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Looking for $21M to record an album on the moon Fascinators banned from Royal Ascot Marx Toys catalog, 1975 Father's day songs to learn and perform, by Groucho Marx Evil Klowny Flakes Toilet paper with a horror story from the author of "Ring" Market for zero-day vulnerabilities incentivizes programmers to sabotage their own work Tactical stabbing pen adds handcuff key and other stuff Plot holes in Prometheus, delivered in a monotone Knolling: a verb for those who like things nice and kentucky Award-winning book-burning hoax saves Troy, MI libraries Rare photo of honeybee leaving its stinger behind Fifth grader barred from giving speech on marriage equality by Queens, NY principal, later reversed by Schools Chancellor Looking for $21M to record an album on the moon
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 17, 2012 11:43 am A $21M Kickstarter project aims to record an album of lunar folk music, on the Moon. Erik writes, "This video breaks down the entire plan for purchasing, colonizing, and writing a folk album on the moon, down to giving Neil DeGrasse Tyson a year long salary for being awesome, and includes a sample Lunar folk ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 17, 2012 08:50 am "Assistants will have waistcoats, ties, pashminas and other items at the turnstiles for those who need them."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 11:58 pm Ed Iceberg's Flickr stream includes a set of medium-rez scans of the 1975 Marx Toy catalog. The toys are awfully fine, especially stuff like the Marxwriter, but the icing on the frosting on the cake that's balanced on top of a bigger cake is the fabulous cover art from Jack Davis. Marx 1975 Toy Catalog ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 11:12 pm Here are a pair of Groucho Marx classics for you to rehearse and perform for your pater familias tomorrow: "Everybody Works But Father" (MP3) and Father's Day (MP3) -- both ganked from Old Time Radio's upload of An Evening With Groucho on The Internet Archive.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 10:01 pm I give you Sugar Krinkles, bearing the finest cereal package art in the history of the world, a relic of 1950, the vintage year for such work. Be sure to click through onto the whole Vintage Ads post, wherein the epic Mr Man Writing Slash has also embedded a clowns-drinking-whisky ad that will make you ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 09:06 pm Hayashi Paper Co. sells toilet paper that is printed with "Drop," a horror story written by Koji Suzuki, writer for "Ring" and "Spiral." An English version is coming soon. The product is made by Hayashi Paper Co., a firm in Shizuoka Prefecture with a staff of around 30. It is the brainchild of Hiroyuki Hayashi, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 08:00 pm In this Forbes editorial, Bruce Schneier points out a really terrible second-order effect of the governments and companies who buy unpublished vulnerabilites from hackers and keep them secret so they can use them for espionage and sabotage. As Schneier points out, this doesn't just make us all less secure (EFF calls it "security for the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 07:00 pm ThinkGeek's Uzi Tactical Defender Pen goes beyond the usual "if it's stabby and matte black, it's tactical" realm, adding in a DNA-Catcher (a snaggy bit), a hidden handcuff key, a glass-breaker, and a writes-upside-down-and-underwater cartridge. It's not even black. Are you expecting the unexpected? Does expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? Either way, the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 06:19 pm This four-minute "review" of Prometheus consists of one fellow droning a list of all the plot holes in the film whilst another fellow listens, stupefied and slack-jawed. Needless to say, it's one protracted spoiler. I'll be seeing this film later today (just as this post goes live) and now I feel wholly prepared. Red Letter ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 05:02 pm Here is an incredibly useful verb for you: to Knoll. Knolling is "the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organization." It was coined by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor who worked for Frank Gehry. At the time, Gehry was designing chairs for Knoll, a company famously known ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 03:55 pm The Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide agency has won a gold prize in the Effie awards for their hoax "Book Burning Party" campaign, which is credited with saving the public library in Troy, MI. Michigan's extreme austerity measures and collapsing economy had put the library under threat, and the town proposed a 0.7% tax raise to keep ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 02:48 pm Kathy Keatley Garvey has won the Association for Communication Excellence gold medal for her rare photo of a honeybee leaving behind its stinger in an unfortunate (but now immortalized) human. Ms Garvey comes from a line of California dairy farmers who have kept bees since the mid 19th century. She is a communications specialist at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 01:41 pm Kameron Slade is a Queens, New York fifth grader who won his class speaking competition planned to participate in the school-wide contest with a speech about same-sex marriage. The principal of PS 195 prohibited him from giving the speech, which generated predictable (and completely justified) kerfuffle. Now Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has overriden the principal, ...
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