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Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 20, 2008
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one!The URA / FILOART developed device promises to the citizens of a more reliable protection against security measures of the state (and other...
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L Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 27, 2008
Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarised Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientologie." The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too.Link(Thanks, Marilyn!)
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Swedish couple fined for naming their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclll mmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116"
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 20, 2008
A Swedish couple has been fined for failing to register a legally approved name for their seven-year-old child, who is presently called "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" (pronounced "/ˈalˌbin/"). They've offered to change the kid's name to "A," but the Swedish government says that won't do, either.Because the parents (Elizabeth Hallin and an unidentified father) failed...
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Fractal drawers
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen.Link(via DVice)
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Next Nature -- a designer's vision of a nature overtaken by corporatism
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
Bruce Sterling called designer Mieke Gerritzen's presentation at the LIFT conference in Geneva "the freakiest, most-out there" presentation at the event. Gerritzen's talk is on "Next Nature," the way that corporatism and nature will mesh more and more as time goes by -- think of butterflies gengineered with corporate logos. The talk is a heady mix of what-if and have-you-seen, and manages...
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Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 12, 2008
Lenore Skenazy, the author of the kick-ass column about letting her kid ride the subway alone, has started a blog called Free Range Kids, with a stirring call to action: Do you ever... ..let your kid ride a bike to the library? Walk alone to school? Take a bus, solo? Or are you thinking about it? If so, you are raising a Free Range Kid! At Free Range, we believe in safe kids. We believe...
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Giant WWII mine detonated at English seaside town
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 14, 2008
UK bomb disposal experts detonated a huge, 1,500 pound WWII German mine at Bridgwater Bay, Somerset yesterday. The explosion was awesomely awesome, as can be seen here.Remember, Hong Kong Disneyland is built on lots of unexploded WWII ordnance, left to marinate in salt water and slowly become inert. Let's hope that process is ticking along nicely. Tick tick tick.Link(via Gizmodo)
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Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches -- using game-scoring to keep track of and expand how you browse
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 12, 2008
Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's networked browser-game PMOG (Passively Multiplayer Online Game) just launched after a solid beta period. The idea is to encourage people to be more adventurous and smarter when they browse the web, by awarding points for different kinds of Internet activity (for example, awarding bonuses for looking at Wikipedia history pages, comparing search results across...
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Ambphibian ancestors gave us hiccups
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
Neil Shubin's new book, Your Inner Fish, traces the evolutionary history of the human body's many quirks, including the origin of the hiccup:Or consider hiccups. Spasms in our diaphragms, hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which control the regular motion of their gills. Our brain stems, inherited from...
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