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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 25, 2012 01:00 pm Veronica Grossman says: "I work for a music website in NYC called BreakThru Radio. We recently published an episode for our show BTR Pulse. This episode features Moira Johnston and her feelings about going topless in NYC. After taking a look at your site I feel that your friends, fans, and followers will thoroughly enjoy ...
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By Richard Metzger on Jun 25, 2012 12:53 pm Recently, Boing Boing presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. -- Mark Mind Blowing Movies: What's New Pussycat?, by Richard Metzger [Video Link] After reading over the other entries in ...
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By Seth Roberts on Jun 25, 2012 12:36 pm (I'm very interested in the Quantified Self movement, which involves self-experimentation and self-tracking to gain self-knowledge. Seth Roberts, a professor of psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing and emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is one of the pioneers of the modern Quantified Self movement. From time-to-time, he's going to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 12:18 pm Accelerated Christian Education's high school biology textbook, used in some private religions schools, argues Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't hold water if dinosaurs co-exist with man. And apparently they do. To this day. Nessie is proof. The Herald quotes from the textbook: "Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 11:34 am After Microsoft announced its in-house Surface tablet, the critical response was warm but cautious. It looks good, but we just don't know enough about it. One sign that it's a contender: Microsoft's omnifailing tablet partners are already hating it publicly. At Gizmodo, Mat Honan zeroes in on the most interesting feature: the innovative-looking hardware keyboard.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 10:56 am Two young girls cut off a younger playmate's hair. In court, 7th District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen offered to reduce the 13 year old perp's sentence if her mother chopped off her own locks in court, while her 11-year-old coconspirator was ordered to a salon to have "her hair cut as short as his." Hands ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 25, 2012 10:52 am Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and I have something in common—we both loathe the distinct lack of history present on The History Channel. Since January, the Senator has posted multiple complaints about this problem on his Twitter account. Reading them, I feel a kindred spirit. (Via Pourmecoffee)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 10:36 am To deter theft, shoe stores put only one of a pair of shoes on display. Crooks, however, have them beaten: they simply hunt for the same pair in two stores, each with a different foot on the shelf. [NYPost]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 10:33 am Gadgets do not cost much to juice up; together, an iPad runs to $1.36 a year at the U.S. average residential price of electricity. [Jonathan Fahey/AP]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 10:25 am Gary Demuth, writing for the Salina Journal: "Brooke Wallace knew her dress for this year's spring prom would be water-resistant. That's because it was made entirely of duct tape."
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 10:10 am What makes Tetris Tetris? The mobile app explosion threw gasoline on the game's already-numbing history of copyright battles. At Ars Technica, Kyle Orland takes a look at the Tetris Company's endless efforts to kill them. These efforts hinge on a seemingly straightforward question: is Tetris simple enough to be defined by a set of rules ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 09:55 am Joseph O'Leary writes: "U.S. officials on Friday seized the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus dinosaur that Mongolia wants returned on suspicion that it was smuggled to the United States from the Gobi desert."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 09:00 am Zita the Space Girl is Ben Hatke's 2011 kids' science fiction graphic novel about a young girl's adventures on a distant world that she is transported to after clicking a mysterious button that she finds in the center of a meteor crater. It's a pure delight. Zita's friend Joseph is sucked through the portal first, ...
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By Lisa Rein on Jun 25, 2012 08:00 am Michael Horowitz*, Timothy Leary's longtime archivist, has permitted the Timothy Leary Archives website to publish a transcription of a tape recorded conversation between Dr. Leary and his wife Rosemary, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, made during John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, May 1969. Tim had given it to Michael, in 1984, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 11:05 pm A bit of genius unsourced net.stuff: if Shakespeare wrote the Hokey Pokey. "The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt/Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about." Update: And we have a source! It's from a "Washington Post Style Invitational contest that asked readers to submit "instructions" for something (anything), but written in the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 24, 2012 10:45 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 Cargo-Bot, a game where you program a robotic crane to move and sort colored wooden carts from one ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 08:45 pm Prada's fall 2012 menswear line is awfully steampunky -- modelled by Gary Oldman, Jamie Bell, Garrett Hedlund, and Willem Dafoe. Prada Menswear Fall 2012 Ad Campaign (Thanks, Matthew) (Images: Steven Meisel/prada.com)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 06:40 pm The good folks at Domeorama have got all your geodesic needs covered in a thorough and awe-inspiring list of all the different kinds of geodesic hub connectors you can buy: This is the classic way to connect geodesic struts together. A hole is drilled in the flattened ends then bolted together.To accommodate a drilled hole ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 24, 2012 05:33 pm Yesterday I reviewed a realistic and unusual novel called Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse. Twenty-four hours later, I figure it's time to review another zombie book. This one is a graphic novel called Daybreak, by Brian Ralph. He's a "professor of sequential art" at the Savannah College of Art and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 05:00 pm On the occasion of the publication of a new book, behavioral economics writer Dan Ariely (a great favorite of mine) answers questions with Wired about the underlying causes of lying and cheating, and the huge gap between what the evidence tells us and what be intuitively believe. Ariely: If you thought that crime or dishonesty ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 03:00 pm Yeongkeun Jeong and Aareum Jeong created the "Reel," a bike accessory that invites you to create a woven container on your frame, using a clever system of adhesive buttons to keep it secure: The concept is fairly simple. Reel comes in two parts: a long piece of strong red rope, plus a sheet of clear ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 02:10 pm As part of Japan's batshit new 10-years-in-jail-for-uploading copyright law, the Recording Industry Ass. of Japan is demanding that ISPs install network filters that spy on all user activity and attempt to detect copyright infringements by comparing every user upload to a massive, secret database of "fingerprints" of copyrighted music, created by Gracenote. Those uploads would ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 01:22 pm A tour operator in Nepal runs what they claim is the world's fastest zip-line, a 1.8km run that drops 600m and attains speeds of 160km/h. Watching the helmetcam sections of this video actually made the blood drain from my face. What is Zip-flyer? Basically, zipline is a cable mechanism used for transportation across a river, ...
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