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The First Knight of Ramadan: A Muslim Nerd's Dilemma (video) CDZA: The history of wooing women (music video) Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Rick Rubin, and the first gold record Sally Ride's sister, on the quiet acknowledgement of her orientation: "I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay." Designer vaginas ATM skimmers that fit in the card-slot Maggie speaking in Richland, Washington today Travis Louie paints Bigfoot (cyclops) Artificial jellyfish created Welder women's room sign from a hackspace What a "self-made" man owes to the world If they turned R2D2 into a Death Star The Harvey Girls - 480 pages of comics featuring Little Audrey, Little Dot, and Little Lotta Washington's King County voids marriage license between a person and a corporation Norway's foreign minister on why Breivik didn't have a special, secret trial John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy, Kickstarts a cartoon Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has died Sarah Wayne Callies is saying the most spoilery things about her character on The Walking Dead Giant baby avenges poor skin-care choices by abandoning mother in a basket New works from Ray Caesar Excerpt from my forthcoming novel Pirate Cinema They are making a Bill Hicks biopic and Russell Crowe would like to direct Stark contrast in LA news coverage Mont-Saint-Michel from space Let's talk about Madonna's post-Aurora decision to play with fake guns in her show Wizard Wars: magicians compete to create tricks in one hour using items from a dollar store Nested vehicles: A pickup on a dumptruck on a flatbed on a massive truck My miscarriage, my abortion MIT models which airports are most likely to spread disease Journalist Irin Carmon responds to Trust Me I'm Lying book chapter about her work at Jezebel The First Knight of Ramadan: A Muslim Nerd's Dilemma (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 12:50 pm [Video Link] Aman Ali, one of the guys behind "30 Mosques," tells Boing Boing, "Instead of doing a roadtrip this year, we're releasing short films." I love this one. In it, a Muslim nerd "is excited for the new Dark Knight movie," but it releases on the first night of Ramadan. The short film stars ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 12:37 pm [Video Link] The latest from Joe Sabia's CDZA project: a chronology of "wooing women" in pop music, which subtly points out the arc from sweet ballads to "I want to fuck you like an animal." Where has romance gone?
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 11:49 am Astronaut, physicist, and American science hero Sally Ride died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, at 61. Dr. Ride was the first American female in space, and left a vast legacy of scientific accomplishments. When her astronaut days ended, she worked to promote space and science literacy to young people around the world through Sally Ride Science. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 24, 2012 11:45 am Melissa Hogenboom reports on women who turn to surgery in pursuit of the perfect vagina: Jessie said she used to spend hours flicking through magazines looking for women with similar labia to hers. She did not find any. She said it was "another piece of evidence that there was something wrong with me" and made ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 24, 2012 11:39 am Police in an unidentified European nation have retrieved wafer-thin ATM skimmers that are so small that they can be fitted inside the credit-card insertion slot. Brian Krebs describes the finding: That's according to two recent reports from the European ATM Security Team (EAST), an organization that collects ATM fraud reports from countries in the region. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 24, 2012 11:11 am I'm speaking this evening at the Public Library in Richland, Washington, talking about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. The talk starts at 7:00 pm. You can learn more by checking out the website for my book, Before the Lights Go Out. Hope to see you there!
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 24, 2012 08:14 am From every monster's favorite portrait artist Travis Louie comes this lovely painting, "Spirit Of The Cyclo-Sasquatch based on the Patterson footage." (Thanks, Stacey Ransom!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 24, 2012 01:44 am Made from rat bits. [BBC]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 11:00 pm Nick sez, "I designed and laser cut a new women's room sign for my hackerspace (CCCKC/Hammerspace). The files are up on thinigiverse if anyone wants to make their own. It took a long time to figure out something that wasn't a dress to signify that a stick figure is a women. Down pigtails seem to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 09:51 pm John Scalzi's "A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It" is a characteristically great essay about how his life's course from poverty and food stamps to fame and commercial success was only possible because of all the social programs, generous individuals, and public spending that went into his upbringing, and why this makes him ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 07:48 pm I love this design for an R2D2 Death Star. Sebastian sez, "This is what the rebels should have done with those stolen plans." T-SHIRTS > DeathstaR2-D2 t-shirt (Thanks, Sebastian!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 07:32 pm Little Dot is about 9 years old and, like artist Yayoi Kusama, she is obsessed with dots and paints them on every surface within reach of her brush or pencil. Little Lotta is an insatiable trencherman who is unaware of her superhuman strength. Little Audrey is a blithe dilettante who casually outperforms adults of all ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 07:16 pm Jeff sez, "King County has voided the license it issued Tuesday between Corporate Person, a Washington State Corporation, and Ms. Angela Marie Vogel: 'Marriage is a civil contract between a male and a female who have each attained the age of eighteen years, and who are otherwise capable.'" The Wedding of Corporate Person to Angela ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 07:00 pm Jonas Gahr Store, Norway's foreign minister, has written a NYT op-ed explaining why his country refused to treat the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik any differently from other criminals -- because Breivik's cause is served by treating him as a sort of criminal superman whose crimes are so special that normal justice can't apply to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 05:51 pm Hurray! John K. is creating a new cartoon about one of my favorite characters: George Liquor. I was laughing out loud while watching this video. I wish he had a video show where he talked about stuff like this every week! Hi cartoon fans! I’m John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren and Stimpy). I have a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 23, 2012 05:35 pm Dr. Sally Ride, an American physicist and former NASA astronaut, has died of pancreatic cancer. She joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman to travel into space. From a statement on her website: Sally Ride died peacefully on July 23rd, 2012 after a courageous 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Sally ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 23, 2012 05:29 pm If you're a regular reader of The Walking Dead comic as well as a viewer of the show, then you won't be spoiled if you read about a recent and interesting statement Sarah Wayne Callies made about Lori's fate on AMC's The Walking Dead. But if you're not familiar with what happens in the comic ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 05:16 pm In this 1945 Life ad, a giant baby exacts a vicious turnabout-is-fair-play revenge on his mother, who failed as a parent an a human being by using the wrong skin-care products on him. Life, September 3, 1945
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 05:13 pm Artist Ray Caesar, who uses 3D design software to create his work, has a new series available at Gallery House. Shown here: La Chambre, 2012.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 05:06 pm Tor.com has published an excerpt from my forthcoming YA novel Pirate Cinema, a book set in the UK in which a gang of squatter guerrilla filmmakers take on the entertainment industry and their pals in the government to save the world from corrupt, brutal anti-piracy laws. Booklist gave it a starred review, saying " ...Doctorow's ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 23, 2012 04:59 pm I'm gonna say this right now: What you're about to read is a wonderful idea. Russell Crowe, whose name was thrown around at one point to play late comedian Bill Hicks in a biopic, has now said he'd rather make his directorial debut with a different actor in the leading role. There's something about that ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 23, 2012 03:48 pm Leo Gonzalez, an LA area comedic actor and library assistant, pointed out the stark contrast between KCAL's and KTLA's take on the Anaheim police response to a protest of a police shooting. Embedded above, KCAL's report shows video of police unleashing a snarling police dog on women and children. KTLA's report has an entirely different ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 23, 2012 03:47 pm France's Mont-Saint-Michel island and commune as seen from the Pléiades satellite. (via Nat Geo)
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 23, 2012 03:33 pm Okay, so this happened: Madonna had a show in Scotland on Saturday (part of her world tour, going on since late May) in which she and her dancers "waved" a bunch of fake machine guns and pistols, despite what happened in Aurora, Colorado a day before involving actual machine guns and pistols. She was warned ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 03:04 pm [Video Link] 2 teams of magicians get an hour to create original magic routines. Here's the catch: The routines must incorporate four [preselected] props (chopsticks, beach balls, erasers, fake oranges). After the hour is up, the magicians will perform their tricks before a panel of judges. Only one team can win. We call it...Wizard Wars.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 02:55 pm Redditor Amiziras posted this photo of several nested trucks, taken last year in West Street, Bedminster, Bristol. Pickup on a truck on a truck on a truck (imgur.com) (Thank, Sam!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 23, 2012 02:25 pm About a month ago, I wrote here about my struggle to decide what to do after I found out that my pregnancy wasn't going to be viable. This morning, I went on New Hampshire Public Radio's Word of Mouth to talk about that decision, miscarriage in general, and some of the ways that this issue ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 23, 2012 01:59 pm Researchers at MIT used network theory to put together a model of how an infectious disease might spread around the world with the help of American airports. The model shows which features—geography, connectivity, levels of use—most impact the spread of disease and use that to predict which airports would be at the heart of an ...
Read in browser Journalist Irin Carmon responds to Trust Me I'm Lying book chapter about her work at Jezebel
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 01:13 pm Last week I interviewed Ryan Holiday, author of the book, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. The post included an excerpt from Holiday's book, which focused on his interactions (as director of marketing for American Apparel) with a journalist for Jezebel named Irin Carmon. Carmon (who is now at Salon) wrote an ...
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