[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.
Leveson Inquiry cakepops Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames Magazines from Blade Runner Peckniffian cant banned in Parliament Pop and politics collide at Europe's awesomely trashy song contest The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks XOXO: a Kickstartered "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland UK politician finances scandal of the day Stray dog joins cyclists on 1700km race Masonite ad in 2.5D Caturday Gothurday SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison) Leveson Inquiry cakepops
By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 10:19 am The redoubtable Miss Insomnia Tulip has created a calorific tribute to the Leveson Inquiry, in which Lord Justice Leveson is interrogating the state of the nation's newspapers, phone hacking, and undue political influence. There are cakepops for all of the players in the inquiry, including one for Rebekah Brooks's LOL Blackberry. Leveson Enquiry Cake Pops!!!
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By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 10:12 am Today I found myself at a street-market in Soho (the one in London), at a stall belonging to Amelia Parker, a jewelry maker who salvages fragments of century-old clay pipes from the banks of the Thames. Clay pipes were once the equivalent of cigarettes, cheap, semi-disposable tobacco-distribution systems, and as they were very brittle, they ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 09:10 am Here's a collection of humorous, futuristic magazines displayed in the background of the news-stand scene in Blade Runner -- documented in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon: Turning down the block and ducking into a futuristic newsstand revealed the most humorous touches of layering, for it was here that this ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 05:05 am The UK press has been alive with talk of the Prime Minister calling Ed Balls, the Labour Shadow Chancellor, a "muttering idiot" during a session of Parliament. The the Speaker of the House forced him to withdraw the remark. In The Observer, Gaby Hinsliff and Quentin Letts' debate includes some other language prohibited in Parliament, ...
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By Leigh Alexander on May 27, 2012 03:34 am Loreen of Sweden performs her song, "Euphoria", after winning the Eurovision song contest in Baku. Photo: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters You know the Ameri-centricism Europeans make fun of? I might have been an example of that, having not really heard of the Eurovision Song Contest until 2010 – and even then, the only reason I'd ...
Read in browser The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks
By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:00 pm VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, "Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who cites a Vatican source called "Maria" for leaking sensitive letters address to Benedict XVI. Now police have arrested a man whom the press identifies ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 06:00 pm Andy Baio and Andy McMillan have announced XOXO, a SXSW-like "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland. They're pre-selling the tickets on Kickstarter, and if they don't sell enough, they're not going to do it. They've made and shot through their targets already -- don't worry! We'd confirmed most of the entire lineup by Monday, including the ...
Read in browser UK politician finances scandal of the day
By Rob Beschizza on May 26, 2012 05:10 pm The BBC reports that top UK politician Baroness Warsi failed to declare substantial rental income from property she owned. The baroness had declared the property on the register of ministerial interests, and it had been cleared by the Cabinet Office and HM Revenue and Customs. But she failed to inform the register of Lords' interests ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 26, 2012 04:25 pm From the BBC: "A stray dog has completed a 1700km journey across China after joining a cycle race from Sichuan province to Tibet. ... He ran with them for 20 days, covering up to 60km a day, and climbing 12 mountains."
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 03:00 pm There's something weirdly atemporal about this isometric Masonite ad, like a secret society of time-travelling Sims players. Masonite
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By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:43 pm Benjamin G. Levy Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shares this image in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says, Today's Kitten of the Day is Helen, named for Helen Keller because she's had troubles with her eyes. Helen moved in last Sunday! Helen would rather that I not send email.
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By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:41 pm REUTERS/Thomas Peter Revellers attend the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig, on May 25, 2012. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen, features up to 150 bands and musicians playing Gothic rock and other styles of the "dark wave" music subculture attracting a regular audience of up to 20000, according to organizers. The ...
Read in browser SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison)
By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:35 pm Boing Boing reader Michael Smith-Welch shares this image, and says, Why did I see so many binders (presumably filled with paper) on the desks of the engineers at NASA's Mission control yesterday when they were docking SpaceX's Dragon module to the Space Station? In contrast, the SpaceX folks had (almost) none at there mission control ...
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