[Sponsor] New watches from Barcelona at Watchismo this week: the "XXLED" series features exactly that - an enormous Light Emitting Diode display. and the "Concentric" watches encapsulate time disappearing in a thinning chaos of digits. The "NeoGeo" quite simply tells time with unexpected randomness and the ever popular "John Watch" collection has been revamped with new designs and colors, still the longest watch in the world!
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 01:00 pm A great XKCD today: "Approximations: A Slightly Wrong Table of Equations and Identities Useful for Approximations and/or Trolling Teachers." Approximations
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 12:45 pm Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Cordy Sky, a game where you have to help Cordy re-fuel his rocket ship after it crash lands on a planet. Don't forget ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 12:43 pm Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Cordy Sky, a game where you have to help Cordy re-fuel his rocket ship after it crash lands on a planet. Don't forget ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 25, 2012 12:37 pm [Video Link] A new video for Mama Hope, by Joe Sabia and crew. Wouldn't it be better if African men weren't always depicted as warlords or victims? Written by Benard, Brian, Derrick, Gabriel and the Mama Hope Team Directed and Edited by Joe Sabia Executive Produced and Shot by Bryce Yukio Adolphson Produced by Nyla ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 25, 2012 12:20 pm In 1977, NASA mounted copies of the above record album on the Voyager I and Voyager II space probes and launched them into the depths of space. Each album contained recordings of Earth, greetings in 55 languages, music, analog-encoded photographs, and a marvelous etching depicting a man, a woman, and our address in space. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 12:16 pm Forest sez, "The Creators of 'The Day the LOLcats Died' bring you a new video in protest of CISPA: We appointed a Congressional committee to create a video opposing CISPA, a new bill being voted on later this week in the House of Representatives. This is what they came up with. Don't let Congress make ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 12:00 pm Danah boyd's "The Power of Fear in Networked Publics" is a speech delivered at SXSW and Webstock New Zealand (that's where this video comes from). Danah first defines a culture of fear ("the ways in which fear is employed by marketers, politicians, technology designers [e.g., consider security narratives] and the media to regulate the public"), ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 11:51 am [Video Link] A kindly hack came to her aid.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 11:33 am [Video Link] "Excuse me, give me some space to drive my ball."
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By Ruben Bolling on Apr 25, 2012 11:30 am All right, you mugs. If you don't want some chin music, give TOM THE DANCING BUG WEBSITE the buzz, and tail RUBEN BOLLING on TWITTER.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 11:27 am "The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle."
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 11:22 am On Neatorama, Miss Cellania rounds up images from various international versions of Married... With Children from around the world (extracted from this Reddit thread. I featured the Bulgarian version last month, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Above, Croatian Married with Croatian Children. Right: Married… With Children Around the World
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 25, 2012 11:19 am My old Boulder High School friend Rick Rosner is deeply weird and very funny. I also knew he was smart -- he liked to talk about quantum physics during lunch in the school cafeteria-- but I had no idea he was as smart as this. Here's Madeleine Scinto's profile of Rosner in The Daily. If ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 25, 2012 11:02 am A wonderful thing, made by Heather Beschizza (web, Twitter, happens to be married to this guy). I've been keeping this on my desk for some time, but wanted to share it with the rest of the world, too. The diagnosis My Dinner with Marijuana: chemo, cannabis, and haute cuisine ... On Cost and Cancer in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 25, 2012 10:56 am Choire Sicha: "I GIVE TSA PRECHECK AN A+++ IN AWESOMENESS. Though I also give it a D- in 'Constitutional and Human Fairness Issues.'"
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 10:18 am In the NYT, Jessica Silver-Greenberg writes about hospitals who "embed" debt-collectors in their emergency rooms and patient care. These debt collectors are indistinguishable from other hospital employees for patients, and they harass recovering patients at their bedsides about their ability to pay, and advise emergency-room patients not to seek care they can't afford. The debt ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 09:18 am Juggler, impresario, and happy mutant Mat Ricardo sez, "We're halfway through the 2012 season of my monthly London variety show, and it's going better than I could have dreamt. Sell-out audiences (thanks, in part, to BoingBoing's support) of wonderful people who totally get that every show is a one-off unique event. last month I learnt ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 02:33 am Somevelvetmorning made a beautiful Dalek dress and uploaded her work-in-progress photos to Imgur. Perhaps they can serve as a guide to your own dalekwear efforts. Also: matching hat! Dalek Dress (via Wil Wheaton)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 01:29 am If the previous ATM skimmer posts didn't scare the pants off you, this one from San Fernando Valley, which Brian Krebs reports on, might. It has a near-undetectable pinhole camera for recording timestamped footage of your PIN entry, and apart from that indicator, the only way to spot it is to yank hard on the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 25, 2012 12:25 am Just look at it. By Shay Aaron, 26, a miniaturist based in Tel Aviv. Many more photos of his work in his Flickr stream. I could squeeeeee at them all day! (booooooom + flavorwire + thisiscolossal.com, thanks @lisahendrix).
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 25, 2012 12:20 am If you take it as seriously as some of the people in this news article, I believe that it means "you are an asshole." I loathe Klout. (via @pareene)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 25, 2012 12:00 am On EnglishRussia (and apparently ganked from a possibly defunct LiveJournal -- It looks like LJ had an outage earlier today), a wonderful detailed HOWTO for making the tiniest, most adorable kitchen knife you ever did see. A kitchen knife may become an end in any argument… This knife is made on a scale of 1 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 11:43 pm Maura, a Missouri high-school student, has a long history of making awesome prom-dresses (there was the goth one, the one made out of Doritos bags, and the one made of pull-tabs). This year, she topped her own impressive achievements with a beautiful dress made of cardboard. She's featured on the "Everything Dresses" site. The top ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 24, 2012 11:42 pm "House-Arrest Amber," Featured Dancer at Whispers. Photo: Mark Ebner. Veteran muckraker Mark Ebner of "Hollywood, Interrupted" has a knack for producing beautiful writing from ugly subjects. Scientology, pit bull fighting, celebrity scandals, scam artists... you name it, he's investigated it. Now, Ebner travels to a town several hundred miles north of Deadwood, South Dakota. In ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 24, 2012 10:48 pm Earlier today, David posted that "Urban Outfitters is under fire from the Anti-Defamation League for selling a t-shirt with a patch the ADL says is similar to the "yellow badge" that Jews were ordered to sew on their clothing in Nazi Germany-occupied areas during World War II." Coincidentally, my 14-year-old daughter bought a different t-shirt ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 10:00 pm Charlie Stross has posted a long essay making the case for ebook publishers going DRM-free. It's a good, comprehensive look. I'll be writing something more on this subject later this week, too. 1. The rapid current pace of change in the electronic publishing sector is driven by the consumer electronics and internet industry. It's impossible ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Apr 24, 2012 09:37 pm Check out this fantastic infographic detailing the history, majesty and power of beards. [geekosystem]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 09:00 pm Johan Peitz's "Super Mario Summary" re-creates all the levels of the original game, condensing each level to its essence with a single screen: A Super Mario Summary is my entry to the 23rd Ludum Dare 48 hour game development challenge. I tried to recreate every level in the original Super Mario Brothers game, but on ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Apr 24, 2012 08:31 pm 40 students. 6 weeks. 5500 dominos. One awesome mural of Cesar Chavez. NBC San Diego reports: Students and staff from O'Farrell Community School started this mural using blueprints, and then they glued them to vinyl tiles. They dedicated this 10-foot mural to farm labor leader Cesar Chavez. "About two months ago, we decided to do ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 08:13 pm David Weinberger writes, "Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about virtually all the 12M works in its 73 libraries. This is (I believe) the largest and most comprehensive such contribution. The metadata, in the standard MARC21 format, is available for bulk download from Harvard. The University also provided ...
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