Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Julian Assange loses extradition appeal Physics contest winners Exiled Tibetans in India hold memorial for recent wave of Tibetan self-immolations protesting Chinese military rule Oakland General Strike posters Corporation of London "pauses" action against OccupyLondon Roger Doiron - A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard The Cure's Killing An Arab (1979) Planet of the Apes painting by Jason Edmiston Why Microsoft killed the Courier tablet Time out dolls: dolls that appear to be children who've been stood in a corner Exhibit about drugs and graphic design Rockets and missiles in advertising Edible metallic spray paint Submit your physics questions, win cool prizes Lion enjoys riding in a sidecar racing around a velodrome Funny hate mail sent to journalist Radley Balko Simon and Kirby Crime comic anthology: exclusive Boing Boing excerpt Fabric brain art Dangers of licorice Lego porn Video: Paraglider ensnares vulture How To: Break the speed of light in your own backyard Trailer Tuesday: Shut Up Little Man (2011) The Verge launches Testicular tumor has a face Brain Rot: The Future In Suburban Law Enforcement? Help crowdfund scientific research! Pictures of people about to smash something but they obviously aren't really Why being wrong makes us angry MAKE Circuit Skills: Infrared Light Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
By Rob Beschizza on Nov 02, 2011 12:09 pm Wikileaks' founder will be deported to Sweden to face rape allegations within a month. Assange has 14 days to seek to appeal to Britain's supreme court. [Guardian]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 02, 2011 11:54 am Yesterday, I asked you to submit your physics questions for a chance to win either VIP tickets to see Brian Greene tonight in New York City, or a DVD set of Greene's new NOVA series. I did the drawing this morning and the winners are: • Kevin Harrelson — Proud new owner of a DVD ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 02, 2011 11:46 am Photo: David Huang This morning, a demonstration took place in McLeod Ganj, a quiet Northern Indian village adjacent to the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile. In this town on the southern end of the Himalayas, young Tibetan exiles staged a memorial for Tibetans inside China-controlled Tibet who have burned themselves alive ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 02, 2011 09:49 am The Occupy Oakland folks have been publishing designs for today's general strike, including this jaunty little number from R Black. Lots more to choose from, too, including the venerable IWW black cat, back from retirement and looking as spry as a kitten. Awesome Posters for Nov 2 General Strike!
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 02, 2011 04:39 am The Corporation of London has "paused" its legal action against the OccupyLondon protesters camped outside of St Paul's Cathedral, in the wake of the Cathedral's decision to drop legal action altogether. The Corporation assures the public that it still plans to pursue legal action to remove the protests, but just not right now: "We're hoping ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 02, 2011 12:04 am [Video Link] Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardens International (an organization that promotes kitchen gardening and home-cooking) argues that gardening for food is a subversive activity, because "when we encourage people to grow some of their own food, we're encouraging them to take power into their hands: power over their diet, power over their health, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 01, 2011 10:15 pm The Cure performing their homage to Camus, "Killing An Arab," way back in 1979.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 08:55 pm I'm old school when it comes to Planet of the Apes. If they aren't wearing tunics or padded vests, I'm not interested. That's why this painting, entitled "Trophies" -- which depicts a trio of proud gorilla hunters posing over a pile of Boing Boing comment trolls -- is a winner in my book. This masterpiece ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 01, 2011 07:37 pm The short version: it was killed because making a cut-down Windows for tablets would "threaten" the desktop version that runs on all the hugely successful UMPC/MID/Slate tablets (pictured) that gave Microsoft its unassailable lead over Apple and Android. Then Bill Gates asked where the Exchange client was and had an allergic reaction when iPads were ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 01, 2011 07:15 pm A "time out doll" or "corner doll" is (apparently) a large-ish, realistic child-doll that is posed with its hands over its face, intended to be stood in a corner or up against a piece of furniture, so it appears that the doll is a child who is being punished (?) or having a time out ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 01, 2011 06:50 pm Opening today at NYC's Cooper Union is Pharma, a new exhibition about graphic design and the pharmaceutical industry. The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union examines the influence and impact of graphic design on the pharmaceutical industry in PHARMA, a new exhibit featuring original and rarely seen works by luminaries including Andy Warhol, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 01, 2011 05:35 pm A little window on the marketing and communications side of the military-industrial complex: How to Be a Retronaut's gallery of ads for missiles and rockets. Rocket Ads, 1947-1974
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 05:29 pm This is how Richie Rich's family serves the Thanksgiving goose. Edible Spray Finish From Germany
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 01, 2011 05:21 pm Tomorrow night at 9:00 pm Eastern, physicist Brian Greene will be speaking in New York City about ... well ... life, the Universe, and everything. He'll be joined via live link by theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, and 2011 Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter. It's part of the launch of Greene's new PBS series: NOVA: Fabric ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 05:05 pm Of course the only way to race in a velodrome is with a lion in your sidecar. And here's a video. (Via Arbroath)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 04:59 pm Radley Balko received some choice hate mail in response to his HuffPost article about OWSers using cell phones and social media to report on police abuse." Here's a my favorite: Sir: I am appalled by your lack of integrity. You quoted someone from the Cato Institute but didn’t reveal that you also worked for them. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 04:57 pm Titan Books has just released a new volume in their The Simon and Kirby Library. This one is called Crime. They've kindly given us permission to run a complete story, which you may read after the jump. This one is about Guy Fawkes, the chap who almost succeeded in blowing up King James and England's ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 01, 2011 04:50 pm I love serendipity. On the same day that Anja Austerman posted this awesome knit hat to my Google+ feed, Kevin Zelnio also posted a link reminding me of the existence of the The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art. Xeni posted about the museum here back in 2008. But it's awfully fun to contrast ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 01, 2011 04:29 pm Eating too much licorice can lead to irregular heartbeat or even heart failure due to its glycyrrhetinic acid content. If you tend to overchew, you might be advised to seek out DGL (de-glycyrrhizinated) licorice. Stawberry Twizzler fiends need not worry. About this anyway. From Smithsonian (Wikipedia image): When consumed in large quantities, (glycyrrhetinic acid) can ...
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By John Baichtal on Nov 01, 2011 04:23 pm [Video Link] So, yeah, porn. Rule 34 tells us that if you can imagine it, someone has made porn out of it. Lego minifigs have been forced to hump one another by 8-year-old boys since day one, but with the wonders of the internet, these lewd fantasies have been turned into videos, web sites, and ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 01, 2011 04:15 pm Vladimir Tsar'kov was soaring over the Indian Himalayas when an eagle vulture flew into his ropes and got tangled. . (Don't blink at the 29 second mark in the video or you'll miss it). Tsar'kov had to deploy his reserve parachute but both he and the Eagle landed safely. From The Telegraph: It took him ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 01, 2011 04:14 pm Minute Physics serves up another nifty video. Via Jennifer Ouellette Video Link
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 04:09 pm [Video Link] In 1987, Eddie and Mitch moved into a low-rent apartment in San Francisco where, through paper-thin walls, they were informally introduced to their middle-aged alcoholic neighbors, Raymond (a raging homophobe) and Peter (a flamboyant gay man). For 18 months, they hung a microphone from their kitchen window to chronicle the bizarre relationship between ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 01, 2011 04:07 pm The Verge, a new gadgets 'n' tech site founded by former Engadget editors and staffers, launched earlier today.
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 01, 2011 04:04 pm This is an ultrasound image of a mass in a 45-year-old's testicle. It was published in the International Society of Urology's journal, Urology. Is it just another example of pareidolia or something far… more… sinister? From the article: The residents and staff alike were amazed to see the outline of a man's face staring up ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 01, 2011 03:56 pm Over the next two months, you can fund scientific research through Rockethub. The SciFund challenge runs from November 1 through December 15. Essentially, it's an experiment by a group of scientists who think that they might be able to use crowdfunding to fuel their research. Forty-nine different projects, in a wide variety of disciplines, have ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 01, 2011 03:48 pm Angry woman smashing a laptop computer against the wall by Edw Doctor at his desk, smashing hammer on computer, frustrated by Patrick Hermans Woman holding hammer over piggy bank by Media Bakery13 Guitar player attempting to destroy his instrument , over white by Viorel Sima Angry business woman about to demolish her laptop with a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 01, 2011 03:12 pm Christie Aschwanden is a science journalist. Last month, she joined a lot of other science journalists at the National Association of Science Writers conference and gave a short Ignite presentation about why people get angry when presented with evidence that their beliefs are wrong. She's posted a storyboard of the presentation to The Last Word ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 01, 2011 03:12 pm [Video Link] Here's MAKE's Collin Cunningham with a quick primer on using infrared LEDs and phototransistors to send and receive wireless signals. MAKE Circuit Skills: Infrared Light Collin Cunningham explains Ohm's Law Collin Cunningham of MAKE builds an infrared heart monitor Collin's Lab: High Power LEDs & the Digital Color Organ Make your own custom ...
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