Motorized tricycle that runs on human poo A secret U.S. memo authorized assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki Technique for fighting submission-form spam Occupy Wall Street: Snapshots from September 30, 2011 NYC Transit Union workers join Occupy Wall Street (and so does Michael Moore) Show and Tell for MAKE at Crashspace in LA - tonight 9/30/11, 8pm Another hit from NYPD's "Mace in the Face" cop, DI Anthony Bologna Report: "Internet companies increasingly co-opted for surveillance" Occupy Wall Street spreads to more US cities Occupy Wall Street: crowds march on NYPD, and the Radiohead concert that wasn't New reality: US assassinates it own citizens with no due process When illustrators were almost as famous as the Kardashian sisters Halloween makeup lesson from a 5-year-old: how to be a cheetah XKCD: Why you should give bad reviews to hotels you like With a Little Help now available to libraries NY Times' "Sexy Chicken" has a Twitter Swimming with the squids NONONONO Cat Sylvia Robinson, "mother of hip-hop," has died at age 76 Mystery hit-and-run enema Occupy Wall Street gets support from MoveOn, trade unions, community groups Day after big debit fee hike, BofA homepage fails Euthanasia Coaster: the suicide roller coaster BART cops get shirt-pocket snitch-cams Tsunami survival capsule Obama: Trick the Bridesmaid Swimming cap fashions (1950s) Buddy Rich drum solo Compilation of soulful, R&B, and rocking gospel, 1957-1982 Happy 13th birthday, Google! 
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Motorized tricycle that runs on human poo
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 05:55 am Toto, Japan's foremost toilet manufacturer, has made a motorized tricycle that runs on human crap. The saddle is a functional toilet, and if you can muster up enough colonic motility to keep up a steady stream, you could travel the world. Toto makes some damned fine toilets, incidentally -- we went to rather a lot ...
Read in browser A secret U.S. memo authorized assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 12:40 am "What constitutes due process in this case is a due process in war." The Washington Post reports that a secret Justice Department memorandum authorized the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. The operation involved the CIA, and military assets under CIA control.
Read in browser Technique for fighting submission-form spam
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 12:04 am Ned Batchelder sums up a series of technique to keep spammers from attacking submission forms with automated bots (it won't work against humans, but even cheap humans are more expensive than bots). Some of these techniques look like they'll continue to work even if they're widely know, while others depend merely on exploiting vulnerabilities in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 12:04 am Maximus Clarke shares photos taken today at Occupy Wall Street.
Read in browser NYC Transit Union workers join Occupy Wall Street (and so does Michael Moore)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 11:32 pm [Photo by Jim Kiernan] Michael Moore, holding a copy of the announcement that the New York City Transit Workers' Union has voted unanimously to support the #occupywallstreet movement. The Transit Union has 38,000 members. More photos from the protests and from last night's book signing with Michael Moore at the St. Mark's Bookshop (which needs ...
Read in browser Show and Tell for MAKE at Crashspace in LA - tonight 9/30/11, 8pm
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 11:18 pm [Video Link] My friends at Crashspace are opening their doors to the public tonight for a fun event: its members are going to show me things they are working on and we are going to figure out the best way to present them in MAKE. There will be about eight 10-minute presentations. I can't wait ...
Read in browser Another hit from NYPD's "Mace in the Face" cop, DI Anthony Bologna
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 10:58 pm This video, labelled as being recorded "moments after" NYPD DI Anthony Bologna's now-infamous unprovoked mace assault on four women at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, shows the same office in another mace attack. How many before we can call it a rampage? How many before the NYPD admits that it's wrong and unacceptable?
Read in browser Report: "Internet companies increasingly co-opted for surveillance"
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 10:35 pm Reuters reports from the Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi: "Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users' information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted ...
Read in browser Occupy Wall Street spreads to more US cities
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 10:20 pm The "Occupy Wall Street" protests in New York City are inspiring similar demonstrations in other US cities. Above, in San Francisco on Thursday, protesters scuffle with a Charles Schwab employee at the door during a rally against corruption and fraud by American banking institutions. Are there demonstrations in your area, Boing Boing readers? We're hearing ...
Read in browser Occupy Wall Street: crowds march on NYPD, and the Radiohead concert that wasn't
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 10:10 pm Gawker's Adrian Chen is liveblogging the afternoon's events at the Occupy Wall Street protest in NYC. Sounds like some of the protest organizers (or an overenthusiastic supporter?) pranked the media about that "Radiohead concert," which is now revealed to have been a hoax—for the lulz? Or for more media attention? There are bigger crowds there ...
Read in browser New reality: US assassinates it own citizens with no due process
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 10:05 pm Glenn Greenwald reports on the US assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen in Yemen, who had not been charged with (or convicted of) any crime. Al-Awlaki was "far from any battlefield," and no judge or jury considered any accusations that had been levelled against him, nor did he have the opportunity to face his ...
Read in browser When illustrators were almost as famous as the Kardashian sisters
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 09:58 pm An advertisement from the good old days when illustrators were celebrities. See some examples of Jon Whitcomb's work. (Look at that big bowl of chicken broth, too!) Drawn: Hard to believe illustrators once had enough celebrity clout to be advertising spokespeople
Read in browser Halloween makeup lesson from a 5-year-old: how to be a cheetah
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 09:49 pm [Video Link] Caturday arrived early. That's good, because you'll need extra time to handle all the cute. Madison has previously appeared on Boing Boing, teaching us all how to be sunflowers. (thanks, MaDonna Flowers)
Read in browser XKCD: Why you should give bad reviews to hotels you like
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 08:11 pm Today's XKCD proposes a strangely optimal strategy for reviewing the hotels you love, provided you don't mind being a jerk. He calls it the "tragedy of you're a dick."
Read in browser With a Little Help now available to libraries
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 07:04 pm Daniel Krause interviewed me in Booklist about my DIY short story collection, With a Little Help, on the occasion of that book being listed in the Ingram catalog, which'll make it easy for libraries to get copies.
Read in browser NY Times' "Sexy Chicken" has a Twitter
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 06:52 pm You like what you see, don't you? She's on Twitter now. Previously ogled by Dean here on Boing Boing.
Read in browser Swimming with the squids
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 30, 2011 06:38 pm Last June, Xeni posted some photos of a huge school of squid swimming off the California coast, taken by photographer/1st grade teacher Jon Schwartz. This month, Schwartz got to swim with the squids again. Only this time, instead of little palm-sized tentacled beasties, Schwartz was in the water with 2-to-3-foot-long Humboldt squids. Humboldts have a ...
Read in browser NONONONO Cat
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 06:22 pm [Video Cat] Today's weird animal viral video is, like all great examples of the genre, equal parts funny, creepy, cute, and sad. Apparently, the cat in this video is having a fear/anxiety/aggressive reaction to the presence of a young girl (sounds like under 5 years old?), a friend of the daughter of the guy who ...
Read in browser Sylvia Robinson, "mother of hip-hop," has died at age 76
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 06:10 pm [Video Link: Sylvia Robinson performing her hit "Pillow Talk" on Soul Train] "Most famous for assembling the Sugarhill Gang, Sylvia Robinson was a songwriter, performer, producer and label owner. 'RIP Ms Rob,' tweeted Public Enemy's Chuck D. 'A black woman putting rap records on the map/now a scene where today women are voided out of ...
Read in browser Mystery hit-and-run enema
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 06:03 pm A visually impaired man who'd recently undergone intestinal surgery answered the door to find a woman who announced that she was there to give him an enema. He complied, but later felt that there was something suspicious about the proceeding, so he called his doctor, who confirmed that no enema had been ordered in his ...
Read in browser Occupy Wall Street gets support from MoveOn, trade unions, community groups
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 05:23 pm A coalition of activists, community groups and trade unions (whom Crain's New York Business hilariously refer as "agitators," as though they were the Red Menace a post-WWII installment of Little Orphan Annie) are set to join the Occupy Wall Street protesters. The new group includes MoveOn, some SEIU chapters, Workers United, the United Federation of ...
Read in browser Day after big debit fee hike, BofA homepage fails
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 04:53 pm Christopher Maag of Credit.com write: Bank of America's homepage was down Friday morning, a day after the megabank announced that it will begin charging customers $5 a month to use their debit cards. Instead of the bank's normal site, visitors receive a notice stating "Home Page Temporarily Unavailable." Instead of the bank's normal site, visitors ...
Read in browser Euthanasia Coaster: the suicide roller coaster
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 04:20 pm Alex Santoso of Neatorama says: "The Euthanasia Coaster, designed by London's Royal College of Art's student Julijonas Urbonas, lets you ride the last ride of your life. Literally." The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb -- nearly a third of a mile long -- that lifts one up to a height of more than ...
Read in browser BART cops get shirt-pocket snitch-cams
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 04:20 pm San Francisco BART police are going to start wearing video cameras that record their interactions with the public (transit cops in SF have committed some controversial high-profile shootings lately). The cameras are tamper-"proof" (in practice, more like "tamper-resistant," I'm sure) but officers have to manually activate the cameras to make them work. I'm guessing that ...
Read in browser Tsunami survival capsule
By David Pescovitz on Sep 30, 2011 04:16 pm This is the "Noah" capsule, a Tsunami survival pod now sold by Japanese company Cosmo. From The Guardian: The company's president, Shoji Tanaka, said the capsule could hold four adults and had survived many crash tests. It has a lookout window and breathing holes, and could also be used as a toy house for children. ...
Read in browser Obama: Trick the Bridesmaid
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 04:08 pm [Video Link] "Let's creep in the frozen aisle and think one thought: trick the bridesmaid to get her to take it off." I appreciate the work Bad Lip-Reading does to make politician's speeches bearable.
Read in browser Swimming cap fashions (1950s)
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 04:01 pm [Video Link] Here's the swim cap fashion show set in a Punch-and-Judy theater that you've been waiting for. Pete Emslie would be happy with the colors! The brooding people in the audience look like they are plotting to kill someone to get a swim cap. (Via Dangerous Minds)
Read in browser Buddy Rich drum solo
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 03:37 pm [Video Link] Happy birthday, Buddy Rich! (1917-1987) (Via Thomas Arey)
Read in browser Compilation of soulful, R&B, and rocking gospel, 1957-1982
By David Pescovitz on Sep 30, 2011 03:31 pm "This May Be My Last Time Singing" is a rousing collection of African-American gospel from the latter half of the last century. Interestingly, the tracks were compiled from 45s, many of which were pressed in very small runs for the congregations where the music was recorded. The curator, Mike McGonigal -- of whose musical/editorial vision ...
Read in browser Happy 13th birthday, Google!
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 03:28 pm Gaylord Stinchcomb's B3ta illustration celebrating Google's 13th birthday is everything I love about B3ta in one little bitmap.
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