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• Vintage, profanity-laced cable complaint that was hand-to-handed on cassette tape through the Canadian school system [NSFW]
• Vintage transistor radio packaging
• Haunted Mansion ghost hearse made from Lego
• T-shirt turns into a zombie
• Hard drive junkbot
• Live crab vending machine
• Self-abusing kinetic sculpture
• Tentacle pot pie!
• Terrified feds try to bar Bunnie Huang from testifying at Xbox jailbreaking trial
• Maggot paintings used to interest kids in forensic entomology
• Building a telegraph out of stone-age materials
• President Obama's "It Gets Better" video
• Yukon gent seeks $12M for swindled space rock with alien life-forms
• New Mexico lawmaker distributes "big fat boners" to Border Patrol officers
• Telefuture: '80s NBC news segment on future of TV technologies
• 2NE1: K-Pop diva with auto-tune, spaceships, dancing Stormtroopers
• Glen E. Friedman x Shepard Fairey in SF, Nov. 6-Dec. 21
• The Alchemist's Laboratory
• David Byrne limited-edition print to benefit Creative Time
• How to make a Tokyo monster movie
• Tissues advertised to deal with "what-not"
• Chewing doll nearly consumes girl's hair (1996)
• Prop 19: Should Californians legalize marijuana?
• Microsoft Windows Phone 7 review
• Video camera designed to record encounters with police
• Apple's new Mac App Store: The good, the bad, and the scary
• Google Reader Pedal: hacking a USB keyboard
• Obama to meet with Steve Jobs today
• Steampunk halloween display at Screaming Mimi's in NYC
• Flowchart: How will you vote in the next election?

Vintage, profanity-laced cable complaint that was hand-to-handed on cassette tape through the Canadian school system [NSFW] Posted: 22 Oct 2010 05:05 AM PDT Sixohsix sez, "Via @kellyoxford's tumblr, this profanity-laden rant from an extremely unhappy Canadian cable subscriber went viral via cassette tape and entertained junior-high-schoolers for years. Warning: LOTS of swearing." Be sure to listen through to the end for the classiest coda imaginable from Mr Anonymous Potty Mouth. Cable Complaint [NSFW] (Thanks, Sixohsix, via Submitterator!) Google and Viacom blend high-profile copyright suits with extreme ... Senator's bill to ban profanity Debate Uncut: McCain audio reveals profanity, insults hurled at ... Profanity and broadcasting: New FCC actions, and the Loh-down ... Cleveland pol sends drug suspect profanity-filled letter 911 police officer refuses to help girl who calls about her dying ... The Internet was made for cussin' Cussin'-est winnebago promo film, ever

Vintage transistor radio packaging Posted: 22 Oct 2010 04:58 AM PDT Packaging design site The Dieline presents us with a selection of beautiful packaging for old transistor radios, including these transistor radio sunglasses. Vintage Packaging: Transistor Radios, Part II Vintage kids' art supply packaging gallery Vintage paint tin label-design Vintage vinyl CD packaging kit Vintage Listerine decanter Cute Japanese transistor radio has dials for eyes Homemade radio creates spooky sounds Transistor radios from the 1970s Gallery of vintage transistor radios

Haunted Mansion ghost hearse made from Lego Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:50 PM PDT Jordan Schwartz made this dandy Haunted Mansion inspired ghost coach out of Lego, complete with spectral custom minifigs! It's also meant to evoke Johnny Depp's "Sleepy Hollow." Ghost Coach (via Super Punch) Haunted Mansion embroidery Home-made Madame Leota crystal ball head Haunted Mansion home office Ornate, laser-cut birchwood Victorian dollhouse Papercraft pillar from Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor New Haunted Mansion book probably *won't* suck

T-shirt turns into a zombie Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:45 PM PDT This zombie shirt has an upside-down zombie face screened on the inside -- pull the back of the shirt over your head and voila, instant topless zombie! Turn Into A Zombie (via Neatorama) My Fair Lady X zombies t-shirt Now THAT'S a zombie tee! Vegan zombie shirt Zombies in Wonderland tee Ape Lad's pirate hobo zombie chimp T-shirt -- $10 T-shirts: robots, aliens, and zombies galore!

Hard drive junkbot Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:40 PM PDT Here's a cute hard-drive-based junkbot design. It's only CGI, but it'd make a dandy sculpture (or, for that matter, a fun character animation). Artist: George Guo. hard disk robot (via Super Punch) Junkbot lamps Junkbots galore! Purdy junkbots from Andrea Petrachi Junkbots made from old hard-drives Homemade R2D2 steampunk junkbot Kitchen appliance junkbot Vietnamese junkbot builder Nerdbots: found-object junkbots

Live crab vending machine Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:33 PM PDT This live hairy Shanghai crab vending machine keeps the crabs at 5° C, at which temperature the poor crustaceans go into hibernation. If you give it some money and it dispenses a dead crab, the machine's owner will give you three free live crabs by way of compensation. The machine is in Nanjing, and represents a major push in the always-complex business of live-crab vending. Vending Machine Sells Live Crabs (via DVICE) Japanese women could be "safer" at night by wearing vending ... Biometric vending machine San Francisco bans coke from city vending machines Marijuana vending machine Vending machine sells ideas for things to do Holy Vending Machine TED 2008: Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein

Self-abusing kinetic sculpture Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:28 PM PDT Nemo Gould's kinetic sculpture, "Nowhere Fast," is a moving meditation on self abuse: "Not the intentional kind mind you, but the unwitting variety. Our poor hero pedals diligently at his machine to get away from the persistent clubbing on his head, while all he needs to do for relief is to stop pedaling." Nowhere Fast 2009 (72" x 72" x 26") (via Super Punch) Reuben Margolin's kinetic wave sculptures Motor attached to series of reduction gears - final gear fixed in ... Kinetic sculpture accuses patrons of crimes Build a kinetic sculpture in a serene Flash game Kinetic clock sculptures Andy Paiko's wunderkammer of glass sculpture Kinetic clock sculptures Junk steampunk sculptures Kinetic steampunk submarine sculpture

Tentacle pot pie! Posted: 21 Oct 2010 10:48 PM PDT Want to give your pot pies a bit of a Hallowe'eny touch? Just add tentacles! "First position the tentacles. Pick them up by the wide end and drape them by lowering the narrow end down to the the plate first, then up the edge of the bowl and over the lip of the bowl. If the wide end of the tentacle extends further than an inch in towards the center of the bowl simply trim it with kitchen scissors before letting it go." Tentacle Pot Pie (via JWZ) HOWTO make a meat-head HOWTO Make jello blood-worms HOWTO: Make Dexter blood-slide candies HOWTO make edible Hallowe'en eyeballs HOWTO bake porridge in a pumpkin freaky food fun: Insert dried spaghetti into hot dogs, then boil ...

Terrified feds try to bar Bunnie Huang from testifying at Xbox jailbreaking trial Posted: 21 Oct 2010 10:44 PM PDT Bunnie "Chumby" Huang, whose Hacking the Xbox is a reverse-engineer's bible, has been asked to testify at the trial of Anaheim's Matthew Crippen, who faces three years in prison for jailbreaking Xbox 360s (that is, modding them so that they could run software that Microsoft hadn't authorized). But federal prosecutors have asked the judge to prevent Bunnie from testifying. The 35-year-old Huang argues that mod-chipping is not a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it unlawful to circumvent technology designed to prevent copyright infringement. He said he hopes to prove that point to jurors via a step-by-step tutorial. "Basically, what he did was insufficient on his own to violate anything," Huang said in a recent telephone interview from Singapore, where he serves as vice president of hardware and general manager for Chumby's operations in Asia. Additionally, Huang said, the DMCA should be interpreted to allow for "fair use" exemptions, so chipping a console for legitimate purposes would be permitted, even if it is found to be a circumvention. The U.S. Copyright Office, he noted, just granted an exception to the DMCA to allow the jailbreaking of cellphones, and the iPhone in particular, allowing the iPhone to run third-party apps not approved by Apple. Modding a game console should be treated the same way, he said. Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer From Mod-Chip Trial "Buttonless" Xbox 360 controller mod isn't really Xbox to 1979 toy Millennium Falcon mod XXX-XBOX: teledildonics mod with live video chat Feds raid DC gaming stores for modded Xbox consoles Modded Xbox 360 controller is better for first-person shooters ... Blank Nintendo carts banned in UK 3D medical viz system with Xbox controller

Maggot paintings used to interest kids in forensic entomology Posted: 21 Oct 2010 10:33 PM PDT Steve Silberman sez, "A forensic entomologist -- who calculates the time of death in murder cases by studying the presence of insects and larvae near (or in) the corpse -- uses maggot 'paintings' to get kids interested in science. 'I stay away from talking about murder with elementary school children,' says Erin Watson, 'but there's still something for them to learn.'" Maggot art is made by gently dropping the larvae into blobs of non-toxic, water-based paint. As the maggots crawl across paper using their hook-like mouths, they drag streams of paint behind them creating what Watson calls "Maggot Monets." After a little coercion, children become enthralled with the project, says Watson, which has caused throngs of eager youngsters to crowd around her table at past exhibits. Maggot Monets (Thanks, Steve, via Submitterator!) Maggot cheese that tries to eat your eyes Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video Maggot Band-Aid Non-genetic maggot speciation Hotel proudly proclaims Winston Churchill's displeasure with its ...

Building a telegraph out of stone-age materials Posted: 21 Oct 2010 10:28 PM PDT In this Motherboard.tv episode, artist Jamie O'Shea from Substitute Materials shows how you can build a telegraph from materials that were readily available 50,000 years ago: "It's the ultimate salvagepunk experiment, a DIY exploration of what makes innovation possible, and an attempt to prove that the future could happen at any time (even if the world isn't always ready for it)." Video: Immaculate Telegraphy: How One Man Built a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials (Thanks, Zorca, via Submitterator!) Stone Age dildo unearthed in Sweden? Knot Chair: cozy, semi-stone-age Did our Stone Age ancestors turn to farming all for the love of ... Stone-age superglue Stone age chewing gum Researchers develop handy phrasebook for people who travel in time ...

President Obama's "It Gets Better" video Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:25 PM PDT Video Link. Well—"Not for him it hasn't," quips Choire. Yes, It gets better: but not so much better that you can, say, join the U.S. military without having to pretend you're not who you are, and forego the legal protections straight enlistees enjoy. "I support your differences! Up to a point." That's the message, loud and clear. It Gets Better: video postcards to isolated queer kids from happy ... "It Gets Better" video from Google employees Councilman gives a brave, emotional "It gets better" speech ... Showing LGBT teens how life gets better

Yukon gent seeks $12M for swindled space rock with alien life-forms Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:17 PM PDT Yukon mining prospector Dan Sabo claims geologists from the government of Canada stole a priceless piece of meteorite he discovered in the 1980s that contained crystalline alien life-forms. He is demanding $12 million in compensation. (via BB Submitterator, thanks qousqous)

New Mexico lawmaker distributes "big fat boners" to Border Patrol officers Posted: 21 Oct 2010 08:38 PM PDT New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish has a little trouble with her nouns during a gubernatorial debate. (via Submitterator, thanks yasuragi)

Telefuture: '80s NBC news segment on future of TV technologies Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:19 PM PDT [Video Link] Start your tape machines! An NBC news report from the eighties that explores "Telefuture," the predicted world of future television in the US. The segment focuses on information services technologies, including Teletext and Viewdata systems. This is particularly fascinating given that now, in 2010, "convergence" of Internet services back to the television is the latest trend. This video also includes a couple of hopefully interesting/amusing beginning and ending clips bracketing the report. Oddly, not one mention of Google TV, Apple TV, or YouTube. More about this segment on Lauren Weinstein's Vortex Video Archive, and more about the techniques used to archive these fantastic old retrofuturistic video clips here: the Betamax Videotape Extraction Lab. Bonus vintage weird: at 04:38, Alf makes a special appearance.

2NE1: K-Pop diva with auto-tune, spaceships, dancing Stormtroopers Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:18 PM PDT [Video Link] While you were sleeping, K-Pop morphed into this. Zoetica of Coilhouse, from whose tweets I found this, asks: "How can I simultaneously hate and love one thing this much?" The one I've embedded below contains dancing Stormtroopers. And, yes, more auto-tune. The styling in both videos is kind of incredible. [Video Link]

Glen E. Friedman x Shepard Fairey in SF, Nov. 6-Dec. 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 08:53 PM PDT Jay Adams, shot by Glen E. Friedman in 1976. Photographer Glen E. Friedman, whose work we featured in a four-part Boing Boing TV series back in 2009, is best known for documenting early Dogtown skateboard culture in the late 1970s and the hip-hop and punk scenes of the '80s and '90s. His subjects have included the likes of Jay Adams and Tony Alva; Run-DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys; Minor Threat and Black Flag, and many others. A show of his work titled "Fuck You All" will open at San Francisco's 941 Geary Galley on November 6th 2010 (reception from 6-9pm), and continue through December 31, 2010. This exhibition will be the first time that Friedman's collaborations with Shepard Fairey will be presented along with the original photographs on which the collaborations are based. Not to be missed. Related: Friedman and Fairey's latest collaboration is a print of Dr. Cornel West. Limited quantities still available! View below... BB Video: Photographer Glen E. Friedman - Early Hip Hop, and The ... BB Video: Glen E. Friedman, Skate + Hardcore Punk Photo-History ... Glen E. Friedman's new photo book: Fugazi - Keep Your Eyes Open ... Russell Simmons, Glen E. Friedman, the WTC, the RNC, and a message ... BB Video: Photographer Glen E. Friedman in Conversation (and ... Road notes: 24 hours in Dublin with photographer Glen E. Friedman ... Video: Our 4-part Glen E. Friedman/Shepard Fairey ...

The Alchemist's Laboratory Posted: 21 Oct 2010 07:21 PM PDT Bibliodyssey has posted a lovely series of 20 prints depicting the work-spaces of alchemists and the art of transmutation. Some are serious, some are folly. Above, Le Plaisir des Fous ("the pleasure of fools"), an 18th century print. Original painting by David Teniers (before 1690). This version engraved by Pierre-François Basan sometime in the 1700s. This satirical view of an alchemist shows that not all illustrations were meant to be taken too seriously. The Flickr set is here, so you can zoom in to enjoy the detail lost in compression. Most of these images are from SCETI at UPenn and the British Museum.

David Byrne limited-edition print to benefit Creative Time Posted: 21 Oct 2010 07:34 PM PDT Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return) by David Byrne; 14"x11" | archival pigment print. 20x200 is offering this limited-edition print by artist, author and musician David Byrne. For the edition of 600, pricing starts at $50, and goes up to $200. Proceeds benefit the NYC-based arts organization Creative Time. (Thanks, Raul Gutierrez and Souris!)

How to make a Tokyo monster movie Posted: 21 Oct 2010 06:49 PM PDT Matt Alt wrote and field-produced a segment about Japanese "kaiju eiga" (monster movies) for National Geographic Channel's "Nat Geo Amazing!" show. Although it's only a few minutes long, it was filmed over the course of an entire day on Death Kappa's Yokohama soundstage. The destruction of the single building that "Hangyolas" chops in two took a solid four hours out of that: the technicians decided on the breaking point, smashed the building themselves, and rebuilt the tiny chunks into a seemingly untouched building for a better Jesus Lizard and Ghost Science

Tissues advertised to deal with "what-not" Posted: 21 Oct 2010 05:57 PM PDT My friend John Park is on business in India, and has started a posterous blog as a photo journal. I like this photo he took of a tissue box with helpful usage tips: • Handkerchief • Make up remover • Car steering wiper • Spects cleaner • And for what-not And for what-not

Chewing doll nearly consumes girl's hair (1996) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT If Boing Boing had been a blog 15 years ago, I would have posted this. I remember reading it at the time and emailing everyone I knew. A battery-operated Cabbage Patch doll that can chew had to be taken apart piece by piece this week when it munched a 7-year-old girl's hair up to her scalp and would not let go. Chewing doll nearly consumes girl's hair

Prop 19: Should Californians legalize marijuana? Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT Nick Gillespie of Reason says: "Here's a fair and balanced (really!) look from Reason.tv about Cali's Prop. 19, which would allow Golden State city's to tax and regulate the sale of marijuana."     Prop 19: Should Californians Legalize Marijuana? On November 2nd, California voters will decide whether or not to legalize marijuana. If passed, Proposition 19 would control marijuana like alcohol, allowing adults 21 years of age and over to possess up to an ounce of pot for personal consumption and grow marijuana at a private residence in a space of up to 25 square feet. The initiative would also allow local governments to tax and regulate the commercial cultivation, transport, and sale of marijuana. In order to get a handle on the debate surrounding. Prop 19, we spoke to both supporters and opponents of the initiative. Prop 19: Should Californians legalize marijuana?

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 review Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:49 PM PDT I ran into MSNBC's Wilson Rothman this week at the Apple press event, and we ended up grabbing lunch with some fellow gadgetblogger pals. Wilson was packin' an early review unit of the Windows Phone 7, and his review is here. I dug the device, from my very brief hands-on between bites. Anyway: the Windows Phone 7 launches in early November with the Samsung Focus at AT&T (Nov. 8) and the HTC HD7 at T-Mobile (mid-November), among others. "Don't let the '7' fool you," Wilson writes, "This is a fresh software platform. But after playing around with final hardware and software for nearly a week, I can affirm that it's surprisingly fully baked."

Video camera designed to record encounters with police Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT Barry Cooper, a former narcotics officer who is now dedicated to exposing crooked police officers and teaching people how to avoid pot busts, demonstrates a prototype of his new product, the BarryCam. For a long time I wanted to offer a video camera for citizens to record their police encounters and then upload the video to my website for my expert analysis and review of the incident. It's like having me as a passenger every time you are pulled over by the kops. I'm excited to announce my new high-quality and very affordable BarryCams. BlackBox BarryCam Thus video was taken today using my BlackBox model that mounts within seconds to your dash or windshield. This model is equipped with a fold down LCD screen for video review and shooting accuracy. The camera is battery powered with a cigarette lighter jack adapter. When unplugged, the BarryCam can be used as a wonderful hand-held video camera with a recording time of over 2 hrs on a single charge. I have been using this model each time I hit the road and I also use it as a home video camera to catch any special moments. The video is recorded to a card and upon plugging the unit into your computer, the BarryCam software automatically uploads the video to your computer. You can then choose to upload the video to my secure website for review. Upon receiving the video, I can review it and give you my expert opinion regarding any police misconduct. This model will sell for around $250.

Apple's new Mac App Store: The good, the bad, and the scary Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT MSNBC's Wilson Rothman on the new Mac App Store: "But just like with the iPhone App Store, there is a dark side to the power that Apple stands to gain. By limiting what software gets into the store, and by managing which apps get the most promotion, Apple is bound to draw cries of censorship and manipulation, some which will likely be deserved." (more BB coverage of yesterday's launch event here.)

Google Reader Pedal: hacking a USB keyboard Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:25 PM PDT Matt Richardson says: First of all, thank you for writing Made by Hand.  It was such a great read, and it got me so psyched up to start making stuff... anything I could think of!  It also got me motivated to put together a few video tutorials, but my most recent one makes me the most proud.  It's a "Google Reader Pedal," which I made for a friend that wanted an easier way to scroll through her unread items on Google Reader.

Obama to meet with Steve Jobs today Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with Apple CEO Steve Jobs today in a San Francisco hotel. The President will also be attending two Silicon Valley fundraisers, "one at the home of clean technology venture capitalist Steve Westly and another at the Palo Alto home of Google VP Marissa Mayer." Seats at the latter set you back $30K each.

Steampunk halloween display at Screaming Mimi's in NYC Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:47 PM PDT Boing Boing pal Joe Dolce sent me this photo (taken by his friend Jade Furtado) of this "steamin steam punk Halloween window" at the "best vintage shop in NYC, Screaming Mimi's" on Lafayette St.

Flowchart: How will you vote in the next election? Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:36 PM PDT Holytaco has a very funny flowchart to help you determine how you will vote in the upcoming U.S. elections.

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