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Video: "Nerds" take on thief in Internet cafe Cronache dal Mondo: ambient library music from the 1960s LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer Apps for Kids 012: Tiny Tower Game engine renders photorealistic Earth-sized worlds Will Alberta's two Uniques ever meet? Digital camera mounted to the business-end of a drill eBook Review: The Old Man and the Wasteland Huxley's fan-letter to Orwell for Nineteen Eighty-Four Race and justice in America: inspiring TED talk Toy Shining: Toy Story meets The Shining Rush flushes Rush! Nomskulls - skull cupcake mold Ralph McQuarrie, Star Wars concept artist, RIP The Man From Primrose Lane audiobook on 8-track tape This Thursday is Wear Your EFF Swag to Work Day Trailer for Naomi Novik's new Temeraire novel, Crucible of Gold Solving the mystery of "Degenerate Art" in Berlin iPad 3 launch looms Tiny library raises money with tiny uke and awesome video Netflix flushes Rush Where the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster came from YouTube's TheReplyGirl interviewed Paula Deen accused of racism, harassment Video: "Nerds" take on thief in Internet cafe
By David Pescovitz on Mar 07, 2012 12:28 pm [video link] Mob justice at the cyber cafe! (Thanks, em!)
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 07, 2012 12:20 pm "Cronache dal Mondo" (Chronicles of the World) is an Italian library music LP with a trippy, late-1960s avant-garde electronica vibe. Plus, dig that cover collage reminiscent of a social studies textbook from the time. Cronache dal Mondo (Toys and Techniques)
Read in browser LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer
By Xeni Jardin on Mar 07, 2012 12:06 pm The Guardian has more on the big hacking news which Fox News broke yesterday (as noted in a post by Rob). "Sabu," the trash-talking, self-appointed leader of LulzSec, has been working for the FBI for the last six months. The FBI says he helped the US and various European governments identify and arrest five alleged ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 07, 2012 12:00 pm 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 Tiny Tower, a simulation game where you earn money by opening businesses in a skyscraper and build the tower one floor at a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 07, 2012 11:55 am [Video Link] Blake Maloof is covering the Game Developers Conference for MAKE this week. Here's his look at the Outerra world rendering engine, which generates "massive, photo-realistic environments based on real data from Earth. All of Earth." These sprawling vistas look completely natural because, in a sense, they are. The large scale structures of mountains, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 07, 2012 10:55 am Brent Wittmeier of the Edmonton Journal reports that two newborns were named "Unique" last year in Alberta, Canada.
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 07, 2012 10:48 am Artist Oscar Lhermitte attached a digital camera to a spinning plate mounted on a hand-drill. The results are pretty fabulously trippy. "Looking at the different ways to shoot videos. Part of a workshop at the RCA led by Rosario Hurtado and Quique Corrales. May 2010. "Instead of making a normal movie, I am trying to ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 07, 2012 09:36 am Yesterday, commenter Tim H. noted that we must be reading the same books; he then suggested the Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole, which just happens to be the eBook I've selected for today's review. Cole tells the tale of a nameless Old Man; old enough to remember the nuclear holocaust 40 years ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 07, 2012 08:45 am Alduous Huxley sent George Orwell a fan-letter in Oct 1949, after receiving a review copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four from Orwell's publisher. Huxley (who, according to Letters of Note, was once Orwell's French teacher) is effusive in his praise, and goes on to directly compare Orwell's masterpiece with his own Brave New World. Partly because of ...
Read in browser Race and justice in America: inspiring TED talk
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 09:56 pm Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer who defends poor African-American people caught in the US justice system. In this incredible, moving, inspiring TED talk, he discusses the way that race and injustice are entwined in the US legal system: In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human ...
Read in browser Toy Shining: Toy Story meets The Shining
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 08:00 pm Illustrator Kyle Lambert set out to create a storyboard for a mashup of Toy Story and The Shining, calling the result Toy Shining. Earlier this year I began following Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3) on Twitter (@leeunkrich). As well as his journey to the Oscars with Toy Story 3, Lee often tweets ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 07:49 pm [Video Link] Rush's attorney sent a cease and desist letter to the The Rush Limbaugh Show. From the letter: According to media reports, Rush Limbaugh, Premiere Radio Networks and The Rush Limbaugh Show have been using Rush’s recorded music as part of what is essentially a political broadcast. The use of Rush’s music in this ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 06:39 pm From the Boing Boing shop: Nomskulls - silicone cupcake molds. Includes recipe for brainy frosting. Nomskulls - Set of 4 Skull Cupcake Molds - $11.95
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 06, 2012 06:38 pm Ralph McQuarrie, the concept artist behind Star Wars, Radiers of the Lost Ark, the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and many other films, died on Saturday. He was 82. "Ralph McQuarrie, Artist Who Helped Bring 'Star Wars' to Life, Dies at 82" (New York Times) "Ralph McQuarrie Remembered" (StarWars.com)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 06:36 pm [Video Link] The publicist for the James Renner's novel, The Man From Primrose Lane, sent me an old 8-track tape cartridge player along with a few different tapes, including one with the first chapter of the novel. My kids were fascinated by the device, and I enjoyed pressing the spring-loaded lever to switch programs on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 06:26 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation would like you to know that this Thursday, Mar 8, is "Wear Your EFF Swag to Work Day" -- the day when you discover which of your co-workers are already clued in to the need to keep the Internet free and open and ensure that civil liberties make the jump from ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 06:00 pm Charles sez, "Naomi Novik's new Temeraire novel, Crucible of Gold, arrives in bookstores this week, accompanied by a stylish video trailer designed to get readers' curiosity piqued and pulses racing. Is that a glimpse of the Inca Empire, you wonder? Why, yes -- yes, it is." Novik is a wonderful writer and her Temeraire series ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 05:04 pm [Video Link] Is anyone surprised that when the Nazis rose to power, they burned a bunch of interesting paintings and other art? (For a taste of pre-Nazi German erotically-tinged art, check out the book Voluptuous Panic). Recently, construction workers dug up some ash deposits during a subway excavation in Berlin. Dr. Stadelmann of the HTW ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 06, 2012 03:04 pm Mat Honan on what to expect at tomorrow's iPad 3 event: "We, the Press would rather sit in a dark room, unable to ask tough questions or actually touch and test an Apple product, than do our job. We would rather serve as a gateway for Apple's live action press releases." Also, iPad 3.
Read in browser Tiny library raises money with tiny uke and awesome video
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 02:50 pm Blackbeltlibrarian sez, "The Shutesbury Public Library in Shutesbury, Massachusetts is seeking funding in order to build a new building to replace their charming but woefully inadequate current one (which features no running water!). In order to get the word out staff and patrons created this cute little video in order to show the shortcomings of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 06, 2012 02:48 pm Joris Evers of Netflix emailed me to say: Spotted your tweets and wanted to let you know that Netflix has not purchased and does not purchase advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. We do buy network radio advertising and have confirmed that two Netflix spots were picked up in error as part of local news ...
Read in browser Where the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster came from
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 06, 2012 02:22 pm Here's the backstory behind the iconic "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters. Though 2.5 million were printed, they were never officially issued as they were reserved for crisis or invasion. 50 years later, Barter Books of Northumberland discovered a copy of the poster in a box of books from auction, and framed and hung it. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 06, 2012 02:08 pm Gawker's Max Read talks to Alejandra Gaitan, known to a legion of YouTube hater-fans as TheReplyGirl. "It's a decent amount of money. Am I a millionaire? No. Not at all. If I had all the money in the world I probably wouldn't be freezing here in winter in Canada. I would most likely be somewhere ...
Read in browser Paula Deen accused of racism, harassment
By Rob Beschizza on Mar 06, 2012 01:33 pm According to a lawsuit filed in Georgia, butterwitch Paula Deen used a racial slur beginning with "n" to describe the perfect wedding. "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding. ... What I would like is a bunch of little n****** to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black ties, you know in the Shirley ...
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