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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 07, 2012 06:34 am Here's some handy, infringealicious clip art for the discriminating Anon who wants to make a statement without paying a royalty: a Guy Fawkes mask, suitable for urban art, dress-up, and silkscreening. Guy Fawkes Mask clip art (Thanks, @crisnoble!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 07, 2012 04:07 am One of the quieter scenes from a story in Western Gunfight magazine, illustrated by George Wilson. The high bid on this piece of original art stands at $1! GEORGE WILSON (American, 1921-1999). Western Gunfight cover. Oil on board. 22 x 14.5 in. (image). Not signed
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 07, 2012 03:17 am Boing Boing was a clue on Jeopardy! tonight. "Who was Steve Jobs?"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 07, 2012 01:08 am Mr Norton also added: "It was a pleasure collaborating with PRADA and LG, both Global brands with impeccable reputations for being the most innovative and respected in their fields." How nice of Mr Norton to write that sentence for the press release!
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 07, 2012 01:05 am Johannes sez, "Cory was so kind to post my TEDxVienna talk on monochrom's feature film project SIERRA ZULU. I wanted to give you guys an update. Today we released a short film: EARTHMOVING. It's the prequel to SIERRA ZULU. We thought that's a good way to expand on the backstory and give the folks something ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 07, 2012 12:00 am I've always enjoying studying the original art for comic book pages, because it's fun to look at the washes, white-out marks, pen lines, blue pencil lines, erased pencil, and brush lines. You can learn a lot from them. IDW's Artist's Editions (I've not seen a copy in person) print scans of original comic art pages, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 11:36 pm Dan R sez, "This corporate news piece from the opening of 'Spaceship Earth' has plenty to offer the casual to semi-rabid technology fan who is also partial to World's Fair-esque exhibits about the FUTURE! Great footage of 'Spaceship Earth's' exhibits abound, and the film also features other highlights of EPCOT, including Exxon's 'Universe of Energy,' ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 10:49 pm The EU's Eastern European constituents have been under enormous trade pressure to sign onto ACTA, the copyright treaty negotiated in secret at the behest of the US Trade Rep and the entertainment lobby. There's widespread rebellion in Slovenia, Poland and Bulgaria, and now Romania's Prime Minister has admitted, "he did not hold any information on ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 06, 2012 10:25 pm [Video Link] "Camden council in north London have recently installed this talking camera that issues threats to residents at Walker House."
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 09:52 pm I had missed this sad news, but Dick Tufeld, the man who gave Robby the Robot his voice on Lost In Space, died last month. He was 85. Along with his famous catchphrase "Danger, Will Robinson!" and the intro to Lost In Space, Tufield's voice was also heard at the beginning of "Voyage To The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 09:18 pm This restored 1957 home movie of a Disneyland visit, from the Disney History Institute, is an absolute treat. I love the rare footage of the Frontierland pack-mules and the Jungle Cruise as it was before the jungle really grew in; I'm likewise captivated by the sight of the (by modern standards) harshly metallic and dangerous-looking ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 09:12 pm A welcome White House petition for our American readers' consideration: a request to make the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty negotiation more transparent. This bland-sounding treaty is, in fact, the successor to ACTA, negotiated in the strictest secrecy. A recent leak from the TPP smoke-filled rooms revealed that negotiators are considering regulating incidental copies made in buffers, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 06, 2012 08:46 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 38 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing's coding and development wizard, Boing Boing alum Joel Johnson of Animal New York, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 08:29 pm Stop-motion film about an entomologist's nightmare MikeyP sez, "Filmmaker friends of mine have a lovely melancholy stop-motion film (about a tiny entymologist with a lightbulb for a head) they're hoping to get into the Australian short film festival Tropfest via the audience vote.If you have a second, and feel so inclined, pray click the link, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 07:42 pm Here is OK Go's excellent video for "Needing/Getting." And yes, it was done "in partnership" with the maker of that particular car. According to the video description, the car "was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 07:00 pm My friend and oft-times workshop mate Tom Marcinko, a very talented writer and critiquer, has just put seven of his previously published sf stories into the Kindle store for what he calls "the amazingly low price of absolutely nothing." He's getting back to work on new fiction after a long hiatus, and this is his ...
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By LibraryLab on Feb 06, 2012 06:27 pm This is the first post from the fine folks of the American Library Association, which recently launched a member interest group called Library Boing Boing. They will be posting now and again as LibraryLab. On April 23, 2012, tens of thousands of people in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, and Germany will go out into their ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 06:00 pm Timo's video "Robot readable world" is made up of stitched-together found footage from computer vision systems, "exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye." It was inspired by Matt Jones's essay The Robot-Readable World, and it reminds me Laura Mulvey's idea of the Male Gaze. Robot readable world
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 06, 2012 05:56 pm A recent mathematics study showed that you have to have at least 17 clues on a Sudoku grid in order for the puzzle to be solvable. You could make the game easier, by adding more clues. But if there are fewer than 17 clues, then the game becomes impossible to solve. In this video, mathematician ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 06, 2012 05:46 pm There are too many malls in America, and too many vacancies in them. So city planners are looking for other ways to use all that square-footage. The New York Times has a neat story about some of the different ways derelict shopping malls are being repurposed: As deconstructed residential/retail centers catering to desires for a ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 05:26 pm Andreas Gursky "Union Rave" (1995) In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke wrote ""Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." That's no longer true. These days, there are apparently 15 dead for every living person. Still, the living clearly do not ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 06, 2012 05:26 pm The "flow state" is how neuroscience researchers describe that zone you can get into when you're doing something that you've become highly skilled at. It's a zen-like place in your brain — that state where you lose track of time doing something that you enjoy doing for its own sake, and where the job of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 05:00 pm How to Be a Retronaut's gallery of images from the 1970 edition of the "Encylopedia of Home Improvement" are like shots from a never-aired episode of The Brady Bunch where the family took over management of The Madonna Inn and did a little light redecorating. Encylopedia of Home Improvement, 1970
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 04:53 pm Last month, I posted about the gorgeous droning ambient music of From The Mouth of the Sun. People really seemed to dig it! Carter Gunn created this video for their track "Sitting In A Roofless Room" from video footage courtesy of the fantastic Prelinger Archive. The song is on From The Mouth of The Sun's ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 04:42 pm An Icelandic man captured video of what some suggest is the Lagarfljótsormur, a lake monster residing in the lake Lagarfljót in the eastern part of the country. Others suggest it's a fishing net. I prefer the former. Stories of the Lagarfljótsormur date back to 1345. From Iceland Review Online: According to legend, it was at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 06, 2012 04:27 pm The Jolly Green Giant was always the most ambiguous and slightly threatening of the tinned food mascots. Tilt your head and squint and this is a cruel titan who's toying with the mortals at his dinner table before turning them loose for the Wild Hunt. Plus: Mexicorn! Mexicorn!
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 06, 2012 04:24 pm This is a Sol LeWitt yarmulke created by the Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek temple in Chester, Connecticut. LeWitt, a member of the congregation, helped design the temple. "Sol LeWitt Kippah" (Thanks, Jill Miller!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 06, 2012 03:55 pm I've been doing periodic appearances on Sex is Fun, a sex-positive podcast aimed at providing fun, informative sex ed. for grown-ups. Last time I was on the show, we talked about some funny animal sex studies and what they can and can't teach you about human sexual behavior. This time around, we talked about a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 06, 2012 03:27 pm This is the U.S. Air Force's pitch to the entertainment industry, a smorgasbord of mil-porn to delight anyone who loved shows such as Airwolf and The A-Team. The objective is to help productions, from teen-magnet Hollywood epics to seniors' detective show "Monk", get the details right—and, of course, to put the taxpayers' latest hardware on ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 06, 2012 03:15 pm This bit of graffiti, spotted by entomologist and photographer Alex Wild, seems like the perfect way to start off a Monday morning. Thanks, anonymous tagger! I feel better already!
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