Tuesday 31 January 2012

?This Is Aperture?: Portal Meets The Nightmare Before Christmas

There isn’t much I could add to this video, except to warn anyone who hasn’t played the Portal video games that there are spoilers for both in here — though the ones for Portal 2 go by quickly enough they might not really register. My thanks to former GeekDad writer Brian Little for pointing me [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/this-is-aperture/

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On Booth Babes

Tech writer Glenn Fleishman doesn't mind attractive people trying to get him to pay attention to their products. But "companies that rely on models whose various assets are stress-testing spandex or exposed to air are trying so hard that they fail, he writes in an opinion piece at TidBITS today. "Not all attention is good, [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/on-booth-babes.html

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Report: Facebook Files for IPO Next Week

After years of speculation and anticipation on Wall Street and across Silicon Valley, Facebook may file for its initial public offering as soon as Wednesday of next week, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/facebook-ipo/

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Quix Mixer Hangs Around Looking Cool

I have found through experimentation that one of the best hand mixers available to man is a power drill with a ballon whisk clamped into the chuck. It will fluff up egg whites and cream in no time, is free (assuming you already own the drill and whisk) and is about as butch as you [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/quix-mixer-hangs-around-looking-cool/

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Game clones swarm Facebook

Dean Takahashi on the relentlessness machinery of Zynga's game-cloning operation, whereby it minimally modifies others' work and sues those who treat it likewise. Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower in an upcoming mobile game called Dream Heights. [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/game-rip-offs-swarm-facebook.html

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8 Killer iOS Apps That Shined at Macworld 2012

At this year's Macworld | iWorld event, iOS apps took center stage -- which wasn't hard for a trade show of ever-diminishing relevance. We checked out the action, and here are our picks for the apps you need to know about most.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/8-top-macworld-apps/

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Object Breast Cancer: visualizing tumors through art

Above, one of the bronze sculptures to emerge from the Object Breast Cancer project by art duo caraballo-farman. Snip from the project description: 1.3 Million women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. For most, the tumor has no image. It?s an invisible monster, an unseen malignancy. OBJECT BREAST CANCER (OBC) is [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/object-breast-cancer-visualiz.html

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Monday 30 January 2012

Patrick Farley is back: "The First Word" webcomic explains language's origin

Patrick Farley is one of the greatest and most maddeningly irregular webcomics artists working today. We've been covering his work for a decade, and a new Farley is always cause for celebration. His latest, "The First Word," is no exception -- a fine, odd, beautifully realized story about the invention of language, one that tries [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/patrick-farley-is-back-the.html

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5-Million Dot Electronic Viewfinder Makes Glass Obsolete

You know how people have been raving about the 2.4-million dot viewfinder Sony squeezed into the NEX 7 camera1? A tiny optical viewfinder that manages to pack in almost three times more dots than found in the highest-end camera viewing screens? Well, that ‘finder is now officially lame, a crappy 8-bit-style pixelated mess in the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/5-million-dot-electronic-viewfinder-makes-glass-obsolete/

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Tokina and Tamron Join Micro Four Thirds

Big news for Micro Four Thirds shooters today. Three new companies have signed on to the format. Lens makers Tamron and Tokina are joined by Japanese video camera maker Astrodesign. Astrodesign makes 4K video camera rigs, which won’t be of much use to most of you, but the two lens makers are much more interesting. [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/tokina-and-tamron-join-micro-four-thirds/

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Video for "Brothers," by The War on Drugs

[Video Link] Amy Seidenwurm says: "'Brothers' by The War on Drugs was possibly my favorite song of 2011. They just released a supremely creepy video for it."

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/video-for-brothers-by-the.html

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Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say

?It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product...He would proof it." Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul?s company and former supporter of the Texas congressman, in the Washington Post today about those wacky racist newsletters previously mentioned here on Boing Boing.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/those-racist-crazy-1990s-ron.html

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Space-age Lestoil ad

From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, this contribution by V.Valenti, showing a superb space-age Lestoil ad. Lestoil Woman of the Future, 1968.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/28/space-age-lestoil-ad.html

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Here's the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press

Juha Saarinen sez, 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey New Zealand media were raided by police last November just before the general election, after the incumbent centre-right Prime Minister John Key made a criminal complaint over a recording of a conversation in a cafe between him and far right-wing politician John Banks during a staged media event. The [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/heres-the-utterly-inconseque.html

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Bendy Bike Rack Made From Rubber Hose and Cable

Here’s a bad idea: Take the weakest kind of bike lock — the plastic covered cable — and turn it into a bike rack. That’s the idea behind the Tulip Fun Fun, an “elastic and safe rack resembling a meadow.” Exactly what you need in a bike rack. The Tulip Fun Fun is actually born [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/bendy-bike-rack-made-from-rubber-hose-and-cable/

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Sunday 29 January 2012

Google+ Aims to Attract Young Users, Just Like Facebook

Peddlers of cigarettes, credit cards and social networks all know the golden rule: Get ‘em while they’re young. Continuing its full-frontal assault on social media, Google released a set of safety features focused on teenagers on Thursday, no doubt an attempt to snag a new generation of users to grow up and fill out the [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/google-facebook-teens-safety/

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Palms Down: Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP

HP’s mobile era is over. Jon Rubinstein, the HP executive to lead the charge against Apple’s iPad devices, has left the company as of Friday morning. A company spokesman confirmed to Wired in an interview that the mobile hardware guru, once a star at Palm when that company was still a contender, was no longer [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/hp-rubenstein-out/

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While Apple Breaks Records, Other Smartphone Makers Limp Along

It's a good time to be a smartphone manufacturer -- if your name is Apple. The company's financial momentum is insane. Yet Apple's competitors are flailing about, all in search of a viable smartphone strategy to challenge Apple's momentum.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/apple-android/

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How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video

Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already �beaten first to digital music by Apple. Jeff Bezos never wants that to happen again.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/amazon-win-streaming-video/

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Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say

?It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product...He would proof it." Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul?s company and former supporter of the Texas congressman, in the Washington Post today about those wacky racist newsletters previously mentioned here on Boing Boing.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/those-racist-crazy-1990s-ron.html

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Parenthood Brings Songs of Guilt & Revenge From the Backpeddlers

The other day I wrote about the influence of music in your life, and in your children’s lives. I talked about how music reflects points in your life and helps to define generations. So what happens when music is inspired instead by your life, and is created out of the influences at home – such [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/songs-of-guilt-revenge/

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WSJ's partisan approach to climate change vs. science

The Wall Street Journal published a letter expressing skepticism about anthropogenic climate change signed by a group of engineers, retired weathermen, and scientists from fields other than climate science. In response, a much larger group of actual climate scientists signed onto a letter rebutting the first letter. The WSJ rejected it. Instead, the pre-eminent science [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/28/wsjs-partisan-approach-to-cl.html

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Apple Employee Meeting Reveals More Corporate Kindness From Tim Cook

With an employee headcount in excess of 45,000, Apple’s ability to manage news concerning its internal machinations sets a benchmark for corporate information control. It’s all described in fascinating detail in recent reporting from Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky. Yesterday, however, CEO Tim Cook held an all-hands meeting for the work force, and a little bit of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/apple-private-employee-meeting/

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Saturday 28 January 2012

Apple Employee Meeting Reveals More Corporate Kindness From Tim Cook

With an employee headcount in excess of 45,000, Apple’s ability to manage news concerning its internal machinations sets a benchmark for corporate information control. It’s all described in fascinating detail in recent reporting from Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky. Yesterday, however, CEO Tim Cook held an all-hands meeting for the work force, and a little bit of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/apple-private-employee-meeting/

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WSJ's partisan approach to climate change vs. science

The Wall Street Journal published a letter expressing skepticism about anthropogenic climate change signed by a group of engineers, retired weathermen, and scientists from fields other than climate science. In response, a much larger group of actual climate scientists signed onto a letter rebutting the first letter. The WSJ rejected it. Instead, the pre-eminent science [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/28/wsjs-partisan-approach-to-cl.html

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Twitter, partnering with Chillingeffects.org, publishes a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices (all 4,410 of them)

From an article by Jake Brodkin at Ars Technica: "Twitter has taken the unusual step of�making DMCA takedown notices public, in partnership with Chilling Effects, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities. The site shows 4,410 cease and desist notices dating back to November 2010." Here's the database on Chillingeffects.org. (Twitter's effort [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/twitter-partnering-with-chill.html

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Parenthood Brings Songs of Guilt & Revenge From the Backpeddlers

The other day I wrote about the influence of music in your life, and in your children’s lives. I talked about how music reflects points in your life and helps to define generations. So what happens when music is inspired instead by your life, and is created out of the influences at home – such [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/songs-of-guilt-revenge/

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Apple?s New iBooks Won?t School College Bookstores Any Time Soon

On its face, matching iPad textbooks with college students seems almost perfect. But Apple's plans for its new iBookstore, from the way it's structured book purchases to its development strategy for multimedia e-books, doesn't seem like it's well suited for the college textbook market at all ? if it even has that target in mind.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/apple-college-bookstores/

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Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download)

Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf "Waiting for Something" Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades. Their records are lush and beautifully written, and the constant sense of wonder and optimism throughout is a joy for this cynic to discover each time. Nada Surf always makes me [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/nada-surf-waiting-for-some.html

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Memoir Recounts Youthful Quest for Meaning in D&D, Comics, Zeppelin

Growing up in the suburbs of Boston, and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs and Gilligan?s Island, Peter Bebergal found himself on a quest. A spiritual quest that, as a teen, led him through comic books, Dungeons & Dragons and Carlos Castaneda, with stops in the world of hallucinogens, rock ?n? roll, and occultism. All [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/memoir-recounts-youthful-quest-for-meaning-in-dd-comics-zeppelin/

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A Canoe Built (By a Geek Dad) for Two?

There are many things I want to do in my lifetime. I can check off skydiving, writing a book, and a few others that I’ve counted myself fortunate enough to complete, but still … there are more. I grew up in Florida, and I was lucky enough to have access to a number of rivers, [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/a-canoe-built-by-a-geek-dad-for-two/

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Friday 27 January 2012

Bendy Bike Rack Made From Rubber Hose and Cable

Here’s a bad idea: Take the weakest kind of bike lock — the plastic covered cable — and turn it into a bike rack. That’s the idea behind the Tulip Fun Fun, an “elastic and safe rack resembling a meadow.” Exactly what you need in a bike rack. The Tulip Fun Fun is actually born [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/bendy-bike-rack-made-from-rubber-hose-and-cable/

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HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way

Sillysparrowness, a self-described "German teacher with a leaning towards silliness," described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis. I built a TARDIS (Thanks, scottiep!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/howto-build-a-tardis-the-ador.html

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Boy Scouts Partner With Edison Nation to Host Innovation Challenge

Hey, kids, do you have an idea for a product or an invention that could help people in their daily lives? Then you should check out the Innovation Challenge, a new contest from the Boy Scouts and Edison Nation, the innovation Web site that was developed from PBS’s Emmy-award winning show, Everyday Edisons. The contest [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/innovation-challenge/

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MoneyMaker Camera Strap Make You As Cool As Bullitt

If you ever saw a movie cop shrugging on his cool, leather under-jacket holster and thought “I want one of those. Only for my cameras, not my guns,” then your rather obscure wish has finally come true. It’s called the MoneyMaker, but at $175, it might as well be called the MoneyTaker. The handsome leather [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/moneymaker-camera-strap-make-you-as-cool-as-bullitt/

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NASA Remembers Its Fallen

This time of the year has a poignant place in the hearts of all of those who work in or love the space program. It is an unfortunate cluster of dates that represent the anniversary of the three events that cost us the lives of astronauts in their vehicles. January 27th marks the anniversary of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/nasa-remembers-their-fallen/

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Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required

A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network "to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country," so that Twitter can further expand globally and "enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression." The Twitter blog post announcing this news was titled "Tweets still [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/26/twitter-caves-to-global-censor.html

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NASA releases "most amazing high-definition" photo of earth, from space

NASA today released a so-called 'Blue Marble' image of Earth captured by the VIIRS instrument on NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, the Suomi NPP. The composite image above "uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012." Larger sizes here (hello, new computer desktop image!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/26/nasa-releases-most-amazing-h.html

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"Honest" Movie posters

The Shiznit devised some "honest" movie posters for this year's Oscar awards season. I love the ones that blandly explain the poster's symbolic intent (left) but not so much the ones that explain the moviemakers' motives (right). [via This Isn't Happening]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/26/honest-movie-posters.html

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Thursday 26 January 2012

Newt promises moonbase

"By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon." [NPR. Photo: Eric Thayers/Reuters]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/26/newt-promises-moonbase.html

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Academic database "imprisons" research

Laura McKenna excoriates JSTOR, the online database of academic journals that has universities and the public paying thousands of dollars to read their own taxpayer-funded research. [The Atlantic]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/academic-database-imprisons.html

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Make-A-Wish Makes a Castle

So what if the expression is a clich�? For one small-town kid suffering from a disease, dreams — even medieval-themed dreams of knighthood, chivalry and adventure — do come true. As reported by WMUR, a New Hampshire TV station, a 12-year-old boy with a rare disease called desmoid fibromatosis was made king of his domain [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/make-a-wish-castle/

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US slumps in press freedom rankings

In this year's Reporters Without Borders international press freedom index, the U.S. slumped to 47th place, a fall of 27 places, largely due to arrests of journalists covering protests. The full report is available in PDF format. [RSF]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/us-slumps-in-press-freedom-ran.html

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Wade Davis's new book about Everest

Anthropologist Wade Davis is one of my heroes. He's an incredibly talented explorer and explainer of the world's cultural diversity, what he calls the ethnosphere. He's most famous for his 1985 book The Serpent and the Rainbow, about Haitian voodoo and zombies. But he's written a slew of books about the dangers faced by disappearing [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/wade-daviss-new-book-about-e.html

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Space Adventures planning for lunar tourism

Eric Anderson, 37, is the founder of Space Adventures, a company that acts as the middleman for rich people who want to go to space and the Russian space program that sells the seats on the Soyuz rockets. Air & Space Magazine profiles Anderson and tells what it took to launch the space tourism business. [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/space-adventures-planning-for.html

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Netflix Subscriber Numbers Up, but Streaming Still Not Big Profits

Unless Netflix can find a way to get its streaming subscriptions back to the same rate of revenue and customer growth it enjoyed for most of 2010 and 2011, the profit loss from slumping DVD subscriptions will be an albatross around its neck. Netflix, the great innovator of streaming video content, could win the argument and lose the war.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/netflix-q4-results/

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GeekDad HipTrax #81

In this edition of the podcast we catch up with a trio of GeekDad HipTrax favorites. We uncover new music, reflect on some older material and, of course, look toward the majesty of the near musical future. With the help of: “Apple Core II” by 8 Bit Weapon 8 Bit Weapon and Computeher are back [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/geekdad-hiptrax-81/

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Wednesday 25 January 2012

?LikeBelt? Prototype Lets You Update Facebook with a Hip Thrust

Get ready for Facebook ubiquity to seep into the real world. A clever hardware-hacking project called LikeBelt uses near-field communication technology (NFC) to register Facebook likes as you walk down the street. Just approach a person or thing that deserves liking, and thrust your hips in its -- or his, or her -- direction.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/likebelt-funny-nfc/

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Dystopian YA Novels: It?s the End of the World as We Know It?

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. But everyone seems to agree that after the end of the world we’ll end up living in some sort of totalitarian regime that controls our thoughts, whether by subtle or overt means. At least everyone who writes young adult dystopian romance novels, apparently. [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/dystopian-ya-novels/

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What it's like at CES

A bunch of people sit and stand around at CES. Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was dull, giving reporters at the show time to write interesting offbeat coverage. Stars in the firmament of boredom included Mat Honan, Brian Lam, and the marvelous CESTrailer Twitter account. Every year, however, readers [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/24/what-its-like-at-ces.html

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Study does not show that disconnection threats terrorized France into using iTunes

IFPI, the international trade group for the record industry, has trumpeted a study that allegedly shows that France saw a surge in iTunes sales following the institution of a mass-scale regime of "disconnection warnings" -- threats to remove you and your family from the Internet if you don't stop downloading. These warnings are the first [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/study-does-not-show-that-disco.html

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RAW Week: Everything I Need to Know I Learned From RAW, by David Jay Brown

Editor's note: I received so many wonderful essays about Robert Anton Wilson, that I've extended RAW Week for a few more days! -- Mark Robert Anton Wilson departed from this world on January 11, 2007 at 4:50 am. He will be missed enormously by his many loving friends and devoted fans, and his powerful impact [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/24/raw-week-everything-i-need-to.html

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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appears in New Zealand court

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a German national formerly known as Kim Schmitz, is seen at court in Auckland, New Zealand in this still image taken from video shot on January 23, 2012. The file-sharing website founder was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/24/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom.html

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Printed Sensors Could Help Save You From Spoiled Food

Whenever I pick up a package of frozen raw meat from the grocery store, I wonder, "How many times did it thaw and re-freeze?" There's currently no easy way to tell, but the ambiguity could be addressed with new temperature sensors from Thinfilm..

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/printed-circuit-food-safety/

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Vintage Photographs of Arcane Americana

A year ago, I posted about Take Me To The Water, a terrific book/CD set and exhibit of river baptism photos from the 1880s - 1930s. The photos were from the collection of Jim Linderman, who has a terrific eye for weird art, antiques, ephemera, and of course vernacular photography. Jim has just published a [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/24/vintage-photographs-of-arcane.html

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Tuesday 24 January 2012

Bodum Bistro Drip Coffee Maker: It?s Not Bitter

Danish kitchenware supremo Bodum has granted itself a do-over on the worst machine in your kitchen: the coffee-embittering drip machine. The new Bistro is a cross between old-school percolator and currently-fashionable pour-over coffee. And for convenience, it looks hard to beat. When you wake up, you head–like any rational human–to the kitchen to make coffee. [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/bodum-bistro-drip-coffee-maker-its-not-bitter/

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Past Reviews: How?d Stuff Hold Up?

I’ve been reviewing gadgets, electronics, games, and geeky products in general for GeekDad since May of 2007. Looking back through it all, that’s a lot of stuff. And the plan is to keep going. But one of the things I’m often asked by people is how products hold up after the initial testing. I can’t [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/past-reviews-howd-stuff-hold-up/

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Creepy Animatronic Baby Is Creepy

This video popped up on my robotics feed over the weekend. I realize it is a prop for a TV show, but I can’t help but be creeped out by it. I assume it will look better with some clothes and skin, but I wouldn’t put any money on it.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/creepy-animatronic-baby/

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Vermin Supreme: strong teeth for a strong America

Meet presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, the tyrant you should trust. He's wearing a boot as a hat and he knows what's best for you. If you let him control your life, you'll enjoy mandatory daily toothbrushing, free ponies for all Americans, fantastic wordplay and zombie energy generation. Stick around for the end when he glitterbombs [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/vermin-supreme-strong-teeth-f.html

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Petition: investigate Chris Dodd for fraud

A petition to the White House asks for an official investigation of former senator and now-MPAA CEO Chris Dodd, who strongly implied that he believes his members' contributions to election campaigns are bribes. ?This is an open admission of bribery and a threat designed to provoke a specific policy goal. This is a brazen flouting [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/petition-investigate-chris-do.html

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Funny titles mask serious science

Sabina Hossenfelder, an assistant professor of high-energy and nuclear physics at Sweden's Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, is collecting a list of scientific research papers with hilarious names. I've long known that humanities researchers have a good deal of freedom in titling their work—ever since running across the seminal work "Like a Thesis: A post-modern [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/funny-titles-mask-serious-scie.html

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New Righthaven offers hosting service "with a spine"

After snatching a notorious copyright troll's name at auction, a Swiss company is turning Righthaven.com into a web hosting service. The intended customers? Publishers worried about the kind of abusive legal threats spewed out by the domain's previous owner. "The Swiss courts don't play games and registrars here cannot be scared," said Stefan Thalberg of [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/new-righthaven-offers-hosting.html

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4 Quick Card Games

As you can probably tell from my game reviews, I like a nice, hefty board game with some strategic depth and lots of bits. But I like quick games, too, ones that I can toss in my backpack or grab on the way out the door. Sometimes when I don’t have time to sit down [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/4-quick-card-games/

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Monday 23 January 2012

BodyMedia Gives the Raw Data

Last week I�reviewed�the Striiv, and this week I’ll look at the BodyMedia FIT system. Full disclosure: I was provided with a review unit of the CORE system for this evaluation. The BodyMedia FIT CORE��is available from Amazon and other stores starting at $143 for the basic device, but it’s worth it for the slight upgrade [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/bodymedia/

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Puppets re-enact no-cameras-allowed corruption trial on the nightly news

Channel 19 in Akron, Ohio was disappointed that it wouldn't be allowed to take cameras into the corruption trial of Jimmy Dimora, a former county commissioner. But when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla: they bring the courtroom proceeding to their viewers' TV sets by re-enacting them with puppets. As Lowering the Bar notes, [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/21/puppets-re-enact-no-cameras-al.html

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Happy birthday to us

Boing Boing's blog incarnation is 12 today!

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/21/happy-birthday-to-us.html

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Australia?s Tallest Lego Creation Launched at Brickvention

Over the weekend, Melbourne’s AFOL community held their annual Brickvention. Australia’s only Lego Certified Professional, Ryan McNaught, chose the occasion to launch his latest (and tallest) ever construction of NASA’s Saturn V rocket. He literally almost prepared it for launch, as he has designed small compartments in the rocket that can hold dry ice which [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/lego-saturn-v-rocket/

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Classic Wrecks: Rusted-Out Model Cars

Who doesn’t love a good toy car? Stupid little girls, that’s who. So don’t buy any of your doll-cuddling daughters these awesome Classic Wrecks, regular die-cast cars painstakingly detailed by hand to add in the rust, scratches and dents of a truly used car. You don’t even need to buy one of these Grand Theft [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/classic-wrecks-rusted-out-model-cars/

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Legend: A New Take on the D20 Rules

Rule of Cool Games is in the process of playtesting a new RPG called Legend, which offers some fresh ideas on how to use the tried and true D20 rules for fantasy gaming. More than just the work of a couple of guys trying to sell another RPG, the game is built around a community [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/legend-d20/

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 22

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/agad012212/

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Sunday 22 January 2012

Happy birthday to us

Boing Boing's blog incarnation is 12 today!

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/21/happy-birthday-to-us.html

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With the Launch of New Timeline Actions, Facebook Becomes the Anti-App Store

In its ever expanding quest to conquer more of the internet, Facebook opened up its platform to more application partners on Wednesday, allowing developers small and large the chance to integrate their apps with the social giant?s massive network.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/facebook-apps-actions-open-graph/

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How To: Mark your tools for easy identification

Steve Hoefer (a fantastic maker who I interviewed on the Make: Talk podcast earlier this week) has come up with a great way to clearly mark his tools so they don't get lost when he brings them to a hackerspace. I also work at community workshops quite a bit, and while they often have a [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/how-to-mark-your-tools-for-ea.html

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube shares his appreciation for Charles and Ray Eames. "Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames" (via Gabe Adiv's Pinterest)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/ice-cube.html

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?Peter and Venom? Gives Calvin and Hobbes a Marvel-ous Twist

Given the prevailing demographics of GeekDad Readers, I’m sure that pretty much all of you are fans of Calvin and Hobbes. It’s also likely that pretty much all of you also know who Peter Parker and Venom are, right? Well, given your familiarity with those two sets of characters, I know you’re going to like [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/peter-and-venom/

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Scooter Transforms Into Backpack

A box just arrived for me in the mail containing a giant suitcase designed to carry my Brompton folding bike safely through the danger zone known as “checked luggage.” Then, moments later I learned of this backpack scooter, which combines both luggage and transport in one handy, easy to carry (or ride) package. The scooter [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/scooter-transforms-into-backpack/

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FLORA, Adafruit's new wearable electronics development platform

Our friends at Adafruit Industries just announced FLORA, a new wearable electronics development platform. For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/flora-adafruits-new-wearabl.html

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GeekDad Exclusive Preview: Aquaman #5

On Wednesday, January 25, Aquaman heads into his next storyline with Aquaman #5; and GeekDad has the exclusive first look. I for one can’t wait to read the whole issue! I don’t think I’m totally out to sea when I say I haven’t always felt that way. But Aquaman has really been moving along swimmingly. [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/geekdad-exclusive-preview-aquaman-5/

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Saturday 21 January 2012

NSFA: extracting a gauze-pack from a broken nose

Don't click this if you're at all squeamish, but there's something terrific (in ever sense) about the extraction of a gauze-pack from a healing broken nose, like watching a kind of horrible stillborn mouse being birthed from a cringing man's sinus cavity. (Thanks Fipi Lele!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/nsfa-extracting-a-gauze-pack.html

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The Adventures of Peter Pan Flies Onto the iPad

With winter upon us ? yes, even down here in the Deep South ? I’ve really had to switch up the way we do things around the old homestead. With our outdoor playtime often limited by the weather, I’ve been making a conscious effort to introduce more family reading time, and a good bit of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/peter-pan/

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Cthulhu carpets

Denmark's EGE Carpets sells a line of carpeting inspired by HP Lovecraft illustrations called Dark Water. They were created by Kirill Rozhkov, who has a nice gallery of them on Behance. Dark Water (Thanks, KayKay!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/cthulhu-carpets.html

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Shit Baristas Say

Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman of the excellent Sprudge.com coffee news site took the "Shit Girls Say" meme into my favorite San Francisco cafe, Four Barrel Coffee. Hilarity ensues. "There's no 'X' in espresso." Shit Baristas Say (Thanks, Matthew Williams!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/shit-baristas-say.html

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Skeptical take on the Green Revolution

CBC's long-form/big think radio program Ideas recently featured a lecture called "Feeding Ten Billion" from Raj Patel, an Africa development scholar formerly with the World Bank, and author of The Value of Nothing. Patel's perspective on global agriculture and social justice is incisive and contrarian. I've never heard anyone talk about the demerits of the [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/skeptical-take-on-the-green-re.html

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Opinion: Why Apple?s iBooks Initiatives Won?t Revolutionize Education

There will be a lot of commentary that will make parents and educators think that Apple has done it again. But be wary of reports that say Apple has "revolutionized the education industry." They haven't.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/apple-edtech/

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MegaUpload raided, founder arrested; Anonymous launches mass DDoS against entertainment companies and US law enforcement

New Zealand police, responding from a request from the US government, raided MegaUpload today, arresting founder and CEO Kim ?Dotcom? Schmitz and three "associates." The service, which allowed users to upload files that were too big to email, claimed 150 million users. The entertainment industry alleged that the service was primarily intended to facilitate copyright [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/20/megaupload-raided-founder-arr.html

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Introducing the GeekDad Golden Bots Award

Last year when I made my Best Board Games list, I whipped up a non-SOPA-compliant Golden Meeple image, and named many of my awards after Oscars. And then this year I made my list in a hurry and just re-used the image again… but we really wanted to have something that was a uniquely GeekDad [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/golden-bots-award/

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Friday 20 January 2012

Meet the Fire Skylanders: Eruptor and Flame Slinger

Today in our “Meet the Skylanders” series we look at two very different Fire element characters. Eruptor and Flameslinger offer different abilities and upgrades that means they suit very different players. Along with Ignitor that we discussed previously and the as-yet-unreleased Sunburn, these two complete the Fire element characters. Here’s the low down so you [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/meet-the-skylanders-4/

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Classic Wrecks: Rusted-Out Model Cars

Who doesn’t love a good toy car? Stupid little girls, that’s who. So don’t buy any of your doll-cuddling daughters these awesome Classic Wrecks, regular die-cast cars painstakingly detailed by hand to add in the rust, scratches and dents of a truly used car. You don’t even need to buy one of these Grand Theft [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/classic-wrecks-rusted-out-model-cars/

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Meet the Fire Skylanders: Eruptor and Flame Slinger

Today in our “Meet the Skylanders” series we look at two very different Fire element characters. Eruptor and Flameslinger offer different abilities and upgrades that means they suit very different players. Along with Ignitor that we discussed previously and the as-yet-unreleased Sunburn, these two complete the Fire element characters. Here’s the low down so you [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/meet-the-skylanders-4/

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Apple sets eye on textbook market

Reuters: "Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalize the U.S. education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad."

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/apple-sets-eye-on-textbook-mar.html

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?What?s Wrong With Education Cannot Be Fixed with Technology? ? The Other Steve Jobs

In 2008, Steve Jobs famously panned Amazon's Kindle: "The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don?t read any more." Now that Amazon is one of Apple's top competitors, Apple knows that despite its problems, publishing and education are still worth taking seriously.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/apple-education-jobs/

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Video: Animations of Unseeable Biology

In a recent TEDx talk in Sydney, Australia, biomedical animator Drew Berry suggested that perhaps it’s time that we got a closer look at what exactly it is that molecules do. So in his TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) moment, that’s what he showed the audience. After studying as a cell biologist as well as in [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/unseeable-biology/

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Meet the Fire Skylanders: Eruptor and Flame Slinger

Today in our “Meet the Skylanders” series we look at two very different Fire element characters. Eruptor and Flameslinger offer different abilities and upgrades that means they suit very different players. Along with Ignitor that we discussed previously and the as-yet-unreleased Sunburn, these two complete the Fire element characters. Here’s the low down so you [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/meet-the-skylanders-4/

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5 Tips for Surviving Today?s Wikipedia Blackout

Wikipedia is our collective memory. So what do we do when we have amnesia for a day? Here are 5 tips that may help.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/5-tips-wikipedia-blackout/

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Thursday 19 January 2012

Fissure opens in chess AI scene

Rybka, a powerful chess program, was stripped last year of its titles and its author publicly disgraced. Declared a plagiarist by the International Computer Games Association, Vasik Rajlich was also handed a lifetime ban on competition and ordered to return thousands of dollars in prize money. But the investigation's conclusions are now being challenged, opening [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/fissure-opens-in-chess-ai-scen.html

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VSCO Is Like Film For Your Digital Camera

VSCO is a set of presets for Adobe’s Lightroom photo-processing application. So what, right? Anyone can make presets all by themselves. But the VSCO presets go a little deeper. Instead of just saving the settings for brightness, white balance ands so on, they manipulate the Camera Profiles themselves. That is, they tell Lightroom to interpret [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/vsco-is-like-film-for-your-digital-camera/

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Love Box Analog Video Mixer For iPhone

Its name?Love Box?might sound like a male adult toy, but it is in fact a video mixer for the iPhone. It?s not an app, nor is it a complex control board filled with knobs and dials. Instead, its all done with mirrors.
Or mirror. The Love Box, from the Honest&Smile agency in Barcelona, Spain, is a [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/love-box-analog-video-mixer-for-iphone/

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Free PDF of the first Diesel Sweeties comic collection

The delightful R. Stevens is distributing the first Diesel Sweeties webcomic collection as a DRM-free, free PDF, in celebration of his birthday. "Pocket Sweeties, Volume 1," is a sterling example of the demented, bitter humor that Rich pulls off so well, and we're a lucky Internet for getting this great gimmee from him. He's got [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/17/free-pdf-of-the-first-diesel-s.html

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Arduino-Controlled Espresso Machine Rivals Way More Expensive Models

Man, do nerds love their coffee. How else do you explain that a robot-controlled espresso machine blew through its Kickstarter target by a crazy 16X? Coffee-loving engineers Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky wanted a mere $20,000 for their project, and with just hours to go until the deadline, they have almost a third of a [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/arduino-controlled-espresso-machine-rivals-way-more-expensive-models/

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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Blackout of 1977

Part 1 of The Hip Hop Family Tree

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/17/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-2.html

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Happy Birthday, James Earl Jones!

Today, the man with what is probably the most famous voice in the world turns 81. James Earl Jones was born on this date in 1931 in Mississippi, and ? believe it or not ? was functionally mute for eight years of his childhood due to embarrassment over his stutter. Fortunately for him and for [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/happy-birthday-james-earl-jones/

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Apple To Announce Tools, Platform To ?Digitally Destroy? Textbook Publishing

Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its�special media event�on Thursday, January 19. While�speculation�has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books?the “GarageBand for e-books,” so [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/apple-digital-destroy-textbook/

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Wednesday 18 January 2012

Developer Profile: Snowcastle Interactive Provides True Interactivity for Kids

It is unusual for me to do a developer profile of a children’s app developer who has only created one app. But, this developer’s first app is so good it deserves more attention that it has received to date. Snowcastle Interactive is a European-based company who produced Hogworld: Gnart’s Adventures. I previously reviewed the Hogworld [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/developer-profile-snowcastle-interactive-provides-true-interactivity-for-kids/

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Why SOPA/PIPA protests should matter to people outside the USA

Michael Geist sez, While there is little that people living outside the U.S. can do to influence SOPA and PIPA, there are many reasons why it is important for everyone to participate in tomorrow's SOPA protest. First, the SOPA provisions are designed to have an extra-territorial effect in countries around the world. Second, non-U.S. businesses [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/17/why-sopapipa-protests-should.html

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Stop-motion animation of 3D-printed people

In celebration of the new Makerbot Replicator 3D printer, a stop-motion animation that depicts the birth-by-printer of a sweet girl and the heartbreak she experiences thereafter. This all new stop-animation music video was made with Michael Curry?s playset characters and a number of other MakerBot-made pieces! The princesses story was written by MakerBot CEO and [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/17/stop-motion-animation-of-3d-pr.html

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A Message From GlaDOS to Princess Celestia

I have two sons, so I am woefully ignorant of the whole My Little Pony�phenomena (among so many other things, as my wife reminds me — often). Given that, I had no idea who Princess Celestia was until after I was exposed to the following video. As I now understand it, Princess Celestia is a [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/a-message-from-glados/

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Transferring Pension Funds To Improve Retirement

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Titanic Tales: The Costa Concordia

Photo: An oil removal ship is seen next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island, January 16, 2012. Over-reliance on electronic navigation systems and a failure of judgement by the captain are seen as possible reasons for one of the worst cruise liner [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/17/titanic-tales-the-costa-conco.html

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