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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 19, 2012 12:51 pm Click here to play the podcast. In this episode of the Gweek podcast I interviewed Ryan Holiday. Ryan’s the author of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. He's a media strategist who started his career as an assistant to Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and is currently the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 19, 2012 12:36 pm Because the human brain is easily impressed with gadgetry, I give you an automatic pancake-making machine—as photographed by my friend Shav, who received his breakfast from it this morning. A similar system showed up on Engadget back in 2009. That model cost $3500 and could produce pancakes, bag-of-batter to golden deliciousness, at a rate of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 19, 2012 12:14 pm Google and MAKE have partnered to host an online summer fun camp, with a new project every day for the summer. Today, it's my turn to give a workshop on polymer clay, a modeling substance my kids and I have grown to admire. Here's a link to my instructions, here's a link to my article ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 19, 2012 12:00 pm WARNING: Video contains spoilers. [Video Link]. To celebrate the premiere of Breaking Bad's Fifth Season this week, my fellow trufan Miles O'Brien and I dug into the show's vaults to explore the top 10 chemistry moments in Breaking Bad, from seasons One through Four. Only, there was so much awesome science, we had to choose ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 19, 2012 11:17 am This surveillance video clip shows 71-year-old Samuel Williams thwarting an armed robbery at an internet cafe in Marion, Florida on Friday, July 13, 2012. Williams, a licensed gun owner, may now become the poster child for those who support "concealed carry" rights in the state. Williams was present when two masked thugs walked into the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 19, 2012 11:00 am Thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Each M-Theory Time & Space watch offers the surreal touch of watch hands floating free of the traditional clock face. Be sure to check out Watchismo's videos demonstrating the uncanny display. Photographs of the full moon, taken at Nantes ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 19, 2012 10:48 am Enterprise, as viewed from the side. Although you cannot climb inside the vehicle, you can still get an amazing view all the way around it along, with informational panels encompassing each side of the pavillion. Photo: Sawyer Rosenstein. New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum opens the doors on a new Space Shuttle ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 19, 2012 10:05 am Ryan Holiday pretended to be a credible source on a variety of subjects, just to see who would fall for it. Scalps include CBS, ABC, Today and The New York Times. "I knew that bloggers would print anything, so I thought, what if, as an experiment, I tried to prove that they will literally print ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 19, 2012 09:58 am Maria Popova: "That's precisely the question Foster Huntington asked himself, so he gathered the belongings he himself would take and photographed them, then asked a few friends to do the dame. Then, on May 10 of 2011, he launched The Burning House with 10 such photographs. Within a few hours, he got his first submission ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 19, 2012 09:51 am When it comes to feeling icky at the sight of grotesque corporate marketing, Cayce Pollard has nothing on the protagonist of Branded, a forthcoming movie that is apparently about how ads are really an alien conspiracy. I'm looking forward to the most ironic marketing campaign since Wall•E!
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 19, 2012 09:24 am Something I enjoy: Specialized equipment that looks completely and utterly ridiculous when you watch people using it out of context. Case in point, this advertisement for the HydroWorx X80 Underwater Treadmill. You have never seen Olympic-caliber runners look sillier. (Sadly, it's not entirely underwater. When I first saw the name of the clip, I was ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 19, 2012 09:16 am Okay, honestly, some of the scenes in this video of out-of-context clips from Nickelodeon's 1980s reboot of Mr. Wizard hardly count as dickery. In fact, some bits just look like what happens when a good teacher tells kids they aren't quite understanding the science yet. But, then, I have a Mr. Wizard bias. And a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 18, 2012 06:37 pm Here's the live blog recap of Boing Boing reader John Brennan's trial for taking his clothes off in protest at a TSA screening checkpoint at the Portland Airport. John was found not guilty -- hurray! 10:40am — The first witness is in the case is TSA officer Steven Van Gordon, who relayed the story of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 18, 2012 06:28 pm Two clippings from an attractive infographic that presents a great deal of damning information about the TSA.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 18, 2012 05:11 pm High-tech kitchen garden evangelist Roger Doiron says: "If this garden is deemed illegal, we're in deep you-know-what." Earlier this year, Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp of Drummondville, Quebec planted the front yard of the future: a gorgeous and meticulously-maintained edible landscape full of healthy fruits and vegetables. Now they're being ordered by town officials to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 18, 2012 04:56 pm I just learned that Boing Boing is the Devil's playground. The following subjects are considered "doorways to demonic possession": Illuminati, Scientology, Remote viewing, Cyberpunk culture, Vegetarianism, Lord of the Rings, Lycanthropy, Postmodernism, Alt "comix", Marihuana & Pot parties, LSD/shrooms, Video games, Harry Potter, Dungeons & Dragons, Halloween, Fornication, Skull & Bones, Rock Music, Burning Man, ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jul 18, 2012 04:18 pm Music for Marriage Equality is working with Washington musicians to approve R-74, a referendum that will put same-sex marriage to the popular vote on Washington's state ballot in November. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis recorded this lovely song, which includes vocals by Mary Lambert, to benefit Music for Marriage Equality. The cover art (above) for the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 04:12 pm Jonah Falcon, who is known for having a very large penis (9.5 inches flaccid, 13.5 inches erect), says he was stopped by the TSA at San Francisco International Airport last week. "They wanted to know if I had something in my pockets, and when I said no, they asked if I had some sort of ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 03:42 pm Hey, have you heard that there's a Batman movie coming out this Friday? That Christopher Nolan made? And it's the last one he's going to make, and everyone is all psyched about it? Well, some people have seen it and have written reviews for The Internet, and some "members" of The Internet are not happy ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 18, 2012 03:19 pm Clever whale sharks have figured out that fishing nets contain a lot of tasty fish. More importantly, they've figured out that they can suck those fish out of the net through holes in the net material. The downside: When the sharks swim into fishing areas, looking for nets to suck, they can end up caught ...
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By Jimmy Lin on Jul 18, 2012 03:19 pm If one of your loved ones was sick, what would you be willing to do to help? For millions of Americans in the US, even though they would give up anything and everything, there is no way for them to help. For many rare diseases, because they are so rare, there are no therapies or ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 18, 2012 03:10 pm Yesterday was the 110th anniversary of air conditioning. The building pictured above—1040 Metropolitan Ave. in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York—was the first building in the world to enjoy the luxury of cold air blowing on a blisteringly hot day. A junior engineer from a furnace company figured out a solution so simple that ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 18, 2012 03:01 pm Good idea -- YouTube announces a way to blur faces in videos. I hope they add a feature that puts Guy Fawkes masks on people, too. Whether you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your 8-year-old’s basketball game without broadcasting the ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 02:40 pm It was revealed that Sam Raimi will not be directing a movie based on Blizzard's World of Warcraft after all, perhaps because while doing research, he could not be torn away from his computer after becoming hopelessly addicted to the game. Or he just was too busy making Oz the Great and Powerful. And so ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 18, 2012 01:55 pm Katrina Lumsden's review of 50 Shades of Grey on Good Reads has me laughing out loud. Her choice of GIFs are master-class. "At one point, she thinks putting her hair in pigtails will keep her safe from Christian's lusty advances. Fuckin' really?"
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 01:34 pm Hmmm, maybe it is time for us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans to chill out? Kevin Eastman, who co-created the TMNT comic with Peter Laird, seems to be very involved in the movie Michael Bay is producing (and apparently co-writing) that has devotees riled because of the altered origin story. And now he's saying that ...
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By Brian Lam on Jul 18, 2012 01:32 pm This week, I'm reporting from the Aquarius undersea research base in Key Largo, Florida. The habitat is the world's last undersea research base. Because NOAA is pulling funding from the 22 year old facility in September, this week's mission is its last scheduled one. This is a video of oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia ...
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