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Stephen Fry on the techno-cluelessness of English judges Grandpa sings the pig song Trailer for bobcat Goldthwaite's movie God Bless America On the auction block: Adrian Tomine's 1-Page Story "The Donger and Me" Fnord -- the new Boing Boing T-shirt Paved with good intentions: When energy efficiency backfires Steampunk Magazine is back! Mickey Mouse vs. Crass t-shirt Retro Apple iPhone cases A futurist prediction that came true Building a better spaceuit 3D printed apparatus for collectively operating a manual typewriter HOWTO make fairies in a jar Muscles leggings make you look like you've been flayed from the waist down Debunking the record industry shill who said that his amendments to Canada's proposed copyright law are no big deal Zigzag bookcase shows Ikea a thing or two about not shipping air The Art of Living, by Grant Snider Leg waxing for giants My daughter and friend's language game decoded by university linguistics department Could the Death Star destroy a planet? Bodybuilder can go from ripped to flabby in a few hours Steve Silberman reports on synaesthesia Trailer for Iron Sky, a crowd-sourced sci-fi epic Steve Albini's cooking blog Sarriugarte and Mate's Serpent Twins snake vehicles Supreme Court Justice appears on Sesame Street, adjudicates disputes The BBC tracks down a troll Freelancer advice image macro Obama tries out MAKE's Extreme Marshmallow Shooter Collector of 19th century 3D "devil tissues" Stephen Fry on the techno-cluelessness of English judges
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 09, 2012 11:05 am David Weinberger sez, "Stephen Fry explains that when a frustrated traveler tweets something about wanting to bomb an airport where there have been delays, the traveler doesn't isn't really announcing that he is about to bomb the airport. Social media, Fry explains, need to be understood as conversations. And then Fry kicked into the fund ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 09, 2012 04:50 am [Video Link] Thanks, Erin! (Via Orangette)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 09, 2012 12:23 am From a 2001 issue of Giant Robot magazine, this one-pager by Adrian Tomine has a bid of $500. Adrian Tomine's cathartic one-page comic strip describes his personal feelings about actor Gedde Watanabe's portrayal of Long Duk Dong, in the John Hughes film, Sixteen Candles. This strip was used as a tie-in to an NPR All ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 11:42 pm Here's a closer look at the design. And I forgot to say that it's Rob's design! "Those who know don't say, and those who say don't know." Purchase includes membership in the Church of [ ---------- ]. Buy one today! Don't forget about our other fancy decorated jerkins and tunics: Boing Boing Critter - Baby ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 08, 2012 11:18 pm Right now, I'm reading The Conundrum by David Owen. It's a really interesting book about some of the unintended consequences of the way we approach sustainability and environmentalism. I'm going to post a full review soon, once I get all the way through it, but so far Owen is making a couple of key points: ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 11:12 pm Magpie Killjoy sez, "SteamPunk Magazine, the oldest-known journal of steampunk fiction and culture, has returned after a two-year hiatus. This 110-page issue covers everything from the fine art of urban exploration to how to sew a lacy cuff. There are articles discussing the girl gangs of New York City in the 19th century as well ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 11:10 pm On the heels of the official, and sadly discontinued, Mickey Mouse vs. Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" t-shirt, culture jammers Cuboopop printed up Mickey Mouse vs. Crass shirts and shopdropped them at a Disney Store. You can also purchase them online for a very limited time directly from Cubopop. (Thanks KevinVanCamper, via Submitterator!) Did a UK ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 10:37 pm Schreer Delights is selling these fun iPhone cases until, as Gizmodo writes, they get "sued into oblivion." I dig the Mac Classic model but I would prefer a faux Netwon case, like the one someone sketched out a couple years ago. Schreer Delights (Thanks, Ari Pescovitz!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 08, 2012 10:37 pm Sure, it's fun to post old pages of mid-century science magazines and make fun of the predictions that never came true—flying cars! Weather control! But it's equally, if not more, enjoyable to read predictions for things that actually happened. These are the things that remind us that the world we live in today is pretty ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 08, 2012 10:11 pm It is no secret that spacesuits are heavy. The full spacesuit worn on the space shuttle, including life support system, clocked in at 310 pounds. At the same time, these suits are bulky, and hard to move around in. So researchers are looking for alternatives—skinnier suits that would weigh less, be more maneuverable, and maybe ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 09:26 pm Max Lupo's Thingiverse archive contains all the parts necessary to allow three people to slowly type one phrase over and over again on a typewriter, by operating a complex machine called "the convenient typer." This is an apparatus designed to allow three people to conveniently type out a specific phrase: it is as it is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 09:22 pm Combine glowstick gunk and diamond glitter in a sealed jar and shake -- voila, fairies! It's a fake. But this one isn't. Same idea: glowstick gunk in jar (no glitter).Thanks to commenter BeckyLikesOwls for the tip! (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 09:19 pm Robbo sez, "James Lillis, a designer with Black Milk Clothing, has come up with a freaky-awesome set of muscle leggings which allow you to celebrate the human anatomy without getting all Gray's Anatomy and actually flaying yourself. I think they are remarkably delicious." In a kind of Hellraiser/Slim Goodbody way. Muscles Leggings (Thanks, Robbo!)
Read in browser Debunking the record industry shill who said that his amendments to Canada's proposed copyright law are no big deal
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 09:17 pm Michael Geist sez, "Barry Sookman, lawyer and registered lobbyist for the Canadian Recording Industry Association (now Music Canada), the Motion Pictures Association - Canada, and Canadian Publishers Council, has an op-ed in the National Post claiming that concerns that proposed amendments to Bill C-11 could result in SOPA-style rules in Canada are the stuff of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 08, 2012 09:14 pm "REK is a bookcase that grows with your book collection," writes Reinier De Jong Design on its official website. "The more books the bigger the bookcase gets. The zigzag shaped parts slide in and out to accomodate books in the resulting voids. REK will always be full, regardless of the quantity of books. Also the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 09:07 pm I love this comic by Grant Snider. He's selling it as a poster, and has lots of other insightful and funny posters on his website, Thought Balloon Helium. (Via This isn't Happiness)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 08:59 pm Ḅǐŕĉȟ & Ḃåàãǧò is a Danish Institut for Moderne Hudpleje (Modern Huge People) Here's their list of services (Translated from Danish): Voks af hele benet (folks who are hellishly big) = Kr. 375,- Underben (undersized folks) = Kr. 200,- Ryg (regular folks) Kr. 250,- Bikini linie (belly button lint removal) Kr. 150,- Armhuler (spackling of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 08:41 pm Ryan Tronier, producer of The Browser on KSL radio, did a segment about the language game my daughter and her friends speak. He says, I sent the recording of your daughter to the linguistics department at the University of Utah on Monday. One of the PhD students decoded your daughter’s language game. We put together ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 07:29 pm Could the Death Star really destroy a planet? Back in 2008, I posted that astrophysicist and mathematician Jeanne Cavelos, author of The Science of Star Wars, speculated that indeed, the Death Star could be that deadly. Last year, another group of scientists published a paper addressing the same question. And these researchers from the University ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 07:17 pm Furious Pete, a body-builder, shows how with just a few hours' preparation he can look absolutely ripped or paunchy and out of shape. He starts by doing a brief, intense exercise and cosmetic regime and produces photos that make him look like he's rippling with muscle and completely devoid of body-fat. Then he eats a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 07:00 pm Steve Silberman says: Perry Hall is a born synaesthete who "hears color and light, and created an iPhone/iPad app called Sonified to let his synaesthesia "loose in the wild, as he puts it. I take Hall's gift as a jumping-off point to talk about Nabokov's "freakish gift" for seeing letters in color, and several recent ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 06:52 pm [Video Link] This is going to be the most awesome movie ever. In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 06:51 pm Steve Albini, guitar genius of Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac, and producer of albums by Nirvana, The Pixies, and hundreds of other bands, is also a delightful food blogger who posts recipes he makes for his wife Heather. Last week, he cooked these yummy-looking saffron potato cashew pancakes. The blog is called mariobatalivoice. Albini says, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 06:34 pm Above is video of the incredible Serpent Twins, two slithering vehicles created by the incredibly talented maker couple Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate. You may recall that Jon and Kyrsten are the creators of such exquisite biomechanical transports as the Golden Mean snail car that I wrote about in MAKE here and the zippy Electrobyte ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 08, 2012 06:11 pm Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did a guest appearance on Sesame Street. She sits down for coffee with Maria, but their chat is interrupted by a series of storybook characters who ask her to adjudicate their grievances. The judge is wise and equitable, and favors arbitration over formal legal remedies. A good approach. Sesame Street: ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 08, 2012 05:47 pm Not a funny or clever sort of troll; just a bottom-feeder who specializes in writing racist remarks on online memorials. [BBC via Waxy and Metafilter]
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 08, 2012 05:43 pm Nick Douglas devises a new advice macro, but not before checking his tweets again and organizing the client email list and making sure the icons on his desktop are lined up nicely.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 08, 2012 05:31 pm [Video Link] Joey Hudy is one of Maker Faire's superstars and we were so excited to see him demo his “Extreme Marshmallow Shooter” in the White House. Here's a fun video of the President giving it a try. Would you like to make an “Extreme Marshmallow Shooter” yourself? MAKE has Jody's complete plans here. Joey ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 08, 2012 05:23 pm In the latest episode of The Midnight Archive, the show's creator Ronni Thomas shares his own collection of 19th century 3D devil tissues. Also known as diableries, they're a particularly unique species of hand-painted color stereogram depicting "Satan's daily life in hell," as Thomas says. "Stereoscopic Terror"
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