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Forest Service contemplates exploding remote cabin full of dead frozen cows before they thaw Tupac hologram as projected by R2D2 Million Dollar Menu (NSFW) Don't buy these gadgets How the press is distorting the Breivik trial to make video games central to the narrative The candle problem Things Don't Seem Wonderful If You've Seen Them All Your Life (1912) Senior in love affair with muppet dog Making New Aesthetic theory slightly more concrete Tokyo reporter orders 2.7kg bacon Whopper with 1050 slices of bacon CongressTMI campaign: give Congress Too Much Information and tell them how crazynuts CISPA is Ma'amite is Jubilee Marmite Black London firefighter beaten, tazed and charged for offering assistance to cops had his complaint buried Roger McGuinn on folk preservation on NPR Sleep in a Sandwich On the importance of correctly spelling the word "cologne" To do in NYC: "Surveillance Teach-in" at the Whitney, Fri. April 20, 2012 Small plastic bowl too heavy for 3-year-old to put in sink Some justice at last, for space-loving teen podcaster paralyzed by bullies Inventor of the Web: The Internet is bigger than the music industry Gweek 048: A Startling Look Into the World That's Coming! Kids narrate the lives of wild animals for "Planet Earth" promo (cutest. video. ever.) Metric's "Gold Guns Girls," a jangly uptempo wakeup call Reason.tv video - Too Much Copyright Destructive, weird and absurd acts recorded in super-duper-slo-mo Hacking as a broad phenomenon and the hackstable future Miniature Tigers - "Female Doctor" (MP3 download) Forest Service contemplates exploding remote cabin full of dead frozen cows before they thaw
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 12:42 pm An AP story describes a plan to explode a group of frozen cow-carcasses in a remote mountain cabin in Colorado. The cows, which were roaming free in Gunnison National Forest, were caught in a cold snap and sought shelter in the cabin. Now that the thaw is coming, there is no easy way of getting ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 12:16 pm Inevitable, but very well executed, the "hologram" of Tupac (not an actual hologram, really a kind of Pepper's Ghost), matted into the "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" sequences from Star Wars. R2-D2's Other Message (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 20, 2012 11:46 am Buckwheat Groats' Million Dollar Menu is even better than Shira Miss Muffin's classic Pound On My Muffin. [Hat tip to John Biggs, who has also been having fun with telemarketers lately]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 20, 2012 11:24 am Brian Lam usually tells you what to buy; today, however, he's telling you what not to buy. [Wirecutter]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 11:00 am On Rock, Paper, Shotgun, John Walker tears into the mainstream press's treatment of mass-murderer Anders Breivik's video-game habits. Breivik's gaming has been prominently mentioned in press accounts, and the Norwegian prosecutor also called attention to it. Breivik himself described his World of Warcraft sessions as a "martyrdom gift," a "sabbatical year," and stated that he ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 11:00 am From Futility Closet: "Given a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle, how can you fix the candle to the wall so that its wax won’t drip onto the table below?" Solution
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 10:53 am "Things Don’t Seem Wonderful If You’ve Seen Them All Your Life" is a cartoon from 1912 by John T. McCutcheon. (Via Laughing Squid)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 20, 2012 10:24 am Nothing to Celebrate is a music video from The Zax, directed by Ben & Julia. [Submitted by Rion]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 10:01 am Bruce Sterling responds to Marius Watz's take on Sterling's manifesto about the "New Aesthetic" movement. Sterling is enthusiastic about Watz's views, and begins to move the discussion of "New Aesthetics" from total abstractions to slightly more concrete abstractions. If Sterling's earlier, dense missive left you somewhat mystified, this one might help you unpack things somewhat. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 09:00 am When the Tokyo Burger King stores announced a "15 strips of bacon on your burger for ¥100 (~$1.25)" promotion, Mr Sato, a reporter for Rocket News 24 ordered 105 slices of bacon on his burger. Apparently, Mr Sato ate the "grotesque agglomeration of ketchup-soaked meat about 3 times the size of the regular whopper" and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 08:56 am Zakkai sez, "We have the feeling that even CISPA's sponsors don't understand how ridiculous their bill is. Do government agencies and corporations really need to be able to spy on us all the time for any reason? To draw attention to how unnecessary and inappropriate CISPA is, Fight for the Future is launching the CongressTMI ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 08:40 am Even a hard-hearted, card-carrying Republic member like me can't help but smile at Ma'amite, a Jubilee-commemorating rebranding for the tarry brown semi-edible (entirely delicious) substance Marmite. Limited Edition Ma'amite
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 01:22 am London's Metropolitan police are at the centre of another set of awful racism allegations, the tenth in three weeks. Edric Kennedy-Macfoy is a black London fireman who trained as a police constable. While coming home late one night, dressed in a suit, he stopped to offer assistance to a policeman after seeing a young black ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 19, 2012 10:54 pm Here's a fine NPR interview with Byrds guitarist, copyfighter, and folkie legend Roger McGuinn. The interview covers a lot of ground, but is centered on his folk-preservation site the Folk Den, a repository of folk recordings, music, lyrics, history and conversation. It's a phone-in and the callers are great ("I perform folk music about science ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 19, 2012 10:29 pm I would totally buy this right now. "Includes one pickle and one tomato (pillowcases)." A vintage ad from 1970, in MewDeep's excellent Flickr stream. (via the Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 19, 2012 10:18 pm Witness more of this at Sad And Useless. (via @apelad)
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 19, 2012 10:05 pm If you are in New York on Friday, April 20, you'll want to attend this special event, offered as part of the Whitney Biennial: Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, and power. Her current film trilogy, focusing on America post 9/11, documents the Iraq War, secret state surveillance, and the suspension of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 19, 2012 09:39 pm [Video Link] cr8zyfamily says: "Asked to clear off the table, my without-a-nap, three-year-old daughter complains that her bowl is "too heavy" to carry to the sink."
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 19, 2012 09:05 pm Photo : an iPhone snap I took of Sawyer (L) with space journalist Miles O'Brien (center) and astronaut Leroy Chiao (R) during the STS-135 SpaceFlightNow live launch webcast. This shot was taken minutes before the shuttle took off from launchpad 39A. One of the bright spots in attending NASA shuttle launches last year with Miles ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 19, 2012 09:00 pm Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, on copyright legislation and the Internet: "Record labels have a very strong voice when it comes to arguing for their particular business model, which is in fact out of date. The result is that laws have been created which make out as if the only problem on the internet is teenagers ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 19, 2012 08:22 pm Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 48 are Michael Pusateri, a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney who blogs at cruftbox.com, Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing's managing editor, and Peter Bebergal, the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 19, 2012 07:36 pm [Video link] Director Joe Sabia, who co-curates the Boing Boing in-flight television channel with me on Virgin America Airlines, has created this adorable spot for BBC America's natural history series Planet Earth (also available on DVD). In the promo, a series of 4-7 year old children take the place of series narrator David Attenborough—or, as ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 19, 2012 07:00 pm This morning's soundtrack is Metric's "Gold Guns Girls," whose video I stumbled on at JWZ's blog. I know nothing about Metric (some copypasta from their YouTube channel bio is below) though it looks like we have at least two "hometowns" in common. The music is really my kind of thing, though: jangly and uptempo with ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 19, 2012 05:38 pm [Video Link] Zach Weissmueller says: " I wanted to pass along Reason.tv's latest to you because I think it would be of interest, especially considering how outspoken Boing Boing was during the SOPA fight. The video is called Too Much Copyright, and I think the title explains it all. It features Ben Huh of Cheezburger ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 19, 2012 05:00 pm This impressive slow-motion video was submitted to the Danish TV show "Dumt & Farligt." The video was captured with a 2500fps Phantom Flex camera, and the filmmakers really racked their brains for the most absurd, dangerous and weird destructive acts to record under extreme conditions, including running over a milkshake with a lawnmower, exploding a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 19, 2012 03:00 pm The always-interesting Venkatesh Rao turns his attention to the shopworn phrase "hacking" (as in "body-hacking," "college-hacking" and so forth), and concludes that it is actually underused. Hacking, in Rao's view, is "a pattern of local, opportunistic manipulation of a non-disposable complex system that causes a lowering of its conceptual integrity, creates systemic debt and moves ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Apr 19, 2012 02:58 pm Sound it Out # 25: Miniature Tigers - "Female Doctor" I almost didn't want to single out one song from Miniature Tigers' new album Mia Pharoah because the whole thing works so nicely as a collection of music. Charlie Brand's breathy falsetto and a general pop/synth vibe tie the album together, and the Brooklyn-via-Phoenx band ...
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