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Now, *this* is the way to stare at the sun. Cincinnati teacher claims job offer rescinded because he's gay F&*#ing Internet, how does it work? Imaginary orange gift-shop for the Golden Gate bridge Short-statured actor vows "100 Midget March" to protest Snow White casting tall people as little people Video: A Brief History of Video Games #Twitter is #changing its #logo Super-slow motion video of skateboard tricks Reactions around the web to Xeni's rant on "MEN invented the Internet" Radio play about electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire Internet privacy: a hard bargain Dead cat helicopter upsets people on internet (video) Internet killing porn Did Bible study and anti-drug vow cause Miami cannibal attack? Google now warning people whose Gmail has been targetted by suspected state-sponsored spies Good new monthly e-comic: Double Barrel RIP, Ray Bradbury Polaroid SX-70 refurbs The Luvilee Jubilee: underwhelmed by opposition to Her Majesty's Big Day Bosch-like paintings from Michael Hutter Trinity: the birth of nuclear weapons in graphic novel form Sea Urchin video (Guest post from a kid) Dull town and Boring town find common cause Recreating iconic Banksy images as photos Apps for Kids 024: Mobbles Severed foot and hand sent to 2 Canada schools: More missing Magnotta murder parts? Orly Taitz, "birther movement" queen, runs excellent self-produced ad for US Senate campaign (video) Me the People (book trailer) Paris struck by le Food Truck Like "Kardashians," but dumber: Gay-hating Evangelical gun nut 'reality' TV Now, *this* is the way to stare at the sun.
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 06, 2012 12:59 pm South Korean primary school students wearing masks with solar viewers watch Venus passing between the Sun and the Earth at the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, June 6, 2012. One of the rarest astronomical events occurred on Wednesday when Venus passed directly between the sun and Earth, a transit that won't ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 06, 2012 12:58 pm Jonathan Zeng was offered a music teaching position at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. He accepted the job. Shortly thereafter, school administrator David Thompson called Zeng back to the office. According to Zeng, this is how the meeting went: He explained that there was an issue weighing on his mind because of my application answers regarding ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 06, 2012 12:54 pm For the next 60 years or so—basically, until everyone roughly my age has died off—former Alaskan senator Ted Stevens will be widely remembered (and mocked) for once describing the Internet as "a series of tubes". But here's the thing. It's easy to make fun of Ted Stevens. It's harder (much harder) to explain quickly and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 12:49 pm As part of the celebration for the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of artists led by Stephanie Syjuco have set up an imaginary gift shop for the Bridge, filled with tchotchkes in the bridge's iconic rusty orange (it's a custom color that is generally mixed in 500-gallon batches). The tchotchkes aren't ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 06, 2012 12:47 pm Making the rounds on Hollywood local blogs today: Some so-called "Little People" who work in Hollywood are upset at the producers of the forthcoming Universal motion picture Snow White and the Huntsman, because tall people have been cast in the role of Snow White's dwarfs. The bodies of the "tall people" actors will be morphed ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 06, 2012 12:45 pm Digital creative agency Reverse Enginears' "A Brief History of Video Games" is a delightful companion piece to our own Rob Beschizza's modern classic "Game Deaths."
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 06, 2012 12:40 pm "Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology, design within creative constraints, and simple geometry. This bird is crafted purely from three sets of overlapping circles — similar to how your networks, interests and ideas connect and intersect with peers and friends." Yes, it's true: The #Twitterbird had some work done.
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 06, 2012 12:36 pm Perfectly-executed skateboard tricks seen through the magic of super-slow motion. Makes it look easy, doesn't it? Actually, never mind. It doesn't.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 06, 2012 12:29 pm Over the weekend, the New York Times published four words that pissed a bunch of people off, including me. I responded with a little rant here on Boing Boing, and shared stories about women in the history of computers and the internet. Here are some related blog posts and "media news" items from around the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 06, 2012 12:25 pm In the 1960s, Delia Derbyshire was one of the pioneering electronic musicians of the iconic BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She's best known for her absolutely exquisite 1963 electronic version of Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme, which you can hear at left. Her masterful musical experimentation continued with electronic scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the films ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 12:21 pm I wrote a piece for MIT's Technology Review on the way that Internet privacy works, and the deficiency of our tools -- browsers, phones -- in protecting it: Even if you read the fine print, human beings are awful at pricing out the net present value of a decision whose consequences are far in the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 06, 2012 12:17 pm [Video Link. Warning, may totally creep you out if you love cats. ] Dutch artist Bart Jansen had a cat named Orville that he loved very much. When Orville died, he did what any cat-loving guy would do: transformed his deceased kitty pal's corpse into a radio-controlled DIY taxidermy helicopter. WAIT WHAT The Orvillecopter, half ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 12:00 pm Louis Theroux, who produced a documentary on the US porn industry 15 years ago, has revisited the industry, and found it in severe decline. The proliferation of free Internet porn and the rise of amateur pornography has combined to take nearly all the money out of the system. He writes about it in The Guardian: ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 06, 2012 11:52 am The latest Narco Polo cartoon from Robert Arthur, You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 11:44 am Google believes that it can distinguish run-of-the-mill hack-attacks on Gmail accounts from state-sponsored spies trying to gain access to dissidents' email. When it detects the latter, it will display a warning for the legitimate owner to see, "We believe that state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer." The warning comes with ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 06, 2012 11:22 am Leigh Walton of Top Shelf sent me a pre-release of Double Barrel, digital-only monthly action comics magazine from Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon (no relation, but it explains the title of the comic). It's available for download today. The first issue is a whopping 122 pages and costs just $1.99. Zander's story is called "Heck," ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 11:03 am Ray Bradbury is dead. He was 91 years old. He wrote some of the most inspiring and beautiful stories I've ever read. He fought for libraries. He changed my life with a novel called Dandelion Wine, much of which I can still quote from memory. Every time I find myself wandering a city street alone ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 06, 2012 10:41 am If you like the leathery classic Polaroid SX-70 but don't fancy chancing it on eBay, Holga Direct is offering refurbished models for $334: "Each camera has been painstakingly restored to an almost new condition and tested to make sure they work perfectly." Previously.
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By Wystan Mayes on Jun 06, 2012 09:49 am There was little surprise at Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, but that's probably the point. Dutifully present were the Queen, the rain, the warm beer and the National Health Service glasses and teeth (I can say this, I'm British) and, surreally, hundreds of photographic Queen masks handed out for free. Parts of the crowd looked ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 09:41 am Avi sez, "Michael Hutter makes (and generously shares) his re-imagining of searing Bosch-like art." These are amazing -- instant clicktrance. Kunstkrake - Painting - Purgatorium (Thanks, Avi!)
Read in browser Trinity: the birth of nuclear weapons in graphic novel form
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 09:19 am Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's Trinity is a nonfiction book-length comic for adults about the birth of nuclear weapons. It covers the wartime events that spawned the idea of a nuclear weapons program, the intense period of wrangling that gave rise to the Manhattan Project, the strange scientific town in the New Mexico desert that created the A-bomb, ...
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By Sasha Harmon Matthews on Jun 06, 2012 08:00 am This video about deep sea life is very informative. It tells you the story of a sea urchin and about its parents' sex. It also talks about other babies, their parents and their sex. It talks about how the sea urchin metamorphosed from a tiny cell into a sea urchin. I like it because it's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 06:51 am The town of Dull, Scotland has become a sister community with the Oregon town of Boring. They have joined forces to promote their inherent interestingness. Alexandra Topping writes in The Guardian: Before long Dull and Weem community council was in – presumably interminable – talks with Steve Bates, chairman of the Boring community planning organisation, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 06, 2012 01:38 am UK photographer Nick Stern's "You Are Not Banksy" series recreates many of Banksy's iconic, humorous graffiti images. I've always thought that Banksy recreations made excellent cosplay (as this old post showed), but they're great as photos, too: The project sees Stern meticulously recreating a handful of Banksy's masterpieces using real-life models and photographing their mimicking ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 05, 2012 10:52 pm Click here to play episode. 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 Mobbles, a game where you capture and take care of little monsters that live in your neighborhood. It's ...
Read in browser Severed foot and hand sent to 2 Canada schools: More missing Magnotta murder parts?
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 05, 2012 09:42 pm AP reports that "packages containing a human foot and hand were discovered at two schools in Vancouver on Tuesday, in what could be the latest gruesome twist in the case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of dismembering and eating his former lover." As noted in a previous BB post, murder suspect Rocco Luka Magnotta, ...
Read in browser Orly Taitz, "birther movement" queen, runs excellent self-produced ad for US Senate campaign (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 05, 2012 09:28 pm In a series of self-produced internet ads for the California senate campaign of prominent "birther" Orly Taitz: "Anyone who knows Dr. Orly Taitz knows she has no 'off' switch. She's like the Energizer bunny on steroids, and she's ready to rid California of its corruption and drain this swamp once and for all." They add ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 05, 2012 09:08 pm [YouTube Link] One of the funnier and more beautifully produced book trailers I've seen in a while! It's for the just-released book "Me the People," by Kevin Bleyer. Via Jason Wishnow: Kevin Bleyer (Emmy Award winning writer for the Daily Show) personally rewrote the Constitution of the United States and needed his author's portrait painted ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 05, 2012 08:52 pm A style piece in the New York Times about a trans-Atlantic trend: "Artisanal food trucks have been making inroads in Paris, adding a new twist in culinary culture to a city where diners rarely eat on the go, much less with their hands."
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 05, 2012 08:49 pm Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds introduces us to Call of the Giles, which he describes as a "gun-totin', Bible-quotin', homo-hatin', and obviously over-compensating for sumpthin' macho, macho man douchebag Doug Giles and his "kickass" Christian family's low-brow version of Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
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