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Mile-high filmmaking club: Virgin America produces first ever feature film shot entirely in-flight TOM THE DANCING BUG: "Revenge of the God," In Which The Avengers Must Face Their Creator!! Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures Odd 1968 romance novel cover Weird sea creature on video Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes Walking Dead title sequence as a 1980s sitcom Photos of Dubai from before the boom Puzzle of the Month (PopSci April 1960) Science test city to be built in New Mexico desert How a US soldier finally got his Pastafarian dogtags Netherlands becomes first EU nation to enshrine Net Neutrality in law Creepy, CC-licensed haunted house game on Kickstarter Yochai Benkler explains SOPA TSA saves America from 16yo diabetic, breaks $10K insulin pump which totally could have been a bomb Hasan Minhaj nails the Ashton Kutcher/PopChips dumb racist ad debacle (funny video) Geekdad on Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow When Art Spiegelman visited Maurice Sendak HOWTO decorate like a Mafia boss Meet the 25-year-old behind Kickstarter's $8 Million Pebble watch campaign Thousands of Twitter account passwords leaked (update: or not) Should America build a Death Star? A new Japan export: "cat cafes" come to Austria Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Spoonin' Rap, and the Treacherous Three Ubuntu GNU/Linux soon to ship on 5% of all new PCs Radium Age science fiction novel by Jack London: The Scarlet Plague Underwear Bomber 2.0 was CIA double agent Leather "Batman" mask Terrifying thrill-ride Maker of Pink Slime to close 3 out of 4 plants, fire 650 employees Mile-high filmmaking club: Virgin America produces first ever feature film shot entirely in-flight
By Xeni Jardin on May 09, 2012 12:35 pm [Video Link]. Virgin America, the airline on which you can watch Boing Boing's very own television channel with our hand-picked videos, is producing the "first-ever film made at 35,000 feet,"— Departure Date. Photography took place on Virgin airplanes and covered "3 continents, 28,000 miles, and 20 hours of in-flight shooting." Departure Date was written and ...
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By Ruben Bolling on May 09, 2012 12:20 pm Support Tom the Dancing Bug and receive BENEFITS and PRIVILEGES by joining the INNER HIVE right now!"I used to spend 20 dollars a year on TOM THE DANCING BUG collections… Happy to support him and pass the word." -Neil Gaiman, Inner Hive member since last week
Read in browser Using the Mechanical Turk to validate petition signatures
By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 12:04 pm Jeff sez: To qualify our initiative for the ballot in Seattle, we need the signatures of more than 20,600 registered city voters. This means we're going to have approximately 2,000 - 3,000 pages of handwritten petition forms. We wrote two Mechanical Turk tasks to digitally capture the names, addresses and emails of petition signers and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 11:46 am James Gurney says: If I had to give a prize for the most delightfully weird romance cover, it would have to go to "The Hungry Ones" from 1966. Whatever his pickup line is, she seems to be taking him seriously. Should be an interesting date. What he hasn't told her yet is that she's got ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 11:34 am [Video Link] This unusual ocean creature resembles a sheet of brown translucent rubber. It's a Deepstaria enigmatica, a cnidarian. Who needs to invent science fiction life forms, when we've got an ocean full of them? A very, VERY unusual ocean creature
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 11:27 am Iranian newspaper cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh drew an Iranian Parliament Member wearing a soccer jersey. For that reason, he was sentenced to 25 lashes. Why would the government want to flog someone for this reason? Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes
Read in browser Walking Dead title sequence as a 1980s sitcom
By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 11:20 am MovieWeb's alternate title sequence for The Walking Dead is set to the theme from Growing Pains and expertly edited/titled to give it the air of a 1980s sitcom, an effect that it achieves in spades. I would watch this sitcom: "The departure of Frank Darabont has seen The Walking Dead go in a whole new ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 11:20 am Foreign Policy has a gallery of photos of Dubai before its economic boom. Shown above: Men gather in al-Naif souq, one of the oldest traditional markets in Dubai. It was partially damaged by a fire in 2008 -- but the fabulously wealthy emirate decided that this was one of the cultural landmarks that it wanted ...
Read in browser Puzzle of the Month (PopSci April 1960)
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 11:06 am Here's the puzzle of the month from the April 1960 issue of Popular Science Luckily someone told me the answer to this one at the same time as the puzzle. Otherwise –– like the wife of one PS editor –– I might still be working on it: The census taker, placing one weary foot after ...
Read in browser Science test city to be built in New Mexico desert
By Rob Beschizza on May 09, 2012 10:25 am A "scientific ghost town", equipped to research everything from traffic patterns to renewable energy, is to be built in the desert near Hobbs, N.M. The real-life Science Enrichment Center will create hundreds of jobs, but have no residents of its own. Intended as a scale model of a "typical American town of 35,000", it will ...
Read in browser How a US soldier finally got his Pastafarian dogtags
By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 10:17 am Justin Griffith, an atheist in the US military, tells the story of how he ended up with ATHEIST/FSM on his dogtags. It all started when he enlisted as an atheist, only to have his recruiter record his religion as "Baptist." Even switching recruiters didn't end up with the error corrected. At boot camp, recruits were ...
Read in browser Netherlands becomes first EU nation to enshrine Net Neutrality in law
By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 08:30 am Ot from the Dutch technology activist group Bits of Freedom writes, "Good news from The Netherlands: on 8 May 2012 The Netherlands adopted crucial legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet. It is the first country in Europe to implement net neutrality in the law. In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection ...
Read in browser Creepy, CC-licensed haunted house game on Kickstarter
By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 11:00 pm Rick Dakan sez, "Last fall, Mob Rules Games let voters choose their project, and they picked the turn-based haunted house game, Haunts: The Manse Macabre. The trio of indie developers, Geek Mafia author Rick Dakan, programmer Jonathan Wills, and artist Austin McKinnley have been working on it ever since, with the help of a small ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 10:08 pm The Guardian: Blueprint for Democratic Participation from The Guardian and The Paley Center for Media on FORA.tv Here's Yochai Benkler -- author of Wealth of Networks, one of the most important books written about how the Internet changes society -- describing the fight to stop SOPA with laser clarity and precision, cutting through the DC/media ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 09:26 pm You probably thought we covered all possible scenarios of TSA stupidity in our recent round-up post. You thought wrong. Via MSNBC today, the story of Savannah Barry, a 16-year-old diabetic girl who says the TSA broke her insulin pump. Savannah was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes four years ago, and her pump is a specialized ...
Read in browser Hasan Minhaj nails the Ashton Kutcher/PopChips dumb racist ad debacle (funny video)
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 08:58 pm [Video Link] "You have a shitty accent. You're not even being racist correctly. If you're gonna be racist, come correct with your racism."—Hasan Minhaj. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. Anil Dash, whose familiar mug appears briefly in Hasan's video here, has a few things to say about the matter. (via Aman Ali)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 08:52 pm Erik Wecks has a thoughtful and smart analysis of my little book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow in Wired's GeekDad today (spoilers ahoy!)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 08:39 pm "Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!" Art Spiegelman drew his experience of hanging out with Maurice Sendak in 1993 for the New Yorker, and the magazine has "unlocked" the archival link in honor of Sendak's passing today. (via Neil Gaiman)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 08:00 pm Nicola Schiavone is the recently jailed Camorra mafioso. His Naples home was photographed by the Italian tax police who raided it. It's quite an eyefull of Mafia-chic strangeness. The Guardian has the story. Criminal? Italian mafia interior tastes exposed - in pictures
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 08, 2012 07:39 pm [Video Link] Shira Lazar of What's Trending interviewed Eric Migicovsky, the creator of the Pebble Bluetooth watch, a Kickstarter project that's raised over $8 million. Meet Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky, the 25-year behind the nearly 9 million dollar Kickstarter campaign, the largest ever. According to Eric, Pebble is THE watch of the 21st century, allowing ...
Read in browser Thousands of Twitter account passwords leaked (update: or not)
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 07:38 pm Elinor Mills at CNET digs into who leaked thousands of username/email/password sets yesterday, and what Twitter is doing about it. Here are the Pastebin leaks, in case you want to check to see if your account was one of the ones published: one, two, three, four, five. It's not entirely clear that this is the ...
Read in browser Should America build a Death Star?
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 07:33 pm "I wish to address the most important policy question of the millennium: Should we build a Death Star?" Yes, I realize this Washington Post piece by Gregory Koger is big fat pile of flaming linkbait, but at least it's not a 12-page slide show or a top ten list. His economic excercise is inspired by ...
Read in browser A new Japan export: "cat cafes" come to Austria
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 07:14 pm REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Cat 'Luca' sleeps in his basket as a waitress serves some food to customers in Vienna's first cat cafe May 7, 2012. After three years of negotiations with city officials over hygiene issues, Austria opened its first cat cafe last Friday. 'Cafe Neko', "Neko" meaning cat in Japanese, was opened by Vienna resident ...
Read in browser Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Spoonin' Rap, and the Treacherous Three
By Ed Piskor on May 08, 2012 07:11 pm Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! "We're from the family tree of old school Hip-Hop..." --Adam "MCA" Yauch
Read in browser Ubuntu GNU/Linux soon to ship on 5% of all new PCs
By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 07:00 pm Here's an eye-popping stat from Canonical's VP of sales and business development Chris Kenyon, speaking at the Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit: the free operating system Ubuntu (a flavor of GNU/Linux) will soon ship on 5% of all new PCs. Side Note #2: Kenyon didn't comment on what percentage of these Ubuntu-loaded PC sales still have ...
Read in browser Radium Age science fiction novel by Jack London: The Scarlet Plague
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 08, 2012 06:57 pm Jack London’s 1912 science fiction novel The Scarlet Plague, which is part of HiLobrow's Radium Age library, is now available at Amazon.com. Jack London’s plague novel, in which the world’s population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias — from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty ...
Read in browser Underwear Bomber 2.0 was CIA double agent
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 06:38 pm Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt in The New York Times dig deeper into yesterday's news of a new would-be Al Qaeda underwear bomber, "dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner." He was a double agent for the CIA who infiltrated Al Qaeda, and "volunteered for ...
Read in browser Leather "Batman" mask
By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 06:14 pm Ukranian steampunk/fetish leathercrafters Bob Basset have taken a crack at golden age comics with this 1920s "Batman" mask. Batman mask as it could be in 1920
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By Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2012 05:11 pm This insane (Russian?) theme-park thrill ride nauseates me even at 320x240 11fps. I think if I was actually in its presence, I'd boot so hard that I'd open a wormhole to another dimension. Amusement Level: Crazy (via Danny's Land)
Read in browser Maker of Pink Slime to close 3 out of 4 plants, fire 650 employees
By Xeni Jardin on May 08, 2012 04:54 pm Beef Products Inc. (BPI), manufacturer of "lean finely textured beef," aka "pink slime," announces it will shut down three of its four plants on May 25. The plants destined for closure are in Amarillo, TX; Garden City, KS; and Waterloo, IA. The one remaining facility is in South Sioux City, NE and will operate at reduced ...
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