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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YRJG)
IMGURian Ryan S. Miller posted this wonderful series of images: “Here is Jeremy's Costumer this year...The Ghostbusters Ecto-1!â€â€œEvery year we've tried to step up the scale of the costume builds we do for Jeremy,†Ryan says. “This year we put it to a vote and our friends choose the Ghostbusters Ecto-1!†Check it out in action, below.https://youtu.be/nlilYapDsNA
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YRGJ)
University of Zurich researchers used transcranial magnetic stimulation, a noninvasive method of inhibiting activity in parts of the brain, to "turn off" people's ability to control their impulses. They focused on the temporoparietal junction, an area of the brain thought to play an important role in moral decisions, empathy, and other social interactions. They hope their research could help inform our understanding of addiction and self-discipline. From Scientific American:In their study, subjects underwent 40 seconds of disruptive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—in which a magnetic coil placed near the skull produced small electric currents in the brain that inhibited activity of the posterior TPJ—then spent 30 minutes completing a task. To rule out a placebo effect, a control group received TMS in a different area of the brain. In one task, subjects made a choice between a reward (ranging between 75 and 155 Swiss francs) for themselves or one that was shared equally between themselves and another person, who ranged from their closest confidante to a stranger on the street. In another task subjects were offered an immediate reward of between zero and 160 Swiss francs or a guarantee of 160 Swiss francs after waiting three to 18 months. In a final task, subjects were instructed to take the perspective of an avatar and indicate the number of red dots on a ball that the avatar would see.Subjects with an inhibited TPJ were less likely to share the money and were more likely to take the money up front rather than delay gratification and wait for a larger prize. They were also less able take on the perspective of the avatar, which makes sense, says Christian Ruff, a co-author of the paper and an economist at the University of Zurich. “The function of perspective-taking is essential to both of these tasks,†he says, in terms of both “thinking how someone else would feel if you give them money and also how you yourself in the future would feel with that money.â€The findings suggest that the TPJ plays an important role in perspective-taking, which (co-author Christian) Ruff describes as “a very basic social mechanism†that is essential not only for helping us figure out what other people may be thinking and feeling during social interactions but also in self-control, as we weigh the needs and desires of our current self against the needs and desires of our imagined future self.
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YRCY)
The morning after America's third and final presidential debate, a new woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. By my count, Karena Virginia is at least the 10th women to accuse the GOP presidential nominee of sexual assault. There are probably more. (more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YRD0)
Are you jonesing for a dose of optimism and possibility? In the mood to contemplate the cosmos? Want to experience a musical message for extraterrestrials the way it was meant to be played? The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition, a project I launched with Timothy Daly and Lawrence Azerrad, is a lavish vinyl box set containing the contents of the phonograph record launched into space in 1977 and now 13 billion miles from Earth. Our Kickstarter ends at 8pm PDT tonight (Thursday). Once we fulfill the rewards from this campaign, we'll never produce this deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition again.We are so thankful enthusiasm and excitement about our project and the incredible Voyager interstellar mission. The curiosity and support is infectious. We're deeply grateful that a project that has been on our minds for so long has resonated with so many people around the world. Ad astra!For more on the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition, please visit our Kickstarter page here.And here's an excerpt from an interview with me about the project, from The Vinyl Factory:Ultimately it was a utopian vision for Earth as much as an actual attempt to communicate with extra terrestrials… Wasn’t it?Yeah I think the idea is that if there is a civilisation that is intelligent enough to actually intercept it, they’ll be able to follow the instructions on how to play it. And I think that’s true. In some ways though, it doesn’t even really matter if it’s ever played or not by an extra-terrestrial civilisation.And I firmly believe this, it was a gift to the cosmos but it was also a gift to humanity. And Linda Salzman Sagan, who was on the original committee, said something along the lines of there being two audiences, there was the extra-terrestrial audience and then there was the audience of the people on Earth. And that’s what’s exciting to us...And the label you’ve set up for this end is Ozma Records…It’s worth mentioning the name. So Ozma is the Princess of Oz from the Wizard of Oz books. That’s the first reference. But the second reference is connected to Frank Drake, who is a pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and was on the Voyager Golden Record committee. In fact he’s the one who came up with the idea of sending a phonograph record. In the 1960s he launched one of the first scientific efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio-telescopes and that was called Project Ozma, named after Princess Ozma. So we wanted to honour him and use that name. Our hope is to release future records that lie at the intersection of science and art and music too, that also instil a sense of wonder.Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition (Kickstarter)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YRBA)
“Nasty Woman vs. Bad Hombre†is a nifty new number on the nutty 2016 presidential campaign by Jonathan Mann, who writes and publishes a new song every single day, as he's been doing for the last 7+ years. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YRBE)
Hilarious infomercial from 1994 for a guardian angel phone hotline. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YQZR)
Nintendo's Switch is a touchscreen tablet with removable physical controls that turn it into a traditional handheld game console. It comes with a chunky dock to hook it up to a TV set for high-definition couch action; also announced is a traditional wireless gamepad to match the squared-off dark gray design: it's what disassembles to become the tablet's own controls.Introducing Nintendo Switch! In addition to providing single and multiplayer thrills at home, the Nintendo Switch system also enables gamers to play the same title wherever, whenever and with whomever they choose. The mobility of a handheld is now added to the power of a home gaming system to enable unprecedented new video game play styles.Switches use cartridges instead of discs: suggestively retro, especially in the promise of instant-on gaming, but also reflective of the general decline of optical media in favor of flash and high-bandwidth internet connections. The promo video depicts intriguing social game cultures that don't yet exist—think kids toting their no-nonsense, easy-to-use Switches around to the pub and competitive event alike. For me it lit up dormant arcade-era neurons that Sony and Microsoft (and Apple, for that matter) never get close to.It's out in March.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YQR9)
VPhone is a wee "phone", surely the most wee of them all. It has a 1.54-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth, FM radio, pedometer, 128MB (megabytes!) of storage, a heart rate monitor, some social network-monitoring apps, and a choice of "simple and stylish" black or silver trim. The radio's quad-band GSM, so if you can get your hands on one it should work on T-Mobile and ATT in the US. Yes, there's also a 3.5mm phone jack. The Verge's Ashley Carman:Some of you might read these stats and think they’re sad. I kind of agree, but I just really love how little this phone is, so it cancels out depressing spec reality. ... The S8 appears to only be available in China, so we, once again, will have to keep dreaming. I’m trying, everyone! I think if we dream hard enough we can force these cool phones to appear in front of us. Will it.Agreed! It's a curious device that seems more a chunky call-enabled smartwatch than a fully-featured mobile--and the English is a bit ropey on the product page, so it's not really clear if it can make voice calls without a BT connection to another device. Carman points to this 2.45"-screened crapgadget as the smallest bona-fide smartphone on offer; the ancient Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, despite its age, is probably a better bet in the 2.5"-ish range.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YQ9A)
The amazing Harry Potter Alliance (previously) -- who harness fandom for social good -- are raising funds for their Wizard Rock the Vote campaign, to get new voters into the polling booth this election. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YQ9C)
Beagle mix Geraldine visits the vet. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any information about this wonderful dog or her career as a foley artist at ILM.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YQ62)
Charlie Cook performs cover versions of songs with a gunslinging twist.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YQ39)
JWZ documents his adventures in bringing a 1982/3 vintage Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 terminal (a rare portrait-orientation terminal) back into service -- fitting it with a Raspberry Pi and a new power-supply and getting it to boot its beautiful green-screen. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YQ3B)
Mauri Helme made a pixel art "cover version" of the King of the Hill intro, and it's incredible: perfectly faithful to the original, yet completely translated to a different medium. Here's the original, by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZIQufgukA
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YQ2Y)
The Troll Trump campaign has a simple, ingenious mechanic: it lets you pledge a small donation every time Trump posts a new tweet, meaning that the more Trump loses his temper and posts enraged tweetstorms, the more he raises for his arch-rival. (via /.)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YQ30)
The ACLU and the Yale Law School Media Freedom Clinic have filed a motion demanding the release of 23 judgments from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret, closed courtroom that evaluates surveillance requests from America's spy agencies. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YQ1H)
Shavkatbek Saipov was vacationing in Turkey in 2013 when he was hit in the eye by a teargas cannister fired by police during the brutal crackdown on the Occupy Gezi protests; he lost the eye and sued the Turkish police. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YPZ2)
Since 2009, the Chicago Police Department has seized $72M worth of property from people who were not convicted of any crime, through the discredited civil forfeiture process, keeping $48M worth of the gains (the rest went to the Cook County prosecutor's office and the Illinois State Police) in an off-the-books, unreported slush fund that it used to buy secret surveillance gear. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YPYR)
Charles Wasko, as mayor of West York, PA, had a bad Facebook habit, issuing a string of racist and sexist postings that finally cost him his job. He regrets nothing, reports the BBC: "The racist stuff, yeah. I'll admit I did that, and I don't care what people label me as." (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YPV4)
Projection mapping is one of the most profound visual effects that computers can generate; themepark fans will have seen it in effect on the revamped opening scene to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland and in the night-time shows that involve painting the whole castle with light (projection mapping is also used to generate the rear-projected faces of the animatronic figures in the new Snow White ride). (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YPSB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A33PJJw5HM&feature=youtu.beMagicPeaceLove writes, "Magician Justin Willman makes the case for why Donald Trump's proposed border wall between America and Mexico is a bad idea -- physically, emotionally, spiritually and (of course!) magically."
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YNRW)
Millionaire Republican Donald Trump isn't just on the ropes: he's practically upside-down and tangled up in them, trailing his opponent by huge margins and seemingly finished in the race to become the next president of the United States of America. But Hillary Clinton is an infamously weak closer, leading to amusements like this New Yorker cartoon...... which reminds us that the older Millennials are nearing 40 and have New Yorker subscriptions.All the "what to expect from the third debate" articles--which I had intended to aggregate here--are surprisingly bland, given the sheer insanity of the campaign and its increasingly deranged closing weeks. I guess this is because everyone acknowledges that there is such a huge difference in expectations between the two candidates that it's not really a "debate" at all. If Trump manages to get through it without sniffing or frotting his chair, he's done OK. If Hillary umms and ahhs too much, she's missed an opportunity to crush the bug. No-one--not pundits, not journalists, not viewers--expects anything of substance to be said. It is all about the performance, about the hope that one of them will lose it and do something entertaining.Trump's invited president Barack Obama's half-brother as his guest, a choice so inexplicable it suggests a return to Birtherism amid rumors Trump's been ditched by advisor Roger Ailes and simply has no idea what to do. Hillary's invited the least awful billionaire she can think of, just to remind Trump that he isn't one. All that said, it's going to be the most-watched third debate ever. We are all transfixed, and the stakes are so high that even the possibility of either candidate landing a true rhetorical haymaker seems too delicious to miss. With this in mind, here are my predictions for this evening's confrontation in Vegas:• Trump will finally give us some good, proper, unhinged conspiracy rantage. It'll be entertaining and surprisingly effective, bringing the noise floor of televised media significantly closer to that of the internet.• Clinton will finally choke in a way that seems genuinely bad -- probably over Wikileaks stuff that could be easily dealt with by laughter.• She will go on the attack to compensate, and this will be fun. He'll do his Mussolini frown. She won't rip his spinal column out and dangle it before the audience as a 1000-year-old demon king claps maniacally, but there'll be a couple of good quotes.• The argument will settle down to the same old boring stuff we're used to, receding into the kingdom of irrelevance faster than a 1990s Veep debate.• I will receive at least one plaintive, genuinely appalled plea to stop photoshopping the candidates for my posts. POST-DEBATE UPDATE: Trump went full-bore conspiracy theorist, Clinton stumbled only a little on Wikileaks stuff, but I was dead wrong about one thing: the debate did not settle down afterward. Trump refused to say he'd accept the result of the election, called Clinton a "nasty woman" and generally reminded all watching that his 40% is his 40% and it isn't going to go away.
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YNP4)
Swedish brewery S:t Eriks created a box of fancy potato chips that costs 499 kr (~$56). There are five chips in each box. Obviously a marketing/fundraising gimmick, but they certainly sound like quite the artisanal chip. Ingredients include: matsutake, truffle seaweed, crown dill, Leksand onion, India Pale Ale wort, and potatoes gathered from a "hillside in Ammarnäs, a steep, stony slope in a south-facing location where almond potatoes are cultivated in very limited numbers." They made just 100 boxes and sadly they have all sold out (with proceeds going to charity). Oh well, there are always Pringles.S:t Eriks Chips (via Weird Universe)
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by Gareth Branwyn on (#1YNK1)
Hilaritas Press, the publishing company started by Illuminatus! co-author (and Boing Boing Patron Saint) Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina and Bob's friend Rasa, have been doing a wonderful job re-releasing much of Wilson's back catalog under the new imprint. But they've hit a snag. New Falcon Publications, RAW's previous publisher, claims to own the Israel Regardie intro and the comic illustrations in Bob's popular title Prometheus Rising and they're apparently not interested in negotiating with Hilaritas on a license to use them. So, Christina and Rasa are turning to RAW's fanbase and the online art community in search of worthy new illustrations to replace the existing ones. Rasa writes:I have mixed feelings about this whole endeavor. I’ve always loved the cartoons in Prometheus Rising, and I really hate to see them go, but the previous publisher’s poor printing in subsequent editions of Prometheus Rising left a lot of the images in a very poor state – something we lamented in putting together our new edition. However, Bob was an optimist, and in that same spirit, both Christina and I are looking forward to this opportunity to update this amazingly relevant book for the delight of both new and old readers.They only have until November 15th to replace the art (37 pieces!) and the introduction. A tall order. I would love to see a pie in the face of this flapdoodled foolishness and see RAW's optimism properly served with a new introduction by someone equally as iconic as Israel Regardie and a new set of incredible cartoons. Remember how inspired John Thompson's illustrations were in Cosmic Trigger? Let's shoot for that!If you're interested in submitting some art samples, see the Hilaritas press release for all of the details.
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by Peter Sheridan on (#1YMX3)
“Fight off the zombie hordes!†cries a full-page ad in this week’s ‘National Enquirer,’ featuring a hand-crafted and hand-painted shattered human skull with a bloody axe embedded in its cranium.It’s a Halloween decoration that makes a pleasant change from the truly frightening usual ads offering ceramic angels, silver pendants to show how much you love your granddaughter, and life-like Princess Diana figurines.But it’s also the perfect gift for ‘Enquirer’ readers who by now may be fearing a zombie invasion as the inevitable outcome of this year’s presidential election if “crooked Hillary Clinton†wins the Oval Office, having been fed a diet of panicked warnings by the magazine. This week the ‘Enquirer’ does its bit to ramp up the fear level with “the explosive story that will change the election,†bringing us ten pages exposing “24 years of cover-ups and crimes†by Hillary. A “hitman†for Hillary tells the ‘Enquirer’ how he was allegedly ordered to destroy Bill Clinton’s sex victims, bribe reporters to hide the truth, hide her sleazy affairs and pay hush money to hookers. Alas, none of the allegations is backed by anything that rises to the level of proof, or has corroboration from any additional sources than its unnamed “Mr. Fit-It."“Hillary’s Plot to Kill Monica!†is a great headline spread over two pages, but the article includes not one mention of a plot to assassinate former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Claims that the White House was doing its own investigation on Lewinsky are hardly new or surprising. Among the “fixes†allegedly arranged: encouraging a well-known columnist to “write positively about the Clintons†in exchange for access, and paying tabloid reporters - who the ‘Enquirer’ with blithe lack of self-awareness call “cowardly†and "slimy†- for advance warning on any bad stories about to be published. When rumors allegedly circulated linking Bill Clinton to ‘Entertainment Tonight’ host Mary Hart, the Mr. Fix-It claims he was summoned to help, though “it doesn’t appear anything came of that.†Hardly shocking. And when the Monica Lewinsky scandal reared its head, so to speak, Mr. Fix-It was allegedly ordered to kill the story “under direct orders†from Hillary Clinton. Yet there is no evidence of Hillary giving any such orders, and as a for a cover-up, that clearly went perfectly. Who’s ever heard of Monica Lewinsky?Mr. Fix-It claims he “arranged a lesbian romp for bi-sexual Hillary with a prominent Hollywood identity†- not a prominent Hollywood actress, or executive, but an “identity,†which makes it sound like Hillary met with a corporate logo rather than a person. The fixer claims to have arranged a meeting for Hillary with this mystery woman at a Beverly Hills hotel, immediately after Clinton visited a Hollywood studio for a movie screening in 1994. “I helped her slip out of the back exit for a one-on-one session with the other woman,†claims Mr. Fix-It. But that makes no sense. Why would Hillary have to "slip out†of a screening at a Hollywood studio, when she could simply walk out after the movie, if she’s then going to drive across town to a liaison at a Beverly Hills hotel? You can’t “slip out†of a Hollywood studio and into a Beverly Hills hotel - any Beverly Hills hotel is at least 10 minutes drive away from the nearest studio. And how does Mr. Fix-It know that Hillary was heading to a sex romp? He claims she left the movie trying “to look casual . . . but really it was for something presumably more sordid.†Presumably? Presumably!! That’s what the ‘Enquirer’ calls “proof,†presumably.‘Enquirer’ readers not reaching for their blood-dripping axe might instead be reaching for their surgical scalpel, as the magazine seems obsessed with breast enhancement surgery this week. They report that Caitlin Jenner had “a new set of massive mammaries†installed to “lift her love life," that Ben Affleck has reunited with estranged wife Jennifer Garner who is “celebrating with a breast lift,†and accuses NBC’s fired ‘Today’ show co-host Billy Bush of being “a boob job bully†for allegedly pressuring his former ‘Access Hollywood’ co-host Kit Hoover to get breast enhancement surgery “to save her job.†Not that the ‘Enquirer’ is obsessed about women’s breasts, of course. They also take a good look at Jennifer Lopez’s backside, concluding that it looks “better than ever,†and therefore must have been surgically “plumped up a little,†according to an unnamed insider. Because she couldn’t possibly just be wearing Spanx, or pants that lift her derriere.The ‘Globe,’ not to be outdone in scraping the bottom of the gutter for stories, literally dug through Hillary Clinton’s trash bins to find "surgical supplies," "junk food" and “drugs.†The surgical supplies? Latex gloves. The drugs? Reporters supposedly found perfectly legal “stamina-boosting stimulants.†Did they find any discarded medications for the illnesses they claim she is suffering, including lung cancer, multiple sclerosis, brain blood clotting, double vision and blackouts? Not a single empty pill bottle. Imagine their disappointment. “There were remains of potato chips, M&Ms, gummy bears, half-eaten bagels and several empty burrito and taco bowls,†claims the trashy tabloid. But the contents of the garbage could have been generated by Bill Clinton or any of the staff or security teams who drift in and out of their home in Washington D.C.,, or even the Secret Service agents who sit in vehicles outside the house, eat lunch in their cars and throw their refuse in the same bin, and let ‘Globe’ reporters openly carry it all away - but the ‘Globe’ attributes it all to Hillary.Fortunately we have 'Us' magazine’s crack investigative team to tell us that Dakota Johnson and Rosie Huntington-Whitley both wore the same $420 Gucci leather belt the best, while Jennifer Aniston failed miserably - though how one fails at wearing a belt, I have no idea - and that Tyler Perry loves country music, ‘Supergirl’ actress Melissa Benoist carries sunscreen and chocolate bars in her Tory Burch tote, and the stars are just like us: they golf, garden, and listen to music.Kim Kardashian is “haunted by flashbacks†of her recent Paris robbery, while US swimmer Ryan Lochte, who falsely claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, is “overcoming my shame†by ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ reports ‘Us’ mag. Perhaps Kim Kardashian needs ‘Dancing With The Stars’ therapy? Ellen DeGeneres tells ‘People’ mag “How I finally found happiness,†by surviving tough times to make marriage work with Portia de Rossi, while the mag’s writer Natasha Stoynoff recounts how she feels “violated all over again†after Donald Trump denied sexually assaulting her.As always, leave it to the ‘National Examiner’ to report the week’s most ludicrous yet apparently true story, already reported by CNN and the London Sun: the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education’s call for NASA to send condoms into space, to ensure safer sex with aliens.Onwards and downwards . . .
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by Jason Weisberger on (#1YMX4)
I've found that weighing ingredients makes a huge difference in my baking, so I've added a digital scale. This simple scale zeros out easily, and its maximum capacity of 11lbs pretty much ensures I won't need something larger. When baking cookies, bread or cakes I've found that simply scooping ingredients via cup measure, or measuring spoon, and result in some pretty large differences when compared to weighing out exactly the amounts called for. Here is an online calculator to help you convert volume based recipes to weight, if you'd like to try. I have found cooking by weight makes for a more consistent product. I have an easier time getting chocolate chip cookies just like I want them. Etekcity Digital Multifunction Food Kitchen Scale, Stainless Steel,11lb 5kg, Silver (Batteries Included) via Amazon
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#1YMT5)
A Los Angeles School teacher named Cara Viramontes used Expedia to book travel for an upcoming family vacation. After she used the service, Viramontes filled out the survey that Expedia sent her. In the survey, the Viramontes expressed displeasure at the Expedia agent's "unhelpful" attitude.CBS Los Angeles has the rest of the story:When Viramontes logged in to check her itinerary on Expedia’s website last week, she found an expletive — in bold — followed by an exclamation mark. Yes, an Expedia employee appeared to have left her a message: “Fuck You!â€What’s more, she saw that her and her family’s New Year’s travel reservation had been cancelled without their consent.“Everyone I show, they laugh and think it’s a joke,†she said. “No one can believe a company as credible as Expedia would ever do something like this.â€â€œWe take this matter very seriously and have opened up an investigation analyzing every click and action made by our customer service agents,†ssaid Expedia in a statement. Expedia says it plans to rebook Viramontes' reservation and give her a $500 voucher.
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by Jason Weisberger on (#1YMR9)
Karl Herlinger is one of the best ventriloquists in the world, and he'll be performing at Scot Nery's Boobie Trap tonight in Los Angeles!Every Wednesday at 8pm Scot Nery gathers a cast of ridiculous folk, who are also ridiculously talented, and just sort of lets them each go for a couple minutes. It is, from what I can tell a modern, madcap take on the Gong Show. Michael reviewed Boobie Trap a few weeks ago!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHAYhQ5eN8Scot himself is an amazing comedian and a tremendous host. If I were in LA tonight, I'd be there!Boobie Trap runs every Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the historic Fais Do Do theater, 5257 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90016. There is an after party next door that sounds like a blast, as well.
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YME8)
Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson shares his favorite snapshots of people with their record albums. According to Mashable, "These faded prints and Polaroids recall a time when a new record was a physical work of art to be admired and cherished." I got news for you: That time is still now.
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by Jason Weisberger on (#1YMCY)
Wondering what to get your loved one this holiday season?
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YMD0)
David MacGowan is recreating Blade Runner shot-by-shot as Microsoft Paint illustrations. He tells Motherboard:I like the idea of having a blog but basically feel as if I have very little to say about things, at least things that are original or interesting. I gravitated to Tumblr with some idea of just posting pictures, but still felt I needed to be posting something I'd actually made myself... [Y]ears ago I used to draw really crappy basic MS Paint pics for a favourite pop group's fan site, and they always seemed to raise a smile. The idea of doing something else with MS Paint, a kind of celebration of my not being deterred by lack of artistic talent, never really went away.... I don't really think about giving up. The idea of actually completing something I start out to do (for once in my life) is very appealing,And it's fun, it's not a chore.MSP Blade Runner
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by Jason Weisberger on (#1YMD2)
Melania Trump's re-emergence, after her bout with plagiarism, finally allowed Stephen Colbert to bring back the fantastic Laura Benanti. Bennati's impersonation of Mrs. Trump is as wonderful as last Saturday's SNL masterpiece. You'll want to watch to the end, Mrs. Trump's exit is spectacular.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YKY4)
In a trademark infringement case filed against Mobile Star LLC, which it claims is a prolific counterfeiter, Apple says that more than 90% of the "official" gadgets sold in its name at Amazon are fake. [via]Moreover, they're mostly garbage, and potentially dangerous.Consumers, relying on Amazon.com's reputation, have no reason to suspect the power products they purchased from Amazon.com are anything but genuine. This is particularly true where, as here, the products are sold directly "by Amazon.com" as genuine Apple products using Apple's own product marketing images. Consumers are likewise unaware that the counterfeit Apple products that Amazon.com sourced from Mobile Star have not been safety certified or properly constructed, lack adequate insulation and/or have inadequate spacing between low voltage and high voltage circuits, and pose a significant risk of overheating, fire, and electrical shock. Indeed, consumer reviews of counterfeit Apple power adapters purchased from Amazon.com and from the above ASIN report that the counterfeit products overheat, smolder, and in some cases catch fire:Amazon seems to have gone well shady lately—something's got to give. Lukewarm take: the vast majority of users will think the fakes are genuine even with the media fuss over it, Apple's reputation is what gets quietly burned at the weekend barbecues of America, and Amazon is monolithically indifferent to counterfeiting. Apple might then consider the unquantifiable value of not charging $29 for Lightning cables.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YKWJ)
Simple DIY rainbow magic with Skittles candies. Form a circle with Skittles on a plate (colours should be in repeated order, preferably according to colours of the rainbow e.g. purple, green, yellow, orange, red), then pour hot water over them. Wait for the magic to unfold right in front of your eyesAlso funny are the various YouTubers attempting to replicate the effect only to end up with a brownish mix of melted candy slime on their plate.
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YKKE)
According to Biff Hutchison's description, this 11'½" breaks the Guinness World Record of 10'6". Rolling Stone has more.Not happy with sharing the title with [friend and rival Dalton] Smith – who we can only imagine Hutchison considers his greatest rival in the world, the Bird to his Magic in the world of pogoing – Hutchison saw a shot at not just being the lone jumper standing atop Pogo Mountain (as problematic as being on top of a mountain on a pogo stick sounds), but absolutely crushing the old record.Here's some more extreme pogo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbp41vWP4o4
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by Ruben Bolling on (#1YKEZ)
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and very much more etc. GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (â€A book for the curious and adventurous!†-Cory Doctorow) Book One here. Book Two here. More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1YKF1)
Here's a version of We Will Rock You that actually rocks instead of sounding like a stadium full of drunk teenagers. It's from a 1970s BBC session, according to the liner notes. Right on!
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by Andrea James on (#1YKE1)
The state of the art for drone-based lighting options continues to improve rapidly. Check out some of the great footage rctestflight got with a drone-mounted 1000-watt LED light bar. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YK40)
Artist Mike Kelley creates "Airportraits" of the world's airports by photographing all the planes that take off on a given day, then compositing them together into a kind of time-lapse of a day's worth of flights, which presents an instantly comprehensible way of comparing the different services; they're available as stunning prints. (via Kottke) (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1YK42)
In Rich do not rise early: spatio-temporal patterns in the mobility networks of different socio-economic classes, a group of transportation engineers analyze an open data-set about the commutes of people in the Colombian cities of MedellÃn and Manizales, concluding that the rich and the poor commute the furthest distances, but that the rich have much shorter commutes, thanks to private transport and superior routing, which translates to substantially more sleep for the wealthy. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YJ5W)
This video released today from the social media campaign “Humanity for Hilary†features Meryl Streep, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and other women who share their own experience of surviving sexual assault. It's a powerful response to recent events surrounding the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YHVM)
Here's Vic Berger’s hilarious and disturbing edit of Melania Trump’s interview with Anderson Cooper on the Trump tapes. (more…)
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by Jason Weisberger on (#1YH7R)
Measuring tapes can be a pain to use solo, and just wanted to measure some stuff around the house. This compact laser measure is perfect.Honestly, I was sold at compact and laser, but the ability to measure stuff with one touch of a button is pretty handy. Good for measuring distances of 6 inches to 50 feet, or basically what you need around the house, this Bosch measure is accurate to 1/8 of an inch. Literally all it does is measure distance, and it only has one button. This unit is super simple to use. If you just want to center a painting on a wall without begging a friend to come over this is a great tool!Bosch GLM 15 Compact Laser Measure, 50-Feet via Amazon
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#1YH7T)
Here's a small sampling of the dozens of Halloween costumes posted for the purpose of ridicule on io9.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#1YH02)
I raved about Heroes of the Comics when it came out in 2014. Now I'm going to rave about More Heroes of the Comics, the new companion volume. This large book has 100 meticulous color paintings of people who were involved in the early days of comic books, painted by Drew Friedman, the great portraitist of our time. Each hero portrait is accompanied by an interesting one-page biography.While Friedman's first book covered the famous heavy hitters of comics (Kirby, Barks, Kurtzman, Wood), More Heroes digs deeper, profiling people who deserve recognition for their work, even though it was sometimes behind the scenes. I'd say about 75% of the names were familiar to me (Otto Binder, Ray Bradbury, Gene Colan, Dan DeCarlo, Jim Warren, John Buscema) while the other 25% were new, and, for that reason, even more interesting (Olive Bailey, Bob Haney, Louis Ferstadt - colorful characters!). The two volume Heroes set, is scholarly and popular at the same time, and represents a milestone in the early history of comic books. Drew Friedman himself is a hero of comics for making it.Also, there's an event tonight about the book at the Museum of Illustration in NYC. Drew Friedman will be signing advance copies of the book and join in conversation with Karen Green, MAD's Al Jaffee, and moderator Danny Fingeroth. Also, Jim Warren, the legendary publisher of Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters of Filmland, will be there with Drew. I wish I could be there.
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by Xeni Jardin on (#1YGWP)
Former People magazine contributor Natasha Stoynoff recently went public with her claim that she was sexually assaulted by the GOP Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump. (more…)
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by Boing Boing's Store on (#1YGWR)
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by David Pescovitz on (#1YGRV)
Tommy Edison, the very funny "Blind Film Critic," who has been without sight since birth, answers the question: "Does it bother you that you don't know what you look like?"
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#1YGPP)
A USB light (above) for $0.11. A USB fan for $0.45. A 32GB Micro SD card for $2.13. A Smart watch for $9.74. An iPhone-controllable camera drone for $9.74. These were just some of the things this guy bought in the Huaqiangbei electronics market area of Shenzhen.While most vendors in the markets will (grudgingly) sell you one of something, that’s not really why they’re there. HQB is where you go to buy new products in volume. The price for one of something is…a little bit higher than the unit price if you’re buying a bunch of something.Up until now, we’ve had only the vaguest sense of what volume purchase in the markets was really like. We, of course, were never going to be in the business of buying smartwatches, drones, or SD cards in volume. Or were we?About a month back, Jesse asked friends on Twitter if they’d pay fifty bucks to get a box of random crap from Shenzhen. It quickly became clear that we weren’t going to have any trouble finding customers for this one.
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