[Sponsor] New watches from Barcelona at Watchismo this week: the "XXLED" series features exactly that - an enormous Light Emitting Diode display. and the "Concentric" watches encapsulate time disappearing in a thinning chaos of digits. The "NeoGeo" quite simply tells time with unexpected randomness and the ever popular "John Watch" collection has been revamped with new designs and colors, still the longest watch in the world!
Society maven's double life Do you kiss Betty and/or Veronica with that mouth? Absurd "academic publishing racket" is past its sell-by date Orange Bird back at Disney World, a victory for trufans Barbiebot and pals Scientists regenerate hair on bald mouse (video) Seed of Yggdrasil: nifty 3d-printed sculpture based on Celtic-style knot in Norse mythology Lamb and girl butt heads Canada's national copyright office doesn't understand copyright To do this weekend in SF Bay Area: Robogames Could this be the best bad music video of all time? 3 Second Rule, by Lisa Gail Allred WaPo scapegoating blogger Gun ad: you can keep this one cocked under your pillow Pajamas from the golden age of men's sleepwear On legalizing sex-work and "Would you want your kid to be a prostitute?" Megaupload founder will likely never go to trial, says US judge Society maven's double life
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 22, 2012 12:20 pm Read the charming story of Alan Z. Feuer, who had a secret double life that was wonderful rather than merely sordid. [NYT]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 22, 2012 12:10 pm Paul Di Filippo says: This is not an artifact of me fooling around with Photoshop. Nor can I imagine some Google drone did this during the newspaper-scanning process. You're welcome to look at the original here. My guess is some bored artist or letterer in 1947 seeing what he could sneak past the editor. Do ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 12:00 pm In the Observer, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the "academic publishing racket" in which giant multinational publishers get free, state-subsidized research to publish, use free, state-subsidized labor for peer-review, require assignments of the scholars' copyrights as a condition of publication, then charge astounding sums to the scientists and academics they are "serving" for the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 09:05 am The Orange Bird, mascot of the Florida Citrus Growers and one-time Adventureland icon from the opening days of the park, has been relaunched at Walt Disney World after a campaign by Disney parks fans and their sympathizers in the park. A source close to the company says, "People had to REALLY fight the system to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 11:01 pm Tal sez, "Tal Avitzur has updated his website with new robot-related night lights made from scrap metal and other urban salvage: Barbiebot, Snork, Work in progress. Tal has been invited to show his work with the Applied Kinetic Arts group this year at the Bay Area Maker Faire."
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 21, 2012 10:12 pm Above, your moment of science zen for the weekend. Using an innovative application of stem cells, researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have regenerated hair on a bald mouse. Their accomplishment is described as a breakthrough, and inspires hopes of an alternative to hair transplants for bald guys who rely on toupees and comb-overs ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 21, 2012 09:46 pm Joaquin Baldwin, whose wonderful creative work we've featured on Boing Boing before, shares these photos of a lovely 3d-printed sculpture he's just created. You can purchase your very own, right here. Cat not included. Joaquin explains: I made a sculpture of 3d printed awesomeness and wanted to share it with you, I hope you like ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 21, 2012 09:05 pm [Video Link] But neither the lamb nor the young woman are buttheads. More at Camels and Friends, and here's their YouTube channel. I liked this video a lot, too. (via Clayton Cubitt)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 08:53 pm Mark sez, "Canada's official, federal IP Office website offers a quiz to help the public learn about copyright - but the "correct" answer to one important question is in fact wrong, suggesting that some legitimate copying practices are infringement." What constitutes a copyright infringement? * Reproducing an article without the owner's permission * Playing songs ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 21, 2012 08:14 pm Robogames, an annual robot hoedown, takes place this weekend in San Mateo. $25 for adults, $0-$20 for kids depending on age, free for active duty military. Bring hearing protection and a love of machines, noise, and mayhem. It's a ton of fun. I'm late posting this, but it's not too late for you to go: ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 21, 2012 07:41 pm [Video Link] Maybe. It's a good contender for the next "Pardon Me." Mined from the internet by the honorable funnyhunter Robert Popper, of Friday Night Dinner and Look Around You: Season One and The Timewaster Letters fame.
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 21, 2012 06:55 pm A Washington Post blogger resigned after plagiarizing others' work on two separate occasions. The copypasta, however, was done under working conditions that make the newspaper look worse than her. WaPo ombudsman Patrick Pexton takes a swipe at his employers for getting 6 traditionally-styled stories a day out of her. On many days Flock was the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 06:51 pm Though slightly less extreme than the ad that suggested letting your kids play with your guns in bed, this 1913 Colt ad that advertisement makes hay out of the fact that they make the kind of piece you can "safely" keep under your pillow while sleeping is a bit on the weirdo/paranoid side. Colt (1913)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 04:46 pm A pair of posts on the Vintage Ads LJ group by Man Writing Slash collect a series of ads from the golden age of men's sleepwear, when pajamas were glorious, stylish, and the kind of thing you'd hang out with your buddies and compare notes on. I am a huge believer in pajamas (many commented ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 02:39 pm On Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews, a smart, to-the-point commentary on legalizing sex-work: And, of course, I'm open to the question of whether legalization results in more trafficking (it seems to vary by country), and so on, but I've never heard a decent rejoinder to the idea that men and women can decide to have sex ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 01:00 pm Remember earlier this year when the New Zealand government and the US government conspired to send a SWAT team to arrest Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, shut down the service, make 220 people unemployed, seize Dotcom's assets, and deprive millions of users of access to their files? Well now a US judge says that the ...
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