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Indian space program workers celebrate Mars orbit (photographer unknown): India's Mangalyaan satellite attained Martian orbit on Wednesday; at $74m, it's "staggeringly cheap" for an orbiter. Martian spacecraft staffers at Indian space control, September 2014 Read the rest... Blackwing602: a new website about the creative proces Here's a shout-out to our sponsors at Blackwing602, a website about the creative process and creative people. Blackwing602 has stories about notable Blackwing users, like Walt Disney and Moises Chiullan. As you might know, I love the Blackwing 602 pencil, and have used it for many years. If you'd like to experience Blackwing for yourself, buy a dozen right here. Read the rest... Vicious by VE Schwab Last night, I read Vicious. This is a fantastic story about college age relationships and how the addition of super powers really doesn't help. Read the rest... South Carolina cop who shot black man for following orders arrested South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert (mugshot shown here) shot an unarmed black man and was fired and charged on Wednesday with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Read the rest... Bundle of DRM-free RPGs created by women game-devs The latest Bundle of Holding features 3 games for $8 or 7 games for $19; all created by woman devs, all delivered as DRM-free PDFs, with 10% of proceeds to Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders (you can also buy a gift-code for a friend). Read the rest... Woman beaten by CHP cop to receive $1.5 million The woman beaten by a CHP Officer Daniel Andrew will receive $1.5 million under a settlement, and Officer Daniel Andrew has "elected" to resign. Read the rest... Man From Mars Radio Hat It's been three years since we last mentioned the astounding Man From Mars Radio Hat, so here is your triennial reminder that we are a fallen people, our glory years long behind us. Read the rest... MGM shuts down volunteer "Rocky" charity run The Philadelphia run, which recreates a scene from Rocky II, raises money to buy sneakers for a charity; MGM has seen its success and has partnered with a for-profit company to launch a non-charitable version and now has clobbered the volunteers to clear away competition. Read the rest... Class war meets the War on General Purpose Computers The subprime auto-lending business -- writing car-loans to people who can't afford them -- is fuelled by GPS-enabled immobilizers that let lenders track and shut down cars whose drivers violate terms of service, from missing payments to fleeing the tri-county area in order to move into a shelter for abused women. Read the rest... Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger, and the psychedelic interstellar future we need In 1977, Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger predicted a utopian, space-faring, enlightened future. 37 years later, writes Jason Louv, it's finally starting to show up. Read the rest... About that famous cover for the 1977 medical thriller, Coma Designer Paul Bacon is known for developing the "Big Book Look" - commercial, bold and iconic - designing many well known covers from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Mulholland Books designer Lauren Harms tells how his Coma cover was revised for the new edition. Read the rest... Monster Manual: bestiaries from 16th Century/1977/2014 Robert sez, "Dungeons & Dragons, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, is about to release its new Monster Manual -- the original Monster Manual was a watershed moment in human history, part of a history that includes a 16th century bestiary, the Augsburg Book of Miracles; bestiaries reveal our profoundly human desire for an enchanted, magical world." A bestiary can both catalogue the threat of our demise and foretell the joy of a new world; it is a story of grotesque threats and glorious salvation. Read the rest... #EndTheQuota: stop the Congressional mandate to jail 34K immigrants each night Sasha writes, "Since 2010, the detention bed quota - a Congressional mandate that requires the incarceration of 34,000 immigrants in jails and detention centers in the U.S. Read the rest... Revisiting the first Tiptree Award anthology It's Banned Books Week, and what better way to celebrate than with a review of the first James Tiptree Award Anthology, published in 2004 by the committee who award the Tiptree each year for excellence in science fiction and fantasy that celebrates, explores and expands gender roles? Read the rest... Gweek 162 - Jason Snell & Joshua Glenn Guests for this episode of Boing Boing's pop culture podcast are IDG editorial director Jason Snell and Joshua Glenn, publisher of HiLoBrow. Read the rest... Video: Ferdinando Buscema on "The Magic of Breaking Ideas" At the recent TEDxCaFoscariU in Venice, our co-conspirator Ferdinando Buscema, magician/author/engineer, explores "The Magic of Breaking Ideas." And don't miss Ferdinando's Boing Boing feature, "The Magic of Hacking Reality!" Read the rest... Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects "The Beatles considered a [Lord of the Rings] film project and approached Kubrick as a potential director; however, Kubrick turned down the offer… a major hindrance to the project's progression was Tolkien's opposition to the involvement of the Beatles. Read the rest... OK Sheriff LARPs "Welcome to Nightvale" Logan County, Oklahoma Sheriff Jim Bauman created an extensive set of secret files on the citizens in his jurisdiction, inadvertently recreating Welcome to Nightvale's running gag about the Sheriff's Secret Police -- but the ACLU isn't laughing, they're suing. Read the rest... Cat jumps on wall to catch reflection Zelda likes to chase a dot of sunlight reflected off the face of my wristwatch. We will both be sad when the sun runs out of hydrogen in 5 billion years and we won't be able to play this game any longer. Read the rest... Science fiction fanzines, 1940s-1970s Over at Thought Catalog, Mark Dery ruminates on Lenny Kaye's legendary collection of science fiction fanzines from the 1940s-1970s, on display next weekend at the New York Art Book Fair. Read the rest... Surreal photo collages by Matthieu Bourel See more of Matthieu Bourel's work. Read the rest... Chinese food seller sells "addictive" opium-laced noodles A noodle seller in China's Shaanxi province was arrested for seasoning his soup with powdered opium poppy to "make it taste better and to improve his business," according to news reports. Read the rest... Pensive monkey, a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool Reader Alice Heck shared this lovely photograph, and this one, in our Flickr Pool. Read the rest... Photos: Comparing the iPhone 6 camera to previous iPhone cameras SnapSnapSnap, makers of the popular photo editing app CameraPlus, have a killer post with side-by-side-by-side-by-side image comparisons of shots from all iterations of the iPhone camera. Read the rest... Smart thermostat makes dumb security mistakes Andrew Tierney had a close look at Heatmiser's popular wifi-enabled thermostat and found it to be riddled with security vulnerabilities. Tierney was testing an older version of the Heatmiser firmware, and some of these errors might have been patched since, assuming that the customers with the old firmware didn't have their thermostats fatally compromised so that they would not run future patches. Read the rest... The surrealist photography of Herbert List Herbert List, b. 1903-1975, Hamburg, Germany. Robert Miller Gallery. His portrait of Anna Magnani is one of my favorites (and she is my favorite actress, ever). From My Amp Goes to Eleven, which you should follow. Read the rest... You Have To Fucking Eat (from the author of Go The Fuck To Sleep) Here's a teaser for You Have To Fucking Eat, the forthcoming new book by genius funnyman Adam Mansbach of Go the Fuck to Sleep fame and illustrated by Owen Brozman. It's funny cause it's true...too true. Read the rest... Barbra Streisand: bikers and BDSM Below, photos of Barbra Streisand doing biker BDSM from a shoot connected to the 1970 film The Owl and The Pussycat. Read the rest... $20 multicopter and other cool tool picks On the latest Cool Tools Show podcast, Robot Turtles creator Dan Shapiro recommends inventions and innovations that offer a surprisingly valuable experience for their price. Read the rest... Kickstarting a wallet machined from a single piece of aluminium Erik sends us his "Decadent Minimalist One" Kickstarter, "a minimalist wallet that is machined from a single billet of 7075-T6 true aircraft-grade aluminum: No screws, no rivets, no straps, no elastic, no velcro, no rubber bands, just metal." It's $40 for a wallet, and though all Kickstarters carry the risk of you getting nothing, Erik seems to have some experience seeing his projects through. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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