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Win tickets to San Francisco's Outside Lands music festival! Your quote of the day about penises and vaginas comes courtesy of George R. R. Martin Post-punk film festival in San Francisco this weekend Gubernatorial campaign staffer hates elderly people and Asians: "Shut up and speak English" HOWTO watch Battlestar Galactica Early iPhone mockups show Sony influence The graffiti of Pompeii Olympics chief rings in the games Tetris lights Are you a two percenter? Dan Harmon close to finding a new home at Fox -- would Community be better off there, too? Thief stuffs Pomeranian puppy down pants Me, Al Franken and the worst meeting in the history of show business: a true story Your coloring-in assignment for the evening Ayn Rand's Lord of the Rings Meanwhile, some bears are fishing salmon out of a river in Alaska Bug-a-salt: Gadget gun takes aim at flies, with a pinch of salt Mainstream making The coolest photo you'll see of that "derecho" storm hitting NYC today Pot legalization is on the ballot in three US states. What happens when one state says yes to weed? Facebook investors: "I am disappoint." Industrial accidents of yesteryear Automated baked-goods identification computer vision system Zynga tanks When men's sleepwear ruled the world Documentary about an iconic drum machine Will Minecraft and Makerbot usher in the post-scarcity economy? Outdoor dining table with wind-resistant plate-recesses Walrus emits excellent noises on command (video) Tor project considers covering costs for exit nodes Win tickets to San Francisco's Outside Lands music festival!
By David Pescovitz on Jul 27, 2012 12:55 pm It's almost time for Outside Lands, the massive music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This year's festival, August 10-12, features the likes of Foo Fighters, Beck, Sigur Ros, Regina Spektor, Explosions in the Sky, Yacht, Tame Impala, Die Antwoord, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Franz Ferdinand, Norah Jones, Metallica, and dozens of other diverse ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 27, 2012 12:27 pm The man behind HBO's Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, is often asked about all that sex they have on the show (and in the books he wrote that inspired the show), like "Why do they have to have so much of it and show it on television?" He has provided Reuters a very ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 27, 2012 12:23 pm If you're in San Francisco this weekend, there's a doozy of a mini-film festival at the Roxie Theater. "This Must Be The Place: Post-Punk Tribes 1978-1982" is a series of short films documenting the regional post-punk scenes in the UK, France, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York City, and elsewhere. SFMOMA's Gina Basso ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 12:16 pm Kathlyn Ehl, a policy staffer for Washington Republican Rob McKenna's gubernatorial campaign, has many tweets to delete! [The Stranger]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 11:46 am The rebooted Battlestar Galactica was great at first, then got bogged down as it became clear no-one involved had any idea where things were headed. Choire Sicha offers the essential viewing guide to watch from beginning to end without the crap bits. Yes, most of season 3 is gone.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 11:17 am The current iPhone design, it turns out, was in the works since 2006—and was so influenced by Sony that they even put its logo on the mockups. Court filings in the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Samsung reveal an early concept by Apple designer Shin Nishibori which closely resembles the current-gen iPhones, complete with ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 27, 2012 10:42 am Pompeii is the city frozen in time. Which means that nobody ever came through and cleaned up all the (often incredibly dirty) ancient Roman graffiti (or added their own, more modern, stuff). So, what you find is a really cool time capsule of the way random, average puellae et pueri talked, at least in certain ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 10:42 am UK Olympics secretary Jeremy Hunt rang a bell Friday morning to herald the beginning of the summer games. The bell disintegrated, parts spinning into nearby bystanders.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 10:34 am I have just ordered this seven-piece reconfigurable Tetris light set, which automatically turns on when all the pieces are stacked together. I bet it sucks; if it does, I'm going to go right ahead and make my own 6ft tall version out of plexiglass squares and LED lamps. Tetris Constructable Light [Amazon] UPDATE: Amazon is ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 27, 2012 10:18 am Coming on the tails of NBC's news that they'd be pursuing "broader" projects for their comedy lineup, Fox has announced that they're moving forward on a possible new sitcom being written by the former showrunner of Community, Dan Harmon. There aren't any details about the show yet, just that they've signed him on to write ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 27, 2012 09:58 am A thief caught on CCTV at a pet store made his escape by stuffing a $1,400 puppy down his pants. Recorded by Zoo-Rama in Elmont, New York, footage shows the dog snatcher grabbing the pup out of a cage, stretching open his waistband, then shoving it into the darkness—start from about 5m in. Trapped inside ...
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By Bill Barol on Jul 27, 2012 09:00 am I've never publicly shared my story about The Worst Meeting In The History Of Show Business, but this seems like an appropriate time, for reasons I'll get to in a minute. In the late '90s I was working as a sitcom writer, and in the spring of 1998 I was between jobs and needed one. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 26, 2012 11:01 pm I looked at this and thought, "there is probably a lawsuit going on somewhere over who owns this art", then began laughing hysterically. Ah, but no! It just sold at auction for $657,250. Todd McFarlane's original art for The Amazing Spider-Man #328 (Marvel, 1990) brought a World Record $657,250 on July 26 as part of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 26, 2012 10:52 pm "'Yes,' said Frodo. 'I shall keep the Ring from the foolish parasities who wish to destroy it. For shockingly, many wish to destroy the Ring! They wish to keep the Ring from the rightful ownership of the rugged individualist who made it as his own.'" [Oliver Miller at Slacktory. Previously.]
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 10:46 pm #Bearcam may just be the best thing ever. Explore.org has two hi-def webcams turned on in Alaska's Brooks River in Katmai National Park. More than a hundred Brown Bears gather along a mile long stretch of Brooks River there each year, to pig out on the world's largest Sockeye Salmon run. And now, we get ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 10:12 pm I first met Lorenzo Maggiore a couple years ago in yoga class, and run into him at the beach from time to time—he's an accomplished surfer, and pops a mean Adho Mukha Vrksasana. But until recently, I had no idea he was also the inventor of Bug-a-salt (Twitter), a novelty gadget that allows you to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 10:06 pm The mainstreaming of making, makers and 3D printing marches on, with a very nice feature in CNN.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 09:47 pm It's Manhattan, not Mordor. With this shot, photographer Ryan Brenizer wins derecho day in New York City. "Not Photoshopped to heck; it actually looks like that," he explains. "23 images with a new lens I'm testing." Have a look at the larger size here (EDIT: Alternate link). (via @legalnomads)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 09:31 pm This November, voters in three US states—Colorado, Washington, and Oregon—will be able to vote on ballot measures that would legalize marijuana, period. Not just for medicinal purposes, but for recreational purposes, too. At Rolling Stone, a smart blog post by Julian Brookes on what happens when the first state says "yes" to weed. When that ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 09:14 pm Today marked the day that Facebook released its first earnings report as a public company. There was some good news, but enough bummer news—a net loss of $157 million— to disappoint investors, who "fled from the stock in after-hours trading." (NYT)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 09:05 pm This 1961 ad for Summitville Tiles, Inc. features an all-too-familiar lab scene that we were only able to put behind us for good when we stopped letting Salvador Dali cook his meth in Boing Boing Labs. Midcentury Modern and a half-naked lab assistant
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 08:02 pm A Japanese point-of-sale system has the native cunning to recognize baked goods of its own accord, a surprisingly tricky computer vision problem: Brain Corporation has developed a system that can individually identify all kinds of baked goods on a tray, in just one second. A trial has started at a Tokyo bakery store. This technology ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 26, 2012 07:44 pm Zynga CEO Mark "just copy what they do" Pincus dumped $200m worth of company shares recently, safely in time for its stock to tank. Yahoo: In April, Zynga conducted a "secondary stock offering" in which insiders dumped 43 million shares of stock at $12 a share, raking in about $516 million. Yesterday, four months later, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 06:58 pm As a committed lounger-about-in-nice-pajamas, I have long suspected that the golden age of men's sleepwear was in the past. Here I present conclusive evidence for my hypothesis. Loungearounds! & other sleep/loungewear
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 26, 2012 06:44 pm Due out next year, Planet Rock And Other Tales of the 808 tells the tale of the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, a drum machine introduced in 1980 that helped define the sound of hip hop, house, and most electronic music for decades to come. (via @chris_carter_)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 26, 2012 05:46 pm I swear that when I wrote this, I had not seen this PBS Idea Channel video, which argues that Minecraft and 3D printers will usher in a post-scarcity economy. From the Jetsons to Cory Doctorow, science fiction writers of all stripes have imagined a world where any object could be instantly created. Modern economics on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 05:41 pm Marco Marotto and Paola Oliva's "Table Bye Bye Wind" is designed for outdoor eating, with recessed nooks for plates and cups that offer protection from the wind. Table Bye Bye Wind par Marco Marotto et Paola Oliva (via Crib Candy)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 26, 2012 05:33 pm [Video Link] What's 3,400 lbs and makes fart-noise vocalizations when asked? E.T., a 30-year-old Pacific walrus at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, WA, who is one of only 17 walruses in U.S. zoos and aquariums. He came to the Tacoma facility as an orphan from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and is named "for his ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 26, 2012 05:20 pm The maintainers of the Tor Project -- which provides more anonymous and private Internet use by bouncing traffic around many volunteers' computers -- is considering paying $100/month to people who maintain high-speed "exit nodes." "Exit nodes" are the last hop in the Tor chain, and they sometimes attract legal threats and police attention, which makes ...
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