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EFF guide to cell phone use for US protesters It's a timely update to their 2011 edition, incorporating new Supreme Court precedents that give additional protection to protesters who face arrest while video-recording or otherwise documenting protests -- required reading in a world of #Ferguson. Read the rest... How practice changes the brain and exceptions to the 10,000 hour rule No human being can make the circuit from eyes to brain to muscles fast enough to hit a ball in midflight or avoid an oncoming fist. You can't change those natural limits with any amount of practice. So how do they do it? Read the rest... Blogging History: Dutch ebooks, now with more surveillance! One year Dutch ebook sellers promise to spy on everyone's reading habits, share them with "anti-piracy" group: What I totally failed to anticipate was that booksellers and publishers would use watermarking as a rubric for tracking and sharing information about everything that everyone is reading. Read the rest... Life-sized nude sculpture made from typewriter parts Typewriter assemblage scluptor Jeremy Mayer writes, "I just finished my latest big sculpture. Titled Nude VI (Theia), it stands over 7 feet, 4 inches (224cm) tall, and will be suspended on thin cables high above the offices of Oculusvr in Los Angeles. Read the rest... The world's most valuable comic is now on eBay The most valuable comic book in the world, a fine copy of Action Comics #1 (June 1938) with the debut of Superman, is up for auction on eBay in a benefit for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Here's the story of its provenance: Read the rest... Animated, candid Bukowski interviews David sends us this video featuring "Candid conversations between writer Charles Bukowski, his wife, and his producer took place in Bukowski's home during the recording session for his classic Run With the Hunted in 1993. Here the outtakes are brought to life." Charles Bukowski Uncensored Read the rest... Amazing ways to improve your fruit-preparation technique Hull strawberries with a straw, cube a watermelon in the rind, easy-peel oranges, de-seed a pomegranate, extract a mango with a drinking glass (best in show) and peel a kiwi with a spoon. (via Lifehacker) Read the rest... Essential gadgets while reporting on civil unrest We are giving away a Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator to a lucky Gadgets listener! To enter, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes then send an email to gadgets@boingboing.net to let us know that you did. Read the rest... Starstruck – over a decade's worth of celebrity snapshots by an obsessive fan I don't know what is more fascinating, the images or the accompanying anecdotes included in this collection of amateur snapshots taken from 1966-1980. Read the rest... Red panda with his tongue out (a photo from the Boing Boing Flickr Pool) A photograph by Derek (Kiwi) Clarke, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Caption this, please. Read the rest... Texas governor Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power A grand jury has indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former presidential candidate, for abusing the powers of his office. Read the rest... A Map of the Introvert's Heart By an Introvert We missed this wonderful illlustration when it hit the internet last month, but how timeless is Gemma Correll's map of an introvert's heart? More cool stuff in Medium's "I Love Charts" archives. Read the rest... Teeny-tiny food sculpture that will make you squeal with delight Shay Aaron is a miniaturist based in Tel Aviv who specializes in teeny-tiny adorable food--collectibles, and wearables. Some of the images here are earrings, others cufflinks, all of them set off my squee reflex. Read the rest... Instagramming the Playa: SFslim's photos from Burning Man setup in the Black Rock desert Longtime Boing Boing pal SFslim, aka Aaron Muszalski, is out in the Black Rock desert of Nevada as he is every year around this time. Read the rest... Sweet portraits of pitbulls: 'Flower Power,' Sophie Gamand "Flower Power is about challenging myself to approach pit bulls with a fresh perspective and an open heart. I invite the viewer to do the same."—Sophie Gamand. Read the rest... Wall made of jello bricks It was a 2013 installation called "Bruise," installed at the Seattle Center by Lisa Hein and Robert Seng They also built one in NYC in 2003, and documented it with video. Bruise (via JWZ) Read the rest... Jay Adams, skating legend and original Zephyr skate team member, 1961-2014 American skateboarder Jay Adams, one of the original members of the Zephyr skateboarding team, has died. Read the rest... Crowdfunding Lantern, a P2P anti-censorship tool Scout writes, "Billions of people experience a severely-censored version of the Internet -- most famously in countries like China and Iran. Read the rest... The Fade Out - Great new Hollywood noir comic book series It's 1948. Charlie Parish, a screenwriter and "part-time reprobate," wakes up with a hangover in a bathtub he doesn't recognize. As flashes of the previous night's bacchanalia go through his dulled mind, Parish wanders through the abandoned bungalow, trying to piece together the bits into a coherent timeline. Read the rest... Binder-clip sphere Made by redditor Eduardoballestero, a man of great skill and patience. 130 binder-clips in all, and it's heavy. Instructions are forthcoming. Read the rest... Skimpy Skirts and Hippie Hair "Skimpy Skirts and Hippie Hair," a 1972 Christian pamphlet spotted by bruce_lee_webb, reminds me of another similar classic in my own library, titled "Communism, Hypnotism And The Beatles." Read the rest... Cel-shaded jeans These "cel-shaded" jeans were created by decorating a pair of plain blue-jeans with markers and paint. It's a weird inversion of denim wear-fetish by way of games culture, and I could easily see it becoming the acid-wash of the mid-2010s. Cel-Shaded Jeans Make You Look Like A Cartoon Come To Life Read the rest... Levitating (!) bluetooth speaker I have no idea how the OM/ONE bluetooth speaker sounds, but it kinda doesn't matter because it levitates. Ah, magical magnetism. Read the rest... Blackwing Slate journal - notebook with pencil holster I like my new Blackwing Slate journal, which our friends at Pencils.com sent me to review. The paper has the perfect tooth for a Blackwing pencil, and comes lined or unlined. Read the rest... The Kosher Nostra and other 19th century street gangs Kosher Nostra, Plug Uglies, Yakey Yakes, and the Potashes are just some of the excellent 19th century street gang names compiled for this Mental Floss post by Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages. Read the rest... Ferguson in pictures Photos, videos and messages from the St. Louis suburb where police killed unarmed teenager Mike Brown. Read the rest... Ancient monuments then and now Above are before and after images of Chichen Itza's El Castillo step-pyramid in the Yucatán that the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor shared in a brief post about "How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?." Below, Stonehenge in the 19th century and now. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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