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Pyrotechnical hot-dog serving suggestion Chick-Fil-A threatens guy who made "Eat More Kale" shirts; he fights back with a Kickstarter documentary Anonymous set of photos labelled "Pics from a Chinese gangsters phone" show torture, cars, puppies, piles of money 9 days until the release of The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today) T-Mobile USA's Web censorship tool blocks Internet Archive, French economics site The appealing cover designs of 16 Magazine from the 1960s A pair of turntables that generates art Kickstarter to fund development of Arduino-based, browser-controlled open source hardware automated gardening dome Artistic and functional replicas of Tesla's equipment Disturbing British ads HOWTO make rainbow-striped jello Easter eggs Today in Facebook Borat anthem played for Kazakh medalists Solitary Sand, a text-based survival game Pentametron Rude messages left by monks in the margins of medieval manuscripts Turkish bootleg Star Wars figures of the 1980s Pyrotechnical hot-dog serving suggestion
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 25, 2012 11:04 am I can honestly say that it has never occurred to me to make replica fireworks out of hot-dogs. Creepy kid aside, those are some AMAZING ways to serve your wieners. (Image: 1941 ... playing with his food!, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from x-ray_delta_one's photostream)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 25, 2012 09:25 am Bo sells a t-shirt that says "Eat More Kale" from his home in rural Vermont. Titanic chicken sandwich chain Chick-Fil-A claims that this shirt infringes on their trademark for the slogan "Eat Mor (sic) Chikin' (sic)." They've demanded that Bo shut down and turn over his website to them. Rather than capitulate, Bo is making ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 25, 2012 01:17 am An unattributed, anonymous set of images on Imgur purports to be an album of photos recovered from a "Chinese gangsters phone." They show a heavily tattooed man lounging with enormous piles of money, hanging out with a series of luxury cars, and participating in the torture of an unnamed man. They also show a pile ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 25, 2012 12:36 am …and the countdown continues. Eightball around the World Alvin says: "Naturally, Daniel Clowes's comics are beloved around the globe. Here are covers for some of the many foreign editions. We’re not even sure what a couple of these languages are." The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 09:23 pm The Open Observatory of Network Interference has released its report on the errors made by T-Mobile USA Web Guard, an Internet censorship product that T-Mobile customers can opt into. Web Guard blocks the website for the Tor Project (an anti-censorship tool), an Italian page that is displayed to users blocked by Italy's national censoring firewall, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 24, 2012 09:10 pm I came across this 2007 post on artist Ward Jenkins' site where he blogged about his mom's collection of 16 Magazine. She was smart for saving them -- the covers are stunningly attractive. Ward Jenkins: My Mom's 16 Magazine Collection
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 24, 2012 07:59 pm Matt Richardson of MAKE says: I love the simplicity and beauty of Robert Howsare‘s record player-based drawing apparatus. Be sure to watch the video of it in action; you’ll find it quite mesmerizing to see the device generate its Spirograph-like patterns. A pair of turntables that generates art
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 07:28 pm Wisevehicle sends us the Horto Domi Kickstarter project, "A wonderful project to create a raised bed growing system with open source electronics. The project pulls all the pieces of a great garden together and helps the user monitor and control them via a smart phone application." The Horto Domi founders are seeking the funds to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 06:00 pm Bob sez, "Nemanja Jevremovic has replicated some of Nikola Tesla's equipment. There are lots of dials, switches, knobs, and meters. The guts of the equipment are beautifully crafted and on proud display. He calls it 'Technical Art'. These creations would be equally appropriate in a gallery or on the set of an old science fiction ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 05:17 pm At The Awl, TC Gibbons collects unsettling British television Commercials, "Just the sort of thing you might expect from a country with the rich asshole from an '80s teen movie where its Barack Obama should be". Embedded above, a life insurance ad with a delightful twist ending. Having seen the aspirational consumption-dreams of the nation, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 05:08 pm Thrive's Nike has a recipe for making rainbow-striped jello Easter Eggs, using Kraft's "JELL-O JIGGLERS Egg Mold." She advises coating the mold with generous amounts of cooking spray, then using a syringe to add layers of color, chilling for 10-15 minutes between each layer. I still remember fondly filling blown eggshells with liquid jello and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 05:06 pm Meanwhile, at Ars Technica, John Brodkin has two stories about Facebook: Facebook says it may sue employers who demand job applicants' passwords: "We'll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges." Bravo! ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 04:41 pm From the BBC: "Kazakhstan's shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film Borat was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait." Best potassium in the world.
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 04:26 pm Solitary Sand, written in just two days, has no graphics, only audio: you're blinded after a shipwreck or kidnapping, and must explore an island with only sound and descriptions of touch sensations to guide you. It's not interactive fiction: you navigate with an FPS-style control system. You can pick up one thing at a time, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 03:34 pm "With algorithms subtle and discrete, I seek iambic writings to retweet."
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 03:17 pm Colin Dickey introduces the current Lapham's Quarterly collection of rude and complaining messages left by monks in the margins of medieval manuscripts, a subject covered in detail in Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art, Michael Camille's 2004 book. Depictions of sexual consort are frequent, among men and women, among various species of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 02:01 pm Here's a rare complete photographic catalog of Uzay, the Turkish bootleg Star Wars figurines, which are delightfully shonky and off-model. No line of unlicensed Star Wars figures is as sought after as the Turkish line known as Uzay. Produced sometime in the latter part of the 1980s, the primary charm of the Uzay figures lies ...
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