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Kingdom Rush available on iPhone Robot & Frank: new film about human/machine interaction Miami cannibal wasn't on "bath salts" Supremes uphold Romneycare, including mandate Antisemitic Elmo interviewed One squillion gimme pens from Big Pharma Essential mobile adventure games Stormtrooper with wellies and umbrella tattoo Pepsi Goes on a World Tour Diablo vanquished Subway leads to Rome Terrorist watch now available in chartreuse, magenta, ginger and more Sony's RX100 gets glowing write-up Spiral-cut your wieners for good topology, excellent condiment retention, and extra caramelization Ringbow: Bluetooth game controller you wear on your finger Eulogy for Erik "Possum Man" Stewart If Frazetta was a bronie Kingdom Animalia art show Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video game ever made Short film about sound design in Brave Teaser video for Jake Shimabukuro's new ukulele album Causes of death: 1900 and 2010 New comic series by Love & Rockets co-creator Gilbert Hernandez Ticket Grab: New Game at Caine's Arcade + 5 lessons for entrepreneurs Peter Watts's drone-ethics story "Malak" podcast Fleetwood Mac's Rumours at 35 CDZA: "Aces of Bass" (video) Prisoner's "outdoor" photo portraits on display Dollars and Dentists: PBS Frontline investigates America's dental health crisis Japan-based beatboxer Hikakin meets US-based freestyle dancer Nonstop (video) Kingdom Rush available on iPhone
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 28, 2012 12:40 pm [Video Link] My favorite tower defense game is Kingdom Rush. You can play it online for free, and there's also an iPad version. I don't want to admit how many hours I spent playing it on my iPad. (I will say that I finally finished the game by playing it the entire time I was ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 28, 2012 12:35 pm One of the primary applications of humanoid robots is expected to be elder care. For decades, researchers, particular in Japan, have been on a mission to develop androids that would enable old people to live independently for longer by helping with meals, personal care, and mobility while also providing company. The forthcoming film, Robot & ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 28, 2012 12:16 pm The horrific story of Florida cannibal Rudy Eugene, who ate the face off homeless man Ronald Poppo last month before being killed by police, made "bath salts" a household term. Turns out though, Eugene wasn't on bath salts. Or LSD. Or synthetic marijuana. Or alcohol. Or prescription drugs. According to CNN, medical examiners found THC ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 11:53 am David G. Savage writes: "The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. upheld the heart of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on those who do not have health insurance." The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice Roberts (not Kennedy) swinging it. [LA ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 11:44 am The New York Times interviewed the gentleman who dresses up as Elmo in Central Park and rants about Jews, etc. (previously). Highlights include a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon, a stint working at the New York office of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., and proprietorship of a website titled "Welcome to the Rape ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 28, 2012 11:06 am From Reddit, hxstr's photo of "10 years worth of Pharma Rep's free pens, very few duplicates." The comments on the photo contain a blazing fight over its provenance, though it may be the personal collection of a Cedars-Sinai cardiologist. Reddit, I present to you: 10 years worth of Pharma Rep's free pens, very few duplicates ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 10:16 am Konstantinos Dimopoulous offers the 10 adventure games you must play on iOS. Android gamers have plenty to choose from too (albeit buried in Google Play's "Puzzle" section), including the just-released director's cut of Broken Sword.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 28, 2012 09:04 am Amy didn't want just any stormtrooper bicep tattoo: "I am a HUGE geek. I collect comics. I can quote Firefly. I am my friends' and family's personal tech support. I live my life by lessons I learned in Star Wars. In fact, I recently decided to get an epic Stormtrooper tattoo. Although I have several ...
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By Advertiser on Jun 28, 2012 09:00 am ADVERTISEMENT This post sponsored by Pepsi: Listen up, soft drink lovers:
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 08:38 am Weeks after its release date, Diablo III has been completed on the highest difficulty level with hardcore (i.e. one life only) characters. The victorious duo are Kripp and Krippi, and one may watch their achievement on YouTube, though at this level of play the pace is best described as strategic. The feat cannot now be ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 08:17 am Construction workers in Greece made an interesting find while digging a new subway tunnel: a hitherto-lost Roman road. [Trib Live]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 12:39 am I recently noticed that Casio's F91W, the de rigueur chronograph of terrorists, is now officially available in colors other than "Anarchist Night". Having ordered one myself to make sure they weren't the usual terrible knockoffs, I found it to be Casio-made and just as good as the original. The F91W is offered in magenta, birch, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 28, 2012 12:16 am David Pogue reviews Sony's RX100, a point-and-shoot camera with an image sensor far larger than other models in its class: "If you care at all about your photography, you'll thank Sony for giving the camera industry a good hard shove into the future." And you will pay $650 for it.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 11:55 pm The Chow Video folks make a VERY good case for spiral-cutting one's wieners. Why You Should Spiral-Cut Your Wiener - CHOW Tip (via Reddit)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 11:29 pm "Ringbow" is a recent, half-funded Kickstarter project from a team that includes Andrew Hartman, design director of Philips Electronics. It's a Bluetooth game-controller that you wear on your finger, serving as "a mouse, keyboard and joystick simultaneously." A $35 pledge gets you one when they ship. Since touch screens are controlled with fingers, a finger-worn ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 11:10 pm Today, many friends and loved ones of Erik "Possum Man" Stewart gathered at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery to remember him and his life. I gave a eulogy. Many of Possum's friends asked me for the text of it, and I promised them that I'd post it here. He was remarkable, and the event was bittersweet, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 09:23 pm In 2010, DeviantArt's Zedew produced "My Little Death Dealer," which posits Frank Frazetta as a secret bronie. My Little Death Dealer (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 08:29 pm Amy Crehore painted “Blue Mirror” for the Kingdom Animalia show opening June 29 in Anahiem. All proceeds from the show will be donated to Big Life Foundation in Africa. See all the artwork that will be in the show.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 08:19 pm O'Reilly Media has just released what must be counted as one of the most important books of the decade: Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 08:09 pm [Video Link]SoundWorks profiled Brave director Mark Andrews, re-recording mixer and sound designer Gary Rydstrom, supervising sound Editor Gwen Yates Whittle, and sound designer E.J. Holowicki about their work on the movie. SoundWorks Collection: Brave
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 07:48 pm [Video Link] I'm happy to learn that Jake Shimabukuro has a new oo-koo-lay-lay album coming out this fall. Jake Shimabukuro plays "Don't Stop Believin'" for Boing BoingJake Shimabukuro: which song should he play on ukulele for Boing Boing?Jake Shimabukuro at TED2010Ukulele version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 07:16 pm An editorial in the 200th anniversary issue of the New England Journal of Medicine looks at mortality and health through the centuries, and includes this chart of causes of death from the turn of the last century, which makes for quite a comparison. We're doing great on kidneys, but hearts not so much. During the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 06:26 pm I had no idea that the great Gilbert Hernandez released a new comic book mini-series today. It's available on iTunes and Android, and at your local comic book shop. Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 05:12 pm Nirvan Mullick, the filmmaker who made the sensational short movie about the boy named Caine in East Los Angeles who built an amusement arcade out of cardboard, says: Caine and I just got back from France, where Caine was the youngest speaker at Cannes Lions. Caine had never been on such a big airplane before, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 05:10 pm Tony from the StarShipSofa podcast sez, "This week on StarShipSofa we play the short story Malak, by science fiction writer Peter Watts. Malak was originally published in the anthology Engineering Infinity edited by Jonathan Strahan and views the world of a semi-autonomous combat drone called Azrael and throws in some very powerful ethical questions. A ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 27, 2012 04:50 pm I'm a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac's California cocaine trilogy of Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Tusk. It's amazing that this year Rumours turns 35. Ken Caillat, who co-produced and engineered the record, has just written a new book that I'm really looking forward to reading titled "Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 27, 2012 04:36 pm The latest musical experiment from BB collaborator Joe Sabia's fantastic CDZA project. CDZA ("Collective Cadenza") launches: one-take, medley-driven ... ZUCKERBERG: The Musical! (a Facebook opera by CDZA) - Boing ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 04:30 pm "Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside," collected and documented by artist Dave Adler, is on display at The Clocktower Gallery until August 31, 2012. "The exhibition consists of 16 photographs of prisoners, by prisoners, using prisoner-painted backdrops that feature fantasy scenes of life outside prisons." Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 27, 2012 04:14 pm In America, in the 21st century, people still die of toothaches and dental neglect. "Dollars and Dentists," the latest investigative documentary hour from PBS Frontline, explores America's broken dental care system and reveals how the pressure for profit leaves the poor and under-insured at risk. As host Miles O'Brien reports in the film, more than ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 27, 2012 03:53 pm The folks at MYISH put together two beautiful talents in the video above: Hikakin, a beatboxer based in Japan, and Marquese Scott a.k.a. Nonstop, a US dancer from Georgia who achieved viral fame in this 2011 video. They're both absolutely amazing, and together, man: what a beautiful collaboration. You'll be able to watch this in-flight ...
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