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- Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads
- Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died (Der Untergang remix)
- djBC's Muppet mashups
- HOWTO build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat
- Landmark buildings of the world as acrylic rings
- If woowoos ran the emergency room
- Compuserve shuts down
- Massive bank fraud in massively multiplayer game EVE
- Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie
- The Don Martin Dictionary
- Music video of stochasticity for Radiolab science podcast
- Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga
- Record sleeve table and syringe chandelier
- Cool projects on Make: Online
- New images of the lunar surface
- World's oldest basketball shoes
- Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher
- The Choppers (1961)
- @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
- Ript: the dude equivalent of a padded bra
- NAACP comic from early 1960s
- Awesome pixel-art in cross-stitch form
- Video of Walt Disney World's Obamabot
| Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads Posted: 04 Jul 2009 01:02 AM PDT  Bruce Schneier points out that keypad wear is a form of "information leakage": "There are 10,000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have to try 24 on these keypads. The first is most likely 1986 or 1968. The second is almost certainly 1234." |
| Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died (Der Untergang remix) Posted: 04 Jul 2009 12:50 AM PDT Video. Adolf Hitler is pretty pissed off to learn that Michael Jackson has died and won't be able to perform at his birthday party. Evidences the true marks of a great internet meme: infinite expandability, extremely bad taste in multiple respects, and an unfairly long lifespan. (via @andrewbaron)
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| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:48 PM PDT  djBC, consistently my favorite mashup producer/creator (he's the guy behind the Beasties/Beatles remix "The Beastles"), has released an entire album of remixes of Muppet music! He sez, "In honor of my daughter's first birthday- and one month late- I'm rolling out 'Muppet Mashup.' Ten mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. With the legendary McSleazy (of MTV Mash and GYBO), Dunproofin, ATOM, Martinn, Uncanny Valley and yours truly, dj BC. I'm particularly proud of my 'I'm Happy' track, which is built on Edwinn Starr loops, Muppet Show samples, and a fun, funky playground acapella from some little girls on Sesame Street." I've just listened to this straight through, with the baby, and we were both captivated. Bravo! Mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. Coral Cache mirror of the entire album Previously:   |
| HOWTO build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:42 PM PDT This first-hand account of the construction of a clandestine shortwave radio by British POWs in a Japanese camp in Singapore really reminds me of James Clavell's magnificent novel King Rat, my all-time favorite war-novel, which revolves grippingly around the construction, discovery and consequences of a hidden shortwave in the Changi camp (both Clavell and Ronald "St Trinian's" Searle were interned in this camp). BJ: Can I just ask you - the components for the low voltage battery cells that you produced, where did you get all the components from?Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp (via Make)   |
| Landmark buildings of the world as acrylic rings Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:25 PM PDT  Etsy seller Plastique's got laser-cut acrylic rings boasting pointy world monuments. As knuckledusters, they create the possibility of growling, "Right, mate, you're geography," before you bust your opponent in the chops. |
| If woowoos ran the emergency room Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:23 PM PDT "Homeopathic A&E," a sketch from the British comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look invites us to imagine an emergency room (A&E is British for Accidents and Emergencies, the UK equivalent of ER), as run by newage woo woos. That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E (via White Coat Underground) |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:20 PM PDT After 30 years, Compuserve is finally, totally, mostly dead (the email addresses still work). I was always a local BBS and GEnie guy, but there's no doubting the power and influence of Compuserve in introducing the idea of networked communications to a generation, and proving the business-case for commercial online activity: The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service boasted about having over half a million users simultaneously on line. Many innovations we now take for granted, from online travel (Eaasy Sabre), online shopping, online stock quotations, and global weather forecasts, just to name a few, were standard fare on CompuServe in the 1980s.CompuServe Requiem (via Beyond the Beyond)   |
| Massive bank fraud in massively multiplayer game EVE Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:15 PM PDT The chairman of the virtual bank in EVE Online, a space-trading/piracy game, absconded with billions of virtual credits, swapping them for $5,000 in cash to make a house payment. The embezzlement caused a run on the bank and has rocked the economy of EVE. The run on the bank has come to about 600 billion ISK, which has been withdrawn. However, we have a very big group of excellent supporters, who have deposited about 105 billion ISK sitting in Sweep to keep us liquid. We are extremely grateful for this. Currently the run seems to be mostly over with only a slightly higher withdrawal rate still, than deposit rate. That's to be expected, and in-line with EBANK's strategy to shrink to a more managable level.Billions stolen in online robbery New perspective on EVE Online's latest bank embezzlement (via /.) Previously:
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| Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie Posted: 03 Jul 2009 04:09 PM PDT  Stephen Worth says: When I was very small, I had one of those horses on springs. I would jump on it and bounce around furiously while my Dad would urge me on, calling out to me to "Ride that horse down the bumpy road to Bodie!"Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie   |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 03:52 PM PDT  Richard Metzger pointed me to the Don Martin Dictionary. Martin was one of my favorite Mad cartoonists. His sophisticated absurdism was the opposite of Dave Berg's middlebrow sitcom humor (but I liked him, too). The Don Martin Dictionary |
| Music video of stochasticity for Radiolab science podcast Posted: 03 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT Higher Mammals made a song and video to accompany Radiolab's recent show about stochasticity. If you don't already know about Radiolab, it's a terrific science podcast produced for WYNC public radio. |
| Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga Posted: 03 Jul 2009 02:24 PM PDT This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985. Previously:   |
| Record sleeve table and syringe chandelier Posted: 03 Jul 2009 01:43 PM PDT   While BB Gadgets' Rob is fond of Bughouse's Album Side Table made from old LP jackets, I prefer the Hypolux Chandelier, constructed from plexiglass plates, commercial syringes, and a ballchain suspension.   |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 01:14 PM PDT Make: Online has published a number of cool projects recently. Diana Eng's frilly and fashion-forward Morse code key. Diana Eng (best known from Project Runway and her book Fashion Geek) is our current guest author. Besides being a geek-chic fashion maven, Diana is also a ham operator and on a mission to introduce a new generation of hobbyists (especially women) to ham radio. In this project, she makes a sexy garter strap to hold her new Morse key. Sean Ragan shows you how to make some sweet home-baked gaming components using Shrinky Dink plastic and binder clips. As a follow-up piece to Alden Hart's LED Light Brick project in MAKE, Volume 18, the atuhor shares more ideas for molding and casting the acrylic bricks to house your LED board, including using machinable wax to create a life-mask face to house your array. Disco face, baby! |
| New images of the lunar surface Posted: 03 Jul 2009 11:49 AM PDT  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back its first photos of the moon. The photo above was taken near the moon's Mare Nubium region. The man in the moon is just outside the frame. From NASA: Older craters have softened edges, while younger craters appear crisp. (The image) shows a region 1,400 meters (0.87 miles) wide, and features as small as 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide can be discerned. The bottom (faces) lunar north.LRO's First Moon Images Previously:   |
| World's oldest basketball shoes Posted: 03 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra: "World's first basketball sneakers 116 years old found at an estate sale" Previously:   |
| Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher Posted: 03 Jul 2009 11:19 AM PDT  Roy Christopher has assembled his annual summer reading list, which includes book recommendations from several of our friends and former guest bloggers. Gareth Branwyn: A trend I'm noticing in books recently is that there are an increasing number that trade in danger – anti-Nanny State books. No, not those Dangerous Book for Boys and Girls. Those are rubbish. I'm talking about books like Theo Gray's tremendously awesome Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home – But Probably Shouldn't (Black Dog & Leventhal) and Bill Gurstelle's Absinthe and Flamethrowers (Chicago Review Press). Gray's book has a bunch of enticing experiments that are so well-documented and gorgeously photographed, you don't have to do them yourself, but if you decide you want to, Gray tells you the real dangers involved and what you have to find out on your own to do them safely and successfully. Treating us like adults. What a concept.Richard Metzger: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Random House, 2009): Ever get the feeling that you're trapped on a hamster wheel of predatory "Corporatism"? An unwitting participant in a system that you didn't sign up for in the first place? What happens when the operating system of the corporate Moloch runs amok.Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher   |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 11:09 AM PDT "The choppers call him 'Torch.'" Many thanks to the The Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre for uploading this 1961 movie about a gang of kids who steal and strip down cars to turn into hotrods. If you cool cats like classic hotrod cars, bad boys from the other side of the tracks, sexy blondes in tight shirts, insipidly catchy songs, goofy teen idol good looks, and the world's biggest cell phone... this one is for you!(Thanks, Brian!)   |
| @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) Posted: 03 Jul 2009 09:54 AM PDT (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.) More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com   |
| Ript: the dude equivalent of a padded bra Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:05 AM PDT  Behold, gentlemen! Ript, "the revolutionary torso-enhancing undershirt." The designer of this undergarment is described as "the creative force behind P. Diddy's Sean John clothing line, where she mastered her understanding of what appeals to the most sophisticated and discriminating men." Ah, so we can blame Diddy. "Ript" is so technologically advanced, it comes with a HOWTO, bitches:
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| Posted: 03 Jul 2009 09:03 AM PDT  A new specimen from Ethan Persoff's "Comics with Problems" archives: Early NAACP Comic Book History - Your Future Rests In Your Hands and The Street Where You Live (1960 and 1964)   |
| Awesome pixel-art in cross-stitch form Posted: 03 Jul 2009 07:15 AM PDT  Cross-Stitch Ninja's Flickr stream is a bottomless well of pixellated delights. Shown here, the CCTV cameras worked into the border of the "You Are Not Alone" sampler, and there's plenty of other lovelies, like the Super Mario maps, grammar puns, religio-vegetarian humor and loads more. Cross-stitch ninja's photostream (via Craft, thanks, Alice!) Previously:
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| Video of Walt Disney World's Obamabot Posted: 03 Jul 2009 07:06 AM PDT The Obamabot 3000 is ready to be unveiled at Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents, along with the Mark II George Washingtron ("Now with real talking action!") and a Gettysburg-complete Lincolnbot. No word on whether the Obamabot will allow release of the photos of the waterbotting on Pleasure Island, a no-go zone for civilians for several years now. We're just sorting out our Christmas at Disney World plans -- our first WDW trip with the baby -- and I'm looking forward to this. There is something eerily cool and compelling about all those hyper-detailed robots nodding and twitching at you from out of the uncanny valley while Maya Angelou tells you about the War Between the States. Barack Obama Joins Hall of Presidents at Disney's Magic Kingdom (Thanks, Patricio!)   |
"In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers are 25 years older than the 1917 Converse All-Stars", added Pifer. The Colchester Rubber Co. was located in Colchester, Connecticut and was in business from 1888 to 1893. 
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