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Trump vs Obama: dealing with protesters
https://youtu.be/a83PBf1UrIsWhy hasn't Trump been arrested for inciting violence?
Missouri State Highway Patrol shows you how to make meth
https://youtu.be/3gLeUdpHkUoWhen they aren't patrolling the state highways of Missouri, the Missouri State Highway Patrol is making videos about making meth. In this episode, Sgt. Jim Wing reveals his special recipe for the "Nazi synthesis method."
The Trump Monster on the Loose
12/8/15 Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. And/or buy Ruben Bolling’s new book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. Book One here. Book Two here. More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)
Squarespace staffer claims exec told them "you’re so black, you blend into the chair"
Amélie Lamont, a former staffer at website-hosting startup Squarespace, writes that she often found herself disregarded and disrespected by her colleagues. One comment in particular, though, set her reeling — and came to exemplify her experiences there. (more…)
Bust some ghosts with this insane remix of Ray Parker Jr.'s 1984 'Ghostbusters' theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WENeil Cicierega's "Bustin." (Thanks, UPSO!)
Open letter from virtually every leading UK law light: Snooper's Charter not fit for purpose
The Snooper's Charter is the mass-surveillance bill the UK government is trying to ram through Parliament. It's incredibly, irresponsibly broad -- and that's been the conclusion of every independent expert who's looked at it to date. (more…)
A typical day in a blockchain-enabled world circa 2030
A blockchain is an online database that stores information across a network of personal computers, making it not just decentralized but distributed. This means no central company or person owns the database, yet everyone in the network can use and help run it, but not tamper with it.The most popular use of blockchain technology today is bitcoin. The bitcoin blockchain manages around 200,000 bitcoin transactions a day, moving the equivalent of US$150 million around the world without the need of banks or other financial intermediaries. Bitcoin is just the beginning for blockchains. In the future, blockchains that manage and verify online data will launch companies entirely run by algorithms, make self-driving cars safer, help us protect our online identities, and track the billions of devices on the Internet of Things.The Blockchain Futures Lab at Institute for the Future has an excerpt from Bitcoin for the Befuddled, (2014, No Starch Press), in which authors Conrad Barski and Chris Wilmer imagine a whimsical but entirely possible snapshot of a chock-a-blockchain world 15 years in the future.Let’s follow Crowley the Crocodile as he goes about his day in the year 2030, from the moment his bitcoin-powered bioalarm clock wakes him, until he eats his late night pizza ordered using a rating service that runs without human owners.A Typical Day in a Blockchain-Enabled World Circa 2030
The post-Snowden digital divide: the ability to understand & use privacy tools
Ian Clark's long academic paper in the Journal of Radical Librarianship takes a while to get to the point, but when it arrives, it's a very, very good one: in the post-Snowden era, we can no longer address the "digital divide" just by providing access -- we also have to teach people how their online usage is spied on, how that will harm them, and what to do about it. (more…)
America's universities: Hedge funds saddled with inconvenient educational institutions
Public and private universities alike have been transformed into financial shell-games for Wall Street's wealthiest hedge-funds, while tuition and student debt soar, adjuncts are exploited, and the lifetime expected returns on a university degree plummet. (more…)
Office chairs made out of old Vespa scooters
Barcelona design firm Bel & Bel makes chairs out of the front farings of old Vespa scooters, with the option of working turn-signals (no side-mirrors in sight, alas). (more…)
Video shows Fort Worth cop pepper-spraying passing bikers from roadside
A police officer in Fort Worth was taken off patrol Monday after video surfaced showing him pepper-spraying passing bikers from the side of the road. WFAA reports that a force spokesman admitted "pepper-spraying drivers is not a department-endorsed tactic" and confirmed an investigation was underway.News 8 spoke Monday to Jack Kinney, the man who recorded the video with his helmet camera, and Chase Stone, who edited the video and posted it to Facebook. They say a group of about 200 motorcyclists were traveling up northbound U.S. 287 in Fort Worth Sunday afternoon when a Fort Worth police officer pulled over one of the motorcycle group's "safety vehicles," which is a vehicle that follows behind bikers in case of an incident.In the edited video, which slows down and zooms in at one point, so viewers can see more clearly, the officer appears to spray something directly into oncoming traffic as he exits his vehicle. The bikers say it was pepper spray.… "His intent was to hit the bikers for sure, there’s no doubt about it," Stone says.The emerging defense appears to be "people were complaining about the bikers weaving," as if pepper-spraying them at speed is going to make the roads safer.
Where does your birthday land on pi?
To celebrate Pi Day (3/14), have fun with MyPiDay, developed last year by Stephen Wolfram and company. Enter your birthday or any other number and see where it first appears in pi. Background in Wolfram's post here.
Dire Straits' "Walk of Life" is the best ending to any movie
Above, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, "The Graduate," "The Shining," and "Star Wars: A New Hope." Many more at The Walk Of Life Project" (via WAXY)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp9AFQqGDbEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL9CQwZvXxghttps://vimeo.com/158195794
You can calculate Pi by dropping toothpicks on a wood floor
In honor of Pi Day (3/14/16 = 3.1416), here's a page from The Giant Golden Book of Mathematics (1958) that shows you how to calculate Pi by dropping toothpicks on a wood floor.We see circles everywhere. The wheels of automobiles, the rims of cups, and the faces of nickels and quarters are all circles. The sun and the full moon look like circles in the sky.The distance across a circle, through its center, is called the diameter of the circle. The distance around the circle is called its circumference. Measure the diameter of a quarter, and you will find that it is about one inch long. You can measure the circumference of the quarter, too. First wind enough string around it to go around once. Then unwind the string, and measure it with a ruler. You will find that it is about three times as long as the diameter. Measure the circumference and diameter of the rim of a cup and you will get the same result. The circumference of any circle is a fixed number times the diameter. This fixed number cannot be written exactly as a fraction or decimal, so we use the Greek letter pi to stand for it. It is almost equal to 3-1/7, or 3.14.Strange as it may seem, there is a way of calculating the value of pi by dropping a stick on the floor. The floor has to be made of planks of the same width. Use a thin stick, such as a toothpick, that is as long as the planks are wide. Simply drop the stick many times. Keep count of the number of times you drop it and the number of times it falls on a crack. Double the number of times you drop the stick and then divide by the number of times it fell on a crack. The result is your value of pi.For example, if you drop the stick 100 times, and it falls on a crack only 62 times, divide 200 by 62. The result is about 3.2. This is not a very accurate value of pi. The more times you drop the stick, the more accurate a value you will get. When you drop the stick, whether or not it crosses a crack depends on where its center falls, and how it is turned around its center. When a stick turns around its center, it moves around a circle. That is why pi, which is related to measuring a circle, is also related to the chance that the stick will cross a crack.By the way, The Giant Golden Book of Mathematics is a large book filled with stunning illustrations. It's part of a series, which includes Birds, Biology, Dinosaurs, and oddly enough, Elves and Fairies. Here are a few sample pages:Here's a link to a PDF of The Giant Golden Book of Mathematics.
Will Stephen gives a TED Talk about absolutely nothing
https://youtu.be/8S0FDjFBj8oWill Smith is an SNL writer and UCB Comedy who manages to pull off a five-and-a-half minute TED talk that isn't about anything excerpt the talk itself. Through gestures and emotions, he makes it interesting.
Minecraft to become AI testbed
Microsoft plans to turn Minecraft into a test suite for artificial intelligence research, reports the BBC. As a simplified but all-encompassing model of the world, it's perfect for tutoring 'bots.…Microsoft suggests the open-ended nature of Minecraft makes it particularly useful because of the huge variety of situations it can simulate from first-person perspectives."It allows you to have 'embodied AI'," explained Matthew Johnson, the principal software engineer working on AIX."So, rather than have a situation where the AI sees an avatar of itself, it can actually be inside, looking out through the eyes of something that is living in the world."We think this is an essential part of building this kind of general intelligence."
USA uses TPP-like trade-court to kill massive Indian solar project
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was on track to deliver deploy 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 ("more than the current solar capacity of the world’s top five solar-producing countries combined") but because India specified that the solar panels for it were to be domestically sourced, the USA sued it in WTO trade court and killed it. (more…)
Three Bootcamps to Kickstart Your Coding Career
Everyone codes. That’s just the way the world works these days, and it’s certainly the way the job market works. It’s an essential job skill that everyone who doesn’t already know should try to wrap their heads around. Here are three boot camps that will get you off your butt and into gear with the must-know programming languages. Say hello to a whole new career.Frontend JavaScript Coding BootcampThe Frontend JavaScript Coding Bootcamp offers seven courses across thirty two hours of content that you can access anywhere, anytime for 94% off right now. You’ll learn to build web apps using ReactJS, D3JS and EmberJS while mastering routes, templates and data models. Java is the backbone of beautiful web experiences and you’ll add these scalable web apps to your resume.Python Programming BootcampWhat runs those little web sites Google and YouTube? With this Python programming bootcamp that’s now 96% off you’ll get over fifty hours of training in this incredible coding language. The hands-on lessons will have you building web apps like a subnet calculator, complex network devices, and mastering user scripts and API’s. With this interactive intro to machine learning you’ll go from zero to hero in this crucial code.Interactive Coding BootcampIf you’re new to coding, this Interactive Coding Bootcamp will get you up on your feet and building products you can add to your portfolio. For 92% off you’ll get over thirty hours of content covering HTML, CSS, jQuery and others to teach you the fundamentals of computer languages and algorithms. After these lessons you’ll grasp both front and back end applications and actually build apps to call your own and show potential employers. All of these courses will rocket you to a raise or whole new career. Get started today learning these languages at your own pace to start speaking like a code pro.
Special Giveaway Alert: The Makerbot 3D Printer Giveaway
Remember when the idea of printing any object you could dream up was total sci-fi bologna? Those days are over. The future is now, and 3D printers are here. We’re giving one away from Makerbot, your chance at experiencing unadulterated techie bliss.The Makerbot 3D Printer uses advanced design software to configure the exact layout of any object and print it out to your specifications. You have the option of either utilizing pre-made templates or designing your own printed objects from scratch. Once you’ve decided how ambitious you want to be, go ahead and print anything from kitchen utensils to figurines formalized in the depths of your imagination. A Captain America statuette? A vase? Miniature models of the Empire State Building? All are possible with this powerful yet compact printer, one that puts creation itself at your fingertips.You’ll be the talk of the town, for sure. Your co-workers will glare at you in envy for all your self-printed desk trinkets. Your friends and family will shower you with adoration upon receiving some of the most unique gifts they may have ever seen (we recommend a miniscule turtle sculpture, a real crowd pleaser). What are you waiting for? Enter the giveaway now, and this printer could be all yours.Can’t get enough high-tech geekery? Check out these other deals to further pique your techie interests. Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="630"] Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit[/caption]You’ll love the Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit, which offers a microcomputer you can tinker with, as well as 6 courses to get up to speed on all things physical computing. It’s available for just $115, a whopping 85% off MSRP. Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course BundleAnd the Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course Bundle combines a starter kit complete with the hard electronic parts you need to build circuits, plus 3 premium courses walking you through the process--all for just $62.99, or 87% off MSRP.Get both of these deals in the Boing Boing Store now!
In 1858 the Catholic Church seized a 6-year-old boy from his Jewish family.
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WiFi ResetPlug power cycles router whenever Wifi fails
Plug your router into it, and the WiFi Reset Plug does just one job: it monitors your Wifi network and resets your router whenever it loses its connection. If you're thinking it's a great idea, maybe… you need a better router? It's $60! [via The Internet of Shit]
Tor Books is hiring two editorial assistants
My publisher, Tor Books -- the largest sf/f publisher in the world, a division of Macmillan -- is hiring two editorial assistants, one to work for my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden (as well as editors Miriam Weinberg and Jen Gunnels) and the other to work for Liz Gorinsky and on Seven Seas, a manga imprint. (via Making Light)
The Doctor Who Coloring Book
It took me about 1 second from hearing about the Doctor Who Coloring Book to order one. I have been tearing sheets out of coloring books and using my office combo-printer to scan and print pages for my daughter and I. Allows for us both to work on the same image, and compare our results! For the record: The War Doctor is the best doctor.The Doctor Who Coloring Book via Amazon
Tripping a traffic light, for motorcyclists
Almost every motorcyclist has suffered a long, extended wait at a traffic light. Sometimes you just wait, and wait, sometimes you go for it. Walter F. Kern offers these helpful tips:Here's How to Trip a Traffic Light:Get off your motorcycle and push the "walk" button if it is safe.Sometimes you may just have to look both ways and run the light. In some places it's OK to "proceed with caution" after 15 minutes, in some places after 2 cycles. You need to know what the law is in your area.If you fail to trigger the switch, wait at least one more cycle and then proceed when it is safe.Sometimes it helps to kill the engine and restart it just to get the magnetic fields going over the tripping device. Put yourself right over the detector in the pavement. Give the bike a couple of good revs.Turn right and then do a "U" turn when you can.Threaten legal action. Start by calling the street department and complaining. Every week re-check the light. If you get no action, send them a nice professional letter threatening them with a lawsuit.As you approach the intersection, there are lines cut into the pavement where the sensor was put in. The sensor pad is octagonal or square. Put the most metal over the intersection of two sides.Another trick is to put out your kickstand. If you can get the kickstand out, there is more of a metal area to detect. Don't forget to retract your kickstand when the light finally changes.Rig your bike with an electro-magnet under the frame. This is wired into the brake lamp circuit and induces enough of a field to trip most lights.Consider the purchase of a device that will trip the light for you. Two such products are the Green Light Trigger and the Red Light Changer.A new trend is the introduction of special motorcycle boxes that show you where to stop your bike to trip the light. The front-most "box" has additional diagonal lines, with a bike icon painted in the box.Roll forwards and back in an effort to trip the sensors.If you are waiting for a left-turn signal light to change, you can always proceed through the intersection on green and make three successive right-hand turns. This only works with regular city blocks.Some states have sensors in the lights that can detect flashing lights of police cars and ambulances, and will quickly change the light. You might try flashing your lights to see if that will trip it.
Fantastic psychedelic Greyhound ad from 1971
This wonderful illustrated ad appeared in the July 1971 issue of African-American culture magazine Ebony. (via Weird Universe)
Inexpensive calligraphy pen
This Pilot Parallel Pen ($8) comes with two ink cartridges (red and blue), but you can a box of 12 cartridges with different colors of ink for $7.Here are some videos of talented people using this pen:https://youtu.be/YltKznOa6Y0https://youtu.be/TbQgFbbFCtchttps://youtu.be/oBondidbiRghttps://youtu.be/rpQD0cIv5Z4
Ben Carson endorses Donald Trump, who said Ben Carson was like a child molester
There are two Trumps, says Carson, one more cerebral than the other.Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who recently ended his campaign, said he and Trump have “buried the hatchet” after trading nasty words during the primary. He also said there are “two different” Trumps: the one the public sees and a more “cerebral” Trump in private.Speaking at his posh Mar-a-Lago Club, Trump praised Carson and said he would play a “big role” in the campaign, in both political and policy capacities. But he declined to offer specific descriptions.Don't you get the feeling that Republicans (and the #NeverTrump right-wing pundits) will ultimately support Trump? The only conservative principle that seems to matter now is fear. Or they could end up with Ted Cruz, who is even worse, because he means what he says and Trump has always looked vaguely like his stalking horse.To take your mind off all this horror, here is a photograph from the future from Boing Boing's broken ansible, in which lovers Trudeau and Obama ("Trubama" as the holotabloids have it) take the Presidential Hoverbikes for a spin.
Fellowships for "Robin Hood" hackers to help poor people get access to the law
New York City's Robin Hood Labs at Blue Ridge Laboratories have opening for paid fellowships to develop apps and technologies to give low-income people legal assistance in civil proceedings, like evictions, debt collection, and immigration procedures. (more…)
Great moments in the history of black science fiction
Nisi "Writing the Other" (previously) Shawl has assembled a fantastic (in more ways than one) reading list for people interested in the history of science fiction written by black writers. (more…)
Trump the Carpathian
On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! And let me tell you it was really great. And I have a great relationship with the Moldavian people. They love me.
Pay What You Want for the Hardcore Game Developer Bundle
Video games are awesome. In fact, haven’t you always wondered how exactly do they pack that much awesome into a little screen with a few buttons? Playing every day certainly hasn’t lead to any answers but now you can find out how games are made and tackle some yourself. Simply pay what you want for this Hardcore Game Dev Bundle and you can take ten courses that will teach you how to code video games like a true professional. Whether you already know how to program or you’re a total tech newbie, these lessons will have you spinning game like you could only dream before.There are over 108 hours of game-making content here. The course on SpriteKit in Swift will show you how to build actual games for smartphones and tablets and even guide you through the process of creating artwork and designs so your games look amazing. Using XCode and GamePlayKit, you’ll configure game architecture, setup backgrounds and main menus and even make a marketing plan to attract and retain players. From HTML5 to Java to Android Marshmallow, every system is ready to be mastered. With Java you’ll even get overviews on animation, learn conditional statements, loops and events and end up building an actual multi-step mobile game you can call your own.All of this will add quite a punch to your resume, taking your current career to a whole new level or earning you enough gold stars to seek a whole new job. All these courses are yours, you just pay what you want and learn on your own time. The technical skills in these lessons are mandatory for any modern coding work these days, but because it’s gaming you’re learning something super fun and getting a better understanding of your favorite pastime. Check out the link below for more details.Pay What You Want for this Hardcore Game Dev Bundle in the Boing Boing Store.
Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Set is a collection absolutely worth having
See sample pages from this book at Wink.On October 2, 1950 a boy named Charlie Brown first appeared in American newspapers. Peanuts popularity grew steadily and on January 6, 1952, the strip’s first Sunday edition debuted. For the next 48 years, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and all the other players appeared in full color on the comics page.But I wasn’t there for any of that. Rather, I found Peanuts in the early 1980s, when comics pages had already started to shrink and the famous characters of the strip were more readily accessible to kids through specials. Even then, I didn’t read the comics page as much as I did the dusty paperback collections with titles like Happiness is a Warm Puppy and A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Growing up as a fan, the single greatest headache was trying to find all the strips. I wanted to know when Snoopy changed from being a dog to being another kid in a funny costume. I wanted to know when Charlie Brown first fell in love with the Little Red Haired Girl. But it couldn’t be done. Although most had been reprinted in one collection or another, there was no single resource that had all the strips.Enter Fantagraphics Books. Beginning in 2004, Fantagraphics collected and published The Complete Peanuts. While this series collected all the daily strips, the Sunday strips were spun off into a second series, Peanuts Every Sunday, the third volume (of ten) of which has just been released. These are the strips I never had access to as a kid. These strips were not collected in those old black and white trades.Peanuts Every Sunday reprints the strips in chronological order, in full, glorious color. While some commentary is provided in both the foreword and afterword, mainly the strips are left to speak for themselves. Each strip is given its own page, in its original size, complete with the date the strip originally appeared in newspapers.These are beautiful books. Full color dust jackets and numbered bindings make for books that look great next to each other on the shelf. But you’ll need a big shelf. At close to $50 per volume, this is not a collection to get into lightly. But for the fan, they are a collection absolutely worth having. – Joel NeffPeanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Setby Charles M. SchulzFantagraphics2015, 576 pages, 10 x 13.5 x 3.1 inches $53 Buy a copy on Amazon
USB hub for laptops includes Ethernet port
This handy USB gadget has three USB 3.0 ports and a RJ45 Gigabit ethernet port. It's regularly $25, but if you use code VK5JTT8L you can get it for $20.
Lawsuit reveals Obama's DoJ sabotaged Freedom of Information Act transparency
The Obama administration declared itself to be the "most transparent administration in history," but a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that Obama's Justice Department worked tirelessly behind the scenes to kill any chance of increased Freedom of Information Act access to governments at all levels, from lobbying Congress to kill FOIA reform to urging other administrative agencies to obstruct FOIA requests. (more…)
Why Ren and Stimpy was one of the greatest cartoon series ever
Nerdwriter Evan Puschak put together a video about The Ren & Stimpy Show, a "seminal cartoon of the animation renaissance." When the psychotic chihuahua and imbecilic cat debuted in 1991, I couldn't believe how fantastically funny and weird it was. There was nothing else like it on TV at the time. Before Ren & Stimpy, television cartoons were awful. Show creator John Kricfalusi paved the way for all the great cartoon series we've seen since.[via]
Protestor punched at Trump rally—then tackled by cops
Video reveals that a black protestor was sucker-punched by a man at a recent Donald Trump rally in Kentucky—and that the police then tackled the protestor, not the attacker.Posted by the Washington Post, the footage shows several people leaving the rally after being identified as protestors. A ponytailed man approaches and punches one of them in the face. The victim stumbles onwards and is brought to the ground by uniformed guards identified by the Post as law enforcement.“Chill, chill!” an onlooker says. “You don’t gotta grab him like that!”Rakeem Jones, the man who was hit, said the punch came out of nowhere.“Boom, he caught me,” Jones told The Washington Post in a telephone interview. “After I get it, before I could even gain my thoughts, I’m on the ground getting escorted out. Now I’m waking up this morning looking at the news and seeing me getting hit again.”… Jones blamed the Cumberland County officers escorting him from the rally for failing to protect him — then detaining him instead of the man who attacked him.“It’s happening at all these rallies now and they’re letting it ride,” Jones said. “The police jumped on me like I was the one swinging.”This isn't the first incident like this. If you choose to go to a Trump rally, be realistic about the risks.1. Shouting anti-Trump slogans, working as media, or being with a protest group is enough to be identified as the enemy.2. You might get assaulted, and Trump might encourage it.3. The cops won't help you if you are. And some of them are itching to participate.
Blue Monday performed with obsolete instruments
This "olden style" rendition of the New Order classic Blue Monday uses only instruments available in the 1930s. Performed by Orkestra Obsolete, it features a theremin, a musical saw, a hammered dulcimer, a zither, and singing glasses.[BBC via Open Culture]
Open Source Initiative says standards aren't open unless they protect security researchers and interoperability
The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit that certifies open source licenses, has made an important policy statement about open standards. (more…)
Second Wachowski sibling, Lilly, comes out as a transgender woman
The Wachowski Sisters. Deal with it. (more…)
What the presidential candidates would look like with beards
Redditor Cakeflourz photoshopped beards onto the 2016 presidential candidates.Bernie look great with that Mitch Miller beard![via]
Vintage demo reel from computer graphics firm behind the original Tron lightcycles
Marvel at this computer graphics demo reel created c.1980 by the company Mathematical Applications Group (MAGI). More specifically, you're seeing the work of the firm's MAGI/SynthaVision group, one of the main outfits that created the CGI for Tron, including the light cycles (clip below)! From Wikipedia:In 1981, MAGI was hired by Disney to create half of the majority of the 20 minutes of CGI needed for the film Tron. Twenty minutes of CGI animation, in the early 1980s, was extremely gutsy, and so MAGI was a portion of the CGI animation, while other companies were hired to do the other animation shots. Since Synthavision was easy to animate and could create fluid motion and movement, MAGI was assigned with most of Tron's action sequences. These classic scenes include the light cycle sequence and Clu's tank and recognizer pursuit scene. Despite the high quality images that Synthavision was able to create, the CSG solids modeling could not create anything with complex shapes and multiple curves, so simpler objects like the light cycles and tanks were assigned to MAGI. MAGI was given $1.2 million to finance the animation needed for Tron. MAGI needed more R&D and many other engineers who were working in government contacts at MAGI were assigned back into MAGI's "Synthavision" division.MAGI sped up the process of supplying its work to Disney Studios in Burbank by a transcontinental computer hook-up. Before each scene was finalized in MAGI's lab in Elmsford, New York, it was previewed on a computer monitor at Disney. Corrections could then be made in the scene immediately. Previously, the only way of previewing the scene was to film it, ship it to Burbank, get corrections made, ship it back to Elmsford, and continue this "ping-ponging" until the scene was correct.(via r/ObscureMedia, thanks UPSO!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNfs6v7i7eY
Claimdog - a site that finds and collects your unclaimed money
Claimdog is a new online service that tracks down money owed to you. I tried it this morning and found out that my wife was owed some kind of settlement check for $103.60 from an insurance company from over 20 years ago. They charged me $10 for the service, which seems reasonable for how easy it was to claim the money. (Missing Money is a free site, which you can use if you are willing to file a claim yourself.)Try it yourself, and if you strike it rich, let us know in the comments!
A Life at sea, on land
How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you've loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the great ocean liners being scrapped there. But he didn't just want to save the ships. He wanted to live in one. And to a remarkable degree he's succeeded, filling his home in Oceanside, CA with a breathtaking array of maritime memorabilia. This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., one man's mission to recreate, in landlocked miniature, the great days of the oceangoing ships. Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSSCheck out all the great podcasts that Boing Boing has to offer!
How to live a spreadsheet approved life
Today we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, happiness, sadness, menstrual cycles, poops, hopes and dreams. Everything.Flash Forward: RSS | iTunes | Twitter | Facebook | Web | PatreonThis episode is longer than our usual 20 minute jaunts to the future, because the future of quantified self is so huge. We cover everything from biased algorithms, to microbiomes (again), to the future of the calorie, and more. ▹▹Full show notesCheck out all the great podcasts that Boing Boing has to offer!
Home Depot might pay up to $0.34 in compensation for each of the 53 million credit cards it leaked
In 2014, Home Depot disclosed that it had hemorrhaged 53 million customer credit-cards and 56 million email addresses. Now it has settled a consolidated class-action suit for the breach, agreeing to may as much as $19.5 million in damages and compensation. (more…)
Make: a tiffin pail from old tuna-fish cans
Tiffin pails are the ubiquitous, ingenious and practical lunchpails of Indian workers, delivered daily by an army of spectacularly well-coordinated "dabba wallahs." (more…)
Minneapolis's "water bar" celebrates the wonder and fragility of tap water
Arts group Works Progress Studio have opened Water Bar, which bills itself as the first-ever bar devoted to nothing but public sources of water. (more…)
Anti-censorship coalition urges Virginia governor to veto "Beloved" bill
Peter from the National Coalition Against Cenorship sez, "A bill requiring schools to notify parents if any 'sexually explicit content' is being taught would undermine First Amendment principles and the freedom to read." (more…)
Sir George Martin, 1926-2016
Beatles producer George Martin, who famously signed the band after other major labels had rejected them, is dead at 90, says Ringo Starr. (more…)
Paul Klee's notebooks scanned and posted online: 3900 pages!
Swiss-German painter Paul Klee kept beautiful notebooks, 3900 pages of which can now be viewed online. [via]
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