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To do this weekend: watch the Perseid meteor shower The Counting Song, by Adam Buxton, dir. Cyriak (video) Cotton Exchange blues vinyl subscription service Friends With You: "Cloudy" (animated video short) Man demonstrating milk carton design has difficulty opening it (video) Skateboarding goat wins Guinness World Record (video) How do we make web stuff that's secure enough for human rights workers? Toronto to host real-life flamethrower game based on Street Fighter II Down in Smoke: through comics, Susie Cagle chronicles the DEA raids on medical marijuana facilities in California David Rakoff, 1964-2012 Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo Virgin Airlines Australia moved firefighter from seat next to boys because men can't be seated next to unaccompanied children Stross and Doctorow text-and-voice chat today at 11AM Eastern UK prisons to open outsource call centres; David Cameron urges business to switch to prison labour Pastor Jack Schaap demonstrates how to polish a shaft $49 remote control multicopter Ballad of Poisonberry Pete (short animated video) Errol Morris' quiz about killer asteroids was a secret experiment to find out how fonts affect our thinking Short PBS documentary about Glitch Art Love and Rockets 30th Anniversary Northeast Tour with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez Happy Mutant Congressman has at least two Boing Boing T-shirts in his wardrobe Make yourself healthy: Searching for the cause of acne Police pull over woman for rolling through stop sign then strip search her and "forcibly" pull tampon out of her, lawsuit alleges Curiosity transmits first full-color panorama back from Mars The Twenty-Year Death, a crime novel written in the form of three different period crime novels Archer & Armstrong - comic book where the 1% are costumed supervillians "Do things that have never been done before," says guy who invented computer New virus targets online banking systems in Mideast Earth Illuminated: Dazzling ISS time-lapse photography, from NASA (video) Father accused of waterboarding daughter To do this weekend: watch the Perseid meteor shower
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 12:55 pm The brightest planets of the solar system are lining up right in the middle of this year's Perseid meteor shower display. The action peaks on the night of August 12. Meteor rates of up to 100 per hour are expected. More details on how to watch them here. * Note: NBC plans to delay them ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 12:48 pm [video link]. Illustrations by Sarah Brown. Do stay with it. Things escalate. (HT: Tim Shey)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 10, 2012 12:46 pm The Cotton Exchange is a terrific vinyl record subscription service that delivers 8 LPs/year of rare, historic, or unreleased blues music right to your door. Recent releases have included Bukka White, Otha Turner, and Skip James! Exquisitely-curated by my dear pal and DIY musicologist David Katznelson, every album includes detailed liner notes along with the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 12:29 pm [video link]. From Friends With You, the short film "Cloudy", described as an art piece "with the purpose to transcend its viewers to a relaxed and joyous state." This short is an exploration into the Clouds. The idea of clouds singing and performing their duties in a joyful manner show us that everything in our ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 10, 2012 12:21 pm [Video Link] Arbroath says: "This quite famous clip shows a high-ranking official of the Austrian equivalent of The Milk Marketing Board demonstrating how to use their newly-introduced wax/cardboard milk carton." It's probably from the 1980s.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 12:07 pm [video link]. The goat's name is "Happy," of course. (thanks, Clayton Cubitt)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 10, 2012 12:06 pm Patrick Ball sez, "Lots of people in the world depend on electronic security. That means it has to be seriously strong, and I have been worrying that lots of folks -- esp media folks -- are eager for easy-to-use shortcuts, even if those shortcuts aren't actually secure. CryptoCat is one such shortcut, as was Hushmail, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 10, 2012 12:00 pm Joey sez, "Super Street Fire is a creation of a group at Toronto's Site3 coLaboratory hackerspace that lets two people fight 'Street Fighter II' style, with real punches and real fire. Players stand in a special ring with computer-controlled flamethrowers that simulate thrown fireballs; their punches are detected with motion-sensing gloves. They're going to Burning ...
Read in browser Down in Smoke: through comics, Susie Cagle chronicles the DEA raids on medical marijuana facilities in California
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 11:49 am At Cartoon Movement, "graphic journalist" Susie Cagle (Twitter) surveys the impact of recent DEA raids of Harborside and other medical marijuana centers in 'Down In Smoke'. Oakland, California. Ground zero for a medical marijuana fight between states and the federal government that has only been heating up. Incorporating real audio from activists, Cagle portrays what ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 10, 2012 11:07 am David Rakoff, best known as a storyteller, author, and a regular contributor to the radio programs "This American Life" and "Fresh Air," has died of cancer. The news first appeared on the website Third Beat. Rakoff wrote beautifully about the experience of going through treatment here, in the New York Times.Choire Sicha at the Awl: ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 10, 2012 10:29 am Many thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. There's a rare timepiece sale at Watchismo, where you can save a whopping 30% off the exclusive Meccaniche Veloci Watch Collection, named for "Mechanical Speed" in Italian. This watch has four distinct faces for tracking time in four different ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 10, 2012 09:38 am An Australian firefighter named Johnny McGirr was told to move seats on his Virgin Airlines because he'd been seated next to two unaccompanied boys. The airline's policy is reportedly that men may not be seated next to children traveling without adults, though women may be. McGirr believed the policy presumes that all men are presumed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 10, 2012 07:21 am Charlie Stross and I are doing a text and voice chat with Internet Evolution today at 11AM Eastern, in celebration of our forthcoming novel Rapture of the Nerds. Hope to see you there! Look out! The team of Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow has produced upcoming science fiction novel Rapture of the Nerds, due out ...
Read in browser UK prisons to open outsource call centres; David Cameron urges business to switch to prison labour
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 10, 2012 07:18 am The UK prison systems will soon supply in-house call centres on contract through industry partners. One such partner, UrbanData Ltd, sent out sales solicitations to potential call-centre customers last month touting the advantages of prison labour: low overheads and "British Regional accents" (UrbanData subsequently went into administration). The Ministry of Justice characterises this as a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 10, 2012 01:08 am [Video Link] Jack Schaap was the pastor at the largest church in Indiana until he was fired last week for having sex with a 17-year-old congregant (the FBI is looking into it). Here he is in 2010 at a youth conference showing the audience how to properly polish a shaft. (Via CN)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 10, 2012 12:26 am Another fun toy from Brando of Hong Kong -- this time it's a $49 quadcopter with remote control unit. The manufacturer's description describes it much more clearly than I could: SIX AXES GYRO, Super Stable UFO!! Special SOMERSAULT in the AIR!! The Perfect Flying Object with this New Design Technology, The Most Stable (like the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 07:17 pm I enjoyed this short animation called "Ballad of Poisonberry Pete," a western starring anthropomorphic pies and cakes. It's a film by Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill, and Uri Lotan and was presented at Cartoon Brew's 3rd Student Animation Festival. Making of "Ballad of Poisonberry Pete"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 06:44 pm Remember Errol Morris' New York Times quiz about being an optimist or a pessimist about killer asteroids? It turns out the quiz wasn't really about being an optimist or a pessimist. It was about how fonts affect people's thinking. The quiz was presented in five different fonts, and the frequency of the answers were compared ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 06:23 pm Heath says: [Video Link] The latest installment of the “Off Book” series from PBS Digital Studios is now live. The newest video takes a look at Glitch Art -- how unintentional digital mishaps can become, in the hands of some artists, things of beauty. Glitch art can be thought of as looking at the very ...
Read in browser Love and Rockets 30th Anniversary Northeast Tour with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 05:53 pm Good news for fans of Love and Rockets: Gilbert and Jaime are going on tour to celebrate 30 years of making one of the world's best comic book titles. September 14th-23, the seminal Love and Rockets creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez will tour from Washington D.C. to Brooklyn as part of the 30th Anniversary of ...
Read in browser Happy Mutant Congressman has at least two Boing Boing T-shirts in his wardrobe
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 04:47 pm It was great to see US Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) wearing my "Critter" Boing Boing T-shirt (Cory posted the photo here as an update to his post about Rep. Polis' epic takedown of the laughably disingenuous Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart). Now I have a photo of Rep. Polis in another Boing Boing T-shirt ("Unizilla" ...
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By Seth Roberts on Aug 09, 2012 04:12 pm Martha Rotter, a software engineer, grew up near St. Louis. She did not have skin problems in high school or college. After college, she spent six years in Seattle. Her skin got a little worse. In 2007, she moved to Dublin to work for an Irish branch of Microsoft. Six months after the move, she ...
Read in browser Police pull over woman for rolling through stop sign then strip search her and "forcibly" pull tampon out of her, lawsuit alleges
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 03:31 pm "A passing cop pulled a u-turn, flashed the lights, and rolled up behind her. Tarantino claims that the cop immediately drew his weapon, pulled her from the car, and refused to explain why he pulled her over ... Then, in a gruesome twist, a female officer 'forcibly removed' a tampon from Tarantino." She's suing.
Read in browser Curiosity transmits first full-color panorama back from Mars
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 09, 2012 02:59 pm Ain't it pretty? The first color panorama image of Gale Crater, the landing site for the Curiosity rover. Thumbnail versions of images taken by the Mast Camera were combined to form this 360-degree view. From NASA: Scientists will be taking a closer look at several splotches in the foreground that appear gray. These areas show ...
Read in browser The Twenty-Year Death, a crime novel written in the form of three different period crime novels
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 02:53 pm The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter is a 700-page hardbound crime novel that's written in the form of three separate crime novels (which are all tied together). The 1931 novel is in the style of Georges Simenon. The 1941 novel is in the style of Raymond Chandler, and the 1951 novel is in the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 09, 2012 01:52 pm Todd Allen of Comics Beat reviews Archer & Armstrong, a brain-rotting propaganda comic book produced by the liberal media elite (and funded by George Soros, no doubt). When the teasers for Archer and Armstrong #1 came out, there was a little bit of noise from the political parts of the web about what an awful ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 09, 2012 01:48 pm Joel Runyon writes about "An Unexpected Ass Kicking," intellectually speaking, which he received in a Portland coffee shop from Russell Kirsch—the 80-year-old man who invented America's first internally programmable computer. Kirsch isn't a big fan of Apple products.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 09, 2012 01:40 pm Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab claims to have uncovered a new "cyber-espionage toolkit" designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran. The researchers claim this new malware has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, and targets online financial systems. More at Wired Threat ...
Read in browser Earth Illuminated: Dazzling ISS time-lapse photography, from NASA (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 09, 2012 01:33 pm John Streeter, who is a television producer with NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, sends this cool video and tells Boing Boing: It is all real, all shot from the International Space Station and all beautiful. It is time-lapse photography that showcases stars, cities at night, lightning storms and the aurora all from the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 09, 2012 01:31 pm An 11 year old girl tells police her father has been waterboarding her as a bizarre and cruel form of punishment. The accused is pediatrician Melvin Morse, who was featured on CNN's The Larry King Show promoting his book about near-death experiences in children. The local newspaper has more upsetting details. (via Johannes G.)
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