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Louis CK direct-sells tickets to his next concert tour - no fees, no scalpers iPhone reviewed Search masterclass Dead Battery and Live Skype Rebuttals to David Lowery's indictment of "free culture" and its alleged murder of musicians Miami Heat owner sues blogger over photo King City: awesomely weird, silly/funny sf comic Interviews with Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson about futurism, society, technology and science fiction Great moments in pedantry: Scientists point out flaws in the science of Prometheus Sonic.net stopped saving logs for more than 14 days in order to frustrate copyright trolls The man who made his own toaster Key to the Gustavademecum How to: Use a squat toilet Creeptastic video of Bolaj Badejo rehearsing in his Alien mask The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It?" HOPE speaker lineup Cat playing guitar interrupted by earthquake Supremes rule on Arizona immigration law, campaign spending, life in jail for children Landing on Mars: seven minutes of TERROR! Gweek 056: Kevin Kelly's Silver Cord Beware of attack birds Camera Comics of the 1940s Canadian fed court: linking isn't copyright infringement, neither is excerpting an article Gentleman plays with cigarette lighter while pumping gas Tim Mullen, collector of deeply weird antique machines Successful Drawing, an instructional art book by Andrew Loomis Easter Island statues walked? What your tennis shirt says about you Edible shotgun shells Louis CK direct-sells tickets to his next concert tour - no fees, no scalpers
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 11:51 am Having disrupted the traditional concert DVD distribution system with his ground-breaking DRM-free $5 download video, comedian Louis CK is now preparing to go on tour and he's going to cut out all the sleazy ticket brokers slimy scalpers, and other middle-men, and sell the tour tickets direct to fans. Tickets are a flat $45 each. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 26, 2012 11:50 am Animal's Joel Johnson has completed his review of the iPhone.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 10:57 am Daniel Russell is a search guru in the employ of Google. He addressed a crowd of journalists with a lecture on the super-advanced search techniques, and posed this riddle: "What's the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped?" (solution here). John Tedesco from the San Antonio Express-News took excellent notes on Russell's ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jun 26, 2012 10:08 am Photo: Diorama Sky (cc) I stood at the top of the stairs of a friend's apartment building in Washington, D.C., with a dead iPhone, a burned-out porch lamp, and no idea of how to reach him. This was the culmination of a long drive from the wilds of Pennsylvania, and I was exhausted and out ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 09:51 am The Internet has been abuzz with Emily White, a intern at NPR, and her article about how she has never bought music and probably never will. and the response from David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. Lowery's response is a powerful piece of writing, and contains some valuable insights into what the old ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 26, 2012 09:07 am Miami Heat stakeholder Ranaan Katz is suing a blogger over an "unflattering" photo published online, reports Tim Elfrink in The Miami New Times. In the lawsuit, Katz claims copyright violation; coincidentally, the blogger—who has not removed the photo at his site—is a noted critic of Katz. Katz's lawyer, Todd Levine, even threatened the New Times ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 09:00 am King City collects Brandon Graham's magnificent Tokyo Pop comic serial in one mammoth, $11 (cheap!) trade paperback edition, and man, is that a deal. Take the sprawling, weird, perverse cityscape of Transmetropolitan, mix in the goofy, punny humor of Tank Girl, add ultraviolent gang warfare, the impending resurrection of a death-god, and a secret society ...
Read in browser Interviews with Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson about futurism, society, technology and science fiction
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 09:04 pm I did a series of interviews with Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson, as part of my involvement in The Tomorrow Project, which resulted in my writing Knights of the Rainbow Table. Here they are!
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 25, 2012 07:05 pm I've not yet seen Prometheus, but as a genre, I honestly enjoy articles that are all about applying a (perhaps overly) critical lens to the way science is portrayed in science fiction. I think there's a lot to learn from this sort of story—both about how science really works, and how to write more believable ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 06:57 pm Sonic.net is a great ISP. Not only are they technically proficient, but they also spend their own money fighting stupid subpoenas on their customers' behalf. They won't seal a police request unless they get a court order (many big ISPs will refuse to tell their customers about police snooping if the cops ask them not ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 25, 2012 06:51 pm I spent the weekend at the Aspen Environmental Forums, and one of the presenters I got to see there as Thomas Thwaites—a man who built a toaster from scratch. As a project for his design degree, Thwaites reverse-engineered a cheap toaster from the British equivalent of Wal-Mart and used it as a blueprint to build ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 25, 2012 05:53 pm Last week, I posted about the The Gustavademecum for the Island of Manhattan, a delightfully geeky, DIY-made, mid-20th century dining guide produced by a physical chemist for the benefit of traveling scientists and engineers. One of the key features of the guide was an elaborate series of symbols and letters that provided a lot of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 25, 2012 05:43 pm In 2007, my husband and I were privileged enough to take a month off and travel around Europe. Given that we spent most of our time in Western Europe, there really wasn't a whole lot of cultural confusion, with a few notable exceptions*. Chief among them, the squat toilets we stumbled across at a very ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 05:34 pm Deeply creepy test footage from Alien (1979) of alien actor Bolaji Badejo slithering around The Nostromo in a prototype costume head. Posts one YouTube commenter: "movie about a tall skinny black serial killer in space that wears an oblong black mask would be awesome"
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 05:07 pm Michael Jackson died three years ago today. Above, the epic psychedelic video for The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It?" from their 1980 album Triumph. The video was conceived by Michael Jackson and developed by Robert Abel, known for his pioneering "photo-fusion" animations that you can read about over at Dangerous Minds. Narration by Word Jazz ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 05:00 pm 2600's Emmanuel Goldstein sez, "The HOPE Number Nine speaker schedule is out - over 100 talks on a whole variety of subjects. This conference in particular shows how much the hacker community has evolved over the decades. There are talks on the Arab Spring, protecting anonymity, fighting surveillance, artistic expression, encryption, lockpicking, activism, pirate radio, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 25, 2012 04:19 pm [Video Link] A cat named Steven was playing guitar when an earthquake struck in Melbourne, Australia last week, causing it to stop for a moment. (Via Arbroath)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 03:38 pm Today, the Supreme Court of the United States: • Killed most of Arizona's hated immigration act—but will still allow police to check immigration status while enforcing other laws. [CNN] • Struck down a Montana law that limited corporate campaign spending. Corporations are people, my friend. [CBS] • Ruled that states cannot require children convicted of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 03:15 pm JPL's video demonstrating the engineering challenges in the precise timing of the descent of a human-crewed Mars lander is nail-biting territory. There's a reason they call the landing "seven minutes of terror." Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 25, 2012 03:00 pm Click here to play this episode. (Link has been updated to point to correct 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 56 are: Wes ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 02:59 pm I spotted this somewhat disconcerting sign at a playground yesterday. (BTW, I've starting playing with Instagram. If you care to follow, I'm @pescovitz)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 02:33 pm Camera Comics was published in the 1940s by the US Camera Publishing Company to spur excitement among youngsters around amateur photography. Along with the exciting tales of Kid Click, Linda Lens, and Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator, the comics also included HOWTO projects, like the above "Make A Pistol Grip For Your Camera." Camera Comics (accidental ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 01:59 pm Michael Geist sez, The Federal Court of Canada has issued an important decision involving copyright and posting content online. The case involves a lawsuit launched by Richard Warman and the National Post against Mark and Constance Fournier, who run the FreeDominion website. Warman and the National Post sued the site over the appearance of two ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 25, 2012 01:54 pm [Video Link] Faced with the prospect having to wait a minute or more while his tank was being filled, this gas station customer amused himself by playing with his cigarette lighter. His boredom was successfully alleviated and he was able to demonstrate his car door jumping skills to an admiring YouTube audience. (Via Geekologie)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 01:34 pm Our friends at The Midnight Archive visited Tim Mullen, a New York City-based engineer with a mind-blowing collection of strange and beautiful machines, from antique x-ray devices to a huge hair dryer to a funeral fan with illuminated religious figures.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 25, 2012 01:25 pm Andrew Loomis was an American illustrator whose work appeared in many magazines in the mid-20th century. In addition to his beautiful editorial work for magazines, Loomis also wrote and illustrated a half dozen or so instructional drawing books, and for the last 30 years or so they've been in great demand, even though they've been ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 25, 2012 01:19 pm It's long been a mystery how the residents of Easter Island moved the iconic moai statues from the volcano quarry where they carved them to the statues' permanent locations up to 11 miles away. Now, archaeologists suggest that they many not have needed rollers, the basis of one common theory. Rather, the moai may have ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 25, 2012 01:17 pm Fred Perry and Lacoste are fashion businesses built around superficially similar shirts emerging from the elite Wimbledon tennis tournament. How did one come to exemplify working class cool, and the other upper-crust privilege? [The Awl}
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 25, 2012 01:12 pm If you're planning a shotgun-themed wedding, then Etsy seller MysticLair's edible shotgun shell cake-toppers might just be the thing for you. Also potentially useful for adapting in a shotgun-themed rendition of the oft-fatal "bullet-catch" conjurer's trick. Shotgun Shells Edible Grooms Cake Topper Fondant gumpaste TWO (via Neatorama)
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