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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 06, 2012 12:51 pm A Brazilian fighter plane flies just a little too close to the supreme court building in Brasilia, remodeling it for increased ventilation. I love that the offending pilot was reportedly grounded due to breaking the speed-limit. via Time's Battleland blog: Broken-Windows Theory
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 12:15 pm Def Leppard got screwed over by Universal Music on compensation for its digital downloads and refuses to have anything to do with them until they pay the band a fair share of the money from iTunes, the Amazon MP3 store, and other digital distribution systems. In order to cut the label out of its earnings, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 06, 2012 11:32 am Echidnas are one of those weird Australian animals that seems to have been pieced together from leftover bits of other animals. Mammals that lay eggs, echidnas are covered in pointy hedgehog-like spines, but with a long snout and sticky tongue of an anteater. Also, the males have a four-headed penis. Not kidding. One shaft, four ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 06, 2012 11:30 am Bloomberg reports that Foxconn is working with Amazon on a "wider range of low-priced hardware devices"; even more tellingly, it's just hired Intellectual Ventures' former senior director of acquisitions.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 06, 2012 11:16 am Peter Higgs (of the Higgs Boson Higgses) would like to correct a couple of misconceptions. First off, the discovery of the Higgs Boson (if that is, indeed, what has been discovered) neither proves nor disproves the existence of a deity. In fact, the Higgs Boson has nothing to do with God at all. It's important ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 11:14 am As economic collapse and austerity settle over Europe, criminal gangs have found a lucrative trade in brokering the sale of organs from the desperate poor to the dying rich. In his New York Times feature, Dan Bilefsky opens with the story of Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella, Serbians who are trying to sell their ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 06, 2012 11:04 am One of the things I loved about the two years I lived in Birmingham, AL: Being in a place where people openly and un-ironically fired guns into the air in order to celebrate things. This was something new to me, despite being raised a good country family with high levels of gun ownership. But that ...
Read in browser One year of econopocalypse would pay for a civilization's worth of science
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 10:20 am The UK has spent more money bailing out its banks in the past 12 months than it has spent on science since the time of Christ.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 09:05 am Scott scanned and posted, "A page of charts and graphs from the July 7, 1917 issue of The Graphic displays, among other things, Lord Montagu's ideas for how to divvy up airspace, the estimated annual cost of running a London-Paris air route, and the distances covered in one hour by different methods of transportation of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 08:14 am For the past couple of months, I've been playing with a laptop from ZaReason, a small, GNU/Linux-based system builder founded in Oakland, CA (though it has expanded to New Zealand). ZaReason's deal is that they build computers themselves, using components that are guaranteed to have free and open drivers, and pre-install your favorite free/open operating ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 06, 2012 05:43 am Reading this Reddit thread on stupid customer stories reminded me of the stupidest thing I've ever done as a customer. I had flown all night and gotten into my hotel near San Francisco International very late. Blearily, I unpacked my toilet case and brushed my teeth, had a pee, flushed and climbed into bed. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 10:44 pm MrBrickLabel has a Flickr set of absolutely gorgeous vintage Chinese firecracker labels. I have been collecting firecracker and firework labels since I was 5 years old (1968). I appraise, buy, sell and trade firecracker labels. Everything you see here could possibly be for trade. I will try to post everything eventually. Hopefully more collectors can ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jul 05, 2012 08:47 pm I challenge you to un-see this. I asked photographer Markus Mueller about these hilarious and semi-disturbing shots on his website: We shot these in different locations in berlin. one day three motives, three locations, a nice and very funny crew and work. we took the portrait pictures from the girls separately some days before. that ...
Read in browser Just Do It doc on direct-action environmentalists now available as free, CC-licensed BitTorrent download
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 08:40 pm Becky sez, Almost a year ago, Just Do It!, a film that follows the adventures of direct action environmental activists in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, was unleashed on the world. A joyful romp around the ins and outs of our corrupted political system, the film grants its viewers the kind of access ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 05, 2012 08:30 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 58 are: Ed Piskor, the cartoonist for Boing Boing’s weekly Brain Rot ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 05, 2012 08:00 pm Jim Hodgson says: Lucha VaVoom, Tic Tack Toe w/ Steve O, Tim Biskup, Wayne White, Dave Alvin and Andy Kindler, "The Munster's" DRAG-U-La roadster, and MST3K's Joel Hodgson are just some of wonder at one of the greatest events of the summer, TwentyWonder - A Carnival Of The Mind, on Saturday, July 7, at the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 08:00 pm Purdue Pharma is testing OxyContin on children six and up. Oxy's gonna go out of patent some day, and shut down Purdue's gravy train. But if they test it on kids -- even it's never approved for use on kids! -- the folks at the FDA will extend their patent by another six months. "Dr. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 05, 2012 07:39 pm Phonographies is a collection of contemporary audio recordings made on wax cylinder phonographs from more than a century ago. In the late 1880s, Thomas Edison's wax cylinder phonographs were a mass market item. By the 1920s though, gramophone records totally dominated and cylinders quickly became a dead media. Phonographies founder Aleks Kolkowski records numerous musicians ...
Read in browser Dissidents airdrop hundreds of free-speech teddybears over Belarus
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 07:00 pm Per sez, "Belarus is usually referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe. The opposition is jailed and tortured. The freedom of speech is non-present. Yesterday morning a small airplane entered the restricted Belarusian airspace, heading for Minsk. Flying on low altitude to avoid radar, the plane reached Minsk early morning releasing it's cargo of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 05, 2012 06:20 pm Having listened to Radiolab describe the origins and early history of HIV yesterday, I found this press release particularly fascinating. The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of an unknown disease in Cambodia. The disease begins with a fever, then progresses into neurological symptoms and very quickly to respiratory failure. All the recorded cases ...
Read in browser A guide to the "snake fight" portion of your Ph.D. thesis defense
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 05, 2012 06:11 pm Pictured: Laocoon, who had some serious problems with his methodology. I'll bet you didn't know that, in order to earn a Ph.D. from a major American university, you must first defeat a snake in combat. Don't feel too bad. They almost never mention this until you've already begun your graduate studies. Luckily, Luke Burns has ...
Read in browser NYC is paved with leftovers!
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 05:56 pm Street Tucker, a series of photos of "Food found on the streets of New York City." There's a whole genre of "food left on bike seats." Street Tucker (via MeFi)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 05, 2012 05:55 pm In 1851, Henry Mayhew published the four volume London Labour and the London Poor, an influential work of sociology/journalism that documented the life of working class Victorians. He wrote of "bone grubbers," basically dumpster divers seeking food and bits of household detritus, individuals who spent their days seeking cigar-ends for reselling, and scores of others ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 05, 2012 05:27 pm Street artist MEGX converted an unused overpass in Wuppertal, Germany into a LEGO bridge. LEGO-Brücke (via Colossal)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 04:57 pm What could be more romantic than a wedding bouquet whose flowers are made from the pages of Sherlock Holmes, and whose handle is a Doctor Who sonic screwdriver? My Sonic Screwdriver Book Bouquet (via Neatorama)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 05, 2012 04:53 pm I just picked up a vinyl copy of Bruce Springsteen's classic 1982 album Nebraska, consisting entirely of tracks that he recorded as demos but decided to release them as-is. My favorite song is "State Trooper" and after all these years, I only found out today that it was influenced by the song "Frankie Teardrop" by ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 05, 2012 04:38 pm [Video Link] An amazing video by Jeremiah McDonald. In this piece, he digs up a tape he recorded as a child 20 years ago, and has a conversation with the 12-year-old version of himself who once intoned to the video camera, "I think I'd like to talk to myself in the future." (Thanks, Joe Sabia.)
Read in browser CyberQ: a wireless meat-probe and BBQ thermostat
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 02:54 pm The CyberQ Wifi is a WiFi controlled barbecue monitor, thermostat and meat thermometer. It measures the temperature in your meat and adjusts the flame on your BBQ to ensure a through-and-through cooking without burning. CyberQ Wifi is our most advanced control to date. It has a built in Wifi web server to allow remote access ...
Read in browser TSA agent pokes fingers in ashes of traveler's dead grandfather, spills them on floor, cackles
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 05, 2012 02:39 pm Indianapolis resident John Gross was going through TSA security in the Orlando, Florida airport, carrying the cremated ashes of his Sicilian grandfather "in a tightly sealed jar marked 'Human Remains." TSA rules say that this sort of material in carry-on baggage must be labeled, and go through the X-ray machine, but that human remains are ...
Read in browser Google and NBC stage "War Games" to prepare for hacker attacks on Olympics online coverage
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 05, 2012 02:21 pm Photo: london2012.com. The WSJ's Joel Schectman reports that NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, in preparation for possible hacker attacks or hardware screwups that could interrupt web streaming of the 2012 Summer Olympics Games in London, which begin this month. The planned online streaming, if successful, will be the largest-ever ...
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