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Elon Musk on making life multi-planetary Russian TV news reports on flying girl Giant USA sunglasses Another reason not to text while walking: 300-pound bear roaming streets of LA Unraveling a baroque, snarled, multimillion-dollar porn-ad clickfraud scam Bugs threaten infrastructure Stamped mottoes on old cutlery Cheapskates love libraries (it's mutual) Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Fab 5 Freddy meets Blondie (with Basquiat and The Clash) Brilliant pop. engineering book Sustainable Materials comes to the USA Dan Clowes Modern Cartoonist interview 9-year-old's DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed Secret history of the near-construction of a lifesized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas Lego exoskeleton maker seeks your votes for official kit-status China's internet censors not happy about UN's World Happiness Report Snoop Dogg's smokable book Chambers, Nebraska's solitary payphone in jeopardy Bring Your Own Big Wheel Herbal remedy used to treat kidney ailments causes kidney ailments XKCD's "Lakes and Oceans" chart of the other 70% of the planet Space Shuttle telescope for sale Are you one of those people who dislikes Facebook but signed up for Instagram? Signs that two of Latin America's most powerful drug gangs, Zetas and Maras, are joining forces Star Wars Dunnys Headed to New York? Watch out for sleazy restaurant Nello Elon Musk on making life multi-planetary
By David Pescovitz on Apr 10, 2012 12:31 pm The journal Nature spoke to SpaceX founder Elon Musk about the privatization of space flight. On April 30, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station, making it the first commercial company to send a craft to the ISS. From Nature: Do you see a space-faring ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 10, 2012 12:14 pm From Russian TV news, evidence of a flying girl! "Летающая девочка в лесу."
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 12:14 pm You know what these titanic, $260 map-of-the-continental-USA sunglasses need? An Alaska barrette and a Hawai'i epaulet. Seriously. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 12:11 pm [Video Link] So, this happened in Los Angeles this morning. KTLA choppers filmed a huge black bear on the streets of La Crescenta, and the hilarious (because he didn't die) reaction of a man who stumbled upon the scene while texting and walking. The bear was pretty mellow, and was eventually tranquilized and removed from ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 11:04 am Panos Ipeirotis, who writes the aptly named "A Computer Scientist in a Business School" blog, describes how he made national news by unraveling a multimillion-dollar "clickfraud" enterprise that used hidden frames, pornographic traffic brokerages, clever misdirection and obfuscation techniques, traffic laundering, skimmed traffic, and other techniques from the shadier side of the Internet's ad-supported ecosystem ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 10, 2012 10:09 am Some computers are hard to patch, and so-called "forever day" hacks and bugs are theirs to suffer. The Millenium Bug gave us a false sense of security: this technology runs the country, and it might go wrong. [Dan Goodwin at Ars Technica]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 10:09 am Etsy's BabyPuppyDesigns makes hand-stamped cutlery with simple, all-caps sans-serif mottoes, such as this "Cereal Killer" spoon (sold out). Hand Stamped Spoon Cereal Killer (via Geisha Asobi)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 10:00 am This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Libraries aren't just the mark of a civilized society -- assembling, curating and disseminating knowledge to all comers! -- they're also a cheapskate's best friend. Anyone who's interested in saving money probably already knows about the free Internet access, daily newspapers, DVD and audiobook ...
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By Ed Piskor on Apr 10, 2012 09:47 am Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! As an aside, I recently got the printers proofs for my graphic novel, Wizzywig. It's starting to feel real!
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 08:53 am The brilliant popular engineering Sustainable Materials - with Both Eyes Open: Future Buildings, Vehicles, Products and Equipment - Made Efficiently and Made with Less New Material has just been released in the USA. I reviewed this book last November, when it came out in the UK. Here's a brief excerpt from then: We review a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 10, 2012 12:30 am [Video Link] If you weren't able to make it to Meltdown in LA last week to see the Dan Clowes Modern Cartoonist interview I did, here's the YouTube video.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 09, 2012 11:19 pm Nirvan says: "I just finished this short film about a 9-year-old boy's elaborate DIY cardboard arcade. Caine made his arcade using boxes from his dad's used auto parts store. He hadn't had many customers, so we set up a fun flashmob to make his day, and filmed his response. I hope it brings a smile ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 09, 2012 09:12 pm Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas. Goddard successfully bid to build the attraction as part of the 1992 competition to revitalized Vegas's sagging downtown and bring back tourist traffic that had been sucked away by the strip, but the project was scuttled at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 09, 2012 04:17 pm Legoist Peter sez, "My most popular model, the Exo Suit, has been submitted to the LEGO CUUSOO website. I need 10,000 supporters for the chance to have it released as an official LEGO set. If you'd like to see this model made available to buy, please support my project on the CUUSOO site." LEGO CUUSOO ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 09, 2012 03:59 pm The United Nation's recently-released World Happiness Report (PDF) listed China as the 112th happiest country out of 156 countries. A number of China-based news websites re-posted the report, the first of which was Xinhua.net. The Ministry of Truth was not happy: publishing the report, or any references to it, is now banned in China. More: China Digital ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 09, 2012 03:34 pm Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg) has a new book out and it's printed on rolling papers. Each page is printed with lyrics and perforated for easy use. Designed by the Pereira & O'Dell agency, "Rolling Words" is bound in hemp and the spine is a match-striking surface. The book is a promotion for the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 09, 2012 03:15 pm The K & M Telephone Co. is seeking state permission to remove the sole remaining pay telephone in Chambers, Nebraska. The phone raked in $3.35 last year in change. K & M claims service and maintenance for the phone, and another one a half hour away, cost nearly $1500/year. The challenge is that Nebraska's Public ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 09, 2012 03:04 pm These people in San Francisco probably had more fun than you on Passover/Easter weekend. BB reader Bhautik Joshi shares his photographs from "Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2012" in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, and explains the idea behind it— For the uninitiated, the gag is really simple: - large group of adults in costumes ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 09, 2012 02:48 pm A plant known as "birthwort," popular in Asian and European herbal medicine for hundreds of years, causes kidney failure and cancer. Dan Vergano at USA Today digs into the fascinating medical detective work that solved this mystery: scientists compared genetic mutations in the tissue of humans and lab mice who'd been poisoned by the plant's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 09, 2012 02:34 pm Randall Munroe's produced another in his series of his spectacular, gigantic charts of unimaginably large and complex things compared and rendered tractable by the human imagination. "Lakes and Oceans" has everything you need to cultivate an appreciation for the vasty depths and the ocean blue. Plus, a snarfworthy punchline at the deepest depths. Lake and ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 09, 2012 01:42 pm The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was used on board the Space Shutttle Columbia in 1990. And now you can have it in your living room! A surplus dealer is selling the BBXRT on eBay for $7 million. Shipping is free! eBay: Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 09, 2012 01:31 pm Sucks to be you. David Benoit at the WSJ: "The social networking giant has reached an agreement to buy Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock."
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 09, 2012 01:27 pm In a piece for AP, Romina Ruiz-Goiriena reports from Guatemala City on signs that two of the most powerful and brutal organized crime groups in Latin America, the Maras and the Zetas, may be joining forces. "A formal, durable alliance with the Maras could bring the Zetas thousands of new foot soldiers, extending the cartel's ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 09, 2012 01:26 pm Custom Boba Fett and C-3P0 Duunys by Sekure D. (via Super Punch)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 09, 2012 01:14 pm A few days ago, Heather and I jumped out of a cab on Madison avenue and walked right into what looked like a cute café. Big mistake: it was Nello. Known to locals for its outrageous hidden charges, we were foolish to head in without looking it up. But you don't even need to hit ...
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