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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 12:01 pm The 1964 NYC World's Fair is legendary -- birthplace of animatronics and Belgian waffles, the zenith of exuberant goofy corporate futurism and the beloved coming-of-age for millions who entered a modern world filled with promise. Documentarians are raising funds to produce "After the Fair," a doc featuring any amount of droolworthy archival footage of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:56 am Bloomberg's Max Abelson takes us deep into the spectacle of members of Wall Street's 1% bemoaning their difficult straits as they struggle to make ends meet with their reduced bonuses. One doesn't know how he'll tell his children that they can't go to an exclusive private school anymore, another bemoans his mere 1200sqft New York ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:48 am Ali Johnson sez, Song Map is a new litho print by Dorothy. The Map is, as its name suggests, made up entirely from song titles: Highway to Hell stretches past Itchycoo Park, Heartbreak Hotel can be found on Alphabet Street and take a left off Penny Lane to find 22 Acacia Avenue. Just like places ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:44 am An inspiring call-to-arms from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, founder of Tinker London: This should be a golden age for UK manufacturing. People are making things everywhere at various scales. In Hackspaces, studios, universities, at home, in their sheds. This is a nation on tinkerers after all. People are coming up with an idea using an Arduino, building ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:36 am Michael Geist sez, "The Canadian music industry is scheduled to appear before a Parliamentary committee today with some of the most radical demands to date that would effectively create liability for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, and video sites such as Google, Facebook and Reddit. As if that were not enough, the industry ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:00 am Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the ill-starred SOPA Internet regulation, has an even dumber idea for the Internet. In the name of fighting child pornography, he wants to force ISPs to log everything you do online, then make it available to police and government agents without a warrant. Leslie Meredith has a writeup on the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 29, 2012 10:57 am Celer is an experimental/minimalist ambient duo founded in Southern California in 2005 by Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long at the start of their romantic relationship. For several years, the couple released more than a dozen very limited edition recordings in handmade packaging. Tragically, Baquet-Long died of congenital heart failure in 2009. Long continues to release ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 29, 2012 10:42 am My sister-in-law Heather Sparks just returned from the Bruise Cruise Festival, a rock and roll weekend cruise from Miami to the Bahamas. Judging from the video above and Heather's report to me, the Bruise Cruise is, well, exactly what you'd think: hundreds of indie hipsters, loud music, and debauchery on the open seas. Performers included ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 29, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 8-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Bag It, a puzzle game where you are challenged to bag grocery items without damaging them. Bag It! is 2.99 in the iTunes ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 09:00 am The Disaster Preparedness Plan prepared by the local DHS for Union County NC explains what steps you should take if you have to evacuate and take your pet fish: "Your name and where you will be located should be on an ID tag and taped to the fish bowl. This should include your description of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 29, 2012 08:36 am At Penny Arcade Report, Ben Kuchera reports on Cross Assault. A "fighting game" reality show sponsored by Capcom, creator of the classic Street Fighter game series, it was a disaster of sexual harassment, casual racism and adolescent nastiness. Aris Bakhtanians, the coach of the Tekken team ... stated that sexual harassment and the fighting game ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 07:52 am David Weinberger sez, "Seth Godin reports that the Apple store is refusing to carry his new ebook, Stop Stealing Dreams, because it links the books it references to Amazon. Seth argues that the market dominance of a mere three ebook vendors, and the fact that the vendors of ebooks are also the vendors of ebook ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 03:15 am Raspberry Pi, an innovative $35 GNU/Linux box in a tiny package, launched yesterday -- sort of. Demand was so hot that all the company's retail partners collapsed under load. From Ars Technica's Ryan Paul: The product is a bare board with a 700MHz ARM11 CPU and 256MB of RAM. It's roughly the size of a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 28, 2012 09:14 pm [Video Link] Here at TED2012 Gregory Gage of Backyard Brains showed me how to measure the electrical activity of a neuron in a cockroach leg. At around the 12:00 minute mark, Gregory pumps the electrical signal from music on his iPhone into the cockroach's leg, causing it to twitch in time with the beat. (The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 08:40 pm Wyoming state representative Lorraine Quarberg (R-Thermopolis) has proposed Wyoming House Bill 85, which will prepare Wyoming for the day that the USA collapses. It includes an amendment proffered by Rep. Kermit Brown, which establishes a task force to investigate "conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 08:22 pm Michael Weinberg from Public Knowledge sez, "After coming out against SOPA and PIPA, many people are asking what the Internet is for. The Internet Blueprint is designed to help create a positive agenda for laws that impact the Internet. Come and check out fully drafted bills, and contribute your own ideas. If they get enough ...
Read in browser Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa
By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 07:36 pm Japanese photographer Satoru Niwa, whose work I blogged in a previous Boing Boing post, has a new series from Fukushima marking the one-year anniversary of the March 11 disaster: Invisible You. Again, beautiful, evocative work. Above: a shot from the town of Namie, which is some 40 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. View ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 07:10 pm An October, 2011 Department of Homeland Security memo on Occupy Wall Street warned of the potential for violence posed by the "leaderless resistance movement." (via @producermatthew). Update: Looks like there's a larger Rolling Stone feature on this document: As Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation last fall, sparking protests in more than 70 cities, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 06:59 pm The Sparkfun folks have a sweet recipe for building an Arduino-based, accelerometer-triggered Tardis sound-effects box into the ceiling of an elevator, noting that care must be taken not to freak out riders and precipitate a bomb-squad visit. As it stands, the contraption works well enough (much like the TARDIS itself). But for those looking for ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 06:29 pm Apple today invited tech reporters to an event in San Francisco on March 7, with the following graphic suggesting that the unveiling relates to a new iteration of its market-dominating iPad. As is the custom with Apple, no confirmed details have been released about either the event, or any future iPad. But word is the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 06:24 pm Last week, Maggie went to the largest science conference in the Western Hemisphere for four days of wall-to-wall awesomeness. Every day, she learned amazing things, watching scientists from all over the world talk about their work. Check the bottom of each post to find links to earlier posts in this series! One of my favorite ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 06:15 pm This book is called Cooking With Poo. Yes, "Poo" is Thai for "crab" and it's also author Saiyuud Diwong's nickname. But this book is called Cooking With Poo. Heh heh. Heh. It's on the shortlist for The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Here are the others: A Century of Sand ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 06:09 pm With help from the international police organization Interpol, Spain and three South American countries today arrested 25 people who are suspected of being Anonymous activist/hacktivist/hackers. They are accused of defacing government and corporate websites. Reuters: Spanish police also accused one of four suspects picked up in the cities of Madrid and Malaga of releasing personal ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 06:00 pm Williams-Sonoma sells Star Wars vehicle pancake molds. The X-Wings and TIE-fighters are pretty cool. Star Wars Vehicles Pancake Molds (via Geekologie)
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 05:58 pm This fun BigFoot UFO Abduction t-shirt hits me right in my high strangeness receptors. It reminds me of my delightful Bigfoot/UFO "Believe" painting by Pietro Ramirez.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 05:54 pm Airing tonight on PBS Frontline (check your local listings, or watch it online!), a documentary film that provides the definitive inside account of what really happened, moment to moment, during the Fukushima disaster. "Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown" features exclusive interviews for the first time with Japan's prime minster and the top executives at TEPCO. Tomorrow, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 05:27 pm Faces Of Death is the infamous 1978 shockumentary depicting a variety of violent and horrible ways that humans and animals can die. Much of it was faked, some of it obviously so. Regardless of its semi-authenticity, it is a classic of mondo VHS cinema. Radio show/podcast On The Media's Brooke Gladstone recently spoke with Faces ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 04:45 pm Here's a set of photos from the ruins of Heritage USA in Fort Mill, SC, the Christian themepark built by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker at the height of their evangelical empire, now fallen to ruins since its closure in 1989. It's arguably a lot more fun to visit now than it ever was in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 04:26 pm Jeff Roberts at PaidContent claims that TechCrunch's traffic is plummeting. TechCrunch, the long-time darling of the digerati, is smashed to bits and all of AOL's horses and men will be hard-pressed to put it together again. The site has lost almost every one of its top writers and traffic has dropped sharply, dropping by 35 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 04:00 pm From Funny or Die: middle-aged men explain why they are best qualified to make decisions about women's reproductive health. Let These Middle-Aged Men Explain Why They're Better at Discussing Women's Health [Video]
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