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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 12:14 pm Some more wonderments in honor of the Alan Turing centenary: Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam have created a working Turing machine out of Lego. It is both inspired and an inspiration: Our LEGO Turing machine uses a tape based on a classic interpretation of computer ...
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By Ruben Bolling on Jun 20, 2012 12:05 pm Support Tom the Dancing Bug and receive BENEFITS and PRIVILEGES by joining the INNER HIVE right now! "My only argument with Ruben B. here is his apologetic tone for asking you to pay money for early access to his very good comics —- that is to say, something that YOU LIKE AND WANT. DO NOT ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 11:07 am Three Indiana teens and a sheriff's deputy in a tricked-out golf cart were injured when the 14-year-old driver turned too hard and tipped the vehicle. The driver was wearing goggles meant to simulate what it's like to drive drunk. Pretty immersive simulation, I'd say. "Three teens, deputy injured in Elkhart golf cart crash" (WNDU)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 10:53 am During a fishing trip earlier this month, Yasser Lopez, 16, was hit in the head by a spear gun. It went in over his eye and straight out the back of his head. He's in a Miami hospital and, amazingly, doing pretty well, thanks! "US teen survives spear through brain" (BBC)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 06:28 am Cambridge's UIT Press has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing clear, engaging, evidence-based books on controversial subjects. Titles like Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air and Sustainable Materials - with Both Eyes Open remain two of the best books I've read on the relationship between environmental responsibility, climate, material wealth, science and engineering -- books ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 04:09 am Mike Mechanic from Mother Jones sez, "So, basically, the folks in our DC office were sitting around shooting the shit, and someone asked: What would it be like if they had Super-PACs in Westeros? Well, it turns out somebody knew somebody who knew someone, which allowed us to professionally produce these 'Game of Thrones Super-PAC ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 01:31 am If you (like me) are in the UK, and if you (like me), find that your ISP is complying with the court order to censor access to The Pirate Bay, here are two new IP addresses added by TPB, which are not blocked. Now that IPv6 is a reality, there are likely several billion more ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 01:06 am Lycerius's post on Reddit last week by caused enormous, worldwide interest as he revealed that he had been playing a single game of Civilization II for a decade, and that in that time, thousands of years had gone by, and the world had been nearly destroyed by centuries of war and rampant climate change ("a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 08:16 pm Click here to play episode. Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Expand it!, a game where you inflate little dinosaurs by tapping on them until they reach a rainbow. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 08:14 pm Click here to play episode. Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Expand it!, a game where you inflate little dinosaurs by tapping on them until they reach a rainbow. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 08:08 pm [Video Link] "Fight Church is a feature documentary about the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including ministries which train fighters. The film follows several pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that many consider violent and barbaric."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 07:25 pm Here's Alan Graham's trick for getting more juice from a lemon squeezer: cross-cut the lemon. What will happen this time is the lemon will collapse outward as you squeeze it, more surface area in contact with the juicer as the lemon is not able to hold its shape in the peel. With less resistance against ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 05:50 pm In Salon Jessie Schiewe writes about the "typewritter renaissance" -- the re-discovered delights of working on typewriters, or at least disassembling them for their parts. Max likes to scan the documents he writes on his typewriter and post them to his blog. He's not the only one who's discovered this quirky pastime. Aficionados call it ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 05:34 pm Performance artist and Throbbing Gristle alumnus Cosey Fanni Tutti created an 18-minute piece called "Bioschismic," which she says was "inspired and made possible" by Xeni's treatment for cancer. She created it for a new installation at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts called Soundworks. "Bioschismic" is created solely from audio and photographic documentation of Xeni’s time ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 19, 2012 03:48 pm For the first time in two decades, someone has found Loggerhead turtle nests on the beaches of mainland Mississippi. (Via Jaymi Heimbuch)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 19, 2012 03:44 pm Writer Robin Sloan has a cool, new feature up on his blog this summer. He's beginning a series of short videos, talking about books he loves and why you should read them. Think of it like Reading Rainbow for grown-ups. The series starts out with a fascinating-sounding 1998 book about the rise of video culture. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 19, 2012 03:37 pm Frycook posted this fascinating video from the Apollo era on the BoingBoing Submitterator. The basic gist: Back in the day, NASA scientists tried exposing various crops—corn, lettuce, tobacco ... you know, the essentials—to moon dust. The plants weren't grown in the dust, exactly. Instead, it was scattered in their pots or rubbed on some of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 19, 2012 03:10 pm Wikileaks' Julian Assange, his deportation to Sweden imminent, has requested asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London. [Pic from Ravi Somaiya via Glenn Greenwald] Update: The AP: "Ecuador's foreign minister says Wilikeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation's embassy in London and is seeking political asylum. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino says ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 19, 2012 03:10 pm Two years ago, police officers in Chariton, Iowa handcuffed and hog-tied a 34-year-old woman (The police had pulled her and her boyfriend over because they thought the woman might be the victim of domestic abuse). After being placed in the squad car, Police Sergeant Tyler Ruble then shocked the shackled woman with a taser while ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 19, 2012 03:00 pm Wikipedia's "Generic citrus sodas" lists 27 (as of this writing) generic equivalents to Mountain Dew/Mello Yello/Sun Drop. "In deference to Mountain Dew's leading position in the market for citrus sodas, most brands of generic citrus soda have the word 'Mountain' in their names." Read aloud in a rush, they're a kind of tone-poem about marketing, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 19, 2012 02:38 pm A man found in possession of books and talismans was beheaded earlier today in Saudi Arabia. [BBC]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 19, 2012 01:10 pm Good news for those of you who require some kind of public justification for your love of junk food. The Paper of Record has published a positive review of Taco Bell's Doritos Loco taco. Fair warning, though, food critic William Grimes advises against springing for the Supreme version, as the tomatoes are flavorless and the ...
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