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Anatomical art-school ads Dog learns about skunks TSA agents discover "anomaly in crotch area" of 79-year-old woman Notes from a scratchbuilt 8-bit computer How to draw a cartoon R2D2 A 267 mph ride on the Shanghai maglev train Tree stumps converted to sculpture Kickstopped UK MPs: Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to run an international corporation BlackBerry 10 prototype emerges Stephen King calls on politicians to tax him and other rich people Vancouver's supervised drug injection center New Dark Knight Rises trailer Kitteh© The Six Degrees of Bacon 3D printed electromechanical computer HOWTO make a kids' jetpack All the finest blips and bloops: Kubbi's "Sleet" release listening party Homemade R2D2 shorts 7' fire-breathing, flying dragon built by RC airplane hobbyist Event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the mysterious Voynich manuscript New Aesthetic eruption Liar - Thief - Cheat - Selfish - Unsharing - Unloving - Unkind - Disloyal - Dishonorable - Unfaithful MAKE interviews bunnie Huang Car hits girls sunbathing in road Building covered in old clothes Mitt Romney beatboxing Rules for chess Kitchen Kong Gorilla Whisk in Boing Boing shop UK judge orders Pirate Bay block Anatomical art-school ads
By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 12:38 pm DDB Brazil's poster campaign for the art school at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo displays famous painters who appear to have been dissected, revealing organs depicted in their iconic painting styles. Street Anatomy has the whole set. Shown here: Dali (above) and Van Gogh (right). It's a pity no one's making those t-shirts, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 12:38 pm [Video Link] The YouTube comments are interesting: "Japanese TV station would like to use your video. Please contact.." "Swedish Webb TV-channel would like to use your video." "Please contact me asap. We would like to licence your clip." (Via Arbroath)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 12:24 pm Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reports that his 79-year-old mother-in-law triggered a TSA pornoscanner at Washington Reagan airport last week, and was then asked by a TSA officer to explain what was the matter with her crotch: She entered the machine and struck the humiliating pose one is forced to strike -- hands up, as ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 12:15 pm 8 Bit Spaghetti documents Kyle's project to scratchbuild an 8-bit transistor-transistor logic computer. He's embarked on the project to teach himself more about how computers work. Judging from the images, this thing is pretty much the definition of "glorious hairball." Reading Kyle's notes is a potted textbook on how computers work at the fundamental level ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 12:13 pm Cartoonist Mark Anderson has a neat tutorial that shows you how to draw a cartoon version of R2D2.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 12:06 pm [Video Link] Lori Cuthbert, editor-in-chief of Discovery News, shot a video of her recent ride on the Shanghai maglev train, which has a top speed of 270 mph. You can't really tell how fast it's going by watching the scenery move by outside the window, but the passengers' delighted giggles make it clear they are ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 11:57 am Meet proto-hipster LeRoy Jackson (Airman 2/C), father of the art movement that lead to yarn-bombing, lego-building repair, space invader tile mosaics, and other forms of guerrilla urban art. How to use tree stumps
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 10:45 am Media coverage of successfully Kickstarted projects sometimes makes it look like an easy source of funds for any old half-baked idea. Nope. [Buzzfeed]
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By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 10:44 am The long-running UK Parliamentary investigation into the NewsCorp newspapers' practice of hacking emails and voicemails has wound down, and delivered a final, damning report. In it, the cross-party Parliamentary group describes Rupert Murdoch as "not a fit person" to run a major corporation. It also says that James Murdoch -- Rupert's son -- practiced 'wilful ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 10:34 am Ian Austen at the NYT: "Research in Motion unveiled Tuesday morning the new BlackBerry 10 phone and operating system that the company hopes will be its salvation, in a form that looked quite rough around the edges."
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By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 10:12 am "Tax Me, for F@%&'s Sake!," Stephen King's op-ed in The Daily Beast was published on April 30, but it's perfect for May Day: The Koch brothers are right-wing creepazoids, but they're giving right-wing creepazoids. Here's an example: 68 million fine American dollars to Deerfield Academy. Which is great for Deerfield Academy. But it won't do ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 09:35 am Paul Hiebert on a state-sanctioned injection center that reduces the harm caused by drug addiction. [The Awl] Located in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside—often called Canada's poorest postal code—the supervised injection site opened as a 3-year experiment back in 2003 to curb the neighborhood's high levels of disease spread through shared needles and death from overdose. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 09:30 am Video link. But avoid the latest one for Prometheus, which gives too much away.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 09:28 am Alexis Madrigal and BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti discuss the copyright issues surrounding cute animal pictures: "Users of [other] sites surface photos that in some cases have been shared around the Internet for a decade. In those cases, even if BuzzFeed editors try to track down the creator, which Peretti assures me they do, they probably won't ...
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By David Ng on May 01, 2012 09:13 am David Ng is a geneticist, writer, and creator of The Candy Hierarchy. Read more by him at McSweeneys and right here. Lately, I've been writing about the philosophy of science and thereby finding myself pondering the plight of Bacon. Not the food, but rather Sir Francis Bacon, the renowned writer and gentlemen of the 16th and 17th centuries—famous for being ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 09:08 am This 3D printed electromechanical punchcard reader is but one component of an ambitious project to build a whole, functional 3D printed computer. It's the brainchild of Chris Fenton from the NYC Resistor hackspace in Brooklyn. 3D Printed Electromechanical Computer
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By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 01:05 am Last September, Moosie made a kick-ass soda-bottle toy jetpack for a flight-obsessed toddler: Step 1: Spray plastic bottles with plastic primer (I used Krylon Fusion). Let dry. Step 2: Spray bottles with your favorite silver spray paint (doesn't have to be plastic specific.) Let dry. Step 3: Adhere bottles to a piece of cardboard, approximately ...
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By Dean Putney on Apr 30, 2012 09:07 pm If you like electronic music, there's a great listening party for Kubbi's new album "Sleet" going on right now. The album drops after the listen through finishes at Kubbi's BandCamp page where you can also pick up his two previous (excellent) albums at your own price. Kubbi's one of those catchy musicians I just can't stop ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 30, 2012 09:04 pm The aptly named Productiveslacker (with a kick-ass bio! "a seasonal cast member at WDW and I aspire to become an Imagineer. I am a painter and a t-shirt designer") made these boss R2D2 shorts herself. They don't sell R2D2 shorts so I painted my own :) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 30, 2012 07:50 pm Franceso sez, "Rick Hamel, an American RC airplanes builder, created the Mythical Beast, a radio controlled fire-breathing dragon. It's powered by a Jetcat P80 Kerostart turbine, is over 7 feet long and has a wing span of 9 feet. Beside flying, this scratchbuilt dragon is able to breath fire thanks to a liquid propane and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 30, 2012 07:43 pm On her wonderful page of "Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers" the game developer and recreational code-cracker Elonka Dunin describes the Voynich Manuscript, which is written in an as-yet uncrackable cipher: At least 600 years old, this is a 232-page illuminated manuscript entirely written in a secret script. It is filled with copious drawings of unidentified ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 30, 2012 07:02 pm A New Aesthetic eruption I caught yesterday off Brick Lane in east London: this LCD adverscreen displaying rotating, chiding public safety messages beneath a CCTV camera, nestled among the graffiti-daubed old buildings above the cobbled and thronged street. CCTV and LCD adverscreen with anti-booze PSA, a New Aesthetic Eruption, Brick Lane, Hackney, London, UK.jpg
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 30, 2012 06:19 pm I hope Bernard wasn't upset by the addendum to his grave marker.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 30, 2012 06:15 pm Phil Torrone interviewed Andrew (bunnie) Huang about the end of his company Chumby, and what he's working on now. What are you currently working on? I recently saw an open-source hardware radiation detector and HDMI “hack” that’s full shipping product. Since the end of chumby, I’ve been continuing to produce open source reference designs. One ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 30, 2012 06:06 pm Impromptu tanning salonTwo 13-year-old girls sunbathing in a rural road were struck by a car Sunday. Police in Beaver County, PA., said that the pair were in fair condition at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. The driver was one of the teens' cousins; he was questioned and released by authorities. "They were upset," another relative told WTAE-TV. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 30, 2012 05:58 pm The Guardian's Deborah Orr is probably right that the Marks and Spencer "shwopping" initiative is "an ugly word for a dubious enterprise", but I am rather taken with this promotion for the program. M&S is encouraging shoppers to "shwop" -- swap their old clothes for discount vouchers when they buy new clothes at M&S, with ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 30, 2012 05:28 pm [Video Link] Special effects are used here in an attempt to artificially enhance the credibility of candidate Mitt Romney. I hope the public isn't fooled into taking him more seriously because of this video.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 30, 2012 04:54 pm The Olympics are still months away, the surface-to-air missiles are still tucked safely in their beds, but already our talented signwriters are practicing night and day for the 100m passive-aggressive signmaking event, judging by this sweet number I photographed yesterday. Passive aggressive chess advisory, community centre, London, UK.jpg
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 30, 2012 04:31 pm "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things, except for my Kitchen Kong Gorilla Whisk." -- 1 Corinthians 13:11 Available in the Boing Boing Shop!
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 30, 2012 04:14 pm A British court ordered that internet service providers must block access to link-sharing site The Pirate Bay. [BBC]
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