"Not sure where you got this photo": Zuckerbergs trip in Facebook privacy maze TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix's 100th Anniversary! Meet the random shopper: Amazon gifts bought at a machine's whim Young mutant is reunited with plush Fin Fin, the discontinued 1996 Fujitsu mascot, all thanks to Boing Boing readers Amazon kicks self-published Star Wars memoir out of the Kindle store on nebulous and nonsensical trademark grounds 3D printed, hand-painted miniatures Soviet space-program Christmas cards Grendel as Grinch Glowing full-moon credenza "Not sure where you got this photo": Zuckerbergs trip in Facebook privacy maze
By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2012 12:43 pm Buzzfeed's Jack Moore posts a Zuckerberg family photo, made public after Randi Zuckerberg forgets how Facebook works.
Read in browser TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix's 100th Anniversary!
By Ruben Bolling on Dec 26, 2012 12:05 pm Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix celebrates its 100th Anniversary by presenting its very first comic!
Read in browser Meet the random shopper: Amazon gifts bought at a machine's whim
By Leigh Alexander on Dec 26, 2012 11:55 am Boston coder Darius Kazemi's interest in chance led him to create a bot that buys stuff on Amazon: a human decision made ineluctably alien by the randomness of a computer's whim.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 26, 2012 11:47 am This Christmas, a young mutant was reunited with his long-lost chum, all thanks to you.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 26, 2012 08:45 am Gib Van Ert sez, Amazon has decided to remove the book I self-published on Kindle, "A Long Time Ago: Growing up with and out of Star Wars", from their store for an unspecified trademark issue. Their emails are vague, but they seems to being saying that I have to have Lucasfilm's permission before selling on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2012 10:43 pm These 3D printed, hand-painted white nylon miniatures are rather special: Take a look atTurtleWorks shop on Shapeways that does not contain any turtles, but does contain many more 3D printed miniatures that you can order in the material of your choice then customize by hand painting for yourself. We also have an entire gallery of3D printed miniatures on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2012 09:26 pm "Soviet Christmas card" sounds like a mere kitschy improbability, but what if I told you that they were space-race-themed Soviet Christmas cards? It's a Christmas miracle, dude. Old Soviet Christmas card collection (via Richard Kadrey)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2012 06:18 pm Ross sez, "I was reading Thomas Meyer's great new translation of Beowulf when the annual showing of The Grinch came on. The potential for a mash-up overwhelmed me, and this is the result." Every Scylding in Heorot liked mead a lot, But Grendel the beast, roaring outside did not. Grendel hated Scyldings, the whole Danish ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2012 02:55 pm If Sotirios Papadopoulos's "Full Moon" credenza is half as cool in real life as it is in this rendering, well, it'll be pretty cool. This'd be a fun remake/refurb project for junk-shop furniture: A striking credenza, with a photo-realistic, luminous image of the moon printed on its surface. Coated with ELI (Eco Light Inside), an ...
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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