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Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age Monkey Room cocktail menu Twitter's early-bird special on censorship Clever-folding tyvek San Francisco map, with out-of-the-way landmarks Survival Research Laboratories: banned in San Francisco HOWTO make pizza in a jar Marcel Duchamp Inspired Ice Fishing Tip Up / Auto Jigger China: dissident on trial after Skypeing poem Pony: a disturbing kinetic sculpture Classic Newt: the hacker army of Saddam Hussein Zero-gravity buttermilk biscuits, 1956 Free the Crass Symbol!!! By the designer of the Crass Symbol, Dave King Treehouse B&B proprietor tells all Bowing to anti-abortion politics, breast cancer charity cuts funds for screenings at Planned Parenthood Die Antwoord: "I Fink U Freeky," co-directed by Roger Ballen (music video) Clever wire-stripper design Chinese Oreos are totally tubular Shit programmers say Fred Goodwin is no longer a knight Breaking Bad as an RPG The Great American Cereal Book: exclusive preview Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record Add a big red camera button to your iPhone Straight dope on Canada's new copyright law, ACTA, and SOPA After nuclear disaster, a harsh winter for Fukushima's abandoned pets (big photo gallery) Indiana Assemblyman withdraws urine-testing for welfare bill when colleague adds urine-testing for Assemblyman amendment "Global Jukebox" envisioned by folklorist, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax comes to life Strange and intrusive bathroom rules at Norwegian companies Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Brothers Disco and The Mighty Mighty Sasquatch Duchamp was here Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 12:48 pm David Weinberger is one of the Internet's clearest and cleverest thinkers, an understated and deceptively calm philosopher who builds his arguments like a bricklayer builds a wall, one fact at a time. In books like Everything is Miscellaneous and Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, he erects solid edifices with no gaps between the bricks, inviting conclusions ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 09:09 am Here's a cocktail menu from the Monkey Room, a drinking establishment once ensconced in Spokane, WA's Sillman Hotel. What a lovely piece of design, and what a deadly collection of concoctions. cocktail menu from Monkey Room, Sillman Hotel - Spokane, WA (Thanks, Frycook!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 01, 2012 03:45 am Photo: Sabeth Last week, Twitter announced plans to censor tweets in specific countries, but only to local readers. At the same time, it committed itself to publishing each act of censorship at the Chilling Effects clearinghouse. Assailed by critics, Twitter pointed out that the new policy puts it ahead ahead of competitors which removes postings ...
Read in browser Clever-folding tyvek San Francisco map, with out-of-the-way landmarks
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 02:06 am Shan sez, "Our guide/map of SF is printed on a single sheet of A3 Tyvek, and is then folded up according to a technique originally developed at Tokyo University for satellite solar panels. The bistable nature of the fold means that it can be fully opened or closed in one smooth motion, and that there ...
Read in browser Survival Research Laboratories: banned in San Francisco
By David Pescovitz on Feb 01, 2012 01:17 am According to Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline, the pioneering machine performance group has been banned from staging their provocative, brilliant, and awesome spectacles in San Francisco. What a damned shame. From SRL.org, where you can read Mark's entire statement: SRL was recently banned from performing in San Francisco by the SF fire dept. In ...
Read in browser HOWTO make pizza in a jar
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 01:02 am These twice-baked Pizzas in a Jar seem calculated to enrage TSA operatives, who will doubtless claim that pizza magically becomes a "gel" once you put it in a jar. Nevertheless, that looks like a jar of scrumptiousness, right there. Basically, all that you will be doing is layering your pizza ingredients into the jar. Here's ...
Read in browser Marcel Duchamp Inspired Ice Fishing Tip Up / Auto Jigger
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 11:59 pm [Video Link] Mike Haeg made this "Marcel Duchamp Inspired Ice Fishing Tip Up / Auto Jigger." He says, "this auto-jigger harnesses the power of the wind. A silver dinner bell rings when a fish bites. Perfect for catching panfish and Dadaists." It debuted this week at Art Shanty Projects. (Brrrr)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 11:54 pm Prosecutors in China cited a poem and messages sent on Skype in the trial of dissident Zhu Yufu. The 60-year-old man is charged with "inciting subversion of state power." The poem in question is titled, "It's Time." Zhu's attorney says there's no indication Skype helped police collect evidence. More: Guardian UK.
Read in browser Pony: a disturbing kinetic sculpture
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 11:50 pm pony H 54" L 49" W 27" is a kinetic sculpture that is reminiscent of one of Paolo Bacigalupi's more disturbing stories, somehow sexual and biomorphic at once. Do you know who made it and where it was exhibited? Please leave a comment. pony H 54" L 49" W 27" (via JWZ)
Read in browser Classic Newt: the hacker army of Saddam Hussein
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 11:49 pm From Mother Jones: In 1995, "[Newt] Gingrich warned of a horror scenario in which Saddam Hussein trained a hacker army to cause civil unrest by issuing 500,000 American Express cards and then charging absurd fees."
Read in browser Zero-gravity buttermilk biscuits, 1956
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 11:23 pm Puffin Biscuits, 1956, a vintage ad shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader MewDeep, whose collection there is full of great stuff.
Read in browser Free the Crass Symbol!!! By the designer of the Crass Symbol, Dave King
By David King on Jan 31, 2012 11:11 pm The very first appearance of Dave King's Crass symbol on Penny's Rimbaud's zine, "Christ's Reality Asylum." In 1977, in an old farmhouse in the wilds of Essex in Britain, I designed a logo for my friend Penny Rimbaud's impassioned manifesto, Christ's Reality Asylum. A heartfelt rant against as many of life's inequalities as would fit ...
Read in browser Treehouse B&B proprietor tells all
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 10:46 pm This 17-minute mini-documentary introduces Michael Garnier, proprietor of the Out'n'About Treehouse Resort in Oregon. Garnier is a thoughtful and salty woodcrafter who's put a lot of thought into the right way to build a treetop B&B, and his guided tour of his little hotel with its Ewok-style treehouses is a delight. Over the years, Garnier ...
Read in browser Bowing to anti-abortion politics, breast cancer charity cuts funds for screenings at Planned Parenthood
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 10:31 pm Collateral damage in the abortion wars, and bad news for working class and low-income women who rely on Planned Parenthood clinics for breast cancer and cervical cancer screening services. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, America's largest and best-funded cancer charity, is reportedly cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, in response to pressure from anti-women's health political ...
Read in browser Die Antwoord: "I Fink U Freeky," co-directed by Roger Ballen (music video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 10:07 pm [Video Link] A video for "I Fink U Freeky," from Die Antwoord's new release "TEN$ION." Co-directed by the band and Johannesburg, South Africa-based photographer Roger Ballen (the first of what I hope may be many more collaborations between them).
Read in browser Clever wire-stripper design
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 09:52 pm Thingiverse user Brian Beebe has contributed this great design for an electrified wire-stripper that uses an LED to tell you the instant the razor-blades have penetrated the insulation, completing the circuit that lights it up. Use:* Sight down the blades.* Align the blades with where the wire should be stripped.* Move the wire into the ...
Read in browser Chinese Oreos are totally tubular
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 09:37 pm When Kraft introduced Oreos to China in 1996, it was only moderately successful. They revisited the cookie with a lot of market research and came up with a bunch of different chapes, fillings, colors and recipes, eventually choosing several, providing that they preserved the "Oreo experience" of twisting the cookie apart, licking the frosting and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 08:31 pm "Shit Programmers Say" -- a worthy addition to the series and a trenchant comment on the inherent interiority of programming. Shit Programmers Say (via Waxy!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 07:26 pm Fred "The Shred" Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood. The former head of RBS, who oversaw its downfall, was knighted for "services to banking" and then received an enormous pension from the bailed-out bank he'd helped to destroy.
Read in browser Breaking Bad as an RPG
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 06:54 pm [Video Link] College Humor's RPG video game parody of Breaking Bad is spot on. Contains spoilers of all kinds.
Read in browser The Great American Cereal Book: exclusive preview
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 06:48 pm I ate a lot of cereal growing up. When I was six years old I'd wake up before my parents, fill a large aluminum mixing bowl with Cap'n Crunch and milk and park myself in front of the TV (black and white) to watch Beany and Cecil. By the time I got to the bottom ...
Read in browser Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 06:24 pm Hard Drive Productions is a pornographer that has switched business models, shifting its focus from making dirty movies to making sleazy lawsuits. It collected IP addresses of people who were supposedly downloading its movies over BitTorrent, then sent their ISPS legal demands to reveal their names. The next step would be demanding cash settlements from ...
Read in browser Add a big red camera button to your iPhone
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 05:44 pm Popa is an iPhone attachment that lets you take photos by pressing the "big red button." It's a neat idea but seems kind of expensive: $74.99
Read in browser Straight dope on Canada's new copyright law, ACTA, and SOPA
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 05:26 pm Michael Geist sez, "In recent days there has been massive new interest in Canadian copyright reform as thousands of people write to their MPs to express concern about the prospect of adding SOPA-style rules to Bill C-11. The interest has resulted in some confusion - some claiming that the Canadian bill will be passed within ...
Read in browser After nuclear disaster, a harsh winter for Fukushima's abandoned pets (big photo gallery)
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 05:23 pm Members of UKC Japan care for dogs rescued from inside the exclusion zone, a 20km radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (REUTERS) As regular Boing Boing readers will recall, I traveled to Japan some months back with PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien to produce a series of stories about the aftermath ...
Read in browser Indiana Assemblyman withdraws urine-testing for welfare bill when colleague adds urine-testing for Assemblyman amendment
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 31, 2012 05:21 pm Rep. Jud McMillin, a Republican in the Illinois Indiana General Assembly, has withdrawn a bill requiring mandatory drug-testing for welfare recipients. The withdrawal was occasioned by an amendment introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Rep. Ryan Dvorak. The amendment would require mandatory drug testing for members of the Illinois Indiana General Assembly, as well. "After [the amendment] ...
Read in browser "Global Jukebox" envisioned by folklorist, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax comes to life
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 04:51 pm (Alan Lomax, via Wikipedia) American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and traditional music collector Alan Lomax envisioned a "global jukebox" with which to share and analyze recordings he gathered over decades of fieldwork. This week, that dream comes to life. From an article in today's New York Times: A decade after his death technology has finally caught up ...
Read in browser Strange and intrusive bathroom rules at Norwegian companies
By David Pescovitz on Jan 31, 2012 04:49 pm Norwegian insurance company DNB has installed an alarm system in their toilets that alerts managers if an employee spends "too much time" in the restroom. Apparently, this is only the latest weird and intrusive bathroom rule reported to privacy agency Datatilsynet, the "data inspectorate." From the Telegraph: Last year the country's workplace ombudsman said one ...
Read in browser Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Brothers Disco and The Mighty Mighty Sasquatch
By Ed Piskor on Jan 31, 2012 04:45 pm Hip Hop Family Tree Part 1 Hip Hop Family Tree Part 2 Hip Hop Family Tree Part 3
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 31, 2012 04:40 pm (via Wooster Collective, thanks Lindsay Tiemeyer!)
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