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Volando fuori dallo schermo: L’età dell’oro delle sale giochi americane

| July 15th, 2010

Viviamo in un era inondata di nostalgia. Per la maggior parte è innocua, ma fa affondare molti tentativi di creare qualcosa che dia la sensazione di essere nuovo. E' diventata una ...

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C inside 2010-07-09 14:18:18

| July 9th, 2010

No alla legge bavaglio

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Wednesday bloody wednesday

| July 7th, 2010

Oggi presso Piazza Venezia a Roma, i manifestanti venuti dall'Aquila per protestare contro tutte le cazzate che gli erano state propinate dal governo sono stati mazzolati dalla milizia del ...

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Domani

| July 4th, 2010

Se i parametri dei valori vengono sconvolti fino a minare la coesione sociale, se l'immoralità diviene morale, se la mortalità si finge immortale, cosa può fare ...

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Dal basso

| June 28th, 2010

Il sole è indeciso, l'alcool è cool, il saggio rientra, ferito e misantropo. Le strade hanno la barba, i limiti si spostano, gli eccessi se la ridono. Ed è allora che mi ...

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Esseri umani estinti entro cento anni…

| June 21st, 2010

Per una volta non siamo noi i "catastrofici" eredi di Cassandra bensì un celebre biologo australiano: Frank Fenner. L'articolo è apparso ieri sul Corriere …

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Tag: pensieri, diario, intervista, amarezza, rivolta, merce, directionless, pazzo che ride, pessimisti, christic love, merdamerdamerda, domani senza di te, letteratura – articoli, Tumorrow

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Cecità

| June 18th, 2010

Josè Saramago Un libro monumentale per ...

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Dirtyfake – Dreams su Rockit

| June 17th, 2010

Dirtyfake - Dreams Il modello della ...

Leggi ancora | Pubblicato da dirtyfake | Commenti (2) Tag: musica, diario, indie rock, mp3, caino, sonic youth, the cure, pixies, alternativa, radiohead, pavement, rockit, dirtyfake, byron rink, viuletta, andrea salmeri, agostino melillo, dreams ep

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Shit And Shine (2004-2008, LP, mini EP, etc.)

| June 15th, 2010

Shit and shine Eccoci di nuovo qui, ...

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Estate, tempo di letture. Proprio …

| June 14th, 2010

Passo e chiudo Estate, tempo di ...

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Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, <a href="http://boingboing.net/markf.html">Mark</a>!)<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/qk_V7H3I2xU" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(696) "Axe is for wimps. Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, Mark!)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(52) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(696) "Axe is for wimps. Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, Mark!)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540295) } [1]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(48) "How to make Sriracha "rooster" hot sauce at home" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tylp9BRCfg0/how-to-make-sriracha.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(4) "Food" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Xeni Jardin" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(4) "Food" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:54:21 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78873" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1104) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: <a href="http://www.food52.com/recipes/6441_fresh_sriracha_aka_home_made_rooster">here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce</a>, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via <a href="http://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/22907011082">Farhad</a>) <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/tylp9BRCfg0" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(842) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via Farhad)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/how-to-make-sriracha.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(842) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via Farhad)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(4) "Food" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540061) } [2]=> array(37) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(67) "Friday tunes: "Chola Maati Ke Ram," from the Peepli Live soundtrack" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EGun2vKAlow/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" ["category#"]=> int(9) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "International" ["category#3"]=> string(6) "movies" ["category#4"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#5"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["category#6"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["category#7"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["category#8"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#9"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" ["dc"]=> array(14) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Xeni Jardin" ["subject#"]=> int(9) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "International" ["subject#3"]=> string(6) "movies" ["subject#4"]=> string(5) "music" ["subject#5"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["subject#6"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["subject#7"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["subject#8"]=> string(5) "music" ["subject#9"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:04:21 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78871" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(3067) "<object width="600" height="362"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4fFuJ45DPSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&start=71"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4fFuJ45DPSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&start=71" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="362"></embed></object> I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch <a href="http://www.peeplilivethefilm.com/">Peepli Live</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peepli_Live">Wikipedia</a>) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VFJNTU?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003VFJNTU">Chola Maati Ke Ram</a>," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama">Lord Ram</a>, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, <a href="http://twitter.com/kamla/">Kamla Bhatt</a> will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKJUZ0?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000QKJUZ0">Indian Ocean</a>, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. <a href="http://kzsulive.stanford.edu">Listen online here</a>.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/EGun2vKAlow" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1604) "I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch Peepli Live (Wikipedia) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "Chola Maati Ke Ram," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring Lord Ram, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, Kamla Bhatt will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band Indian Ocean, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. Listen online here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1604) "I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch Peepli Live (Wikipedia) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "Chola Maati Ke Ram," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring Lord Ram, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, Kamla Bhatt will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band Indian Ocean, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. Listen online here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "International" ["category#3@term"]=> string(6) "movies" ["category#4@term"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#5@term"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["category#6@term"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["category#7@term"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["category#8@term"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#9@term"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540661) } [3]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(45) "The physics of breaking stuff with your fists" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/B1vN32N0VaA/the-physics-of-break.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Science" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(19) "Maggie Koerth-Baker" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Science" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:51:32 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78863" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(4471) "<img alt="Breaking_technique.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Breaking_technique.jpg" width="640" height="424" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /> iO9 recently <a href="http://io9.com/5591320/how-karate-chops-break-concrete-blocks">ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards</a> and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/retort/2010/09/02/busted-explanations-for-karate-breaking"> an interesting counter-analysis</a> by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: <blockquote> One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break.</blockquote> The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. <blockquote>When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes.</blockquote> P.S.: Rennie's blog, <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/retort/">The Gleaming Retort,</a> is part of <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/blogosphere/">a new family of science blogs</a>, hosted by the <a href="http://www.plos.org/about/index.php">Public Library of Science</a>—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/02/slow-motion-video-of-1.html#previouspost">Slow motion video of things being destroyed</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/16/science-of-scams-der.html#previouspost">Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/11/the-kung-fu-kid.html#previouspost">The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...</a></li> </ul> </div><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/B1vN32N0VaA" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(3152) " iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(3152) " iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Science" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283536292) } [4]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(32) "Cock-touching forbidden in Kyoto" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KjP832c7ZaM/cock-touching-forbid.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:56:10 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78861" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1459) " <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock-tm.jpg" height="480" width="640" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Img 3361" /></a> I didn't touch it.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/KjP832c7ZaM" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(640) "I didn't touch it.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(640) "I didn't touch it.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283532970) } [5]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(72) "The Wilderness Downtown: Chrome experiment by Chris Milk and Arcade Fire" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s7-HpcWXsUQ/the-wilderness-downt.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:05:28 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78860" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2489) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/wildernessdownnnn.jpg" height="211" width="600" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Wildernessdownnnn" /> The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O85W3A?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003O85W3A">The Suburbs</a>. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. <blockquote>Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/">The Wildreness Downtown</a> (Thanks, <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/722">Jean Hagan</a>!) "<a href="http://creativity-online.com/news/behind-the-work-arcade-fire-the-wilderness-downtown/145696">Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'</a>" (Creativity Online)<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/s7-HpcWXsUQ" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1558) "The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album The Suburbs. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. The Wildreness Downtown (Thanks, Jean Hagan!) "Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'" (Creativity Online)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1558) "The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album The Suburbs. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. The Wildreness Downtown (Thanks, Jean Hagan!) "Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'" (Creativity Online)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283533528) } [6]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(70) "Thanks for reading and "May the scientific method always be with you."" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/x7MxjPX4hhE/thanks-for-reading-a.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:49:20 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78780" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(8004) "<img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021342.jpg" height="566" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021342" /> Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to <a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%26+nature/art64100">Bob Bloomfield</a> for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.First, if you haven't already done so, do please check out the <a href="http://phylogame.org">PHYLO project</a>. If you don't know what it is, think Pokemon but with real creatures, and then read the <a href="http://phylogame.org/about/">about</a> section (or this previous <a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/biodiversity-open-ca.html">Boing Boing</a> post). Although the project is being hosted by my lab, it is hardly my project. Basically, all images, web infrastructure, game rules, IP advice, and educational discussion, to make the 180 or so cards currently available (new one every weekday!), has been produced solely from the fine act of crowd sourcing. Everything is open source and open access, completely free, so that all you really need is a printer, some paper, and you're good to go. It's been very cool to watch it progress, but I'd love it if more people came by to contribute. In fact, if it sounds interesting to you and/or your kids, you can even start playing it right <a href="http://phylogame.org/2010/08/03/ecosystem-game-basic-rules-version-1-4a/">now</a>. In particular, we'd like more artists to participate. You'll note that the artwork for the cards is pretty freakin' excellent (see the image above), and we're hoping for a wider pool of people to contribute. Doesn't matter what the organism is: it can be one you've already drawn, or one where you try your hand at something that's not currently a card (for instance we are well represented by birds and mammals, but poorly lacking in things like reptiles, insects, aquatic plants, and still no blue whale yet). Heck, in honour of the Boing Boing community, I think we can even open the doors for unicorn submissions, but ONLY if you also provide a picture of a real creature (NOTE: you might wonder where a unicorn card might fit in with a biodiversity project, but we are not above a little parody in the project - see if you can <a href="http://phylogame.org/cards">find</a> the one other fictional card already hidden in the collection). Anyway, how do you submit? Well, there is a special <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/phylomon/">Flickr pool</a> just for art submissions, but if it's easier you can also pass on a link to your art in the comments below (make sure the link also has a way of contact so that we can follow up); do the same via <a href="http://phylogame.org/2010/09/02/leave-us-a-link-to-your-art/">this post</a>; or, if you're on Deviant Art, by sending on a note to my <a href="http://davehwng.deviantart.com/">deviantart.com</a> account. All in all, any help is greatly appreciated. We're also now at the stage where we can begin to construct locale specific starter decks. In other words, with our card numbers continually expanding, we can provide pdfs of decks that make sense to a particular city or region, as well as decks of cards chosen to support the exhibits at learning institutions (I'll be making one for the Natural History Museum for example). This would have awesome educational potential, so it would be great if we could get locale specific "champions" to help with this. Finally: wouldn't these cards look cool on a smart phone? Maybe there are biodiversity type apps out there that would like to add a "card" layer to their functionality. Or maybe just a way to play trumps or some such similar game with the cards? Just saying. Second, here is a request that involves the blue whale I wrote about <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/27/citizen-science-and.html">earlier</a>. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021344.jpg" height="413" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021344" /> Photo by Stuart Pearce (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40781590@N00/1205378968">link</a>) <blockquote>During construction (of the whale model), workmen left a trapdoor within the whale's stomach, which they would use for surreptitious cigarette breaks. Before the door was closed and sealed forever, some coins and a telephone directory were placed inside -- this soon growing to an urban myth that a time capsule was left inside. The work was completed -- entirely within the hall and in full view of the public -- in 1938. At the time it was the largest such model in the world, at 28.3 m in length, though the construction details were later borrowed by several American museums, who scaled the plans further. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum#Major_specimens_and_exhibits">Wikipedia</a>)</blockquote> Isn't that wonderful? I've also heard other stories about what might be inside the belly of this whale (including one that mentioned a distill), and have increasingly heard the term "Narnia doors" around this museum. Apparently, the museum is so vast and so twisty-turny that it's not uncommon to open a door and end up somewhere totally unexpected. In fact, the idea of the blue whale possibly harboring some secret inside is such a delicious notion, that I'm a bit disappointed that someone like J.K. Rowling didn't lend her considerable imagination to include it in her vast Harry Potter iconography (although I might pursue this myself in a children's science culture/novel I'm working on). Anyway, in this respect, I'm curious to find out more. To be specific, I was wondering if: 1. Anybody knows more about what might be inside the whale, and 2. Without having to open up the huge hollow model, what technical options (high tech or better yet DIY) are there to take a peek inside? And with that, this is where I'll sign off. Thanks for reading and playing along, and "May the Scientific Method always be with you." <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/x7MxjPX4hhE" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1558) "Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to Bob Bloomfield for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1558) "Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to Bob Bloomfield for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283460560) } [7]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(51) "Nagoya COP10 Primer #4: with a reference to twitter" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(88) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SxyYZGSLDBo/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:41:44 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78778" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(8850) " Continuing from: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/nagoya-and-the-conve.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/25/nagoya-cop10-primer.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/28/nagoya-cop10-sidebar.html">Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU!</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/31/nagoya-cop10-primer-2.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats</a> So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official <a href="http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/nr/ws4nrsp-cca-01/official/ws4nrsp-cca-01-sp-prep-02-en.pdf">Strategic Plan</a> document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: <blockquote>1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it.</blockquote> Others are more to the point: <blockquote>11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape.</blockquote> A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: <blockquote>16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed.</blockquote> And this one, almost works as a haiku: <blockquote>3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful to biodiversity are eliminat...</blockquote>Well, maybe not a 5-7-5 haiku. Still, the 20 targets make for a good, if detailed, read. I'm actually tempted to see how they might fare as a poem: if I stack them one by one, and then giving it the title, "By 2020."  The purpose of this long and comprehensive list of targets, of course, is to address the vagueness discussed before. This is a good thing: but how wieldy these discussions will be, especially in the context of 190+ COP members needing to reach an agreement remains to be seen. In light of this, maybe structuring this discussion around a more simple list is better. I quite like the suggestions laid out in this recent paper, "Biodiversity targets after 2010" by Mace et al. (<a href="http://www.cbd.int/doc/strategic-plan/other-relevant-input/Mace_etal_2010_COSUST.pdf">pdf</a>). For starters, it's written in a pretty readable fashion, but more importantly, it tries to break the targets into three defined categories, as described in this box. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021338.jpg" height="707" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021338" /> This seems pretty clever to me. Let's break up the priorities depending on: (1) whether the loss in biodiversity is directly "bad" for you (as well as anthrocentric commenters); (2) whether the loss in biodiversity results in a loss of sociological and/or cultural value (i.e. makes you "sad"); and (3) what kind of things are needed in order to tackle the previous two. If viewed in this manner, the hope is that everyone can find something of value in this process. In fact, I think an important part of 3 (or the blue target) is to also showcase how closely tied 1 and 2 are to each other (things that make you "sad" are often things with a direct "bad" effect - often an effect you're not necessarily prepared for). In any event, let's end with a list of priorities, whittled from our "By 2020" poem, and worded explicitly for those of you who don't wish to read the strategic document outlined earlier. In fact, let's borrow from a great list seen at the <a href="http://www.biodiversityislife.net/?q=Nagoya">IYB UK</a> website. Here they suggest that at the very least, Nagoya COP10 can provide the following: <blockquote>1. A new set of targets to protect our natural resources that are achievable and measurable. 2. A protocol for fair access to, and sharing the benefits from, the world's genetic resources. This is called the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/abs/">Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)</a> protocol. 3. The need to put a fair economic value on nature's services that are currently used for free, such as fertile soil, pollination of our crops, and flood defences. This will be based on <a href="http://www.teebweb.org/">The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)</a> report. 4. Support for establishing a single source for access to reliable scientific evidence which can be used to inform policy decisions on biodiversity issues. This is called the <a href="http://www.ipbes.net/">Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)</a> and will operate in a similar way that the IPCC informs climate change policy.</blockquote> My favourite is the first one, which in a sort of grant-proposal-speak, is basically asking for a strong and kick ass Nagoya agreement. Now, what can you do to help move this along? Well, on the high effort scale, you can obviously get involved in various biodiversity outreach programs. I'm sure there are many in your local neck of the woods. However, at the lower end of the effort scale, just being vocal about such things is a good star (even if you disagree heartily about everything I've written). Dialogue generates more dialogue which then generates debate which then generates noise which then, if you're lucky, might generate notice from the government players, which is what you hope for. The timing is also interesting politically. For the US, biodiversity has inadvertently been pushed into the public's consciousness by the horrible Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The images and stories presented have been visceral and gut wrenching, and tragically informative in providing a look at how a locale is closely tied to its ecosystem. In the UK, Nagoya COP10 is Prime Minister Cameron's first real test on the environmental front - so there's lots of eyeballs monitoring his government's action. And in Canada, where my home is... well... Stephen Harper should be well aware that the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/30/walsh-sweater-vest.html">sweater vests</a> he loves so dearly are very much a product of biodiversity. Anyway, since this is my last Nagoya COP10 primer, I'm hoping you can just go on and make some online noise. For example, those four priorities above seemed primed for a twitter rework. Or maybe just come up with any creative/witty/funny/deep Nagoya related tweet. You can even stick a <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nagoyaCOP10">#nagoyaCOP10</a> hashtag in there. It would be interesting to see what great lines people can come up with.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/SxyYZGSLDBo" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(2686) "Continuing from: Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU! Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official Strategic Plan document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: 1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it. Others are more to the point: 11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape. A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: 16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed. And this one, almost works as a haiku: 3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful to biodiversity are eliminat...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(63) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(2686) "Continuing from: Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU! Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official Strategic Plan document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: 1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it. Others are more to the point: 11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape. A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: 16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed. And this one, almost works as a haiku: 3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful to biodiversity are eliminat...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283460104) } [8]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(53) "Crystal Jellybean Skull only $6 in Boing Boing Bazaar" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/U6DnPUQz7Lg/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:44 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78856" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1368) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009030856.jpg" height="600" width="571" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009030856" /> Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. <a href="https://makersmarket.com/products/crystal-jellybean-skull">Crystal Jellybean Skull</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/U6DnPUQz7Lg" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(772) "Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. Crystal Jellybean Skull... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(772) "Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. Crystal Jellybean Skull... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283529644) } [9]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(40) "HOWTO: Tiny BBQ out of Altoids Sours tin" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aDhz6BTfw64/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:48:36 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78854" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1535) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_image_FOHHAHGFT7PK7BG_Altoids-Sours-BBQ-Grill.jpg" height="399" width="600" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Image Fohhahgft7Pk7Bg Altoids-Sours-Bbq-Grill" /> Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Altoids-Sours-BBQ-Grill/">Altoids Sours BBQ Grill</a><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/aDhz6BTfw64" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(872) "Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. Altoids Sours BBQ Grill... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(872) "Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. Altoids Sours BBQ Grill... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283528916) } [10]=> array(29) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(42) "SPECIAL FEATURE: Makoto Aida's Schoolgirls" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8pv6cjv3WK8/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" ["category#"]=> int(5) ["category"]=> string(7) "Special" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["category#3"]=> string(5) "japan" ["category#4"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["category#5"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" ["dc"]=> array(10) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(29) "Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda" ["subject#"]=> int(5) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Special" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["subject#3"]=> string(5) "japan" ["subject#4"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["subject#5"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:11:58 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78851" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1497) "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770031157?ie=UTF8&tag=beschizza-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=4770031157">Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool</a>, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html">Read the rest</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/8pv6cjv3WK8" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(891) "Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(891) "Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Special" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["category#3@term"]=> string(5) "japan" ["category#4@term"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["category#5@term"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283526718) } [11]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(74) "Art, nature, the history of science, and whoa, aren't these are beautiful?" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xV9mUUOXkgo/art-nature-the-histo.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:35:47 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78777" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(6261) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021321.jpg" height="712" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021321" /> <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=73224">Plate 73</a> of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves was an English tea inspector, but also amassed a wonderful collection of Chinese drawings of plants and animals during his time in Canton. A few weeks back, I had a great conversation with Judith Magee, Library Special Collections Curator at the Natural History Museum. From this conversation, as well as others (thanks Peronel, Martha, Bergit), it soon became clear that there were many individuals within the museum that had a passion for things pertaining to the humanities and the arts (see also this previous post). In particular, the museum happens to house a <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-exhibitions/">vast collection of illustrations and paintings</a>, many of which were originally produced as a way to scientifically document new species, new cultures, and other things observed during expeditions. However, it's also clear that apart from their historical value, these pieces of artwork also have immense aesthetic value. They. Are. Beautiful. And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bartram">John Bartram</a>, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-exhibitions/art-themes/drawingconclusions/fish_main.htm">John Reeves</a>. Best of all, it looks like the museum is now in the process of developing exhibitions around their art collection, and if you're the academic type whose interest is piqued by the mention of the humanities, the museum has a fairly new Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (you can see one of their projects <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/museum-lives/index.html">here</a>). This Centre has a mandate that: <blockquote>supports interdisciplinary research into the historical, cultural, social and economic significance of the library, archive and specimen collections of this world-class museum. It does this by enabling and promoting research into the collection through partnerships with universities, research councils, foundations, major museums and libraries around the world. </blockquote> Anyway, sit back and enjoy these other few images: <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021325.jpg" height="437" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021325" /> "Humboldt and his party collecting plant." Specimens at the foot of Mount Chimborazo. Detail from <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=60481">Plate 25</a> Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). (© The Natural History Museum, London). Humboldt was well known as a wonderful writer. In fact, his works were known to have inspired Darwin as he traveled on the Beagle. As well, Humboldt's views on the "unity of nature" are often thought to have laid the groundwork for ecological study. In his art, he often included himself in the picture (the first Waldo?), again to emphasize the holistic connections in nature. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021329.jpg" height="444" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021329" /> "Nelumbo lutea, American lotus and Triodopsis albolabri, snail." <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=56961">Drawing 34</a> (Ewan 59) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen, ink and watercolour. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Bartram is often referred to as the "Father of American Botany," and played an important part in distributing American seeds to European gardeners. His artwork is also acclaimed as being one of the first to move away from the Linnaean practice of plant in isolation depicted in a position that best highlighted its anatomy. You can see here how Bartram has really attempted to present the various species as a community of players. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021331.jpg" height="679" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021331" /> "Bubo bubo bengalensis, Eurasian eagle-owl." Large Series <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=73156">plate 5</a>, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves' collection presented a fascinating look at the wide variety of Chinese natural history. In fact, many of the species depicted by the images were, at the time, unknown to Western science. <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/xV9mUUOXkgo" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1910) "Plate 73 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves was an English tea inspector, but also amassed a wonderful collection of Chinese drawings of plants and animals during his time in Canton. A few weeks back, I had a great conversation with Judith Magee, Library Special Collections Curator at the Natural History Museum. From this conversation, as well as others (thanks Peronel, Martha, Bergit), it soon became clear that there were many individuals within the museum that had a passion for things pertaining to the humanities and the arts (see also this previous post). In particular, the museum happens to house a vast collection of illustrations and paintings, many of which were originally produced as a way to scientifically document new species, new cultures, and other things observed during expeditions. However, it's also clear that apart from their historical value, these pieces of artwork also have immense aesthetic value. They. Are. Beautiful. And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as Alexander von Humboldt, John Bartram, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by John Reeves.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1910) "Plate 73 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. 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And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as Alexander von Humboldt, John Bartram, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by John Reeves.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283459747) } [12]=> array(35) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(62) "Boneless, clubfooted French Connection model invades Melbourne" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(86) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pjEQ8pg9Vlk/boneless-clubfooted.html" ["category#"]=> int(8) ["category"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["category#5"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#6"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["category#7"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["category#8"]=> string(5) "weird" ["dc"]=> array(13) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(8) ["subject"]=> string(8) "Business" ["subject#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["subject#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["subject#4"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["subject#5"]=> string(5) "funny" ["subject#6"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["subject#7"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["subject#8"]=> string(5) "weird" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:01:56 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78839" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2331) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/4953586953_462d20d766_b.jpg"> As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4953586953/">Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia</a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html#previouspost">The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/19/photoshop-retouching.html#previouspost">Photoshop retouching of model</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/08/searching-for-the-sk.html#previouspost">Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/09/29/ralph-lauren-opens-n.html#previouspost">Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/odd-victorias-secret.html#previouspost">Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/xeni-on-rachel-maddo.html#previouspost">Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/pjEQ8pg9Vlk" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1217) " As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! Photoshop retouching of model Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ... Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ... Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ... Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(61) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1217) " As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! Photoshop retouching of model Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ... Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ... Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ... Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#2@term"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3@term"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4@term"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["category#5@term"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#6@term"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["category#7@term"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["category#8@term"]=> string(5) "weird" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283518916) } [13]=> array(33) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(79) "Homeroom Security: book about the insanity of zero-tolerance classroom policies" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XqXpGz8vjKM/homeroom-security-bo.html" ["category#"]=> int(7) ["category"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["category#4"]=> string(4) "book" ["category#5"]=> string(9) "education" ["category#6"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#7"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["dc"]=> array(12) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(7) ["subject"]=> string(6) "Action" ["subject#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["subject#3"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["subject#4"]=> string(4) "book" ["subject#5"]=> string(9) "education" ["subject#6"]=> string(4) "kids" ["subject#7"]=> string(13) "submitterator" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:43:43 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78838" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(3940) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20">Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear</a>, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: <blockquote> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20"> <img src="http://craphound.com/images/Kupchik.jpg" class="right" align="right"> </a> They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. </blockquote> <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/29/homeroom_security_ext2010">America's real school-safety problem</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20">Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear</a> (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via <a href="http://boingboing.net/submit">Submitterator</a>!) <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/12/six-year-old-sent-to.html#previouspost">Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/12/fourth-grader-suspen.html#previouspost">Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/01/04/ten-year-old-girl-su.html#previouspost">Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/XqXpGz8vjKM" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(2754) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. America's real school-safety problem Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via Submitterator!) Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ... Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ... Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(2754) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. America's real school-safety problem Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via Submitterator!) Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ... Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ... Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2@term"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3@term"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["category#4@term"]=> string(4) "book" ["category#5@term"]=> string(9) "education" ["category#6@term"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#7@term"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283517823) } [14]=> array(25) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(27) "Heavily stapled phone-pole " ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6anBWm194Qw/heavily-stapled-phon.html" ["category#"]=> int(3) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(5) "photo" ["category#3"]=> string(7) "toronto" ["dc"]=> array(8) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(3) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(5) "photo" ["subject#3"]=> string(7) "toronto" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:43:22 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78818" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1227) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/4935787145_212b9fc119_b.jpg"> Behold, the glory of a thoroughly enstapleified telephone pole, snapped last week in Toronto. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/phonepole/">Phone poles</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/heavily-stapled-phon.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/heavily-stapled-phon.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/6anBWm194Qw" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(727) "Behold, the glory of a thoroughly enstapleified telephone pole, snapped last week in Toronto. Phone poles... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/heavily-stapled-phon.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(727) "Behold, the glory of a thoroughly enstapleified telephone pole, snapped last week in Toronto. Phone poles... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2@term"]=> string(5) "photo" ["category#3@term"]=> string(7) "toronto" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283485402) } [15]=> array(29) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(22) "Typewriter key jewelry" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jGJ72BRqUD8/typewriter-key-jewel.html" ["category#"]=> int(5) ["category"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["category#2"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["category#3"]=> string(7) "jewelry" ["category#4"]=> string(5) "maker" ["category#5"]=> string(11) "typewriters" ["dc"]=> array(10) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(5) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["subject#2"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["subject#3"]=> string(7) "jewelry" ["subject#4"]=> string(5) "maker" ["subject#5"]=> string(11) "typewriters" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:45 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78815" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2317) "<img src="http://craphound.com/images/il_fullxfull.125001019.jpg"> Etsy seller Buster and Boo does a nice line in vintage, moderately priced jewelry and decorative art made from vintage typewriter keys from the 1920s and 1930s. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/busterandboo?page=1">Buster and Boo</a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/01/typewriter-repairmen.html#previouspost">Typewriter repairmen in photos</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/03/21/beautiful-old-typewr.html#previouspost">Beautiful old typewriters in photos</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/16/history-of-the-typew.html#previouspost">History of the typewriter through vocal sound effects</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/20/nyc-writers-space-th.html#previouspost">NYC writer's space throws out last remaining typewriter user ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/01/14/prints-made-from-typ.html#previouspost">Prints made from typewriter parts </a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/typewriter-stays-rel.html#previouspost">Typewriter stays relevant in technology-saturated world</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/08/29/trove-of-classic-typ.html#previouspost">Trove of classic typewriter info</a></li> </ul> </div><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/typewriter-key-jewel.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/typewriter-key-jewel.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/jGJ72BRqUD8" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1106) "Etsy seller Buster and Boo does a nice line in vintage, moderately priced jewelry and decorative art made from vintage typewriter keys from the 1920s and 1930s. Buster and Boo Typewriter repairmen in photos Beautiful old typewriters in photos History of the typewriter through vocal sound effects NYC writer's space throws out last remaining typewriter user ... Prints made from typewriter parts Typewriter stays relevant in technology-saturated world Trove of classic typewriter info... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/typewriter-key-jewel.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1106) "Etsy seller Buster and Boo does a nice line in vintage, moderately priced jewelry and decorative art made from vintage typewriter keys from the 1920s and 1930s. Buster and Boo Typewriter repairmen in photos Beautiful old typewriters in photos History of the typewriter through vocal sound effects NYC writer's space throws out last remaining typewriter user ... Prints made from typewriter parts Typewriter stays relevant in technology-saturated world Trove of classic typewriter info... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["category#2@term"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["category#3@term"]=> string(7) "jewelry" ["category#4@term"]=> string(5) "maker" ["category#5@term"]=> string(11) "typewriters" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283483925) } [16]=> array(45) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(3) "O_O" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(70) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sfQu77GUdrg/o-o.html" ["category#"]=> int(13) ["category"]=> string(20) "Delightful Creatures" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#3"]=> string(5) "Funny" ["category#4"]=> string(5) "Video" ["category#5"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["category#6"]=> string(3) "cat" ["category#7"]=> string(4) "cats" ["category#8"]=> string(9) "elevators" ["category#9"]=> string(6) "kitteh" ["category#10"]=> string(6) "kitten" ["category#11"]=> string(7) "kittens" ["category#12"]=> string(4) "meme" ["category#13"]=> string(6) "russia" ["dc"]=> array(18) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Dean Putney" ["subject#"]=> int(13) ["subject"]=> string(20) "Delightful Creatures" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#3"]=> string(5) "Funny" ["subject#4"]=> string(5) "Video" ["subject#5"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["subject#6"]=> string(3) "cat" ["subject#7"]=> string(4) "cats" ["subject#8"]=> string(9) "elevators" ["subject#9"]=> string(6) "kitteh" ["subject#10"]=> string(6) "kitten" ["subject#11"]=> string(7) "kittens" ["subject#12"]=> string(4) "meme" ["subject#13"]=> string(6) "russia" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:37:06 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78812" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1562) "<object width="600" height="475"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4gyR0ZIdoMM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4gyR0ZIdoMM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="475"></embed></object> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gyR0ZIdoMM">Video Link</a> (via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/d8vd4/peeping_tom_caught_on_camera/">reddit</a>) <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/o-o.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/o-o.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/sfQu77GUdrg" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(645) "Video Link (via reddit)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(45) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/o-o.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(645) "Video Link (via reddit)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8e57db5b9b893aa7aabdcff9e05fcc2d&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(20) "Delightful Creatures" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#3@term"]=> string(5) "Funny" ["category#4@term"]=> string(5) "Video" ["category#5@term"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["category#6@term"]=> string(3) "cat" ["category#7@term"]=> string(4) "cats" ["category#8@term"]=> string(9) "elevators" ["category#9@term"]=> string(6) "kitteh" ["category#10@term"]=> string(6) "kitten" ["category#11@term"]=> string(7) "kittens" ["category#12@term"]=> string(4) "meme" ["category#13@term"]=> string(6) "russia" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283481426) } [17]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(17) "Hurricane Earl IV" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(84) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XjapXL9Ttv4/hurricane-earl-iv.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(4) "News" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(19) "Maggie Koerth-Baker" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(4) "News" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:08:45 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78805" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2386) "<img alt="Ob981230_lg3.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Ob981230_lg3.jpg" width="504" height="406" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/my-name-is-hurricane.html">Xeni posted a great NASA image of the 2010 Hurricane Earl</a> earlier this afternoon, which got me hunting around for some information on Hurricane Earls past. After all, this is not the first Earl. There've <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Earl">been three others</a>, as well as some lesser Tropical Storms of the same name. The naming lists for these things are used again every seven years, and individual names are only retired after they've been attached to a particularly damaging storm. Earl, so far, has not. When the names do get retired, replacing them isn't easy. According to <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2014608,00.html">Time magazine</a>, there's a whole list of types of names that aren't allowed. Over the years, the meteorologists in charge of naming have resorted to flipping through the weirder end of baby name books and adding friends' names to the list. Time: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2014608,00.html">How are hurricanes and tropical storms named?</a> Above: Hurricanes Earl and Danielle in their 1998 incarnations.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/hurricane-earl-iv.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/hurricane-earl-iv.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/XjapXL9Ttv4" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1517) "Xeni posted a great NASA image of the 2010 Hurricane Earl earlier this afternoon, which got me hunting around for some information on Hurricane Earls past. After all, this is not the first Earl. There've been three others, as well as some lesser Tropical Storms of the same name. The naming lists for these things are used again every seven years, and individual names are only retired after they've been attached to a particularly damaging storm. Earl, so far, has not. When the names do get retired, replacing them isn't easy. According to Time magazine, there's a whole list of types of names that aren't allowed. Over the years, the meteorologists in charge of naming have resorted to flipping through the weirder end of baby name books and adding friends' names to the list. Time: How are hurricanes and tropical storms named? Above: Hurricanes Earl and Danielle in their 1998 incarnations.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(59) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/hurricane-earl-iv.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1517) "Xeni posted a great NASA image of the 2010 Hurricane Earl earlier this afternoon, which got me hunting around for some information on Hurricane Earls past. After all, this is not the first Earl. There've been three others, as well as some lesser Tropical Storms of the same name. The naming lists for these things are used again every seven years, and individual names are only retired after they've been attached to a particularly damaging storm. Earl, so far, has not. When the names do get retired, replacing them isn't easy. According to Time magazine, there's a whole list of types of names that aren't allowed. Over the years, the meteorologists in charge of naming have resorted to flipping through the weirder end of baby name books and adding friends' names to the list. Time: How are hurricanes and tropical storms named? Above: Hurricanes Earl and Danielle in their 1998 incarnations.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=34bc50687c8ada9a1b1285752f7af423&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(4) "News" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283472525) } [18]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(57) "Another oil rig explosion, and the science of dispersants" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9wTC2Go-QkY/another-oil-rig-expl.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Science" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(19) "Maggie Koerth-Baker" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Science" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:42:10 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78809" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(4374) "<img alt="4420332059_3c76981c8c_z.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/4420332059_3c76981c8c_z.jpg" width="640" height="346" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/oil-rig-explodes-gulf-mexico/story?id=11544098">Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today</a>. All crew members survived. Right now, nobody knows whether or not the explosion caused a leak in any of the seven wells that the rig collects from. There have been reports of an oil slick on the water near the fire, but that could just as easily be from the finite amount of oil stored on the rig—which would still a spill, but a significantly less problematic one. Other than that, there's not really much information out about this right now. If anybody's learned anything from Deepwater Horizon it seems to be that you're better off, PR-wise, if you don't have to correct everything you say two days later. To give you something to chew over in the meantime, though, <a href="http://deepseanews.com/">Deep Sea News</a> has been doing a really interesting series on the science (such as it is) of oil dispersants. It's interesting, not just because of the basic facts, but also because it gets into the details of why we don't know more. <blockquote>Dispersants must be applied successfully and have a high effectiveness once in ocean waters. This sounds easy, in principle--once you've perfected your Corexit formula in the lab, just spray it from a helicopter, and voila! Except there are a lot of factors which you also have to take into account: the composition of the oil spilled, sea energy, whether the oil has been subjected to weathering at all, exact type of dispersant used and the amount which you sprayed, and ocean temperature/salinity. Thank goodness for all those lab tests over the years which figured all this stuff out, you say. Um, well actually it seems like even designing simulation experiments is difficult, and different tests can report different effectiveness scores for the same dispersant. It is difficult to accurately scale up lab tests in order to predict dispersant action on real spills. Older studies used methods and analyses which have since been discredited. Wave-tank tests can probably provide upper limits on dispersant effectiveness, but there are SEVENTEEN (!!) critical factors that require strict control for accurate results (Fingas 2002). Field tests in open ecosystems are even worse for measuring the fate of oil and controlling variables. In terms of measuring dispersant effectiveness, tank tests, field tests, and lab tests all disagree. Awesome.</blockquote> Part 1: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2010/08/dispersants-a-multi-part-series-to-enlighten-your-brains/">How effective are dispersants on real oil spills?</a> Part 2: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2010/08/dispersants-part-ii-toxicity/">How toxic are dispersants?</a> Part 3: <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2010/09/dispersants-part-iii-do-dispersants-really-promote-degradation-of-oil">Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?</a> Image of a random oil rig: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Some rights reserved</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40132991@N07/">kenhodge13</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/another-oil-rig-expl.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/another-oil-rig-expl.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/9wTC2Go-QkY" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(3146) " Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today. All crew members survived. Right now, nobody knows whether or not the explosion caused a leak in any of the seven wells that the rig collects from. There have been reports of an oil slick on the water near the fire, but that could just as easily be from the finite amount of oil stored on the rig—which would still a spill, but a significantly less problematic one. Other than that, there's not really much information out about this right now. If anybody's learned anything from Deepwater Horizon it seems to be that you're better off, PR-wise, if you don't have to correct everything you say two days later. To give you something to chew over in the meantime, though, Deep Sea News has been doing a really interesting series on the science (such as it is) of oil dispersants. It's interesting, not just because of the basic facts, but also because it gets into the details of why we don't know more. Dispersants must be applied successfully and have a high effectiveness once in ocean waters. This sounds easy, in principle--once you've perfected your Corexit formula in the lab, just spray it from a helicopter, and voila! Except there are a lot of factors which you also have to take into account: the composition of the oil spilled, sea energy, whether the oil has been subjected to weathering at all, exact type of dispersant used and the amount which you sprayed, and ocean temperature/salinity. Thank goodness for all those lab tests over the years which figured all this stuff out, you say. Um, well actually it seems like even designing simulation experiments is difficult, and different tests can report different effectiveness scores for the same dispersant. It is difficult to accurately scale up lab tests in order to predict dispersant action on real spills. Older studies used methods and analyses which have since been discredited. Wave-tank tests can probably provide upper limits on dispersant effectiveness, but there are SEVENTEEN (!!) critical factors that require strict control for accurate results (Fingas 2002). Field tests in open ecosystems are even worse for measuring the fate of oil and controlling variables. In terms of measuring dispersant effectiveness, tank tests, field tests, and lab tests all disagree. Awesome. Part 1: How effective are dispersants on real oil spills? Part 2: How toxic are dispersants? Part 3: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil? Image of a random oil rig: Some rights reserved by kenhodge13... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/another-oil-rig-expl.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(3146) " Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today. All crew members survived. Right now, nobody knows whether or not the explosion caused a leak in any of the seven wells that the rig collects from. There have been reports of an oil slick on the water near the fire, but that could just as easily be from the finite amount of oil stored on the rig—which would still a spill, but a significantly less problematic one. Other than that, there's not really much information out about this right now. If anybody's learned anything from Deepwater Horizon it seems to be that you're better off, PR-wise, if you don't have to correct everything you say two days later. To give you something to chew over in the meantime, though, Deep Sea News has been doing a really interesting series on the science (such as it is) of oil dispersants. It's interesting, not just because of the basic facts, but also because it gets into the details of why we don't know more. Dispersants must be applied successfully and have a high effectiveness once in ocean waters. This sounds easy, in principle--once you've perfected your Corexit formula in the lab, just spray it from a helicopter, and voila! Except there are a lot of factors which you also have to take into account: the composition of the oil spilled, sea energy, whether the oil has been subjected to weathering at all, exact type of dispersant used and the amount which you sprayed, and ocean temperature/salinity. Thank goodness for all those lab tests over the years which figured all this stuff out, you say. Um, well actually it seems like even designing simulation experiments is difficult, and different tests can report different effectiveness scores for the same dispersant. It is difficult to accurately scale up lab tests in order to predict dispersant action on real spills. Older studies used methods and analyses which have since been discredited. Wave-tank tests can probably provide upper limits on dispersant effectiveness, but there are SEVENTEEN (!!) critical factors that require strict control for accurate results (Fingas 2002). Field tests in open ecosystems are even worse for measuring the fate of oil and controlling variables. In terms of measuring dispersant effectiveness, tank tests, field tests, and lab tests all disagree. Awesome. Part 1: How effective are dispersants on real oil spills? Part 2: How toxic are dispersants? Part 3: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil? Image of a random oil rig: Some rights reserved by kenhodge13... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=966b3bbd2c83f4fd7d9e09e078820167&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Science" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283470930) } [19]=> array(31) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(32) "Preschoolers being radio-tagged " ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TNU2b55q9Hg/preschoolers-being-r.html" ["category#"]=> int(6) ["category"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2"]=> string(10) "Technology" ["category#3"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#4"]=> string(7) "privacy" ["category#5"]=> string(4) "rfid" ["category#6"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["dc"]=> array(11) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(6) ["subject"]=> string(6) "Action" ["subject#2"]=> string(10) "Technology" ["subject#3"]=> string(4) "kids" ["subject#4"]=> string(7) "privacy" ["subject#5"]=> string(4) "rfid" ["subject#6"]=> string(13) "submitterator" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:37:46 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78808" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2731) " Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "Preschoolers in Richmond, California are being handed RFID jerseys when they get to school. The ACLU points out that in addition to the privacy concerns, these are not secure tags. It has the potential to make kidnapping and stalking very easy." <blockquote> The editors of Scientific American said it well back in May 2005: "Tagging ... kids becomes a form of indoctrination into an emerging surveillance society that young minds should be learning to question." </blockquote> <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/dont-let-schools-chip-your-kids"> Don't Let Schools Chip Your Kids </a> (Thanks, Mary, via <a href="http://boingboing.net/submit">Submitterator</a>!) <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/10/14/video-of-a-guy-impla.html#previouspost">Video of a guy implanting an RFID chip into his hand</a></li> <li><a href="http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/how-to-hack-an-rfide.html#previouspost">How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 TV</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/08/30/creditcard-companies.html#previouspost">Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/rfid-rube-goldberg-d.html#previouspost">RFID Rube Goldberg device</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/26/britain-will-make-fo.html#previouspost">Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/04/25/howto-killblock-an-r.html#previouspost">HOWTO kill/block an RFID</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/10/01/disney-kills-its-spy.html#previouspost">Disney kills its spy-on-your-kids phones</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/preschoolers-being-r.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/preschoolers-being-r.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/TNU2b55q9Hg" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1489) "Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "Preschoolers in Richmond, California are being handed RFID jerseys when they get to school. The ACLU points out that in addition to the privacy concerns, these are not secure tags. It has the potential to make kidnapping and stalking very easy." The editors of Scientific American said it well back in May 2005: "Tagging ... kids becomes a form of indoctrination into an emerging surveillance society that young minds should be learning to question." Don't Let Schools Chip Your Kids (Thanks, Mary, via Submitterator!) Video of a guy implanting an RFID chip into his hand How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 TV Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID ... RFID Rube Goldberg device Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will ... HOWTO kill/block an RFID Disney kills its spy-on-your-kids phones... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/preschoolers-being-r.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1489) "Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "Preschoolers in Richmond, California are being handed RFID jerseys when they get to school. The ACLU points out that in addition to the privacy concerns, these are not secure tags. It has the potential to make kidnapping and stalking very easy." The editors of Scientific American said it well back in May 2005: "Tagging ... kids becomes a form of indoctrination into an emerging surveillance society that young minds should be learning to question." Don't Let Schools Chip Your Kids (Thanks, Mary, via Submitterator!) Video of a guy implanting an RFID chip into his hand How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 TV Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID ... RFID Rube Goldberg device Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will ... HOWTO kill/block an RFID Disney kills its spy-on-your-kids phones... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=932a32892ba2e2f6688773cdc5217235&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2@term"]=> string(10) "Technology" ["category#3@term"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#4@term"]=> string(7) "privacy" ["category#5@term"]=> string(4) "rfid" ["category#6@term"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283470666) } [20]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(47) "Cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with Julie Newmar" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(89) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mkcFJXe4HfM/cartoonist-pete-emsl-1.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:59:43 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78806" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1821) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021524.jpg" height="358" width="300" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021524" /> I can't stop looking at this photo of talented cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with my favorite Catwoman, the beautiful Julie Newmar. <a href="http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/2010/09/fan-expo-2010-pt-1.html">Pete Emslie at Fan Expo 2010</a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/12/26/julie-newmar-as-apri.html#previouspost">Julie Newmar as April Conquest </a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/05/more-of-pete-emslies.html#previouspost">More of Pete Emslie's doodles on newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/02/24/thoughts-on-doodling.html#previouspost">Thoughts on doodling </a></li> </ul> </div><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/cartoonist-pete-emsl-1.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/cartoonist-pete-emsl-1.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/mkcFJXe4HfM" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(878) "I can't stop looking at this photo of talented cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with my favorite Catwoman, the beautiful Julie Newmar. Pete Emslie at Fan Expo 2010 Julie Newmar as April Conquest More of Pete Emslie's doodles on newspapers Thoughts on doodling... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(64) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/cartoonist-pete-emsl-1.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(878) "I can't stop looking at this photo of talented cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with my favorite Catwoman, the beautiful Julie Newmar. Pete Emslie at Fan Expo 2010 Julie Newmar as April Conquest More of Pete Emslie's doodles on newspapers Thoughts on doodling... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=62f0d1bf9f595fb6d1bfff954de8b123&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283468383) } [21]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(27) "My Name is (Hurricane) Earl" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9Hf71OST8mQ/my-name-is-hurricane.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Science" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Xeni Jardin" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Science" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:40:30 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78802" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1654) "<img src="http://boingboing.net/images/xeni/earl_a008.jpg"> How astronauts see <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at2.shtml?5-daynl">Hurricane Earl</a>. This image <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45583&src=eorss-iotd">acquired by NASA two days ago</a>: <blockquote>The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the storm was classified as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it passed north of the Virgin Islands.</blockquote><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/my-name-is-hurricane.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/my-name-is-hurricane.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/9Hf71OST8mQ" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1064) "How astronauts see Hurricane Earl. This image acquired by NASA two days ago: The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the storm was classified as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it passed north of the Virgin Islands.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/my-name-is-hurricane.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1064) "How astronauts see Hurricane Earl. This image acquired by NASA two days ago: The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the storm was classified as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it passed north of the Virgin Islands.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2fb64bafb4cc9c71d65a328d455dae66&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Science" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283467230) } [22]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(18) "Lowbrow Tarot Deck" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(85) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4Csuzkveln8/lowbrow-tarot-deck.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:12:48 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78800" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2302) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images__images_Large_00-Tarot-backs_LG_Diaz.jpg" height="420" width="258" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Images Images Large 00-Tarot-Backs Lg Diaz" /> <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images__4115_4925424367_cd3b54121e_b.jpg" height="420" width="276" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Images 4115 4925424367 Cd3B54121E B" /> Curator and artist Aunia Kahn selected a group of 23 lowbrow/pop surrealist artists to interpret one card each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. Hi-Fructose has a sneak preview of 14 of the cards, which will debut October 1 with a full show at Los Angeles's <a href="http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Lowbrow-Tarot/Project2010.htm">La Luz de Jesus Gallery</a>, a book, and of course a deck of cards. Above left, card back by Daniel Martin Diaz; right, The Devil by Chet Zar <a href="http://hifructose.com/the-blog/873-the-lowbrow-tarot-card-project.html">The LowBrow Tarot Card Project</a> preview (Hi-Fructose) <a href="http://www.lowbrowtarot.com/">LOWBROW + TAROT + PROJECT</a> UPDATE: You can see the entire show at the La Luz de Jesus site <a href="http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Lowbrow-Tarot/Project2010.htm">here</a>.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/lowbrow-tarot-deck.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/lowbrow-tarot-deck.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/4Csuzkveln8" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1171) "Curator and artist Aunia Kahn selected a group of 23 lowbrow/pop surrealist artists to interpret one card each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. Hi-Fructose has a sneak preview of 14 of the cards, which will debut October 1 with a full show at Los Angeles's La Luz de Jesus Gallery, a book, and of course a deck of cards. Above left, card back by Daniel Martin Diaz; right, The Devil by Chet Zar The LowBrow Tarot Card Project preview (Hi-Fructose) LOWBROW + TAROT + PROJECT UPDATE: You can see the entire show at the La Luz de Jesus site here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(60) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/lowbrow-tarot-deck.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1171) "Curator and artist Aunia Kahn selected a group of 23 lowbrow/pop surrealist artists to interpret one card each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. Hi-Fructose has a sneak preview of 14 of the cards, which will debut October 1 with a full show at Los Angeles's La Luz de Jesus Gallery, a book, and of course a deck of cards. Above left, card back by Daniel Martin Diaz; right, The Devil by Chet Zar The LowBrow Tarot Card Project preview (Hi-Fructose) LOWBROW + TAROT + PROJECT UPDATE: You can see the entire show at the La Luz de Jesus site here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b4bf9def51cc0ab462d2a17cc65c396b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283469168) } [23]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(32) "Looking for Bigfoot in Minnesota" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(86) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/horG3g6DTYA/looking-for-bigfoot.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(19) "Maggie Koerth-Baker" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(5) "Weird" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:14:36 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78798" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(6346) "<img alt="bigfootkahuna.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/bigfootkahuna.jpg" width="640" height="426" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /> Yesterday, while flipping through my Minneapolis Continuing Education fall catalog, I noticed a class on the Great Mysteries of Science, which turned out to be lake monsters, Sasquatch and UFOs. The class was to be taught by a retired University of Minnesota professor who has since participated in an expedition to study said Sasquatch. Now, this surprised me, because I had previously pegged Bigfoot as one of those coastal elites, who spent all his time in the Pacific Northwest and shunned the forests here in flyover country. But, apparently, Sasquatch is a Real American after all. In fact, sightings are common enough in northern Minnesota that the Bigfoot Field Research Organization recently organized a Sasquatch search party up there. Forty-two people went along, including my friend, travel journalist <a href="http://frankbures.com/bio/">Frank Bures</a>, who wrote about the experience of "'squatch hunting" for<a href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/September-2010/The-Search-for-Sasquatch/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc"> Minnesota Monthly magazine</a>. <blockquote>We'd been split into 15 camps, and we were carrying an armament of investigative equipment: night-vision scopes, walkie-talkies, GPS, infrared cameras, thermal-recording devices, video and audio recorders, and more. Someone handed me a thermal imager, which would show bright heat signatures of the living things in the forest. I scanned the area around us but saw nothing except a few warm rocks and something that may have been a raccoon. "We've got some activity here," came another report across the radio. "They're walking around our site." Whenever the group laughed, apparently, there was a rustling in the woods. When they laughed really hard, there was even more rustling. Those lucky bastards! </blockquote><blockquote>Just that morning I had seen the ghost of a footprint in the soft sphagnum near the other group's tent. It looked not quite human, but not quite ape. It had toes, but it was hard to tell what kind of biped might have made it. Two of the people in that camp, a young couple who had once recorded sounds thought to be a Sasquatch running through their hometown near Cass Lake, had heard many strange noises and seen odd shapes just beyond the light of their campfire the previous night. "We can hear it walking past our tent," they now called over the radio. "It sounds like it's wearing corduroys." "So," someone in our group replied dryly, "Sasquatch isn't very stylish."</blockquote> The article contains more science than you might expect. After being told about the alleged Sasquatch's alleged ability to "zap" potential prey into submission with ultra-low frequency sounds, Frank muses on the vast gulf between the deeply silly Sasquatch and the Sasquatch which may, at least, have some tenuous connection to reality. <blockquote>From Bigfoot's invisible energy beams, it's not far to the edge of the cliff that many enthusiasts have happily thrown themselves over, leaping from simple zoological fact into a morass of New Age nonsense. ... Even if I did want to believe, these things make it very hard. The notion that there are small populations of unknown primates around the world got an unexpected boost when Scientific American published a cover story in 2000, titled: "We Were Not Alone." It began: "Our species had at least 15 cousins. Only we remain. Why?" The article said our last relative died out 25,000 years ago. But a 16th cousin was added in 2003, when the existence of the "hobbit," a human-like creature that scientists believe died out 12,000 years ago, was confirmed in Indonesia. For years, locals in that country had told stories of Orang Pendek, a small hairy person that lived in the forest, yet such tales were dismissed as folklore. Now that science has begun to rewrite the evolutionary family tree, the question arises: Are we really alone? Recently, scientists with more than a few credentials have started to take that question seriously, people like primatologist Jane Goodall (who, in 2002, told Talk of the Nation host Ira Flatow, "You'll be amazed when I tell you I'm sure they exist") and Jeff Meldrum, an anthropology professor at Idaho State University. In his book, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Meldrum looks at the assembled evidence and finds that some Sasquatch footprints have a midfoot joint that's common in nonhuman primates while others have toe prints running lengthwise instead of across the foot. And new examinations of the old Patterson-Gimlin footage suggest the figure's torso and limbs don't match typical human anatomy. But what about the zapping? Seriously? Zapping? ... After all, as Meldrum pointed out, it was recently discovered that tigers stun their prey with a blast of infrasound just before they pounce. They zap them.</blockquote> Image: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Some rights reserved</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifonlytheywould/">Wayne_Parrack</a><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/looking-for-bigfoot.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/looking-for-bigfoot.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/horG3g6DTYA" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(2237) "Yesterday, while flipping through my Minneapolis Continuing Education fall catalog, I noticed a class on the Great Mysteries of Science, which turned out to be lake monsters, Sasquatch and UFOs. The class was to be taught by a retired University of Minnesota professor who has since participated in an expedition to study said Sasquatch. Now, this surprised me, because I had previously pegged Bigfoot as one of those coastal elites, who spent all his time in the Pacific Northwest and shunned the forests here in flyover country. But, apparently, Sasquatch is a Real American after all. In fact, sightings are common enough in northern Minnesota that the Bigfoot Field Research Organization recently organized a Sasquatch search party up there. Forty-two people went along, including my friend, travel journalist Frank Bures, who wrote about the experience of "'squatch hunting" for Minnesota Monthly magazine. We'd been split into 15 camps, and we were carrying an armament of investigative equipment: night-vision scopes, walkie-talkies, GPS, infrared cameras, thermal-recording devices, video and audio recorders, and more. Someone handed me a thermal imager, which would show bright heat signatures of the living things in the forest. I scanned the area around us but saw nothing except a few warm rocks and something that may have been a raccoon. "We've got some activity here," came another report across the radio. "They're walking around our site." Whenever the group laughed, apparently, there was a rustling in the woods. When they laughed really hard, there was even more rustling. Those lucky bastards!... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(61) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/looking-for-bigfoot.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(2237) "Yesterday, while flipping through my Minneapolis Continuing Education fall catalog, I noticed a class on the Great Mysteries of Science, which turned out to be lake monsters, Sasquatch and UFOs. The class was to be taught by a retired University of Minnesota professor who has since participated in an expedition to study said Sasquatch. Now, this surprised me, because I had previously pegged Bigfoot as one of those coastal elites, who spent all his time in the Pacific Northwest and shunned the forests here in flyover country. But, apparently, Sasquatch is a Real American after all. In fact, sightings are common enough in northern Minnesota that the Bigfoot Field Research Organization recently organized a Sasquatch search party up there. Forty-two people went along, including my friend, travel journalist Frank Bures, who wrote about the experience of "'squatch hunting" for Minnesota Monthly magazine. We'd been split into 15 camps, and we were carrying an armament of investigative equipment: night-vision scopes, walkie-talkies, GPS, infrared cameras, thermal-recording devices, video and audio recorders, and more. Someone handed me a thermal imager, which would show bright heat signatures of the living things in the forest. I scanned the area around us but saw nothing except a few warm rocks and something that may have been a raccoon. "We've got some activity here," came another report across the radio. "They're walking around our site." Whenever the group laughed, apparently, there was a rustling in the woods. When they laughed really hard, there was even more rustling. Those lucky bastards!... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c37aac608631988d83ed27a1228a6d3b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283465676) } [24]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(47) "Rob Cockerham's quest for a solid ice beer tray" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hVM9jM0X78o/rob-cockerhams-quest.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:13:17 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78797" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1505) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021512.jpg" height="375" width="500" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021512" /> Rob say: "I spent way too much time making a solid-ice beer tray, but I still feel it was worth the effort. To be truly complete, I should have test floated it in a pool or hot tub, but the bottle opener kept short-circuiting my experiments." <a href="http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/beer_caddy/beer_caddy1.shtml">The Quest for a Solid Ice Beer Tray</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/rob-cockerhams-quest.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/rob-cockerhams-quest.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/hVM9jM0X78o" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(900) "Rob say: "I spent way too much time making a solid-ice beer tray, but I still feel it was worth the effort. To be truly complete, I should have test floated it in a pool or hot tub, but the bottle opener kept short-circuiting my experiments." The Quest for a Solid Ice Beer Tray... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/rob-cockerhams-quest.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(900) "Rob say: "I spent way too much time making a solid-ice beer tray, but I still feel it was worth the effort. To be truly complete, I should have test floated it in a pool or hot tub, but the bottle opener kept short-circuiting my experiments." The Quest for a Solid Ice Beer Tray... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b3df43f0fefc31f700a370bbadb0b022&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283465597) } [25]=> array(35) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(27) "Kids' Rube Goldberg machine" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UrC9p7ID5jw/kids-rube-goldberg-m.html" ["category#"]=> int(8) ["category"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#3"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["category#4"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#5"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#6"]=> string(5) "maker" ["category#7"]=> string(5) "video" ["category#8"]=> string(7) "youtube" ["dc"]=> array(13) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(8) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#3"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["subject#4"]=> string(5) "funny" ["subject#5"]=> string(4) "kids" ["subject#6"]=> string(5) "maker" ["subject#7"]=> string(5) "video" ["subject#8"]=> string(7) "youtube" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:00:30 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78794" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2777) " <object width="600" height="475"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYb_xn9_QNY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYb_xn9_QNY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="475"></embed></object> Here's video of the triumphant success of an elaborate kids' Rube Goldberg machine, created at an "informal Rube Goldberg summer camp for kids ages 3-8." I know nothing about this summer-camp, but it seems like one of the great Good Things of our era -- especially judging from the awesome elation of the kids after the successful run! <a href="http://kiddewoodward.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-get-beach-ball-into-galvanized.html">How to Get a Beach Ball Into a Galvanized Bucket (the Hard Way) </a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/02/ok-gos-rube-goldberg.html#previouspost">OK Go's Rube Goldberg music video</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/07/16/rube-goldberg-rat-ru.html#previouspost">Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon through dozens of ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/09/15/rfid-rube-goldberg-d.html#previouspost">RFID Rube Goldberg device</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/12/05/rube-goldberg-machin-1.html#previouspost">Rube Goldberg Machine animation from Sesame Street</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/05/20/rube-goldberg-cream.html#previouspost">Rube Goldberg Cream Egg killer</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/23/ideal-toy-commercial.html#previouspost">Ideal toy commercials from 1963</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/kids-rube-goldberg-m.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/kids-rube-goldberg-m.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/UrC9p7ID5jw" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1263) "Here's video of the triumphant success of an elaborate kids' Rube Goldberg machine, created at an "informal Rube Goldberg summer camp for kids ages 3-8." I know nothing about this summer-camp, but it seems like one of the great Good Things of our era -- especially judging from the awesome elation of the kids after the successful run! How to Get a Beach Ball Into a Galvanized Bucket (the Hard Way) OK Go's Rube Goldberg music video Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon through dozens of ... RFID Rube Goldberg device Rube Goldberg Machine animation from Sesame Street Rube Goldberg Cream Egg killer Ideal toy commercials from 1963... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/kids-rube-goldberg-m.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1263) "Here's video of the triumphant success of an elaborate kids' Rube Goldberg machine, created at an "informal Rube Goldberg summer camp for kids ages 3-8." I know nothing about this summer-camp, but it seems like one of the great Good Things of our era -- especially judging from the awesome elation of the kids after the successful run! How to Get a Beach Ball Into a Galvanized Bucket (the Hard Way) OK Go's Rube Goldberg music video Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon through dozens of ... RFID Rube Goldberg device Rube Goldberg Machine animation from Sesame Street Rube Goldberg Cream Egg killer Ideal toy commercials from 1963... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a685181e7cf5ff4363c36c3e337ffac3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#3@term"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["category#4@term"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#5@term"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#6@term"]=> string(5) "maker" ["category#7@term"]=> string(5) "video" ["category#8@term"]=> string(7) "youtube" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283464830) } [26]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(25) "White tiger turning black" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(86) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/C093JJD4Ods/white-tiger-turning.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Science" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Science" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:58:05 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78793" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2482) "<object width="599" height="362"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/HHvgHmK7IVU?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/HHvgHmK7IVU?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="599" height="362"></embed></object> A white tiger cub born at the Vandalur zoo in Chennai, India is turning black. From The Telegraph: <blockquote>Biologists believe a large presence of melanin, the dark skin pigment, is the likely reason for its unusual colouring. Tigers' skin colour is determined by the presence of black and yellow pigments. In most tigers, the colour yellow dominates over black to give them their characteristic colouring. "In this cub, the reverse has happened — black is the dominant colour," senior zoo biologist Dr Manimozhi told The Times of India. "It is the dominance of yellow pigment that enables tigers to survive in the wild," he added. "In fact, this is the reason why most white tigers are found only in zoos and not in the wild," Dr Manimozhi said. </blockquote> "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7973055/White-tiger-cub-in-Indian-zoo-turns-black.html">White tiger cub in Indian zoo turns black</a>"<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/white-tiger-turning.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/white-tiger-turning.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/C093JJD4Ods" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1405) "A white tiger cub born at the Vandalur zoo in Chennai, India is turning black. From The Telegraph: Biologists believe a large presence of melanin, the dark skin pigment, is the likely reason for its unusual colouring. Tigers' skin colour is determined by the presence of black and yellow pigments. In most tigers, the colour yellow dominates over black to give them their characteristic colouring. "In this cub, the reverse has happened — black is the dominant colour," senior zoo biologist Dr Manimozhi told The Times of India. "It is the dominance of yellow pigment that enables tigers to survive in the wild," he added. "In fact, this is the reason why most white tigers are found only in zoos and not in the wild," Dr Manimozhi said. "White tiger cub in Indian zoo turns black"... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(61) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/white-tiger-turning.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1405) "A white tiger cub born at the Vandalur zoo in Chennai, India is turning black. From The Telegraph: Biologists believe a large presence of melanin, the dark skin pigment, is the likely reason for its unusual colouring. Tigers' skin colour is determined by the presence of black and yellow pigments. In most tigers, the colour yellow dominates over black to give them their characteristic colouring. "In this cub, the reverse has happened — black is the dominant colour," senior zoo biologist Dr Manimozhi told The Times of India. "It is the dominance of yellow pigment that enables tigers to survive in the wild," he added. "In fact, this is the reason why most white tigers are found only in zoos and not in the wild," Dr Manimozhi said. "White tiger cub in Indian zoo turns black"... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=46dfe6754d19d38c63996412b71f3a34&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Science" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283464685) } [27]=> array(33) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(11) "Mario mural" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(78) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6_yP-UjQnG4/mario-mural.html" ["category#"]=> int(7) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(9) "copyfight" ["category#3"]=> string(4) "game" ["category#4"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["category#5"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#6"]=> string(5) "mario" ["category#7"]=> string(9) "oldschool" ["dc"]=> array(12) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(7) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(9) "copyfight" ["subject#3"]=> string(4) "game" ["subject#4"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["subject#5"]=> string(4) "kids" ["subject#6"]=> string(5) "mario" ["subject#7"]=> string(9) "oldschool" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:50:32 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78792" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(3046) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/JPEGImage532x354pixels.jpeg" class="right bordered" align="right"> JenG sez, "NBC4 offers a few great pictures of Columbus College of Art & Design students playing with this interactive 8-bit mural. The mural depicts classic moments from Super Mario Bros., positioned without Mario or Luigi so passers-by can hop into level 1-1." <a href="http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/sep/02/3/ccad-students-create-interactive-mural-ar-219754/">CCAD Students Create Interactive Mural</a> (Thanks, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Club/118536614865510">Jen G</a>!) (Image: Ken Aschliman) <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2005/02/23/fourstorey-mario-mur.html#previouspost">Four-storey Mario mural made from Post-Its</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/02/gameranime-mural.html#previouspost">Gamer/anime mural</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/05/24/painstakingly-painte.html#previouspost">Painstakingly painted Megaman 2 bedroom walls</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/04/14/super-mario-bros-the.html#previouspost">Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/05/28/custom-mario-levels.html#previouspost">Custom Mario levels used as rhythm section for anime theme medley ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/01/14/mario-and-luigi-warr.html#previouspost">Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/04/18/profane-super-mario-.html#previouspost">Profane Super Mario ranter plays hardest level ever</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/18/violinist-plays-mari.html#previouspost">Violinist plays Mario soundtrack in real time</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/06/10/stop-motion-super-ma.html#previouspost">Stop-motion Super Mario made out of sticky notes</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/08/30/super-mario-cardies.html#previouspost">Super Mario cardies</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/mario-mural.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/mario-mural.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/6_yP-UjQnG4" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1414) "JenG sez, "NBC4 offers a few great pictures of Columbus College of Art & Design students playing with this interactive 8-bit mural. The mural depicts classic moments from Super Mario Bros., positioned without Mario or Luigi so passers-by can hop into level 1-1." CCAD Students Create Interactive Mural (Thanks, Jen G!) (Image: Ken Aschliman) Four-storey Mario mural made from Post-Its Gamer/anime mural Painstakingly painted Megaman 2 bedroom walls Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid ... Custom Mario levels used as rhythm section for anime theme medley ... Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee Profane Super Mario ranter plays hardest level ever Violinist plays Mario soundtrack in real time Stop-motion Super Mario made out of sticky notes Super Mario cardies... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(53) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/mario-mural.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1414) "JenG sez, "NBC4 offers a few great pictures of Columbus College of Art & Design students playing with this interactive 8-bit mural. The mural depicts classic moments from Super Mario Bros., positioned without Mario or Luigi so passers-by can hop into level 1-1." CCAD Students Create Interactive Mural (Thanks, Jen G!) (Image: Ken Aschliman) Four-storey Mario mural made from Post-Its Gamer/anime mural Painstakingly painted Megaman 2 bedroom walls Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid ... Custom Mario levels used as rhythm section for anime theme medley ... Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee Profane Super Mario ranter plays hardest level ever Violinist plays Mario soundtrack in real time Stop-motion Super Mario made out of sticky notes Super Mario cardies... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2519bbe4d566a67aba5dd71ee14061b0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2@term"]=> string(9) "copyfight" ["category#3@term"]=> string(4) "game" ["category#4@term"]=> string(12) "happymutants" ["category#5@term"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#6@term"]=> string(5) "mario" ["category#7@term"]=> string(9) "oldschool" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283464232) } [28]=> array(29) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(44) "Quiznos sandwich: reality versus advertising" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OuQXGGtMjco/quiznos-sandwich-rea.html" ["category#"]=> int(5) ["category"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4"]=> string(8) "fastfood" ["category#5"]=> string(6) "ripoff" ["dc"]=> array(10) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(5) ["subject"]=> string(6) "Action" ["subject#2"]=> string(8) "Business" ["subject#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["subject#4"]=> string(8) "fastfood" ["subject#5"]=> string(6) "ripoff" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:49:29 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78791" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2613) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/what-I-got.jpeg"> Quiznos's food photographers and stylists are apparently some kind of latter-day sorcerers, judging from the ad-versus-reality photos of their "Baja Chicken Sandwich" product, as snapped by Sarah, a Consumerist reader. <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/09/fast-food-advertising-vs-reality-quiznos-baja-chicken-sandwich.html">Fast Food Advertising Vs. Reality: Quiznos Baja Chicken Sandwich</a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/01/21/ridiculous-gut-busti.html#previouspost">Ridiculous gut-busting food-ads lampooned</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/04/19/photos_of_fast_food_.html#previouspost">Photos of fast food in ads and in real life</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/study-suggests-fast.html#previouspost">Study suggests fast food logos make us more hasty and impatient ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/11/12/fastfood-toxicity-co.html#previouspost">Fast-food toxicity comparison chart</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/11/03/the-perfect-turkey-d.html#previouspost">The Perfect Turkey Doesn't Really Exist</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/10/01/baconator-fantasy-vs.html#previouspost">Baconator: fantasy vs reality</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/27/obedience_to_authori.html#previouspost">Obedience To Authority at fast food joints</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/30/sugar-information-ex.html#previouspost">Sugar Information explains how sugar won't make you fat</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/quiznos-sandwich-rea.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/quiznos-sandwich-rea.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/OuQXGGtMjco" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1264) "Quiznos's food photographers and stylists are apparently some kind of latter-day sorcerers, judging from the ad-versus-reality photos of their "Baja Chicken Sandwich" product, as snapped by Sarah, a Consumerist reader. Fast Food Advertising Vs. Reality: Quiznos Baja Chicken Sandwich Ridiculous gut-busting food-ads lampooned Photos of fast food in ads and in real life Study suggests fast food logos make us more hasty and impatient ... Fast-food toxicity comparison chart The Perfect Turkey Doesn't Really Exist Baconator: fantasy vs reality Obedience To Authority at fast food joints Sugar Information explains how sugar won't make you fat... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/quiznos-sandwich-rea.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1264) "Quiznos's food photographers and stylists are apparently some kind of latter-day sorcerers, judging from the ad-versus-reality photos of their "Baja Chicken Sandwich" product, as snapped by Sarah, a Consumerist reader. Fast Food Advertising Vs. Reality: Quiznos Baja Chicken Sandwich Ridiculous gut-busting food-ads lampooned Photos of fast food in ads and in real life Study suggests fast food logos make us more hasty and impatient ... Fast-food toxicity comparison chart The Perfect Turkey Doesn't Really Exist Baconator: fantasy vs reality Obedience To Authority at fast food joints Sugar Information explains how sugar won't make you fat... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c5c3a5bf82d1af1544ba70a984cfac64&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2@term"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#3@term"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4@term"]=> string(8) "fastfood" ["category#5@term"]=> string(6) "ripoff" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283464169) } [29]=> array(33) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(52) "Wendy's restaurants beverage-handling training songs" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ABxU0i1zju8/wendys-restaurants-b.html" ["category#"]=> int(7) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(8) "fastfood" ["category#3"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#4"]=> string(8) "horrible" ["category#5"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#6"]=> string(5) "video" ["category#7"]=> string(7) "youtube" ["dc"]=> array(12) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(7) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(8) "fastfood" ["subject#3"]=> string(5) "funny" ["subject#4"]=> string(8) "horrible" ["subject#5"]=> string(5) "music" ["subject#6"]=> string(5) "video" ["subject#7"]=> string(7) "youtube" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:43:22 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78789" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2184) " <object width="600" height="475"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wAirzhGeSc8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wAirzhGeSc8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="475"></embed></object> Consumerist reader SteveDave has dug up a pair of 1990s-vintage Wendy's training videos explaining how to serve beverages. They're masterpieces of shitty, squirm-worthy industrial video, especially the insincerely rapped "cold beverages" short (they should have just licensed the kick ass <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00137YJME/downandoutint-20">G Love and Special Sauce song</a>). Looking at the Submitterator queue, I see that <a href="http://boingboing.net/submit/2010/08/lemonade-with-a-side-of-rb---80s-wendys-training-video.html">Cassandra found this one last week</a>, too -- thanks, Cassandra! <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/09/the-coolest-hottest-wendys-training-videos-ever.html">The Coolest & Hottest Wendy's Training Videos Ever</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/wendys-restaurants-b.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/wendys-restaurants-b.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e9f5e1fd72abf4075c1a0c08b49703ce&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e9f5e1fd72abf4075c1a0c08b49703ce&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/ABxU0i1zju8" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1102) "Consumerist reader SteveDave has dug up a pair of 1990s-vintage Wendy's training videos explaining how to serve beverages. They're masterpieces of shitty, squirm-worthy industrial video, especially the insincerely rapped "cold beverages" short (they should have just licensed the kick ass G Love and Special Sauce song). Looking at the Submitterator queue, I see that Cassandra found this one last week, too -- thanks, Cassandra! The Coolest & Hottest Wendy's Training Videos Ever... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e9f5e1fd72abf4075c1a0c08b49703ce&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e9f5e1fd72abf4075c1a0c08b49703ce&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/wendys-restaurants-b.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1102) "Consumerist reader SteveDave has dug up a pair of 1990s-vintage Wendy's training videos explaining how to serve beverages. They're masterpieces of shitty, squirm-worthy industrial video, especially the insincerely rapped "cold beverages" short (they should have just licensed the kick ass G Love and Special Sauce song). Looking at the Submitterator queue, I see that Cassandra found this one last week, too -- thanks, Cassandra! 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array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(5) "Weird" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:58:15 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78874" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1648) "<object width="600" height="475"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/jtwh3nQP5Uo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed 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Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, <a href="http://boingboing.net/markf.html">Mark</a>!)<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/qk_V7H3I2xU" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(696) "Axe is for wimps. Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, Mark!)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(52) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/hai-karate.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(696) "Axe is for wimps. Hai Karate: "Be careful how you use it." (Thanks, Mark!)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b984b1f5bcf51f5d5d20fe9381b1eab&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(5) "Weird" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540295) } [1]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(48) "How to make Sriracha "rooster" hot sauce at home" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tylp9BRCfg0/how-to-make-sriracha.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(4) "Food" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Xeni Jardin" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(4) "Food" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:54:21 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78873" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1104) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: <a href="http://www.food52.com/recipes/6441_fresh_sriracha_aka_home_made_rooster">here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce</a>, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via <a href="http://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/22907011082">Farhad</a>) <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/tylp9BRCfg0" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(842) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via Farhad)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/how-to-make-sriracha.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(842) "Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend: here's a recipe for how to make sriracha hot sauce, the ubiquitous Asian restaurant condiment in that clear plastic bottle with the little white rooster on the side. (via Farhad)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cd0017b4853e1d6de41b795ab2a32cd&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(4) "Food" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540061) } [2]=> array(37) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(67) "Friday tunes: "Chola Maati Ke Ram," from the Peepli Live soundtrack" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EGun2vKAlow/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" ["category#"]=> int(9) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "International" ["category#3"]=> string(6) "movies" ["category#4"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#5"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["category#6"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["category#7"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["category#8"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#9"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" ["dc"]=> array(14) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(11) "Xeni Jardin" ["subject#"]=> int(9) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "International" ["subject#3"]=> string(6) "movies" ["subject#4"]=> string(5) "music" ["subject#5"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["subject#6"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["subject#7"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["subject#8"]=> string(5) "music" ["subject#9"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:04:21 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78871" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(3067) "<object width="600" height="362"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4fFuJ45DPSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&start=71"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/4fFuJ45DPSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&start=71" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="362"></embed></object> I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch <a href="http://www.peeplilivethefilm.com/">Peepli Live</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peepli_Live">Wikipedia</a>) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VFJNTU?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003VFJNTU">Chola Maati Ke Ram</a>," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama">Lord Ram</a>, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, <a href="http://twitter.com/kamla/">Kamla Bhatt</a> will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKJUZ0?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000QKJUZ0">Indian Ocean</a>, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. <a href="http://kzsulive.stanford.edu">Listen online here</a>.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/EGun2vKAlow" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1604) "I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch Peepli Live (Wikipedia) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "Chola Maati Ke Ram," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring Lord Ram, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, Kamla Bhatt will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band Indian Ocean, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. Listen online here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/friday-tunes-chola-m.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1604) "I drove south last weekend to a predominantly Indian suburb of Los Angeles to catch Peepli Live (Wikipedia) at a movie theater that plays only films from India. Its was terrific, a poignant and LOL-filled commentary on the state of Indian news media, and the injustice and tragedy that rural communities face. Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack was full of great tunes. My favorite was the song embeded above, "Chola Maati Ke Ram," performed live here by Nageen Tanvir at a launch event for the film. The lyrics of this song are about human mortality. Loosely and imperfectly: Time spares no one... death spares no one... our bodies are clay robes that will eventually disintegrate, so it is best to dedicate our lives to honoring Lord Ram, and all that is eternal. Incidentally: Today, Kamla Bhatt will be interviewing the Indo-fusion rock band Indian Ocean, who performed several songs in the Peepli Live Soundtrack, at 12.30 pm PST on Stanford radio station KZSU. Listen online here.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3fd30a69333f2cc054b54d3b0cd020ea&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "International" ["category#3@term"]=> string(6) "movies" ["category#4@term"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#5@term"]=> string(9) "bollywood" ["category#6@term"]=> string(5) "filmi" ["category#7@term"]=> string(5) "hindi" ["category#8@term"]=> string(5) "music" ["category#9@term"]=> string(10) "peeplilive" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283540661) } [3]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(45) "The physics of breaking stuff with your fists" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/B1vN32N0VaA/the-physics-of-break.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Science" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(19) "Maggie Koerth-Baker" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Science" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:51:32 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78863" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(4471) "<img alt="Breaking_technique.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Breaking_technique.jpg" width="640" height="424" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /> iO9 recently <a href="http://io9.com/5591320/how-karate-chops-break-concrete-blocks">ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards</a> and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/retort/2010/09/02/busted-explanations-for-karate-breaking"> an interesting counter-analysis</a> by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: <blockquote> One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break.</blockquote> The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. <blockquote>When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes.</blockquote> P.S.: Rennie's blog, <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/retort/">The Gleaming Retort,</a> is part of <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/blogosphere/">a new family of science blogs</a>, hosted by the <a href="http://www.plos.org/about/index.php">Public Library of Science</a>—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/02/slow-motion-video-of-1.html#previouspost">Slow motion video of things being destroyed</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/16/science-of-scams-der.html#previouspost">Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/11/the-kung-fu-kid.html#previouspost">The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...</a></li> </ul> </div><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/B1vN32N0VaA" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(3152) " iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(3152) " iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut ¾ inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e389a4f698246d3301544d223bc74361&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Science" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283536292) } [4]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(32) "Cock-touching forbidden in Kyoto" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KjP832c7ZaM/cock-touching-forbid.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:56:10 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78861" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1459) " <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/please-dont-touch-cock-tm.jpg" height="480" width="640" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Img 3361" /></a> I didn't touch it.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/KjP832c7ZaM" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(640) "I didn't touch it.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/cock-touching-forbid.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(640) "I didn't touch it.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35175e5d3ec00864f076e0be276d4934&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283532970) } [5]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(72) "The Wilderness Downtown: Chrome experiment by Chris Milk and Arcade Fire" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s7-HpcWXsUQ/the-wilderness-downt.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:05:28 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78860" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2489) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/wildernessdownnnn.jpg" height="211" width="600" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Wildernessdownnnn" /> The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O85W3A?ie=UTF8&tag=boingboing0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003O85W3A">The Suburbs</a>. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. <blockquote>Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/">The Wildreness Downtown</a> (Thanks, <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/722">Jean Hagan</a>!) "<a href="http://creativity-online.com/news/behind-the-work-arcade-fire-the-wilderness-downtown/145696">Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'</a>" (Creativity Online)<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/s7-HpcWXsUQ" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1558) "The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album The Suburbs. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. The Wildreness Downtown (Thanks, Jean Hagan!) "Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'" (Creativity Online)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1558) "The Wilderness Downtown is perhaps the best browser-dominating Net art piece I've experienced since Jodi.org's best work more than a decade ago. An experimental, interactive film by Chris Milk, it's a tour-de-force for the Chrome browser and a lovely visual poem to accompany Arcade Fire's excellent "We Used To Wait" from their album The Suburbs. I won't give the "story" away, but I found it to be a deeply personal and moving experience. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. The Wildreness Downtown (Thanks, Jean Hagan!) "Behind the Work: Arcade Fire 'The Wilderness Downtown'" (Creativity Online)... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9b57397dc636be193a195e3aef862dbc&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(14) "Art and Design" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283533528) } [6]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(70) "Thanks for reading and "May the scientific method always be with you."" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/x7MxjPX4hhE/thanks-for-reading-a.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:49:20 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78780" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(8004) "<img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021342.jpg" height="566" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021342" /> Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to <a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%26+nature/art64100">Bob Bloomfield</a> for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.First, if you haven't already done so, do please check out the <a href="http://phylogame.org">PHYLO project</a>. If you don't know what it is, think Pokemon but with real creatures, and then read the <a href="http://phylogame.org/about/">about</a> section (or this previous <a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/biodiversity-open-ca.html">Boing Boing</a> post). Although the project is being hosted by my lab, it is hardly my project. Basically, all images, web infrastructure, game rules, IP advice, and educational discussion, to make the 180 or so cards currently available (new one every weekday!), has been produced solely from the fine act of crowd sourcing. Everything is open source and open access, completely free, so that all you really need is a printer, some paper, and you're good to go. It's been very cool to watch it progress, but I'd love it if more people came by to contribute. In fact, if it sounds interesting to you and/or your kids, you can even start playing it right <a href="http://phylogame.org/2010/08/03/ecosystem-game-basic-rules-version-1-4a/">now</a>. In particular, we'd like more artists to participate. You'll note that the artwork for the cards is pretty freakin' excellent (see the image above), and we're hoping for a wider pool of people to contribute. Doesn't matter what the organism is: it can be one you've already drawn, or one where you try your hand at something that's not currently a card (for instance we are well represented by birds and mammals, but poorly lacking in things like reptiles, insects, aquatic plants, and still no blue whale yet). Heck, in honour of the Boing Boing community, I think we can even open the doors for unicorn submissions, but ONLY if you also provide a picture of a real creature (NOTE: you might wonder where a unicorn card might fit in with a biodiversity project, but we are not above a little parody in the project - see if you can <a href="http://phylogame.org/cards">find</a> the one other fictional card already hidden in the collection). Anyway, how do you submit? Well, there is a special <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/phylomon/">Flickr pool</a> just for art submissions, but if it's easier you can also pass on a link to your art in the comments below (make sure the link also has a way of contact so that we can follow up); do the same via <a href="http://phylogame.org/2010/09/02/leave-us-a-link-to-your-art/">this post</a>; or, if you're on Deviant Art, by sending on a note to my <a href="http://davehwng.deviantart.com/">deviantart.com</a> account. All in all, any help is greatly appreciated. We're also now at the stage where we can begin to construct locale specific starter decks. In other words, with our card numbers continually expanding, we can provide pdfs of decks that make sense to a particular city or region, as well as decks of cards chosen to support the exhibits at learning institutions (I'll be making one for the Natural History Museum for example). This would have awesome educational potential, so it would be great if we could get locale specific "champions" to help with this. Finally: wouldn't these cards look cool on a smart phone? Maybe there are biodiversity type apps out there that would like to add a "card" layer to their functionality. Or maybe just a way to play trumps or some such similar game with the cards? Just saying. Second, here is a request that involves the blue whale I wrote about <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/27/citizen-science-and.html">earlier</a>. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021344.jpg" height="413" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021344" /> Photo by Stuart Pearce (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40781590@N00/1205378968">link</a>) <blockquote>During construction (of the whale model), workmen left a trapdoor within the whale's stomach, which they would use for surreptitious cigarette breaks. Before the door was closed and sealed forever, some coins and a telephone directory were placed inside -- this soon growing to an urban myth that a time capsule was left inside. The work was completed -- entirely within the hall and in full view of the public -- in 1938. At the time it was the largest such model in the world, at 28.3 m in length, though the construction details were later borrowed by several American museums, who scaled the plans further. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum#Major_specimens_and_exhibits">Wikipedia</a>)</blockquote> Isn't that wonderful? I've also heard other stories about what might be inside the belly of this whale (including one that mentioned a distill), and have increasingly heard the term "Narnia doors" around this museum. Apparently, the museum is so vast and so twisty-turny that it's not uncommon to open a door and end up somewhere totally unexpected. In fact, the idea of the blue whale possibly harboring some secret inside is such a delicious notion, that I'm a bit disappointed that someone like J.K. Rowling didn't lend her considerable imagination to include it in her vast Harry Potter iconography (although I might pursue this myself in a children's science culture/novel I'm working on). Anyway, in this respect, I'm curious to find out more. To be specific, I was wondering if: 1. Anybody knows more about what might be inside the whale, and 2. Without having to open up the huge hollow model, what technical options (high tech or better yet DIY) are there to take a peek inside? And with that, this is where I'll sign off. Thanks for reading and playing along, and "May the Scientific Method always be with you." <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/x7MxjPX4hhE" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1558) "Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to Bob Bloomfield for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/thanks-for-reading-a.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1558) "Phylomon cards: "EUROPEAN HONEY BEE, I CHOOSE YOU!" I had a great experience here at Boing Boing, and want to send on a big thanks to Mark, Cory, Xeni, David, Rob and the rest of the crew for letting me spend some quality time here. I'm also grateful to the many museum folks who let me chat with them, and so graciously showed me their projects. Kudos especially to Bob Bloomfield for the warm welcome and the many discussions on biodiversity advocacy. Hopefully, my posts didn't dilute the overall awesomeness here at Boing Boing, and at the every least, I hope a few more people are interested in Nagoya COP10. Also, it was fun to do my part to increase the Chewbacca quotient (even if only slightly) here at the site. With that, I'd like to end with two last requests. Both related to biodiversity: one is kind of worthy, the other a little goofy. One requires folks of the artistic bent, the other maybe a more scientific approach.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=90a34bfeb580f38cf59f13758520ee28&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283460560) } [7]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(51) "Nagoya COP10 Primer #4: with a reference to twitter" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(88) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SxyYZGSLDBo/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:41:44 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78778" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(8850) " Continuing from: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/nagoya-and-the-conve.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/25/nagoya-cop10-primer.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/28/nagoya-cop10-sidebar.html">Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU!</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/31/nagoya-cop10-primer-2.html">Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats</a> So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official <a href="http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/nr/ws4nrsp-cca-01/official/ws4nrsp-cca-01-sp-prep-02-en.pdf">Strategic Plan</a> document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: <blockquote>1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it.</blockquote> Others are more to the point: <blockquote>11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape.</blockquote> A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: <blockquote>16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed.</blockquote> And this one, almost works as a haiku: <blockquote>3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful to biodiversity are eliminat...</blockquote>Well, maybe not a 5-7-5 haiku. Still, the 20 targets make for a good, if detailed, read. I'm actually tempted to see how they might fare as a poem: if I stack them one by one, and then giving it the title, "By 2020."  The purpose of this long and comprehensive list of targets, of course, is to address the vagueness discussed before. This is a good thing: but how wieldy these discussions will be, especially in the context of 190+ COP members needing to reach an agreement remains to be seen. In light of this, maybe structuring this discussion around a more simple list is better. I quite like the suggestions laid out in this recent paper, "Biodiversity targets after 2010" by Mace et al. (<a href="http://www.cbd.int/doc/strategic-plan/other-relevant-input/Mace_etal_2010_COSUST.pdf">pdf</a>). For starters, it's written in a pretty readable fashion, but more importantly, it tries to break the targets into three defined categories, as described in this box. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021338.jpg" height="707" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021338" /> This seems pretty clever to me. Let's break up the priorities depending on: (1) whether the loss in biodiversity is directly "bad" for you (as well as anthrocentric commenters); (2) whether the loss in biodiversity results in a loss of sociological and/or cultural value (i.e. makes you "sad"); and (3) what kind of things are needed in order to tackle the previous two. If viewed in this manner, the hope is that everyone can find something of value in this process. In fact, I think an important part of 3 (or the blue target) is to also showcase how closely tied 1 and 2 are to each other (things that make you "sad" are often things with a direct "bad" effect - often an effect you're not necessarily prepared for). In any event, let's end with a list of priorities, whittled from our "By 2020" poem, and worded explicitly for those of you who don't wish to read the strategic document outlined earlier. In fact, let's borrow from a great list seen at the <a href="http://www.biodiversityislife.net/?q=Nagoya">IYB UK</a> website. Here they suggest that at the very least, Nagoya COP10 can provide the following: <blockquote>1. A new set of targets to protect our natural resources that are achievable and measurable. 2. A protocol for fair access to, and sharing the benefits from, the world's genetic resources. This is called the <a href="https://www.cbd.int/abs/">Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)</a> protocol. 3. The need to put a fair economic value on nature's services that are currently used for free, such as fertile soil, pollination of our crops, and flood defences. This will be based on <a href="http://www.teebweb.org/">The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)</a> report. 4. Support for establishing a single source for access to reliable scientific evidence which can be used to inform policy decisions on biodiversity issues. This is called the <a href="http://www.ipbes.net/">Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)</a> and will operate in a similar way that the IPCC informs climate change policy.</blockquote> My favourite is the first one, which in a sort of grant-proposal-speak, is basically asking for a strong and kick ass Nagoya agreement. Now, what can you do to help move this along? Well, on the high effort scale, you can obviously get involved in various biodiversity outreach programs. I'm sure there are many in your local neck of the woods. However, at the lower end of the effort scale, just being vocal about such things is a good star (even if you disagree heartily about everything I've written). Dialogue generates more dialogue which then generates debate which then generates noise which then, if you're lucky, might generate notice from the government players, which is what you hope for. The timing is also interesting politically. For the US, biodiversity has inadvertently been pushed into the public's consciousness by the horrible Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The images and stories presented have been visceral and gut wrenching, and tragically informative in providing a look at how a locale is closely tied to its ecosystem. In the UK, Nagoya COP10 is Prime Minister Cameron's first real test on the environmental front - so there's lots of eyeballs monitoring his government's action. And in Canada, where my home is... well... Stephen Harper should be well aware that the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/30/walsh-sweater-vest.html">sweater vests</a> he loves so dearly are very much a product of biodiversity. Anyway, since this is my last Nagoya COP10 primer, I'm hoping you can just go on and make some online noise. For example, those four priorities above seemed primed for a twitter rework. Or maybe just come up with any creative/witty/funny/deep Nagoya related tweet. You can even stick a <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nagoyaCOP10">#nagoyaCOP10</a> hashtag in there. It would be interesting to see what great lines people can come up with.<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/nagoya-cop10-primer-3.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/SxyYZGSLDBo" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(2686) "Continuing from: Nagoya COP10 Primer #1: with references to Star Wars Nagoya COP10 Primer #2: with a reference to Kevin Bacon Nagoya COP10 sidebar: UNFCCC YOU! Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official Strategic Plan document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: 1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it. Others are more to the point: 11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape. A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: 16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed. And this one, almost works as a haiku: 3. 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Nagoya COP10 Primer #3: with a small reference to LOL cats So what should be done at Nagoya? This is the 20 million species plus question. And for all of the criticism that I've (and others) have proffered, we should appreciate that the task at hand is going to be quite the challenge. If nothing else, this is immediately clear from the often anthrocentric (humans rule the Earth and are just playing our role on the evolutionary front, so deal with it!) commentary left on biodiversity pieces throughout the internet. There is a somewhat official Strategic Plan document out there, one that (with a remarkable lack of brevity) highlights 2020 goals and attempts to identify the process and partners to be involved. It's worth a look, although probably best absorbed by taking in the tables shown on page 19 on. It involves a list of some 20 different target statements. Some of which are short, bouncy, although still vague like a twitter tweet: 1. By 2020, everyone is aware of the value of biodiversity and what steps they can take to protect it. Others are more to the point: 11. By 2020, At least 15% of land and sea areas, including the most critical terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, have been protected through effectively managed protected areas and/or other means, and integrated into the wider land- and seascape. A few establish direct talking points for individual COP members: 16. By 2020, Each Party has an appropriate, up-to-date, effective and operational national biodiversity strategy, consistent with this Strategic Plan, based on adequate assessment of biodiversity, its value and threats, with responsibilities allocated among sectors, levels of government, and other stakeholders, and coordination mechanisms are in place to ensure implementation of the actions needed. And this one, almost works as a haiku: 3. By 2020 Subsidies harmful to biodiversity are eliminat...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e4c4ba2567df2b2b79d8fa82c9ac5593&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283460104) } [8]=> array(18) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(53) "Crystal Jellybean Skull only $6 in Boing Boing Bazaar" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/U6DnPUQz7Lg/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" ["dc"]=> array(4) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(17) "Mark Frauenfelder" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:44 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78856" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1368) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009030856.jpg" height="600" width="571" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009030856" /> Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. <a href="https://makersmarket.com/products/crystal-jellybean-skull">Crystal Jellybean Skull</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/U6DnPUQz7Lg" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(772) "Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. Crystal Jellybean Skull... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/crystal-jellybean-sk.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(772) "Who in their right mind wouldn't want a Crystal Jellybean Skull for only six dollars? Get yours now in the Boing Boing Bazaar. Crystal Jellybean Skull... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0bbc43d1a767ec45e6992d476dbce5c3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283529644) } [9]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(40) "HOWTO: Tiny BBQ out of Altoids Sours tin" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aDhz6BTfw64/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(15) "David Pescovitz" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:48:36 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78854" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1535) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_image_FOHHAHGFT7PK7BG_Altoids-Sours-BBQ-Grill.jpg" height="399" width="600" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Image Fohhahgft7Pk7Bg Altoids-Sours-Bbq-Grill" /> Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Altoids-Sours-BBQ-Grill/">Altoids Sours BBQ Grill</a><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/aDhz6BTfw64" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(872) "Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. Altoids Sours BBQ Grill... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/howto-tiny-bbq-out-o.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(872) "Instructables.com contributor vmspionage built a tiny BBQ grill out of an Altoids Sours tin and computer fan grates. My 4-year-old (and I) would love this for making s'mores, one bubbling, tooth-decaying marshmallow at a time. Altoids Sours BBQ Grill... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8f2e945e60ba0777047fb310b1e4e5d1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Gadgets" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283528916) } [10]=> array(29) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(42) "SPECIAL FEATURE: Makoto Aida's Schoolgirls" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8pv6cjv3WK8/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" ["category#"]=> int(5) ["category"]=> string(7) "Special" ["category#2"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["category#3"]=> string(5) "japan" ["category#4"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["category#5"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" ["dc"]=> array(10) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(29) "Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda" ["subject#"]=> int(5) ["subject"]=> string(7) "Special" ["subject#2"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["subject#3"]=> string(5) "japan" ["subject#4"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["subject#5"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:11:58 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78851" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1497) "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770031157?ie=UTF8&tag=beschizza-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=4770031157">Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool</a>, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html">Read the rest</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/8pv6cjv3WK8" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(891) "Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(891) "Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, by Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda, looks at how this archetype has become such a distinctive international symbol. Following is an excerpt, about the artwork of Makoto Aida, from the book. — Rob <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a4dced40e4ccccb43f5f6b49a8a60dc1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(7) "Special" ["category#2@term"]=> string(13) "brianashcraft" ["category#3@term"]=> string(5) "japan" ["category#4@term"]=> string(10) "makotoueda" ["category#5@term"]=> string(11) "schoolgirls" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283526718) } [11]=> array(21) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(74) "Art, nature, the history of science, and whoa, aren't these are beautiful?" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xV9mUUOXkgo/art-nature-the-histo.html" ["category#"]=> int(1) ["category"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["dc"]=> array(6) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(8) "David Ng" ["subject#"]=> int(1) ["subject"]=> string(9) "guestblog" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:35:47 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78777" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(6261) " <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021321.jpg" height="712" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021321" /> <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=73224">Plate 73</a> of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves was an English tea inspector, but also amassed a wonderful collection of Chinese drawings of plants and animals during his time in Canton. A few weeks back, I had a great conversation with Judith Magee, Library Special Collections Curator at the Natural History Museum. From this conversation, as well as others (thanks Peronel, Martha, Bergit), it soon became clear that there were many individuals within the museum that had a passion for things pertaining to the humanities and the arts (see also this previous post). In particular, the museum happens to house a <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-exhibitions/">vast collection of illustrations and paintings</a>, many of which were originally produced as a way to scientifically document new species, new cultures, and other things observed during expeditions. However, it's also clear that apart from their historical value, these pieces of artwork also have immense aesthetic value. They. Are. Beautiful. And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bartram">John Bartram</a>, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-exhibitions/art-themes/drawingconclusions/fish_main.htm">John Reeves</a>. Best of all, it looks like the museum is now in the process of developing exhibitions around their art collection, and if you're the academic type whose interest is piqued by the mention of the humanities, the museum has a fairly new Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (you can see one of their projects <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/museum-lives/index.html">here</a>). This Centre has a mandate that: <blockquote>supports interdisciplinary research into the historical, cultural, social and economic significance of the library, archive and specimen collections of this world-class museum. It does this by enabling and promoting research into the collection through partnerships with universities, research councils, foundations, major museums and libraries around the world. </blockquote> Anyway, sit back and enjoy these other few images: <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021325.jpg" height="437" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021325" /> "Humboldt and his party collecting plant." Specimens at the foot of Mount Chimborazo. Detail from <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=60481">Plate 25</a> Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). (© The Natural History Museum, London). Humboldt was well known as a wonderful writer. In fact, his works were known to have inspired Darwin as he traveled on the Beagle. As well, Humboldt's views on the "unity of nature" are often thought to have laid the groundwork for ecological study. In his art, he often included himself in the picture (the first Waldo?), again to emphasize the holistic connections in nature. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021329.jpg" height="444" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021329" /> "Nelumbo lutea, American lotus and Triodopsis albolabri, snail." <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=56961">Drawing 34</a> (Ewan 59) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen, ink and watercolour. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Bartram is often referred to as the "Father of American Botany," and played an important part in distributing American seeds to European gardeners. His artwork is also acclaimed as being one of the first to move away from the Linnaean practice of plant in isolation depicted in a position that best highlighted its anatomy. You can see here how Bartram has really attempted to present the various species as a community of players. <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/201009021331.jpg" height="679" width="550" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="201009021331" /> "Bubo bubo bengalensis, Eurasian eagle-owl." Large Series <a href="http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=73156">plate 5</a>, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves' collection presented a fascinating look at the wide variety of Chinese natural history. In fact, many of the species depicted by the images were, at the time, unknown to Western science. <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/xV9mUUOXkgo" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1910) "Plate 73 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves was an English tea inspector, but also amassed a wonderful collection of Chinese drawings of plants and animals during his time in Canton. A few weeks back, I had a great conversation with Judith Magee, Library Special Collections Curator at the Natural History Museum. From this conversation, as well as others (thanks Peronel, Martha, Bergit), it soon became clear that there were many individuals within the museum that had a passion for things pertaining to the humanities and the arts (see also this previous post). In particular, the museum happens to house a vast collection of illustrations and paintings, many of which were originally produced as a way to scientifically document new species, new cultures, and other things observed during expeditions. However, it's also clear that apart from their historical value, these pieces of artwork also have immense aesthetic value. They. Are. Beautiful. And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as Alexander von Humboldt, John Bartram, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by John Reeves.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/art-nature-the-histo.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1910) "Plate 73 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. (© The Natural History Museum, London). Reeves was an English tea inspector, but also amassed a wonderful collection of Chinese drawings of plants and animals during his time in Canton. A few weeks back, I had a great conversation with Judith Magee, Library Special Collections Curator at the Natural History Museum. From this conversation, as well as others (thanks Peronel, Martha, Bergit), it soon became clear that there were many individuals within the museum that had a passion for things pertaining to the humanities and the arts (see also this previous post). In particular, the museum happens to house a vast collection of illustrations and paintings, many of which were originally produced as a way to scientifically document new species, new cultures, and other things observed during expeditions. However, it's also clear that apart from their historical value, these pieces of artwork also have immense aesthetic value. They. Are. Beautiful. And speaking to Judith, you can literally feel the enthusiasm and affection for such pieces. Judith talked to me about writer/artists such as Alexander von Humboldt, John Bartram, as well as the wonderful drawings collected by John Reeves.... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=66dc9b954d1e6d7dfe79323923589ab9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(9) "guestblog" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283459747) } [12]=> array(35) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(62) "Boneless, clubfooted French Connection model invades Melbourne" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(86) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pjEQ8pg9Vlk/boneless-clubfooted.html" ["category#"]=> int(8) ["category"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["category#5"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#6"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["category#7"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["category#8"]=> string(5) "weird" ["dc"]=> array(13) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(8) ["subject"]=> string(8) "Business" ["subject#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["subject#3"]=> string(2) "ad" ["subject#4"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["subject#5"]=> string(5) "funny" ["subject#6"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["subject#7"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["subject#8"]=> string(5) "weird" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:01:56 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78839" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(2331) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/4953586953_462d20d766_b.jpg"> As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4953586953/">Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia</a> <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html#previouspost">The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/19/photoshop-retouching.html#previouspost">Photoshop retouching of model</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/08/searching-for-the-sk.html#previouspost">Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/09/29/ralph-lauren-opens-n.html#previouspost">Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/odd-victorias-secret.html#previouspost">Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/09/xeni-on-rachel-maddo.html#previouspost">Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/pjEQ8pg9Vlk" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(1217) " As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! Photoshop retouching of model Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ... Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ... Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ... Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(61) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/boneless-clubfooted.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1217) " As seen tonight in the casino across from the Melbourne Convention Centre: a boneless, clubfooted French Connection model. Club-footed rubber-band woman visits us from the French Connection dimension, Melbourne, Australia The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! Photoshop retouching of model Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are ... Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley - Boing ... Odd Victoria's Secret image analyzed with Photoshop forensics ... Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7958f5bf2dce27940eedfb83d9fe48a6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(8) "Business" ["category#2@term"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3@term"]=> string(2) "ad" ["category#4@term"]=> string(7) "fashion" ["category#5@term"]=> string(5) "funny" ["category#6@term"]=> string(18) "photoshopdisasters" ["category#7@term"]=> string(13) "uncannyvalley" ["category#8@term"]=> string(5) "weird" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283518916) } [13]=> array(33) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(79) "Homeroom Security: book about the insanity of zero-tolerance classroom policies" ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XqXpGz8vjKM/homeroom-security-bo.html" ["category#"]=> int(7) ["category"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["category#4"]=> string(4) "book" ["category#5"]=> string(9) "education" ["category#6"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#7"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["dc"]=> array(12) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(7) ["subject"]=> string(6) "Action" ["subject#2"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["subject#3"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["subject#4"]=> string(4) "book" ["subject#5"]=> string(9) "education" ["subject#6"]=> string(4) "kids" ["subject#7"]=> string(13) "submitterator" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:43:43 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78838" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(3940) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20">Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear</a>, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: <blockquote> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20"> <img src="http://craphound.com/images/Kupchik.jpg" class="right" align="right"> </a> They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. </blockquote> <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/29/homeroom_security_ext2010">America's real school-safety problem</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814748201/downandoutint-20">Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear</a> (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via <a href="http://boingboing.net/submit">Submitterator</a>!) <div class="previously2"> <ul><li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/10/12/six-year-old-sent-to.html#previouspost">Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/12/fourth-grader-suspen.html#previouspost">Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ...</a></li> <li><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/01/04/ten-year-old-girl-su.html#previouspost">Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...</a></li> </ul> </div> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/XqXpGz8vjKM" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(2754) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. America's real school-safety problem Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via Submitterator!) Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ... Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ... Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/homeroom-security-bo.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(2754) " Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: They started in the '90s, and they were spurred by the federal government's Safe and Drug Free Schools Act, which required schools to implement zero tolerance for certain things like weapons. What schools have done across the country in the last 15 years is to expand greatly what falls under zero-tolerance policies. So they extend to not just deadly weapons and drugs but sometimes fighting and prescription drugs and other types of substances. What they mean is that if you're caught violating this broad rule, there's no discussion and no elaboration of why you did this. No investigation. We just punish you with the one-size-fits-all punishment. We're teaching kids what it means to be a citizen in our country. And what I fear we're doing is teaching them that what it means to be an American is that you accept authority without question and that you have absolutely no rights to question punishment. It's very Big Brother-ish in a way. Kids are being taught that you should expect to be drug tested if you want to participate in an organization, that walking past a police officer every day and being constantly under the gaze of a security camera is normal. And my concern is that these children are going to grow up and be less critical and thoughtful of these sorts of mechanisms. And so the types of political discussions we have now, like for example, whether or not wiretapping is OK, these might not happen in 10 years. America's real school-safety problem Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Thanks, Pete_Darby, via Submitterator!) Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub ... Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener - Boing ... Ten-year-old girl suspended for bringing peppermint oil to school ...... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3734ba56f3d4af51b3dfca84e5431158&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["category@term"]=> string(6) "Action" ["category#2@term"]=> string(7) "Culture" ["category#3@term"]=> string(16) "authoritarianism" ["category#4@term"]=> string(4) "book" ["category#5@term"]=> string(9) "education" ["category#6@term"]=> string(4) "kids" ["category#7@term"]=> string(13) "submitterator" ["date_timestamp"]=> int(1283517823) } [14]=> array(25) { ["title#"]=> int(1) ["title"]=> string(27) "Heavily stapled phone-pole " ["link#"]=> int(1) ["link"]=> string(87) "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6anBWm194Qw/heavily-stapled-phon.html" ["category#"]=> int(3) ["category"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["category#2"]=> string(5) "photo" ["category#3"]=> string(7) "toronto" ["dc"]=> array(8) { ["creator#"]=> int(1) ["creator@"]=> string(8) "xmlns:dc" ["creator@xmlns:dc"]=> string(32) "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" ["creator"]=> string(13) "Cory Doctorow" ["subject#"]=> int(3) ["subject"]=> string(13) "Entertainment" ["subject#2"]=> string(5) "photo" ["subject#3"]=> string(7) "toronto" } ["pubdate#"]=> int(1) ["pubdate"]=> string(29) "Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:43:22 PDT" ["guid#"]=> int(1) ["guid@"]=> string(11) "ispermalink" ["guid@ispermalink"]=> string(5) "false" ["guid"]=> string(37) "tag:www.boingboing.net,2010://1.78818" ["content"]=> array(4) { ["encoded#"]=> int(1) ["encoded@"]=> string(13) "xmlns:content" ["encoded@xmlns:content"]=> string(40) "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" ["encoded"]=> string(1227) " <img src="http://craphound.com/images/4935787145_212b9fc119_b.jpg"> Behold, the glory of a thoroughly enstapleified telephone pole, snapped last week in Toronto. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/phonepole/">Phone poles</a> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/heavily-stapled-phon.html"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/heavily-stapled-phon.html" height="61" width="51" /></a> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=96405f3c5595be150431088b0afae0f6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/6anBWm194Qw" height="1" width="1"/>" } ["description#"]=> int(1) ["description"]=> string(727) "Behold, the glory of a thoroughly enstapleified telephone pole, snapped last week in Toronto. 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Prints made from typewriter parts Typewriter stays relevant in technology-saturated world Trove of classic typewriter info... <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a405b9e6c0be20540ec9e3e2d98e76c0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechCons&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"/>" ["http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"]=> array(2) { ["origlink#"]=> int(1) ["origlink"]=> string(62) "http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/typewriter-key-jewel.html" } ["summary#"]=> int(1) ["summary"]=> string(1106) "Etsy seller Buster and Boo does a nice line in vintage, moderately priced jewelry and decorative art made from vintage typewriter keys from the 1920s and 1930s. 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