March, 2013 - boingboing

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21st
4:38p[info]boingboingInternet-of-Things answering machine from 1992, with marbles
5:31p[info]boingboingWhy did Lee Baca win Sheriff of the Year award?
5:51p[info]boingboingGoPro sends fraudulent DMCA notice to site that ran a negative review of its products
6:40p[info]boingboingHow to fix the worst law in technology
6:41p[info]boingboingElf beer needs your vote
8:18p[info]boingboingSkull wedding cake
9:23p[info]boingboingDRM-free label for all your DRM-free stuff
22nd
12:55a[info]boingboingCory signing Rapture of the Nerds at Forbidden Planet London tomorrow
4:07a[info]boingboingDonglegate
4:15a[info]boingboingWell-planned bank heist fails
4:31a[info]boingboingGirl, 7, brought into pepper-spray fight
4:34a[info]boingboingPolite boos now OK at Riverhead town board meetings
4:39a[info]boingboingVatican: Batman has "grown bitter and more vengeful"
5:36a[info]boingboingApple removes Sweatshop iOS game
5:54a[info]boingboingMAD Artist's Edition: a massive tribute to Harvey Kurtzman
6:00a[info]boingboingInterview with Peter Clines, author of Ex-Heroes and Ex-Patriots
6:05a[info]boingboingAct now to stop the UK Leveson press-regulations from applying to blogs and individuals online!
6:19a[info]boingboingTransgender teacher kills self after Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn denounces her
6:45a[info]boingboingAstounding Beetlejuice roller-coaster made in Minecraft
7:32a[info]boingboingHuman bodies mercilessly jiggled by gravity at 2000fps [NSFW]
9:01a[info]boingboingGuatemala genocide trial continues; watch or listen live
9:35a[info]boingboingBrazil's music collecting societies convicted of forming an illegal cartel
9:43a[info]boingboingTesla vs. Edison vs. The Great Men of History
10:26a[info]boingboingCanadian "pipeline" game enrages humourless oilpatch blowhards
11:35a[info]boingboingNenetl of the Forgotten Spirits: indie horror comic
11:38a[info]boingboingNeil DeGrasse Tyson in votive candle form
11:41a[info]boingboingProsecutors call for inaccurate groundhog's death
12:39p[info]boingboingGuatemala: In 1982, ex-dictator Rios Montt told this documentary filmmaker, "I Control the Army"
1:27p[info]boingboingCheck out the latest videos on our Boing Boing Video page
1:40p[info]boingboingThe $500 Million Gardner Museum Heist, an epic art caper infographic
1:42p[info]boingboingNY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation
1:43p[info]boingboingHuffington Post reporter "seeks people who have had sex with aliens"
2:02p[info]boingboingNational Conference for Media Reform coming to Denver, CO, April 5-17 2013
2:17p[info]boingboingA celebration of ‘Paris Is Burning’ with Peaches Christ and Latrice Royale
2:42p[info]boingboingShepard Fairey talks about some of his favorite YouTube videos
2:44p[info]boingboingA cybersecurity lobbying boom in DC, as congress considers new laws
2:49p[info]boingboingThe art and science of beer: a video feature on the "Pope of Foam"
3:00p[info]boingboingPhone wars
3:58p[info]boingboingBeautiful booze-trailer for sale
6:04p[info]boingboingSkype's IP-leaking security bug creates denial-of-service cottage industry
7:39p[info]boingboingCrocheted skeleton with organs
10:49p[info]boingboingLaunching the UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds TODAY at Forbidden Planet London
23rd
6:26a[info]boingboingHow long should we expect Google Keep to last?
7:25a[info]boingboingEating a wedding cake in reverse
8:31a[info]boingboingWe have a choice about the world that technology will give us
10:38a[info]boingboingIRS apologizes for $60k Star Trek parody
11:39a[info]boingboingCongressman boasts on Twitter about the money he got to support CISPA, then thinks better of it
2:43p[info]boingboingSen Chuck Schumer took $100K from private prisons, now gets to help decide whether to send undocumen
5:03p[info]boingboingAs seen in Belgrade
5:58p[info]boingboingGrandmothers who are brilliant at technology
8:06p[info]boingboingToothy tongue
24th
5:52a[info]boingboingHOWTO bake anatomical heart-bread
10:36a[info]boingboingArijit "Poop Strong" Guha has died of colon cancer
10:59p[info]boingboingIndependent midwives to march in London today to protest impending shutdown of indie midwifery
25th
5:59a[info]boingboingIt's snowing in DC this morning.
6:00a[info]boingboingTell Me Something I Don't Know: Katie Skelly, creator of Nurse Nurse comic book
6:28a[info]boingboingNY Mag feature on epic NBC "Today" Lauer/Curry cold war is backstab-o-licious
6:38a[info]boingboingUber unfairly skimming our tips, say some drivers
7:33a[info]boingboingHong Kong: court denies migrant domestic workers residency
8:15a[info]boingboingThe case of the poison potato
8:34a[info]boingboingGenerative music apps
8:42a[info]boingboingAround the World in 80 Cakes
8:52a[info]boingboingVeil of secrecy around Manning case makes a public trial "a state secret in plain sight"
9:09a[info]boingboingJimi Hendrix on a gayageum
9:10a[info]boingboingThe sinking of the Veggietanic, and an Octopus Googly-Eye Banana
9:43a[info]boingboingDisease superspreaders and the new coronavirus
9:55a[info]boingboingHow to: Demolish a truss bridge
10:06a[info]boingboingTEDxWTF
10:30a[info]boingboingKnife in man's back for 3 years
10:30a[info]boingboingGuatemala: Day 5 of Montt genocide trial; "They viewed us as if we were not people."
10:31a[info]boingboingReturn to Antikythera
10:45a[info]boingboingWhy government-funded duck penis research is a good thing
10:53a[info]boingboingWatch all six Star Wars movies at once
11:22a[info]boingboingFrankenbumper
11:57a[info]boingboingSpace bubble
11:59a[info]boingboingClimate answers sought in supercomputers
12:08p[info]boingboingSteve Jobs Manga
12:14p[info]boingboingVenn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense: chart of woo
12:21p[info]boingboingPetition: force Congress to display logos of their corporate backers on their clothes
12:39p[info]boingboing15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius
1:22p[info]boingboingRadiohead in the late 1980s
1:29p[info]boingboingVideo about man who makes ships in bottles
2:38p[info]boingboingTrippy mandala optical illusions
2:51p[info]boingboingWatch the latest video posts in the Boing Boing video archive
5:33p[info]boingboingGigeresque corset: "Spine"
7:40p[info]boingboingTickets from the Studio Ghibli museum are made from snips of film
26th
5:36a[info]boingboingBrain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, DJ. Junebug, and a Homeless Hip Hopper
6:23a[info]boingboingStore wants $5 browsing fee to deter "showrooming" by online shoppers
6:39a[info]boingboingComedy troupe loses YouTube account after viral success of "PS Gay Car," can't get anyone at YT to l
7:06a[info]boingboingBrighter Later, "The Woods," music video animated by Polly Dedman
7:38a[info]boingboingGirl's Kickstarter to go to RPG camp brings out the horrible, horrible trolls
7:40a[info]boingboingTrajectory
7:42a[info]boingboingAlaa Wardi, a capella YouTube star from Saudi Arabia: "Risala Ela..."
9:11a[info]boingboingPolice called over man singing "Free Falling"
9:24a[info]boingboingCardboard cops to deter traffic violators
9:43a[info]boingboingGuatemala genocide trial: Day 6. "If I die, the story of what I lived will never be forgotten"
9:45a[info]boingboingYour WiFi-enabled camera might be spying on you
9:48a[info]boingboingSpooky tree sculpture in Bali
9:54a[info]boingboingAutomate collecting wonderful things
10:22a[info]boingboing"Garden apartment" redefined in new green apartment building
10:28a[info]boingboingGames to play during commercial breaks
10:48a[info]boingboingDIY cellphone
11:00a[info]boingboingThe CONET Project: spy station recordings reissued
11:25a[info]boingboing19 year old develops plan to clean up ocean trash vortexes
11:33a[info]boingboingMs. Boing Boing breastfeeds calf
11:56a[info]boingboingMuzzle-suppressor shot glasses
1:28p[info]boingboingSummary of experimentally verified pricing heuristics
2:03p[info]boingboingCake hotel whose rooms were filled with edible fixtures and decor
2:24p[info]boingboingHonk
3:27p[info]boingboingToronto Mayor Rob Ford's long history of public drunkenness and brawling
3:35p[info]boingboingDocumentary on activist who taught people to make solar cottage industries in 16 countries
4:34p[info]boingboingRPG inside an Excel workbook
5:32p[info]boingboingAbandoned cake-box at airport turns into inadvertent Portal-themed security worry
6:34p[info]boingboingBoxes sealed with ATHEIST tape lost by USPS 10X more often than controls
8:05p[info]boingboingNuts-and-bolts look at password cracking
27th
5:53a[info]boingboingTo watch: PBS NOVA on Russian Meteor Strike debuts tonight, March 27
6:05a[info]boingboingCIA director promotes woman who approved destruction of CIA "harsh interrogation" videos
6:17a[info]boingboingCody R Wilson's 3D-printed guns: the VICE documentary
6:22a[info]boingboingDDoS storm breaks records at 300 Gbps
6:25a[info]boingboingControversy over Esquire profile of the SEAL who shot bin Laden (or maybe didn't)
6:39a[info]boingboingBeautiful photos of cellphone masts disguised as ugly trees
6:41a[info]boingboingTroll comments on YouTube video by sending comment via postal mail to uploader's home
6:45a[info]boingboingTeen who pointed laser at aircraft jailed for 30 months
6:51a[info]boingboingT-Mobile ditches cellphone contracts
6:55a[info]boingboingCharges dropped against groundhog
7:01a[info]boingboingNo rest for Richard III's bones
7:09a[info]boingboing"Fake" tax-scam movie won film award
7:40a[info]boingboingBack issues of the NSA's secret, in-house mag
7:41a[info]boingboingCalculating product placement in hip hop songs: CDZA's $56 million musical shopping spree
7:49a[info]boingboingRap Quotes: site-specific street art with official-looking signs bearing hip hop lyrics
8:00a[info]boingboingTelekinesis' latest video has a romantic ghost in the machine
8:11a[info]boingboingTOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, featuring "How to Draw Doug," and more, More, MORE!
8:21a[info]boingboingAre "theory" and "hypothesis" dead?
8:29a[info]boingboingCalling out Jane Goodall for a plagiarism and error-filled book
8:43a[info]boingboingLightest-ever aerogel is only twice as heavy as hydrogen
8:44a[info]boingboingOcean scientists say 19-year-old's "realistic" plan to clean up the ocean isn't actually realistic
8:48a[info]boingboingWinny Puhh: through YouTube, bizarro Estonian punk band finds new global fame
9:02a[info]boingboingTwo-headed bull shark
9:24a[info]boingboingUniversity in Kansas offers Bachelor of Science degree in Drones
9:24a[info]boingboingNaming the anonymous victims of US drone attacks
9:25a[info]boingboingWatch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archive
9:33a[info]boingboingThursday: White House/Tom Kalil Google Hangout about the maker movement
9:52a[info]boingboingEnglish school (briefly) bans triangular desserts, citing food-fight shuriken risks
9:53a[info]boingboingTIme-lapse of a particularly intense aurora borealis display
10:08a[info]boingboingA friendly reminder: if you like Boing Boing the blog, join us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or Ins
10:10a[info]boingboingPhotos from on top of the Great Pyramid
10:15a[info]boingboingHonoring death by donating your body to science
10:45a[info]boingboingAssemblage raygun
10:59a[info]boingboingCitizens who helped find killer cop denied reward
11:42a[info]boingboingFifteen Years After A School Shooting
11:58a[info]boingboingAttack of the copyright trolls
12:19p[info]boingboingPolicy Laundering: how the US Trade Rep is trading away America's right to unlock its devices
12:30p[info]boingboingSave Noisebridge!
12:48p[info]boingboingWhat could a library do with a gigabit Internet connection?
1:32p[info]boingboingCerama Bryte Cooktop Cleaner
2:04p[info]boingboingScience Hack Day Ambassador Program 2013
2:24p[info]boingboingFrank Zappa reads the dirty bits of Naked Lunch
2:52p[info]boingboingDinner in the Haunted Mansion
3:12p[info]boingboingMunicipal codes of DC, free for all -- liberated without permission
4:27p[info]boingboingHyper-macho, super-busy old body-building ad
5:41p[info]boingboingDead words that want reviving
7:24p[info]boingboingBand puts up Times Square billboard asking for views on piracy
7:35p[info]boingboingKalashnikov made of bones
9:28p[info]boingboingWhy security awareness training is a waste of time
9:46p[info]boingboingShort sf film about future augmented reality graffiti
28th
2:40a[info]boingboingCory's schedule for EasterCon in Bradford
5:50a[info]boingboingSailing is hard work
5:55a[info]boingboingOpponents Wanted: forgotten gaming mags find new life on the net
6:01a[info]boingboingSuper 8 music "video" for new Barn Owl song
6:06a[info]boingboingBro-on-Bro violence leads to tragedy, as penis drawn on roommate's face
6:10a[info]boingboingNYT op-ed: "On the Brink of Justice in Guatemala"
6:22a[info]boingboingGentleman in Illinois accused of stealing 21 tons of Wisconsin Muenster cheese
6:34a[info]boingboingResearchers show method for de-anonymizing 95% of "anonymous" cellular location data
7:30a[info]boingboingJapanese teen trend: "Dragon Ball attack" selfies
8:04a[info]boingboingFOUR ASTOUNDING THINGS THAT BOING BOING READERS ARE DOING RIGHT NOW!
8:16a[info]boingboingInternet apocalypse? In the next bag o' chips
8:29a[info]boingboingThe classy and fascinating back story behind pink champagne
8:37a[info]boingboingRaiders of the Lost Ark original brainstorming sessions
8:37a[info]boingboingThe mathematics of tabloid news
8:38a[info]boingboingUrinal video games
8:46a[info]boingboingWhat makes monsters real
8:51a[info]boingboingBasquiat ex-girlfriend's huge collection of his art/archives
8:52a[info]boingboingEyeballs found in trash
8:52a[info]boingboingScience at Fashion Week
8:53a[info]boingboingSaboteurs caught trying to sever major undersea Internet cable to Egypt
9:20a[info]boingboingThe Namiki/Pilot Vanishing Point retractable fountain pen
10:07a[info]boingboingUK Open Rights Group is holding its first ever digital rights conference in the north
10:19a[info]boingboingThe Shangri-Las perform "Out in the Streets" (1965)
10:46a[info]boingboingRIM sells a million Z10s, climbs out of red ink
10:54a[info]boingboingOfficer linked to torture tapes' destruction advances within C.I.A.
11:01a[info]boingboingDolphin funeral? Adult dolphin "carries calf around for days," but is it grieving?
11:20a[info]boingboingHOWTO improve your startup's chances
11:22a[info]boingboingThe science of screen time vs. face time, and human connectedness
11:33a[info]boingboingOwner reunited with camera she lost in Hawaii after it washes up on Taiwan beach 6 years later
11:38a[info]boingboingMapping Twitter tongues of New York City
11:42a[info]boingboingPrisoners in Scotland are "watching too much TV"
12:02p[info]boingboingTSA screener finds pepper spray on the floor, gasses five other screeners because he thought it was
1:13p[info]boingboingWhat problem are we trying to solve in the copyright wars?
2:02p[info]boingboingEquality
3:13p[info]boingboingEditorial board of Journal of Library Administration resigns en masse in honor of Aaron Swartz
3:15p[info]boingboingLG Monitor Gives New Meaning to Color Precision
5:09p[info]boingboingFOUR MORE ASTOUNDING THINGS THAT BOING BOING READERS ARE DOING RIGHT NOW!
6:18p[info]boingboingSongwriting podcast with Richard Sherman of Disney's Sherman Brothers
8:28p[info]boingboingDisneyland Dapper Day: when Disney fans dress up
29th
1:35a[info]boingboingCory speaking in Bradford tomorrow
5:07a[info]boingboingLast week to subscribe to Mark's 3rd Quarterly.co mailing
5:23a[info]boingboingHow the amazing UK cover for Rapture of the Nerds came to be
5:46a[info]boingboingZombie houses: 300K+ in America
6:25a[info]boingboingSri Lanka: crowd led by Buddhist monks attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo
6:32a[info]boingboingBill Gold, the master of the movie poster
6:51a[info]boingboingHow children become "cannon fodder" for Mexican drug cartels
6:59a[info]boingboingKickstarter to save the brilliant zine store READING FRENZY
7:29a[info]boingboingIn photographs, North Korea "leaks" plan to attack US
7:44a[info]boingboingLaotian all-women bomb clearance team, "most dangerous job in world," to speak in U.S.
7:49a[info]boingboingGroups across America call on Congress to fix DMCA
8:08a[info]boingboingWatch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archives
9:12a[info]boingboingWhen US money was nice to look at
9:17a[info]boingboingGrouching about Google
9:40a[info]boingboingListen to Neverwhere free online, then see it in person
9:47a[info]boingboingAirlines should charge passengers by weight, says economist
9:54a[info]boingboingEating out makes your children overweight
9:54a[info]boingboingFlorida polo tycoon has difficulty adopting his 42-year-old girlfriend in order to keep assets away
10:02a[info]boingboingApple's security problems
10:10a[info]boingboingOuya, $100 Android game console, ships to early backers
11:03a[info]boingboingGas masks for babies, 1940
12:03p[info]boingboingMore evidence linking fracking wastewater disposal to earthquakes
12:09p[info]boingboingMinneapolis SkepTech conference, coming April 5/6
12:10p[info]boingboingZealous preacher bingo card
12:21p[info]boingboingDo GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics
12:30p[info]boingboingRead the previously unpublished letters of Charles Darwin
12:38p[info]boingboingWhy can't we prevent asteroid strikes?
12:50p[info]boingboingIt's tin foil hats, all the way down
12:53p[info]boingboingIKEA-style vibrator
1:05p[info]boingboingBollywood Easter: Images of Christ in '70s poster art from India
1:17p[info]boingboingChocolate Bunny family (photo)
1:36p[info]boingboingLessons learned from YouTube's $300M "Original Channel" fund
1:37p[info]boingboingUS Border Patrol uses horses to secure Mexican border
1:38p[info]boingboingInterview with Wrong director Quentin Dupieux
1:38p[info]boingboingA baby can be a funeral for a friendship
2:57p[info]boingboingToronto Mayor Rob Ford about to lose his job coaching high-school football?
3:43p[info]boingboingATM skimming comes to non-ATM payment terminals in train stations, etc
5:13p[info]boingboingGroup whose Wikipedia entry was deleted for non-notability threatens lawsuit against Wikipedian who
5:53p[info]boingboingLittle Mermaid tights
7:01p[info]boingboingMaine Zumba instructor pleads guilty to prostitution charges
8:05p[info]boingboingKISS/Hello Kitty TV show in development
30th
5:56a[info]boingboingFake penis fails drug test
6:00a[info]boingboingMr Unpronounceable Adventures, spectacularly weird graphic novel in a Lovecraftian/Burroughsian vein
6:03a[info]boingboingUFO memo the FBI's most viewed
7:50a[info]boingboingFleetwood Mac's "Rumours," depicted in crayon
7:55a[info]boingboingCaturday
8:09a[info]boingboingNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Eun is a Mac Guy
9:13a[info]boingboingSouth Korea lives in the future (of brutal copyright enforcement)
12:21p[info]boingboingEmbarrassingly obvious undercover cops take to Twitter looking for house shows
2:54p[info]boingboingNew Bob Basset mask with added angularity
6:08p[info]boingboingAssyrian Dalek, ca. 865 BCE
31st
5:58a[info]boingboingNevada State Legislature poised to take regulation of Burning Man away from state and local cops
6:27a[info]boingboing2013 Hugo nominees announced
6:49a[info]boingboingDisney World Luau bowl
9:06a[info]boingboingImaginary Glorp Gum becomes a reality! Sort of!
10:02a[info]boingboingOut-of-date state nicknames, illustrated with comical hogs
12:10p[info]boingboingJust look at this liquid nitrogen-dipped banana being shot with a steel bearing.
3:22p[info]boingboingTSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w/disabilities
5:35p[info]boingboingHOWTO turn a dead hard-drive into a cotton candy machine
7:37p[info]boingboingWhy PLAY pie-anna when you can VAMP?
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