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Patent troll targets Minecraft Hand-painted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bra How the Eagle Landed: Grumman Construction Log, and a message to space (Apollo 11) "We are on the fucking moon" (video) Sink that looks like a gap-toothed jaw Border Patrol sadism and human rights abuses on the Mexican border Apps for Kids 027: Flow Climate change numbers revealed and explained Apps for Kids 027: Flow I don't deserve better healthcare than you Life with an "electromagnetic sensitivity" "30 Mosques in 30 Days" returns for Ramadan 2012 Seattle woman who's had a double mastectomy fights for the right to swim bare-chested 2012 Election Year Comment Guidelines Archaeopteryx (photo) Canadian Supreme Court copyright rules will eviscerate Access Canada's business model How to make bicycle handlebars that light-up Syringe access programs save lives and money but US Congress voted to ban fed assistance Vintage and slightly unsettling clip art gallery Kids' time-travel novella seeks Kickstarting Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later shows the grown-up wizard longing for his magical wizarding days of youth HDTV killed the twitch gaming star You are your microbiome Will the young'uns ruin movie history for the rest of us? Neal Gabler thinks so, I do not. The wonder of small things "The Eagle has landed." Remembering Apollo 11: July 20, 1969 Human-sized animal tails Byzantium, a bootable Linux with "Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse" Spacecraft 3D: Nifty robotic space travel augmented-reality app from NASA JPL How to prepare for Google's acquisition of Sparrow Patent troll targets Minecraft
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 21, 2012 12:13 pm Famous patent troll Uniloc is suing the creators of popular indie title Minecraft (PDF), which it claims infringes a patent it holds on copy protection software. But it might need to improve its own game, as the filing misspells its target as "Mindcraft", and developer Markus "Notch" Persson has already vowed not to give in. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 21, 2012 12:03 pm Etsy seller SceeneShoes specializes in "Hand Painted Bras and Shoes" and will paint you a custom Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brassiere for $35 in up to four weeks. There's also a Nintendo controller bra, a Portal bra, a Hello Kitty bra, and an R2D2 bra. Handpainted Ninja Turtles Bra (via Neatorama)
Read in browser How the Eagle Landed: Grumman Construction Log, and a message to space (Apollo 11)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 21, 2012 11:01 am On the anniversary of Apollo 11, Steve Jurvetson posted an amazing, never-before-seen series of space artifacts. He writes: On July 20, 1969, Eagle landed on the moon. These are the handwritten notes from the Grumman engineers as they pushed to complete Lunar Module LM-5 in 1968. On the last page, they learn than this particular ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 21, 2012 10:54 am [Video Link] Yesterday was the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon in 1969, the first time humans ever set foot on another world. Today, we discover this long-lost footage and audio from that historic moment. (thanks, inkfumes!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 21, 2012 09:59 am This unsourced mystery photo shows a heck of a home decor choice, between the sink that looks like a casting of a gap-toothed jaw, the mustardy tiles, and the ornate, gilt-framed mirror. (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 10:46 pm John Carlos Frey investigates the deliberate cruelty of the US Border Patrol agents who work on the US-Mexican border. A humanitarian relief group called No More Deaths used hidden cameras to record smiling Border Patrol agents destroying water-caches left in areas where migrants have died of exposure. A former senior agent who left after witnessing ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 20, 2012 09:04 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 Flow Free, a game where you try to connect pairs of colored dots without crossing any lines you've ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 09:00 pm Writing in Rolling Stone, Bill McKibben brings us global warming's "new math," a collection of scary stats about the record-setting shifts in the world's climate, from the hottest rainfall ever recording (109' F in Mecca) to the record-breaking increase in the number of broken records in worldwide weather. McKibben's second set of numbers are the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 20, 2012 08:57 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 Flow Free, a game where you try to connect pairs of colored dots without crossing any lines you've ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 20, 2012 08:52 pm When blogger Melissa moved to Canada in 2008, she identified as a conservative, Republican evangelical Christian. Part of that identity included a deep mistrust of Canada's universal healthcare system. Before the move, she was terrified that she was going to place that would limit her medical choices, tell her what to do with her body, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 08:22 pm The Guardian's Laura Page profiles Phil Inkley, a British man who believes that he is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation, and claims that he experiences convulsions and blackouts when exposed to WiFi and mobile phone signals. He lives in a caravan in the woods, with an Ethernet cable running to a distant mobile Internet dongle that ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 07:33 pm [Video Link] Since 2009, 27-year-old comedian Aman Ali and photographer Bassam Tariq have spent the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (which begins today) visiting a different American mosque each night. Together, they documented these journeys on their blog, "30 Mosques in 30 Days." This year, they invite others to join them in documenting Muslim-American culture—see ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 07:11 pm Here's a CBC As It Happens story from last month on Jodi Jaecks, a woman in Seattle who had a double mastectomy and successfully fought the city for the right to swim topless in the local pool. She swims as part of her post-surgical therapy, and finds wearing women's suits cumbersome. She was given "singular ...
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By Antinous / Moderator on Jul 20, 2012 06:41 pm In the interest of not having every thread on every subject turn into a hissfest about whether Obama or Romney is a bigger doody-head, Boing Boing's election year rules are back on. These rules will remain in force for the rest of 2012. • Please do not refer to candidates or parties unless they are ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 06:30 pm Retinal neuroscientist and photographer Bryan Jones sends in this gorgeous shot of an archaeopteryx fossil displayed in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany. "As a biologist, seeing this fossil represents something of a pilgrimage," says Bryan, "[Visiting this museum is] a journey that all biologists would benefit from making." Snip from his blog post: ...
Read in browser Canadian Supreme Court copyright rules will eviscerate Access Canada's business model
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 06:00 pm Michael Geist sez, The implications of last week's Supreme Court of Canada copyright decisions seem readily apparent to just about everybody - other than Access Copyright. There have been numerous posts analyzing the decisions, all of which recognize the expansion of fair dealing. Yet in a release posted hours after losing at Canada's highest court, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 20, 2012 05:53 pm [Video Link] Our pal Becky Stern shows you how to make LED bike handlebars using nifty LED tape.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 20, 2012 05:30 pm Tony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance says: Millions of people have died of AIDS because of bad drug policy – and millions more lives hang in the balance. The International AIDS Conference will be held in the U. S. for the first time in 22 years this July 22-27, in Washington DC. Activists, public ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 20, 2012 05:21 pm Thank you to Bart & Co. for assembling this Flickr gallery of 89 scans of old and and often eldritch clip art. The Bart And Co. Clip Art Collection (Via The Comics Reporter)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 04:56 pm Jason Horn, creator of the Ninjasaur webcomic, is looking to Kickstart the funds to print an illustrated kids' novella about time travel: Kathryn the Crononaut is a all-ages novella (short novel) that seeks to introduce kids to advanced scientific theories in a fun, entertaining manner. Kathryn O'Riley is a smart, idealistic sixth-grader who decides to ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 20, 2012 04:37 pm If you ever thought that the epilogue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series left you wondering what really became of Mr. Potter & Co., Furious Molecules has a web series specifically designed to satiate your Potterhead needs! When we first meet Harry ten years later, he's got his dream job as an auror and is ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 20, 2012 04:30 pm Modern HDTVs introduced a tiny but perceptible lag between receiving an image signal and displaying it on-screen. Dewi Tanner, a former employee of the developer behind Parappa The Rapper, describes how they killed the appeal of games that require ultra-sharp reflexes, such as rhythm and fighting games. [Edge]
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 04:26 pm "Babies are microbe magnets," how bugs in the gut can shape brain structure, and other revelations about the tiny critters that live in and on our bodies in this USA Today article by Liz Szabo.
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 20, 2012 04:15 pm As a film geek who has been into movies, perhaps to an unhealthy degree, since childhood, reading this article by Neal Gabler at the LA Times about how the current youth generation thinks old movies are old and boring and useless really breaks my heart. But does it surprise me? Not at all. The premise ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 20, 2012 04:03 pm From a public perspective, biology in the oceans, like biology on the land, tends to favor the charismatic megafauna. Stop by your local aquarium and you'll find masses huddled around the seal pool or the shark tank. People will even attempt to interact with the octopodes. Meanwhile, smaller creatures sit on the sidelines. Crabs, starfish, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 03:53 pm Left to right: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, the crew of Apollo 11. Photo: NASA. On this day in 1969, humans walked on the moon for the first time. The Apollo 11 spaceflight brought Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Michael Collins, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 03:47 pm Kigu sells furrie fashions -- animal onesies and strap-on animal tails, including some rather lovely dinosaur numbers. The tails run £30, the suits are £40. The tails have "ultra-lifelike tail movements." Tails | Shop - Kigurumi Animal Costumes | Animal Onesies
Read in browser Byzantium, a bootable Linux with "Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse"
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 03:00 pm The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] sez, "Project Byzantium is a working group of the HacDC hackerspace, and is a live distribution of Linux for easily and rapidly deploying ad-hoc wireless mesh networks for the purpose of emergency communications. They presented last weekend in New York City at HOPE Number Nine and announced their second major release ...
Read in browser Spacecraft 3D: Nifty robotic space travel augmented-reality app from NASA JPL
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 02:45 pm I recently had a chance to visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Miles O'Brien. At the NASA center in Pasadena, engineers are readying for the long-anticipated landing of the Mars Curiosity rover on Aug. 5. During our visit, we met with the team behind a cool new iOS app from JPL: NASA's Spacecraft 3D, an ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 20, 2012 02:43 pm Google announced today that it had acquired Sparrow, the OS X email app much-loved for its uncluttered layout and minimal user experience. This HOWTO will help get you ready for all the enhancements and developments to come as it is integrated into Google's established mail and messaging services.
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