Appeal for South Asian bone marrow donors for Amit Gupta How to: haunted house silhouettes Interview with early Apple employee Daniel Kottke For Steve Tiny tire-swing for a little bitty tree Song by Boston Spaceships: "Tabby and Lucy" Parking jalopies in a tall stack Uncle Six Eyes: a bust Population streams: globalization results in liquefaction An intro to cybernetics via the 555 timer Ball Whacker Surgeon's hobby creating cigar box guitars Wine carafe shaped like human heart Automatic hanging-up machine for terminating calls with phone solicitors IR Jammer Kit: a TV-B-Gone-B-Gone Eyeliner skull transformation for Hallowe'en Math Girls novel is "Glee for math nerds" Frazetta subject of online issue of The Pictorial Arts Journal Meet Science: How clinical trials work I can't go out tonight, the robot is washing my hair Man undergoes extensive plastic surgery to look like Superman Dark energy: No, seriously, what the heck is it? How do you want to be remembered? Fine dining sign language 1931: Architect occupies Wall Street Dutch online rights group Bits of Freedom fundraiser Steve Jobs has died. Jelani, a 16-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester Molly Crabapple's Occupy Wall Street "Vampire Squid" poster, for your printing/stenciling pleasure At Chicago Board of Trade: "We are the 1 percent" signs mocking Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Chicago protests Interactive map of Occupy Wall Street protests Appeal for South Asian bone marrow donors for Amit Gupta
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 07, 2011 12:47 pm Elizabeth Stark sez, Friend of Boing Boing Amit Gupta was recently diagnosed with cancer, and he needs help finding a bone marrow donor match. In fact, for someone of South Asian descent, the odds of finding a donor are currently only 1 in 20,000. But we can change that. A few ways to help: 1. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 07, 2011 12:55 am This project from CRAFT shows how to make paper silhouettes for a terrifically spooky Halloween effect. The author has a book of silhouettes you can punch out. It's reviewed (by my wife Carla) here. How To: Haunted House Silhouettes
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 07, 2011 12:41 am Daniel Kottke demos the Microwriter (Photo by Avi Solomon) Avi Solomon interviewed Daniel Kottke at his home in Palo Alto on 2nd September, 2011. He says: I had a wide-ranging conversation with Daniel Kottke (Apple employee #12) on Silicon Valley's innovation culture. Daniel also talked about his trip to India with Steve Jobs during their ...
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By Dean Putney on Oct 06, 2011 11:59 pm Here I am, days after I was born, being held by my father in front of the family Macintosh. Our family has spent an enormous amount of time and effort growing with Apple. My brother and I spent years playing with Kid Pix and Shufflepuck Café. We stayed up late reading through the manuals for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 11:58 pm Phil Jones writes, "Went out and bought a toy car spare tire because I thought this tiny tree needed a swing." Miniature Tire Swing (via Super Punch)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 06, 2011 11:55 pm I knew Amy Seidenwurm had good taste in music when I saw that she had painted the names of some of my favorite bands on her beehives. Amy worked in the record business at Enigma, Elektra, Virgin and Sub Pop before she got sucked into the technology vortex. She co-founded the Backwards Beekeepers, a chemical-free ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 11:09 pm There's no additional info for this photo, so I'm not sure how this bizarre car-parking lift worked back in the glory days of running boards, but I'd sure love to see it in motion! Vintage Vertical Parking
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 09:55 pm I really like "Uncle Six Eyes," a 10" high bust based on Travis Louie's painting of the same name. Uncle Six Eyes (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 09:45 pm Venkatesh Rao (one of my favorite provocative thinkers) noodles around with the idea of "streams" -- demographics of people who follow a particular international course, in long, stable, weird, nearly invisible arcs. Rao calls this "Globalization as liquefaction" and says, "Globalization signifies an incomplete process, not a state. For a long time I was convinced ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 06, 2011 07:33 pm This is a such a fun project. Steve Hobley make a "ball whacker" that uses a simple circuit consisting of a 555 timer chip and a photoresitor to create a feedback loop. When a ball (or a plastic egg) suspended from a string blocks the light source from the photoresistor built into the arm, the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 06, 2011 07:19 pm Kirk Withrow, a surgeon and cigar box guitar maker, imparts a good deal of maker wisdom in this lovely CNN profile. "I absolutely don't want to make them to support myself. Once you switch from making something because you feel like it to doing it because you have to it takes away from it," he ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 06:52 pm Paola C's Cuore is "two glass carafes shaping a human heart when joined together" -- made from blown Pyrex. Cuore : LIVIANA OSTI (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 05:55 pm The "PX1020 Easy Hang Up" is a device for people who a) still have landlines and b) hate phone solicitors. Simply press the button and hang up, and the person on the other end is played a pre-recorded message (for example, you, telling them to remove you from their list). There's something attractive about the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 06, 2011 05:35 pm You probably have heard of the TV-B-Gone. If you haven't, it's a small wireless gadget that will turn of any TV. Now, for people who hate the TV-B-Gone, or for people who hate it when someone changes the channel on a TV set in a public space, there's the IR Jammer Kit. You know those ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 05:10 pm Redditor Fakeproject shows off his annual Hallowe'en costume, a skull drawn on with eyeliner -- bald guys get all the fun on Hallowe'en! Let's share Halloween costumes. Every year, I draw a skull on my face with eyeliner pencil. (imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 04:14 pm Math Girls is Hiroshi Yuki's immensely popular series of fiction and manga about math geeks ("Like Glee for math nerds"), and the stories themselves are a potted education in all sorts of mathematics. The first volume of Math Girls is to be published in English shortly by Bento Books, and they've posted a brief excerpt ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 06, 2011 04:02 pm Thom Buchanan says: "If you're a fan of Frank Frazetta, and I know a couple of you are, The Pictorial Arts Journal has just published its latest on-line issue that just might interest you."
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 06, 2011 03:45 pm Did you know that, with a properly conducted series of clinical trials, it can take upwards of 20 years before a medical discovery makes it from the lab to the hospital? Judy Stone, an infectious disease specialist who does clinical research, has a guest post on the Scientific American blog network today, explaining the basics ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 06, 2011 03:06 pm This hair-washing robot, introduced by Panasonic at a public demonstration in Tokyo last week, is actually a pretty practical idea. Washing your hair involves a decent amount of small motor coordination and finger dexterity, things that people often lose when they have a spinal injury or other kinds of nerve damage. A hair-washing robot could ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 02:56 pm A Filipino man named Herbert Chavez has undergone extensive surgery to make himself look like Superman: a nose job, a chin implant, collagen in his lips, and (randomly) hip implants. Pinoy goes under knife to look like Superman (via Neatorama)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 06, 2011 02:41 pm The fun thing about the Nobel Prize in Physics is watching pundits try to explain to the public the research that won. It doesn't always go well. Physics is not, shall we say, the public's best subject. (And I include myself in that "public".) Beyond that, words that describe legitimate concepts in physics have taken ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 06, 2011 02:17 pm I know we're all thinking of a different death today, but I'd like to go back for just a moment to Ralph Steinman. Steinman is the man Xeni told you about earlier this week, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine but died (of pancreatic cancer*) before the award could be made public. Only living ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 02:03 pm Here's a guide to the specialized sign language used by the Maitre D' and staff at NYC's swanky Eleven Madison Park restaurant; there's also a set of traffic rules to keep things moving smoothly (staff walk clockwise and keep right, guests and staff leading guests have right of way, followed by hot food, cold food, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 01:06 pm Scott Edelman sez, "It seemed serendipitous that on a day when so many out there are occupying Wall Street I should run across this wonderful 1931 photo of Ralph Walker, the architect who designed One Wall Street, LITERALLY occupying Wall Street at the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects annual ball. With him are Ely Jacques Kahn, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 06, 2011 09:29 am Ot sez, "Dutch digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom is raising money to ensure it can continue defending online freedom in the coming years. Bits of Freedom fights for an open Internet which is accessible to all, where people can share information and where private communication remains private. As a result of Bits of Freedom's ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 05, 2011 11:44 pm Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Here is the statement from Apple's Board of Directors. Editorial note: For one day after we received this news, Boing Boing devoted its design to mimic the original Mac OS interface. Here we preserve an image ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 05, 2011 11:16 pm [Video Link] Turnstyle News from Oakland, CA interviewed Jelani, a 16-year-old protester who traveled with his grandmother from Pontiac, Michigan to New York City for the Occupy Wall Street protests. "I had never slept on the street before," he says. His mom said it was okay to take time out from school, because he has ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 05, 2011 10:52 pm Artist Molly Crabapple created this downloadable, printable, stencil-able, remixable poster with an excellent reference to Matt Taibbi's classic characterization of Wall Street fraudsters: a bunch of vampire squids.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 05, 2011 10:38 pm Arturas Rosenbacher (@USAanon) shot this photograph of windows in the building where the Chicago Board of Trade is located. The CBOT was established in 1848, and is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. "We are the 1%," the sign reads, an apparent response to the Occupy Chicago (and Occupy Wall Street) protests. "We are ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 05, 2011 09:54 pm Mother Jones is maintaining an interactive map of "Occupy" protests around the US, and beyond. That little lonely red dot in the Pacific is a demonstration in Hilo, Hawaii! If you know of others, tell them: "Send a link to a news article or blog posts to traja [at] motherjones [dot] com or @tasneemraja." You ...
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