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Flipping the Bird: Is the Fed on Twitter a Horrible Idea? TEDxConejo: March 31 in Thousand Oaks, Ca Rebecca Gates and the Consortium - "Dangerous" (MP3 download) Free Claude Lalumière and Richard A. Lupoff in San Francisco Sponsor shout-out Bunnie Huang's open Geiger counter: design notes and reference Hunger Games trimmed by 7s to earn kid-friendly UK rating Reminder: Maggie live chat about the future of energy at 11:00 Eastern M16 lamp Make: Talk 009 - AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas, Squishy Circuits Fluffernutter avec foie gras eBook Review: No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead) Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad email leak America's 55-hour work weeks ruin workers' lives and don't produce extra value for employers Officer Vader suit for your riot-control needs Dueling Banjos on Tesla coils Kickstarter: False Profit Library staircase delightfully transformed into live interactive game board Goldman Sachs Exec Director quits, indicts former employer in stinging NYT editorial Folding tables, desks and carts with a tiny footprint What Do Robots Do All Day? A kids' book from the future Scene-for-scene comparison of Sarah Palin and Julianne Moore The Root Children Christopher Walken reads Where the Wild Things Are Story of the first phone phreak Pesco's vibrobot Wild skyscraper designs awarded Late night whipped cream supplies delivery service Resin octopus Alien/Giger heels Flipping the Bird: Is the Fed on Twitter a Horrible Idea?
By Adam Levin on Mar 15, 2012 01:00 pm Even the farsighted Founding Fathers could not have foreseen this--the Fed is now on Twitter! Just think of the possibilities-- one fine Friday any Fed functionary could foment a world crisis in 140 characters or less! It could be as simple as a typo. For example, the Fed's second tweet was: "Watch a video of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 15, 2012 12:55 pm Don Levy says:"Inventor and Innovator Ravi Sawhney (founder of RKS Design), the producer, engineer and recording artist Alan Parsons, music tastemaker Nic Harcourt, Homeboy-Industries founder Father Greg Boyle, human educator Zoe Weil, and filmmaker Lindsay Doran, are among a variety of speakers at TEDxConejo on March 31 in Thousand Oaks, CA. Now in its 3rd ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Mar 15, 2012 12:43 pm Sound it Out # 21: Rebecca Gates and the Consortium - "Dangerous" Rebecca Gates originally blew my mind with her fantastic duo The Spinanes. She and Scott Plouf (who now drums for Built to Spill) created a passionate and full-bodied sound that you'd never guess could come from a 2-piece band. Rebecca's lyrics were ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 15, 2012 12:00 pm The next installment in San Francisco's excellent SF in SF reading series will feature Claude Lalumière and Richard A. Lupoff, on Mar 17. Jameson's will be served at the cash bar. Admission is free, as always, though donations are solicited for Variety Children's Charity of Northern California.
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 15, 2012 11:00 am Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Here's a BoingBoing-only offer! Watchismo is offering the ODM Time Track Watches for only $77 each, for one week only. Just enter coupon code BOINGTRACK at checkout to redeem almost 65 percent off the original $220 price. An ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 15, 2012 11:00 am Bunnie Huang, cracker of the Xbox and creator of the Chumby, wanted to do something to help people in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. He created a reference design for a cheap, reliable, stylish Geiger counter for everyday carry, under the auspices of Safecast, a group that works on ongoing disaster relief in Japan. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 15, 2012 10:40 am The Hunger Games is a young adult novel about a grim future, in which teens are picked each year to fight to the death on TV. The subject matter, however, has earned the eagerly-awaited movie adaptation some ratings troubles. In the U.S., the MPAA issued it a PG-13 rating, for movies with material "inappropriate" for ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 15, 2012 10:22 am I'll be chatting live with the editors of Treehugger.com, starting at 11:00 Eastern. The chat will be embedded at Treehugger. There will be opportunities for viewers to participate in the conversation!
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 15, 2012 10:00 am HowToBeAHeroine's M16 Lamp is a great, quick bodge: take one Ikea lamp, stick it onto one toy electronic M16 (sprayed gold), add one Target lampshade. Be sure to watch to the end for a spectacular finale. Sure beats Philippe Starck's $1700 version. M16 Lamp (Thanks, Dean!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 15, 2012 10:00 am Here's the 9th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker interview this week is with AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas. She's the director of the Design Laboratory at the University of St. Thomas. Prior to that AnnMarie was a faculty member at Art ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 15, 2012 09:15 am At ABV in New York, you can order a $17 Foie Gras Fluffernutter, a Wonderbread sandwich that combines peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and foie gras. Evidently a dessert, it's topped with hazelnut crumble and sour apple. Foie Gras Fluffernutter (Photo: Cornerstone Communications) (Thanks, @JamesLosey!)
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 15, 2012 08:16 am Yesterday reader Tim H. yet again recommended a book I've recently finished and loved: James Cook's No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead.) No Easy Hope is a take on the 'survive the zombies' genre I hadn't seen before; society only sort of collapses. With a bit of a weak set-up revolving around Eric (the protagonist) ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 15, 2012 03:01 am Syrian activists have leaked a cache of documents purporting to be the private email of Bashar al-Assad and his coterie, penned during the slaughter of the Syrian opposition. The Guardian is working its way through them, authenticating them as thoroughly as they can. In this overview, Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding tour the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 09:28 pm Sara Robinson's written an excellent piece on the productivity losses associated with extra-long work-weeks, something that has been established management theory since the time of Ford, but which few employers embrace today. Americans are working longer hours than they have in decades, sacrificing their health, happiness and family lives, and all the data suggests that ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 08:13 pm If you're feeling alone and vulnerable in a big, troubled world, Amazon has this "Damascus FX1 FlexForce Modular Hard Shell Full Body Crowd Control System," which will provide you with the physical protection and the emotional distance necessary to beat, gas, and detain your fellow human beings. All for a mere $545.95! The FX-1 FlexForce ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 07:00 pm What better use for a pair of musical Tesla coils than FONentertainment's rousing 2010 chorous of "Dueling Banjos?" Dueling Banjos on musical Tesla Coils (via Geekologie)
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 14, 2012 06:50 pm Pundit Award winning writer and film maker Dan Abrams joins forces with Science Channel's Josh Zepps and Second City legend Jeff Michalski to film a mockumentary on the causes of the 2008 economic collapse. Abrams and Zepps are writing with Michalski directing. If ever there was a high percentage chance for funny, this would be ...
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By LibraryLab on Mar 14, 2012 06:34 pm Four flights of seventy-two stairs were transformed into a giant game board using 1,200 feet of wire and 48 Internet-connected tin cans decorated with green and gold helium balloons at DIY: Physical Computing at Play. These were our targets. The customized game was conceived after we invited designers and web developers Michael J. Newman and ...
Read in browser Goldman Sachs Exec Director quits, indicts former employer in stinging NYT editorial
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 06:00 pm Greg Smith, a 12 year veteran of Goldman Sachs who held the rank of executive director until today, has tendered his resignation and penned a NYT op-ed explaining his disillusionment with the firm. Smith describes a "toxic," "destructive" company that puts its own bottom line ahead of its customers' best interests, the result of a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 05:08 pm On Core77, Hipstomp profiles Oasis Concepts, a furniture maker that produces flat-folding compact furniture. I'm semi-obsessed with tiny-footprint furniture at the moment, having confronted the reality that we're not likely to get a bigger flat any time soon. I keep thinking that if we could just put in some ambitious convertible Murphy-style furniture in each ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 04:04 pm BERG's Matt Jones hazards a guess at the future of work in this hypothetical future Richard Scarry book-cover. Richard Scarry's "What Do Robots Do All Day?"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 14, 2012 03:54 pm [Video Link] Via Biotv: "An interesting scene-for-scene comparison of actual media appearances of Sarah Palin and Julianne Moore reenacting them in HBO's Game Change." Pretty amazing acting by Julianne Moore. Sarah Palin / Julianne Moore
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 14, 2012 03:42 pm Amy Crehore says, "There is something about children who live underground and play with big ants and other bugs that appeals to me." And who in their right mind would disagree with her? Illustrations by Sibylle Von Olfers for this 1906 book can be found on 50 Watts. Read the Story of the Root Children ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 03:19 pm Here's Christopher Walken reading and narrating Where the Wild Things Are, a treat to rival Samuel Jackson's dramatic interpretation of Go the Fuck to Sleep. Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 14, 2012 03:00 pm Joe Engressia Jr. was the father of phone phreaking. In the 1950s, the blind 7-year-old realized that his high-pitched whistle could control the phone system. Over the years, he learned the electronic language of clicks and tones and tapped into a network of phone freaks around the country, most of whom had previously phreaked in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 14, 2012 02:39 pm [Video Link] David and his son built this Vibrobot, featured in Make: Projects. It's the best one I've come across!
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 14, 2012 02:21 pm Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao and Dongbai Song from China won Evolo magazine's 2012 Skyscraper design competition. My favorite, however, is the runner-up (above) which crawls up the side of the Yunnan mountains. Designed by Yiteng Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia and Zihan Wang, it has the advantage of being neither outrageously science fictional nor horrible: ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 14, 2012 02:07 pm On Monday, I was shooting some video in San Francisco with my friend Lessley Anderson of CHOW and she spotted this card for a late night whipped cream supplies delivery service. This seems fishy to me -- the only person who would need to make this much whipped cream late at night is Herb Alpert.
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 02:00 pm Judy Fox's "Octopus" is an awfully lovely piece -- it's repped by LA's Ace Gallery. Octopus, 2009 Sculpted in terra cotta, cast in poly resin and painted with casein paint
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 14, 2012 01:39 pm These never-released Alexander McQueen heels were inspired by HR Giger and the Alien franchise. They look a impractical, uncomfortable, and properly biomorphic. Alien-Inspired High-Heels [Pic] (via Geekologie)
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