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• Photos of chicken forming in egg - Boing Boing (196)
• Send this to a Friend (9)
• (BB Video) Mighty Boosh: Live at the Roxy / Pocket Book of Boosh (pt. 4 of 4) (533)
• If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay - parenting book full of things you don't need to worry about (276)
• Keeping inventory and making lists of parts for a project turns out to be really important for open source hardware folks because it lets you share what it is you're doing and leaves breadcrumbs for others to build on. (330)
• One email from a current guard describes scenes in which guards and supervisors are "peeing on people, eating potato chips out of [buttock] cracks, vodka shots out of [buttock] cracks (there is video of that one), broken doors after drnken [sic] brawls, threats and intimidation from those leaders participating in this activity...." Photograph after photograph shows guards--including supervisors--at parties in various stages of nudity, sometimes fondling each other. (80)
• Canada's copyright consultations are rapidly drawing to a close (you still have time to get your comments in ) and the excellent folks at Canadian Internet giant Tucows (who also own Domain Direct and other tech businesses) have hired David Weinberger (author of Everything is Miscellaneous , Small Pieces, Loosely Joined , and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto ) to write a plain-language, brilliantly argued submission. (369)
• Here's the book-trailer for Leviathan , the first volume of YA superstar Scott Westerfeld's kick-ass new steampunk alternate WWI series, featuring chimera-splicing Darwinist Brits fighting the clanking steam-mecha of the German side. (112)
• Weighing in on that post, an astute BB commenter noticed that if you do a Google Maps search for 1554 Walnut Avenue, Antioch, CA -- the address of the Antioch home where Garrido detained Jaycee Dugard (and her children, fathered by rape) -- you can see an overhead view of all the tents, tarps and sheds that Garrido's parole officer(s) and local police were too incompetent to bother checking, despite the fact that the guy was a convicted rapist. (432)
• Future of Music Policy Summit 2009 features practical, musician-focused workshops, keynotes from leading artists, managers and policymakers and inspired panel discussions with the sharpest minds in the music/technology/policy spac (344)
• Even if we devised a copyright law that provided the absolutely right amount of incentive for every creator to keep on creating, it takes more than motivated creators to build a creative, innovative cultur (379)
• Continue reading Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin) (246)
• On his science book blog John Ptak posted an entry entitled, "Dreaming of the 10-Ton Eiffel Tower Bullet, 1891," about a proposed fun ride in which people would sit inside a giant bullet and freefall from the top of the Eiffel Tower into a pool of water. (59)
• We featured it this February, as part of our ongoing coverage of Cash4Gold, after the company raised its public profile with a multi-million dollar Super Bowl ad. (92)
• Annalee Newitz of science fiction blog io9 points to a neat post they've just published with... Beautiful infoporn, showing the rise and fall of 5 major scifi themes (robots, aliens, time travel, etc.) since 1970, from io9's graphic designer Steph Fox. (2)
• Despite grotestque bacchanals that would make a True Blood maenad blush, some crazy, sadistic sickos guarding the US embassy in Kabul got their 5-year, 189 million dollar contract renewed for another year. (73)
• [Okay, so the thing would hit at 178mph or so, and, assuming that the whole thing didn?t get completely crushed on impact, I?m not so sure that 200? of depth is very much wiggle room for the thing to come to a halt (if it didn?t deform). Also it would have to not have any wind deflection so as to not veer off its perfect entry into the water.  (63)
• Posted by Cory Doctorow , September 1, 2009 1:00 PM | permalink (33)
• It reminds me most of the Violent Femmes' underrated third album, The Blind Leading the Naked, with its mix of jangly, upbeat pop songs, semi-serious religious themes, and a few slow numbers that are more reminiscent of the track Good Feelings from the Femmes' eponymous debut albu (267)
• They come to hear some of the most famous voices in critical thinking ? Adam Savage, San Francisco?based cohost of the Discovery Channel's MythBusters; Bill Prady, cocreator of CBS' The Big Bang Theory ? and to discuss Randi's favorite topic, skeptical inquiry, a discipline devoted to debunking psychics, faith healers, con artists, and ghost whisperers through the holy miracle of old-fashioned scienc (466)
• Gorgeous line graph of sci-fi TV themes over past 4 decades (0)
• Allegra sez, "Issue #6 of Steampunk Magazine is now out, either for purchase in hard-copy for a mere $5 or for free download through our website under Creative Commons Licensing. (45)
• The Super Punch blog is collecting the inevitable Marvel/Disney mashups that have appeared online since the Disney/Marvel acquisition was announced yesterday. (403)
• Continue reading Fresh Greens: Crazy Excessive Electronics Packaging, Dismembered Rare Tigers, Making Music with the Moon and More! (315)
• My Pet Chicken (the place I ordered my baby Barred Plymouth Rocks hens from) has a gallery of chicken coops built from scratc (182)
• Why is there a rise in shows about magic, and a fall in shows about space travel, right at the start of the Bush Administration?" (2)
• Sales of hardcover young-adult books are up 30.7% so far this year, through June, according to the Association of American Publishers, while adult hardcovers are down 17.8%. (484)
• These kind of videos have been around for a long time, but Rehage's is the best I've seen, because of the interesting backgrounds and the way he integrates bits of moving video with the still image (215)
• Some of the apps are free (like TED, which lets you watch those amazing TED talks on your iPhone, and Mint, a personal finance snapshot application that pulls your data from your Mint.com account). (12)
• "A good story is a dirty secret that we all share," Lev Grossman writes in " Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard , his essay in the August 29 edition of The Wall Street Journal . (484)
• He tells me that his new large paintings, "Horror Fables," are in the form of Ming Dynasty scrolls and were influenced by "a variety of dark subjects, including Asian ghost stories, Buddhist hell scrolls, Hong Kong vampire films, neo-conservative propaganda, and twentieth-century genocides such as the Nanking massacre." (414)
• Parts Nebula: a parts-tracking inventory system for makers (328)
• Ben Cosgrove says: "As Tuesday's the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII, I decided to put together a gallery of some of the most intense propaganda posters and flyers I could find, just to remind LIFE visitors that, whatever one thinks of the war itself, there's no denying that some of the graphic art that came out of it was AMAZING." (321)
• Yes, they come every year, but the 2009 fires are now being reported as the largest ever in LA County's history . (150)
• Computer repair flowcharts - Boing Boing Gadgets (357)
• Canadian copyright consultation -- video explains why you should . (385)
• Paul and I grew up together, raised on the Violent Femmes (Gano's earlier band), and now that Paul's running Toronto's most excellent Criminal Records , he's a real treasure-house of kick-ass music suggestion (265)
• Thus, while copyright may provide a financial incentive that enables many creators to create, stronger copyright that results in more money does not necessarily result in more creativit (369)
• Type a new location in the search box to find restrooms for another place, or filter results for cleanliness, business type, or a remarkable number of "features" (changing tables, handicap access, seat covers). (25)
• Snip: Aviation history was made today as a Boeing 747 Supertanker made its debut drop on a live wildfir (166)
• Though the album isn't due out until Sept 1, Yep Roc, Gano's label, was kind enough to send me the album in MP3 form, and I've been seriously rocking to it ever since. (267)
• Erin sez, "As part of a back-and-forth regarding the harassment of photographers at U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, I've gotten my hands on the Homeland Security Department's official guidelines for photography of federal buildings. (129)
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• Weinberger: "free access to every work of creativity in the world . (397)
• Swarm Bots: Now W/Solar Power, Complex Behaviors! (421)
• Nam Le's The Boat , one of the best-reviewed books of fiction of 2008, has sold 16,000 copies in hardcover and trade paperback, according to Nielsen Bookscan (which admittedly doesn't include all book retailers). (484)
• Chris sez, "Online backup startup BackBlaze, disgusted with the outrageously overpriced offerings from EMC, NetApp and the like, has released an open-source hardware design showing you how to build a 4U, RAID-capable rack-mounted, Linux-based server using commodity parts that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867. (34)
• My Mother Wears Combat Boots -- kick-ass punk-parenting book (296)
• Zach pulled together the Parts Nebula as part of Thingiverse, our digital design and project sharing website. (333)
• Physics of impact aside for the moment, M.Carron?s bullet capsule would be released from the top of the interior of the Tower, about 1000 feet high, and released to fall into an excavated pool 150? across and 200? deep.  (59)
• John sez, "This is an annual report but out by the American Booksellers' Association and the American Library Association. (253)
• Swarm Bots: Now W/Solar Power, Complex Behaviors! (540)
• Over at MindHacks , Vaughan points to this fun audio documentary on the Psycograph, from the podcast series This Week in the History of Psychology . (447)
• It also makes him the subject of scorn among purveyors of the paranormal, true believers who say Randi has made himself rich, pulling in nearly $200,000 a year from his foundation, at the expense of others' careers. (459)
• My second-favorite piece of advice came from Stewart Butterfield, who said "Buy one parenting book. (278)
• For the most important creative cultural works, money is an enabler but not the reason the person is putting pen to paper, chisel to stone, or camcorder to eye socket. (376)
• Now, there would be no problem with setting up a system of laws that overemphasizes the financial incentives for creators if that system had no other effects. (379)
• The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper: "sound control" gadget hallucination (531)
• Plymouth Barred Rock chicks - Boing Boing (194)
• Ottawa artist Howie Tsui paints fantastical, evil, and beautiful landscapes of monsters, ghosts, demons, and deities. (414)
• Inside, more about this episode and what goes on behind the public façade of a company that bills itself as "World's #1 Gold Buyer." (99)
• It takes culture to build culture. (382)
• Plymouth Barred Rock chicks - Boeing Boing (197)
• Witnesses report that the highest levels of AGNA management in Kabul are aware of and have personally observed--or even engaged in--these activities, but have done nothing to stop them. (73)
• Scott Westernized s Extras - a superb volume in the Uglies series . (118)
• This, for example, is how the Nazis wanted occupied Holland to see America and Americans in 1944 -- as a Frankenstein monster of warmongering racists, jazz-crazed degenerates, and money-mad gangsters. (321)
• Heisenberg explains how moderate copyright is better for creativity than the pervasive system favored by the American entertainment cartel. (369)
• Snip from Mother Jones article by Daniel Schultz : Guards have come to POGO with allegations and photographic evidence that some supervisors and guards are engaging in near-weekly deviant hazing and humiliation of subordinates. (73)
• His foundation has been hemorrhaging money, and Randi, who has spent his career challenging the notion of an afterlife, now faces his own mortality. (459)
• In fact, how long would it take you to list the bands that have gotten worse as they've gotten richer? (375)
• If you're like me, half the time you're making something, you're pretty sure that you've got a certain part but you don't know where it is and so you have to buy another one. (333)
• We believe citizens, consumers, and employees should be able to exercise their free-speech rights online - and journalists should be able to report on those efforts - without fear of intimidation. (99)
• In war and in peace -- but especially in war -- governments everywhere resort to propaganda, which at its simplest and starkest often takes the form of outrageous posters: occasionally beautiful, sometimes racist, and often brutally jarring. (321)
• Takuan on The blog of Philip Garrido, se. (510)
• Bre sez, At MakerBot Industries, we've been selling more and more MakerBots and we needed an inventory tracking system so that we could keep track of all the different parts of the machine and know what we have and where it is. (330)
• Today, a quick Twitter scan reveals ambient " air-fear ," worries over E.T's house , gay porn stars vowing to soldier on while studios scorch; confusion between snow and ash ; citizens afraid their cars have developed dandruff overnight, and cigarette smoking as training . (154)
• From the SF Weekly: Randi has debunked more than 100 psychics and faith healers in a quest to rid the world of hucksters. (459)
• Indeed, management has condoned this misconduct, declining to take disciplinary action against those responsible and allowing two of the worst offending supervisors to resign and allegedly move on to work on other U.S. contracts. (73)
• Back in July, I wrote to tell you about the preview I'd gotten of Under the Sun, the forthcoming solo album from Gordon Gano, former frontman for Violent Femmes: (264)
• Because remember, if you wanted to intrude into US military sites in 2001 all you had to do was key in: user = guest; password = hell (237)
• In the halls of the conference, they banter about the psychological phenomenon known as "the ideomotor effect," the pseudoscience behind the instant sommelier (a contraption that can supposedly age wine to perfection in 30 minutes), and ? a favorite conversation topic ? getting wasted at the hotel bar. (471)
• Even within any one class of incentive, the effect of money on creativity is rarely a straight line. (369)
• He was eventually caught because he used his own email address to download a program called RemotelyAnywhere. (233)
• Takuan on The blog of Philip Garrido, se. (512)
• The overhead view in Google Maps has since been widely reported and blogged, so that's old news 4 days late (432)
• (Mother Jones) (84)
• Related: POGO Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding U.S. Embassy in Kabul (Project on Government Oversight) (86)
• If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay: How to Know if Your Child's Injury or Illness Is Really an Emergency Previously: (292)
• The database of public restrooms steers you to the closest porcelain oasis, including photos and ratings from a network of concerned citizens. (17)
• It doesn't make him Rain Man but it does create a different perceptual framewor (228)
• (More Psycograph ad images scanned by John Karp are here .) (447)
• You'll find critics who say they have bad taste, or that they're lazy and can't hack it in the big leagues. (484)
• He is a mentally challenged hacker who waltzed through ninety-seven US military Web sites before being caught. (228)
• Select a business to see complete details, including photos, comments, and whether the facilities are clean ("sit") or dirty ("squat" (22)
• Of course, phrenology was the idea that you could glean great knowledge about someone's personality based on the shape of their skull. (447)
• "(Not to mention the fact that the graph shows a drop in magic-themed shows starting in 2002.. ..." (524)
• Camera glasses on sale -- goodbye, photography bans - Boing Boing (139)
• And of course, there's also very clearly spelled-out, highly specific lists of what is worth calling your doctor or going to the emergency room for; along with details about why those things are scary and what the worst could be (it's usually not very bad (289)
• They'll send you 25 chicks (all hens) for $41.50 with free shipping. (183)