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American once placed in solitary confinement in Iran explores solitary confinement in US prisons Ivan Reitman has a de-Murrayed Ghostbusters 3 on his schedule for next summer Genetically-modified mouse to sniff out landmines Candy Corn on the cob The raven Nike's X-ray tights Coming to America: Six copyright accusations, lose your Internet Why casual sexism in science matters New tiny street installations from Slinkachu French family enjoys its consumer durables, invokes Talking Heads Ai Weiwei guest-edits the New Statesman, which pirates itself to evade the Great Firewall of China Pirate Bay moves to the cloud Dancing Alone To Pony Corruption in Arizona National Guard, from "bum-hunts" to sexual harassment Horrifying face/throat zombie makeup Watch this Great Dane bitch deliver her puppies...live! NYCC: Issa Ibrahim's "Love Among the Ruins" When Kleenex was a novelty Rock faces: street art by Andre Muniz Gonzaga Blondie's Debbie Harry explains how to Pogo NYCC Interview: Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, creators of The Venture Bros. Mondrian cake Gum: weird avant-turntablism from 1987 Life is swell… in a fallout shelter! Fire Whip Cracking to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" TOM THE DANCING BUG: Billy Dare - Get that McGuffin! Photos of heads in space helmets American once placed in solitary confinement in Iran explores solitary confinement in US prisons
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 18, 2012 12:55 pm Shane Bauer, one of the American hikers who was arrested by Iranian authorities on the Iran-Iraq border, then placed in solitary, goes inside the notorious isolation units of California's Pelican Bay prison.
Read in browser Ivan Reitman has a de-Murrayed Ghostbusters 3 on his schedule for next summer
By Jamie Frevele on Oct 18, 2012 12:55 pm In an item that actually has nothing to do with the "development hellish" Ghostbusters 3, Deadline is reporting that director Ivan Reitman will be directing the "reboot" (that's what they're calling it here) beginning next summer. So, that is, apparently, happening. What is not happening is Bill Murray being a part of this movie. And ...
Read in browser Genetically-modified mouse to sniff out landmines
By David Pescovitz on Oct 18, 2012 12:50 pm The MouSensor is a lab mouse genetically-engineered to sniff out land mines. Mice have already been trained to find explosives by scent but according to Hunter College biologist Charlotte D'Hulst, the MouSensor is ultra sensitive to the odor of TNT. From The Guardian: Given its extreme sensitivity to TNT, the mouse would probably have some ...
Read in browser Candy Corn on the cob
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 18, 2012 12:44 pm An Instructable exists for this. It must be made. Alaskantomboy writes, in the prelude: I experimented with fondant first, that was completely unsuccessful. Then I though of gluing it together with caramel (since I had a fresh bag of that around too). Too messy and too hard. Then, another light bulb went off.....cookie dough! Sugar ...
Read in browser The raven
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 18, 2012 12:36 pm A wonderful photograph of one my favorite birds, just in time for the Goth season. Shared in the BB Flickr Pool by Nick Loven.
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 18, 2012 12:35 pm Nike Women's new performance tights digitally printed with X-ray images.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 18, 2012 12:18 pm Hey, America, no need to feel left out! You're soon to join Britain, France and New Zealand in having a sneaky program to spy on your Internet connection and cut you off on the basis of unproven accusations of copyright infringement. The six-strikes rule comes from the major carriers, the studios and labels, and will ...
Read in browser Why casual sexism in science matters
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 18, 2012 12:15 pm Psychobiologist Dario Maestripieri returned from a neuroscience meeting in New Orleans and posted to Facebook that he was disappointed with the "unusually high concentrations of unattractive women. The super model types are completely absent. What is going on? Are unattractive women particularly attracted to neuroscience? Are beautiful women particularly uninterested in the brain?" He added, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 18, 2012 11:53 am Brilliant new street installations from Slinkachu. His creations are collected in several books now, including the brand new Global Model Village: The International Street Art of Slinkachu. Tiny people art project
Read in browser French family enjoys its consumer durables, invokes Talking Heads
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 18, 2012 09:00 am This French family is certainly pleased by its exciting gadgets! Deuxième leçon: la question & le washmatic
Read in browser Ai Weiwei guest-edits the New Statesman, which pirates itself to evade the Great Firewall of China
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 18, 2012 07:47 am Helen from the UK newspaper the New Statesman writes, Today, the New Statesman is publishing an issue of the magazine guest-edited by the Chinese rebel artist Ai Weiwei. In the issue, Ai interviews the "blind dissident" Chen Guangcheng about the forced abortions and sterilisations required to enforce the one-child policy. He also speaks to a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2012 10:59 pm The Pirate Bay has moved its servers into a network of cloud-based hosting services around the world, making it less vulnerable to police raids. I wonder how well this will work, though: cloud providers are very vulnerable to police threats, since the cops can always threaten to take down all the cloud's customers in order ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 17, 2012 08:58 pm There is a tumblog for people who dance alone to Ginuwine's 1996 classic, Pony. [via Anil Dash]
Read in browser Corruption in Arizona National Guard, from "bum-hunts" to sexual harassment
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2012 08:55 pm A long, excellent investigative piece in the Arizona Republic documents a litany of awful and criminal practices by senior officers (especially recruiters) in the Arizona National Guard. Reporter Dennis Wagner spent five months on the project, using Freedom of Information Act requests and internal sources to uncover stomach-turning transgressions, such as recruiters who brought their ...
Read in browser Horrifying face/throat zombie makeup
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2012 06:50 pm Redditor Specialxk's zombie walk face-and-throat trompe l'oeil makeup job is awesomely horrifying, and it's a nice extension of the sort of work we've featured before with the Venom makeup from Captainsarasparrow. May I present to you my Zombie Walk makeup. (imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
Read in browser Watch this Great Dane bitch deliver her puppies...live!
By Amy Seidenwurm on Oct 17, 2012 05:37 pm Chaos the Great Dane is about to have puppies. Watch one dog become several...live!
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By Jamie Frevele on Oct 17, 2012 04:58 pm One of the booths at New York Comic Con that caught my eye was the one above, by artist Issa Ibrahim, who specializes in (sometimes risqué) pieces featuring comic book characters. "Love Among the Ruins" is not only a take on one of my favorite pictures ever, "The Kiss" by Alfred Eisenstaedt, it brings together ...
Read in browser When Kleenex was a novelty
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2012 04:47 pm This 1940s Kleenex ad features illustrated testimonials for facial tissues is an interesting look back at the time when "one hand removes a tissue... and up pops another" had enough novelty value to feature in a major ad campaign. Kleenex 1940s
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 17, 2012 04:43 pm Brazilian artist Andre Muniz Gonzaga reveals the hidden personalities of rocks, stone surfaces, and crumbling walls. (Hi-Fructose)
Read in browser Blondie's Debbie Harry explains how to Pogo
By David Pescovitz on Oct 17, 2012 04:11 pm Debbie Harry in 1978 explaining how to Pogo.
Read in browser NYCC Interview: Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, creators of The Venture Bros.
By Jamie Frevele on Oct 17, 2012 03:26 pm Ask any fan of Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. and they will tell you this: it has been a long time since we saw a new season of The Venture Bros. Yes, we were treated to the one-shot mockumentary episode "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy" and its music video ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2012 02:42 pm Last December, Nicole J Caruth posted this photo of a "Mondrian cake" to her Twitter stream. What a fabulous piece of work! Finally trying the Mondrian cake
Read in browser Gum: weird avant-turntablism from 1987
By Aquarius on Oct 17, 2012 02:09 pm Gum is an Australian avant-turntablist duo from the 1980s that began quite literally with a skipping Brian Eno record. Their output has now been compiled on a double-CD titled
Gum: "Vinyl Anthology".
Read in browser Life is swell… in a fallout shelter!
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2012 01:30 pm Cute placemats! (Via X-Ray Delta One)
Read in browser Fire Whip Cracking to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2012 01:22 pm Why the internet, and specifically YouTube, was invented. A guy doing fire stunts to one of the greatest metal songs of all time.
Read in browser TOM THE DANCING BUG: Billy Dare - Get that McGuffin!
By Ruben Bolling on Oct 17, 2012 01:20 pm TOM THE DANCING BUG: In which the plot is rocketed forward when Billy Dare discovers he simply must obtain a McGuffin! I'm lovin' it!
Read in browser Photos of heads in space helmets
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2012 01:04 pm From Things Magazine: a grid of photos of heads in helmets. I recognize about a third of the images.
Read in browser Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century.
Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their inner maker” as they design and build projects like stamps, stop-motion animation clips, and “vibrobots.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRKXqDwieY&feature=plcp]
This might seem all shiny and new. And it is—but only in part. What’s so striking (and exciting) about SparkTruck is the way it combines old and new. It does so in the tools it gets kids using, which range from pipe cleaners to laser cutters. It does so in its educational approach, which combines cutting-edge (get it?) STEM and design pedagogy with the fundamentals of an old-school shop class. And it does so in its method, which combines the iconic, century-old technology of the bookmobile with the hot new form of the maker space.
In doing so, SparkTruck joins a growing number of libraries which are combining time-tested principles (like equal access to information) with new technologies (like 3-D printers), putting in maker spaces and media production labs alongside bookshelves and meeting rooms. As I’ve argued over on bookmobility.org, these combinations make sense because reading and making actually have a lot in common. They’re both creative processes that take existing materials and combine them in new ways. Getting people engaged in those kinds of processes—through imaginative thinking, contemplation, hands-on problem-solving, and collaborative learning—is what both maker spaces and libraries are all about.
Taking that commitment on the road with scissors and hammers and 3-D printers and a great big bookmobile-like truck, SparkTruck serves as a laboratory for new approaches, as well as a reminder that trying new things doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t!) necessarily mean tossing old ones out.
After all, what would those vibrobots be without classically crafty pipe cleaners and tongue depressors? And what would a library be without the creative, participatory, straight-up awesome experience of reading?
SparkTruck schedule [sparktruck.org]
How to arrange a visit from SparkTruck [sparktruck.org]
SparkTruck YouTube channel [youtube.com]
Signature: --Derek Attig, bookmobility.org
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