[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels. The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones. On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30). To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.
Sugar ad: your diet is depriving your kids of vital sugar! The modded musical Game Boys of Blip Festival Sign a petition for a "guilt-free Eurovision" -- keep the pressure up on Azerbaijan Giant, monstrous cake Fox sues Dish over commercial skipping, claims copyright infringement Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan tweets a science fiction story for the New Yorker NYC lawyer loses $100K suit over healthclub that stopped supplying yogurt and cereal Mondrian PC Why your camera's GPS won't work in China (maybe) Illuminated manuscript cookies Hedgehog stuck in can Nevada Ghosts: photos from an early A-bomb test Historical proto-Al Jaffee hides trenchant commentary in design of US Dollar Bill Batteries Not Included - a collection of vintage toy commercials Ambiguous "true-false" answer Why New America Foundation's president quit Facebook Movie made from Getty's still image collection Anderson Cooper quizzes supporter of pastor who proposes concentration camps for gay people Solar-powered airplane "Solar Impulse" attempts transcontinental flight Blindside, a new "3D audio-only adventure game" for iOS Chair made from Funk & Wagnall's Bronx Parkour: Jose The Amazing (a photo essay) Course on design/architecture for orbiting hotels Freaky non-stick coating keeps ketchup flowing Nacho-related tattoos Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein on his new TV show, The Link Marvel Comics costume jewelry Quebec cops kettle and mass-arrest demonstrators Digitally-manipulated photos of skinless women How to buckle a brick column Sugar ad: your diet is depriving your kids of vital sugar!
By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 12:59 pm Here's an undated ad from "Sugar Information, Inc" (our old friends), warning mothers that if they include their kids in their sugar-free, dieting lifestyles, they will be depriving the poor kiddlees of vital sugar and exposing them to "exhaustion." Obviously, this was before the cancer scares and other stuff about artificial sweeteners, because surely that's ...
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By Dean Putney on May 25, 2012 12:27 pm I'm at Blip Festival in New York this weekend checking out all the bleeps and bloops people are making. Blip Festival itself starts tonight, but last night NY Pulsewave had an open mic night and I decided to grab a few of the artists to photograph their instruments: mostly custom modified Game Boys. I've included ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 12:02 pm Robert sez, "Azerbaijan is hosting the final of this Saturday's Eurovision song contest. Amidst the absurdity and kitsch, human rights groups are worried that Azerbaijan's autocratic government will use the occasion to airbrush its appalling treatment of journalists and activists. Index on Censorship is asking Boing Boing readers to make the President of Azerbaijan face ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 11:54 am Here's Paul Joachim's 80 oz. monster cake from 2007, as featured on Evil Cakes: Made for a halloween party, this cake came out quite scary and realistic! I used 4 deliciously moist chocolate cakes along with a TON of ganache, 80 ounces of chocolate and 8 cups of heavy cream to be exact ;) The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 10:43 am Dish Networks, the satellite TV provider, is being sued by Fox over its "AutoHop" feature, which automatically skips commercials. Fox alleges copyright infringement, which is a repeat of the claims over ReplayTV, which was bankrupted in similar lawsuits in the last decade. The networks claimed then that the whole program, including the commercials, were a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:42 am Tor.com reports on Pulitzer Winning novelist Jennifer Egan's latest project: a tweeted science fiction story in the New Yorker's fiction feed: This is part of the launch of the forthcoming first-ever science fiction issue of The New Yorker. The installment will appear starting tonight between 8pm-9pm EST, and will last for ten nights. The entirety ...
Read in browser NYC lawyer loses $100K suit over healthclub that stopped supplying yogurt and cereal
By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:00 am Richard Katz, a NYC lawyer, has lost his breach-of-contract lawsuit against a pricey healthclub that changed its breakfast menu. Katz was a member of The Setai Wall Street Club and Spa, and he was upset when the yogurt and cereal normally provided by the club was discontinued. He sent a series of upset emails to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 25, 2012 07:56 am Jeffrey Stephenson made a beautiful Mondrian PC enclosure. Mondrian is a fanless mini-ITX case design made from wood and hand-cut acrylic tiles. Fresh air is drawn into the case after passing through the exposed heatsink finning. An 80mm CPU fan is mounted under the heatsink and acts as a combo CPU/case fan. Specific inspirations (including ...
Read in browser Why your camera's GPS won't work in China (maybe)
By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 11:00 pm If you've got a major-brand camera with a built-in GPS, don't plan on taking any geotagged photos in China. Chinese law prohibits mapmaking without a license, and most of the large camera manufacturers have complied with this regulation by quietly slipping a censorship function into the GPS -- when you take a picture, the camera ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 09:00 pm Anniina ("Scholar, Writer, Mother, Dreamer. Editor of Luminarium, an online library for English Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance") produced these delicious-looking and awfully lovely illuminated initial cookies: I wanted to share with you some Medieval manuscript cookies I made for my friend and colleague, Risa Bear, creator of Renascence Editions. I chose historiated ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 24, 2012 07:01 pm "A hedgehog is recovering in an RSPCA hospital after being found by the side of a road with its head wedged in an empty carrot tin." [BBC]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 06:45 pm Ben Cosgrove of Life says: As the prospect of nuclear weapons testing by nations like North Korea and Iran once again makes headlines, LIFE.com presents rare and (mostly) unpublished pictures from the Nevada desert by photographer Loomis Dean shortly after a 1955 atomic bomb test. These are not "political" pictures. They are, instead, eerily beautiful, ...
Read in browser Historical proto-Al Jaffee hides trenchant commentary in design of US Dollar Bill
By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 06:38 pm The other day I noticed that on the back of the one dollar bill, there is a phrase: The Great Seal of the United States. It is split into two circles. When you fold the dollar so that the two half circles meet exactly, a new phrase is revealed. The Great Seal of the United ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 06:37 pm From Archive.org's wonderful Classic TV archive, an hour long video of old toy commercials. Batteries Not Included
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 05:57 pm I hope this was a clever student's attempt to answer a question that he or she didn't know the answer to. (Via Bit & Pieces)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 05:54 pm James Losey from the New America Foundation writes, "I wanted to share New America Foundation's president Steve Coll's reasoning as to why he is leaving the Facebook. He analyzes a range of concerns including privacy concerns, a chaotic IPO, questionable corporate-governance system, mixed with a lack of user rights. " I established a Facebook account ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 04:47 pm [Video Link] Getty Images hired BBDO Brazil to produce a short movie made entirely of still images from its collection. (Via This is Colossal)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 04:35 pm [Video Link] This is as entertaining as it is disconcerting. Related: Pastor proposes 100 mile fence to house homosexuals
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By Xeni Jardin on May 24, 2012 04:33 pm Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse A Solar Impulse aircraft takes off at Payerne airport May 24, 2012, piloted by André Borschberg. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells built into its jumbo-jet-sized wings (about 200 feet long), attempted its first intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco with a few days for a technical ...
Read in browser Blindside, a new "3D audio-only adventure game" for iOS
By Xeni Jardin on May 24, 2012 04:17 pm Last October, I blogged about a Kickstarter to create "a video game with no graphics, played entirely using audio." The game is Blindside, and it's finished! Now available through the App Store for iPhone4/iPad2+. The project was inspired by co-creator Aaron Rasmussen's temporary blindness as a result of an explosion in high school chemistry. BlindSide ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 04:00 pm Sculptor Jim Rosenau's "Reading Chair" is a 6" high piece made from volumes from an old Funk & Wagnall's and some blunt pencils. It's the perfect chair for a bookish gnome. I've featured Jim's work here before. Reading Chair (via Bookshelf)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 24, 2012 03:35 pm Photo: Chris Arnade Chris Arnade is a photographer based in New York City. I've blogged his urban photography before. Check out these fantastic shots of young men in Hunts Point Bronx, doing crazy gravity-defying freestyle jumps. Below: more photos, and the story behind those photos, from Chris.—XJ Photo: Chris Arnade JOSE THE AMAZING CHRIS ARNADE ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 24, 2012 03:28 pm Are you a designer or architect who would like to work within the unique constraints of zero gravity? Spaceship designer Susmita Mohanty, who worked on the International Space Station and Shuttle-Mir missions, is teaching an intensive course at Milan's Domus Academy this summer titled "Zero Gravity Design: Products and Microenvironments for Orbiting Hotels." As the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 03:23 pm [Video Link] "MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group … came up with LiquiGlide, a 'super-slippery' coating which makes the insides of the bottle so frictionless that the sludgy goo inside just slides out like water." MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
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By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 03:16 pm Nachos NY -- a site celebrating the nacho in all its glory -- has produced three temporary nacho-related tattoos for your delectation. Nacho Tattoos (via Craft)
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By Joshua Klein on May 24, 2012 02:52 pm I haven't watched television since I was fifteen years old, but up until then my entire world view was shaped by shows like Nova and Nature. I guess there was other stuff on, but nothing else gave me the sense that there was an entire universe out there that I could actually get my fingers ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 24, 2012 02:32 pm Jamie at The Mary Sue looks at costume jewelry brand 1928's fun line of Marvel Comics Jewelry. "SHINY THINGS ASSEMBLE: MARVEL-THEMED JEWELRY (THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY AFFORD)"
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By Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2012 02:23 pm In the Globe and Mail a Canadian Press report by Nelson Wyatt on the mass-kettling and arrest of protesters in Montreal last night. A long-running and hard-fought student strike over tuition hikes led to the passage of a shameful law that limits the rights of protesters. Quebeckers are out in force to protest this law, ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 24, 2012 02:12 pm Dutch artist fantastic Koen Hauser's Modische Atlas der Anatomie series of digitally manipulated photos brings to mind the classic "Visible Woman" kit. "Anatomy Revealed by Koen Hauser" (Juxtapoz)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 24, 2012 02:11 pm [Video Link] There are probably easier ways to cause a column to buckle, but this way looks like fun. (Via Cynical-C)
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