Posts Tagged ‘model’

[Video Link] I’m here at TED2012! Here’s a short interview with Bre Pettis, co-founder of MakerBot Industries. He shares news about the new Replicator 3D printer, and the printing of an old school mechanical clock with an escapement mechanism. (I called it a “catchment mechanism” in the video — oops.”)

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Bre Pettis and MakerBot 3D printer at TED2012

VeriSign Inc., the company responsible for assuring that more than half the world’s websites are authentic, was hacked multiple times in 2010, and the thieves succeeded in stealing information, reports Christopher Maag in Credit.com When users click on a website, or on a hyperlink that would carry them to a website, their browser automatically checks

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VeriSign, pillar of Internet security, hacked

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

From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, this contribution by V.Valenti, showing a superb space-age Lestoil ad. Lestoil Woman of the Future, 1968.

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Space-age Lestoil ad

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

Anil Dash has a characteristically great, smart noodle on the future of 3D printing, including several provocative ideas (the emnently sensible notion of not reinventing the printer as a platform for selling expensive consumable “ink” is, alas, a little late, and, hurrah, about to be obviated by the expiry of key patents in 2014-16). The

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3D printers as teleporters

As a maker of cigar box guitars, Handmade Music Factory is a book I’ve been waiting for for a long time. It’s written by Mike Orr, a professional carpenter and the owner of Built2Last Guitars. This beautifully produced, full-color book shows you how to make your own musical instruments. Projects include a washtub bass, a

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Handmade Music Factory – great DIY book

[Video Link] Russell Bates says: I noticed that you recently featured the trailer for We Need To Talk About Kevin on Boing Boing. This was a fortuitous coincidence, because I also recently saw the film and decided that it needed a more terrifying villain.

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Trailer for We Need To Talk About Kitten

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

From Maria Popova: Astonishing rare 17th-century Indian Tantric paintings that look like 20th-century Western art.

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17th-century Indian paintings that look like 20th-century Western art

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

Nico from the Sunlight Foundation sez, A year ago, you may remember that the Sunlight Foundation launched the PAC Name Generator. It was a light-hearted project to shed light on how political organizations cower behind a circus of patriotic gobbledygook. Turns out some folks took it rather seriously and have used it to create real

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Real PACs take their names from satirical PAC-name generator

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

During its heyday, Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash. Mental Floss has a interesting profile of the drug lord. The profits were astronomical at every step. In 1978 each kilo probably cost Escobar $2,000 but sold to Lehder and Jung for $22,000, clearing Escobar $20,000 per

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Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands for bricks of cash

Illustrator Dave Perillo says: “This what i thought a Hanna Barbera cartoon about the Sex Pistols would’ve looked like if they made one in the 70′s…”

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Sex Pistols imagined as a Hanna Barbera cartoon