Posts Tagged ‘human-anatomy’

Etsy seller GoChaseRabbits make this fabulous custom R2D2 skirt. She’s sold it, but she’s taking pre-orders for more. For Sale is a UNIQUE R2D2 Star Wars Inspired skirt! This is one of my original designs, it is all hand cut with machine patchwork stitching. This is surely a conversation piece. I tried to make it

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Michael sez, “The Open 3DP lab at UW has been doing some amazing things with 3D printing. More amazingly, they have prioritized sharing what they are learning with everyone else in order to make 3D printing better. A change to UW’s intellectual property policy has essentially forced them to stop sharing what they are up

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U Washington’s best-of-breed 3D printing lab shuts down knowledge sharing after administration introduces sweeping patent-grab

Writing in PC Pro, Stewart Mitchell describes a partnership between GPS vendor TomTom and Fair Pay insurance, an auto insurer, to offer discounts to people whose GPS devices report low incidences of sudden stops and unsafe turns. I rather like this idea, the idea that your device could offer testimony on your behalf, but a

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Insurer offers discounts to customers running in-car GPS telemetry

[Video Link] I was up at the MAKE offices earlier this week and saw this little traffic cone that the interns made on a MakerBot Cupcake 3D printer.

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Mini collapsing traffic cone from 3D printer

A great Mike Masnick Techdirt editorial deals with MPAA second-in-command Michael O’Leary’s statement that, “[the Internet is] a platform we’re not at this point comfortable with.” The MPAA’s O’Leary concedes that the industry was out-manned and outgunned in cyberspace. He says the MPAA “is [undergoing] a process of education, a process of getting a much,

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MPAA’s number two admits industry "not comfortable" with the Internet

DC-area photographer Chris Wieland writes in: “Stumbled upon the Wikileaks van guy getting searched by capitol police today!” As if!

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Wikileaks van guy harassed again

On January 18, Boing Boing will join Reddit and other sites around the Internet in “going dark” to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the pending US legislation that creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to the rest of the world. Boing Boing could never co-exist with a SOPA world: we could not ever

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Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, “John Podesta and I have written an open letter to President Obama calling for the creation of a Federal Scanning Commission, tasking this body with developing a strategy for digitizing .gov. Today, we do not scan at scale and there is a huge untapped storehouse buried in federal institutions such

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Will America’s public domain treasures finally be freed?

Ah, civilization! (Via Mitch O’Connell)

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Everybody’s happy nowadays

William Patry is no copyright radical. He’s the author of some of the major reference texts on copyright, books that most copyright lawyers would have on their bookcases, books like Patry on Copyright. But Patry — once copyright counsel to the US House of Representatives and policy planning advisor to the US Register of Copyrights

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Patry’s How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law

This is a really fascinating entry in The Guardian’s multi-video package about heart health and medicine. Bruce Martin, a British anesthesiologist, talks about his job, anesthetizing patients for heart surgery. If this doesn’t make your job seem less stressful by comparison, then you’re probably a fighter pilot or something. Via Ed Yong

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An anesthesiologist’s view of the human heart

At Comics Alliance, Chris Sims makes such a good argument that I can only gape and think, “Oh my god, why had I never noticed this before?” Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars. I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have

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Scooby-Doo is Veggie Tales for secular humanists

One of the things I enjoy about writing for BoingBoing is the opportunity it’s giving me to learn how to write reviews of books. That’s not something I’d ever done before I started writing here. And I’m only now getting around to experimenting with not only describing books I like, but figuring out how to

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The fine art of the scathing insult