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The Cost of Doing Something: Declaiming the price of "inaction" is a perennial argument for big government and bad law.
Wall of Bacon [PHOTOS]: "If god hadn't wanted us to eat animals then he wouldn't have made them out of meat"
Dog-Cat-Rat Man Fined for Drawing Big Crowds: Gregory Pike, San Francisco's renowned "Dog-Cat-Rat Man," was found guilty this afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of public obstruction for drawing large crowds at the corner of Geary and Powell with his beloved animal act.
BMW Electric Bike Saves The Planet But Not People: The Halbo takes up about half the space of a conventional motorbike, according to the designer. Its front wheel is standard, gyro-assisted, and even propels the vehicle. The rear wheel, which is spherical and attached to a mounted arm, pivots from side-to-side for balance...and just a little less death.
Flash DOOM 2D (Platformer): DOOM is back as 2D Jump-N-Run Game.
APOD: 2009 July 3 - Perihelion and Aphelion: A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
How Accurate is Elena Dementieva?: But can she triple stamp a double stamp?
Goldman Sachs created every major economic bubble since 1930: They use the same playbook over and over again: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. When it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again.
The Best Web Browser for Secretly Watching Videos at Work: Double Vision is one of the best web browsers for this kind of thing - it lets you view and interact with two applications at the same time, without having to switch windows again and again. So, you could be working on your presentation and watching your favorite video or even better - a related tutorial at the same time.
Man stares death in the face, and then takes a picture of it: *****
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not run for re-election: Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla. The governor's office offered no further details about the subject of the news conference, but the sources tells CNN that Palin will announce her decision to forgo another run.
Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin' Lasers: In order to meet our world's rising energy needs, and to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, some ideas that seem right out of a science fiction novel are picking up steam with start-ups and investors. But does using satellites for energy production really make sense financially or environmentally?
NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed
The Making of 'Batman Arkham Asylum': Take a first look at the 'Inside the Asylum' Video.
The FDA and Painkillers: What's Safe Now?: The recent recommendation by an FDA advisory panel to do away with acetaminophen-containing prescription painkillers raised many questions for consumers. Here are some answers.......

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Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga: This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985. Previously:Andy Warhol and the Commodore Amiga 1000 - Boing Boing Debbie Harry in the New York Times - Boing Boing Interview with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol - Boing Boing Warhol, Spielberg, Bianca Jagger on a hotel bed... - Boing Boing Andy Warhol perfume - Boing Boing
Record sleeve table and syringe chandelier: While BB Gadgets' Rob is fond of Bughouse's Album Side Table made from old LP jackets, I prefer the Hypolux Chandelier, constructed from plexiglass plates, commercial syringes, and a ballchain suspension.
Cool projects on Make: Online: Make: Online has published a number of cool projects recently. Sew a cute Morse code key leg strap Diana Eng's frilly and fashion-forward Morse code key. Diana Eng (best known from Project Runway and her book Fashion Geek) is our current guest author. Besides being a geek-chic fashion maven, Diana is also a ham operator and on a mission to introduce a new generation of hobbyists (especially women) to ham radio. In this project, she makes a sexy garter strap to hold her new Morse key. Shrinky Dink gaming minis Sean Ragan shows you how to make some sweet home-baked gaming components using Shrinky Dink plastic and binder clips. More on making Light Bricks As a follow-up piece to Alden Hart's LED Light Brick project in MAKE, Volume 18, the atuhor shares more ideas for molding and casting the acrylic bricks to house your LED board, including using machinable wax to create a life-mask face to house your array. Disco face, baby!
New images of the lunar surface: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back its first photos of the moon. The photo above was taken near the moon's Mare Nubium region. The man in the moon is just outside the frame. From NASA: Older craters have softened edges, while younger craters appear crisp. (The image) shows a region 1,400 meters (0.87 miles) wide, and features as small as 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide can be discerned. The bottom (faces) lunar north. LRO's First Moon Images Previously:Lunar junk - Boing Boing Secret museum on the moon's surface - Boing Boing Lunar home designer - Boing Boing Alan Shepard's lunar golf - Boing Boing Lunar vehicles that didn't make the cut - Boing Boing Lunar "ark" proposed - Boing Boing
World's oldest basketball shoes: These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra: "In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers are 25 years older than the 1917 Converse All-Stars", added Pifer. The Colchester Rubber Co. was located in Colchester, Connecticut and was in business from 1888 to 1893. "World's first basketball sneakers 116 years old found at an estate sale" Previously:Space-sneakers like a Japanese toe-sock - Boing Boing Chocolate sneakers - Boing Boing Robert Williams line of Vans sneakers - Boing Boing
Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher: Roy Christopher has assembled his annual summer reading list, which includes book recommendations from several of our friends and former guest bloggers. Gareth Branwyn: A trend I'm noticing in books recently is that there are an increasing number that trade in danger -- anti-Nanny State books. No, not those Dangerous Book for Boys and Girls. Those are rubbish. I'm talking about books like Theo Gray's tremendously awesome Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home -- But Probably Shouldn't (Black Dog & Leventhal) and Bill Gurstelle's Absinthe and Flamethrowers (Chicago Review Press). Gray's book has a bunch of enticing experiments that are so well-documented and gorgeously photographed, you don't have to do them yourself, but if you decide you want to, Gray tells you the real dangers involved and what you have to find out on your own to do them safely and successfully. Treating us like adults. What a concept. My friend Bill Gurstelle's book first looks at reasons for living dangerously, mapping what he calls the Golden Third, those people who take risks, who aren't afraid to live a certain degree of risk,… but not too much risk. Be too risk-taking and you might not survive, not reproduce, don't take any risks, and you won't move the culture, innovation, etc. forward. All the action is in that Golden Third. After these ruminations on the why of living dangerously, he gets into some projects and activities, the "art" of living dangerously, from "thrill eating" (stuff like fugu that can theoretically kill you) to Bill's main bailiwick, teaching you how to spectacularly blow shit up (hence "flamethrower" in the title). Richard Metzger: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Random House, 2009): Ever get the feeling that you're trapped on a hamster wheel of predatory "Corporatism"? An unwitting participant in a system that you didn't sign up for in the first place? What happens when the operating system of the corporate Moloch runs amok. Never Trust a Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson (Duck Editions, UK, 2001): Great macabre short story collection from the silent member of The League of Gentlemen. "Never trust a rabbit. They may look like a child's toy, but they will eat your crops." Hungarian proverb. Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher
The Choppers (1961): "The choppers call him 'Torch.'" Many thanks to the The Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre for uploading this 1961 movie about a gang of kids who steal and strip down cars to turn into hotrods. If you cool cats like classic hotrod cars, bad boys from the other side of the tracks, sexy blondes in tight shirts, insipidly catchy songs, goofy teen idol good looks, and the world's biggest cell phone... this one is for you! Hot rods, hot rock, and hot hair are the jewels in the juvenile delinquency crown of THE CHOPPERS. This classic drive-in exploitation flick features the debut of sixteen year-old Arch Hall Jr. as Cruiser, the spoiled rich kid with a taste for crime and his band of troubled teens who call themselves cool names like Torch, Flip and Snoop, and specialize in stripping cars in record time. This is the movie that made you mom weak in the knees and your daddy worried about the crowd you run with. Featuring the some exceptional less-than-hit songs from the awesome Arch Hall Jr, including non-classics like "Konga Joe" and "Monkey In A Hatband". (Thanks, Brian!)
@BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com): (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.) Sean Bonner: The Crazy Frog Brothers doing Axel F. For great justice. Link Andrea James: Ryan (an animation on an animator) Link Xeni Jardin: From the guy who brought you cult film classic THE ROOM, Tommy Wiseau's "The Neighbors." Link (via @bonniegrrl) Richard Metzger: Pink Slip - I won't describe it, but if you dare, it's NSFWish Link RT @toschie Sean Bonner: Today's Grindcore history lesson: Napalm Death Link Xeni Jardin: Hidden MacBookPro feature: it Transformersifies itself into robo-ship + flies away. OK, not rly but watch. Link Sean Bonner: Santa gets blown up by girls in skimpy outfits with big guns. WIN/FAIL you be the judge. Link Jesse Thorn: First episode of Andrew WK's new show Destroy, Build, Destroy! is currently free in iTunes: Link Andrea James: The most fortuitous engineering disaster in history: The Salton Sea Link Sean Bonner: Can I have my own Japanese coffee making robot too? Link Susannah Breslin: Screw the environment. Gay Talese cares about the cut of his cuff. Link Xeni Jardin: Every Zach Galafianakis clip from Tim + Eric, evar: Link (via @ericwareheim, but blocked outside USA) Jesse Thorn: The hilarious Tig Notaro performs a signature bit, "No Moleste": Link Susannah Breslin: Inside the Erotic House [NSFW]: Link Andrea James: Hypnotic time lapse of balloon festival (worth sitting through the :30 ad) Link Richard Metzger: All-female rock group Fanny on Sonny and Cher circa 1971 Link Susannah Breslin: SuperObama has SuperBig ears: Link More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com
Ript: the dude equivalent of a padded bra: Behold, gentlemen! Ript, "the revolutionary torso-enhancing undershirt." The designer of this undergarment is described as "the creative force behind P. Diddy's Sean John clothing line, where she mastered her understanding of what appeals to the most sophisticated and discriminating men." Ah, so we can blame Diddy. "Ript" is so technologically advanced, it comes with a HOWTO, bitches: Ript, via Book of Joe.
NAACP comic from early 1960s: A new specimen from Ethan Persoff's "Comics with Problems" archives: Early NAACP Comic Book History - Your Future Rests In Your Hands and The Street Where You Live (1960 and 1964)
Awesome pixel-art in cross-stitch form: Cross-Stitch Ninja's Flickr stream is a bottomless well of pixellated delights. Shown here, the CCTV cameras worked into the border of the "You Are Not Alone" sampler, and there's plenty of other lovelies, like the Super Mario maps, grammar puns, religio-vegetarian humor and loads more. Cross-stitch ninja's photostream (via Craft, thanks, Alice!) Previously:Cross-Stitch him off, Keyboard Cat. - Boing Boing Zelda map in cross-stitch form - Boing Boing Tube-map cross-stitch - Boing Boing Cross-stitch inspired by Alfred Bester's DEMOLISHED MAN - Boing Boing Boing Boing: IT Crowd cross-stitch Cross-stitch a dung-beetle! Link Discuss - Boing Boing Nintendo cross-stitches - Boing Boing
Video of Walt Disney World's Obamabot: The Obamabot 3000 is ready to be unveiled at Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents, along with the Mark II George Washingtron ("Now with real talking action!") and a Gettysburg-complete Lincolnbot. No word on whether the Obamabot will allow release of the photos of the waterbotting on Pleasure Island, a no-go zone for civilians for several years now. We're just sorting out our Christmas at Disney World plans -- our first WDW trip with the baby -- and I'm looking forward to this. There is something eerily cool and compelling about all those hyper-detailed robots nodding and twitching at you from out of the uncanny valley while Maya Angelou tells you about the War Between the States. A remarkably lifelike Audio-Animatronics figure of President Barack Obama enters the spotlight in a revised and refreshed Hall of Presidents show when it reopens July 4 in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. The addition of the countrys 44th chief executive is just part of the most significant update to this classic attraction since its 1971 debut in the parks Liberty Square. Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin helped develop the show with Disney Imagineers. In this video they talk about the Hall of Presidents: A Celebration of Libertys Leaders. Barack Obama Joins Hall of Presidents at Disney's Magic Kingdom (Thanks, Patricio!) Previously:Obamabot to be installed at Disney World, will robotically cover ...
Anti-paparazzi handbag: This prototype handbag detects camera flashes and emits a powerful, obscuring strobe that is meant to confound paparazzi. Of course, if there were four paps shooting at once (as there usually seem to be!), it would just ruin one of the four shots. Last year on July 4, we were walking down the beach in Santa Monica and we saw a pap stop his car in traffic, jump out, run up to the passenger window of a car and start shooting. It turned out Courtney Love and a friend were in the car, enjoying a drive. We chased the pap back to his car and paced him in the snail-traffic with our cameras, snapping pictures of him as he crawled to the next traffic light. Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag
Same-gender sex no longer a crime in India's capital city: The Times of India is calling it "India's Gay Day." A ruling on Thursday overturned a colonial law nearly 150 years old that describes sex acts between two persons of the same gender in India's capital city as an "unnatural offense." Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence. Many people in India regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate. Rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights. A clarification from an earlier iteration of this blog post: The ruling only applies to India's capital city of Delhi. Sex acts between two men or two women is, if I'm reading this right, still a crime in the rest of India. India media hails gay sex ruling (BBC). See also: Mumbai gays' long fight for recognition (BBC). Below: image from WAtoday: "A eunuch kisses another member of the transgender, gay and lesbian communities as they celebrate the Indian court decision." (thanks, Antinous!)
Scientists tour the Creationism Museum: Tony sez, "Recently, a group of paleontologists were in town for the North American Paleontological Convention at the University of Cincinnati, and decided to take a field trip to the Creation Museum just across the river, in Kentucky. My aunt went to cover it for AFP, and I had the doubly good fortune of living just a stone's throw away, so I tagged along to see what these guys were up to. It was an eyeful, to say the least. Gorgeous facilities with amazingly engaging displays and animatronics, and at least a few hundred cubic cubits of bad science and misinformation. One young lady stood, furious, and grumbled, 'It's bullshit. Bullshit pretending to be science.' Anyone who finds themselves in the Cincinnati area with a few bucks, hours, and brain cells to burn should check it out, and see what the scientific community is up against in terms of informing the public." Arnie Miller, a palentologist at the University of Cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community... "And there was a feeling of unhappiness, too, about the extent to which mainstream scientists and evolutionists are demonized -- that if you don't accept the Answers in Genesis vision of the history of Earth and life, you're contributing to the ills of society and of the church." Daryl Domning, professor of anatomy at Howard University, held his chin and shook his head at several points during the tour. "This bothers me as a scientist and as a Christian, because it's just as much a distortion and misrepresentation of Christianity as it is of science," he said. (Thanks, Tony!) (Image: (AFP/File/Jeff Haynes) Previously:Creation Museum opens Monday - Boing Boing John Scalzi's snarky science fiction tour of the Creation Museum ... Profile of Creation Museum founder - Boing Boing Kentucky creationist museum online - Boing Boing Grand Canyon bookstore still selling Creationist myth - Boing Boing Canada's science minister is a creationist - Boing Boing Story on Cobb County Creationism Case - Boing Boing Photos from the Scopes "Monkey" trial -- public domain images from ... Univ. of CA sued over lack of creationism in colleges - Boing Boing Doonesbury skewers creationism/intelligent design - Boing Boing FSM roundup: SC schools next to teach creationism? - Boing Boing Mini-doc on creationist dinosaur park - Boing Boing

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Joint oil ventures with attitiude: Russia's Gazprom and Nigeria's oil company NNPC are forming a joint venture. Hmmmm...what do you call such a thing? GazGeria? Nah, Nigeria should come first. How 'bout NIGAZ? Perhaps unsurprisingly, some people have a problem with this.
The Squares of the City: Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application - "His economic theory of history explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human standard of living by looking primarily at just two forms of innovative ideas: technology and rules." (previously, via) BONUS: UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY - What cities have in common [1,2,3,4,5] - Great structures? [1,2,3,4,5] - The new institutionalism [1,2,3,4,5] - Norms and deliberative rationality [1,2,3,4,5]
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