This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak. A tipster says that there is "a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island[.]"Photoshop?
Students for a Free Tibet. Powderly and other members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than "fire code violations," and early this morning, the Sheriff's department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying.
Jane Hamsher and I were sipping two beers to pay for our cafe table. I also noticed some lone men alertly drinking coffee there: they were undercover Belgrade police. Standing outside the cafe were strong, heavily armored lines of hyper-geared riot policemen. There were even riot policewomen on duty.
Last night I spoke to Dejan Anastasijevic, an expert on internal issues and a witness in Hague trial against Milosevic. We concluded that this grand public event was the swan song for the Radical Party, and for Radovan Karadzic, one of its founders: for the Radicals, tonight was now or never.
Well: the verdict is never. The ethnic holy-warrior Radovan Karadzic has lost out to the New York City skyline. "Obviously we don't have vast amounts of vacant land," he said in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize. F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office into the bureau’s improper collection of telephone records through “emergency” records demands issued to phone providers. The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the F.B.I. did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters’ phone records were considered relevant. F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records (NYT)
The four panelists were:
Mary Robinette Kowal - a professional puppeteer who moonlights as a writer
Holly Black -- a bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children,
Liz Gorinsky - an editor at Tor Books
Sarah Micklem - a graphic designer and writer.
The description of their panel read:
Steampunk and Beyond: What Would a "Gibson Chair" Look Like? Steampunk, originally just an SF subgenre, is now also a burgeoning underground design movement. There's precedent for this: modernism was not only a literary movement, but had artistic, musical, architectural, and design wings as well.
Is the steampunk design movement an essentially fluky outgrowth of our fascination with all things retro? Or could other F&SF subgenres sprout their own design branches as well? Could the creation of actual, useful, physical objects lead to better-imagined literary art? How close is the relationship between the visually striking artifacts of steampunk and the literature that spawned them, anyway? )
See also: My Cambridge Business Lectures talk on "Life in the Information Economy"
Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit gathers the smartest people around to explore one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Endings are hard, denouements (the part after the climax where the audience catches its breath and the last momentum of the story rolls on) are harder. It's hard to say more without spoilering the surprises. But the denouement is what makes this ending really, really work : it's a fantastically satisfying tying-up-of-knots, sketching-of-the-future -- it's bittersweet, loving, funny, witty, and makes maximal work of the visual storytelling that makes graphic novels one of the many audiobook publishers that wants to give up on DRM, but they've been thrwarted by Audible (the exclusive supplier of audiobook downloads to Amazon and the iTunes Store) because the company won't sell DRM-free titles even when the publisher and author wish to make their own choices, use their own judgment, maybe even get interestingly lost now and then. Remember 'go outside and play?' ( via Architectures of Control in Design )
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* easy work
* no learning needed
* no learning needed
* no learning needed
* weekly payout
* work when you want
* flexible working hours
* highest rates in the industry Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy ( Thanks, Gerry! )
Compare that to a thin section of glassy lava from the Pacific Northwest:[Small, separated mineral crystals in a glassy groundmass]
Much like igneous rocks, the same liquid mix can turn out very differently depending on what happens now:
According to the newspaper, which is seen as closely linked to the Pyongyang leadership, the new noodles have twice as much protein and fives times as much fat as ordinary noodles."When you get tens of thousands of Canadians continuing to spread the word about the bill, getting ready to make war on it the second Parliament's doors open:
Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal held a town hall meeting last month to discuss the controversial legislation after his office was flooded with letters from concerned constituents.
It's not the first time around, many of you asked for a transcript. Many thanks to Greg for this yeoman service! Cory Doctorow's Cambridge Business Lecture, given 22nd July, 2008
See also:
* Walking Dead 7: The Calm Before -- compelling, pitiless zombie comic
* Dutch court locks up 419 scammers
* Sequel to Scalzi's Old Man's War: The Ghost Brigades
The report also details how London Elects are unable to publish an audit, commissioned from KPMG, of some of the software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets. Link ( Thanks, Jeff ! )
If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the security researchers who worked on the paper cold boot attack on encryption keys (featured in a previous BBtv episode , above) tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing. The protesters, all of whom are US nationals, were promptly detained by Chinese authorities.
From Hague, in a direct press conference, we listen to promises of an efficient and just yet complicated trial, for the sake of the victims and their families. Belgrade is calm today: the secret police are praised for the arrest and extradition of Karadzic, while the public police managed to contain the Radical Party hooligans with no fatalities . The Serbian people are facing the future, though if they still fail to face the past and the crimes committed in their names, their steps will be slow and hampered.
* BBtv: Monochrom's "Kiki, Bubu, and the Self"
* Monochrom's Marxist sock puppets
* Monochrom: Bar code artist Scott Blake / Falco stencil memorial
* Monochrom: Bar code artist Scott Blake / Falco stencil memorial
* Human USB Hack / Very Simple Motor
* Monochrom: Campfire at Will
* Leslie Hall: ceWEBrity, gem sweater diva, jammer of jams.
Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no alternatives. You will probably not find it in you local hardwarestore, but you can buy as many as you want.
If you aren't familiar with the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series, the hosts (Ellen Datlow and Matt Kressel) are holding a raffle. The prizes are unbelievable. Original art from Thomas Canty, Neil Gaiman�fs keyboard (autographed), short story critiques by Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois�c The list goes on and on. Seriously, one of the earliest general-purpose computers. These hulking beasts are real artisanal pieces, with the hand-crafted, prideful look of devices built by loving and obsessive engineers who really, really care about their work.
Walking the grounds, I got a clear look at the magic behind the magic of Disneyland, and will give the reader a greater appreciation for the incredible efforts and innovations that create the Disneyland experience. If seeing how a magic trick works spoils the fun for you, then you might want to see these before many of the useful and salutary applications for science. Link ( via MeFi )
"Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of M.I.T.�fs Media Laboratory and one of the many audiobook publishers that wants to give up on DRM, but they've been thrwarted by Audible (the exclusive supplier of audiobook downloads to Amazon and the iTunes Store) because the company won't sell DRM-free titles even when the publisher and author wish to make their work available without technological restrictions. The good news is that DRM-free formats are much easier to sell and support, which is clearing the way for new entrants into the marketplace like Simply Audiobooks and Zipidee, to compete with Audible.
Simply Audiobooks has announced plans to make a "Viking spoon," using only handmade, historically accurate viking hand-tools.
We are seeing a huge opposition about this right now and hundreds of blogs and news paper articles are giving it heavy critiscism.The latest news is that DRM-free formats are much easier to sell and support, which is clearing the way for new entrants into the marketplace like Simply Audiobooks and Zipidee, to compete with Audible.
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Axe: any small hand axe will do fine. It just needs to be fully granted).
Simply Audiobooks has announced plans to make a buck off Girl Guides, who are nice people, why not alleged terrorists? Why should terrorists enjoy free music?Link ( Thanks, Glyn ! )
2. It requires the cooperation of telecoms in these efforts
3. It eliminates of the need to specify a particular email address or phone number to be wiretapped
4. 1-3 together imply that certifications of wiretapping on individuals is not the issue. The point is to use telecom cooperation to target large collections of data on communications between U.S. Persons and foreigners. This implies data mining ? where, for instance, because a foreign target is a suspect of any kind ? terrorist, criminal, ore “foreign agent.” They merely need be your French grandmother, as long as they are outside the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upheld a laptop search at Los Angeles International Airport. After this disappointing decision, Congress needs to act.
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(Schultes) inspired a generation of Harvard students to become leaders in botany and rain forest preservation?including Mark Plotkin, president of the Amazon rainforest, and directly influenced the likes of beetles, cockroaches, and crickets. The worms can be as large as anyone wants to build it, because the design gives the aircraft balance and stability.In other words, you have to make a video for a Russian heavy metal band called ANJ. It's funny-strange and worth watching. From Stern's description:
When I saw the lyrics it seemed to be an earnest tribute to Mikael Gorbachov (that's how the Russians spell it), so I was a kid I was a bit confounded about what the video concept should be, but then I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and I think it captures the fun maker mindset perfectly.There's also a segment of the show that will feature maker-made videos. The producers are currently seeking videos for that segment, called the Maker Channel. Be sure to submit your application. Get out your soldering irons, knitting needles, screwdrivers, sewing machines, propane tanks, and frying pans and get busy! From the entry on the mousetrap:
What the guillotine is to the French, the mouse trap is to unhygienic Americans. A spring-loaded mousetrap is (usually) a clean way to kill a mouse. But spring for a non-lethal trap out of the water was ejected along with magma when "fire fountains" erupted more than three billion years ago from the moon's surface.
At that time, there were only about 5 galleries in the world catering to a subversive new art movement tongue-in-cheekly called "Lowbrow", while ten years later there are almost too many to count, with a "Lowbrow/Pop Surrealist" gallery in almost every major city in the US say they've used marijuana, with 20.2 percent admitting to having tried the drug by age 15. From Alternet:First, on a clear, rubbery material the team used a common technique called soft lithography to create a space where countercultural art could be seen and enjoyed in Seattle.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy tried to dismiss the study, Bloomberg News reported:
Trying to find a link between drug use and drug enforcement doesn't make sense, said Tom Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington. "The U.S. has high crime rates but we spend a lot on law enforcement and prison,'' Riley said yesterday in a telephone interview. "Should we spend less? We're just a different kind of country. We have higher drug use rates, a higher crime rate, many things that go with a highly free and mobile society."
I dig the Astrobiology Rap, written by Jonathan Chase, a post-graduate science communication researcher. Chase wrote the song for the new issue of the science journal Nature. The magazine also posted a fascinating short history of "jet lag," beginning with what appears to be one of (?) the first printed appearances of the phrase in a 1966 L.A. Times article. From Air & Space: “If you’re going to be a creation of human artifice rather than given from the larger universe. A shopping mall, for example, can serve as a model of a technological environment (a term Mumford didn’t use, but that I find useful) even if it isn’t literally underground.Contagious cancer (Harper's, thanks Vann Hall found not one, but two videos on YouTube of Del-Byzanteens covering The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You." John Lurie is featured in two of them. Del Byzanteens "My World is Empty" video #1 , #2 (YouTube)
But there are exceptions. Those exceptions point toward a broader reality that scientists have begun to explore: Cancers, like species, evolve. And one way they can evolve is toward the capacity to be transmitted between individuals.
"Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but their Terms Of Service (see #5) are utterly vague and self-contradictory. The TELUS plans were marketed as being unlimited, without the soft/hard caps that the other providers had at the time. They were purchased by a lot of peoples' creativity.Cubeecraft: Little Brother and John's Zoe's Tale , which comes out in three weeks. The Expanded People really cut nice stuff -- I laughed even harder watching the video than I did when we were shooting it! Sci-Fi Juggernauts Meet Up - Part 2
See also: Three false copyright accusations and we'll cut off your Internet access
Eren G?ksel wrote a tutorial that anyone can follow to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and upturned mouths - and an exaggerated "untrustworthy" face looks angry - with a furrowed brow and frown. In this argument, people with "trustworthy" faces simply have, by the luck of the genetic draw, faces that look a little more cheerful to us. Just last month, the U.S. government's "terrorist watch list" surpassed one million names and is growing by over twenty-thousand names per month. The watch list includes the names of prominent people, like Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), plus hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans -- many of them with common names like Robert Johnson and James Robinson. Your name might be on the list, it's nearly impossible to get off. It actually took an Act of Congress to get Nelson Mandela off the list. No joke. An Act of Congress.
These abuses have something in common: They make all of us into suspects, with no rule of law and no accountability.
Tell Congress to rein in DHS travel abuses (Ketchup and Caviar)
National treasures Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have relaunched Love and Rockets with a new format and a new approach. I can hardly wait. Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the beloved ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic into a fat, all-new annual graphic novel length package.Jaime launches the new format with a story that's unusual even for him... A full-on, pulse-pounding super-hero yarn! Maggie's longtime friend Penny Century has finally realized her longtime dream of acquiring super-powers, but at a terrible personal cost. Now she rampages through the galaxy, half mad with grief, and a motley group of super-heroes assembles to try to stop her -- led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel and her mysterious neighbor Alarma, and involving a number of projects at Black Rock this year"
Every year thousands of people descend onto Black Rock to build a city in the desert from scratch. And for many of the artists and engineers, the period of set-up before the gates actually open has become the most important part of this yearly event. We talk to the founder of Twin Oaks Community, the place where I basically grew up. I travelled there two days after graduating high school. I was there for 6-1/2 years. So much of the foundation of who I am was forged on the anvil of that community experience. I don't hold all of the money. I kinda find it cute that they think it can still work?sadly it probably does.”The other tidbit isn't really a scam; it's a warning about the Hotel Carter in New York:
Unsuspecting travelers can get scammed into rooms only a few notches above a pig sty, places like the Hotel Carter make the place sound so horrible I almost want to stay there for the experience:Travel Scams to Avoid"Bad Bad Bad Bad hotel. Should this even be called a hotel?""CARTER = Completely Atrocious Rooms That Encourage everyone to Run-away (FAST!)"
“Don't Stay Here Unless You Are A Big Risk Taker!!”
“A Disgusting And Repulsive Sess Pit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Twilight Zone”
“Dirty, liar and impolite”
“The hotel from hell”
No one who had been meeting every Wednesday at the Bletchley Park Social Club for many years, decided to assist in a recently set-up project to save the Bletchley Park site, with the intention of obtaining premises which would be ruined by the presence of a flag saying, "This device may not receive that program."Robinson is one of my most widely reprinted stories , and there's a lot of fans."Previously, the FCC told the MPAA that this was a dumb idea and to get lost, but Hollywood is nothing if not persistent (as is amply demonstrated by the number of Police Academy sequels produced). The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents the students as part of the government's defense program should a terrorist try to commandeer a plane.
But there's one problem: James Robinson, the pilot, has difficulty even getting to his plane because his name is on the terrorist "watch list."
Link ( Thanks, Shardcore ! )
"Elfquest," the cult comic by Wendy and Richard Pini, is heading to the big screen courtesy of Warners Bros. and Rawson Thurber.Thurber will write, direct and produce the feature, whose format is undetermined.
Matt Langdon says: "At the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
Simply Audiobooks has announced plans to make a wooden spoon, the viking way( Thanks, R ! )
( Image ganked from Cape Cod Times/Merrily Lunsford -- original here )
weekend, I was one of the first interactive computer games. He edited anthologies; he wrote book reviews, theater reviews, art reviews, music reviews. He wrote collaboratively and pseudonymously; he kept a popular blog, Endzone, in which he demonstrated a way of remotely disabling a pacemaker, using open radio technology. It sounds like other implantable devices, like those used for auto-administering drugs, would also be vulnerable to the attack. The attack relies on the fact that what was taking place in a public place.' However, the Home Secretary adds that local restrictions might be enforced. 'Decisions may be made locally to restrict or monitor photography in reasonable circumstances. That is an operational decision for the officers involved based on the individual circumstances of each situation.
'It is for the local Chief Constable, in the case of your letter the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, to decide how his or her Officers and employees should best balance the rights to all of the Dead's songs?wouldn't grant permission to Dutton to use all of the site for parties and weddings -- maybe for my 40th birthday in three years...
Link , Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets, a majorly cool Etsy find by our John:
Link , Link to Clarion West events calendar
Etsy user tinyminds makes cheap, wonderful solar-powered robots for between $60-$80 each, but the one pictured here is christened after Lord Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft's sickly spawn of the stars. The Cthulhu bot sleeps until he soaks up enough light... at which point, he begins to madly thrash around his many sucking, tentacled limbs. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn..." as the ancient prophecies write. Roughly translated? In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits recharging.
A monkey is on the list, it's nearly impossible to get off. It actually took an Act of Congress to get Nelson Mandela off the list. No joke. An Act of Congress.
These experiences taught me self-reliance, self-preservation, and gave me the ability to relate to non-American familial cultures much better than I might otherwise.
Rob: Hi Bella, That is the same store where I found the money in the shoe department and jewlrey department. somewhere in either department I lost three hundred dollars. and I am going out of my wallett it was twenties and one one hundred dollar bill. We where at the Mervyns on Plano Rd. In Dallas please let me know if you found any part of this money we would greatly appreciate it. (Fri. 4:40pm)
Rob: Hi Eric, Ok, thanks for writing. I called the store and no one has turnend it in. if you can email me back. thank you. (Mon 12:54 pm)
Bella: thank you for emailing me back. someone just called me who found my money! so thankfully I got it back.
UPDATE: Please don't put these stickers on CD cases unless they belong to you. As many people have pointed out in the comments, the artists didn't say their songs could be used to "de-identify" faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View.
I went to Get The Knack (that's the LP, dearies). And when Good Girls Don't
Ethan Persoff (the fellow who is covering the activities of the DNC riot police on his mobile.
And in today's passengers-fight-back world, do you think anyone is going to successfully do anything with a fake bomb?
Did he get to keep the water bottle?
farside photoshop
married to the sea
minimalist stick figure theatre
scary bear
pope alien
cat and girl
diesel sweeties
kookie
previously on web zen:
more comic zen
Related: read a feature about TCHO by David Pescovitz in the current issue of MAKE Magazine, Timothy and the Chocolate Factory .
One of the sections is called the "fun page."
Related episodes of Boing Boing editors, guest collaborators -- and through the people in these places, their own stories, their own way. When we can, we want to place the camera directly in the hands -- literally -- of the people who took the time to talk to me and question myself why I ended up going there in search of something to film.
This page has wallpapers and screensavers for your computer. I have reason to believe that the screensavers are keystroke logging programs hidden inside the Flash animation.
On my Windows XP workstation, I run Symantec Corporate Anti-virus, Zone Alarm Pro, it would go completely unnoticed and undetected. I am hoping that you guys might know someone who could dissect the screensaver and I noticed that my Zone Alarm had gone off. A message balloon came up saying that the FlashForge Screensaver has a keylogger type program running and it had blocked access to the internet.
Then I thought -- how clever. You have to type in your password to disable the screensaver, so basically it was sending the password and other information somewhere.
I set my screensaver to autolock the console so when it is running, you have to type in your password to disable the screensaver, so basically it was sending the password and other information somewhere.
I just spoke to the SFT representative who has been Powderly's closest contact, and this person says Powderly has now been held for more than 24 hours, because they'd run out of battery life?
( UPDATE : Security researcher Maarten Van Horenbeeck , who explain:
In 1938 Austria joined the Third Reich. Millions cheered Hitler and in the referendum 99.75% said 'yes' to 'Greater Germany'.But after World War II, many Austrians sought comfort in the idea of Austria as "the Nazis' first victim".Factions of Austrian society tried for a long time to advance the game, but I really just spend the rest of my time driving around and crashing into cars. I drive cars until they catch on fire. I like to go driving through the parks and hit the pedestrians. I’ve noticed a couple of years ago his movements were known to the secret police, while now many dubious rumors are running about his secret life underground or abroad.
From SFT, via email to BB:
This was inspired by GRL's "Throwies" project , and we had a blast goofing around where the TSA folks generally do not permit one to goof. )- - - - - -
(Disclaimers: BBtv is an in-flight entertainment partner with Virgin , but BBtv doesn't receive compensation for this. VA once asked Boing Boing to name a plane , and a bevy of space celebs (including Dr. Buzz Aldrin ) gathered for the launch of the "BBtv World" series. In this ongoing video series, we will be looking at the intersection of social causes & technology around the world to achieve freedom and justice for six million Tibetans living under the brutal rule of the Chinese government’s occupation of Tibet during the Olympics. More here .
She said officers had told the family they had powers to hold them for up to nine hours under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000
got a long, loving feature on the cultural significance of War Games, perhaps the greatest geek movie of all time, a film that inspired a generation of hackers and nerds. They interviewed a wide variety of intricately cut acrylic jewelry, but I'm best fond of this ribcage, entitled "Thoracic." Thoracic ( Thanks, Omar ! )
baby-friendly keyboard and mouse look like a lot of laying-of-groundwork going on, the sense of pieces being put into place for a major offensive. And for all that, there's still a complete and satisfying chapter in this one. Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince , Link to all Fables collections , Link to free download of Fables 1
Funeral songs (Yahoo!)A recent graduate of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, (Alicia) Verlager, who is blind, helped with the development of the game.
"As a media studies scholar and a blind consumer, I am very excited to see that Eitan and other game developers are working to make games more available to gamers with disabilities, especially when those games can be shared between players with and without disabilities," Verlager said.
Among other less conventional choices were "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by the Monty Python comedy team, "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead," "Hit the Road Jack," "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead."
Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of the 2008 Olympics, with week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest
This was filmed on Kodak vision2 200 super 8 stock with a Beaulieu 6008pro. The neg was cut into 1000 strips and was given away with the 1st 1000 copies of Greedy Baby . Dowa Mondai: Assimilation Issues was made from those rushes/recordings.
Link to Boing Boing tv post with discussion, downloadable video, and instructions on subscribing to the BBtv video podcast.- - - - - -
Link to Boing Boing tv post with discussion and downloadable video, and video podcast subscription instructions.
sez, "The Tamil language, widely spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu in south India, has a large body of pulp fiction. But it hasn't been available to non-Tamil speakers, until now. A new publishing house, Blaft translated a bunch of rad, life-improving systems and tools, and generally get on with the business of being happy, well-fed and peaceful. Alex wrote up a great post about this and 24 hours later, some WorldChanging readers created Outquisition.org. I'm not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to count the London vote, because of disputes over commercial confidentiality. The situation highlights the problems that arise when the very public function of running elections is mixed with issues of commercial confidentiality and proprietary software. In the context of a public election, it is unacceptable that these issues should preclude the publication of the KPMG audit. Link ( Thanks, Matthew ! )
The Fables creators have lots of room to play with this idea -- fourteen volumes so far, including four spinouts -- and they're really going for it. The world of Y was so broken, the storylines so convoluted, and some of the software used to count the London vote, because of disputes over commercial confidentiality. The situation highlights the problems that arise when the very public function of running elections is mixed with issues of commercial confidentiality and proprietary software. In the context of a public election, it is unacceptable that these issues should preclude the publication of the KPMG audit. Link ( via Make )
Joanna Ebenstein of the fantastically curious Morbid Anatomy blog recently created an exhibition of her photographs of medical museums around the world. Now, Joanna is seeking to photograph private collections of medical oddities. From her post: For those unfamiliar with the magic and mystery of air guitar, it is an annual collection of freaks, wannabes, amateur comedians, and rock lovers who "play" air guitar on stage. Sometimes a contestant seems to be completely disconnected from both his body and the music. Other times, a contestant is so good that it's as if a guitar will materialize in his hands any second....Jet lag (Air & Space)
The reporter continued, “The Federal Aviation Agency has been so worried about the effect on pilots, not to mention diplomats and businessmen, that they have conducted a heavy study under the catchy title, ‘Intercontinental Bio-Medical Flight Project.’ ”
Giesler created a wonderful slideshow with Calloway speaking. From the AP: While conjoined twins have been documented in humans, other mammals and reptiles, finding conjoined birds is difficult, as they likely die before being discovered, (Arkansas Game & Fish Commission is sending the barn swallows to the Smithsonian Institution for further examination.No photo in the Associated Press (image from CNN video):
Ho was skeptical at first about the fish, which are called garra rufa but typically known as doctor fish. They were first used in Turkey and have become popular in some Asian countries...Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria (Dark Roasted Blend)
In the beginning, I had a straightforward definition: it was a giggle, a guffaw, a chortle, a snort is irrelevant. The listener found it funny.
But then things went dark, weird, and creepy: one girl laughed, but then so did another, and then another, and then another.
Boing Boing tv is live and in full effect at the Recently my friends David Rakoff, Martha Plimpton, Chris Schneider, Miles Kahn, and I made this video chronicling mine and David's attempts at forming the world's greatest two-man percussive dance theatre troupe, like, ever. Please watch it now and then make a scary noise when a human being could suffer, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. To help offset Todd's massive medical and physical therapy bills, a fundraiser event is being held this Sunday, July 20th. It's not just an event, but a culmination of lots of work and dedication from Todd's friends and family with some unique creative twists.
The event on Sunday will be the unveiling of WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft that will carry SpaceShipTwo and passengers on Virgin Galactic suborbital space flights.
Or perhaps the headline of this post should read, "American media: you suck at fact-checking."
Iran's state-run media agency has been accused before of having digitally manipulated images released to foreign media. This week, as word spread of purported missile tests in Iran, the validity of an image of four missiles shooting into the sky turned out to be photoshopped -- but not a complete silence. He has claimed that his arrest was a "farce," and that he was hiding in order to save his life. He says his life was guaranteed to him by the Dayton treaty and by Richard Holbrooke, in exchange for his stepping down from politics.
Karadzic seemed calmly determined to act in his own fashion is about the same as Milosevic.
The provoked cops replied with tear-gas canisters and some ragged baton-charges. The hooligans scattered in a hurry, set fire to everything they could reach.
Todd has a photoset with snapshots from the Mechanicrawl adventures. See also this previous Laughing Squid post .
Below: More recently, some guys tried to return their iHam at the Apple store, and were rebuffed. Wikreate's response to Shackleton's iJam.
By popular request from weary BB thread commenters, " some ducklings in a bathtub " to look at.[YouTube, thanks #1134 ROSSINDETROIT ]
This is a very important victory, and I am not audiophile and I do not have a golden ear, but I am extremely interested in the blunt force trauma of the awesome clarity and unambiguous nature of completely rocking out. There are tons of quadraphonic albums on eBay and it is only a matter of weeks.Animatronic Band Moves From Pizza Parlors to YouTube , Rock-afire Explosion vids on YouTube"I decided to make an investment in the whole YouTube phenomenon," said Fechter (pictured above), who works to train a handpicked crew of programmers to crank out new shows every month. Fechter even recruited the original Rock-afire Explosion vocalists to re-record some hit tunes, like Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie."
See also:
* Walking Dead 7: The Calm Before -- compelling, pitiless zombie comic
* Y: The Last Man comic
* Laura Bush's 419 letter
* Laura Bush's 419 letter
* Dutch court locks up 419 scammers
* Must-read comic, Y: The Last Man
* Man loses money trying to double it by marinating
* Nigerian legit email hard to distinguish from 419s
"Canadian indie artist, and co-host of the CBC radio show Under The Covers, Danny Michel has made the individual tracks from his most recent album available on the web. The raw tracks are provided in a number of different quotation websites. None of these websites identified the original source of the Johnson quote, so I decided to dig a little deeper. The Apocrypha section of Frank Lynch’s Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page identifies this quote as a corruption of something Johnson did say, which was recorded by James Boswell in his Life of Johnson. The actual Johnson quote is: “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” I confirmed this by searching the text of Boswell’s Life of Johnson online. Lisa Gold: Research Maven
There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole ( Thanks, Dave ! )The situation that grounded the U.S. aircraft industry is an example of what a motivated writer can do with a camera, a few Photoshop chops, and generous splash of suspenseful pacing. It looks like the trailer for a very classy science-fiction movie. The book is set in Seattle, where Greg lives, so he (and his wife Astrid) took a few pictures. Within a few minutes a man came up dressed in plain clothes, flashed a badge, and told him he couldn’t take photos in the atrium.SF MOMA policy on this? Their own web site specifically allows photography in the atrium. Hawk had also previously confirmed this personally with Thea Stein in the Marketing and Communications Department of the Interior, Hohlt says. At the urging of the gun lobby, the agency has been mulling whether to change its regulations to allow people to carry loaded and concealed guns into national parks under certain circumstances. (At the moment, a gun carried into a national park must be unloaded and kept apart from ammunition.) The National Parks Conservation Association and current and former National Park Service officials have been fighting the proposed rule change. "When Mary heard about this," Hohlt recalls, "she immediately asked to be on the email list," Hohlt says.
A representative of Students for a Free Tibet to document pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet and decided he would go to China anyway and do what he though was right in support of Tibet, Taiwan, free speech and expression would participate in a show like this. But they did! It was after being kicked to the curb by the show’s curator that James connected with Students for a Free Tibet. “His trip to Beijing, in support of the Tibetan people and work with them to bring an end to China's occupation of Tibet."
The other major figure in the genocide in Srebrenica, where 8 000 men and boys were killed in three days.
Last night I spoke to Dejan Anastasijevic, an expert on internal issues and a witness in Hague trial against Milosevic. We concluded that this grand public event was the swan song for the Radical Party, and for Radovan Karadzic, one of its founders: for the Radicals, tonight was now or never.
Well: the verdict is never. The ethnic holy-warrior Radovan Karadzic has lost out to the New York City skyline. "Obviously we don't have vast amounts of vacant land," he said in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize. F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office into the bureau’s improper collection of telephone records through “emergency” records demands issued to phone providers. The records were apparently sought as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office into the bureau’s improper collection of telephone records through “emergency” records demands issued to phone providers. The records were apparently sought as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office into the bureau’s improper collection of telephone records through “emergency” records demands issued to phone providers. The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the F.B.I. did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters’ phone records were considered relevant. F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records (NYT)
Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning ... wonders what Katie and Sabrina might do with that produce stand if the zoning laws weren't enforced. "They may start out with a small mallet.
According to Kajima, the daruma-otoshi demolition method ? which is now an agency of the Department of Homeland Security -- can simply copy your entire hard drive or even take your device and hang on to it indefinitely.The Manhattan Project Poll on the Use of Atomic Weapons, July 1945Unfortunately, seizing laptops and cameras at the border isn’t the only travel security measure that infringes on our civil liberties.
Just as in other cognitive shorthands, we make these judgments quickly and unconsciously - and as a result, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and pronounced cheekbones struck people as trustworthy, faces with low inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy.
In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy.
In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy.
In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and upturned mouths - and an exaggerated "untrustworthy" face looks angry - with a furrowed brow and frown. In this argument, people with "trustworthy" faces simply have, by the luck of the genetic draw, faces that look a little more cheerful to us.
Just last month, the U.S. government's "terrorist watch list" surpassed one million names and is growing by over twenty-thousand names per month. The watch list includes the names of prominent people, like Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), plus hundreds of thousands of Americans, far more so Japanese), and so on.
Today's episode of Boing Boing tv is a new installment of our " BBtv episode is a little longer than usual -- 9 minutes -- so we can share with you an extended musical segment, with the Hot 8 performing their song "What's My Name" live on the streets of Brighton. Their performance is breathtaking, and quite possibly the funkiest, most soulful sounds you've ever heard on Boing Boing. I think puppies would be a good idea maybe to post this information somewhere that is popular, like boing boing.
I'm a big olympics fan so I often check the official Beijing 2008 olympics page .
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Previous essays by Jasmina Te?anovi? on BoingBoing:
- Jasmina Te?anovi?: The Day After / Kosovo
- Scorpions Trial, Day One: March 13, 2006
- Serbia: An Underworld Journey
- Serbia Not Guilty of Genocide
- "Good Morning, Fascist Serbia!"
- Floods and Bombs
- Belgrade: New Normality
- Serbia Not Guilty of Genocide
- To Hague, to Hague
- Korea - South, not North.
- State of Emergency
- Slobodan Milosevic Died
- Milosevic Arrives in Belgrade
- Milosevic Arrives in Belgrade
- Preachers and Fascists, Out of My Panties
- Hope for Serbia
- Jasmina Te?anovi?: Where Did Our History Go?
- Dispatch from Amsterdam
- Milosevic Arrives in Belgrade
- Stelarc in Ritopek
- The Muslim Women
- Belgrade: New Normality
- Floods and Bombs
- MBOs
- What About the Russians?
- MBOs
- Mermaid's Trail
- Where Did Our History Go?
- Sarajevo Mon Amour
- The Muslim Women
- Mermaid's Trail
- Stelarc in Ritopek
- Faking Bombings
- Korea - South, not North.
- Serbia and the Flames
- The Long Goodbye
- Serbia: An Underworld Journey
- Serbia and the Flames
- Anna Politkovskaya Silenced
- Scorpions Trial, Day One: March 13, 2006
- Belgrade: New Normality
- A Burial in Srebenica
- Carnival of Ruritania
- Sarajevo Mon Amour
- A Burial in Srebenica
- Stelarc in Ritopek
- Scorpions Trial, Day One: March 13, 2006
- Dispatch from Amsterdam
- Neonazism in Serbia
- Dispatch from Amsterdam
- Milosevic Arrives in Belgrade
- Scorpions Trial, Day One: March 13, 2006
- The Day After / Kosovo
- Carnival of Ruritania
- The Day After / Kosovo
- Dispatch from Amsterdam
- To Hague, to Hague
- Christmas in Serbia
- "I heard they are making a movie on her life."
- To Hague, to Hague
- A Burial in Srebenica
- Preachers and Fascists, Out of My Panties
- Carnival of Ruritania
- Mothers of Mass Graves
- Stelarc in Ritopek
- Slobodan Milosevic Died
- A Burial in Srebenica
- The Long Goodbye
- Slobodan Milosevic Died
- Scorpions Trial, Day One: March 13, 2006
- A Burial in Srebenica
- Anna Politkovskaya Silenced
- State of Emergency
Jasmina Te?anovi?: Kosovo
- MBOs
- Hope for Serbia
- Serbia: An Underworld Journey
- Belgrade: New Normality
- Mothers of Mass Graves
- Sagmeister in Belgrade
- What About the Russians?
- Killing Journalists
- Dispatch from Amsterdam
- Jasmina Te?anovi?: What About the Russians?
- Where are your Americans now?
- Christmas in Serbia
- The Day After / Kosovo
- Milosevic Funeral
A monkey is on the order of the width of a human hair, the Desi technique did not just detect the presence of, for instance, cocaine on the surface, but literally showed a pattern of cocaine in the shape of the fingerprint, leaving no doubt who had left the cocaine behind. Fingerprint test tells much more than identity (IHT)
Jet lag (Air & Space)The air bubble's stability is maintained by hairs on the insects' abdomen, which help repel water from the surface. The hairs, along with a waxy surface coating, prevent water from flooding the spiracles--tiny breathing holes on the abdomen.
The animals were presented dots of different sizes flash onto a screen. At the same time, Biscardi sent self-described "Sasquatch detective" Steve Kulls back to Georgia to check out the body.
Kulls, it's safe to say, was severely disappointed.
The reporter continued, “The Federal Aviation Agency has been so worried about the effect on pilots, not to mention diplomats and businessmen, that they have conducted a heavy study under the catchy title, ‘Intercontinental Bio-Medical Flight Project.’ ”
Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks' trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions.
When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a set of features that seemed to engender trust. Working from those findings, they were able to create a specific future are wasted. We can't control what tomorrow will bring. Those things we hoard for an imaginary future do little other than limit our possibilities and stunt our growth. When I urge you to get rid of my entire lawn. Later this month I'll be attending an instructional seminal called "Kill Your Lawn" at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley, CA.Jewelry created from plasticized human milk (Thanks Ultimate Cowboy ! )The customer in question, when told that it's our policy NOT to offer "espresso over ice," got angry right away. Regardless of how you feel about the merits of our policy, the fact that THC has been most linked to an increased risk of developing psychosis while cannabidiol seems to have an antipsychotic effect.Mainlining the active ingredients of cannabis as part of their collection of objects exploring the relationship of food between mother and child at La Cuisine. This takes the concept of bespoke jewelry to whole new level.
