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Wonder: tearjerking novel is an inspiring meditation on kindness Animals doing people things Report: iPad 4G to be offered by Verizon, AT&T Anatomy of an unsafe abortion Video from inside a Tibetan community under lockdown, as self-immolations continue 90-year old grandma's dance tribute to Whitney Houston This Valentine's Day, say it with 55 gallons of lube Sex doll in a box Super Mario villains recruitment posters How to: Cook like Nathan Myhrvold in your own kitchen Canada's sweeping new, evidence-free electronic spying bill Apollo 17 astronauts singing on the moon Minecraft chunk error in real life White grandfather detained, cuffed in Austin while walking home with his black granddaughter Mickey the firefighting cat New Boing Boing T-shirt: Unizilla by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford Privacyscore.com: learn about and manage privacy risks you take online Leaked, unreleased Die Antwoord track: "Money and Da Power" Excerpt of One Model Nation, a graphic novel by Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols Trophy heads of fanciful Seussian creatures Baltimore police can't arrest people who record them, so they bust them for "loitering" instead Collaborative consumption and the history of carpooling Gunpoint: sneak around and rewire world to trick foes An LCD pixel and a grain of sand are roughly the same size Indie businesses: startups without the crunch What the voices in your head sound like Sony raised price of Whitney Houston albums after death Gomez's Hamburger: A great name for a star Cat Valente on writers and haters Unusual vintage Valentine's Day cards Wonder: tearjerking novel is an inspiring meditation on kindness
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 14, 2012 12:27 pm RJ Palacio's new book Wonder is a middle-grades novel about August ("Auggie"), a young boy born with severe facial abnormalities who, at the age of 10, leaves the safety of his parents' homeschooling and begins attending a New York private school. August has cleft palette, no cheekbones, asymmetrical eyes, and other deformities that are caused ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 06:06 am There's a whole tumblr of stuff like this.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 06:01 am The Wall Street Journal was first to report that Verizon Wireless and AT&T will offer the next edition of Apple's iPad to run on their newest 4G wireless networks.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 05:52 am Dr. Jen Gunter, who is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician, writes a harrowing account of receiving a patient who has undergone an unsafe abortion, and is bleeding to death: On the gurney lay a young woman the color of white marble. The red pool between her legs, ominously free of clots, offered a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 05:39 am The Guardian's Asia correspondent Jonathan Watts sneaks into Aba, a remote town on the Tibetan plateau, and captures this video report of how Chinese authorities are trying to stamp out dissent among ethnic Tibetans through military security, propaganda and forced 're-education.' More context and links at the NYT Lede blog. A BBC News crew attempted ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 04:48 am Video Link. YouTuber Adam Forgie of Utah, the person behind the camera, shoots these lovely videos with some regularity. "I take care of my legally-blind, near-deaf grandmother," he explains. "She may be blind, but she can still dance! She likes the attention." You can follow her on Twitter here. Update: Boing Boing readers in various ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 04:41 am Amazon Link. I can't tell what's funniest here, the user reviews, or the pricing and seller details: (thanks, Fell Pie I)
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 14, 2012 04:31 am The head of an inflatable sex doll is pictured in a box at Ningbo Yamei plastic toy factory, on the outskirts of Fenghua, Zhejiang province, February 13, 2012. The company started producing sex dolls three years ago, and now owns a total of 13 types of dolls at the average price of 100 RMB (16 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 14, 2012 03:17 am Fro Design's Mario Propaganda posters show how the other side recruited all those turtles and carnivorous plants. COMPLETE MARIO PROPAGANDA SET (via Super Punch)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 13, 2012 10:42 pm If you ever needed a good reason to buy a whipped cream maker: The New York Times adapted several of Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine recipes to work with ingredients and equipment you're actually likely to have in your home kitchen. The whipped cream maker is the only tool used here that I don't own. And ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 09:06 pm Michael Geist sez, "The Canadian government will introduce new Internet surveillance legislation that will mandate a massive new surveillance infrastructure at all Canadian ISPs and remove the need for court oversight of the disclosure of customer information. I've posted a detailed FAQ on the history of the bill, the likely contents, the lack of government ...
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By Dean Putney on Feb 13, 2012 08:53 pm El Zombre sends us this great video of Apollo 17 astronauts singing a silly song together on the moon surface. I dug in a little, and Wikipedia confirms that this is real footage! Thanks El Zombre! [Video Link]
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 13, 2012 08:20 pm Minecraft's defiantly unrealistic style notwithstanding, players appreciate the game's internal consistency and get frustrated at certain failures of verisimilitude. Chunk errors, for example, are squared-off seams in the world caused by glitches in the landscape-generation algorithm. Right out of the annals of reality is unrealistic comes Roraima Mountain, a pleasing reminder that you are living ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 08:06 pm Scott Henson, "a former journalist turned opposition researcher/political consultant, public policy researcher and blogger," recounts how he was repeatedly stopped and eventually cuffed and detained while walking his granddaughter home through a park in Austin, TX. Henson is white and his granddaughter is black, and the police said that they were responding to a "kidnapping" ...
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By Dean Putney on Feb 13, 2012 07:24 pm Thanks Frycook! via Submitterator [Video Link]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 13, 2012 06:30 pm Our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford managed to capture the elusive unizilla and draw it from life. (He released it safely into the wild so it could get back to the business of destroying cities). The result: this astounding T-shirt. Supplies are limited to the the amount of matter in the universe that can be ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 13, 2012 06:26 pm NYT: "PrivacyChoice, a company that has analyzed and indexed the data in hundreds of privacy policies across the Web, has developed a system to score Web sites on a scale of 0 to 100 based on how a site collects and uses personal data."
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 13, 2012 06:10 pm Well look what just spilled onto the internet. An unreleased Die Antwoord track, performed live on the current tour, but not included on TEN$ION. The leaked track, "Money and Da Power," features a sample that will be familiar to fans of the movie The Godfather. Download MP3, or listen on Soundcloud. Uploaded by a user ...
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By Courtney Taylor-Taylor on Feb 13, 2012 06:09 pm Donovan Leitch and I were together during the holidays of the year 2000, I think it was. We had been discussing the Hip-Hop movie trend where musicians were having shoot-outs with cops and/or other Hip-Hoppers, drug dealers, gangs and whatnot. We thought it would be interesting to invent a story where this was happening to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 05:55 pm On DeviantArt, thebiscuitboy showcases his "zoological nonsense" creations, trophy-heads of fanciful creatures inspired by Dr Seuss. These are really fantastic (if a little disturbing). Walrus, Baffler Bird II, Seuss Da Moose (via Super Punch)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 13, 2012 05:29 pm [Video Link] A fellow named Scott Cover noticed a group of Baltimore Police standing over a man handcuffed on the ground. He remembered reading that morning that the Baltimore Police department had told its officers they couldn't arrest people for taking photos or videos of them while they worked, so Cover pulled out his cell ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 13, 2012 05:27 pm This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Back in 2010, Rachel Botsman wrote a book titled "What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption," which was one of the first popular riffs on what can happen when you meld financial uncertainty, eco-motivation, and social networking. Essentially, it looks at new ...
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By Brian Easton on Feb 13, 2012 05:07 pm Gunpoint puts you in the role of a freelance spy, performing jobs for the highest bidder. Joining elements of Taito classic Elevator Action and puzzle-based hacking sims, it's a one-man heist experience complete with guns, gadgets, and carefully-laid plans. Everything can fall apart at any moment. Since an early alpha-stage walkthrough, described by developer Tom ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 13, 2012 04:52 pm Cary Huang's amazing Scale of the Universe animation has been updated—now with a better format, extra background information about the objects whose sizes are being compared, and more opportunities to blow your mind. "Holy sh$#! The Grand Canyon is bigger than Rhode Island?"
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 04:49 pm Responding to a post by David Heinemeier Hansson, Bryce Roberts thinks aloud about "indie" businesses -- high tech startups that eschew the fast path to sale and exit and opt for slower, self-financed growth. He calls them "indie" businesses, comparing them to musicians who build their careers without labels, and who, if they join up ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 13, 2012 04:26 pm When we read something silently we are, essentially, saying it to ourselves in our internal monologue. Psychology researchers at Britain's University of Nottingham wanted to know whether the voice that reads in our heads matches the voice that we read aloud in. In other words, does your internal monologue have an accent? It's an interesting ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 13, 2012 04:03 pm At The Guardian, Josh Halliday writes about Sony's rush to profit from Whitney Houston's death. Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston album on Apple's iTunes Store hours after the singer was found dead. The music giant is understood to have lifted the wholesale price of Houston's ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 13, 2012 03:46 pm Thanks to a tweet by Ars Technica's John Timmer, I was introduced this morning to Gomez's Hamburger—a delightfully named astronomical feature about 900 lightyears away from Earth. The name is funny. But what makes Gomez's Hamburger worth posting about here is that it gives you a glimpse of a process you've probably only read about ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 03:44 pm Cat Valente, author of such outstanding novels as The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and Deathless, is guest-editing Charlie Stross's blog, posting writing advice. Part one, published yesterday, covered some good ground, and today's continuation is especially good, with advice on coping with haters -- useful perspective for more ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 13, 2012 03:38 pm Artist Mitch O'Connell opened his ephemera vault to find his sub-collection of unusual vintage Valentine's Day cards. Below, a small sampling from his post. The Top 100 Most Strange, Odd, Perplexing and Unintentionally Funny Vintage Valentine Cards EVER!
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