by Cory Doctorow on (#3F4WW)
Deepfakes is the person credited with inventing faceswapped videos, the deeply NSFW subreddit mostly filled with faceswapped pornography starring famous non-porn performers, or generically, faceswapped videos, usually created with Fakeapp, a tool that vastly simplifies the creation of deepfakes. (more…)
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by Andrea James on (#3F4WY)
Most latte art is a monochromatic palette of rich browns and creams. Korean art professor Kangbin Lee has taken his Creamart works into the rest of the spectrum. (more…)
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by Andrea James on (#3F4QP)
LinesLab is "an experimental design studio established by Sergej Stoppel that explores algorithmic art and robotics." Among his cool works are these single-line portraits. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3F4QR)
Simple Print is a website that converts web articles into nice, easily-printed PDF files. It was remarkably effective on the URLs I fed it.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3F4QT)
Bryce Elder's epic Twitter thread finally reveals the one true tale of Bitcoin's genesis ("invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, a developer at Nintendo who mysteriously disappeared in the 1990s"); the environmental cost of Bitcoin ("whenever you give a hacker money he will upgrade his graphics card") and the story the mainstream media refuses to tell you ("You will have seen the recent plunge in the price of Bitcoin. This was triggered by Bolgakov last week upgrading to an NVidia GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti, which can play Quake III in max resolution at 60fps with all the lighting and textures enabled," which means, "Bolgakov has been playing Quake III and not buying any Bitcoin"). (more…)
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by Andrea James on (#3F4N7)
A tricked out Japanese wooden keyboard goes for $1400. Cheap ones are just $40. Linus tests if it's worth the additional money.Spoilers: it's not worth it. He says, "I can't be-leaf how much I paid for this thing. I feel like a total sap."• $1,400 Wooden Keyboard vs. a $40 one (YouTube / Linus Tech Tips)
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by Andrea James on (#3F4JX)
Our Cartoon President takes jabs at Trump and his rag-tag band of misfits. Showtime released the premiere episode for free:
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3F4JZ)
Ram used a sound clip from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon, played over a montage of stereotypically patriotic imagery, as an ad for a truck. In response, Nathan Robinson took another quote (reportedly from the same speech) of MLK's thoughts on advertising--specifically, automobile advertising--and put it to the same video.The agency knew what it was doing. They knew it would upset people. What a rotten, cynical ad.
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by Andrea James on (#3F4FR)
Self-driving cars have a hard time predicting bicycle movement, and workarounds that require cyclists to buy transmitters are running into resistance from some. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3F4FT)
In Freedom House's 2018 world freedom map, 71 countries registerd declines while only 35 saw gains: "emboldened autocrats, beleaguered democracies, and the United States’ withdrawal from its leadership role" have created a crisis.Among those slipping into "not free" status were Turkey and the Central African Republic, which each saw dramatic declines of more than 30 percent in the last year, according to Freedom House's criteria. Ukraine, Mali, Nigaragua and Honduras were among those countries slipping from freedom to "partial" freedom. In Europe, Hungary slipped 20 percent, to stand only 2 points within the range of free countries. Tunisia, though, the Arab world's only "free" country, clung to that status despite domestic strife.
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by Jason Weisberger on (#3F305)
I woke up this morning thinking the world needed a Prince Vultan tweet-bot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW8kDtzirpAYou know he'll say it sooner or later...Jack Burton is still talking to whomever is listening, and Sherman T. Botter contiues to share Potterisms.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3F2KZ)
The Federal Reserve has concluded its investigation into Wells Fargo's decades' long practice of pressuring employees to open fraudulent accounts in the names of its customers to inflate its quarterly figures and rack up service charges. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3F2HW)
When a serial bomb-report hoaxer reported a fake hostage-taking on behalf of a gamer upset at a $1.50 wager, he set in motion a string of events that ended with a Wichita police officer murdering an innocent bystander on his own doorstep, without warning. (more…)
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by Boing Boing's Shop on (#3F2BM)
Companies have always prioritized cutting costs and boosting efficiency, but it wasn't until the past few years that Project Managers grew into big demand. PMs use industry-approved methodologies to reduce waste, streamline workflows, and ensure projects are executed on budget and on time. And they often earn a pretty penny for their services.While demand may be high, so is competition for these positions, which is why entering the market with a few certifications is a smart move if you're serious about becoming a project manager. The Project Management Professional Certification Training Bundle can prepare you to ace several of the industry's most respected certification exams, and it's on sale for $49 in the Boing Boing Store.This 10-course collection delivers more than 100 hours of training for a host of certification exams, including Project Management Professional (PMP) and Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP). Jump in, and you'll familiarize yourself with fundamental concepts, like identifying project risks, mitigating threats and capitalizing on opportunities, as well as reducing defects and streamlining team communication. Make your way through the entire training, and you'll be that much closer to entering the market as a certified project management expert.You can take the first step toward a career in project management with the Project Management Professional Certification Training Bundle, on sale for $49 in the Boing Boing Store.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3F1EW)
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation kicks in this May, and it enforces a user-first, privacy-centric set of rules for the internet that is totally incompatible with the adtech industry and the ad-supported web in general (though much rides on a potentially humungous loophole). (more…)
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by Seamus Bellamy on (#3F15H)
Saddam Hussein met the end of his days at the end of a rope in 2006, sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. It's a fate many argued was justly deserved. In 2003, the New York Times estimated that the number of individuals murdered, killed in wars the dictator started or who simply vanished during his despotic rule of Iraq could be as high as 22 million people. Given the atrocities Hussein is infamous for, the idea of anyone under his rule opposing him sounds like the stuff of a bad melodrama.But it's exactly what Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani, an Iraqi citizen, did.An expert in the design of nuclear reactors, Dr. Shahristani was personally approached in 1979 by Saddam Hussein to assist his regime with their nuclear weapons program – a request that Dr. Shahristani turned down. His refusal to aid the Iraqi dictator's quest to build a nuclear arsenal resulted in his being imprisoned in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, where he was routinely tortured for a decade. In 1991, during an allied bombing raid, Dr. Shahristani managed to escape his captors, returning to freedom, his family and starting down the road to a career in politics.The story of Dr. Shahristani's time in prison and his daring escape is one of the most badass tales of defiance that you're likely hear. This past week, the BBC spoke to the good doctor, who recounted his story. If you've got a few minutes, it's definitely worth a listen.Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
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by Boing Boing's Shop on (#3F0AT)
The web offers each of us a tremendous opportunity to get our names and brands out to audiences around the world, but this creates a problem: With anyone free to build their own site, the web is saturated with them, creating stiff competition for a spot on that first page of a Google search. That's why taking the time to understand the essentials of digital marketing is a must for anyone looking to build a business online, and with the Complete Digital Marketing Course, you can do so for $9.This massive course combines twelve courses to give you almost 20 hours of lectures, quizzes, and hands-on practice with the most important digital marketing tools available. From SEO to Google AdWords, you'll get a complete education in building a robust, profitable campaign that will set either your business up for success.You'll create a WordPress website, and learn how to reel in email subscribers and produce copy that sells and increases search engine traffic. Plus, you'll learn social media marketing techniques for YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter so that you can expand your reach even further.The Complete Digital Marketing Course was on sale for $19, but it's available at a new price drop today at $9.
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by Rusty Blazenhoff on (#3F09A)
It sounds like a joke but this is not a joke. For a limited time, east coast ice cream brand Friendly's is offering a "Nor'easter Pothole" flavor in the frozen food aisle, a regional nod to the destruction those storms cause on the roads. Apparently potholes taste like "chocolate ice cream with black tar fudge creme cookie gravel and chocolate asphalt chips."(NJ.com)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3F09C)
The New York Times' Joanna Klein reports that plants express qualities of consciousness. May as well enjoy those dolphinburgers after all!
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by Seamus Bellamy on (#3EZK8)
In temperate and tropical locales, storm drains are a vital bit of urban infrastructure. As a channel for rain water to drain from city streets, they play an important role in keeping the places most of us live habitable and our roads passable during wet weather. When storm drains get clogged with debris, the water they're meant to carry can't flow and things go sideways, fast. As such, most cities throw a lot of money at cleaning them – and the catch basins that feed into them – out, several times per year.New Orleans? They've got storm drains. Given the city's history of catastrophic flooding, to say that keeping their waste water flowing would be an understatement. It's a tough job, made more difficult by the annual influx of drunken, horny tourists.On January 28th, the Times-Picayune reported that in addition to the mud, leaves and garbage that New Orleans public works employees have to suck out of storm drains this year, they discovered something else: 46 tons of Marti Gras beads. For the sober uninitiated, the tradition of passing out strands and necklaces of Mardi Gras beads to boozy revelers started back in the 1800s when people parading as part of the annual celebration handed out the inexpensive mementos to onlookers. As anyone who's been to the five-day festival recently will tell you, just as many strands of the beads wind up on the ground as they do around necks. While the city spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up after the days-long party, the beads still end up getting into places that you don't want them to – kind of like macro-sized glitter.In an effort to keep so much discarded plastic out of the city's infrastructure and, more importantly, the environment, New Orleans' local government has asked that city residents pitch in by cleaning the catch basins in their neighborhood.Photo via Flickr, courtesy of Mark Gstohl
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by Seamus Bellamy on (#3EZH5)
More and more people watch movies and TV shows at home, exclusively through the use of streaming services like Hulu or Netflix, but I'm not one of them. I'm not against streaming: the problem is that my partner and I live, full-time, in a 40 foot long motorhome, puttering around North and Central America. A lot of times, our rambles take us to places where the Internet connectivity is lousy. The upload/download speeds we get from RV parks or in the parking lots we surf are good enough for me to do my work online, but make for a buffering-filled nightmare if I even think about streaming anything. And if we decide to camp for a few weeks in a national park, I have to travel back towards civilization and a cellphone signal, just to check my email. We read a lot of books, but we both love movies. To keep us entertained, I've collected a hard drive full of just over 500 movies, and close to 300 hours of TV shows. Some are ripped from DVDs that I bought over the years, but most of them were purchased and downloaded from Apple.For the last several years, I've had a real hate on for iTunes. So far as software goes, it's twitchy, slow and far from user friendly. I can't count how many times that iTunes has lost the artwork for the movies that I own. It makes me a little nuts. I also absolutely loathe iOS 11's TV app. It takes forever to show me what movies I have loaded on my tablet or phone and, as I don't stream, I find it's constant suggestions of what to watch really intrusive. Sadly, since Apple locks the video content they sell with DRM, there's not a lot of options for freeing yourself from either app.Unless you're prepared to spend some cash.While it's far from perfect, I found that TunesKit's $40 DRM Media Converter will rip the digital rights management locks right out of iTunes purchased content. Would Apple frown on this? Yep. But I have a hard time caring: If I buy something, I should be able to do what ever I damn well please with it. In this case, what I please involves my using apps and hardware other than those approved by Apple to watch the films I own. For this purpose the utility that Tuneskit's software provides works a treat.To use it, all you have to do is open Tuneskit on your computer. Tuneskit, in turn, will access your iTunes library. This allows you to choose which of your iTunes videos you want to strip of their DRM. The amount of time that it takes to create a DRM-free copy of each video file you feed into the software depends on how long the video in question is. On the whole, I found the user experience to be relatively fast and frustration free.Almost.After buying the Mac OS version of the software, I discovered that it isn't compatible with Mac OS High Sierra. A quick email conversation with Tuneskit's support department revealed that the latest version of the operating system made the application unusable. Because of this, they offered me a license for the Windows version of the software. After installing it on my MacBook's Bootcamp partition, the app worked perfectly.Since then, I'm able to watch videos purchased through iTunes using any iOS video app I want to, on my computer or Android handset. If you're so inclined, you can still watch your videos and transfer them to your iPhone using iTunes, too. It's worth mentioning that the software works on content rented from iTunes as well. But removing the DRM from rented videos to keep after the rental period is up is theft, plain and simple. Do what's right for you.If you've had enough of being told by Apple what to do with the movies you own, I think Tuneskit's a pretty good way to go.Screen capture: Seamus Bellamy
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EZBE)
Because it seemed like a fun thing to do, I started a Boing Boing Discord channel. If you'd like to join the happy mutant merriment, here's an invite link, which expires in 24 hours. That doesn't mean you will get kicked off after 24 hours, it just means the link is good for one day. (I want it to grow slowly).
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EZ99)
My guest this week on the Cool Tools podcast is Dean Putney. Dean is the founding software engineer at laser cutter startup Glowforge in Seattle. Previously he wrote software for organizations like Reddit, IDEO, Boing Boing and Cool Tools.Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes | RSS | Transcript | Download MP3 | See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single pageShow notes:Notational Velocity"Notational Velocity is a basic text editor for Mac meant for taking quick notes. This answers the question of “where can I write this down?†for the computer. I use it to plan my day, write down quick information if I’m on the phone, and keep important snippets of text or code right at hand. nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity that appears to be more frequently worked on. You can access it via a global keyboard shortcut. Its search is quick and accurate. It doesn’t do images or files. nvALT has become the go-to place for me to drop almost all my thoughts and insecure details. You can use SimpleNote to sync your notes to your phone or elsewhere.â€Dash"Dash is a code reference tool. Its primary purpose is to search and read the manuals for different programming languages. This alone is extremely valuable, as reading the manuals online or in a PDF can be extremely tedious. But Dash also makes adding manuals easy, stores them offline, and is accessible in a global keyboard shortcut. Dash can also manage global snippets. This is great for things you type a lot like your address or certain quick responses to things. An unexpected use for Dash is as an always-open web browser. You can search Google and Stackoverflow with it, but even power users may not know that you can add custom search for websites you use frequently. I added our internal JIRA tracker and Confluence to Dash, allowing me to keep the documentation and tickets I’m working on close at hand without having to dig through dozens of browser tabs.â€Node-RED"NodeRED solves the same problems that If This Then That or Yahoo Pipes try to tackle. While IFTTT tries to hide a lot of the complexity, simplifying to very pure one-to-one connections, NodeRED lets you build a “flow†or network of connections. It handles regularly scheduling updates and checks, has a fairly large library of components and tools you can choose from, and is relatively easy to work with. While it’s originally meant to run Internet of Things devices, it’s perfectly capable of controlling more complex systems. I am using it to collect albums from Bandcamp and organize them so I can post them to my music blog. NodeRED can be set up on a Raspberry Pi fairly easily. It’s also available as a Docker container, very quick and easy to set up.â€Lacquer-Stik Paintstick, White ($7)"These are sticks of a thick, oily paint. Their purpose is to fill in creases or engraved areas, then you can wipe away the excess leaving a crisp and bright painted space. We use these with the Glowforge a lot — it’s extremely convenient for making labels on projects. Text on colored acrylic looks especially good. I used these sticks recently to label all the bonus squares on a Scrabble board I made with the Glowforge. The Makal brand sticks are the best because they rub in very smoothly and easily. Other sticks are harder paint, making them much more difficult to rub into the crevices. You can use isopropyl alcohol to dissolve the excess for easy wiping without affecting the paint in the cracks.â€Also mentioned:Deskjams.com“The purpose of it is to provide music that is good for working, to kind of get you into a flow state where you can concentrate on something, you're not being distracted by anything, so in general that means that I'm looking for albums or mix tapes, that kind of thing, that are album lengths, so they're about half an hour to an hour and don't have any distracting lyrics and kind of provide a smooth feeling to work to."
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by Xeni Jardin on (#3EZ2Z)
Now this is beautiful.(more…)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EYYA)
My teenage daughter and I have been playing a computer game from 1981 called Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. I'll have more to say about it later, but it is even more fun playing it this time than when I played it in the early 80s. One of the best parts is drawing the tricky maps as you crawl through a dungeon rendered as wireframe hallways. The dungeon has a lot of portals, hidden one-way doors, traps, and other hazards, so we have to do a lot of erasing and redrawing. We've been using the Japanese made Zebra DelGuard 0.5mm Lead Mechanical Pencil, which has an ingenious mechanism to reduce tip breakage. I just looked on Amazon and it's $5.47 and includes a bonus tube of lead. Such a deal!https://youtu.be/oqhv_aldcoo
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by Seamus Bellamy on (#3EYVA)
A recent patent awarded to pudding home delivery juggernaut Amazon, reveals that the company is investigating the possibility of equipping their warehouse staff with hardware capable of tracking their hand movements.According to the patent filing, first reported on by Geekwire, the tech would come in the form of bracelets that can track users movements as they go about their work. The bracelet could use the location of an employee inside of a given area, and the orientation of the worker's hands, to assist them in locating items on warehouse shelves. To do this, the bracelet would vibrate to indicate where to move their hands in order to find the item that they're looking for. All of this is in the name of speedier order fulfillment for Amazon's gazillions of customers, being forced to don a wearable like this while you're at work presents some potential privacy and health concerns.Amazon's already got a reputation for pushing their workers to their limits when it comes to order fulfillment. As part of their report on this story, The Guardian points out that back in 2016, a BBC investigation uncovered the fact that the Amazon's employees are pushed to their emotional and physical limits in an effort to meet the company's efficiency standards. Being forced to wear a device that tracks your every move for efficiency like this bracelet's technology could, would likely add to the feels of anxiety that many of Amazon's employees likely experience on a daily basis. As for privacy, you've got to wonder if a wearable like this could track your movements in the washroom. How many times did you wipe? Were your hands washed to company standards? Could it let the boss know that you were scrolling through Twitter while you had your morning glory... or doing other bathroom things?Not cool.Image via Flikr, courtesy of Jeff Barton
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by Seamus Bellamy on (#3EYVC)
Scientists have been working on a way to turn poop into an edible which, even if it winds up tasting like French fries, will never let you entirely forget about the fact that you're eating poop.According to Penn State News, researchers at the university's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences have been puttering about their lab, looking for a way to turn human waste into a viable food source for astronauts on deep space missions.As most people don't want to play with their own brand, the researchers turned to an artificial human waste analog, commonly used for testing purposes in waste treatment plants. The waste was placed inside of a closed cylinder and treated with microbes. These microbes broke down their faux-feces through a process called anaerobic digestion. This breakdown of the waste results in a discharge of methane, which can be used to produce a microbe called Methylococcus capsulatus. Methylococcus capsulatus is currently used in animal feed, and since humans are animals, BOOM: astronaut food. By growing the microbes at a temperature that kills harmful bacteria, the research team was able to produce a bio mass consisting of 61% protein and 7% animal fats.According to Penn State professor of Geosciences, Christopher House, the resulting foodstuff would have the consistency of Vegemite or Marmite.With this being the case, there could be a large contingent of future astronauts that would prefer to eat their own crap, instead.Photo via Flikr, courtesy of Dave Young
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EYVE)
According to a recent survey, 20 percent of shoppers who use self-checkout stations admit to stealing items. The actual percentage is probably higher than that. The Atlantic reports on the ways these sneaks cheat supermarket robo-checkers.
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by Carla Sinclair on (#3EYS3)
Last July, the daily live trivia show, HQ, launched as an app. Players have a chance of winning anywhere from $1,500-$15,000 or more, depending on the game's generosity of the day (although winners split the pot, so that amount can be much less). Twice a day HQ asks 12 trivia questions (sometimes 15) with three multiple choice answers to choose from, and players get knocked out of the game if they click on a wrong answer. When I first started playing a few months ago, there might be 200,000 to 300,000 players at a time. But the game caught on quickly and nowadays HQ fans play with over 1-million others per game.But that number might start to fall.Last night Recode reported that HQ is raising $15 million, and that Founders Fund, "the venture firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is expected to lead the round..." After Recode's report came a Twitter backlash, and the hashtag #DeleteHQ was unleashed. Ashley Feinberg from HuffPost asked people to delete the app.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EYS5)
If you have lots of money, you can buy a citizenship in many different countries. The cheapest passport will run you $45,000, from the African island nation of Comoros. In this interesting short video I learned that if you can spare 1.15 million euros, Malta will sell you citizenship and a passport that allows you to work and live anywhere in the European Union.There's an even larger market for "golden visas," which give you resident status in exchange for a hefty investment in the country. In the last decade, Chinese have spent $24 billion on golden visas, $7.7 billions which was spent in the United States (each visa requires an investment of $500,000). Trump happily renewed this golden visa program, because "it has become a huge funding source for luxury developments," and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, uses these funds in his company's projects.
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by David Pescovitz on (#3EYS7)
This millimeter-scale robot designed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems could enable "applications in microfactories such as the construction of tissue scaffolds by robotic assembly, in bioengineering such as single-cell manipulation and biosensing, and in healthcare such as targeted drug delivery and minimally invasive surgery" with bots inside the body controlled by magnets. From their scientific paper in Nature:
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by Jason Weisberger on (#3EYPS)
I made my own cat scratching post out of sisal cord and a poster tube. It cost more than just buying one.50' of 3/8" sisal rope ($0.25/foot) winds almost perfectly around a 30" by 2" diameter poster tube ($3.33.) My daughter and I had a wonderful time wrapping the tube up, securing the ends with binder clips, and then using a strip of old bedsheet to hang the scratcher from a doorknob! Rubbing a little catnip on it encourages our Maine Coon to scratch away!Total cost invested was around $15.00.Even if reusing the tube, binder clips, and sheet I can easily find an equivalent scratcher for less. Even using cheaper cord only changes things by a few cents.I'll put the two side-by-side and we can see the wear over time and judge which is more popular. Perhaps my cat will appreciate the love and effort that went into making him a toy.Riiiight.Petlinks Hanging Rope Relief Cat Scratcher via Amazon
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYM4)
Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism, inaugurates his new column at Open Democracy with a history of the collapse of neoliberal capitalism and a path for a Labour victory in the next General Election, which, at this rate, could come any day. (more…)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#3EYKR)
https://youtu.be/BDHcQ0PUyMoSteve Mould used a vibration generator to find the resonant frequency of air-filled balloons. The result is trippy.
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by Carla Sinclair on (#3EYKT)
The eldest son of Fidel Castro, 68-year-old Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide after a months-long treatment depression. Living in Cuba, Diaz-Balart, also knows as "Fidelito," was hospitalized for his depression but had been released for outpatient care.According to NBC:
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYHR)
Progressive candidates, backed by the likes of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, Moveon, Our Revolution and Justice Democrats, are outraising Republicans (including Ted Cruz!) and establishment Democrats with the backing of the DNC and the Democratic Party establishment. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYHT)
The Beautiful Shitholes is David Byrne's Spotify playlist of music from the countries Donald Trump infamously condemned as "shitholes." (more…)
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by Andrea James on (#3EYFR)
Pancakes are delicious, and they can also look a lot like moons, as proven in Alternative Moons by Nadine Schlieper and Robert Pufleb. I tried my hand at making a few lunar flapjacks and gathering up some mouthwatering moons. Answers in the comments! (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYFT)
The rush to put networked sensors and controllers into sex toys is grounded in foolish, convenient untruths, like the idea that the incredibly sensitive data generated by these systems can be anonymized and then analyzed for insights without exposing users to risk. (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#3EYF7)
Here is a full text copy of the much-disputed memo from GOP lickspittle Devin Nunes on Russia, which President Donald Trump approved in defiance of FBI and Justice officials. Short version: Much ado over a thinly sourced document that trips over itself, and provides nothing new of substance.(more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYCF)
Donald Savastano was a self-employed carpenter eking out a marginal living without retirement savings or health insurance; when he won the $1 million jackpot in New York's "Merry Millionaire" lotto, he could finally afford to see a doctor to check out his long-term sense of unwellness. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EYBZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXI3H6Kd3K4An act of heroic trolling from Net Neutrality advocate Rob Bliss, who "throttled" access to DC's 12th Street by traffic-coning all but one lane, then cycled slowly up and down the remaining lane with a sign offering drivers "priority access" to his "fast lane" for $5/month. (more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3EY6S)
Local 4 Detroit reports that Randall Margraves, the father of three of Larry Nassar's victims, charged at the prolific child abuser in court today, shouting "let me at that son of a bitch" as bailiffs struggled to restrain him.(more…)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3EXV5)
https://youtu.be/uj09MXM0WSI?t=3m18sPunxsutawney Phil has had his say before the thousands gathered at Gobblers Knob: "Hear ye, hear ye... six more weeks of winter to go."
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3EXS0)
Khoi Vinh noticed that tech marketing adheres a very specific, somewhat infantilized illustration style. I call it safety minimalism—Vinh sees in it the rise of a monoculture.
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by Boing Boing's Shop on (#3EXQ7)
The web can be a dangerous place, so much so that cybercrime damage costs are projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. From ransomware to viruses and a host of other digital maladies, browsing online isn't always safe. (But you probably already knew that.) However, you can protect your devices with a security solution like Panda Internet Security. Right now, you can sign up for a 1-year plan for $39.99 in the Boing Boing Store.Panda Internet Security is an all-in-one solution to safeguard your identity and devices from malware, ransomware, viruses, and more. You can use it to protect your PC, Mac, and Android devices and even optimize Android systems. Panda also controls and safeguards access to your data, documents, or any sensitive information. Plus, it can even find your iPhone when you've lost it.Normally retailing for $99.99, 1-year plans to Panda Internet Security are on sale for $39.99 in the Boing Boing Store.
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by Rusty Blazenhoff on (#3EXPY)
That's Boris Karloff riding off on a mechanical horse.This footage was shown at the end of Mario Bava's 1963 film Black Sabbath, but only in the Italian version. In the English version, they cut the scene out, according to coolasscinema.com:
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3EXNE)
It's a Southern Thing created this funny video about a version of Alexa that not only understands Southern accents, but how Southern folk talk: " The future is here, y'all. And it's available in burlap and reclaimed barn wood."
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by Rob Beschizza on (#3EXMS)
This cat appears to be chattering adorably with invisible fairies, but I'm sure that some terrible illness or infirmity has in fact befallen it and all I achieved by posting this is to serve the sociopathic tendency of social media to suppress human empathy in its endless provision of amusement and distraction.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#3EXH8)
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