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See-through Jewel Caterpillar Train horn attached to bicycle Pig vomit sign divides neighbors Dalek impersonator performs "King of the Tardis" Photos of dapper thugs from the 1920s Stating the obvious Lies, damned lies, and flame-retardant furniture German Pirate Party wins seats in a third regional election RIP, Maurice Sendak Kinetic, electrified junkbots from Nemo Gould Privacy icons similar to Creative Commons icons Princess Leia hoodie with sidebuns Webcam at Abbey Road crossing Welcome to your 2012 election season, let the suppression of political debate begin. On Meta Excellent vintage film about the first accurate atomic clock Meta-analysis of studies on file-sharing Pizza Face STOR, the store that tried to copy IKEA AT&T must pay Muslim woman $5M in workplace harassment case Fun skill patches offered by Adafruit Permanent Converse Amtrak users, rejoice! Smartphone scans soon to replace paper tickets. HOWTO re-create the Scrooge McDuck "Gold Coin Swim" Make: Talk 015: Matthew Borgatti Robot bird lands on human hand File-sharing church solemnizes first wedding Simulating Mars in Austria Alternative uses for specialized cooking gadgets Ron Hays, video synthesizers, and Earth, Wind & Fire See-through Jewel Caterpillar
By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 01:00 pm Here's a photo of the Jewel Caterpillar (Acraga coa), snapped by Gerardo Aizpuru near Cancun, and submitted to Project Noah. Be sure to click through for other views. Wow. Photo take in a mangrove area , found this Stoning translucent caterpillar lay on a Red Mangrove tree leaf this morning early. Just can believe there ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 08, 2012 12:44 pm [Video Link] This fellow attached a train horn -- powered by compressed air in a scuba tank -- to his bicycle. Honk And I'll Kill You: Train Horn Attached To Bicycle
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 08, 2012 12:30 pm George Brannon of Mesquite, Texas has posted a warning to would-be thieves contemplating taking another one of his pieces of "right wing yard art," which include an upside-down US flag with boot marks and Obama's crossed-out face replacing the field of stars. Watch video at Fox News affiliate (Via Arbroath)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 11:55 am Martyn Crofts's appearance on Britain's Got Talent is the best thing I've ever seen on TV: he put a pot on his head and did a wicked Dalek impersonation while singing (shouting) a version of Roger Miller's "King of the Road," ("King of the Tardis"). Britain does indeed got talent. Dalek impersonator Martyn Crofts - ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 08, 2012 11:45 am Lots of photos of Australian criminals in the 1920s. They look proud of themselves, don't they? Herbert Ellis circa 1920: The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 08, 2012 11:40 am A 23-year-old Nebraska man, previously named Tyler Gold, shall henceforth be known as Tyrannosaurus Rex Joseph Gold. In sworn testimony, Tyrannosaurus Gold explained that his new name was simply "cooler" than the old one.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 08, 2012 11:34 am All this week, The Chicago Tribune is posting a multi-part investigative report about the fire-retardant chemicals that turn up in everything from the foam in our couch cushions, to the plastic casings on our television sets. Turns out, research shows these chemicals don't actually prevent fire deaths and injuries. Worse, research does show that these ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 10:50 am The German Pirate Party has won seats in a third federal district, taking 8.2% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein; they're on track to win seats in a fourth state next week in Northrhine-Westphalia. TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes: It seems clear that The Pirate Party is certainly surpassing the German Green Party as the preeminent 3rd ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 09:59 am Beloved children's author Maurice Sendak, creator of Where the Wild Things Are, is dead at 83. Here's some of what The Guardian's Michelle Pauli has to say about him. The wild things of Max's imagination were based on Sendak's own relatives. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents and was ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 09:41 am Kinetic junkbot sculptor Nemo Gould has completed two new, wonderful pieces. First, the Cycloptopus: Cycloptopus is a fearsome hybrid of two of my favorite monsters, one real, one mythical. This creature is particularly dangerous because of its irritability. You'd be irritable too if you were powered by an open flame and your body was made ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 09:00 am Jabberwocky writes, "Privacy policies are complicated, and we believe that you should know what's happening with your data when you use a service. In order to help, we've created a set of icons which cover the core components of any policy. We are a group of Yale students taking Control, Privacy, and Technology, and this ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 10:43 pm MallGoth emporium Hot Topic sells a $54.50 Princess Leia hoodie with integrated hair buns. I'm thinking mother's day. STAR WARS HER UNIVERSE PRINCESS LEIA GIRLS HOODIE (via Geekologie)
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By David Pescovitz on May 07, 2012 10:24 pm Live Webcam of tourists and the drivers who hate them at the famed Abbey Road crossing. Abbey Road Studios - Crossing Webcam (via @chris_carter_)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 10:17 pm Running for office? Embarrassed by YouTube videos that make fun of you or show you looking like an ass? YouTube will give you up to 14 days' worth of censorship for free -- all you need to do is pretend that the video infringes your copyright and invoke the DMCA. EFF wants to change that.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 07, 2012 09:51 pm Ben Zimmer on the word "meta": "Michael Grunwald, writing for The Boston Globe in 1993, [saw a] trend toward meta-entertainment. ... Of course, it wasn't as meta as a Globe column about meta citing a Globe column about meta." [Boston Globe via Maria Popova]
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 09:21 pm This short film was produced by the film unit of the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the 1950s, and explains the principles behind the first accurate atomic clock, which was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physical Laboratory in 1955. The NPL's YouTube channel has other videos of interest to science ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 09:17 pm A post by Slashdot user Dangerous_Minds summarizes a series ZeroPaid's Drew Wilson, who has been examining 20 file-sharing studies from the decade-plus-long filesharing wars. Time and again, the studies show that the effect on markets is marginal, and that the big entertainment companies are opposed to file-sharing a means of suppressing competition and innovation: While ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 09:09 pm Boing Boing reader Renee Rendler-Kaplan of Chicago, IL went to the National Restaurant Association's trade show, and shot this photograph of a terrified pizza pie. I don't really know what this is, actually. I just know that I will never look at pizza the same way again. And, the strange orange color reminds me of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 07, 2012 09:00 pm Asymco's Horace Dediu and Dirk Schmidt, quoting Clayton Christensen: "The company has been slowly rolling its stores out across the world for [close to 50] years; and yet nobody has copied IKEA." It's just a throwaway line in an excellent comparison of Apple and Ikea's retail operations, but does anyone remember Stor? From the NYT: ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 08:39 pm For more than 10 years, Susann Bashir worked as a fiber optics network builder for AT&T in Missouri. The Kansas City Star reports that she was subjected to daily religious discrimination and harassment during the last three years of her employment there—co-workers called her a "towelhead," and asked if she planned to blow up the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 07, 2012 08:25 pm Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped out like a Tex Avery wolf. I told her she could have them all, but she has to earn them! I'll work with her to help her earn the LED ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 08:10 pm An unsourced/unidentified photo of a man's (?) foot with a very good, detailed and shadowed Converse All-Stars tattooed upon it, in stylish red. No mention if he has the other foot done, nor why he left off the toes and soles (that may be a limitation of tattoo technology, I suppose). Converse Shoe Tattooed on ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 08:04 pm In the New York Times, Brian X. Chen reports on Amtrak's plans to use Apple iPhones as an electronic ticket scanner on several routes, including Boston, MA to Portland, ME, and San Jose, CA, to Sacramento, CA. "By late summer, 1,700 conductors will be using the devices on Amtrak trains across the country," and passengers ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 07:41 pm At the Billfold today, a wonderful and mathematically precise post that explains exactly "how much money do I need to create giant floes of gold in a private vault and dive into it like Scrooge McDuck?" (thanks, Dean Putney!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 07, 2012 07:27 pm Here's the 15th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! Our maker this week is Matthew Borgatti. Matthew makes so many things it's hard to even begin to describe it all: musical instruments, science fiction-themed jewelry, folded paper creations, realistic passports to hackerspaces, ceramic "brass knuckles," and on and on. This was a really great interview, ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 07, 2012 06:55 pm Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a robotic bird that lands perched on someone's hand. From UIUC: Perching is routinely used by birds to land on objects such as tree branches, power wires, or building ledges. According to the researchers, there are two factors that make perching challenging to engineer: 1) the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 06:50 pm The first-ever wedding sanctioned by the Church of Kopimism (an officially Swedish church that reifies copying and characterizes file-sharing as a sacred act) was convened last weekend. It was a beautiful and awfully funny and joyous occasion, judging from the video. Here's Torrentfreak's Ernesto with more: It was only a matter of time before the ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 07, 2012 06:37 pm Space researchers are playing Mars on Earth in the giant ice caves at Austria's Dachstein mountain. Many more amazing photographs at the Austrian Space Forum's Dachstein Mars Simulation blog. "Performing Mars" (BLDGBLOG) "Icy caves setting for Mars mission tests" (Stuff)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 06:14 pm Chow rounds up some delicious alternative uses for waffle-irons, ice-cream makers, and slow cookers. The criteria are: "(1) the food should taste as good or better than when made in the conventional manner, (2) the cooking time should be equal to or shorter than normal, and (3) the method should use the appliance in a ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 07, 2012 05:55 pm In 1966, pioneering video artist Nam June Paik was an artist in residence at Boston's public broadcasting station WGBH. Paik and engineer Shuya Abe created the Paik-Abe video synthesizer, a fantastic device that generated triply visuals with a colorizer and modulators. In the years that followed, WGBH formed the New Television Workshop to support the ...
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