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Historical photos from Antarctica Solipsist: Slamdance winner for Experimental Short If you are traveling 80 miles an hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles? Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Mr. Magic on WHBI How to create an iPad archive of the entire run of Spy magazine in two hours X-rays of flowers Trompe l'oeil graffiti vanishes Egyptian military barrier Papercraft, steampunk Iron Horse Time to Make a Monster Liberating America's secret, for-pay laws Banksy did not steal from Crap Hound FAA to review in-flight gadget policies, maybe, eventually Guitarist sought for Metal Band Aibo, Japan's Beatboxing Princess, with and without cats (video) Google Wave users receive fail-tastic sunset notification Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch Tiny, behind-the-ear R2D2 tattoo The Kickstarter to end all Kickstarters Pianist with synesthesia performs Bach "in color" (video) Review: Lightly Salted Peanuts, by Delta Airlines Pirate Bay servers going airborne in tiny drones Gweek 044: Sarah Vowell interviewed about her book, Unfamiliar Fishes Mark Abel's The Dream Gallery: Seven California Portraits Kids' summer activity: frozen plastic dinosaurs Listen to a sane debate about nuclear energy Danny Hellman's illustrations for a book project killed by the estate of Dr. Seuss Crowdfunding the hunt for habitable moons Hitler toilet-paper wants you to add the mustache We need to talk about red meat ... Return of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties Historical photos from Antarctica
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 20, 2012 12:52 pm The United States Antarctic station at McMurdo Sound was opened in 1956. Originally it was operated by the Navy, rather than the National Science Foundation. This photo was taken during the Navy years, in November of 1958. The flat white snow at the bottom of the photo is the frozen McMurdo Sound. The 'road' is ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 20, 2012 12:49 pm [Video Link] Andrew Thomas Huang's 10 minute video gets weirder and better with each passing minute.
Read in browser If you are traveling 80 miles an hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles?
By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 20, 2012 12:11 pm "If you are traveling 80 miles an hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles?" (Thanks, Lew!)
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By Ed Piskor on Mar 20, 2012 12:00 pm Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 20, 2012 11:32 am Using an OS X utility called Google Book Downloader, Andrew Hearst downloaded every issue of the late Spy magazine into his dropbox account, giving him a tablet-ready version of the fantastically funny and much-missed magazine that poked fun at infamous assholes. Scrolling through the pages of Spy in Google Books using a desktop or laptop ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 20, 2012 11:12 am Avi sez, "Brendan Fitzpatrick has made a beautiful series of x-ray photographs of flowers." And he's selling prints! Floral X-rays (Thanks, Avi!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 20, 2012 10:22 am Noordijk sez, "Egyptian graffiti artists make this military street barrier 'disappear.'" Sheikh Rihan mural
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 20, 2012 09:10 am This steampunk, papercraft wonderment comes from Phillip Valdez, who notes, "I do paper sculpture and have a soft spot for steampunk. All creations are made from Archival paper with book binding glue and acrylic paints." Be the first in your city to own a mechanical wonder "The Iron Horse". (Thanks, Phillip!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 20, 2012 06:51 am London's Nobrow press, who published the excellent Hilda comics I reviewed in January, have a new sweet little coloring/activity book called "Time to Make a Monster, by Liam Barrett. My daughter was delighted by the mazes, spot the difference pictures, and coloring and free-drawing pages, and I love the illustrations style. Click through for a ...
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By Carl Malamud on Mar 20, 2012 01:29 am [Editor's note: This morning, I found a an enormous, 30Lb box waiting for me at my post-office box. Affixed to it was a sticker warning me that by accepting this box into my possession, I was making myself liable for nearly $11 million in damages. The box was full of paper, and printed on the ...
Read in browser Banksy did not steal from Crap Hound
By Amy Seidenwurm on Mar 20, 2012 12:41 am I posted last week about Banksy possibly stealing written material from Sean Tejaratchi in Crap Hound. Like most rumors, the truth is significantly less salacious. In fact, it sounds like this whole thing was just a big, sloppy misunderstanding. I'm a fan of Banksy's work and was relieved to hear this. Apologies to him for ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 20, 2012 12:06 am The US Federal Aviation Administration today announced it is exploring ways to make it easier for airlines to allow travelers to use connected gadgets like phones, iPads, and tablet PCs during plane takeoff and landing. A statement released today says the FAA is "exploring ways to bring together all of the key stakeholders involved" (airlines, ...
Read in browser Guitarist sought for Metal Band
By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 11:09 pm A Craigslist of Greatness: ** READ THIS ** Take a few seconds and read what I am into. Now imagine you contacting me and eventually calling me, and asking if I would like to play some blues. Or some 60s Rock. Or some Stone Temple Pilots. Or some Nickleback. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, AUSTIN? ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 10:29 pm Aibo is a skilled beatboxer from Japan. Here's her YouTube channel, and you can follow her on Twitter. Above, a little video featuring her work from MyISH. The MyISH folks tell us she's "a friend/protege" of fellow Japanese beatboxer Hikakin, who was recently featured here on Boing Boing. I approve, and most of all I ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 09:20 pm Google Wage. LOL.
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 09:09 pm Link. (Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things, via Andrea James)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 09:00 pm Found on Fuck Yeah, Tattoos, an adorable behind-the-ear droid R2D2 (via The Mary Sue)
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 08:34 pm Oh, this is rich: I Would Like to Buy Kickstarter, by Eric Moneypenny. (via Joe Sabia)
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 19, 2012 08:30 pm [Video Link] BB pal Joe Sabia points us to this incredible video by Evan Shinners, Julliard-trained pianist and "best Bach player around." In the video, Shinners shows the world the colors he sees when he plays: he has synesthesia. You can follow him on Twitter, and check him out live on one of his upcoming ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 19, 2012 08:02 pm I enjoyed my lightly peanutted salt.
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 07:32 pm Now that The Pirate Bay is serving tiny "magnet links" instead of torrents, its whole database will fit in 90MB. That means that they can use much lighter-weight server hardware, including tiny Raspberry Pi boxes in RC drones with long-range wireless Internet links. They say that this means that you'll need the Air Force to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 19, 2012 07:10 pm In Gweek episode 044, I interviewed Sarah Vowell about her book Unfamiliar Fishes. It's a history of Hawaii between the time of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries and its annexation to the United States in the late 1890s.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 19, 2012 06:43 pm Charles says: Mark Abel is a former rock musician and studio engineer who has bravely chosen to join an endangered species: He is a modern composer of serious music. "Serious" however does not mean "atonal" or "boring" or "hard to listen to" in his case. His most recent release, The Dream Gallery, is extremely beautiful, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 05:20 pm Jennifer Perkins on Naughty Secretary Club has a great idea for spring/summer fun with your kids: freeze a bag of dinosaur toys in a block of ice and then stage a sunny-day excavation: The hardest part about this activity was finding the room in my freezer. It works best if you freeze in batches. The ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 19, 2012 04:08 pm What happens when you get the chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the chief scientist of Greenpeace, an energy and environmental policy expert, and an environmental activist/politician in a room together to talk about nuclear energy? You can listen to the whole (very, very interesting) conversation—part of the Science Question Time series—which was recorded ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 19, 2012 03:17 pm Danny Hellman, who did fantastic illustrations for bOING bOING (the zine) is posting a selection of 80 illustrations he did for a book about the lousy job prospects for college grads, written in the style of Dr. Seuss. The book will never see the light of day, thanks to Seuss's small-hearted lawyers. A few months ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 19, 2012 03:10 pm We've talked before about scientists using Rockethub to fund basic laboratory research—stuff that's important, but not likely to lead immediately to new technologies or other marketable products. It's often hard to find the funding necessary to support this kind of research, and crowd funding is a great way to leverage public interest in science. Better ...
Read in browser Hitler toilet-paper wants you to add the mustache
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 02:52 pm DrawTheShitler sells rolls of toilet roll printed with a caricature of a mustache-less Hitler. You supply the mustache when you wipe. DrawTheShitler
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 19, 2012 02:42 pm Last week, you probably heard about a study purporting to show that consuming any amount of red meat significantly upped your risk of premature death. If that news has you freaked out, I highly recommend reading Deborah Blum's roundup of high-quality news coverage of this study. Her piece explains what the study does say, what ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 02:34 pm Juggler/impresario Mat Ricardo sez, "Just wanted to say a big thanks to all the BoingBoingers who came to Mat Ricardo's London Varieties last month - it was a sell-out, and a hell of a show, partly because of our smart, savvy and fun audience. All the performers are telling me how much they're loving working ...
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