Drug Policy Alliance director discusses legal cannabis in CO and WA Parks and Rec goes to Washington, Mr. Biden goes to Parks and Rec Mochi ice cream inventor Frances Hashimoto dies of cancer Vive Le Castle: 'A Middle-Class Interloper Spends An Evening Hobnobbing With Billionaires' Twitter wasn't hacked, but it is asking many users to reset passwords. Make science your obedient servant (vintage ad, 1946) Ten great anagrams of "Nathaniel Read Silver" Encrusted, elaborate assemblage sculptures Privacy Matters On Outlook.com Petri dish Christmas ornaments The Turn of the Screw: James Watson on The Double Helix and his changing view of Rosalind Franklin Tibetan exiles' "Gangnam Style" video pokes fun at China's Xi Jinping during CCP's 18th congress Peter Serafinowicz has a new book out, containing one billion jokes Philip Pullman's Grimm's Fairytales Warcraft-playing Maine senate candidate wins, despite opponents anti-orc smears The Slut Vote Hominid: predation among the human-skeleton'ed prehistoric creatures Sean and the Sea Lion: a pinniped story in photographs La Ca3PO t-shirt Too bad Megatron didn't win the elections Haunted Mansion "alligator tightrope girl" cosplayer The Civil Wars cancel upcoming tour dates due to much tinier version of Civil War Hell Night at Fox News Drunk woman on YouTube upset over Obama reelection Bill Murray as all the Wes Anderson characters UK surgeon accused of misdiagnosing cancer to perform unnecessary surgeries on women 7.4 quake strikes Guatemala; at least 15 dead, 100+ missing Razer Naga gaming mouse requires always-on Internet connection, license agreement says they can use this to spy on you Afghan Whigs: "Miles Iz Ded" (1992) Neil Gaiman's next episode of Doctor Who will bring back a classic foe Drug Policy Alliance director discusses legal cannabis in CO and WA
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 08, 2012 12:48 pm Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann discusses the legalization of marijuana with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
Read in browser Parks and Rec goes to Washington, Mr. Biden goes to Parks and Rec
By Jamie Frevele on Nov 08, 2012 12:47 pm What's one of the most fun benefits of taking a show about local politics national? Cameos! Parks and Recreation has taken such a turn this season, with Adam Scott's character, Ben, taking a job on Capitol Hill. And Ben will be responsible for bringing a very recognizable gentleman to meet his fiancée, Leslie Knope, played ...
Read in browser Mochi ice cream inventor Frances Hashimoto dies of cancer
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 12:44 pm Frances Hashimoto, an influential business leader in LA's Little Tokyo neighborhood, who "fought to preserve the neighborhood's Japanese cultural traditions and who invented the popular fusion dessert known as mochi ice cream," has died of lung cancer. She was 69. Hashimoto was born in a WWII internment camp in Arizona in 1943. "She was an ...
Read in browser Vive Le Castle: 'A Middle-Class Interloper Spends An Evening Hobnobbing With Billionaires'
By Michael Schreiber on Nov 08, 2012 12:35 pm In the spring of 2011, my wife and I were invited to attend a fundraiser for a well-known European castle. We hadn't donated any money to the group ourselves—we didn't even know that castles had fundraisers. But a well to do colleague had given some money—a lot of money, really—and he was unable to attend ...
Read in browser Twitter wasn't hacked, but it is asking many users to reset passwords.
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 12:34 pm An update on the Twitter Status blog explains that the service "unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those... believed to have been compromised." Twitter wasn't hacked, it just goofed and accidentally sent re-set instructions to too many users.
Read in browser Make science your obedient servant (vintage ad, 1946)
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 12:12 pm A wonderful old ad for Bendix corporation, lovingly scanned and Flickr'd by Paul Malon. You really gotta see a larger size to read the copy in glorious detail.
Read in browser Ten great anagrams of "Nathaniel Read Silver"
By Rob Beschizza on Nov 08, 2012 12:10 pm Adherents' Alien Rival Darn All Her Naiveties I Ate Venal Hardliners Handles Narrative Lie Vanilla Disheartener Ha, Irrelevant Denials Annihilated Reversal Air Leaves Hinterland Alien Narratives Held Reverential Anil Dash
Read in browser Encrusted, elaborate assemblage sculptures
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2012 12:03 pm Richard Symons, an artist based in London, makes elaborate, gadget-encrusted sculptures, and sells them on Etsy. The teapot above sells for USD130.00. The mask on the right sells for USD60.00. Richard Symons (via Super Punch)
Read in browser Privacy Matters On Outlook.com
By Advertiser on Nov 08, 2012 12:00 pm ADVERTISEMENT This post sponsored by Outlook.com: Imagine you have an account with a major free webmail provider. You log into your account via your web browser and notice ads in your inbox and when you read a message. Now imagine that these ads are displayed based on what you write in the email you send ...
Read in browser Petri dish Christmas ornaments
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 08, 2012 11:55 am Is it too early to talk about how much I like these? I hope not. Please note these are not actual bacteria, but watercolor paintings sealed in resin inside real petri dishes. Check out the full collection at Etsy
Read in browser The Turn of the Screw: James Watson on The Double Helix and his changing view of Rosalind Franklin
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 08, 2012 10:57 am An interview with the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.
Read in browser Tibetan exiles' "Gangnam Style" video pokes fun at China's Xi Jinping during CCP's 18th congress
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 10:53 am "On the eve of China's leadership transition, amid the wave of Tibetan self-immolations, we needed to inject humor and hope into an otherwise terrifying situation."
Read in browser Peter Serafinowicz has a new book out, containing one billion jokes
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 10:32 am Peter Serafinowicz, funnyman of Internet, television, film, and paper, has a new book collection out.
Read in browser Philip Pullman's Grimm's Fairytales
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2012 08:00 am Philip Pullman -- best know for his
Dark Materials series -- has written a new edition of the Brothers Grimm stories, called
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version. It's the 200th anniversary of the Grimm collection, and Pullman's edition includes author's notes and
Aarne–Thompson classifications.
Read in browser Warcraft-playing Maine senate candidate wins, despite opponents anti-orc smears
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2012 08:58 am Remember Colleen Lachowicz, the Democratic candidate for the Maine senate whose GOP opponent attacked her for playing World of Warcraft? She won. Here's Robert Long on the Bangor Daily News: Gamers from around the world soon rushed to her defense, making more than $6,300 in contributions via the website ActBlue to two political actions committees ...
Read in browser The Slut Vote
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2012 07:44 am From B-Skillet of "Christian Men's Defense Network: "The Democrats tried to make this election about a single issue: The right to slut. Or more precisely, the right to slut without the responsibility of consequences." "One thing one has to remember about women, especially slutty ones: They usually don't make decisions based on reason," he writes, ...
Read in browser Hominid: predation among the human-skeleton'ed prehistoric creatures
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 07, 2012 08:38 pm Hominid is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by Brian Andrews.
Read in browser Sean and the Sea Lion: a pinniped story in photographs
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 07:23 pm Boing Boing reader John K. Goodman shares a series of photographs with us that tell a magical story about a sea lion and his son, Sean. Every time John and his son visit the Long Beach aquarium, she loves to play with Sean's dad's keys. Wonderful photos resulted.
Read in browser La Ca3PO t-shirt
By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2012 06:41 pm Our friends at Last Gasp just published Amigos de los Muertos, a hardcover collection of contemporary Day of the Dead artwork by Jeral Tidwell, Angryblue, Roberto Jaras Lira, and David Lozeau. Lira's "La Ca3PO," featured in the book, is now also available as a t-shirt! La Ca3P0 t-shirt (Thanks, Colin!)
Read in browser Too bad Megatron didn't win the elections
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 06:35 pm "All Hail Megatron!," a photograph by Justin Rampage shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. He explains: Goofy Photoshop that I made based off of this original reddit post by BergerKing80. You can also download a Facebook timeline header image created by redditor nerdwithme. reddit, Imgur. Update: Justin first posted this on Laughing Squid.
Read in browser Haunted Mansion "alligator tightrope girl" cosplayer
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 07, 2012 05:00 pm Here's Roxy Rot cosplaying the alligator tightrope-walker that appears in the Haunted Mansion's stretch-gallery, one of the iconic comic-horror images of the 20th century. She's perfectly awesome in the role, too. She's dressed up for Bats Day 2011, the annual goth day at Disneyland, which is enormous good fun. She notes, "The corset is from ...
Read in browser The Civil Wars cancel upcoming tour dates due to much tinier version of Civil War
By Jamie Frevele on Nov 07, 2012 04:59 pm In news that writes its own jokes, Grammy-winning country duo The Civil Wars have announced that they are canceling all upcoming tour dates due to "internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition." If the North and South could have issued press releases in the mid-19th century, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the Civil War ...
Read in browser Hell Night at Fox News
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 04:37 pm Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds: "As a connoisseur of Republican schadenfreude, it was pretty obvious that Fox was the place to be on this election night."
Read in browser Drunk woman on YouTube upset over Obama reelection
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 04:29 pm "15 fucking posts on Facebook and NONE OF YOU SHARED IT."
Read in browser Bill Murray as all the Wes Anderson characters
By Jamie Frevele on Nov 07, 2012 04:21 pm Artist Casey Weldon has cast Wes Anderson favorite Bill Murray as almost every character in Wes Anderson's movies. No, really, this is just as great as you're thinking it is. More images after the jump. These Murrays are part of Weldon's second installment for Spoke Art's tribute to Anderson's films. His first was in 2010 ...
Read in browser UK surgeon accused of misdiagnosing cancer to perform unnecessary surgeries on women
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 04:09 pm So-called "rogue surgeon" Ian Paterson has been suspended by Britain's General Medical Council after accusations he performed "unnecessary or inappropriate" breast operations on over a thousand women in the UK. Investigators claim he misdiagnosed at least 450 of those women with breast cancer when they were in fact cancer-free, performing unnecessary mastectomies and lumpectomies, and ...
Read in browser 7.4 quake strikes Guatemala; at least 15 dead, 100+ missing
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 07, 2012 03:28 pm A strong earthquake struck the southwestern coast of Guatemala this morning, causing widespread damage and a yet-undetermined number of deaths.
Read in browser Razer Naga gaming mouse requires always-on Internet connection, license agreement says they can use this to spy on you
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 07, 2012 03:00 pm Channelx99, a poster on the overclock.net forums, says that the Razer Naga gaming mouse comes with special drivers that require your computer to be connected to the Internet at all times in order to play -- and this means that the mouse was useless when it was first plugged in, because Razer's servers were down. ...
Read in browser Afghan Whigs: "Miles Iz Ded" (1992)
By David Pescovitz on Nov 07, 2012 02:34 pm Short film for the reunited Afghan Whigs' Miles Iz Ded, the hidden track on their 1992 LP
Congregation.
Read in browser Neil Gaiman's next episode of Doctor Who will bring back a classic foe
By Jamie Frevele on Nov 07, 2012 01:53 pm We learned a while back that author Neil Gaiman would be returning to Doctor Who to write a follow-up to his Hugo Award-winning episode, "The Doctor's Wife." And now we know a little bit more about what he'll be writing about -- one of the series' most classic villains, the Cybermen, will be brought back ...
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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