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Particularly despicable cigarette ad Turbo and the broom from Breakin' Bicycle repairer pets his doggie, in Beijing (photo) Documentary about an alternative nuclear fuel: thorium 2012 Calendar of the Impending Apocalypse The sketchbook of Susan Kare, designer who developed the original Mac icons Create a meeting tomorrow at teen anal Interview with asst. prof. Nathan Brown on UC Davis letter 76-year-old skateboarder Lloyd Kahn on TV news At-At Walker wears cone of humiliation Occupy News Bins: miniature Lego OWS, complete with pepper-spraying cop Friday Freak-Out: The Cryin' Shames perform "Please Stay" (1966) Photos of USA in the early 1970s The Gun Snuggler: from parody video to actual holiday gift Bicycle wheel zoetrope How will world's worst dictators spend Christmas? Hilarious TV ad for South African chicken chain reveals all 1930s newsreel predicts fashion in the year 2000 Photos of disassembled gadgets, artfully arranged MakerBot open source toy kits for your 3D printer Octopus table Paintwork: cyberpunk++ stories of killer augmented reality mechas and QR code graffiti writers Holiday Entertainment Never Sounded So Good Particularly despicable cigarette ad
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 26, 2011 05:05 am This L&M Cigarette ad from the July 1962 Popular Science is a particularly despicable example of the genre, whose subtext is, "If you love your family, celebrate it by contributing to your own early death." Popular Science - Google Books (Thanks, Jim!)
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 26, 2011 04:14 am [video link] From the 1984 film Breakin', Turbo (Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers) does his broom dance to Kraftwerk's "Tour de France." All strings aside (heh), this was quite a memorable performance. Breakin's killer soundtrack has just been reissued. Sadly, "Tour de France" isn't included, but other great jams ike Ollie and Jerry's title track, Rufus ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 02:04 am A bicycle repairer strokes his dog inside a storage box on his tricycle as he waits for his customer in Beijing November 24, 2011. (REUTERS/Soo Hoo Zheyang)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 11:56 pm Alex Pasternack of Motherboard.tv produced a documentary with Hugo Perez about the thorium movement. He says: The disaster at Fukushima drew attention once again to the perils of nuclear energy, and raised important questions about how its technology came to be. The Thorium Dream explores the passionate Internet-based movement in the United States behind an ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 11:50 pm Amy Crehore (Boing Boing's monkey T-shirt artist) says: The newest print set by Cloudy Collection has just been released and I am in it. In this set, there are 12 different 6"x 6" 3-color screen prints by 12 unique artists. It is a very special edition with only 50 sets available. That's right, you get ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 10:28 pm Steve Silberman says: As you know, Susan was the Apple designer who developed the original Mac icons, including the lasso, the bomb, the watch, and the Happy Mac. While writing the introduction to Susan's new book, I convinced her to show me a notebook she used to brainstorm icons in the days before a software ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 10:02 pm [Video Link] Shira Lazar of What's Trending says, "We had Nathan Brown live on What's Trending- he's the assistant professor at UC Davis who wrote the letter that went viral asking for the chancellor to resign."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 09:57 pm KGO-TV in San Francisco ran a piece about our pal Lloyd Kahn, book publisher and longboarder. Go Lloyd! 76-year-old skateboarder rolls through life Lloyd Kahn (age 76) on skateboarding DIY and Green Building Pioneer Lloyd Kahn Talks About Shelter, Concept of Home - Boing Boing 'Shelter': Amazing profile of Lloyd Kahn - Boing Boing
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 09:38 pm From the Boing Boing Shop: a T-shirt depicting an At-At Walker wearing a cone of humiliation.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 25, 2011 08:40 pm "No property was harmed during this installation," DocPop tells us about this hilarious teeny-tiny Lego Occupy. "From what I understand the piece has already been removed though I don't know by whom."
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 25, 2011 07:43 pm [video link] Friday Freak-Out: The Cryin' Shames' 1966 French TV performance of "Please Stay" (and also "Gloria.") "Please Stay" was penned by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hillard and first made famous by The Drifters, but the Cryin' Shames' (much superior) cover was produced by the inimitable Joe Meek. (via Liverpool Beat) Friday Freak-Out: Eric Burdon ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 25, 2011 07:26 pm The Atlantic reports on DOCUMERICA, an early 1970s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) photo documentary project. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 25, 2011 06:51 pm The Gun Snuggler. "Because happiness is a warm gun." Comes in sizes to fit everything from handguns to assault rifles! This began as a funny internet joke, but so many people took it seriously that it is now being offered as an actual thing that you can really buy for real. (Thanks, Marque Cornblatt!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 06:20 pm Katy Beveridge turned her bicycle wheel into a zoetrope, fastening cut sheets of paper to the spokes so that the bike's wheels displayed sweet animations when in motion. This is a piece created to question whether it was possible to film animation in realtime. Part of my CSM 3rd year disseration project I was looking ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 25, 2011 06:04 pm [Video Link]. BB pal Griffin from South Africa says, "This TV ad was made for Nando's, one of South Africa's popular chicken fast food chains. As I understand it, they might have an outlet or two in the US as well. Watch how the infamous dictators are planning on spending their Xmas. Fucking brilliant!" This ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 05:15 pm This brief, 1930s UK newsreel predicts the future of fashion, asking "famous fashion designers" to predict the garb of the year 2000. Pretty much everything worn in this video could be worn, somewhere, in the contemporary world (if only Burning Man), but it's hard to say that any of this really nailed Y2K's sartorial look-and-feel. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 03:55 pm Todd McLellan's gorgeous photo-series "Everyone has a piece of the puzzle" shows everyday electronic items disassembled and arranged in neat (or messy) layouts, laying the machine bare in all its glory and higgedly-piggeldy. Everyone has a piece of the puzzle (via Crib Candy)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 02:52 pm MakerBot's just released three open source hardware toy kits to produce with your 3D printer: an RC car, a windup robot, and a hand-cranked dynamo: The MakerBot Botmobile is the first open source remote control car. MakerBot's own designer Michael Curry, took everything he learned from creating the Turtle Shell Racers which were featured on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 01:49 pm Isaac Krauss's octopus table is a fantastic piece of work -- I want a giant brass octopus for my house! Then, while taking his first bronze sculpting course, Krauss unearthed the idea and set to work. He admits to having had very little experience working with bronze, but felt that stretching beyond his limits would ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 25, 2011 01:21 pm Tim Maughan's self-published short story collection Paintwork collects three of his stories, including the British Science Fiction Award-nominated story "Havana Augmented." In an era of "post-cyberpunk" science fiction, Maughan is firmly cyberpunk -- or maybe "cyberpunk++," a genre that captures all the grit and glory of technology with a higher degree of plausibility and respect ...
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By Advertiser on Nov 25, 2011 01:18 pm ADVERTISEMENT It's no surprise that many of today's computers also double as home entertainment systems, but HP takes it to another level with its dv6t laptop, outfitted with incredible audio and video systems that blow competitors out of the water. What could be better than a laptop that brings the sounds of the holidays to ...
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