip off logo for iconic punk band CRASS? Stereogranimator: transform historical stereographs from NYPL archives into animated gifs and 3d images VA state senator attaches rectal exam amendment to anti-abortion bill First World Cat Problems Object Breast Cancer: visualizing tumors through art Crabby frog John Scalzi introduces his 13-year-old daughter to an LP Junk-market door as a desk/table/streetdoor Dad and kids play Depeche Mode eBay: "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" vintage cover photo Canadians from all corners of industry, culture, education, law and civil society oppose Canada's SOPA Ken Hollings lectures on John Cage Psychotronic generators, pi-rays, Egyptology, and orgone accumulators Dog delivers receipts to customers at vet's office (video) Meet Mexican tattoo diva "La Mujer Vampira," Maria Jose Cristerna Young woman can say any word backwards, instantly (video) Rupert Murdoch's Mind, 140 at a time Strange blue gelatinous balls fall from sky Patrick Farley is back: "The First Word" webcomic explains language's origin Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate MegaUpload files Game clones swarm Facebook Ex-LAPD deputy chief wins Ask Obama contest with pro-drug-legalization question "Worlds Largest Emerald" fails to attract bid at auction Oh Shit! images of overmatched, imminent failure Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival 3D printed Hilbert curve as scrunchie   Robert Anton Wilson talks at a Mondo 2000 event in 1988 By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 04:16 am As part of his Mondo 2000 History Project, R.U. Sirius uploaded a couple of Robert Anton Wilson recordings from a Reality Hackers Forum from 1988. He writes: I can’t remember if having RAW give a lecture titled “The CIA-Vatican-Cocaine Conspiracy” was his idea or ours. I think it was our idea based on the fact ... Read in browser Crowdfunding exemption - WeFunder and other Senate nudging By Paul Spinrad on Jan 31, 2012 03:35 am Should non-millionaires be able to invest small amounts, like up to $100 or $1000, in small, local businesses or other ventures that they believe in, without the ventures having to spend tens of thousands (or more) on state or federal securities compliance?  I believe so, provided that the offerings can be seen and discussed openly, ... Read in browser On Booth Babes By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 12:12 am Tech writer Glenn Fleishman doesn't mind attractive people trying to get him to pay attention to their products. But "companies that rely on models whose various assets are stress-testing spandex or exposed to air are trying so hard that they fail, he writes in an opinion piece at TidBITS today. "Not all attention is good, ... Read in browser Project Unbreakable By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 12:05 am Grace Brown created "Project Unbreakable" in October, 2011, and the tumblog appears to really be gathering momentum. The idea: "Use photography to help heal those who were sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster and photographing them holding the poster." So many stories from so many different ... Read in browser Did a UK fashion marketer rip off logo for iconic punk band CRASS? By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 11:48 pm At left, the CRASS logo, first seen in the mid-1970s. Center and right, a recent design for the UK garment retailer "Hardware," which appears to have repurposed the CRASS logo after 35 years of prior use, and crassly so. Punk News says the band and their label are aware of it. More at exclaim.ca, and ... Read in browser Stereogranimator: transform historical stereographs from NYPL archives into animated gifs and 3d images By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 11:21 pm Above, "Dixon crossing Niagara below the Great Cantilever Bridge," U.S.A., 1895-1903. And you can make your own, with Stereogranimator, a new project from NYPL Labs. Stereogranimator is " a tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library's vast collections into shareable 3D web formats." (thanks, Mikael Jorgensen!) Read in browser VA state senator attaches rectal exam amendment to anti-abortion bill By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:29 pm "To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication." (thanks, Antinous!) Read in browser First World Cat Problems By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:27 pm I approve of this meme. (thanks, Antinous!) Read in browser Object Breast Cancer: visualizing tumors through art By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:09 pm Above, one of the bronze sculptures to emerge from the Object Breast Cancer project by art duo caraballo-farman. Snip from the project description: 1.3 Million women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. For most, the tumor has no image. It's an invisible monster, an unseen malignancy. OBJECT BREAST CANCER (OBC) is ... Read in browser Crabby frog By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 09:28 pm [Video Link] Three happy Boing Boing readers and one troll. (Via Arbroath) Read in browser John Scalzi introduces his 13-year-old daughter to an LP By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 09:23 pm [Video Link] Apparently, so many people thought this was staged that Scalzi disabled the YouTube comments and asked Athena for a comment. Read in browser Junk-market door as a desk/table/streetdoor By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 09:12 pm This table, from Italy's Manoteca, is made from a junk-market door and a lot of style: Made from a door found at a outdoor market in Modena, the table is outfitted with a custom steel frame and new hinges that enable the shutters to open and close at will. When flat, the table can accommodate ... Read in browser Dad and kids play Depeche Mode By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 09:02 pm Joel Johnson turns us on to Dicken featuring Milah and Korben performing "Everything Counts" by Depeche Mode. This is fantastic. I just can't get enough. (See what I did there?) Read in browser eBay: "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" vintage cover photo By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 08:32 pm My friend Randall de Rijk, noted collector of vernacular photographs, shares with us this absolutely magnificent snapshot used on the cover of Ransom Rigg's young adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It has just sold on eBay for $600. The photo is far more beautiful and weird stripped of its recontextualisation as a ... Read in browser Canadians from all corners of industry, culture, education, law and civil society oppose Canada's SOPA By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 06:56 pm Michael Geist sez, "Throughout the fall, I ran a daily digital lock dissenter series, pointing to a wide range of organizations representing creators, consumers, businesses, educators, historians, archivists, and librarians who have issued policy statements that are at odds with the Canadian government's approach to digital locks in Bill C-11. While the series took a ... Read in browser Ken Hollings lectures on John Cage By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 06:54 pm My friend Ken Hollings is a master at connecting the dots between avant garde art history, outré culture, weird science, and basically everything that interests me. You might recall that Ken is the author of the absolutely fantastic radio series and book "Welcome to Mars," about the "fantasy of science in the early years of ... Read in browser Psychotronic generators, pi-rays, Egyptology, and orgone accumulators By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 06:24 pm Toys And Techniques posted several wonderful scans from Christopher Hills' fantastically-titled "Rays From The Capstone: The story of the psychotronic generator of the pi-ray and the incredible coffer." It was published in 1976 by the University of the Trees press. According to Amazon, Hills has written several books, including "Secrets of the Life Force," with ... Read in browser Dog delivers receipts to customers at vet's office (video) By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:20 pm [Video Link] (thanks, Joe Sabia!) Read in browser Meet Mexican tattoo diva "La Mujer Vampira," Maria Jose Cristerna By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:10 pm Mexican tattoo star Maria Jose Cristerna, better known as "La Mujer Vampiro" (Female Vampire), poses during the Venezuela Tattoo Expo in Caracas, January 27, 2012. She is a 35-year-old attorney. 98 percent of her body is covered in tattoos. She also has prosthetic fangs, and platinum implants in her forehead. "The 'Vampire Woman' was not ... Read in browser Young woman can say any word backwards, instantly (video) By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:01 pm "Alyssa Talking Backwards." (thanks, Joe Sabia!) Read in browser Rupert Murdoch's Mind, 140 at a time By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 05:59 pm NYT's David Carr, on the News Corporation CEO's foray into Twitter: "The rules of effective tweeting for business leaders are no different from the ones for us mere mortals who want to both express ourselves and remain employed: Don't be boring, don't curse, and for heaven's sake, don't always be shouting about how some junior ... Read in browser Strange blue gelatinous balls fall from sky By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 05:55 pm Weird blue gelatinous balls, about 3cm in diameter, rained on Steve Hornsby, of Dorset, England during a hailstorm last week. He collected them in a jam jar and put them in his refrigerator. From the BBC: Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be "marine ... Read in browser Patrick Farley is back: "The First Word" webcomic explains language's origin By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 05:16 pm Patrick Farley is one of the greatest and most maddeningly irregular webcomics artists working today. We've been covering his work for a decade, and a new Farley is always cause for celebration. His latest, "The First Word," is no exception -- a fine, odd, beautifully realized story about the invention of language, one that tries ... Read in browser Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate MegaUpload files By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 04:44 pm An attorney for MegaUpload -- which was shut down by the US government earlier this month, and whose assets have been frozen, following copyright complaints from the entertainment industry -- says that the US Attorney General is planning to destroy all its user data within a week. With its assets frozen, MegaUpload can no longer ... Read in browser Game clones swarm Facebook By Rob Beschizza on Jan 30, 2012 04:27 pm Dean Takahashi on the relentlessness machinery of Zynga's game-cloning operation, whereby it minimally modifies others' work and sues those who treat it likewise. Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower in an upcoming mobile game called Dream Heights. ... Read in browser Ex-LAPD deputy chief wins Ask Obama contest with pro-drug-legalization question By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 04:10 pm Tomangell sez, "A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's 'Your Interview with the President' competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday." Cop's Marijuana Legalization ... Read in browser "Worlds Largest Emerald" fails to attract bid at auction By Rob Beschizza on Jan 30, 2012 03:23 pm Who would pay $1.15m for a 57,500-carat emerald from a guy in an Ed Hardy shirt who admits dying the stone green, and who was arrested last week on unrelated fraud charges? No-one. [Vancouver Sun via Brendan Koerner] Read in browser Oh Shit! images of overmatched, imminent failure By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 03:00 pm Safwat sez, "'Oh Expletive!' is a series of clever illustrations by graphic designer Safwat Saleem, each depicting that 'Oh $@#!' moment familiar to anybody who's ever had the odds stacked against them. Except in this case, the odds are represented by awesome things like zombie attacks, unicorn swarms, 8-bit creatures, epic knife fights and more. ... Read in browser Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 02:15 pm Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My hosts on episode 37 are cartoonist Ruben Bolling, whose comic, Tom the Dancing Bug, premieres weekly on Boing Boing, and Dean Putney, ... Read in browser 3D printed Hilbert curve as scrunchie By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 02:07 pm Wagner James Au writes in with novel uses for a 3D printed Hilbert curve like the one I blogged last week: "Mathematician Henry Segerman creates copies of a 3D printed Hilbert curve he originally made in Second Life which, thanks to its twisty material, can also be worn as a geekily fashionable hair accessory!" Fractal ... Read in browser More to read:  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. 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The Latest from Boing Boing Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WATCHISMO TIME MACHINES - Timing is everything... Hollywood: a corrupt empire, founded by pirates "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": A collection of beloved collections Mika explains Spiderman movie   Hollywood: a corrupt empire, founded by pirates By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 01:03 pm Writing in the Toronto Sun tabloid, Alan Parker rails against the corruption of the entertainment industry, and the hypocrisy of the way that they've painted Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload: "The film corporations that were spawned by the very pirates and outlaws who created a hole-in-the-wall getaway hideout in Hollywood are now leading the charge to ... Read in browser "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": A collection of beloved collections By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 30, 2012 01:00 pm Last week, I asked BoingBoing readers to send me images and stories about your favorite museum exhibits—beloved displays and collections squirreled away in museums that might not have a big profile outside your state or region. The challenge was triggered by an awesome photo of a mummified Ice Age bison on display in Fairbanks, Alaska. ... Read in browser Mika explains Spiderman movie By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 29, 2012 11:42 pm [Video Link] I could listen to Mika explain movies all day long. Here's her take on Titanic and Inception, too. Read in browser More to read: HOWTO mix a grody-looking Alien Brain Hemorrhage cocktail Jeff Meadows' funny painted shoes Infographic: Hollywood's long war on technology Papercraft Viewmaster and Etch-a-Sketch Little Brother play, extended  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe immediately. Our mailing address is: Boing Boing 905 Wettach St Pittsburgh, Pa 15122 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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The Latest from Boing Boing Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WATCHISMO TIME MACHINES - Timing is everything... HOWTO mix a grody-looking Alien Brain Hemorrhage cocktail Jeff Meadows' funny painted shoes Infographic: Hollywood's long war on technology Papercraft Viewmaster and Etch-a-Sketch Little Brother play, extended Space-age Lestoil ad Mini collapsing traffic cone from 3D printer MPAA's number two admits industry "not comfortable" with the Internet More cracks in YouTube's takedown process reveal how media giants and corporations get to claim copyright to things they don't own Approximating the Hilbert curve with 3D printers   HOWTO mix a grody-looking Alien Brain Hemorrhage cocktail By Cory Doctorow on Jan 29, 2012 05:08 am This revolting thing is a cocktail called an "Alien Brain Hemorrhage": "To make an alien brain hemorrhage cocktail, fill a shot glass halfway with peach schnapps. Gently pour Bailey's Irish Cream on top. After the shot is almost full, carefully add a small amount of blue curacao. After it settles, add a few drops of ... Read in browser Jeff Meadows' funny painted shoes By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 28, 2012 08:21 pm Artist Jeff Meadows did a great custom paint job on his shoes! From an interview with him on Illustration Mundo. Read in browser Infographic: Hollywood's long war on technology By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 08:13 pm You know, when I was sitting down with entertainment execs on a regular basis to debate applied, practical technology choices in DRM standards bodies, their constant refrain was, "We love technology! We use it all the time!" The implication being that if they instigated a law prohibiting a technology it would not represent ignorance or ... Read in browser Papercraft Viewmaster and Etch-a-Sketch By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 07:11 pm Marshall Alexander made these free downloadable papercraft Etch-a-Sketch and Viewmaster models. He notes, "Instead of creating exact paper replica's I chose to do very simple interpretations that fit on a single page and are very easy to construct." Bright Red 1 and 2 Read in browser Little Brother play, extended By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 05:50 pm The San Francisco Chronicle loves the stage adaptation of my novel Little Brother, and brings the welcome news that its run has been extended by two weeks! Read in browser Space-age Lestoil ad By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 05:19 pm From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, this contribution by V.Valenti, showing a superb space-age Lestoil ad. Lestoil Woman of the Future, 1968. Read in browser Mini collapsing traffic cone from 3D printer By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 28, 2012 04:42 pm [Video Link] I was up at the MAKE offices earlier this week and saw this little traffic cone that the interns made on a MakerBot Cupcake 3D printer. Read in browser MPAA's number two admits industry "not comfortable" with the Internet By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 04:17 pm A great Mike Masnick Techdirt editorial deals with MPAA second-in-command Michael O'Leary's statement that, "[the Internet is] a platform we're not at this point comfortable with." The MPAA's O'Leary concedes that the industry was out-manned and outgunned in cyberspace. He says the MPAA "is [undergoing] a process of education, a process of getting a much, ... Read in browser More cracks in YouTube's takedown process reveal how media giants and corporations get to claim copyright to things they don't own By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 03:14 pm An unsigned rap group called After the Smoke couldn't post their song "One in a Million" to YouTube because every time they tried, it generated a YouTube content-match error saying that Universal Music owned their song. It turned out that UMG had laid claim to a leaked video that had a UMG artist performing the ... Read in browser Approximating the Hilbert curve with 3D printers By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 02:06 pm Thingiverse's Tony Buser has an amazing approach to approximating the Hilbert curve, as Make's Sean Ragan explains: Veteran Thingiverse user Tony Buser has printed a model (intended to be an approximation of the fractal Hilbert curve) using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a support material. Once everything is printed and cooled, the PVA is dissolved away ... Read in browser More to read: WSJ's partisan approach to climate change vs. science Using bundles of PVC pipes to make motion-blurred sculptures Lego Moleskine notebooks Twitter, partnering with Chillingeffects.org, publishes a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices (all 4,410 of them) Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download)  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. 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The Latest from Boing Boing Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WATCHISMO TIME MACHINES - Timing is everything... WSJ's partisan approach to climate change vs. science Using bundles of PVC pipes to make motion-blurred sculptures Lego Moleskine notebooks Twitter, partnering with Chillingeffects.org, publishes a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices (all 4,410 of them) Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download) EFF: "What Does Twitter's Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?" Best practices for fair use in libraries Video for "Brothers," by The War on Drugs Trailer for Ethos: the truth about the U.S. Government and its corrupt system Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977 Here's the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press LA airport security scare caused by TSA mistaking insulin pump for gun Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say The Great Hall of Hams Art Spiegelman exhibition in Angouleme, France Anti-aging mouthpiece RePress: a WordPress plugin for proxying around national firewalls FBI to increase monitoring of Twitter and Facebook, seeks help building new surveillance app Hubble Space Telescope power interface console on eBay Did NYPD police chief violate code of conduct by lying about Islamophobic video? A lovely photo of a plastic bag Earth station satellite facility home for sale Top RBS bankster's compensation in visual context Newt Gingrich's pro-medical marijuana letter to Journal of the American Medical Ass'n., 1982 Documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project Richard Branson: It's time to end the failed war on drugs Madonna's cautionary AIDS comic, handed out at a 1987 concert In Russia, tiny protest sparks big police response: LEGO minifigs, South Park dolls, and Wall-e demonstrate for democracy Political Contributions from Financial Sector Increased 700% Since 1990 HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way   WSJ's partisan approach to climate change vs. science By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 12:58 pm The Wall Street Journal published a letter expressing skepticism about anthropogenic climate change signed by a group of engineers, retired weathermen, and scientists from fields other than climate science. In response, a much larger group of actual climate scientists signed onto a letter rebutting the first letter. The WSJ rejected it. Instead, the pre-eminent science ... Read in browser Using bundles of PVC pipes to make motion-blurred sculptures By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 09:02 am Kang Duck-Bong is a Korean sculptor who makes pieces from bundled PVC pipes that appear to be in rapid motion. Disguise 1: pvc pipe, urethane paint, 90x28x55cm, 2011 (via Kottke) Read in browser Lego Moleskine notebooks By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 28, 2012 05:57 am I already have a lifetime supply of notebooks, but I'll be buying these Lego Moleskines just in case there's a mortality cure coming down the pipes. Read in browser Twitter, partnering with Chillingeffects.org, publishes a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices (all 4,410 of them) By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 11:40 pm From an article by Jake Brodkin at Ars Technica: "Twitter has taken the unusual step of making DMCA takedown notices public, in partnership with Chilling Effects, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities. The site shows 4,410 cease and desist notices dating back to November 2010." Here's the database on Chillingeffects.org. (Twitter's effort ... Read in browser Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download) By Amy Seidenwurm on Jan 27, 2012 11:18 pm Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf "Waiting for Something" Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades. Their records are lush and beautifully written, and the constant sense of wonder and optimism throughout is a joy for this cynic to discover each time. Nada Surf always makes me ... Read in browser EFF: "What Does Twitter's Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?" By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 10:49 pm An explainer from Eva Galperin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Twitter's "country-based tweet takedown" news. The key point here, which has been missing in much of the initial coverage, is that the policy announcement is specifically related to the company's global expansion: Twitter is opening offices in more countries around the world. A US-based ... Read in browser Best practices for fair use in libraries By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 10:14 pm Pat Aufderheide sez, When is it OK for me to put copyrighted material on e-reserves for students? I've got an ancient VHS and the company that made it is defunct. Can I copy it to DVD for a prof's class? A student's thesis analyzes advertisements and includes some of them. Can I put the thesis ... Read in browser Video for "Brothers," by The War on Drugs By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 09:54 pm [Video Link] Amy Seidenwurm says: "'Brothers' by The War on Drugs was possibly my favorite song of 2011. They just released a supremely creepy video for it." Read in browser Trailer for Ethos: the truth about the U.S. Government and its corrupt system By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 09:33 pm [Video Link] Sounds like this documentary explores the same kind of mass psychological manipulation that Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays invented to convince Americans that it was a good idea to get involved in World War One, as well as convince women that they'd become socially powerful if they smoked cigarettes. Directed by filmmaker Pete McGrain ... Read in browser Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977 By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 08:37 pm Klaus Schulze pilots his Moog spaceship through the composition "For Barry Graves" live in 1977. The track can be found on "La Vie Electronique Vol. 5." The Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series, which started in 2009, are reissues of The Ultimate Edition, a CD box set from 2000 that contained a staggering 50 discs, ... Read in browser Here's the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 08:05 pm Juha Saarinen sez, 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey New Zealand media were raided by police last November just before the general election, after the incumbent centre-right Prime Minister John Key made a criminal complaint over a recording of a conversation in a cafe between him and far right-wing politician John Banks during a staged media event. The ... Read in browser LA airport security scare caused by TSA mistaking insulin pump for gun By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:54 pm At Los Angeles International airport early this morning, TSA screeners mistook a woman's insulin pump for a gun. Screening and boarding at Terminal 4 were delayed as airport authorities searched for a woman they thought had a weapon. Read in browser Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:26 pm "It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product...He would proof it." Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul's company and former supporter of the Texas congressman, in the Washington Post today about those wacky racist newsletters previously mentioned here on Boing Boing. Read in browser The Great Hall of Hams By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:20 pm A worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the town of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, just north of Tuscany. Around 10 ... Read in browser Art Spiegelman exhibition in Angouleme, France By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 07:14 pm [Video Link] Short video of Maus creator Art Spiegelman getting a hero's welcome in France, where a museum in Angouleme is exhibiting a retrospective of his work. (Via Potrzebie) Read in browser Anti-aging mouthpiece By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 07:01 pm "This easy-to-use beauty and skincare product was developed by an ordinary housewife. Chikako Hirama was simply concerned about her own age and wanted an easy way to combat those telltale lines. Just try the yellow or pink Pupeko daily using such techniques as puffing out your cheeks or sucking them in while breathing through the ... Read in browser RePress: a WordPress plugin for proxying around national firewalls By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 06:53 pm RePress is a new WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress site into a proxy that can be used to circumvent national firewalls, including the systems used in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other countries where The Pirate Bay is blocked. The plugin is developed by the hosting company Greenhost and allows everyone with a WordPress ... Read in browser FBI to increase monitoring of Twitter and Facebook, seeks help building new surveillance app By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 06:29 pm From the Guardian: "Earlier this month the FBI quietly published a request for information (RFI) looking for companies that might help it build a new social network monitoring system looking at "publicly available" information. Contractors have until 10 February to suggest solutions." Read in browser Hubble Space Telescope power interface console on eBay By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 06:26 pm If you're working on a DIY version of the Hubble Space Telescope, this may come in handy. It's apparently the Vehicle Power Interface Console used at the Goddard Flight Center during pre-launch testing of the HST, and you can buy it now on eBay for $75,000. From the listing: Everything is housed in a very ... Read in browser Did NYPD police chief violate code of conduct by lying about Islamophobic video? By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 06:19 pm Gothamist digs into whether NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's statements and actions regarding the production of an Islamophobic propaganda film "screened on a continuous loop for over 1,200 NYPD officers" may have been a violation of NYPD conduct codes. If you're new to the story, first read this NYT item, then this followup. Read in browser A lovely photo of a plastic bag By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 06:06 pm Photographer Edi Go made a beautiful photograph of an ugly plastic bag. "Elastic" by Edi Go (Behance, via Imaginary Foundation) Read in browser Earth station satellite facility home for sale By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 05:53 pm After noticing a lack of space for Rob's vintage synthesizer collection, Happy Mutants has decided not to purchase the ICBM silo and air park for sale in New York's Adirondacks. Instead, we have our sights on the Jamesburg Earth Station now for sale in Carmel Valley, California. As we speak, Weisberger is pawning a handful ... Read in browser Top RBS bankster's compensation in visual context By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 05:45 pm Dunchead of amazingstuff.co.uk sez, "RBS boss Stephen Hester has accepted his bonus of £963,000 on top of his annual salary of £1.2 million. RBS is 80% owned by the UK taxpayer. This image represents his annual income as 2.2 million pixels, comparing it in 'income parade' style with other taxpayer-employed workers." RBS boss Stephen Hester's ... Read in browser Newt Gingrich's pro-medical marijuana letter to Journal of the American Medical Ass'n., 1982 By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:27 pm "On Sept 16, 1981, Representative Stewart McKinney and I introduced legislation designed to end bureaucratic interference in the use of marijuana as a medicant. We believe licensed physicians are competent to employ marijuana, and patients have a right to obtain marijuana legally, under medical supervision, from a regulated source." Newt Gingrich, hypocritical piece of shit, ... Read in browser Documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 05:19 pm Several years ago, VH1 made a documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. If you're not hip to the Langley Schools Music Project, you're in for a real treat. Between 1976 and 1977, music teacher Hans Fenger and a group of middle school students recorded two ... Read in browser Richard Branson: It's time to end the failed war on drugs By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:14 pm "Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has failed globally. Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of ... Read in browser Madonna's cautionary AIDS comic, handed out at a 1987 concert By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:10 pm From Ethan Persoff's ongoing chronicles of vintage weird ephemera: COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #7 - MADONNA ON AIDS. This public health pamphlet was handed out at one of her concerts, one night only, in 1987. Her image appears on the cover, and inside, a handwritten note urging for greater awareness of AIDS and an end to ... Read in browser In Russia, tiny protest sparks big police response: LEGO minifigs, South Park dolls, and Wall-e demonstrate for democracy By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 04:38 pm (Photo above: RFE-RL; below, Ivan Krupchik.) Authorities in Russia are investigating the legality of a "doll demonstration" demanding "clean elections" in the Siberian city of Barnaul, and looking for the humans responsible. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that Russia's police "[arrest] anyone, young or old, who takes part in an "unsanctioned" opposition rally"—so, some ... Read in browser Political Contributions from Financial Sector Increased 700% Since 1990 By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 04:35 pm Nicko Margolies from the Sunlight Foundation sez, "A new analysis prepared by the Sunlight Foundation shows that wealthy financial sector donors gave $178.2 million in political contributions in 2010, more than ten times what they gave 20 years ago. More than any other industry, individuals from the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector, particularly ... Read in browser HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 03:31 pm Sillysparrowness, a self-described "German teacher with a leaning towards silliness," described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis. I built a TARDIS (Thanks, scottiep!) Read in browser More to read:  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. 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