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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 21, 2012 09:39 am Undercover police agents in the UK infiltrated environmental groups, had sex with their members, struck up long-term relationships with women in these groups, fathered children with these women, and then abandoned the children. Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 21, 2012 12:01 am Van Dyke Parks has a new singles project! Michael Leddy (who wrote the "imaginary liner notes" for the first four singles) says Parks is "putting out six 45s with cover art by E Ruscha, Art Spiegelman, Charles Ray, Frank Holmes (who did the SMiLE cover), Klaus Voorman, Billy Edd Wheeler, and Sally Parks (VDP's wife). ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 09:33 pm [Video Link] Irina Alexander, Chair of SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) Board of Directors says: Two weeks ago, SSDP members took over New Hampshire before the primary, confronting presidential candidates about the drug war left and right! Within the span of a few days, we were able to capture videos of Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 09:24 pm Our friends at Adafruit Industries just announced FLORA, a new wearable electronics development platform. For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 07:58 pm Steve Hoefer (a fantastic maker who I interviewed on the Make: Talk podcast earlier this week) has come up with a great way to clearly mark his tools so they don't get lost when he brings them to a hackerspace. I also work at community workshops quite a bit, and while they often have a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 20, 2012 07:09 pm Ice Cube shares his appreciation for Charles and Ray Eames. "Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames" (via Gabe Adiv's Pinterest)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 06:51 pm [Video Link] This reminds me of the SubGenius photo manipulations I enjoyed on alt.slack.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 06:05 pm Mashable: "Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill 'until there is wider agreement on a solution.' ... and ... "'In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT IP Act,' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a statement ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 05:19 pm CBC's long-form/big think radio program Ideas recently featured a lecture called "Feeding Ten Billion" from Raj Patel, an Africa development scholar formerly with the World Bank, and author of The Value of Nothing. Patel's perspective on global agriculture and social justice is incisive and contrarian. I've never heard anyone talk about the demerits of the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 20, 2012 04:57 pm The world lost two musical greats this week. Etta James died today at age 73. Johnny Otis passed away on Tuesday. He was 90.
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 20, 2012 04:49 pm Artist Chet Zar curated Conjoined II, a mind-bending group show that opens tomorrow night at Santa Monica's CoproGallery. Featured artists include Charles Krafft, Ron English, Jason Hite, and many others. Above is the absolutely stunning La Petite Mort, by Christopher Conte. Chet Zar's : Conjoined 2 in 3D / Copro Gallery / Jan 21 –Feb ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 20, 2012 04:30 pm Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman of the excellent Sprudge.com coffee news site took the "Shit Girls Say" meme into my favorite San Francisco cafe, Four Barrel Coffee. Hilarity ensues. "There's no 'X' in espresso." Shit Baristas Say (Thanks, Matthew Williams!)
Read in browser HOWTO typeset Call of Cthulhu spells to make them look like the scrawlings of a gibbering madman
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 04:28 pm Gnat sez, "The only thing cuter than this Game Master asking TeX gurus for help making his RPG notes 'look like they were scrawled by a gibbering madman, unhinged by the horrors he has witnessed' is the serious responses, with examples of output. He even got an answer saying how to typeset an Elder Sign! ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 20, 2012 04:21 pm JG Bryce took these incredible photographs at the 20th World Orchid Conference, aka "The Orchid Olympics" that took place in Singapore last November. Bryce's photos illustrate a feature at Smithsonian about the competition. From Smithsonian: Members of a South African orchid society, disappointed that international trade regulations had denied them permission to bring real animal ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 04:10 pm Playboy's website The Smoking Jacket interviewed cartoonist Chester Brown about his autobiographical novel, The Playboy. Jessica Campbell of Drawn & Quarterly (publisher of The Playboy) says, "OK, am I the only one who didn't know that Hugh Hefner wrote to Chester after the publication of The Playboy to express concern about his guilt? This interview ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 20, 2012 03:55 pm (Insert quarter into your computer to enlarge the image above. If not thrilled and delighted beyond words, your quarter will be returned.) After the MPAA orders its minions in the Justice Dept. to shut down Boing Boing, I will continue to earn a living with the sensational new Television Bank. (Via The Big Blog of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 20, 2012 03:25 pm "Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming" [Ars Technica, following the introduction of gamification and "achievements" to the coding app]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 20, 2012 03:00 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo and Devon Works have announced details and a sneak peek of the Devon Tread 2, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the groundbreaking Tread 1. The Tread 2's movement relies heavily on aerospace technology such as glass-reinforced Nylon Time ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 02:19 pm James Losey from the New America Foundation sez, "Great news, the PROTECT-IP Senate vote scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed!" Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid [ed: D-NV, Senate Majority Leader] released the following statement today on the Senate's PROTECT I.P. Act: "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 02:10 pm The Split Decision pie-pan lets you bake two pies in the same receptacle, settling any arguments about which sort of pie should be had that day and generating handsome, smooth half-pies the like of which humanity was not meant to ken of. I'm not enough of a baker to know if different sorts of pies ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 02:05 pm Don't click this if you're at all squeamish, but there's something terrific (in ever sense) about the extraction of a gauze-pack from a healing broken nose, like watching a kind of horrible stillborn mouse being birthed from a cringing man's sinus cavity. (Thanks Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 01:11 pm Denmark's EGE Carpets sells a line of carpeting inspired by HP Lovecraft illustrations called Dark Water. They were created by Kirill Rozhkov, who has a nice gallery of them on Behance. Dark Water (Thanks, KayKay!)
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