Archives: 2010 February

adding “freemium” to my microsoft dictionary [shifted]

@cap60552 does friday night still work for you? hey, @ebethmoreau — are you free to play games, too? #akla10 #akla2010 [shifted]

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HP’s ProBook s-series wants to be your everything: punchy enough for work, stylish enough for home. And with a new brushed aluminum industrial design and Core i3/i5/i7 processing power, they may just bridge that gap.
HP’s rolling out four new ProBook models, ranging from the 13.3-inch 4320s to the heavy-duty 17.3-inch 4720s. In addition to those [...]

The HP EliteBook 2730p was a tough little convertible tablet, and its successor— HP’s EliteBook 2740p—is no exception. The 2740p meets the same rugged MIL-STD 810G military standards, and adds a capacitive touch screen and Core i5/i7 goodness.
The 12.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) LED display includes anti-glare and optional outdoor view, and can be operated [...]

schliz writes “Public scrutiny did more harm than good last week, after Australian police and the media released details of three stolen passports allegedly used in the assasination of a senior Hamas member in Dubai. As if having their identities stolen for an assassination wasn’t enough, it turns out the victims’ passports had not been [...]

From an inflatable metal stool to a TMZ for mathletes to the rise of the cell, find out what’s wired this month.

The Soviet Union crash-lands a probe on Venus, the first time human artifacts touch another planet.

A technique known as compressed sensing may change everything from medical imagery to astronomy.

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Something is happening in PlayStation Network land this evening, and it isn’t good. Known cryptically as Error: 8001050F, all we know right now is it won’t allow users to log into their accounts or play online.
According to one user over at the official PlayStation boards, the error does not prevent him from using the Internet [...]

Thanks to Mark, David, Xeni, and Cory for the opportunity to place my posts on the world’s best blog for the past two weeks. Having an online presence on such a lively and well-read space has been a thrill.

As Marlowe says, nothing says goodbye like a bullet, but it’s been great to write for [...]

OMG I can’t wait. The new season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job premieres tonight on Adult Swim (Sundays at 1230AM).

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medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.

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Google has launched a competitor or counterpart to Microsoft’s Photosynth, which employs user-contributed photos of much-photographed sites to supplement the street-level view in an immersive way. Google’s offering is called simply Navigate through User Photos, and unlike Photosynth — which requires Sliverlight and therefore is not available on Linux — is implemented in Flash. This [...]

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So, the Sony Vaio P has a clone. Congrats, Sony! Too bad the mimicry ends with the aesthetics:
The appearance is spot on, but the insides are decidedly sub-par. The Atom processor is a less powerful than the processor offered in the Vaio P, and the memory maxes out at 1GB. If you’re comparing, that’s a [...]

Remember Nokia? They make cellphones (still!), and at CeBIT they’re hinting hard that two more, possibly the C5 and C6, are about to join their ranks.
The hint was packaged in the Nokia Conversations newsletter. C if you can figure out what it is:

“Of course, we don’t comment on rumours or leaks, but we are looking [...]

“Larry, your new speakers look great, really they do. But…something’s off. I can’t put my finger on it, but they just sound, I dunno, kind of wooden. You know?”
Because they’re inspired by trees! Haha. I kill me.
Anyway, really, designer Marcos Ignacio Madia must have gone all Sigourney Weaver in the jungle from Gorillas in the [...]

If passed, something called the Digital Economy Bill over in the U.K. could do the unthinkable in this, the digital age: Ban open wifi spots.
The ban comes as part of a bill that seeks to limit copyright infringement, or something. In summary, schools, small businesses and even libraries would have to effectively become their own [...]

WhatDoIKnow sends in a story about an appeals court ruling in a singular case that might have the effect of narrowing “fair use” rights for transformative uses of artworks. “The sculptor who designed the Korean War memorial [in Washington DC] brought suit against the Postal Service after a photograph of his work was used on [...]

reporter writes “New strains of ‘Gram-negative’ bacteria have become resistant to all safe antibiotics. Though methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the best-known antibiotic-resistant germ, the new class of resistant bacteria could be more dangerous still. ‘The bacteria, classified as Gram-negative because of their reaction to the so-called Gram stain test, can cause severe pneumonia and [...]

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The great Larry Josephson — to me the best radio host ever (he was real and honest and funny and groundbreaking and smart long before Howard Stern was the same, and I am a serious Howard fan too) — once explained his radio philosophy to me in two words:
It’s personal.
From the beginning we have regarded [...]

My sister Mimi and I are opposite in many ways. She was a straight A student and I was a solid B student. She seemed to be able to focus and get through her schoolwork easily where I struggled.
My sister ended up with her choice of any university she wanted to go to and [...]

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marpot writes “In an effort to assist Wikipedia’s editors in their struggle to keep articles clean, we are conducting a public lab on vandalism detection. The goal is the development of a practical vandalism detector that is capable of telling apart ill-intentioned edits from well-intentioned edits. Such a tool, which will work somewhat like a [...]

Rob Weir got wind that a Slovakian tech site had been discussing the non-randomness of Microsoft’s intended-to-be-random browser choice screen, which went into effect on European Windows 7 systems last week. He did some testing and found that indeed the order in which the five browser choices appear on the selection screen is far from [...]

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When we previewed the Asus Eee PC T101MT convertible netbook/tablet earlier this month, it was just on paper. The plucky little netbook looked promising, for an Eee PC, but this latest string of hands-on previews is just plain ugly.
The 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet portion, for example, struggles with basic tasks, touch recognition and responsiveness. The previewer [...]

Give this Lego Avatar helicopter a few aerodynamic tweaks, a slightly more powerful engine and a pilot spouting off canned, predictable dialogue, and I could easily see it taking flight, literally, to fight the Na’Vi.
I mean, the rotors appear to be spinning at quite a clip in that video don’t they? Enough to sting a [...]

Well, that didn’t take long. Already analysts are crawling out of the woodwork to put the seemingly miraculous Bloom Box fuel cell in its place as yet another energy saving technology that won’t perform as advertised.
This week it was IDC Energy Insights analyst Sam Jaffe, who said that while the fuel cell developed by Bloom [...]

xsee writes “Only hours after the earthquake and resulting tsunami from Chile, hackers began manipulating search results to direct people seeking information on the event to infected webpages. Exercise caution as to where you get information on this tragedy. Chester Wisniewski describes what happened after he saw a suspicious site listed second on a Google [...]

An anonymous reader writes “Texas Instruments’ most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users’ efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in [...]

jonverve writes “In May of 2009, the White House launched an Ideascale site to gather ideas from citizens to identify ways to ’strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness by making government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative.’ The digital letdown was when many of the top ideas generated by the process were to legalize [...]

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Last week we posted an eBay auction where the seller—an ex-employee of Apple—was selling a broken step from the Fifth Ave New York Apple store. Threatened with legal action, he was forced to remove it. Here’s his story.
Hi. Iʼm Mark Burstiner. I host a show called The Circuit. Iʼm an all around geek, Iʼm a [...]

From the ball to special uniforms that make you jump higher, this year’s World Cup could very well be the most techie soccer tournament the world’s ever seen.
The ball, for example (called the Jabulani, fyi), isn’t stitched together—it’s thermally bonded. It’s also the roundest ball ever created for a World Cup. Last I checked it [...]

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “A 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled that a Texas teenager was not entitled to invoke the innocent infringement defense in an RIAA file-sharing case where she had admittedly made unauthorized downloads of all of the 16 song files in question, and had not disputed [...]

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from ZDNet about another troubling aspect of the UK’s much-maligned Digital Economy Bill:
“The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organizations open to the same [...]

Not sure what’s going on, if this is for everyone, or just a few, or just me.
The last update in my timeline is 8 hours old.
But some people are getting updates, because I’ve gotten replies to some of my messages.
No mention of the problem on status.twitter.com.
               

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Hey you! Be all that you can be! Help the U.S. military design an autonomous robot capable of ferrying injured troops from the front lines to safety with little or no help from a human hand:
It’s no joke—direct from the Pentagon comes word that the Army wants someone out there, beyond its secretive five walls [...]

reporter writes “Since 2006, Apple has regularly audited its manufacturing partners to ensure that they conform to Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct (ASCC), which essentially codifies Western ethical standards with regard to the environment, labor, business conduct, etc. Core violations of ASCC ‘include abuse, underage employment, involuntary labor, falsification of audit materials, threats to worker [...]

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Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. “According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an ‘Internet Policy 3.0′ approach will see [...]

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Standing Bear writes “One billion people live in squatter cities and, according to the UN, this number will double in the next 25 years. Stewart Brand writes in Prospect Magazine about what squatter cities can teach us about future urban living. ‘The magic of squatter cities is that they are improved steadily and gradually by [...]

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Dr La writes “Two metal objects, one cylindrical and a smaller round one, crashed near Buren Soum in the Tuv province of Mongolia, in an empty field, on 19 February. They are parts of an American Delta II rocket stage (nr. 35939, 2009-052C) that launched the military STSS Demo 1 & 2 satellites in September [...]

Super Punch has rounded up a bunch of the best YouTube videos of Kim Jong Il’s “traffic girls,” who are dressed in snappy uniforms, which they wear as they perform an elaborate, robotic mime-show that directs North Korean traffic. They only turn counter-clockwise. Of course.

Super Punch: North Korean Traffic Girls:Traffic

Previously:

Boing Boing: Kim Jong Il's fanatical [...]

Loopla’s “Gyro-bowl” is a kids’ eating-bowl mounted on a gimbals so that it can swing freely as your kid picks it up and moves it around. It looks like it would be a lot of fun — and easier for kids to carry without spilling.

Loopla
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I’ve just signed up for Tom Henderson’s Math for Primates podcast on the strength of this interview he conducted with Technoccult about his theory of punk mathematics. My dad’s a mathematician and I love math, but stopped taking it after first year university calculus and stats and feel like I’m losing it by the [...]

Just look at it.

Bananas Exploding on Face
(via JWZ)

Previously:

Just look at this awesome EU banana curvature regulation. Boing Boing
Just look at this awesome anti-banana-ripening bag. Boing Boing
Just look at this awesome Korean banana-ripening facility. Boing Boing
Just look at this awesome banana peeler. Boing Boing
Just look at this awesome banana peeling simulator. Boing Boing
Just look at this [...]

GlennF sez, “The Digital Economy Bill in the UK that Cory has written about has a new, horrible portion that could cause many (most?) public hotspots to shut down unless run by companies large enough to handle the recordkeeping requirements.
This ZDNet UK article cites legal experts who say that the penalties associated with failure to [...]

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theodp writes “Apple’s shareholder meeting this week took on a Jerry Springer vibe, with harsh comments about Al Gore, former VP and Apple board member, setting the tone. Several stockholders took turns either bashing or praising Gore’s high-profile views on climate change. Apple shareholder Shelton Ehrlich urged against Gore’s re-election to the board, claiming that [...]

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simpz writes “Will the serial port as a console connection ever be displaced — especially for devices such as switches, routers, SAN boxes, etc.? In one sense it’s a simple connection. But it is the only current port that, in order to use, you need to know about wiring / baud rates / parity, etc. [...]

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Capitalism! Sprint was cool offering Palm Pixi for $100, until Verizon’s Palm Pixi Plus slid in underneath at $79. Well Sprint’s having none of that, slashing the original Palm Pixi’s price to a mere $50 for new customers, after all of the rebates and contracts and what have you. Remember, the candybar Pixi doesn’t have [...]

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I remember the good old days, when 2 or 3 guns was all a man needed.
The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx Opens This Week
MORE GUNSSSSS!!!!
Kotaku-Tan, The T-Shirt For The Kotaku Fan
Nice work by Meatbun.
Super Mario Galaxy 2: Yoshi’s Back…and He Brought a Drill!
I like that Yoshi. He’s a good guy.
Heavy Rain Explores Player Depression With [...]

It’s possible that you’ve been reading reports of Microsoft’s body-capturing Project Natal with some skepticism, wondering, “how well can this cockamamie setup possibly work?” Well, going by this video of it perfectly tracking a guy breakdancing, pretty damn well.
As best we can guess, Natal will be making its way to Xboxes sometime this fall. [...]

Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the web:

It boils down to control. I’ve written several times that I believe Apple controls the entire source code to iPhone [...]

Hugh Pickens writes “Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum has an article in Slate about the US government’s mostly forgotten policy in the 1920s and 1930s of poisoning industrial alcohols manufactured in the US to scare people into giving up illicit drinking during Prohibition. Known as the ‘chemist’s war of Prohibition,’ the federal poisoning program, [...]

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It’s possible that you’ve been reading reports of Microsoft’s body-sensing Project Natal with some skepticism, wondering, “how well can this cockamamie setup possibly work?” Well, going by this video of it perfectly tracking a guy breakdancing, pretty damn well.
As best we can guess, Natal will be making its way to Xboxes sometime this fall. [...]

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Aaron Woodman, the director of consumer experiences for Microsoft’s mobile division, was a guest on today’s Engadget Show, and he had a nice surprise for everyone: a prototype of LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series phone.
There’s not a whole lot in the way of details—it’s a slider that’s a bit thicker than the iPhone, it has [...]

When the iPad was unveiled in January, everyone could agree on one thing: it did look a lot like a big iPhone. Begeek.fr extrapolates Apple’s design consistency to its logical conclusion in its next two revolutionary devices.
I hear the iBoard’s going to implement twenty finger multi-touch and the iMat’s even going to support Flash. [BeGeek.fr]

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kamapuaa writes “The NY Times has an article about how real-time license plate scanning is changing the car repo business. MVTRAC is one of several companies providing technology to track car license plates automatically, in order to populate private databases. This new tech is used by car repo companies to help banks or other lenders [...]

Reader edgeofphysics provides a technical sidelight on the earthquake in Chile this morning — some details on how the European Southern Observatory protects the mirrors of the Very Large Telescope when an earthquake strikes. “Given that Chile is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, how do astronomers protect their giant telescopes [...]

Camilo Salas K. from Disorder Magazine in Chile (a very cool publication about music and culture, in the same eclectic/irreverent vein as Boing Boing) writes to us from the capital city of Santiago:

The situation right now is very bad. We are getting news of the most bad places (the south center of Chile) and the [...]

A todos los amigos chilenos de Boing Boing, y toda la gente de latinoamerica que tienen familiares y amigos allá, les saludamos y esperamos por lo mejor para ustedes y sus familias.
An 8.8 earthquake struck Chile last night, killing at least 150 people, leaving some half a million people homeless, and setting off tsunami activity [...]

“Why, they must spit two or three gallons a day!  They ain’t died fast enough, these old men!”–Mrs. T.E. Bagley, Whitney, Texas, 1949
John Ptak comments on a story from a 1949 issue of LIFE. The photos are fantastic.
It isn’t, I guess, so much a story about their sitting as it is a story about their [...]

What do you get when you combine Mr. Wizard, Harpo Marx and “Adventures with Bill“? I’m not sure exactly, but the exploits of Dr. Ernest Otherford get pretty close.
In this segment, the good Dr. Otherford explores the power of static electricity.

Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user johnwilson1969 via CC

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My friend Gareth Branwyn, chief blogster at Makezine.com, had a picture of himself drawn as a robot that I thought was pretty cool. Investigating that idea led me to the befunky.com website. Tons of interesting ways to rendering your portrait without having to know or have Photoshop. The interface is easy too. Impessive!

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Chris sez, “The residents of Little Green Street are fighting against developers who trying to use one
of London’s very few remaining original Georgian streets as a lorry
run to a site they’re trying to develop just north of Kentish Town.
The battle has been going on for years now with the local council,
Camden, refusing permissions at [...]

ABC After-School Specials hit their zenith (or nadir) with The Day My Kid Went Punk, a punksploitation show to rival the CHiPS “Rip and Destroy” episode (and yes, that’s Bernie Kopell, the doctor from the Love Boat, as the outraged dad).

The Day My Kid Went PUNK

Previously:

Lagos Calling: Nigerian punk fashion fantasy photoset - Boing Boing
LA [...]

Jason sez, “Six photos of me, Jason, under the ‘Jason’ sign at Epcot’s The Living Seas attraction taken over the years 1989-2005. See me start as a gorky 15 year old in short shorts, pass through the fanny pack years of the 90s, and move on to become the grizzled, bearded sysadmin I am today.” [...]

Steve Silberman sez, “Holy Terry Gilliam prototype: The original, trippy 1933 film version of Alice in Wonderland by Norman ‘Monkey Business’ McLeod, starring Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and W.C. Fields, now on DVD with a rave from Alice: ‘A revolution in cinema history!’”

But only one can boast the endorsement of the original Alice: the [...]

Oh, this is very good news: the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be based on Tim Powers’s kick-ass, World-Fantasy-Award-winning novel On Stranger Tides, the greatest undead pirate story of all time. Go, Tim! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. (Thanks, Rob!)

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If the iPad seems a bit extravagant and the JooJoo’s sordid past turns you off, the 7″ iLet Mini HAL might be device for you. It’s no powerhouse, but at least you’ll be able to say you own a tablet.
The 600MHz VIA CPU isn’t blazing fast and the 7″ touch screen isn’t luxuriously wide. The [...]

We recently heard that Android 2.1 was on its way to the Droid, but now sources tell AndroidandMe that all U.S. Android phones will be receiving Android 2.1 firmware in coming months, though some will require a wipe to upgrade.
As we’ve heard is the case with the Droid, some niceties like animated wallpapers probably won’t [...]

mdsolar writes “Following the Vermont Senate’s 26-to-4 vote not to approve a 20-year license extension for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the Vermont Public Service Board will consider revoking its operating license as well. Meanwhile, the plant continues to operate without its Director of Nuclear Safety Assurance, who has been placed on administrative leave; [...]

eggboard writes “Martin Beck, who in 2008 co-wrote a paper describing a way to inject packets into a secured Wi-Fi system, is back with a more extensive exploit. His ‘Enhanced TKIP Michael Attacks’ still don’t allow extraction of a key, and are limited to TKIP (not AES-CCMP) WPA-protected networks. Still, he’s figured out how to [...]

Camilo Salas K. from Disorder Magazine in Chile (a very cool publication about music and culture, in the same eclectic/irreverent vein as Boing Boing) writes to us from the capital city of Santiago:

The situation right now is very bad. We are getting news of the most bad places (the south center of Chile) and the [...]

Like 23K others, I’m watching a live stream of a Honolulu television station previewing the tsunami that’s likely to hit Hawaii in the next couple of hours.
I wondered on Twitter if any of the news orgs are launching helicopters to provide a view of the surge making landfall.
Brian Stelter of the NY Times notes: “we’re [...]

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February has not been a good month for the Apple supply chain. After the assault, the arson, and the poisonings, now Apple’s annual supplier report reveals that this year 11 minors were found working in factories they use for manufacturing.
The 24-page report is full of bad news. The worst of it: three different factories Apple [...]

Hammacher Schlemmer, purveyors of expensive, goofy gadgets, are now peddling the Foldaway Massage Chair, a shapeshifting piece of furniture that will keep your muscles relaxed, your apartment uncluttered, and your buyers remorse so potent you can almost taste it.
Picture a Transformer. But instead of being a really cool car that turns into an ass-kicking robot, [...]

Online retail is nothing new, but now brick and mortar stores want to get in on the high-tech action. The New York Times has a disquieting look at new technologies that will make you shop ’til your signal drops.
Take, for example, Norma Kamali’s boutique in Manhattan, which recently implemented a system called ScanLife that allows [...]

Last month, we discussed news that President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal did not include plans to continue NASA’s Constellation program, choosing instead to focus on establishing a stronger foundation for low earth orbit operations. Unfortunately, as government officials prepare to shut down Constellation, they’re warning that it won’t be a quick or simple process due [...]

A todos los amigos Chilenos de Boing Boing, les saludamos y ojalamos por lo mejor para ustedes y sus familias.
An 8.8 earthquake struck Chile last night, killing at least 150 people, leaving some half a million people homeless, and setting off tsunami activity that now threaten islands in the Pacific, and coastlines from South America [...]

“Why, they must spit two or three gallons a day!  They ain’t died fast enough, these old men!”–Mrs. T.E. Bagley, Whitney, Texas, 1949
John Ptak comments on a story from a 1949 issue of LIFE. The photos are fantastic.
It isn’t, I guess, so much a story about their sitting as it is a story about their [...]

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