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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 11:52 am Above, experimental musician Nik Colk Void's short film "Swing." Simple but effective! Void also encouraged people who bought her 7" "Gold E" to play the handmade sleeve as a "record" itself, and send her video of it for use in a future composition. Void is a member of Factory Floor and also made a fantastic ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 11:16 am Last week, writer Ray Dolin, 39, made news when he was claimed to have been shot in a random drive-by while gathering experiences as a hitchhhiker for his book "Kindness in America." Turns out though, Dolin actually shot himself. I guess PR is PR. From The Missoulian: Dolin, of Julian, W.Va., acknowledged he concocted the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 11:01 am In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica's Matthew Lasar has a lovely list of seven of Alan Turing's habits of thought, including this one: Be Playful. There was something about Turing that made his friends and family want to compose rhymes. His proud father openly admitted that he hadn't the vaguest ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 08:46 am Charles Carreon, the lawyer who sent a legal threat to The Oatmeal on behalf of FunnyJunk (FunnyJunk was upset that The Oatmeal had complained about the undisputed fact that its users routinely post Oatmeal comics to the site and threatened a libel suit unless they got $20,000 from The Oatmeal), has made good on his ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 08:41 am More epic custom LEGO work from my nephew Andy Pescovitz. This Gears of War MOC is titled "Horde Mode on Rustlung." Many more in his Flickr stream, pescovamsbricks. Andy Pescovitz's custom videogame LEGO Minifigs - Boing Boing
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 08:27 am Over at Weird Universe, images from "The Worker's Hand" by George Rosen, M.D. in the July, 1942 issue of the medical journal Ciba Symposia . Above left: "Metal worker. Penetration of metal particles into the skin." Above right: "Jeweler. Dislocated distal phalanx of the thumb." Worker's Hands
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 05:45 am As a kid, our bathroom was always stocked with Dixie Cups. I don't buy them at my own house though -- wasteful, unnecessary expenditure, etc. There is something appealing about Dixie Cups though, as evidenced by how excited my children get when they encounter them in someone else's bathroom. Smithsonian looks at the public health ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 02:26 am The BBC is celebrating the Turing centenary with a series of commissioned essays on the importance of Alan Turing and his work, kicking off with today's essay by Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet and Google's "Chief internet evangelist." Cerf has been awarded the Turing prize by the ACM. Turing's legacy continues to evolve, astonish, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 01:10 am England's Football Association embodies the nation's most popular sport. To promote fitness and good health, it provides these splendid awards to schools that offer adequate soccer programs. I'd ask if you could spot the mistake, but I think this may be one of those "honor the error as a hidden intention" dealies—a tragic fact echoed ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 01:06 am [Video Link] ...with a bonus Muttley laugh. (Via WTC?)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 12:40 am Vijay Pandurangan visualized the colors found in movie posters since 1914. Would you look at all that teal? Thanks, Hollywood complementary color voodoo! [via Explore]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 12:31 am Apple's definition of a "Retina Display"—the point at which pixels become indistinguishable to a person with normal vision—began at the iPhone 4S's 326 pixels per inch. Though already an iffy claim, it drifted down to 264 ppi with the new iPad. Now, with the slimline MacBook Pro, it's 220ppi. While high compared to most competing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 17, 2012 06:15 pm The Canadian border agency wants to cover the nation's airports with spy-ears that can listen in on and record your conversations from a distance. They've already done it for some airports, though they're not saying which. Don't worry, though, they won't turn them on without a "privacy impact assessment." Because the impact this will have ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 17, 2012 02:48 pm The latest Datamancer keyboard is the Seafarer: Coming Soon! We recently decided to try our hands at some brass-casting and this is the first result, "The Seafarer", an intensely ornate, nautically-themed keyboard with a worn-in, weather-beaten aesthetic. It features a gold foil map faceplate, protected by thick acrylic, spiral cut rods, and engraved gold metallic ...
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