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Ecuador's president denies granting asylum to Wikileaks' Assange Cops in Rome bust massive underground pot farm in Mussolini-era tunnel beneath bank The first film adaptation of Frankenstein was shot in Thomas Edison's studio Staggering Beauty fun JavaScript demo Political cartoons from La Caricature (1830-1835) Raiders of the Lost Ark coming to IMax TOM THE DANCING BUG: What Strange and Disorienting Alternative Universe Has Louis Entered? On quack cancer cures, and "alternative medicine" as religion XKCD with a very boingy punchline Behold: A hole thru a hole in a hole 3D printing show in London, Oct 20-21 Scouts stone rabid beaver Gentleman steals pot from police station because "that bud smelled so good" Yo-yo dieting not considered harmful? Devo to release single commemorating Mitt Romney's roof-tied dog RIP, Harry Harrison A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books The leaning houses of Dawson City Cow Week: Bull gores man, follows him until certain he is dead Matt Fisher: Progressive Insurance is lying, they did too defend my sister's killer Turning living plants into multitouch interfaces 90 Days, 90 Reasons (to reelect Obama) In the future, we will shout at machines (even more than we do today) Manufacturing processes beautifully illustrated in cutaway drawings Gweek 064: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine Yo-yoing in space Fran Kranz will star in the directorial debut of Gillian Greene-Raimi, Murder of a Cat Kindle version of "World's Worst" book on sale for $1.99 Civil rights implications of Big Data Progressive denies defending the person who killed its policyholder Ecuador's president denies granting asylum to Wikileaks' Assange
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 12:45 pm Rumor de asilo a Assange es falso. Todavía no hay ninguna decisión al respecto. Espero informe de Cancillería.— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) August 14, 2012 The Guardian reports that the Ecuadorean government will grant asylum to embattled Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The New York Times notes that the president of Ecuador denies this.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 12:42 pm Man, the Italians sure know how to live. Police in Rome this week busted a gigantic marijuana grow, situated within a Mussolini-era tunnel that goes underneath the Italian Central Bank. (HT: @psaffo)
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 15, 2012 12:35 pm Here is a vintage horror gem for your mid-week blues: Back in 1910, when he wasn't coming up with civilzation-changing inventions, Thomas Edison lent his studio in the Bronx out to filmmakers. While the Edison Company began with "actualities" (newsreels, real-life events, etc.), the studio eventually turned to fiction. And, perhaps not surprisingly, science fiction. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2012 12:31 pm "Staggering Beauty" is a fun JavaScript demo by George Michael Brower. Play with it for a while. "Those at risk of epileptic seizures should choose a different website." Staggering Beauty (via Chrome Experiments)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2012 12:19 pm Yes, it looks like art you'd see hanging in La Luz De Jesus Gallery, but it's actually an 1831 political cartoon by Eugène-Hippolyte Forest. It's one of many pieces featured in a new art show titled "When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830–1835" at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center. Our pal ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2012 12:02 pm Raiders of the Lost Ark will be screened at IMax theaters for one week starting September 7. Following the big BIG screen showings, all of the Indy films will be released on Blu-Ray as Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures. Fortunately, Steven Spielberg didn't mess with Raiders other than to enhance the audio for surround sound. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 11:48 am I loved Science Blogs contributor Orac before I was diagnosed with cancer. I love him a whole lot more now. I'll get to why in a moment, but I want to share something personal first (cracks knuckles). Well-meaning friends have suggested I try coffee enemas and oxygen therapy to cure my breast cancer; others have ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 11:42 am Daww, that was nice of him: Randall Munroe's made me the punchline of another XKCD! Update: Hey, this is from 2008! I missed it then. No matter -- it was funny then, it's funny now. Starwatching
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 11:40 am You'll tell your grandkids about the day you saw this. (Thanks Clifford Pickover!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 11:38 am Rachel sez, Taking place on 20th-21st October this year, the 3D Printshow will be London's first major 3D printing trade and consumer event. We will be hosting over 70 exhibitors, ranging from major manufacturers and software developers to design studios, architects and medical companies. Our aim is to showcase the extraordinary range of applications 3D ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2012 11:35 am Boy Scout troop leader Norman Brousseau, 51, was swimming in the Delaware River in Pennsylvania when he was attacked by a rabid beaver. After the scouts pulled Brousseau to shore, they stoned the beaver until it was dead. From the Poughkeepsie Journal: The beaver bit him in the leg and then again in his buttocks, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 11:12 am David Allan Thompson, 27, was arrested for ripping off a bag of marijuana seized as evidence from the Charleroi Regional police department, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Thompson had gone to the police station on his own volition, according to reports, to "help out" cops. "Police said that back at the station, Thompson apologized repeatedly, telling police, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 11:02 am History of weight cycling does not impede future weight loss or metabolic improvements in postmenopausal women, a study from researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published in Metabolism, claims to have shown that people who "yo-yo diet" do not suffer any lasting metabolic changes as a result. That is, according to the study, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 10:50 am Rolling Stone reports that the band DEVO "are set to release a track later this month entitled "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro! (Remember Seamus)." It is inspired by Mitt Romney's notorious road trip from Massachusetts to Ontario, during which he transported the family dog, Seamus, in a kennel strapped to the roof of his station ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 09:56 am RIP, Harry Harrison, author of Make Room, Make Room (which was the basis for the movie Soylent Green) and the absolutely hilarious and indispensable Stainless Steel Rat books. I only met Harry once, when he was put on a panel with me about "Campbell Award winners." He quickly figured out that all the panelists except ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 09:06 am Mary Blair is best know as a Disney illustrator, whose modernist, stylized illustrations formed the basis for the It's a Small World ride and facade, as well as several of the best-loved murals in the parks. But she also worked as a general commercial illustrator, producing a good sheaf of advertising work as well as ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2012 08:42 am This photo, taken by Kulvir Gil, shows a pair of houses in Dawson City, Yukon Territories, Canada. Dawson City exists in a subarctic climate, the sort of place with a lot of permafrost—soil that remains frozen year round. In order for permafrost to happen, the mean annual temperature has to be colder than 0 degrees ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2012 08:10 am Editorial note — Cow Week is a tongue-in-cheek look at risk analysis and why we fear the things we fear. It is inspired by the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, the popularity of which is largely driven by the public's fascination with and fear of sharks. Turns out, cows kill more people every year than sharks ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 02:40 am Yesterday, Mark posted Progressive Insurance's denial that it had represented the driver who killed one of its policy holders, in an effort to getting out of paying a claim. Now, Matt Fisher, the brother of the dead woman, has posted a scathing rebuttal, which begins by noting: At the beginning of the trial on Monday, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2012 11:20 pm "Botanicus Interacticus" is a Disney research project that uses an electrode in the soil of a plant to turn the entire plant into a multitouch interface that can be used to control computers and other devices. Botanicus Interacticus is a technology for designing highly expressive interactive plants, both living and artificial. The technology is driven ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 14, 2012 09:17 pm 90 Days, 90 Reasons is a compelling Web project where each day, an interesting thinker contributes an essay on why President Obama should be reelected. First up was Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard on gay marriage, followed by the likes of environmental activist Adam Werbach on fuel efficiency standards, Roxane Gay on hope and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2012 08:37 pm New father Charlie Brooker has caught himself shouting at the machines in his life, given the matter careful consideration, and decided that it's OK -- more than OK, really. For Brooker, the future will involve lots of shouting at machines. Makes me wonder if there isn't something to be said for designing machines that understand ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2012 06:48 pm On the Vintage Ads LJ group, the fabulous Man Writing Slash has posted a set of "industrial cut-aways" by Frank Soltesz -- these being elaborate diagrams showing the details of manufacturing processes and businesses (brewing, making ice-cream, hotels). If you like comic-book villain-lair cutaways, you'll love these. More Frank Soltesz Industrial Cut-aways
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 14, 2012 06:08 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for this episode are: Ed Piskor, the cartoonist for Boing Boing’s weekly Brain Rot comic strip. Has illustrated 2 graphic novels with Harvey Pekar ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2012 06:00 pm Ever wonder what happens if you yo-yo in space? Wonder no more. Rather, stare in wonderment as NASA astronaut Don Pettit uses his downtime to demonstrate the amazing phenomenon of micrgravity yo on a very special episode of Science Off the Sphere. Science off the Sphere: Yo-Yos in Space (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 14, 2012 05:33 pm There is so much exciting news involved in this story that I'll just give it to you bit by bit: Sam Raimi is producing a movie called Murder of a Cat, which is about a guy who discovers that his recently deceased cat was leading a double life with another owner. That guy will be ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 14, 2012 05:10 pm I just learned that the Kindle edition of my book, The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things on Earth is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. Contents include: Least Adorable Pet | Most Disgusting Behavior on a Plane | Most Rotten Cheese | Creepiest Toy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2012 04:07 pm An excellent editorial by Alistair Croll on the civil rights implications of Big Data contains a number of points I hadn't considered before, as well as great analysis of the way that the Big Data situation arrived: "Personalization" is another word for discrimination. We're not discriminating if we tailor things to you based on what ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 14, 2012 03:46 pm [UPDATE: Read the comments in Cory's post here. The court records show that Progressive did indeed participate in the killer's legal defense] Adweek has a short item about Progressive Insurance's "social media crisis" resulting from Matt Fisher's claim that the insurer defended his sister's "killer in court in an effort not to pay out the ...
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