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Pareidoloop Thank you, Bamboo Reef! London Varieties comes to the Edinburgh Fringe Student disciplined for improving campus course-selection system Twitch gamer swears by Rat mouse Why do stubbed toes hurt so damned much? Enthralling Books: Towards a Poor Theatre, by Jerzy Grotowski Machine-stitched monster patches Caturday "You Bet Your Life" out-takes, with Groucho Marx (video) Stuffed toy bunny helps police unravel giant global child porn network Pareidoloop
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 05, 2012 10:23 am Phil McCarthy's Pareidoloop overlays randomly generated polygons on top of one another until facial recognition software recognizes a human face. Can't sleep, at SIGGRAPH! [via @Brandonn]
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By Jason Weisberger on Aug 04, 2012 08:45 pm Another quick shot from diving off Catalina with Sal and the Bamboo Reef crew. Their annual August charter on Truth Aquatics' Vision is wonderful. Thanks again guys!
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2012 08:08 pm Juggler and impresario Mat Ricardo sez, After six months of sell-out shows and fun times in London, we've arrived at the Edinburgh Fringe where Mat Ricardo's London Varieties has become The Voodoo Varieties! We're all very excited - we have a completely different line-up of the best cabaret, variety, circus and comedy acts every single ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2012 05:56 pm Timothy Arnold, a student at the University of Central Florida, produced a app called U Could Finish that automated the process of hunting for vacancies in popular courses. After the app was the subject of a popular Reddit post, the administration at UCF punished Arnold for doing this, on the grounds that it had overloaded ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2012 04:42 pm My wife Alice is a retired pro twitch-gamer, and when she gets excited about a new pointing device, I pay attention. Last night she glommed onto Chris DiBona's remarkable Rat Mouse, played with it, and pronounced it good. Want want want want want! I just used one too, and they're quite remarkable. Easy to use. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2012 03:36 pm Many's the time I've rolled around on the ground, grimacing and making animal keening noises and wondering why the hell humans evolved to experience such dramatic pain from toe-stubbing. Here is a plausible-sounding threefold answer from Chris Geiser, director of Marquette College's College of Health Sciences athletic training program. Part one is that we've just ...
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By Antero Alli on Aug 04, 2012 03:30 pm Towards a Poor Theatre, by Jerzy Grotowski I had not heard of Grotowski until 1977 when I witnessed a film document of his Polish Theatre Lab's performance of Akropolis. As I left Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive screening, I wandered the streets in shock and awe. Though I had eight years' experience performing, writing, and directing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2012 02:29 pm Refashion Co-Op's Resweater shows us a great technique for machine-stitched monster-patches for your holey jeans. A cute fix for a hole in the knee of jeans (via Craft)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 04, 2012 01:40 pm Boing Boing reader Nicholas Longtin of Minneapolis has carefully 'shooped a series of photos from the 2012 Olympics to include his cats. I'll consider it complete when this shot's included. (via BB Flickr Pool)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 04, 2012 01:18 pm My friend David Silverman tipped me off to these compilations of too-risqué-for-TV out-takes from Groucho Marx's television show, You Bet Your Life. Above, part 1, below, part 2, of one set. There's more where this came from on YouTube.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 04, 2012 01:13 pm Trigger warning, for sure, in this Associated Press story about a single physical clue that led police to bust a network of child rapists who published evidence of their acts online: "43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a ...
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