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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 01:00 pm [Video Link] Early 2012, HEYHEYHEY had some time to spare and they felt the need to challenge themselves once again, so they set out to build another one of their chain reaction machines called Melvin. Conveniently built in two old suitcases, Melvin the Mini Machine is a Rube Goldberg machine specifically designed to travel the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 12:46 pm Liu Wei, an artist from Beijing, is currently exhibiting a show called "Foreign" at the Almine Rech gallery in Paris. Wei's art plays with cityscapes, and "Foreign" features cityscapes made from schoolbooks affixed with steel rods and clamps. To the right is Library No.4, above is Library No.6. Almine Rech Gallery - Current (via Neatorama)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 12:37 pm Paul Celentano's Atom Ukulele is available on his Etsy store for $650. (Thanks, Courtney!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 12:34 pm Monster Brains has a massive gallery of Schell's work.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 12:31 pm After we learned this week about how rotten the DEA and TSA are, we can also add Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the list of corrupt government entities: "James M. Woosley, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intelligence chief, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to an elaborate scam over several years involving false travel expense ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 03, 2012 12:29 pm [video link] The Wipers were a Portland, Oregon punk band formed in 1977. By 1981's "Youth of America," they had evolved their style from short, sharp punk numbers to longer, more complex, intense, and psychedelic-tinged jams. The title track of "Youth of America" clocks in at more than ten minutes. And it's worth every fucking ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 03, 2012 12:24 pm The Eisriesenwelt—the "World of the Ice Giants"—is an Austrian cave that stays cold enough year-round to freeze any water that gets into it. As a result, the cave is full of massive ice formations. On April 28th, it was also full of people like physicist Daniel Schildhammer (seen above) who came to the cave to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 12:15 pm Here's a clip from a 9-minute video produced to "fire up Apple's international sales force at a 1984 meeting in Hawaii." It stars Steve Job as Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 12:00 pm The Salon Professionnel du Chocolat's Fujisan is a candle made of chocolate. As it burns down, it oozes molten chocolate onto the cake in which it is mounted. I imagine this would require a lot of patience on the part of the desert-eater, but it might make a cool centerpiece that the host lights up ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 11:00 am A reader writes, "Librivox [ed: a trove of free, volunteer-read audio adaptations of public domain books] has released the audio version of Tono-Bungay the classic semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells." From Wikipedia: Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 10:18 am The principal at Lincoln High, an "alternative" school in Walla Walla, WA that was used as a dumping ground for kids with "behavioral" problems, decided to ditch the "zero-tolerance" approach to school discipline. Instead, Jim Sporleder tried treating traumatized, furious kids with compassion and understanding. Their behavior improved dramatically. 2009-2010 (Before new approach) * 798 ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 10:01 am Video director and wonderfully funny guy Eric Spiegelman tells Boing Boing, The new season of Old Jews Telling Jokes begins today, featuring jokes we recorded in Boca Raton. We've been on hiatus for almost a year, and it's good to be back. The joke that begins our season, about a bull and an enema and ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 09:54 am Boing Boing pal and musical/video genius Joe Sabia (who collaborates with us on the Boing Boing in-flight TV channel on Virgin America) has launched a big new project with YouTube. It's a channel, and it's called CDZA. Joe explains: Back in September, me and my two friends, bassist/juilliard alum Michael T. and audio engineer Matt ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 03, 2012 09:47 am Microsoft is to drop the Windows Live branding with Windows 8 and Windows RT [CNET]
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By Rob Beschizza on May 03, 2012 09:34 am Video link [via Buzzfeed]
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By Rob Beschizza on May 03, 2012 09:26 am Courts are tired of copyright lawsuits choking their dockets. Consider, for example, the porno company with little to gain from the courts beyond an opportunity to personally identify downloaders--a device then used to extort settlements from them. The presiding Judge in that case, Gary Brown, angrily dismissed its lawsuit. Timothy Lee in Ars Technica: "... ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 09:00 am Bruce Schneier comments on an NYT report on cybercrime that shows that there's just not much money to be had in being a ripoff artist. Dinei Florêncio and Cormac Herley wrote: A cybercrime where profits are slim and competition is ruthless also offers simple explanations of facts that are otherwise puzzling. Credentials and stolen credit-card ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 03, 2012 08:58 am Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Take a closer look at G-Shock Watches from Watchismo. These are limited and special editions with designs beyond the expected. See analog mixed with digital displays, and solar power combined with hyper-color cases resistant to mud, rain, shock ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 07:10 am The British Council has posted a fabulous trove of CC-licensed, downloadable "cultural propaganda" videos commissioned during WWII to "refute the idea that ours was a country stuck in the past." During the 1940s, the British Council was an enthusiastic commissioner of documentary films. Over 120 films were produced as 'cultural propaganda' to counteract anything the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 04:14 am Madcap science fiction paragon Paul Di Filippo's column in the latest Fantasy and Science Fiction takes the form of a short story demonstrating a new (to me) potential consequence of lifetime-based copyrights, human longevity, and the idea that copyrights should be extended to benefit a creator's descendants. By all rights, Rajah Robot and Poxy Toff ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 02:59 am Artist Mitch O'Connell created this online gallery of 100 disturbing clown images.
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 01:19 am In the wake of a UK Parliamentary committee report that described Rupert Murdoch as "not fit" to run a major corporation, a powerful US senator has reached out to the judge presiding over an inquiry into the British "phone hacking" scandal to discover whether Murdoch and his empire violated US law, too. Jay Rockefeller, chair ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 12:19 am The February 1960 issue of Popular Science has an article titled "Car-Hungry Poles Build 'Em from Junk." On the far side of the Iron Curtain, the smell and glitter of brand-new cars and auto showrooms is almost wholly unknown. Even there, however, mechanically minded young men have shown themselves willing to trade ingenuity and hard ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 02, 2012 11:07 pm Gareth says: Today was an exciting day at the MAKE offices as we cracked open the first case of “School’s Out, our next special issue. This issue is very special as it’s devoted to kids and making and it’s in swinging, leaping, page-busting 3D! The thrills! The spills! The over 50 family- and kid-friendly projects! ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 02, 2012 11:01 pm You could bring this "party stopper" on a plane and break 3 rules at the same time! "Precision made by skilled German craftsmen... It looks like a $10 item, yet Thoresen's price is just $2.98. (Thanks for the eBay link w/photo, Cloudface!)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 11:01 pm I'm incredibly chuffed to learn that the Japanese edition of Little Brother is up for this year's Seiun award, along with Bacigalupi's Windup Girl, Mieville's The City & the City, Wilson's Chronoliths, Delany's Dhalgren and Ballad's Millennium People.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 02, 2012 10:33 pm [Video Link] The DEA promises "a full review" for forgetting that they had locked a man in a dark 5 x 5 x 10 holding cell for five days without food or water. The man survived by drinking his own urine. Chong said he was at a friend's house in University City celebrating 4/20, a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 02, 2012 10:07 pm Here's a video of professional whittler Chris Lubkemann, author of The Little Book of Whittling. He says, "I started carving these things in the summer of 1966 …. and I can honestly say in 45-and-a-half years I never gotten bored once." Karen Dexheimer of Fox Chapel Publishing says: Chris is a very intriguing kind of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2012 09:52 pm Barry sez, "How awesome is this treasure trove of emails, documents, files et. all placed online by the NY Fed? Some of the emails between Lehman execs are laughable — naive, silly, hubristic, childish. But my favorite piece simply has to be the Morgan Stanley research report from June 30 2008 "Overweight Rating" on Lehman ...
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