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Kindle, circa 1935 What do astronauts and the Holocaust have in common? "An Article of Hope" Jordan cave on CouchSurfing.com Avengers box-office success shows pre-release piracy isn't necessarily the kiss of death Using viruses to harvest energy for mobile devices Disassembled: animated short in which Marvel superheroes have very bad days 250th anniversary of the sandwich ZUCKERBERG: The Musical! (a Facebook opera by CDZA) Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, More Record Label Interest In Rap "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" econopocalypse mockumentary raising money for tour with USB bracelets Plagiarism doesn't work Pneumatic ping-pong ball delivery system playfully fires balls into "art environment" Wooden compass T-shirt tribute to the time-honored combination of booze and science Publishing America's for-pay, private laws - legal piracy A bit of classic Feynman Meet the six androids that will never exist Bones of Turkana: Meave and Richard Leakey on human ancestors and the Leakey legacy A new plan for space Dial M for Murdoch: exhaustive account of the UK tabloids' criminality and the resulting coverup Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement Newark Airport security supervisor assumed murdered man's identity for 2 decades Diablo III finally out Blogger paid Printing out robots with your MakerBot Google to take over iconic fitness landmark Gold's Gym in Venice, CA (UPDATED) Jagged anti-boner ring Cascade of 60,000 dominoes Canon shifts to robots for camera production Occupy this stylish biker jacket Kindle, circa 1935
By David Pescovitz on May 15, 2012 12:57 pm Jeff Bezos ripped off the Kindle from the April 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics. (via Paleofuture)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 15, 2012 12:55 pm Filmmaker Dan Cohen is the guy behind "An Article of Hope," a feature film project seven years in the making. The documentary is done, but Dan's got a Kickstarter to raise funds to get it on television and into schools. Below, some words from Dan for Boing Boing readers about the film: What could space ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 15, 2012 12:45 pm Ghassab Al-Bedoul, 42, offers up his cave in Petra, Jordan, for visitors on CouchSurfing.com. It looks like a fantastic experience. In the four years he's been registered on the site, Al-Bedoul says he's hosted more than 1,000 people. From CNN: The cave, which is no larger than 150 square feet, is uniquely modern. A row ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 12:43 pm The Avengers was both widely pirated ahead of release and the most successful opening in box-office history. As Forbes's Paul Tassi notes, this suggests that piracy and commercial success are not mutually exclusive: An early copy of The Avengers actually leaked out onto the internet a week ahead of release, and Disney was subsequently flipping ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 15, 2012 12:27 pm For years, researchers have worked on fascinating methods to scavenge power from kinetic energy -- humming air conditioning ducts, roads that vibrate as cars pass over, etc. Now, engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are integrating viruses into small devices that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The harmless viruses exhibit natural piezoelectric properties -- when ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 15, 2012 12:20 pm [Video Link] Above, "Disassembled," a wonderful, not-authorized-by-Marvel animated take on Avengers characters and other figures of the Marvel universe by Junaid Chundrigar. "I decided to make this short animation after drawing some Marvel characters in a cartoony style," he explains. If you like this, you'll love his previous short, "Sheeped Away." More of his animated ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 15, 2012 12:14 pm This year is the 250th anniversary of the sandwich. According to the British Sandwich Association, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, was playing cards when he requested meat between pieces of bread so he could easily eat without interrupting the game. From BBC News: Foodsmith Sam Bompas said the Earl of Sandwich was eating ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 15, 2012 12:09 pm [Video Link] From Joe Sabia and the CDZA project, a new musical video experiment (they're doing one new video every other Tuesday): "Opus No. 3 - ZUCKERBERG: The Musical," described as "A trip down memory lane for the life and times of Mark Zuckerberg." Download the mp3 here. Features Lora Lee Gayer, Tess Soltau, and ...
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By Ed Piskor on May 15, 2012 11:46 am Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 11:40 am Filmmaker (and comics creator and novelist and games developer) Jim Munroe is raising money to take his outstanding science fiction feature Ghosts With Shit Jobs on tour. Here's Jim's summary: "In the future, jobs still suck -- but in whole new ways. The economic collapse of the west is complete and North Americans are a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 15, 2012 11:17 am Just how hard is it to use quotes? How hard is it to provide attribution to sources? It is clearly very hard indeed! A writer at The Next Web copied a post from a relatively unknown blogger and got caught. Worse, TNW quietly edited the post and then denied that the original had failed to ...
Read in browser Pneumatic ping-pong ball delivery system playfully fires balls into "art environment"
By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 11:00 am r0r0 sez, "Ping Pong Ball Suction Construction is a pneumatic delivery system for ping pong balls as part of an art environment that's actually on display in Lille, France." In Spring/Summer 2012 both guys were invited to create an installation version of Ping Pong Country in Lille's Gare St. Sauveur. They were a bit tired ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 15, 2012 10:41 am The latest from Joey Roth, designer of minimalist teapots and speakers, is more down to earth: a compass pendant. Made with Shwood in Portland, the frame is laser-cut from maple and rosewood; the compass itself is a Francis Barker model.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 15, 2012 10:32 am We can argue for days over which field of science is the booziest (I used to say archaeology, but have since switched my vote to ocean science). But we can all agree on the adorableness of this Threadless T-shirt, which provides a quick introduction to molecular bonding. Will they feel as bonded in the morning? ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 09:49 am Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, On March 15, Boing Boing kindly allowed me to use this august forum to serve notice on 7 government officials and 10 of the CEOs of the $1-billion/year industry of standards people. The issue was privately-developed public safety standards that were incorporated into U.S. law, but only available by paying ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 15, 2012 09:44 am I'm not sure how, but I'd never seen any clips of young Richard Feynman speaking until physicist Walid Younes posted this video to Google+. The talk itself is great and covers some important stuff. (Of course, it's Feynman!) The key thing here is the connection between theoretical understandings of how the universe works and practical ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 15, 2012 09:19 am What will the future of artificial intelligence actually look like? We're getting some clues already from projects like Hiroshi Ishiguro's Geminoid series with its incredibly realistic bodies, writes my friend Dennis Cass at io9. But we're also seeing hints of what real-life androids won't be like. In a post last week, Cass talks about some ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 15, 2012 08:30 am The Leakey family is like the Kennedys, but for paleoanthropology instead of politics. Think about any hominin fossil or artifact you can name. Chances are, there was a Leakey involved in its discovery. Louis Leakey was one of the first scientists to champion the idea that humans had their origins in Africa. For three generations ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 15, 2012 08:11 am Later this month, NASA will start talking publicly about a plan to put humans on an asteroid and bring them back to Earth again. The Telegraph has a preview.
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By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 07:28 am Tom Watson and Martin Hickman's Dial M for Murdoch is a timely, informative, infuriating insider account of the News International phone-hacking scandal that has occupied the news-cycle, off and on, for several years now (and shows no sign of slowing down). Watson, a veteran Member of Parliament -- and frequent target of the Murdoch press ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 15, 2012 01:21 am A Finnish court has ruled that merely operating an open WiFi access point does not make you liable for copyright infringements committed on your network. From the defense attorney's press release: This alleged copyright infringement had taken place in a specific 12-minute period in July 14 2010, a date when a summer theater play with ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 14, 2012 11:53 pm Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a security supervisor at Newark airport, lived a double life for 20 years using the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder. Since 1992, the undocumented Nigerian immigrant worked at EWR as Jerry Thomas, a man who was killed that same year in New York City. Oyewole continued to live as ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 14, 2012 11:35 pm Diablo III, one of the longest-awaited titles in gaming history, is to be released within minutes. The second game—released fully 12 years ago—sucked countless hundreds of my hours with its near-perfect combination of clicking, stat-grinding, loot-hunting, medieval gloom, clicking, and right-clicking. This is why I'm sat up at 11:30 p.m. waiting for a video game ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 14, 2012 10:49 pm In this video, blogger Duane Lester confronts the editor of a newspaper which plagiarized something he wrote. The best part is when the editor tries to physically intimidate him, a moment so inexplicable and hilarious I created a YouTube Infinite Loop of it for you. There's a happy ending, though: he ultimately saw reason and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2012 10:00 pm Annelise sez, "This is an episode of MakerBot TV which is all about making DIY Robots with MakerBots!" The MakerBot design team is building a Robot Petting Zoo to bring to this year's Maker Faire. In this video you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how they conceptualized, designed and created these amazing DIY robots! MakerBot ...
Read in browser Google to take over iconic fitness landmark Gold's Gym in Venice, CA (UPDATED)
By Xeni Jardin on May 14, 2012 09:10 pm The nerds finally beat the jocks. The historic Gold's Gym location in Venice Beach, "mecca of bodybuilding" where former governator and movie star Arnold Schwarzenneger once trained, will soon be occupied by Google. This gym site opened in the late 1960s (and, to be honest, it was somewhat shabby in recent years—I was a member ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2012 09:00 pm This little feller is a "German Spermatorrhoea Ring," ca 1894. Spermatorrhoea ("involuntary loss of semen") was best fought with this toothy beast, which also doubled as a cure for Onanism ("voluntary discharges from masturbation"). An extremely rare Spermatorrhoea ring fastened with a screw. With provenance from the original German catalogue dating from 1894. Spermatorrhoea means ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2012 08:55 pm [Video Link] From Neatorama: "FlippyCat assembled 60 walls, each consisting of 990 dominoes, and an additional field of 600 dominoes. The project took 65 hours over 8 days and some painful failures along the way. But when he finally pushed it over at 0:55, he made a beautiful cascade of color and sound."
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By Xeni Jardin on May 14, 2012 08:18 pm Reuters: Man tries out a Canon EOS-1D X at a Tokyo showroom. Camera maker Canon is evolving toward "fully automating" production, to reduce costs. Japan, where the Canon plants in question are located, is a leading nation in robotics development. "The move toward machine-only production will likely be completed in the next few years, perhaps ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 14, 2012 07:48 pm I'm digging the look of this Occupy Wall Street khaki street jacket by EGOLOGICS on Etsy. (thanks, foslforever)
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