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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 12:53 pm Our friends at Bigshot Toyworks illustrated this fantastic cover for Bloomberg Businessweek. Covers are the hardest part of magazine design, but this one really nails it.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 12:35 pm My copies of the beautifully designed clip-art zine Crap Hound are among my most treasured possessions. Sean Tejaratchi, the creator, has a Kickstarter to reprint Volume #6, which has a theme of "Death, Telephones & Scissors!" Sean is currently working on a book-length version of Crap Hound devoted to "Unhappy People" to be published by ...
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By Adam Parfrey on Mar 06, 2012 12:30 pm [Video Link] A brief look behind Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society, a Visual Guide. by Adam Parfrey One of the most exciting secondhand store moments ever: discovering a beautifully preserved 19th century Masonic uniform with dozens of buttons, embroidered crosses, a skull and bones apron, official belt, and pointy "Chapeau" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 12:17 pm High school vice-principal Amy Strand, a nursing mother mother of four, was told that that she couldn't clear the TSA checkpoint at Lihue Airport in Kauai with her breast pump unless she went into the women's bathroom and pumped her breasts out into the bottles. The TSA operative told her that the pump wasn't allowed ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 11:21 am Jon Stewart has a field day responding to Limbaugh's nasty, error-prone attack of Sandra Fluke, the Republican candidates' fear of the powerful bully who can make or break them, and to Fox News' Megyn Kelly's hypocritical punditry. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Gross
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 06, 2012 11:00 am This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Here at Boing Boing, we're fond of all things handmade, and of clever ways to stretch one's household budget. As the cost of staple foods and happy indulgences like coffee continue to rise, now is a good time to explore ways to save money ...
Read in browser Dan Gillmor's next project, "Permission Taken" - the theory and practice of "going free" with your technology
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 10:10 am Dan Gillmor has posted the outline of "Permission Taken," a new project he's taken on to explain what he's gone through in his journey from using proprietary systems to open and free ones. Gillmor -- one of Silicon Valley's best-respected columnists -- is a sophisticated technology user, and he's always understood that there is value ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Mar 06, 2012 10:00 am (Video Link) Behold a terrifying new video for Here We Go Magic's new song "Make Up Your Mind". I'm not sure what's going on in here, but I'm positive I don't want it to happen with me. Please note that the video contains lots of ladies in distress in their underpants. Don't watch it if ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 06, 2012 09:47 am In keeping with my attempts to read and review a kindle eBook a day, yesterday I read The Dig by Michael Siemsen. The Dig was a page turner and I kept reading long past when I should have knocked off and gone to bed. Siemsen tells the story of a young man, Matthew, who is ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 06, 2012 09:33 am Fox News' Jana Winter reports that LulzSec's Sabu was caught and turned by the authorities last June and has been working with them since. Other members of the group were arrested today as a result, she writes; details will be unsealed today in district court. The name given, Hector Xavier Monsegur, would confirm earlier outings ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 06, 2012 09:21 am At Gizmodo, Sam Biddle takes a long look at Shiva Ayyadurai, the MIT lecturer who snookered Time, the Smithsonian Museum and The Washington Post into believing he invented email. Ayyadurai appears to be a brilliant, paranoid huckster. He's generally described by his colleagues as a nut and fraud—the terms "asshole," and "loon" were tossed around ...
Read in browser Gleick's masterpiece The Information comes out in paperback today
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 08:52 am James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood was my favorite nonfiction book of 2011, a tour-de-force history and introduction for information theory. It's out in paperback today. Here's some of my review of the hardcover: I've been fascinated with information theory since a friend of a friend explained "Shannon limits" to me ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 05:52 am Nisha from the Open Rights Group sez, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow and Wendy Seltzer will be leading this year's Open Rights Group conference (aka ORGCon) in London on 24th March 2012. From the government snooping on your data to default internet blocking and monitoring to the corporate capture of state and democratic institutions - we'll ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 05, 2012 11:45 pm I was getting tired of our 3 cats kicking litter all over the place. I bought this Clevercat litter box and it has significantly reduced the amount of litter they enjoy spreading around. It's basically a storage bin with a hole in the top for the cat to jump in and out of. My cats ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 05, 2012 09:18 pm JD sez, "This site provides complete plans for printing and assembling a single drawer safe protected by a three digit combination lock." Paper Safe : Come and get it! (Thanks, JD!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 05, 2012 07:04 pm From a 1961 British Pathe newsreel called "Beat The Bandit", a remarkable anti-theft system for a briefcase: As the man runs off with the case three telescopic poles spring out of it making the case impossible to manage, as well as crushing the man's hand pressing it into the handle of the case. It then ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 05, 2012 06:43 pm (Reuters) The Atlantic has a list of the 31 advertisers on this morning's episode of the Rush Limbaugh show. I just put my Netflix account on hold, and will cancel it if they continue to sponsor the program. I'm also going to trade in my John Deere tractor for a Caterpillar. All the Advertisers Who ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 05, 2012 06:18 pm Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. I was at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach last week, so I didn't have time to record a regular episode of Gweek ...
Read in browser Uterine fibroids, hair relaxers, and why some evidence is better than others
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 05:23 pm There's a story making the rounds right now suggesting that the use of hair relaxers—products that are used more often by African American women than women of other ethnicities—might cause uterine fibroids—a painful condition experienced more often by African American women than women of other ethnicities. Nobody really knows why African American women seem to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 05, 2012 05:00 pm Last week, I blogged about the Mother Jones investigation into labor conditions in ecommerce warehouses. Now Fair Warning and several California newspapers have an expose on the conditions inside Schneider National Inc., one of the largest warehousing/logistics firms in the country, in California's Inland Empire. The reports documents outright criminality that subjects workers to unsafe ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 04:01 pm I had never heard about Toola the Sea Otter before today, but I'm not going to pass up an opportunity for a headline like this. Also, her story turns out to be incredibly inspiring. Seriously, this otter was a bit of human-interpretable speech away from being a guest on Oprah. That's because Toola was a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 03:49 pm If you read our story about the ant evolution debates then you will enjoy this LOLant made by biologist and insect blogger Alex Wild. (Thalex!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 03:38 pm Want to learn more about exoplanets and the science of other worlds? Then Sean Carroll thinks you will (mostly) dig Journey to the Exoplanets, a new e-book app from Scientific American. The downside: Lots of information, and no search function.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 03:32 pm An article in the latest issue of Physics Today puts modern contrived controversies into historical perspective. After all, this isn't the first time that humans have looked at the evidence supporting a profound paradigm shift in science, realized how badly it would screw with their deeply held social and political beliefs, and, then, soundly rejected ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 05, 2012 03:09 pm Juha sez, 'As if journalism here in New Zealand wasn't difficult and damaged enough... the government is proposing to make it worse. 'The unheralded change to "journalistic privilege' is contained in a paper issued by Justice Minister Judith Collins today and proposes a new regime where journalists would have to hand over their sources to ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 05, 2012 03:04 pm Before the Lights Go Out is Maggie's new book about how our current energy systems work, and how we'll have to change them in the future. It comes out April 10th and is available for pre-order (in print or e-book) now. Over the next couple of months, Maggie will be posting some energy-related stories based ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 05, 2012 02:04 pm Developed by Boston Dynamics (previously), Cheetah can run 18 MPH, needs neither to see nor scent you to know where you are hiding (because you're screaming), but is fortunately not aware that it is on a treadmill.
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 05, 2012 02:02 pm The violin heard in this video was strung with violin strings made from spider silk. Does it sound different to you? Me neither, but I'm no violin connoisseur. From New Scientist: (Nara Medical University professor Shigeyoshi) Osaki learned how to coax Nephila maculate spiders to spin out long strands of dragline, the strongest form of ...
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