Posts Tagged ‘not-otherwise’

I’ve always admired Steve Martin. He’s smart, funny, and avoids engaging in the kind of behavior that ends up in celebrity tabloids. (He’s also a terrific banjo player.) I recently read his autobiography, Born Standing Up, and now I admire him even more. This short book is about Steve Martin’s career as a stand-up comic,

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Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin

The $129 BioLite wood burning campstove converts heat to electricity, so you can charge your mobile phone while you boil up your freeze-dried beef stroganoff. BioLite

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Camp stove generates electricity to charge gadgets

The special “Zine Issue” of Atom Magazine has an interview with me about the good old zine days of bOING bOING. The made their entire issue look like a late 80s zine — cool! Read it here.

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Atom magazine interviewed me about the zine days of bOING bOING

*whistle*! Vincent Price, another distinctive voice, took a different tack: singing. Muhammed Ali, of course, had no chance at all.

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How Yul Brynner avoided tipping off What’s My Line? contestants

At the NYT, Brian X. Chen reports that Uber, the nifty internet service that uses a “clever algorithm to summon a car quickly with a smartphone app” was nearly banned by politicians in the Washington, DC. After six months, the company has finally won a battle with the city, which had been trying to deem its

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Summon-a-car startup Uber remains legal in Washington, DC (for now)

How much comfort and ease does a hunter need? In St. Louis Country forest, shooters are not only building “Deer Stands” larger than some houses, but cutting down swathes of forest to make it easier to nail their targets. John Myers writes: “We’re getting over-built. We’re seeing mansions out there — basically hunting shacks on

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Deer-hunting "mansions" on public land

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Gibson reference in Airwolf script

John Schwartz wrote a great profile of John Scalzi in the NYT, in honor of his latest book, the absolutely cracking Redshirts, an existentialist comedy space-opera. The novel, Mr. Scalzi’s eighth, is something of a hit, especially for a work of science fiction without light sabers — or any of the accouterments of big-brand series.

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John Scalzi, profiled in the NYT

Police recruitment videos from Decatur, Georgia (top), and Newport Beach, California (Bottom). I wonder if the differences in attitude here reflect real differences in the quality of police service. Two Videos, Two Cities, Two Attitudes

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Police recruitment videos from different cities reveal astonishing differences in attitude

I’m not very bright, so I can’t think of a reason for a 0 ohm resistor. What are they for?

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0 ohm resistor

In yesterday’s Gweek podcast, Clive Thompson and I talked to Ed Piskor about his great new graphic Novel Wizzywig, about a young “dark side” hacker. I mentioned that I liked the scene featuring Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who make an appearance as illegal blue box salesmen dressed in their Alice in Wonderland birthday party

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Wizzywig: an excerpt from Ed Piskor’s new graphic novel about a phone phreak hacker kid

Tony says: If you haven’t heard of the Trivia Championships of North America, well, that’s understandable. It’s only the second year for TCONA, but this year’s event, taking place from August 10-12 at Circus Circus in Las Vegas, will already be bigger, with more players, more pub quiz hosts from around the country, more medal

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America’s greatest trivia minds get their party on in Vegas next month

It appears where retail giants fail, public libraries succeed. McAllen, Texas converted a 124,500 sqft “big box” into the largest single floor library in the US. The LA Times reports: McAllen is near the southernmost tip of Texas, on the Mexico border. “In a city like McAllen, with cartel violence across the river (less than

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Walmart closes, Community builds a giant library

What do OLPC designer Yves Behar, former XBox executive Ed Fries, and Peek’s Amol Sarva got in common? They’re planning a hackable $99 game console running Android, complete with a development kit and online store. [The Verge]

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$99 Android game console planned

Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints leveled against a men’s rights group’s controversial ad campaign. Fathers4Justice’s ad depicted a crying baby, his body emblazoned with perjoratives such as “pig” and “rapist”, with text attacking Mumsnet, a popular online hangout for mothers of young children. According to Fathers4Justice, Mumsnet presided over an anti-male hate campaign

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Nasty men’s rights ad banned

The Rev. Dennis Carey, a 65-year-old Catholic priest in Connecticut, was arraigned today on child pornography possession charges. He claims he is receiving help for the “addiction” to illegal pornography that led to his arrest. He is out on a $100K bond, prohibited from computer and internet access, and barred from contact with children under

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Catholic priest "addicted to child porn" busted after cross-country investigation

Gawker has launched a new column written by an anonymous Fox News employee who posts under “The Fox Mole.” S/he claims to have been with Fox for “years,” and claims that s/he can’t find work elsewhere because other news organizations view Fox alumni with suspicion. The Mole’s first column describes a particularly nasty piece of

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Fox News whistleblower begins anonymous tell-all series

The paperback for Welcome to Bordertown is out, this being the most excellent, long-awaited volume of short stories set in the Bordertown shared world, where Faerie has returned to Earth, and the Bordertown is the place where magic and technology meet and mix. To celebrate, the editors are holding a contest: So you’ve already found

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Contest celebrates paperback for Welcome to Bordertown

Includes newly-discovered stable transuranics Ytterby, Actinny and Rubiddy. [Matt Gallant via Gizmodo]

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Watch an adorable 3 year-old kid sing the periodic table

Microsoft has (kind of) acquired Netscape, buying many of its key patents and assets from erstwhile owner AOL. Early Netscape employee JWZ calls it “brand necrophilia” and adds, “I assume that this means that ValueClick will now be suing Microsoft over the cookie patent instead of AOL, if that’s still going on. There are no

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Microsoft buys Netscape (sort of)

Jim Woodring is one of my favorite living artists. His comic books and graphic novels (usually wordless) are funny, powerful, and awe-inspiring. I’m so excited he is about to embark on a new graphic novel. He’s already past the halfway point to get it funded. His last crowd-funded project, a giant ink pen, was a

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Jim Woodring’s new crowd-funded project: a 100-page graphic novel

One of my favorite TED talks this year was PostSecret’s Frank Warren. Over 500,000 people have sent him postcards with their secrets. I also interviewed Frank on video when I was at TED. Frank Warren is the creator of The PostSecret Project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around

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PostSecret’s Frank Warren gives a TED Talk

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

Legoist Peter sez, “My most popular model, the Exo Suit, has been submitted to the LEGO CUUSOO website. I need 10,000 supporters for the chance to have it released as an official LEGO set. If you’d like to see this model made available to buy, please support my project on the CUUSOO site.” LEGO CUUSOO

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Lego exoskeleton maker seeks your votes for official kit-status

Parents in America are taking out loans at interest rates of up to 20% in order to pay for their children’s private K-12 education. The average loan from one provider, Your Tuition Solution, is $14,000, while the Lake Trust Credit Union lets you carry up to $40,000 in loans for your child’s primary and secondary

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American parents take out student loans for their kids’ kindergarten education