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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 12:41 pm [Video Link] Miss Cellania of Neatorama says: "Many Russian drivers use a constantly-recording dashboard camera for legal defense in case of trouble, which leads to some awesome clips for the internet audience."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 12:40 pm "X-Men Guernica" -- a marvellous reworking of the Picasso by DeviantArt's Theamat, who was participating in an "Alternate Reality Character Designs" contest on The Line it is Drawn!. I've grabbed a thumbnail here, click through for the full-size (including a massive high-rez suitable for desktop wallpaper). X-Men Guernica (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 12:31 pm Please read Robert Browning's Sordello and let us know if you agree with the sentiments expressed below. Robert Browning spent seven years composing Sordello, a 40,000-word narrative poem about strife between Guelphs and Ghibellines in 13th-century Italy. It was not received well. Tennyson said, “There were only two lines in it that I understood, and ...
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By Ricky Grove on Jun 15, 2012 12:28 pm Center of the Netherworld in Heart String Marionette [Video Link] In 2007, We Are the Strange opened at the Sundance Film Festival. It was self-taught, underground animator, M dot Strange's first feature-length 3D animated film. Half of the midnight Sundance audience walked out, but the half that stayed were treated to one of the most ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 12:13 pm Blow Job video from Tadao Cern. I posted about Cern's photo series in May.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 12:05 pm The U.S. Justice Department says it can't be bothered to release dozens of legally innocent people they've imprisoned, reports USA Today. Justice Department officials said it is not their job to notify prisoners that they might be incarcerated for something that they now concede is not a crime. And although they have agreed in court ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 11:49 am Michael Ross Albert sends us "A Kickstarter campaign to help fund the first major New York revival of NIGHT OF THE AUK by Arch Oboler." Originally produced by the legendary Kermit Bloomgarden in 1956, the first production of this space epic was directed by luminary Sidney Lumet, and starred Christopher Plummer, Claude Rains, and Dick ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 11:00 am The last 800,000 Minitel terminals in France will go dark this month, as the service is finally shut down. Minitel was a proprietary network service that used "free" dumb terminals to access online services, typically at a small fee for each use. Minitel was much loved by business because every use generated revenue for them, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 10:07 am A nine-year-old girl in Scotland has been ordered to abandon NeverSeconds, her wildly popular blog, which features photos and commentary of the food served in her school. The blog began as a writing exercise undertaken with school permission, and was an implicit critique of the nutritional value and quality of the food. Over time, its ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 15, 2012 09:52 am Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. "Rough like a five o'clock shadow," the textured steel of Nixon's new Ride watches is now available with new colors and stainless steel straps at Watchismo. Chronograph functionality, 49mm cases and carbite-textured lugs and casebacks make this a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 15, 2012 09:29 am The mystery of the "forest boy" is solved. He is Robin van Helsum, a 20-year-old Dutchman reported missing last September. Confronted, "he then confirmed his real personal details and admitted that the previous story — that he had lived for years in the woods — had been invented." [AP]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 09:00 am Michigan state rep Rep. Lisa Brown intervened in a debate about a pending abortion bill in which she used the word "vagina," for which she was censured, and prohibited from participating in some future, unrelated debates. She was not the only woman legislator prohibited from speaking during the debate. Rep. Barb Byrum was barred from ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 05:21 am If you're as outraged as I am that the UK Coalition government is planning on spending £1.8B to spy on every click, IM, email and Facebook update, without a warrant under the Draft Communications Data Bill, then please consider visiting the Open Rights Group's petition page where we're gathering signatures to present to MPs. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 10:05 pm Matt sez, "The School of Library and Inoformation Management at Emporia State University (Kansas, USA) unveiled a comic book aimed at generating newfound excitement for librarianship and increasing the awareness of the many opportunities that an MLS/MLIS degree can provide. From the same team that created Library of the Living Dead and Monster Clash, Supreme ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 08:01 pm Self-delusion is an ugly thing: "While on a 1:1 audio call, users will see content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences. So, you should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 07:05 pm The annual FlyerTalk survey of frequent business travellers' greatest hotel annoyances found that the top three peeves are all related to network access: expensive Internet, inaccessible/inadequate electrical outlets and slow Internet topped the list in positions one, two and three. As one traveller put it, "If I can get free wifi at Starbucks where I'm ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 06:12 pm "Robbing banks: Crime does pay – but not very much," a paper by academic economists commissioned by the Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association on the economics of bank-robbery concluded that bank-robbers are wasting their time. The return from robberies is "rubbish". John Timmer summarizes the paper for Ars: The basic problem is the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 06:00 pm Hacker School is an intensive, three-month residential programming bootcamp in NYC. Some students receive tuition grants funded jointly by Etsy, 37 Signals, and Yammer. This year, they decided to focus on increasing the number of awesome women programmers participating in Hacker School, and did an amazing job. Etsy VP of Engineering Marc Hedlund is justifiably ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 05:37 pm Charles Carreon, the lawyer who sent a letter demanding $20,000 from The Oatmeal on behalf of FunnyJunk, is evidently his own worst enemy. First he threatens a lawsuit against Oatmeal creator Matthem Inman, claiming that Inman's complaints over Funnyjunk's users reposting material from his site constituted defamation. Yesterday, he expressed bewilderment at Inman's "tactic" of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 05:05 pm The editors of Welcome to Bordertown have just published a study guide for teachers and librarians. WtB is the latest installment in the Bordertown series, one of the oldest (and finest) examples of urban fantasy, a shared world in which the realms of Faerie and the mundane world clash in a border region where magic ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 04:32 pm If you eat a male squid that has not been disemboweled first, you might end up with said squid's spermatophores—basically, sperm-filled packets—attempting to burrow into your soft gum tissue the way they burrow through the flesh of a lady squid. This apparently hurts. We know, because it has happened to more than one person and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 04:31 pm Ah, the infinite surreal comedic potential of a giraffe in a swimming pool There she was. Long legs, long neck and all she wanted to do was swim. (imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 04:08 pm Probably not yet. But it's on the cusp. And part of what makes this entire process really, really interesting is that, by the very nature of this whole experiment, we don't know exactly what will happen when Voyager I does cross that imaginary boundary line. But, as Rebecca Rosen explains on The Atlantic, we do ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 03:46 pm George writes, ToorCamp, the American Hacker Camp, is back again this summer! Although there is no missile silo this time, the weather/environment should be a lot more pleasant on the beach in Washington state. The 5-day (August 8-12) open-air event is open to all hackers, makers, breakers, and shakers to build projects, exchange ideas with ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 03:22 pm MattAttackPro is a chemistry and physics teacher in South Carolina. This is what happened when he dropped a roll of unused camera film into a container of hydrochloric acid. What you're seeing is the plastic backing separating from the "film" from which film takes its name—a coating of multiple layers of light-sensitive salts suspended in ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 03:12 pm Sometimes, it's a little mind blowing when you remember just how recently medicine passed from the world of art/magic/tradition and into the realm of science. There's plenty of reason to argue that the transformation still isn't complete today, but I'm really mesmerized by stories from the 19th century, when every surgery was something of an ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 03:02 pm Diane Walton sez, "On May 30, Clarice (an Edmonton, Alberta, Canada teacher) was hit and seriously injured by two cars, on her way home from her daily jog. Her husband's post on Facebook describing the accident went viral her amazing recovery has been watched by thousands of well-wishers. Aaron, a talented aboriginal artist, has posted ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 02:59 pm From Melbourne's Astor Theatre, a harrowing tale of the way that the DRM on digital projectors -- intended to stop exhibitors from leaking high-quality videos onto the Internet -- can interfere with legitimate exhibition. Punishing the innocent to get at the guilty is never a good answer, morally or commercially. The most secure way to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 02:22 pm A1 Concepts "Let's Pizza" vending machines are robots that scratch-bake pizzas in three minutes, to order. In this video, the Let's Pizza is demonstrated by a model (made extra weird by dubbing from some unknown language) in the world's most painful looking stilettos, who stresses again and again how hygienic the machine is, producing pizzas ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 01:44 pm These are images from the inside of two human ears. The ear on the top doesn't get chronic infections. The ear on the bottom does. The difference seems to be the presence of a biofilm—a little colony of bacteria or other microorganisms that build up in a thin layer. Biofilms happen all over the place ...
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