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The brilliant popular engineering Sustainable Materials – with Both Eyes Open: Future Buildings, Vehicles, Products and Equipment – Made Efficiently and Made with Less New Material has just been released in the USA. I reviewed this book last November, when it came out in the UK. Here’s a brief excerpt from then: We review a

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Brilliant pop. engineering book Sustainable Materials comes to the USA

The final item from today’s Shapeways rummage is Artfulshrapnel’s “GOATSEarring,” a goatse.cx tribute ear-plug: “The worst ear plug the internet has to offer.” GOATSEarring Standard Gauges

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3D printed Goatse ear-plugs

Don Levy says:”Inventor and Innovator Ravi Sawhney (founder of RKS Design), the producer, engineer and recording artist Alan Parsons, music tastemaker Nic Harcourt, Homeboy-Industries founder Father Greg Boyle, human educator Zoe Weil, and filmmaker Lindsay Doran, are among a variety of speakers at TEDxConejo on March 31 in Thousand Oaks, CA. Now in its 3rd

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TEDxConejo: March 31 in Thousand Oaks, Ca

Sara Robinson’s written an excellent piece on the productivity losses associated with extra-long work-weeks, something that has been established management theory since the time of Ford, but which few employers embrace today. Americans are working longer hours than they have in decades, sacrificing their health, happiness and family lives, and all the data suggests that

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America’s 55-hour work weeks ruin workers’ lives and don’t produce extra value for employers

Writing in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, China Mieville blazingly describes two Londons: an exuberant, organic place that has been lived and built over and remade, bursting with energy and vitality; and a fearful, banker-driven collection of megaprojects and guard labour, where billions of pounds can be found to surround the Olympics with snipers

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China Mieville’s London: the (authentic) city and the (banks and surveillance) city

There’s little provenance for this photo and the distinctive service offered therein (just a note that it was “donated” by Andrew Wightman), but it appears to date back some while. I don’t suppose musical gorillas are still on offer in this hurly-burly modern age. My kind of party. Donated from Illustrator extraodinaire and friend of

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Sax-playing gorilla at your party

Watch the father’s lips when his kid talks. I don’t know what is going on here, but Mediaite offers three explanations: 1. That the boy has a earphone in and his dad is telling what to say and, for some reason, thinks he’s a much better ventriloquist than he actually is. 2. That Hudson’s responses

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Bizarre TV interview with Senate candidate and his 5-year-son

Courthouse News Service: “A family claims Chicago police broke into their house, urinated on their mail, spit in the coffee maker, stomped and slapped them and told them “You’ve been punk’d,” while searching for someone who had not lived there for at least a year.” (Via Arbroath)

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Family says Chicago police urinated on their mail

This is, to say the least, a busy week. There’s several events happening that I’m involved in. They’re all related to my upcoming book on the future of energy, and they’re all open to the public. I wanted to take a quick moment to tell you about them, because I’d love for you all to

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Maggie speaking at public events in Minneapolis and online

Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts on episode 41 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing’s coding and development wizard, and Michael Pusateri, a lifelong tinkerer and former television

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Gweek 041: Under the Moons of Mars

This beautiful Death Star cake is surprisingly straightforward to bake: two semi-spherical cakes are baked in steel bowls, then joined with sugar dowels, then iced and decorated with ganache polygons. This Death Star Cake was such fun to make that you just won’t know when to stop! It is made of Dark Chocolate Mud Cake

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HOWTO bake a Death Star cake

Skifcha, who has a Facebook page and may be seen in its full glory at xgabberx’s Vimeo, is now available in stereo. There are more adventures. [Thanks, Joel!]

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Skifcha = cat + wub

More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age. Last year in three high schools in Florida,

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Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into possession and sale of a gram of pot

Criticism of C-30, Canada’s proposed domestic spying law, has focused on the fact that the police could access certain kinds of ISP subscriber information without a warrant. But as Terry Milewski writes on the CBC, the bill also gives the government the power to appoint special inspectors who can monitor and copy all information that

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Canada’s spying bill also allows appointed "inspectors" unlimited access to ISP data

Happy Valentine’s Day! “My wife could turn to me and she may say, ‘Why do you love me?’ And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, ‘Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.” – Robin Ince One of many excellent quotes on the new TED Quotes site, which are excerpted

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TED’s new quote site

Aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers have two weeks left to get their applications in to this summer’s Clarion Writers’ Workshop at UC San Diego. I’m a Clarion grad, instructor and board member, and yup, I really believe in it. The Clarion format — a mix of intense writing and critiquing, along with extended personal

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Aspiring sf writers: Clarion workshop closes to applications in two weeks

Cary Huang’s amazing Scale of the Universe animation has been updated—now with a better format, extra background information about the objects whose sizes are being compared, and more opportunities to blow your mind. “Holy sh$#! The Grand Canyon is bigger than Rhode Island?”

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An LCD pixel and a grain of sand are roughly the same size

The Guardian’s Jon Henley reviews Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, a popular science/self-help book by Roy F Baumeister, “eminent American social psychology professor” and NYT science writer John Tierney. It sounds like a practical guide combined with a literature review on the lines of such excellent books as Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness. Henley

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Pop science book on how willpower works and how you can improve yours

British advertising regulators have dismissed a complaint against an ad that portrayed terrier-headed playboy “Trevor Mountleg” and sexual antics in the presence of animals. The commercial, for Electronic Arts’ Sims 3 Pets, has the hybrid creature describing what players can get up to in the game. “Are you an animal person?” he says, waving a

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Saucy dog head ad complaint dismissed

Antinous sez, “RIP Bill Hinzman, the actor who played the first zombie in Night of the Living Dead.” Mr Hinzman died of cancer at the age of 75. Hinzman was working on the movie as an assistant cameraman when Romero spotted him and knew he’d found his zombie muse. “We’d like to tell the story

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RIP: Night of the Living Dead’s #1 zombie

One of the quieter scenes from a story in Western Gunfight magazine, illustrated by George Wilson. The high bid on this piece of original art stands at $1! GEORGE WILSON (American, 1921-1999). Western Gunfight cover. Oil on board. 22 x 14.5 in.

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Cover art for Western Gunfight magazine

Stop-motion film about an entomologist’s nightmare MikeyP sez, “Filmmaker friends of mine have a lovely melancholy stop-motion film (about a tiny entymologist with a lightbulb for a head) they’re hoping to get into the Australian short film festival Tropfest via the audience vote.If you have a second, and feel so inclined, pray click the link,

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Stop-motion film about an entomologist’s nightmare

This afternoon some friends and I will be playing this new game we really like in Yerba Buena Gardens, and you’re welcome to join us. Johann Sebastian Joust is basically like high-tech tag. Each person has a Playstation Move controller, and the object of the game is to jostle other people’s controllers so that you’re

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Impromptu to do today in SF: Johann Sebastian Joust in Yerba Buena Gardens

Derryl Murphy sez, “Drew Smith’s lovely new song ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ needed a video, so he decided to outsource it. The result is wonderful.” So I outsourced my video to Bangalore, India. Why? Well, I figured the last thing the world needed was another low-budget singer songwriter video

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Canadian musician outsources his indie video to Bangalore, beauty ensues

In Slate, Dahlia Lithwick examines the impact that Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC is having on public perception of the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, which establishes that “corporate personhood” means that corporations can make unlimited contributions to political campaigns. Dahlia implies that the Court, which has always maintained an aloofness from public life (no cameras,

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Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC hurts the Supreme Court’s feelings?