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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 12:03 pm Jeff sez, "Flying in from Miami to Seattle this morning on Alaska Airlines Flight #17, I was somewhat amused (and a bit horrified) when the flight attendant said that the cabin doors would not be opened and that passengers would not be allowed off to catch connecting flights if the last video player (digiplayer, as ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 22, 2012 12:01 pm If you couldn't afford to pay $6000 for the "art edition" of Mark Ryden's book Pinxit (it's sold out anyway), Taschen has thoughtfully introduced a popular-priced edition of the 366-page book, for $1000. Many books have been published on Mark Ryden before, but none like this large-format monograph, released in a boxed Collector’s Edition of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 11:22 am Here's a great, simple DIY project from A Beautiful Mess for using glued-on tapestry fabric to create a kind of floral saddle-shoe effect. They note that there's another version in the offing with stripey fabric, which sounds pretty rad. 1. Glue fabric to the part of you boots you'd like to cover. Brush the glue ...
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By Rob Pegoraro on Feb 22, 2012 10:26 am It's tempting—oh so tempting—to lead off a review of Samsung's Galaxy Note by mocking its enormous size. So I shall. The Note is big enough to give me a sense of empathy for our toddler when she picks up our phones. Its 5.3" display is the largest I've used in a pocket-sized gadget since 1998's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 10:14 am AdaFruit has released a set of plans for building your own Internet of Things Printer. It's a weekend project that ends up with a homebrew analog of BERG's Little Printer. They also have a kit for sale. Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 22, 2012 10:00 am This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Saving money is easy when you stop spending it. But who is ever going to do that? Instead, spend it a little less dumbly, and avail yourself of deals that are available if you care to look. The trick is to be picky about ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 22, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 8-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode In Jane and I talk about two games. One is called Windosill and the other one is called Feed the Head. Both are made by Vectorpark, and are ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 09:08 am Toronto's librarians are considering going on strike, as Mayor Rob Ford continues to make good on his election promise of "outsourcing everything that isn't nailed down." They're looking for your support, in the form of an endorsement for their "Love a Librarian" petition. The City is pursuing a bargaining agenda to downgrade and reduce library ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 07:42 am In this rousing video, Canadian comedian and commentator Rick Mercer adds to his earlier most excellent rant on Canada's bill C-30, a pending domestic spying bill that abolishes the need for a warrant when police (and appointed special investigators) want to spy on your Internet use. RMR: Rick's Rant - Online Privacy (via Michael Geist)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 04:59 am Amelia_G sez, "The German Pirate Party is working out its platform online, transparently. One key concept is 'das Liquid Democracy,' intended to be a flowing interface between direct and indirect democracy. You can delegate your vote to someone who will represent you, but you can withdraw your vote from that person at any time without ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 01:29 am On Wired, Robert McMillan has an inspiring profile of GitHub, the remarkably successful, self-funded startup that provides a streamlined, easy-to-use version of Git, the version control system beloved by millions. GitHub is a great example of a company that does something simple and well, which scales, doesn't cost much, and improves lots of peoples' lives. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 22, 2012 12:46 am As I recently posted, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future hosted a conference late last year where we presented our new map, titled A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021. The map focuses on six big stories of science that we think will play out over the next decade: Decrypting ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am From the August 1951 ish of Mechanix Illustrated, a modest HOWTO describing a "Snooperscope" that requires a 4,000 to 6,000-volt power-supply to fire infrared light at and through the materials around you. Construction of the snooperscope: The image converter tube is mounted in a plastic drinking cup 3-1/2 in. high by 2-1/2 in. in diameter. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 10:55 pm Here's the 1958 Ford brochure, in super-widescreen, showing all the models in a mural of tailspin desiderata. It's also available on Flickr at a whopping 2380 px wide, suitable for framing. 1958 Fords
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 09:59 pm FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell has a WSJ op-ed condemning a treaty proposed at the International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency that oversees global phone systems, which would transfer much of Internet governance to the UN. Commissioner McDowell correctly asserts that transferring governance to the ITU would be bad for Internet freedom. There are few ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 09:00 pm Motörhead has officially disavowed the "Complete Early Years Box Set" new $600 product issued by the band's former label, a division of Universal Music Group, which controls the rights to the band's early recordings. Quoted on CNN, the band's frontman Lemmy Kilmister said "Unfortunately greed once again rears its yapping head. I would advise against ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 21, 2012 08:26 pm My daughter Jane told me she wanted to build something "electronic," and luckily, I had a sample of the Solder: Time kit. It looked like a fun thing to make, and it turned to be so. It's a large digital wristwatch and the $35 kit (available in Maker Shed) contains everything you need except the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 07:45 pm This lovely squid-shaped USB drive makes for a fine way to transfer information around. 4GB for $35. Squid USB Flash Drive (Disclosure: the vendor is a Boing Boing advertiser, though I didn't know it at the time that I wrote this post)
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 21, 2012 07:39 pm Matt Haughey shares his tips on traveling abroad with an unlocked Verizon smartphone: "Warning: don't use Verizon for international use." [A Whole Lotta Nothing]
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 21, 2012 07:02 pm This cam-drone, illustrating an Atlantic article on the subject by Alexis Madrigal, is the work of Simon Jardine. Jardine's aerial imaging business has an online home at Eye in the Sky; check out his Flickr gallery for more.
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 06:41 pm Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation profiled FinFisher and Amesys, two of the companies that had been caught selling network spying tools to despotic regimes around the world, including Hosni Mubarak's Egypt and Muammar Qaddafi's Libya. This week, EFF continues the series with profiles of Italy's Area SpA (which sells electronic tracking software to Bashar ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 06:00 pm One of the most interesting technical presentations I attended in 2012 was the talk on "adversarial stylometry" given by a Drexel College research team at the 28C3 conference in Berlin. "Stylometry" is the practice of trying to ascribe authorship to an anonymous text by analyzing its writing style; "adversarial stylometry" is the practice of resisting ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 21, 2012 05:27 pm A start-up called Organovo uses a 3D printer to build a variety of human tissue types, from cardiac muscle to blood vessels. The company hopes to eventually print entire organs for transplant from feedstock of a patient's own cells, thereby reducing the likelihood of rejection. But in the meantime, the 3D printed tissue could be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 05:19 pm Tokyoflash's latest Kisai watch is the Kisai Stencil, based on a concept design submitted by a math teacher named Heather Sable. It uses "negative space" to draw the numbers, a display that is cryptic at first but is easy to read at a glance once you've figured out the knack of it. I found that ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 21, 2012 05:15 pm Russian scientists grew the plants above from the innards of fruit that had been frozen for 30,000 years. From Discover: The plant owes its miraculous resurrection to a team of scientists led by David Gilichinsky, and an enterprising ground squirrel. Back in the Upper Pleistocene, the squirrel buried the plant's fruit in the banks of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 21, 2012 04:58 pm Attention! There is now a unicorn version of Accoutrements' legendary Horse Head Mask. Product Features • Fits most adult heads • Super Creepy! • This mask lets you be the unicorn you know you are! • Latex with realistic fur mane. • Are you a secret unicorn? Well, are you?
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 21, 2012 04:57 pm I'm digging this luminous t-shirt tribute to Isaac Asimov, from our friends at the Imaginary Foundation. UPDATE: The Imaginary Foundation's Director kindly offered BB readers 20% of the price of this shirt! Just enter discount code: BBLOVESASIMOV
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 21, 2012 04:50 pm Bigott's "Cannibal Dinner," from the album The Orinal Soundtrack. Perhaps NSFW. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 03:48 pm Tim Hutchings, who maintains the most excellent PlaGMaDA (Play Generated Map and Document Archive) has recovered a bizarre but strangely compelling amateur RPG about dolphins and he's producing a published volume (with guest art) on Kickstarter: Everything is Dolphins occupies a curious place. While it is clearly the work of someone new to the design ...
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