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By Andy Ihnatko on Jun 12, 2012 01:00 pm Last week, Boing Boing presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series for several additional days. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. -- Mark [Video Link]To date, the most mind-blowing film I've ever seen was 1980's The ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 12, 2012 12:51 pm Paul Vermeesch, 16, created a LEGO Star Wars version of MC Escher's "Relativity." From Yahoo! Games: "This particular model took just over six months to get from brain to bricks," Vermeesh said. "Normally, a model of this size wouldn't take quite that long to construct, but in this case, a significant amount of planning was ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 12:46 pm A person called Chadwick John Dillon produced this suit-of-armor hoodie. He's apparently selling it (or possibly producing them to order). The details require a Facebook account, which I don't have. Chadwick, if you're reading this, consider me interested (though not interested enough to give Mark Zuckerberg all the intimate details of my life!). My friend ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 12, 2012 12:37 pm Out today, The Art of Luke Chueh. After the jump, a galley of selected images from the book. The eagerly awaited first book from critically acclaimed pop surrealist artist Luke Chueh, The Art of Luke Chueh presents Chueh's bold and unusual art -- employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 12, 2012 12:26 pm Oh, you know how we at BB love baseball player Dock Ellis who in 1970 pitched a no-hatter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while tripping balls on LSD. Ellis was quite a character. I hope this film about Ellis, titled "No No: A Dockumentary," gets finished! From the Kickstarter page: During his 12 years in the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 12:00 pm My latest Guardian column is "Google admits that Plato's cave doesn't exist," a discussion of how Google has changed the way it talks about its search-results, shifting from the stance that rankings are a form of pure math to the stance that rankings are a form of editorial judgment. Google has, to date, always refused ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 10:59 am On Metafilter, user Flex has a fabulous collection of links to public domain and freely available children's books, from the antique to the modern.
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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 12, 2012 10:01 am Why aren't we suffering under a flood of time-travelling tourists? What will happen if I meet my own grandfather? In From Hither to Yon author and humorist Rich Cohen shares with us his research on the wheres, whys and whens of time travel. Providing examples of Einstein's theory of relativity at work today (why satellite ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 12, 2012 10:01 am On Sunday, a Los Angeles woman found what appear to be a pair of lungs on the sidewalk. Wonder if (ahem) someone coughed them up. L.A. County Coroner's Office spokesman Ed Winter, told the L.A. Times that he found the situation "a little strange." "Lungs on sidewalk: Officials unsure if organs are human's or animal's"
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 09:43 am Andrew Hyde wrote and self-published a great-looking travel book and put it up for sale on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, and an indie marketplace called Gumroad that retails the PDF. The book had an exciting launch and the sales on Amazon were really high, but he got some sticker-shock when he found out that Amazon was ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 12, 2012 09:42 am Thanks to our sponsor ShanaLogic, sellers of handmade and independently designed jewelry, apparel, gifts, and other fine products. I'm digging this fine line of hand-screened ties by Cyberoptix and sold by ShanaLogic. More than a dozen other prints are available, including tentacles, vertebrae column, and evil kitten with laser beam eyes. Shana says, "I'm giving ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 12, 2012 09:34 am After decades of waging a scorched earth war against hackers, the US government is now complaining about a shortage of hackers it needs to conduct cyberwarfare.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 08:57 am Thingiverse user Krest has posted a file to help you print your own scale armor on your MakerBot or other 3D printer: "Print, paint, and tie together, that's it." Although Krest's shoulder scale armor uses leather cords which can be adjusted for fit, I think it would be really interesting to use an elastic cord ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 01:42 am A group of Spanish activists organized under the #QuerellaPaRato ("Lawsuit for Rato") hashtag, have raised a large private fund to pay for a civil action against Rodrigo Rato, the disgraced former chairman of Bankia, one of the banks at the heart of the Spanish financial crisis. The activists also plan on paying private investigators to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 11, 2012 10:19 pm FunnyJunk is threatening to sue Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, for $20,000 in federal court. His offense? Criticizing FunnyJunk, and making fun of it for its relentless, unauthorized monetization of his and others' work. Inman first lampooned FunnyJunk last year, after discovering its users had scraped most of his own website; in return, he ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 08:44 pm Last year Kyle Thiessen created a series of "fake month at the museum" five-minute short films that explore different odd facts from history and the natural world. I've just started watching these, and I'm totally hooked. Whatever you do, don't miss the epic food disasters and creepy underwater things. Thiessen's delivery is great, and he's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 07:07 pm Etsy seller Packmania is selling this gigantic CAD$40 Legend of Zelda map/mural: 97x32" (8 FEET BY NEARLY 3 FEET!). Amazing wall mural of the map of The Legend of Zelda for the NES! This amazing centerpiece is printed on a heavy and durable fabric for indoor use. Extremely high quality and durable! Would make a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 11, 2012 06:43 pm [Video Link] "The Guns & Gardens crew launches a new reality show called Doomsday Design. In this episode we test the remote hunter killer target drone. Can the drone track and shoot an intruder? Will the drone's armor plating stand up the our AR15, SKS, 12 Gauge, .45 and more?"
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By noah django on Jun 11, 2012 06:26 pm Last week, Boing Boing presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series for several additional days. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. -- Mark [Video Link] "The film you are about to see and hear is based ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 11, 2012 06:07 pm [Video Link] SoundWorks talks with the sound team of Director Ridley Scott's latest science fiction film Prometheus.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 06:00 pm In the wake of a series of very high-profile password leaks, Brian Krebs talks to security researcher Thomas H. Ptacek about the best practices for securing passwords. The trick isn't to merely hash with a good salt -- you must use a slow password hash that takes a lot of work, so that making rainbow ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 11, 2012 04:33 pm NY Daily News posted a fine gallery of old timey altered photos. Above, "Lincoln's head was placed atop South Carolina politician John Calhoun's body in this 1860 photo. Interestingly enough, Calhoun died in 1850." At left, the powerful Benito Mussolini would never require the services of a horse handler! "Historic photos that have been altered" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 04:00 pm Here are ten clever sucker bets from Richard Wiseman. They're a good mix of physics, logic, low trickery, concept-shifting, misdirection, topology, and breathtaking chutzpah. Seriously, I can't believe that he ever tried #10, because he is still breathing. 10 Bets You Will Never Lose
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 03:00 pm Cody Shaw, a first year Co-op Electrical Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, spun up these wonderful electronic business cards for his job-search: set a 9V battery on the contacts and vary the light on the photo-sensor and you get a wicked blinkenlights show! There were quite a few idea revisions in my mind ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 11, 2012 03:00 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 55 are: Ruben Bolling, the author of the weekly comic strip Tom ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 11, 2012 02:50 pm Batgirl demands equal pay in this fantastic 1972 public service announcement. (via Super Punch)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 11, 2012 02:39 pm I've located the master switch. Oh, the temptation.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 11, 2012 02:31 pm Essential for protecting yourself from the web's harsh, glaring irony. (From Histoire De Voir, apparently)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 11, 2012 02:25 pm Alcatraz may be the most infamous prison island (unless you count Australia… OK, I'm kidding!), but it's hardly the only one. Smithsonian lists ten "islands of exile," some of which were true penal colonies while others were just unfortunate destinations for banished individuals. Included are the likes of Patmos, Greece, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, and ...
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