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VHS Cassette notebooks RAW quote: a grandiose delusion British admin for download links database may be first extradited to US for copyright charges I brought you a transplant heart, but I dropped it Cat is hat Space crap to hit Earth: failed Russian Mars probe expected to crash-land this weekend Sebastian Junger on Marine Afghan corpse urination incident Apple audits supply chain, vows to fight for reduction in worker abuses, environmental damage Data breach at City College of SF may impact 100,000 students Activists alter 85 BofA ATMs in SF to become "Automated Truth Machines" Hitler gets word of Google Search Plus Your World Protest iPad, Bahrain Liquid nitrogen + plastic bottle = boom TED2012 speaker lineup Health Care Bills without the agony WWII bomber jacket art Lawsuit: store owner tried to ruin my life over a bad Yelp review, posted fake blog claiming I was thieving, crack-addicted prostitute Doc Fermento Discovers The World podcast Episode 11 - Making Social Currency Fool-Aid parody ad from Mad magazine A new name for the Very Large Array The new owner of Righthaven's domain hates "spineless" ISPs Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm, exclusive excerpt RAW Week: "Hello, fellow tripper," by R.U. Sirius Nicest "get bent, you jerky lawyer" letter ever The Count Dante Documentary. Karate. Comics. Sex. Drugs. Death. Mobsters. Crazy lies, crazier truths. Volcano creates new island in the Red Sea Vintage interview with tripping girl Dollhouse version of a hoarder's house Post-Apocalyptic web series, shot in the real life abandoned spaces of New York Fundraiser auction for Alpha Workshop, which teaches genre writing to young writers VHS Cassette notebooks
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 06:43 am Peleg Design's "Video Notebook" bears an uncanny resemblance to a VHS cassette, and comes with labels for extra verisimilitude. Video Notebook (via Neatorama)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 14, 2012 06:23 am "Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, 'My current model' -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- 'contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised.' In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:54 am No British citizen has ever been extradited to the United States for a copyright offense. But Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old college student who ran TV Shack, may become the first. As I understand it, the charges aren't that his (very popular) site actually hosted the copyrighted content, but that it served as a directory of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:44 am In Mexico City, butterfingers medics dropped a donor heart being rushed to a hospital for a transplant operation. Rolled right out of the container and everything, right on to the street. All worked out in the end.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:36 am [Video Link] Look at that! (via @joejanecek+@popurls, video by Katie Westlake)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:36 am The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft may impact Earth in North America, South America, Europe, Asia or even Australia. "It's not possible to say where the thing is going to fall down," Heiner Klinkrad, head of the orbital debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, told The Washington Post in an interview today. (Via @dallasmars)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:31 am From the combat filmmaker's Washington Post op-ed: "There is a final context for this act in which we are all responsible, all guilty. A 19-year-old Marine has a very hard time reconciling the fact that it's okay to waterboard a live Taliban fighter but not okay to urinate on a dead one." (via @pourmecoffee)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:24 am Computing giant Apple today for the first time released an unprecedented trove of information about its supply chain: the "Apple Supplier Responsibility Report." Some industry observers believe the move indicates Apple under Tim Cook may turn out to be a more transparent company than under previous CEO Steve Jobs. "I would like to totally eliminate ...
Read in browser Data breach at City College of SF may impact 100,000 students
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:19 am City College of San Francisco's computers have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmit personal data from students and employees overseas, school officials said today. (MSNBC)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 05:12 am Rainforest Action Network claims responsibility for the art-prank intervention. RAN activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine. The activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA's ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 04:58 am [Video Link] The hard-working star of Der Untergang learns of a recently-launched set of tweaks to Google search results that push Google+ content to the top, integrating social information into search. Steven Levy has a smart piece up today on the launch of Google's "Search Plus Your World" (SPYW) at Wired.com. Internet critics will likely ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 04:56 am An anti-government protester films with her iPad during an al-Wefaq rally in Sanabis, west of Manama, Bahrain, January 12, 2012. Thousands of anti-government protesters participated in the rally shouting anti-government slogans demanding the downfall of the ruling family. (REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 14, 2012 04:37 am [Video Link] Keep the volume low when you watch this (Via NSFW What The Christ?)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 11:55 pm Going to TED is one of my yearly highlights. They just announced their list of presenters for 2012. Take a look and let me know who you'd like me to interview for Boing Boing! (Here's who I definitely want to talk to: Joshua Foer, Chip Kidd, Jon Ronson, Susan Cain, Wade Davis, Tali Sharot, and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 13, 2012 11:27 pm How to Be a Retronaut's latest gallery is a world-beater: "U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets, WWII." Stylin'. U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets, WWII
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 13, 2012 10:21 pm A lawsuit filed by Chicago's Cecelia Groark claims that Krunch Kretschmar, owner of a store called Bottled Grapes, created a fake blog about her nonexistent drug problems, thieving, and prostitution to retailiate for a negative review on Yelp. She says she bought a Groupon for a wine pairing class but got the runaround when she ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 10:09 pm Askbryan, who runs the delightful "Doc Fermento Discovers The World" podcast, interviewed me about my book Made by Hand: My Adventures in the World of Do-It-Yourself . He says, "I have provided a full show transcript for the deaf, the nearly deaf, the curious, or for anyone that might want to read along. Feel free ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 09:20 pm In 1978, over 900 people at Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana committed suicide by drinking Flavor Aid with cyanide added to it. This parody ad from a 1961 issue of Mad magazine is an uncanny harbinger of the tragedy. Note that the letter is addressed to "Jim."
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 13, 2012 08:33 pm Remember the contest to rename the Very Large Array? (I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that it resulted in one of the best BoingBoing comment threads ever.) The good news: A name has been chosen! The bad news: It's not "Emily". But it's still nice. Starting March 31, the Very Large Array will ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 13, 2012 08:31 pm Last week, a mystery bidder snatched the domain of copyright troll Righthaven at auction for just $3,300. Just now, the domain name system updated to reveal his identity: one Stefan Thalberg of Zug, Switzerland, just south of Zurich. And at the domain itself, a mysterious "No Jellyfish" logo with the title "Take Back The Right(Haven)" ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 08:29 pm John Flesk, founder of the terrific art book house Flesk Publications, just released four new titles (The Art of Craig Elliott, Warren Chang: Narrative Paintings, Flesk Prime, and Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm). He sent them to me and they are all terrific. Here's more information about Naughty and Nice, ...
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By R.U. Sirius on Jan 13, 2012 08:23 pm Some time in 1976, I went into this very hip bookstore in downtown Binghamton, New York where I lived and came across two books whose covers screamed for my attention with their flaming psychedelic designs. I picked one of them up and read the blurb on the back cover. It spoke of psychedelic supermen, conspiracies ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 13, 2012 08:16 pm Themac sez, "Fantastic response to a cease and desist. I was particularly impressed at whom they cc'ed." This may be the nicest "go screw yourself" letter ever sent. The backdrop: The San Antonio, Texas based Freetail Brewing Co. received a cease and desist letter from the Steelhead Brewing Co. (based out of Eugene, Oregon) demanding ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 07:39 pm [Video Link] Snig says: "A documentary is being produced on Count Dante, the man behind the Deadliest Man Alive ads that were in Marvel comics. His real life? Straight out of a comic book." [Trailer is from 2009.] The Search for Count Dante
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 13, 2012 07:34 pm A month ago, one of these islands didn't exist. On December 13, fishermen in the Red Sea reported volcanic eruptions shooting lava into the air. Just ten days later, the new island was visible. Volcanic island formation is one of those natural phenomena that most of us have known about since grade school. And yet, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 13, 2012 07:34 pm "Everything is color." A wonderful bit of vintage footage also seen in the excellent 1986 BBC documentary, LSD: The Beyond Within.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 07:33 pm Carrie M/ Becker made a 1/6th scale hoarder's house. I have a love of all things miniature. As a young adult, I collected small Japanese toys from a company called Rement. During the summer after completing graduate school I had some down time and decided to use my commercial photography skills to shoot my miniature ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 13, 2012 07:28 pm rubidium says Welcome to New York City. Population: 01 When an unexplained event decimates the human race, the survivors fight for their lives in the ruins of civilization. A new take on the post-apocalyptic road movie, The Silent City explores a world where one wrong turn can mean the extinction of the species. If you ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 13, 2012 07:06 pm Sarah sez, "The Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers is a ten-day workshop held annually in Pittsburgh, PA for writers ages 14-19 who are passionate about writing science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. Guest authors at the 2012 workshop will include Tamora Pierce and Kij Johnson. To raise money for the workshop's scholarship fund, which assists ...
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