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Wednesday, March 24, 2004Circular saw won't hurt fingerAmazing video of a circular saw that can tell the difference between wood and skin. Link (Thanks, David!) posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 11:36:00 AM permanent link to this entry
Carlo's Playmobil score
Carlo Longino went to Germany and picked up some cool Playmobil sets, including a hazmat cleanup crew and a portapotty. Link "What do you mean, I look pissed off?" asked Mr. Alterman. "I don’t even know what to say. You’re looking at me like—you’re just sitting there." Mr. Miller did an impersonation of what looked like a drunken, mentally disabled guy passing out. "Give me a question and I’ll ask you a question. What do you want to talk about?" Mr. Alterman laughed nervously. "Well," he said, "we could talk a little bit more about the way he misled the country." (Meaning George W. Bush.) Said Mr. Miller: "This is what I’m looking at, here, like this." He pretended to be asleep. When Mr. Alterman finished his spiel, Mr. Miller went bolt upright and snapped at the camera: "All right, you’ve been great. Come back anytime."Link Here's the video of the interview. Actually, Miller seems like his cranky old self to me. (Thanks, Francis!) posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 10:02:12 AM permanent link to this entry
SightLight: iSight lamp
Haunted Mansion appears in Foxtrot strip
Low-carb breakfast couture
KCRW responds to BB on Sandra Tsing Loh controversy
Recycled umbrella dress
Photo series: A Gallon of Milk in an hour?
Download random numbers from quantum origin
Update: A cool site, but not the first to offer random quantum numbers, say BoingBoing readers. . Dave Polaschek and Charlie Reiman each wrote in to tell us that Hotbits, a site created by former Autodesk guy John Walker, has been offering quantum random numbers for years via web and through a java class.
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Office plastered in eggs, live birds
"Brian still doesn't budge. 'There's something you have to see,' he says.
I walk over to my desk and see the following:
Everyone in R&D; is waiting to see my reaction. Unfortunately, I'm still in panic mode about being late. So, I run over to my desk. It is covered in eggs, complete with a live bird in a cage. After a beat, I say, 'Huh.'
Then I turn to Brian and say, 'Okay, we gotta go.'"
Valenti retires
I just finished another novel!
Tuesday, March 23, 2004Low-carb Eastern Standard Tribe
Inspired by Fark photoshopping contest whose theme was unlikely places for low-carb diets, Eldon Brown produced this terrific parody of my latest novel's cover.
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posted by Cory Doctorow at 03:39:17 PM permanent link to this entry
Night of the Living Dead on Archive.org
UPDATE: Travis, a member of the BoingBoing tribe on Tribe.net, says: " Before 1978, any copyrighted work had to have a copyright notice on every distribution, otherwise it wasn't considered copyrighted. George A. Romero mistakenly left out the copyright notice when he distributed his 1968 film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The copyright has not recently "lapsed," but was in fact never enforcable, which is why we have dozens of "pirate" distributions of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and innumerable knock-offs."
Mikroman: 150-micron-thick slices of theater
Most surreal headline about a DOS attack ever
Scarlet letter license plates for drunk drivers
John Shirley on the remake of Dawn of the Dead
The always interesting John Shirley has a posted an entry about immortality research and Dawn of the Dead, and why they are related. posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 01:39:22 PM permanent link to this entry
Japanese style: Elegant Gothic Lolita
posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 11:36:47 AM permanent link to this entry "In all, I bought and analyzed the content of more than 150 drives(...) In fact, only 10 percent of the drives I purchased had been properly sanitized. "Much of the data we found was truly shocking. One of the drives once lived in an ATM. It contained a year's worth of financial transactions—including account numbers and withdrawal amounts—from a organization that had a legal requirement to not divulge such information. Two other drives contained more than 5,000 credit card numbers—it looked as if one had been inside a cash register. Another had e-mail and personal financial records of a 45-year-old fellow in Georgia. The man is divorced, paying child support and dating a woman he met in Savannah. And, oh yeah, he's really into pornography." Link (via Bruce Sterling) posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 11:22:08 AM permanent link to this entry
3D virtual beers to hover over bars
Nano Jobs
Wired: Why RSS Is Everywhere
Snip: "In the end, RSS may not save you time, but it'll help pack more info into the time you have, says Jonno d'Addario, editor of the sex blog Fleshbot, which (big surprise) offers an RSS feed. 'Since I've started using a news aggregator, I don't spend eight hours a day compulsively noodling through a dozen favorite blogs anymore,' he says. 'Instead I spend eight hours a day compulsively noodling through hundreds of RSS feeds.' Ah, progress."
Office plastered in Marshmallow Peeps
[snip from website:]"We did mail Just Born, manufacturers of Peeps, but sadly they never got back to us. The peeps wound up staying in the office for about two years, through at least two occupant changes. Even six months after they were up we had people coming by and eating them off the ceiling. Ugh."
Wicked RSS reader redesign
Yesterday's iPhoto update is another example: all of a sudden, iPhoto's gone from being an app that was just useful enough to put up with its ultra-shitty performance to something I just keep running in the background all the time, with 10,000 photos on tap.
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Tote-bags made from Indonesian trash
Windows XP packaging as a Linux PC case
Office plastered in Post-it-notes
"Damon has been playing tricks on me for a few days now. So I came in on the weekend and did some "re-decorating" in his office. He didn't see it until Monday morning when he came in and opened his office door.
His office blinds were closed, his door was shut and locked, and I left this post-it in the middle of his door. It says 'Can you pick up some more post-its, we're running low.' :) "
The pranksters notified Post-it manufacturers 3M, and received three cases of post-its "for future decorating." Hey, Daimler-Chrysler, did I tell you about my brilliant decorating prank involving multiple brand-new Mercedes convertibles? No, really!
Jay-Z meets Metallica: Black on Black
Update: OK, I've got this now, and it is the bad-assest metal/hiphop crossover since Anthrax and Public Enemy's Bring the Noise
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SightLight's custom-designed Fresnel-based lens carefully adds a direct but diffused light to the subject directly in front of the camera (you). This added illumination improves skin tone coloration and evens out the shadows caused by inconsistent directional room lighting.
Monday's FoxTrot comic mentioned and depicted Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
From the pages of a 1979 issue of Jackie magazine, here's a HOWTO for knitting a matching bag-and-beret featuring a delicious, low-carb breakfast.
This dress is made entirely from discarded umbrellas found in Berkeley and NYC.
Using a chemical milling process borrowed from the electronics industry, the Brit product designer acid-etches detailed scenes onto 150-micron-thick slices of stainless steel. Each of his eight MikroMan subjects - like this finely rendered astronaut with rover and landing craft -- is sold flat and can be teased into the third dimension with a fingernail
If you get busted driving drunk in Ohio, you get these rad-looking yellow license plates with red letters on them. 
Article about Japanese schoolgirl subculture.
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Ann Wizer pays Jakarta's trash-dump pickers to find and wash plasticized packaging materials from the piles, then assemble them into tote bags.
This is pretty perverse: a PC that runs Red Hat Linux, painstakingly constructed within the packaging for Windows XP.
Documentation of an insane office prank involving 2,500 post-it notes and one mild-mannered victim.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
