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By Rob Beschizza on May 02, 2012 12:49 pm Today in brilliant ideas one is sure one had first (but didn't, obviously): text-only Instragram. [via Daring Fireball]
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By Rob Beschizza on May 02, 2012 12:42 pm An aggressive dog's death sentence was commuted by the sentencing judge to life imprisonment Tuesday: wolf hybrid Chief will spend the rest of his days guarding Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish. [The Advocate] [Judge] Best said shortly after his ruling that he was contacted by Angola Warden Burl Cain, who wanted to take ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 12:37 pm Locus Magazine has announced the winners of its annual Locus Award poll, a popular choice award for science fiction and fantasy. As always, it's a great guide to some of the best genre material from the preceding year. Here's the top novel lists, with links to some of my reviews: Science Fiction Novel * Leviathan ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 02, 2012 12:33 pm AP: "An elephant named Shanthi at the Smithsonian's National Zoo is developing her musical talents by playing a harmonica with her trunk."
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By Ruben Bolling on May 02, 2012 12:30 pm IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join Tom the Dancing Bug's new exclusive INNER HIVE and get exclusive access, stuff, and other stuff! Click HERE for information, on the Tom the Dancing Bug website. Do this!
Read in browser Amazing fossils at Heritage Auctions Natural History auction, May 20, 2012
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 02, 2012 12:20 pm Heritage Auctions' Natural History & Fine Minerals Signature Auction will take place in New York on May 20. The items include a number of beautiful fossils, casts, and other natural artifacts. See selected highlights after the jump. SUPERB TYRANNOSAURUS SKELETON. The T. bataar was marginally smaller than the T. rex, at 30-40 feet in length, ...
Read in browser Evil Mad Scientists quit their dayjobs
By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 12:07 pm Congrats to Lenore and Windell of Evil Mad Science Labs on quitting their dayjobs to pursue Evil Mad Science on a fulltime basis. You are an inspiration to us all.
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By Dean Putney on May 02, 2012 11:51 am The Artisans Asylum in Somerville Massachusetts is holding a class called Project Hexapod. Their mission is to build this car-sized two-person hexapod robot and ride it through town in about four months. They've just posted the first set of schematics and named the robot "Stompy". I'm putting this on my "potential overlords to welcome" list. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 11:00 am Laptops issued to students by the Portland, Maine school boards will come with censorware that watches all their clicks and attempts to prevent them from visiting social media sites, even when working from home or other non-school premises, and even after school hours. Tom Bell's article in the Kennebec Journal quotes Peter Eglinton, chief operating ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 10:00 am CaptainValor gives Jonathan Coulton's delightfully filthy "First of May" song an enthusiastic American sign language interpretation with two backup signers. This is the gesture-set that JoCo's material truly demands. Jonathan Coulton - First of May - ASL Song (via Beth Pratt)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 02, 2012 09:37 am Watch the Price is Right today! Boing Boing pal Drew Carey very kindly invited me to attend a taping of The Price is Right while I was going through chemo, because the experience of attending a TPIR taping is hilarious, awesome fun. It worked, too: I didn't puke all day! A TPIR taping is like ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 09:00 am An update to the saga of Marty's dad's collection of handmade wild west whisky bottles: they've been acquired by the Autry National Center. They'll be part of a 2013 special exhibition on the wild west in pop culture. Yee-haw!
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By Rob Beschizza on May 02, 2012 08:23 am Stuart Millard on the demented fantasy world of Hulk Hogan. [Frantic Planet via Charles Wheeler] Old wrestlers come from a world where there's no such thing as a lie, just a "work," where the faces and heels would change in separate dressing rooms, and onscreen personas had to be maintained on the street, to keep ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 11:19 pm On May 1, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Matthew XXXXXX wrote: Hey. Love your site. The sentiment of the "Demolish Serious Culture" image appearing on your site is repulsive; it's worse if it's intended to be ironic. I won't ask that it be removed because that would be censorship but I just wanted to say think ...
Read in browser Tennessee man jailed for using old $50 bill
By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 10:11 pm David Melson writes that police arrested and jailed a man Friday for using real money. A clerk at Quik Mart, South Cannon Boulevard, notified police after the marker used to detect counterfeit bills didn't check as real. "The front side of the bill was off center and it didn't feel like a normal bill, it ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 09:46 pm Facebook will launch an initial public offering on May 18, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal (and summarized here at the AP, for those who aren't registered WSJ users). Some of the social networking giant's advertisers question whether they're getting their money's worth.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 01, 2012 09:33 pm Filet mignon served in restaurants is often, in fact, an agglomeration of scraps of lesser beef, welded together with Meat Glue. [ABC] Terje took powder and dusted it liberally over the meat pieces. The coated stew meat then went into a circular tin to give it a nice, round filet mignon shape. He was also ...
Read in browser Did this ad for gas chain 76 rip off Boing Boing's "Unicorn Chaser"? (video)
By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 09:30 pm LOL, kinda. Video Link (thanks, John Battelle)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 09:21 pm "Delta is the first airline to try its hand at refining oil," reports Heidi Moore at the public radio program Marketplace. An indicator of things to come?
Read in browser Facebook launches a new game: Organ Farmville
By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 09:18 pm Facebook announced today that the social network's 161 million members in the United States will be encouraged to begin displaying "organ donor status" on their pages, along with birth dates and schools. Some 7,000 people die every year in America while waiting for an organ transplant, and the idea here, according to this New York ...
Read in browser A visual explainer of laws that govern police crowd control tactics at protests in Oakland, CA
By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 09:08 pm At Oakland North, John C. Osborn has created a series of graphics that visually explain the policies of the Oakland Police Department and the California Penal Code that are supposed to guide how police and protesters interact.
Read in browser Man sues BMW claiming motorbike gave him 2-year erection
By David Pescovitz on May 01, 2012 09:03 pm Henry Wolf filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against BMW North American and Corbin-Pacific, Inc., claiming that the "ridged seat" on his bike gave him priapism, a medical consisted in which the penis becomes erect and does not become flaccid for a long period. Apparently, Wolf's penis remained erect for two years. Gives crotch ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 08:40 pm Virgin Atlantic first class passengers may soon find the frozen head of Sir Richard Branson floating in their cold drinks.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 08:30 pm Click here to play episode. 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 8bit Ninja, a game where you have to dodge giant bouncing fruit that has invaded your dojo. It's ...
Read in browser May Day, 2012 (big photo gallery)
By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 07:37 pm Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A protester holds a Guy Fawkes masked teddy bear during May Day demonstrations in Los Angeles. Below, more photos from demonstrations around the world today (Canada, Germany, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and more) in support of workers' rights and economic justice. Joe Sabia Above, Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia took these iPad ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 07:19 pm My friend Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired and founder of Cool Tools) is currently touring Asia and posting lots of wonderful photos of his travels. You have not lived 'til you've had this Chinese dessert made from half a loaf of white wonder bread and ice cream. Found on a car windshield parked on a ...
Read in browser Outstanding turntable performance of Drunk Trumpet
By Cory Doctorow on May 01, 2012 06:05 pm This 2008 Kid Koala turntable performance of "Drunk Trumpet" in San Antonio's Revolution Room isn't just a kick ass piece of music (though it is that), it's also some kind of awesome hand-ballet. I could watch this guy twiddle his fingers all day. It's also an existence proof of the innate superiority of a I-IV-V ...
Read in browser Henna "crowns" for chemotherapy patients
By Xeni Jardin on May 01, 2012 05:30 pm Samaritan Magazine has a fun article here about Henna Heals, a charity based in Toronto, Canada that offers a free service to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: beautiful henna designs applied to their chemo-bald heads. The organization was created by photographer Frances Darwin, who also captures the resulting designs in photos. Snip: The swirling, intricate drawings, ...
Read in browser 86-year-old lives alone on island he bought in 1962
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 01, 2012 05:05 pm [Video Link] Brendon Grimshaw lives alone (with some giant turtles) on the island of Moyenne in the Indian Ocean. The spry gent reminds me of Tom Neale, who wrote a book I love called an Island to Oneself. Brendon Grimshaw purchased the island for £8,000 in 1962 and set about making the island habitable. He ...
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