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Robert Anton Wilson talks at a Mondo 2000 event in 1988 Crowdfunding exemption - WeFunder and other Senate nudging On Booth Babes Project Unbreakable Did a UK fashion marketer rip off logo for iconic punk band CRASS? Stereogranimator: transform historical stereographs from NYPL archives into animated gifs and 3d images VA state senator attaches rectal exam amendment to anti-abortion bill First World Cat Problems Object Breast Cancer: visualizing tumors through art Crabby frog John Scalzi introduces his 13-year-old daughter to an LP Junk-market door as a desk/table/streetdoor Dad and kids play Depeche Mode eBay: "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" vintage cover photo Canadians from all corners of industry, culture, education, law and civil society oppose Canada's SOPA Ken Hollings lectures on John Cage Psychotronic generators, pi-rays, Egyptology, and orgone accumulators Dog delivers receipts to customers at vet's office (video) Meet Mexican tattoo diva "La Mujer Vampira," Maria Jose Cristerna Young woman can say any word backwards, instantly (video) Rupert Murdoch's Mind, 140 at a time Strange blue gelatinous balls fall from sky Patrick Farley is back: "The First Word" webcomic explains language's origin Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate MegaUpload files Game clones swarm Facebook Ex-LAPD deputy chief wins Ask Obama contest with pro-drug-legalization question "Worlds Largest Emerald" fails to attract bid at auction Oh Shit! images of overmatched, imminent failure Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival 3D printed Hilbert curve as scrunchie Robert Anton Wilson talks at a Mondo 2000 event in 1988
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 31, 2012 04:16 am As part of his Mondo 2000 History Project, R.U. Sirius uploaded a couple of Robert Anton Wilson recordings from a Reality Hackers Forum from 1988. He writes: I can’t remember if having RAW give a lecture titled “The CIA-Vatican-Cocaine Conspiracy” was his idea or ours. I think it was our idea based on the fact ...
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By Paul Spinrad on Jan 31, 2012 03:35 am Should non-millionaires be able to invest small amounts, like up to $100 or $1000, in small, local businesses or other ventures that they believe in, without the ventures having to spend tens of thousands (or more) on state or federal securities compliance? I believe so, provided that the offerings can be seen and discussed openly, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 12:12 am Tech writer Glenn Fleishman doesn't mind attractive people trying to get him to pay attention to their products. But "companies that rely on models whose various assets are stress-testing spandex or exposed to air are trying so hard that they fail, he writes in an opinion piece at TidBITS today. "Not all attention is good, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 31, 2012 12:05 am Grace Brown created "Project Unbreakable" in October, 2011, and the tumblog appears to really be gathering momentum. The idea: "Use photography to help heal those who were sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster and photographing them holding the poster." So many stories from so many different ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 11:48 pm At left, the CRASS logo, first seen in the mid-1970s. Center and right, a recent design for the UK garment retailer "Hardware," which appears to have repurposed the CRASS logo after 35 years of prior use, and crassly so. Punk News says the band and their label are aware of it. More at exclaim.ca, and ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 11:21 pm Above, "Dixon crossing Niagara below the Great Cantilever Bridge," U.S.A., 1895-1903. And you can make your own, with Stereogranimator, a new project from NYPL Labs. Stereogranimator is " a tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library's vast collections into shareable 3D web formats." (thanks, Mikael Jorgensen!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:29 pm "To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication." (thanks, Antinous!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:27 pm I approve of this meme. (thanks, Antinous!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 10:09 pm Above, one of the bronze sculptures to emerge from the Object Breast Cancer project by art duo caraballo-farman. Snip from the project description: 1.3 Million women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. For most, the tumor has no image. It's an invisible monster, an unseen malignancy. OBJECT BREAST CANCER (OBC) is ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 09:28 pm [Video Link] Three happy Boing Boing readers and one troll. (Via Arbroath)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 09:23 pm [Video Link] Apparently, so many people thought this was staged that Scalzi disabled the YouTube comments and asked Athena for a comment.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 09:12 pm This table, from Italy's Manoteca, is made from a junk-market door and a lot of style: Made from a door found at a outdoor market in Modena, the table is outfitted with a custom steel frame and new hinges that enable the shutters to open and close at will. When flat, the table can accommodate ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 09:02 pm Joel Johnson turns us on to Dicken featuring Milah and Korben performing "Everything Counts" by Depeche Mode. This is fantastic. I just can't get enough. (See what I did there?)
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 08:32 pm My friend Randall de Rijk, noted collector of vernacular photographs, shares with us this absolutely magnificent snapshot used on the cover of Ransom Rigg's young adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It has just sold on eBay for $600. The photo is far more beautiful and weird stripped of its recontextualisation as a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 06:56 pm Michael Geist sez, "Throughout the fall, I ran a daily digital lock dissenter series, pointing to a wide range of organizations representing creators, consumers, businesses, educators, historians, archivists, and librarians who have issued policy statements that are at odds with the Canadian government's approach to digital locks in Bill C-11. While the series took a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 06:54 pm My friend Ken Hollings is a master at connecting the dots between avant garde art history, outré culture, weird science, and basically everything that interests me. You might recall that Ken is the author of the absolutely fantastic radio series and book "Welcome to Mars," about the "fantasy of science in the early years of ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 06:24 pm Toys And Techniques posted several wonderful scans from Christopher Hills' fantastically-titled "Rays From The Capstone: The story of the psychotronic generator of the pi-ray and the incredible coffer." It was published in 1976 by the University of the Trees press. According to Amazon, Hills has written several books, including "Secrets of the Life Force," with ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:20 pm [Video Link] (thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:10 pm Mexican tattoo star Maria Jose Cristerna, better known as "La Mujer Vampiro" (Female Vampire), poses during the Venezuela Tattoo Expo in Caracas, January 27, 2012. She is a 35-year-old attorney. 98 percent of her body is covered in tattoos. She also has prosthetic fangs, and platinum implants in her forehead. "The 'Vampire Woman' was not ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 06:01 pm "Alyssa Talking Backwards." (thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 30, 2012 05:59 pm NYT's David Carr, on the News Corporation CEO's foray into Twitter: "The rules of effective tweeting for business leaders are no different from the ones for us mere mortals who want to both express ourselves and remain employed: Don't be boring, don't curse, and for heaven's sake, don't always be shouting about how some junior ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 30, 2012 05:55 pm Weird blue gelatinous balls, about 3cm in diameter, rained on Steve Hornsby, of Dorset, England during a hailstorm last week. He collected them in a jam jar and put them in his refrigerator. From the BBC: Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be "marine ...
Read in browser Patrick Farley is back: "The First Word" webcomic explains language's origin
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 05:16 pm Patrick Farley is one of the greatest and most maddeningly irregular webcomics artists working today. We've been covering his work for a decade, and a new Farley is always cause for celebration. His latest, "The First Word," is no exception -- a fine, odd, beautifully realized story about the invention of language, one that tries ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 04:44 pm An attorney for MegaUpload -- which was shut down by the US government earlier this month, and whose assets have been frozen, following copyright complaints from the entertainment industry -- says that the US Attorney General is planning to destroy all its user data within a week. With its assets frozen, MegaUpload can no longer ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 30, 2012 04:27 pm Dean Takahashi on the relentlessness machinery of Zynga's game-cloning operation, whereby it minimally modifies others' work and sues those who treat it likewise. Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower in an upcoming mobile game called Dream Heights. ...
Read in browser Ex-LAPD deputy chief wins Ask Obama contest with pro-drug-legalization question
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 04:10 pm Tomangell sez, "A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's 'Your Interview with the President' competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday." Cop's Marijuana Legalization ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 30, 2012 03:23 pm Who would pay $1.15m for a 57,500-carat emerald from a guy in an Ed Hardy shirt who admits dying the stone green, and who was arrested last week on unrelated fraud charges? No-one. [Vancouver Sun via Brendan Koerner]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 03:00 pm Safwat sez, "'Oh Expletive!' is a series of clever illustrations by graphic designer Safwat Saleem, each depicting that 'Oh $@#!' moment familiar to anybody who's ever had the odds stacked against them. Except in this case, the odds are represented by awesome things like zombie attacks, unicorn swarms, 8-bit creatures, epic knife fights and more. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 30, 2012 02:15 pm Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My hosts on episode 37 are cartoonist Ruben Bolling, whose comic, Tom the Dancing Bug, premieres weekly on Boing Boing, and Dean Putney, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 30, 2012 02:07 pm Wagner James Au writes in with novel uses for a 3D printed Hilbert curve like the one I blogged last week: "Mathematician Henry Segerman creates copies of a 3D printed Hilbert curve he originally made in Second Life which, thanks to its twisty material, can also be worn as a geekily fashionable hair accessory!" Fractal ...
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