With fresh TouchPad batch, HP Emulates NeXT Mentally disabled man robbed of his epic Superman collection Gentleman unable to change his name to "NJWeedman.com" Who profited from 9/11? How to roll an imaginary 6-sided die in your head Snowflake artist at Maker Faire Detroit How-To: Roast Coffee with a Popcorn Popper Video shows controversial forensic specialist Michael West fabricating bite marks Daniel Clowes wins PEN Center USA Literary Award Freedom, Science Fiction and the Singularity: A conversation with author Vernor Vinge San Francisco: Charles Gatewood's "Greatest Hits" exhibit World's smallest electric motor Puppy imitates sound of howling wolves International Cryptozoology Museum fundraiser t-shirts Default password on hotel safe Defusable alarm clock is dy-no-mite Video for Shlohmo's "Sink" Texas in Flames New York Mag's "9/11 Encyclopedia" Xeni interviews Robert Popper on "The Sound of Young America" Tor: DigiNotar Debacle, and what you should do about it Echoes – a creepy, Hitchcockian graphic novel Minecraft "Adventure Update" trailer released The "world's most irritating instrument" is for sale They Might Be Giants, "Spoiler Alert" (video) 
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With fresh TouchPad batch, HP Emulates NeXT
By Glenn Fleishman on Sep 07, 2011 11:29 am After killing the TouchPad a near-record 45 days after launch, then discounting it in a clearance sale at as low as $99, HP opted to fire up its production line to make and ship more. A baffling decision, right? The …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 07, 2011 12:47 am Via Newsarama and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the story of 48-year-old Mike Meyer, a mentally disabled man who was robbed "of about 1,800 of his favorite Superman comic books, some dating to the 1950s," and cherished collector's items including lunch …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 07, 2011 12:36 am Adrian Chen at Gawker reports on the tragic tale of an awesome dude unable to change his name to'NJWeedman.com'. Image courtesy of NJWeedman.com's MySpace.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 07, 2011 12:33 am From a Village Voice article on the intersection of 9/11 and money: The September 11, 2001 attacks have been a symbol of many things and many causes, but like the lavish, flag-draped rebuilding of the site, it has also been …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 07, 2011 12:10 am A few minutes ago I got a copy of Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level, a new book (released today), by Ron Hale-Evans and Marty Hale-Evans. I started flipping through it and …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 10:04 pm Edward L. Platt describes himself as a "a web developer, maker, artist, recovering physicist, and neuroscience fanboy." I met him at Maker Faire Detroit, where he had an exhibition of his geometric snowflake drawings, called "penflakes." He told me he …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 09:31 pm A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece for credit.com about roasting coffee at home. Today, Craft published a more in-depth piece I wrote about how to do it. Relaxing in a coffee house with a professionally made cup …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 09:06 pm Radley Balko, senior writer for Huffington Post says, "I have a new piece up at Huffington Post related the Leigh Stubbs case. Stubbs is a Mississippi woman serving a 44-year sentence due to the testimony of disgraced bite mark specialist …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 08:55 pm Congratulations to our friend Daniel Clowes for winning the PEN Center USA Literary Award in the category of "Outstanding Body of Work in Graphic Lit." Well deserved, Dan! Here are my reviews of some of Clowes' recent graphic novels: Mister …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 08:46 pm [Video Link] Reason.tv interviewed science fiction author Vernor Vinge. Good stuff Vernor Vinge is a former San Diego State University math professor and a Hugo award-winning science fiction novelist. In Vinge's 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" Vinge wrote, "Within …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 06, 2011 06:38 pm One of my favorite living photographers, Charles Gatewood, has a "Greatest Hits" show of photos and new collages opening September 8 at San Francisco's Robert Tat Gallery. Charles is best known for documenting the sexual underground, from extreme fetishists to …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 06, 2011 05:57 pm This is an illustration of the world's smallest electric motor, just a billionth of a meter across. Tufts University chemists constructed the nanomotor from a single butyl methyl sulphide molecule on a sulphur atom rotor. From the BBC: The tip …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 05:33 pm [Video Link] She's a quick study. (Via Arbroath)
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 06, 2011 05:33 pm The International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine has outgrown its modest digs in the back of Green Hand Books and is moving to big new location nearby. To help with the move and build-out of the new space, the Museum …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 05:23 pm [Video Link] The fellow in this video shows how he opened a safe by entering a default password of 000000. (Via Cynical-C)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 05:14 pm John Baichtal of MAKE writes: Mike Krumpus of Nootropic Design (and creator of the Video Experimenter Shield which is the heart of Matt Richardson's Enough Already hack) is at it again with his Defusable Clock. Of course that isn't actually …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 06, 2011 05:13 pm Kate Klingbeil and Grace Lannon created this trippy hand-drawn and manipulated video for hip hop experimentalist Shlohmo's "Sink" from his latest release Bad Vibes.
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By Jasmina Tesanovic on Sep 06, 2011 03:59 pm It's Labor Day. We woke this morning with the smell of fire in North Austin. During the night 300 houses were consumed by wildfire, west of the town of Bastrop. We decided to visit the flames: we put our boots …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 06, 2011 03:50 pm Photo: Joseph Rodriguez. In NY Mag, a 9/11 Encyclopedia, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The alphabetized jumble of an encyclopedia, with its preposterous aspiration to describe whole cultures and continents and bodies of knowledge in a …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 06, 2011 03:39 pm The Sound of Young America I recently guest-hosted Jesse Thorn's "The Sound of Young America" radio show and podcast, and my guest was British comedy writer and internet prankster Robert Popper. You can listen to the show here. Robert is …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 06, 2011 03:14 pm Security researcher and Tor Project member Jake Appelbaum has been writing about the DigiNotar hack I blogged about yesterday. He's been on it for some time now, and has a couple of posts up on the Tor blog addressing how …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 06, 2011 02:04 pm My 14-year-old daughter spotted the review copy of Echoes sitting on my desk. Intrigued by the creepy images on the front cover, which included small illustrations of what appeared to be voodoo dolls, ghostly hands, and scenes of haunted and …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 06, 2011 01:59 pm The forthcoming 1.8 "Adventure Update" of Minecraft adds randomly-generated villages, a more refined control system and game mechanics, larger and more realistic ocean and mountain biomes, and the Endermen. If you never look directly at Endermen, shadowy creatures with long …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 06, 2011 01:23 pm Behold "the World's Most Irritating Instrument," a handmade noisemaker that has yet to find a single bid on its imminently-ending eBay action. From the description: It makes a clicking sound that is varied by a turn of a knob. It …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 06, 2011 01:16 pm [Video Link] Boing Boing is proud to debut the latest video from our mutant friends They Might Be Giants (John Flansburgh and John Linnell), "Spoiler Alert," from the 2011 album "Join Us." Directed by John Flansburgh, produced by Amy Hobby, …
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