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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 12:00 pm The Long Forgotten blog -- the world's greatest source of informed critical speculation about the design thinking behind the Haunted Mansions at the Disney parks -- has just put up a smashing post about dueling theories of the intentions (conscious and subconscious) of the Mansion's creators. In the middle of that post is this remarkable ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 11:08 am What's more invasive than your dickhead employer demanding to go snooping in your Facebook account as a condition of employment? Jerky bouncers at clubs demanding the right to snoop in your Facebook account as a condition of entry. The BBC's Maddii Lown reports: Charlotte said bouncers had checked that her Facebook name matched her driving ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 02:20 am To celebrate Star Wars Day (May 4, as in "May the Fourth Be With You"), makeup artist Jangasara created a set of R2D2 eyelids to dote over. May the 4th (via Neatorama)
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By Rob Beschizza on May 05, 2012 01:49 am Photo: Heather Beschizza Insuperably bad-arse. [Wiki]
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 01:16 am Redditor Laporkenstein created his own wedding ring out of meteorite and nickel, and documented it with a gallery of more than 40 images. Then he posted it with this headline: "I hand forged my own wedding ring out of a chunk of Meteorite and Nickel Tooling Steel. Here is a huge gallery with 40+ pictures!" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 01:14 am Jonathan Lethem's latest is a book in the 33 1/3 series, Talking Heads' Fear of Music, a tribute to Talking Heads brilliant, seminal album, one of the greatest records of all time. In Wired, Geeta Dayal interviews Lethem about his book and the approach he took, and leaves me drooling for the chance to read ...
Read in browser Elaborate, geared apparatus for shaking cocktails
By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 01:09 am Tinkertinker sez, "I am proud to have just finished this mechanical cocktail shaker, called The Post-Imperial Shaker. It is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century machine (the 'Imperial Shaker' of course), although mine is built as a horizontal unit so that it can be mounted on a bar-top. I built this machine for The Touring Pop-up ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 12:05 am Disneyland's "secret restroom" is an isolated, disabled-accessible bathroom tucked away to one side of the castle in the Carnation Plaza. Very easy to miss, it is a refuge when all around the park is chaos. This site is a loving (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) tribute to the toilet that Walt forgot. The moment you open its ...
Read in browser Bizarre Mardi Gras floats of yesteryear
By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 11:52 pm IO9's Cyriaque Lamar has dug through the Tulane University Louisiana Research Collection of Mardi Gras costume and float designs and uncovered an utterly bizarre float entered in 1873 by the Mistick Krewe of Comus, who set out to lampoon both Charles Darwin and the Reconstruction. They dressed up as their idea of the "missing link" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 11:23 pm Pat Dorian sez, "Cory blogged about my t-shirts he saw at NYC Comic Con 2011. I took one of my characters from my t-shirts and made a web comic based on him. I thought you might dig it." The Face-Skull (Thanks, Pat!)
Read in browser Lost trove of D&D co-creator unearthed, up for auction
By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 10:00 pm Ethan sez, "The personal archives of legendary Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson -- some 10,000 items -- were abandoned by his heirs and lost in storage facility in Minnesota. Now they've been found and catalogued, and they're being auctioned starting this Sunday. Here's a story about it and an exclusive preview of Sunday's auction." ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 08:15 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 50 are: Maggie Koerth-Baker: Boing Boing's science editor, journalist, and author of Before the Lights Go Out, a new book about electric ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 08:14 pm Someone in the art department at the Pittsburgh Tribune is either dense or clever. (Via Photoshop Disasters)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 07:59 pm French-Algerian physicist Adlène Hicheur, 35, was today sentenced by a French court to five years in prison for "criminal association with the intent to prepare terrorist acts." The court ruled that the Large Hadron Collider researcher's email exchange in 2009 with a presumed member of Al Qaeda "constituted a criminal act." From the New York ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 07:54 pm Elan Lee -- who has worked on several pioneering alternate reality games and similar media experiments, writes, "'Dirty Work' is a new online comedy that we just launched at Fourth Wall Studios. This multi-screening/phone-call-making/email-sending/transmedia-ifying/future-of-storytelling/world-peace-involving/bioremediation-engineering/folk-dancing shindig* is now live at rides.tv/dirtywork and completely free. (NSFW for language). The show stars Mary-Lynn Rajskub (Chloe from 24), Hank ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 07:53 pm CNET's Emil Protalinski reports that Osama bin Laden did not encrypt the thousands of files stored in the Pakistani compound where he was killed, and "17 of the 6,000 documents have now been publicly released." (via @ioerror)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 07:43 pm Image Link. Boing Boing reader MewDeep, who has an awesome Flickr stream of '60s-'70s ad scans, points to this YouTube clip of a notable television commercial from 1968: it's a promo for the Peace Corps, set to "Age of Aquarius." As MewDeep excerpts here, the ad is mentioned in The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 07:27 pm A study at MIT involving mice fed a diet of vanilla yogurt with probiotics yielded interesting and unanticipated results: First, the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Using both traditional histology techniques and cosmetic rating scales, the researchers showed that these animals had 10 times the active follicle density of other mice, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 07:10 pm John Brennan, who calmly took his clothes off at the Portland Airport to show TSA officers he was not carrying a bomb (he tested positive for explosives) told Fox News he is going to court to fight indecent exposure charges. Prosecutors indicated they'd let him off the hook if he wrote a letter of apology, ...
Read in browser Anti-abortion campaigners sink to new depths
By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 06:42 pm Todd Stave from Voice of Choice (previously covered here) says, "This flyer was put on the doors of the homes in my wife's parents neighborhood. They are targeting me because I am the landlord to an abortion doctor. The people who made this piece of art felt that best way to convey their desire for ...
Read in browser Why communities build their own WiFi: a short video explainer and a long white-paper
By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 06:08 pm Christopher sez, "We just released a 90 second animated video that explains why communities build their own broadband networks, often in competition with big cable. For those who want all the details, we just released a massive 75 page white paper examining 3 community fiber networks in depth - Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lafayette, Louisiana; and Bristol, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 06:07 pm Douglas Campbell says: Mindshare is a pioneering series of knowledge exchange forums created to inspire, educate and empower all participants. The lectures and demonstrations, many of which are interactive, span across science, art, pop culture, technology, and media. Mindshare has become a mecca for a growing community of intellectuals, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs -- with ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 06:06 pm This just in: racists remain racist. Local news, HuffPo, and MSNBC's The Ed Show have reported on the shocking roadside sign below, but the bar's website (above) includes a collection of past signs, a horribly dated mouse trail effect, and the inability to correctly spell the word "original." All very troubling. (screenshot below courtesy Fox ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 05:52 pm Three journalists were killed this week in the Mexican state of Veracruz, just a week after another reporter was murdered. More on the latest violence at SouthNotes. (via Shannon Young)
Read in browser To do in LA this Sunday: Organize a kid-friendly hackerspace
By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 05:40 pm My friend Tara is organizing a meeting at Crashspace this Sunday for interested parties to discuss the possibility of creating a child/family-friendly hackerspace in the greater Los Angeles area. They're seeking volunteers, looking for an appropriate space, and brainstorming sustainability models. You can bring your kids to the meeting!
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By Amy Seidenwurm on May 04, 2012 05:20 pm Georganne Deen - "Song of Myself" detail I never thought I'd say this, but you are lucky if you live in the Dallas area. Georganne Deen is my favorite living artist and has a show at Webb Gallery in Waxahatchie, TX right now. The Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum has an excellent exhibition up right ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 05:20 pm A man who claimed he could improve women's lives and "remove negative vibes" by rubbing raw eggs on them and pouring ammonia on their heads has been accused of raping two women who sought out spiritual services via the internet.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 05:07 pm [Video Link] "Portraits from the Occupation is an artist project by Alex Abramovich and Lucy Raven. The project comprises a series of video interviews with sixteen individuals involved with or impacted by Occupy Oakland. The interviews were recorded in March and April 2012." Shown here: cartoonist Susie Cagle, who demonstrates her good taste by having ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 05:00 pm Maximoriera, creators of the memorable Octopus Chair, have a new offering: an elephant chair. Pretty regal. Elephant (via OhGizmo)
Read in browser Football and neuroscience: Junior Seau had 1,500 concussions
By Xeni Jardin on May 04, 2012 04:44 pm Says an ex-teammate of the NFL star who died this week of a self-inflicted gunshot wound: "Junior played for 20 years. That's five concussions a game, easily. How many in his career then? That's over 1,500 concussions. I know that's startling, but I know it's true. I had over 1,000 in my 15 years. I ...
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