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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Lucky Ducky, in "Tricklin' Down"! Only in India: ill-advised bodges from the subcontinent Mosaic 80s game table Handmade wooden coffee-table resembles giant NES controller, functions as same Gweek 047: Drop Dead Healthy Open-data Cities Conference in Brighton, England: turning municipal governments into open data collaborators Apps for Kids 017: Where's My Water? Apps for Kids 017: Where's My Water? 50-acre BDSM sex camp disapproved of Flash game: The Woods Kowal's Glamour in Glass, a sequel to Shades of Milk and Honey Record companies: embedding YouTubes makes you guilty of infringement Robotic rings turn your fingers into a face Thanks a lot, robot friend Commodore 64 creator dies Large fabric replicas of houses 7 rules for recording the police Manson parole hearing tomorrow Before Foxconn, There Was Nathan Thurm, Esq. Record-breaking Rube Goldberg inflates, then pops balloon in 300 steps CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it Forever-day bugs Mr. McFeely's purple panda terrifies children Iran denies reports that internet will be cut, replaced by "clean, national intranet" China detains Tibetans returning from Buddhist festival, arrests devotee who sees vision of Dalai Lama in the Moon Walt Disney World in Minecraft, with working rides LAPD probing Lap-Band weight loss surgery provider after patient deaths Virgin America launches new "Virgin Produced" in-flight TV channel (right next to Boing Boing TV!) Microsoft buys Netscape (sort of) Dude breaks up fight on NYC subway with bag of chips TOM THE DANCING BUG: Lucky Ducky, in "Tricklin' Down"!
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Read in browser Only in India: ill-advised bodges from the subcontinent
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 11, 2012 11:55 am Aurovrata Venet's Only in India blog is a bit like a subcontinental version of There I Fixed It, a catalog of improvised (and sometimes absurd) bodges and fixits, salted with funny malapropisms on signs, and downright dangerous "fixes" for everyday problems. Only in India (via Beyond the Beyond)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 11, 2012 11:49 am Kiran says: "I make a range of stuff from tables to lamps and beyond. I recently started my first retro range, and have just completed an 80s gaming table, based on an old electronic game that we all know and love! I have the table listed on Folksy with a few of my other items ...
Read in browser Handmade wooden coffee-table resembles giant NES controller, functions as same
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 11, 2012 11:02 am Etsy seller TheBohemianWorkbench combines fine joinery with fine nerdery and comes up with a beautiful, handmade wooden coffee table that resembles a giant NES controller, and which functions as a NES controller as well. It's available for $3,500 from his Venice, CA studio (pickup preferred). Nintendo NES controller coffee table. Made from maple, mahogany and ...
Read in browser Gweek 047: Drop Dead Healthy
By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 11, 2012 11:00 am Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. In this episode, I interviewed author A.J. Jacobs. In his 2005 book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, A.J. committed himself to read the ...
Read in browser Open-data Cities Conference in Brighton, England: turning municipal governments into open data collaborators
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 11, 2012 10:27 am Adam sez, "The first Open-data Cities Conference takes place in Brighton, England next week. It's aimed at local councils and government agencies who want to open up more of their datasets, and giving them ideas and practical help on how to do it. There's some good speakers, including Tom Steinberg from MySociety and Rufus Pollock ...
Read in browser Apps for Kids 017: Where's My Water?
By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 11, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Where's My Water?, a game where you have to help an alligator take a shower. It's 99 cents in the iTunes store and ...
Read in browser Apps for Kids 017: Where's My Water?
By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 11, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Where's My Water?, a game where you have to help an alligator take a shower. It's 99 cents in the iTunes store and ...
Read in browser 50-acre BDSM sex camp disapproved of
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 11, 2012 09:50 am A sex camp known as "Woodstocks" has entered the imagination of locals in Pennsylvania's rural Washington Township. Said to host BDSM sex parties in a large building called "The Dungeon", its website—currently down for maintenance—markets "kinky vacations" suitable for all levels of experience. Scandalized neighbors plan to shut it down by applying a zoning law ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 11, 2012 09:24 am Foster Wattles' The Woods sinks into a perfect atmosphere—dark, haunted woods with weird technological things going on—but I can't get past the snowstorm! Last year, Wattles, a student at the Maryland Institute College Of Art, released Untitled, a silhouetted side-scrolling adventure in the Blade Warrior/Limbo tradition. The sound design is by Rubriq. [Kongregate]
Read in browser Kowal's Glamour in Glass, a sequel to Shades of Milk and Honey
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 11, 2012 10:20 am Back in 2010, I reviewed Mary Robinette Kowal's extraordinary debut novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, a Regency drawing-room novel reimagined as a fantasy novel, where "glamour" -- the ability to weave illusions from "folds of aether" -- is part of the repertoire of any well-bred young lady. Now, Kowal returns to her world with ...
Read in browser Record companies: embedding YouTubes makes you guilty of infringement
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 11, 2012 09:09 am Timothy B. Lee at Ars: "the MPAA ... urged the Seventh Circuit not to draw a legal distinction between hosting content and embedding it. In the MPAA's view, both actions should carry the risk of liability for direct copyright infringement."
Read in browser Robotic rings turn your fingers into a face
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 11, 2012 07:18 am Keio University's robotics group have demonstrated a set of remotely-controlled facial elements designed to be worn as rings. These could be directly controlled by the wearer, or could be remotely controlled by a piece of software that was portraying a character that inhabited your hand like a sock-puppet or Senor Wences. "First of all, this ...
Read in browser Thanks a lot, robot friend
By Dean Putney on Apr 11, 2012 02:59 am Brandon Boyer gives this the lofty designation of "the funniest 20 seconds of video". Even after repeated viewings, I can't stop laughing. [Video Link]
Read in browser Commodore 64 creator dies
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 10, 2012 09:03 pm "We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes" — Jack Tramiel [Mercury News]
Read in browser Large fabric replicas of houses
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 09:02 pm Seoul's Leeum Samsung Museum of Art is exhibiting Do Ho Suh remarkable "Home Within Home" until June 3. Suh's piece consists of several large-scale hanging fabric recreations of the houses he's inhabited. An important characteristic of Suh's "homes" can be found in the fact that they respond to the spaces in which they are exhibited ...
Read in browser 7 rules for recording the police
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 10, 2012 09:01 pm Rule #6: Master Your Technology. [Steve Silverman at Gizmodo]
Read in browser Manson parole hearing tomorrow
By David Pescovitz on Apr 10, 2012 08:44 pm Charles Manson is up for parole again. At his hearing tomorrow, state-appointed attorney Dejon R. Lewis will argue that Manson should be moved from Corcoran State Prison to a psychiatric hospital. Manson has said he won't be attending the hearing. In fact, Lewis hasn't even met him. An interview was scheduled to help Lewis prepare ...
Read in browser Before Foxconn, There Was Nathan Thurm, Esq.
By Michael Schreiber on Apr 10, 2012 07:16 pm 60 Minutes - Amazing videos are here Just imagine if Mike Daisey had connected with Harry Shearer instead of Ira Glass. He might have gotten his story on Saturday Night Live and reached an even bigger audience, without having to lie to anyone. (P.S. So long, Mike Wallace. Thanks for the memories.)
Read in browser Record-breaking Rube Goldberg inflates, then pops balloon in 300 steps
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 06:55 pm Purdue's Society of Professional Engineers set a new record for rubegoldbergery with a 300-step balloon-inflater/popper. As magnificent as the machine itself is, the best part of this video is unquestionably the roar of the crowd. WEST LAFYETTE, Ind., USA--The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine ...
Read in browser CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 05:59 pm CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year. EFF's chilling analysis of the bill shows how it could be used to give copyright enforcers carte blanche to spy on Internet users ...
Read in browser Forever-day bugs
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 04:50 pm A nice piece of frightening securityspeak to conjure with: forever-day bugs, which are known bugs that the vendor has no intention of patching. These are often found in control systems, and are the sort of thing that Stuxnet exploited to attack the Iranian nuclear program. These controllers are also found on other kinds of industrial ...
Read in browser Mr. McFeely's purple panda terrifies children
By Dean Putney on Apr 10, 2012 04:36 pm I think one of them freaked and set the rest of them off, like a field of shrieking land mines. The howling combined with poor old Mr. McFeely trying to console the kids is haunting. Speedy Delivery! I would also like to take this opportunity to make you aware that there are a ton of ...
Read in browser Iran denies reports that internet will be cut, replaced by "clean, national intranet"
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 04:32 pm PHOTO: Technicians monitor data flow in the control room of an internet service provider in Tehran February 15, 2011. REUTERS/Caren Firouz There's an AFP item today on Iran's denial of online reports that it plans to shut off access to the Internet this August, replacing that access with a "national intranet." Snip: The reports derived ...
Read in browser China detains Tibetans returning from Buddhist festival, arrests devotee who sees vision of Dalai Lama in the Moon
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 04:00 pm Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during a teaching session on the first day of the Kalachakra festival in the eastern Indian city of Bodhgaya January 1, 2012. The Kalachakra is a 10-day festival comprising Buddha teachings and meditations, taking place at Bodhgaya where Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash Ed ...
Read in browser Walt Disney World in Minecraft, with working rides
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 03:54 pm TheRealDuckie (and friends) is working on a complete, functional replica of Walt Disney World in Minecraft, and has posted an update to Reddit. The Magic Kingdom is largely down, with the rides all ridable, and working restaurants. Epcot is underway. The files are available as free downloads. This project started on the Reddit Creative Server ...
Read in browser LAPD probing Lap-Band weight loss surgery provider after patient deaths
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 03:17 pm Billboards for weight loss surgery provider "1-800-GET THIN" were ubiquitous around LA freeways until recently; the company has since come under scrutiny by the FDA, consumer affairs watchdogs and Consumer Reports for sketchy business practices. Now, the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the firm over the recent death of a patient. Snip from LA ...
Read in browser Virgin America launches new "Virgin Produced" in-flight TV channel (right next to Boing Boing TV!)
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 03:09 pm As regular Boing Boing readers know, we produce an in-flight television channel which you can watch on board Virgin America planes. The airline today announced the imminent launch of another cool channel, "Virgin Produced," which includes content from some of our internet friends like Funny or Die, and excerpts from cool new films like Marley, ...
Read in browser Microsoft buys Netscape (sort of)
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 10, 2012 03:00 pm Microsoft has (kind of) acquired Netscape, buying many of its key patents and assets from erstwhile owner AOL. Early Netscape employee JWZ calls it "brand necrophilia" and adds, "I assume that this means that ValueClick will now be suing Microsoft over the cookie patent instead of AOL, if that's still going on. There are no ...
Read in browser Dude breaks up fight on NYC subway with bag of chips
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 10, 2012 02:55 pm [Video Link] SNACKMAN! (thanks, Sean Bonner)
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