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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 12:52 pm Los Angeles magazine has a feature by by Dave Gardetta about father-son team who runs Doc Johnson, a North Hollywood business that manufactures more vibrators, plugs, and sexual prosthetics than any other company in the U.S. Doc Johnson [is] the country’s biggest sex toy manufacturer, a six-acre industrial park in North Hollywood that employs 500 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 12:51 pm Coming soon to a live-action Sleeping Beauty remix near you. First Photo of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent as Production Begins on Film
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 12:37 pm [Video Link] Brando, the infamous Hong Kong maker of irresistible crappy gadgetry, has solved the age-old problem of not having an easy way to create a foul-tasting, foamy barrier between your lips and your beer. Introducing the Professional Beer Foam Making Mug. Unfortunately, it's battery free. Professional Beer Foam Making Mug
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 12:25 pm Tim writes: If you're like most college students we know, you'll be headed for a few weeks of downtime now that the academic year is winding up. But what are you going to do over the summer if you don't have your internship at Google or Goldman already lined up? Here's one idea: enter the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 12:00 pm "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" is InfiniteUndo's riff on Patrick McKenzie's classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. It's quite an eye-popping and mindbending riff on the malleability of time inside the world of computers, where a minute can last longer than an hour, where clients and servers may disagree about the time by an order ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 11:19 am Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal has written an open letter to Charles Carreon, the lawyer who threatened to sue him on behalf of FunnyJunk, and has since sued him, online fundraising site IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society, and the National Wildlife Federation. Inman advises Carreon to take a deep breath and count to ten. So ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 19, 2012 11:09 am Before Apple stores open in the morning, employees use an iPhone app to ensure that each MacBook screen is opened to exactly the same angle. Writing at Forbes.com, Carmine Gallo, author of The Apple Experience, claims that "the main reason notebook computers screens are slightly angled is to encourage customers to adjust the screen to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 19, 2012 10:06 am Birmingham, England's Cyril Barbier, 82, built a scale model of the huge Odeon New Street 1930s movie theater, complete with 2,600 seats, an organ that raises and lowers, and a curtain surrounding a 15" LCD to play movies of the era. The project has taken him nearly 30 years and it's so big, it can't ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 09:57 am On Crooked Timber, Aaron Swartz reviews Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes's indictment of "meritocratic" society. I recently blogged an excerpt from Twilight, published in The Nation -- I was really impressed by it. Swartz's review has cemented that view. Hayes pins the blame on an unlikely suspect: meritocracy. We thought we would just simply ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 19, 2012 09:48 am Thanks to our sponsor ShanaLogic, sellers of handmade and independently designed jewelry, apparel, gifts, and other fine products. ShanaLogic is cephalopod crazy, offering such cuddly creatures as the octo-plushies above and much more in the "I Love Tentacles" section. Shana says, "I'm giving 15% off orders over $50 with code: SHANALOGIC"
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 09:19 am Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG has been exploring the bizarre world of Swiss self-destructing infrastructure, documented in La Place de la Concorde Suisse, John McPhee's "rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society." It turns out that the Swiss Army specifies that bridges, hillsides, and tunnels need to be designed so that they ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 01:23 am The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Director Cindy Cohn was in the UK for the launch of the Snooper's Charter (AKA the Draft Communications Data Bill), and she provides some much-needed global context on the totalitarian slide of the United Kingdom. This isn't the first time that an Executive has seized the general authority to search ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 08:59 pm The Evolver T-Shirt was kindly sent to me as a gift from Go Ape Shirts. I was trying to think of song names for an Evolver album, but not doing a very good job. Can you help? Taxman = ? Eleanor Rigby = ? I'm Only Sleeping = ? Love You To = ? Here, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 08:14 pm Marketing guru and fab writer Seth Godin recommends Kickstarter for the similarly situated, having just raised over $120K on it in less than a day.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 07:00 pm The Electric Violin Shop has got the answer to your electrified, death-gloom fiddle needs -- this fab carved skull instrument: The death's-head shape of this natural wood Stratton electric violin definitely makes a statement. That statement is backed up by a rich, focused tone from the Barbera Twin Hybrid transducer system, providing a strong output ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 06:09 pm AntiqueTypewriters.com has just added this lovely 1889 Victor index typewriter: This was the first typewriter to use a daisy wheel, which would be a common design feature on 1980s typewriters. The daisy wheel is made of thin brass, cut with narrow radial fingers, one for each character. At the end of each finger is an ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 05:36 pm In 2007 a Boing Boing reader shared the above photo of a Spongebob Popsicle that bore little likeness to the well-known cartoon character. (She sent in the photo after seeing my photo of a poorly made Tweety Bird frozen novelty bar.) Today, I came across this new photo of a Spongebob Popsicle. It looks even ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 05:35 pm "Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?" Julia Stiles talks cyberpunk in a 1993 episode of the PBS series "Ghostwriter." (Thanks, Frank Drake!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 05:00 pm Campsite has photos of a Toyota concept car called the Camette, "developed to attract the growing younger market of drivers." (Via The Fox is Black)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 05:00 pm Individual Icons's "Nut Dice Ring" is a ring shaped like a hex-nut, which functions as a six-sided dice, for those moments of indecision and romance. This ring is a perfect piece of jewelry for people who say that they don't wear jewelry. It really does help with decisions (odds I stay home, evens I go ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 04:46 pm The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told the DEA that holding a gun to an 11-year-old girl's head constitutes “intentional infliction of emotional distress,” and they should stop doing it. No doubt the DEA will appeal the ruling. At 7 a.m. on January 20, 2007, DEA agents battered down the door to Thomas and Rosalie ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 04:20 pm Submitted by Leon Keer, the artist. Check out his flickr set of the painting.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 18, 2012 03:54 pm Michael Geist sez, Nearly 15 years of debate over digital copyright reform will come to an end today as Bill C-11, the fourth legislative attempt at Canadian copyright reform, passes in the House of Commons. Many participants in the copyright debate view the bill with great disappointment, pointing to the government's decision to adopt restrictive ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 03:46 pm A tractor-trailer hauling 10 tons of toilet paper blocked an Ohio highway last week when the payload caught fire. Hundreds of rolls of blazing tissue spilled onto the highway, according to the Toledo Blade, with much of the rest ruined by firefighters.
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 18, 2012 03:43 pm Tim Anderson reimagines science fiction films as pulp novel covers. "Sci-Fi Film Favorites Get Pulp Cover Make-Overs" (Poster Collective, thanks Dave Gill!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 18, 2012 03:42 pm An accused arsonist in Lilly, Pa., blamed his dog for starting the 2011 apartment fire in question. He remains in Cambria County Jail. [Tribune-Democrat]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 18, 2012 03:33 pm The Atlantic has a collection of stories, demonstrating how major inventions usually have more than one "Father". The stories we like to tell each other about one dude who had one great idea and changed the world are usually just that—stories. Reality is more complicated. For instance, the telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse ... ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 18, 2012 03:24 pm Radley Balko comments on a Reuters article about the DEA's vigorous campaign to make life miserable for doctors, pharmacists, and pain patients. The DEA is now quite literally treating doctors and pharmacists like potential drug dealers. The agency has expanded its use of tactical diversion squads, which combine special agents, diversion investigators and local law ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 18, 2012 03:19 pm How's this for an amusing case of photographic mis-identification? Call it "Dueling Disgustingness". Last week, New Scientist posted this lovely image of a blue-spotted sea urchin, taken by nature photographer David Fleetham. New Scientist identified the photo as depicting said sea urchin in the process of expelling its own guts out of its mouth. Which, ...
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