Don't forget the 2005 Donwood prints post

All aboard for the Terry Riley limited. Next stop, Frippertronics.

Don't forget the cinematic samurai-western-hardboiled nexus that is Yojimbo-Fist Full of Dollars-Last Man Standing (from Dashiell Hammet's novel Red Harvest)

also Criterion collection's Yojimbo

at least one track is still available out there.

"The only reason to wear a watch is to tell time"

And the only reason to wear clothes is to protect from the weather, and the only reason to wear shoes is to protect the feet from the ground, and the only reason to eat food is for nourishment, and any statemnts to the contrary is a thought-crime!

"You're wasthing a watch, using spray-paint, and you're probably going to buy a new watch to replace the one you've ruined."

Uh, yeah. She's going to buy ANOTHER bunch on non-working watches at the flea-market to replace the non-working watches she bought at a flea-market and spray-painted. o-kay.

Seriously, do you people actually read from the links, or do you just react (in the -ionary sense) to the pretty pictures?

At least one -- fireboat and Queen Mary -- is on YouTube from CaptEmerika

Trains doesn't seem to be on YT in the "animated" version, tho.

documentary evidence that these 'kids' lack many basic skills

Slow and steady wins the race.

Not a good transport system for winter lettuce, though.

So eat locally, take a deep breath, relax, and let the blimps ship everything else!

+1 #9
-1 #3

well profofflogic actually is a builder and maker

this is a tempest in a steam-powered teapot

no wait kettles are steam powered teapots are hotwater and tea powered and no wait

>How long (sorry) before I get spam selling me this stuff to enlarge my penis?

yeah, but you'd have to cut it off, first!

Paging Mr. Mohel, pick up the white courtesy telephone, please.

alternate post:

When I hear the words 'bad haircut' I reach for my gun.

I always thought that we had the right-of-way to walk the tracks. Guess not.

:-(

Are there ANY public spaces left?

Considering how shockingly intolerant the people are here towards guns and gun owners

Yeah, BB is well known for hating on teh Wm. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompsons of teh world, not to mention weird art-car owners and their weird-art cars shooting guns out in a temporarily autonomous desert a la Niki De Saint Phalle. D**n, BB would REALLY hate on something like that. Especially if the weird art-car gun-toters were NEKKID. Except for a strategically-placed Blackberry.*

Honestly, do you even READ this blog on a regular basis?

If BB has it in for anybody, it is hair-stylists.

Which is why those chianti-sipping wifi-phreaking eCoast liberals are lucky they're in cyberabad instead of in PA where we take hairstyles SERIOUISLY.

*if M2K were still around this would have been a photoshoot in 2003, I'm sure.

I was wondering why it didn't spin around its axis-axle-axis.

Okay, but that's not an automaton. Automatons are... autonomous. Clockwork automaton's are self-powered and self-controlling -- all the machinery is inside, no outside control/power required.

If electricity is externally supplied I might be willing to accept it AS LONG AS the devise itself made all on/off power decisions.

Agent86 - no matter we legally slice it, those guys were not the vanguards of a revolution -- they were corporate shills.

mmmm ... hand-crank.

now, when are we going to get a post devoted to hand-mixers? I bought one from the 40s at a junk shop last year and spent an hour cleaning it wit ha toothbrush. Gleaming chrome and whirring gears make my egg-whites happier!

Wiener Poopie Ransom Notes for Jesus

it's the plural that makes the difference

plurals. whatevers.

@Agent86: are you telling me you can't tell the difference between your neighbor's yardsale and a Time/Warner billboard?

Those laws do specifically allow for public, non-commercial and (for lack of my knowledge of better terms) low-economic-impact signage -- yardsales, lost dogs, school bakes-sales, etc. What they do NOT allow is commercial usage -- eg, diet-pills, sell-your-home-online, pyramid-marketers, and Time-Warner (eg, Cartoon Network) using public utilities (telephone poles, underpasses, etc) freely for their commerical gain.

Ah... here's a better definition at CAUSS (Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam):

Q: What is Street Spam?

A: Street Spam is the term for illegal signs along roadways, at intersections, on traffic signs or utility poles, and even on private property. Illegal street signs are also called vertical litter, bandit signs, snipe signs, utility pole advertising and stuff on a stick (SOS). The signs may advertise local businesses, multilevel marketing schemes selling weight loss products, health insurance, sample sales, landscaping services and even pet waste removal services. Some of the most common spam signs have the come-on Work at Home, Work From Home, I Lost 30 Pounds in 30 Days, Have a PC, We Buy Houses, Affordable Health Insurance, Budget Health Plans, and Going Out of Business.

also, looks like I might be wrong on the "low-economic-impact" thang:

Q: What About Lost Pet and Garage Sale Signs?

A: In most locations these are illegal signs. Some cities have zero tolerance and remove these signs. Many sign sharks leave these signs alone, especially if they look non-commercial and relate directly to the immediate neighborhood. Also, these sign typically are only up from Friday through Sunday. The major difference is that these are not commercial enterprises, but simply a neighbor trying to get rid of some junk that another neighbor may need. For these reasons, CAUSS does not promote the removal of these signs. Lost pet signs are in the same category

Anyway.

These 1-31-07 twerps were not acting as private citizens or pranksters -- they were hired by a corporate marketing firm to do corporate marketing for a large corporation in a large market, NOT your neighbor looking for your neighbor's lost dog in your neighborhood.

I'm a big fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force -- but I don't see why I should have to subsidize its advertising with my tax-dollars.

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hey, dimbulb -- great response.

congratulations!

The digerati just can't let it go, can they. Yeesh.

1-31-07 when the guerrilla marketers successfully co-opted everyone -- hanging the last DIYer with the guts of the last hipster, Rev. Billy was put up against the wall and shot, and Caffe Americanos were 10% off at Starbucks for all involved. All your sales are belong to us, etc.

Yes, the Boston PD freaked over something that wasn't terrorism. I only wish they had freaked out over the commercial co-option of public space.

A year later, and people are still defending the marketing schmucks? They did no better than installing a root-kit into our visual space, and you're thanking them for it.

Bend over, more ads are coming.

new variation on the lazyweb:

1) get an idea
2) promote it as if it already works, including coverage on BoingBoing
3) have the comment-thread commenters do all your R&D
4) profit!

step 4, as always, is optional

I'll pick "some kind of unholy, corrupting artifact"
because we need more unholy artifacts running around.

you cannot derive a rule from one example (eg, "probably a sloppy army typist"). You need several examples for something to seem deliberate, otherwise people will think its an accident, even if it _was_ deliberate.

68 posts and counting. Nice to know what gets people talking. Recession? Class Warfare? Nitpicking movies? No! Alien blobs in a sewer? Storm the pizzeria and boil the dough!

Just a casual observation about my spoiled generation. Don't get your hate on.

angryhippo -- got it in one.

I'm still torn on the issue of talking in movies. There are some that cry out for more audience interaction, and some that request respectful meditation.

Generally, though, if I want to worship at the temple of cinema, I'd rather do it in a small gathering at home. When I want to celebrate the spectacle of movies, I want to do it with a crowd.

Why is this always the complaint about innovation in Africa?

"cheap computers? -- I'm sorry, but people are starving!"

"cheap power source? -- I'm sorry, but people are starving"

"over-used under-producing soil leading to starvation and no education or infrastructure available to alleviate it? -- I'm sorry, but people are ..."

Africa is a big place with a lot of issues. Surprisingly (for some), there are a lot of methods to deal with these issues.

I guess it's a sign of the "new" BoingBoing that there are scores of people who have nothing better to do with their time than to drill holes in their heads.

Why do you hate America so much?

angryhippo which do you prefer -- classical concerts, or pop concerts?

Just saw the movie on Tuesday, and loved it. My friend & I caught a 5:05 showing (in beautiful downtown Scranton PA) and we were half the crowd -- it was like having a private screening-room. Nice.

But the title card did irritate me -- formerly known as? If it is no longer known as CP, then why even point it out?

Because it's there for the audience, not the hypothetical military. But it's not a genuine sop to the audience, it's a cheap shot by somebody that doesn't trust us.

But don't fret too much -- as many have pointed out, there are inconsistencies all over the place.

The title and credit sequences, f'r instance, featured digital time-code stamps. Artfully degraded as though there had been several generations of analog copies made. Intermixed with a lot of other arty digital "facts".

It's FUN finding these things. Because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And when the parts are flawed, the amazing whole is even moreso.

re comment 4:

as Donald Knuth put it, "Who are you? How did you get in my house?"

>Okay, I'm not a scientist, but what useful knowledge can be gained from this "experiment"?

If we knew, we wouldn't need to experiment.

>if only the hundreds of thousands of people who have had their houses torn down for roads had the kind of voice that you do huh? [cmt 11]

Yes. Exactly. If only those people had spoken up.

Or, you know -- maybe they did. Maybe their voices are what got "public outcry" sections inserted into law.

this is a democracy. public outcry is REQUIRED.

wigglin jeff is a couple of exits PAST the uncanny valley.

hey brett, i certainly don't come to boing boing to be lectured about the state of our nations landfills. I CAME HERE TO DANCE

**shake shake shake**

whenever i hear about somebody getting paid well for a cool job i dont usually think oh that b*****d how dare he i think d**n i wish i got paid that much to have a cool job but then again they were probably sour anyway

>Puh-leez! Everyone who's not an idiot knows that the reptilian overlords killed off all the giants.

I hope they were killed off - I'd hate to think that there were living giants running around without their skeletons.

That's fascinating and depressing.

well, that tears it. if they can't be bothered to do basic fact checking, you can't trust any of the rest of their agenda-filled "reporting".

I tend not to trust skeptics. There's something suspicious about them.

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#1, #3 - nerds, yes. But that should be obvious because you're reading BoingBoing.

It's a tautology. But not reversible. Ie, all readers of BoingBoing are nerds, but not all nerds are readers of BoingBoing.

And, with that tar-brush, I dub thee....

"handle-mounted groinprong"

This explains those kids down at the mall sneaking around with a pig's head in their pockets.

my RSS feed is always late -- I just submitted this, then saw it on the front page.

7min interview w/ some good sounds and some early clips of the 50s/60s weirdness.

There are some cartoons on his official site.

Who knew he had a MySpace page.

Well, at least 2400 people, so I guess it's only a surprise to us few MySpace curmudgeons.

I remember playing Stockhausen tapes when I came home from college, and my father thought something was wrong with the stereo.

As opposed to, say, only slightly unique (comments the pedant).

I got no complaints. Mark has loosened up a lot, too.

Since a steamy intent has been demonstrated, I give my blessing to the resultant union.

I'm embarrassed to remember the college incident where I had somebody marker my entire back just to have a chance to win a Spinal Tap t-shirt. They weren't sharpies, but they still lasted pretty d**n long.

Beautiful wedding.

But, steampunk-labelers, where's the steam?

Reminds me of the Jeetertech virtual reality system by Scott Scarboro cc 1992:

The Jeetertech virtual reality system, which was on display at CyberArts, is the brainchild of San Francisco artist Scott Scarboro. It consists of a beat-up motorcycle helmet with an old-fashioned Viewmaster on the front and tinny headphones mounted on the sides. I placed it on my head and sniffed: Shaving cream? Nope, Vicks Vapor-rub, Scarboro said. After a minute of staring at the faded Viewmaster slides, I took the thing off. "I guess this is satirical, huh?" Scarboro, poker-faced, replied, "Well, some people see it that way...."

Okay, I can't condone collective punishment.

On the other hand, I totally respect his cell-phone hatin'!

On the other other hand, if he'd just get a cell-phone jammer, jammer panels or jammer paint, he wouldn't be in this predicament.

....

an audio-locating auto-taser to zap owners of loud obnoxious cellphones? oooooh, Santa, bring me a whole stockingful, that's better than the tv-zapper!

Instead of Jacques, the choice of 'Zissou' would have been a tiny minute shred of a scrap of an ort of a hint of sense of humour, instead of majorly dumping the burdensome burden onto the obvious Mr. Splashy Pants.

This is a great example of typewriter art (and thus concrete/visual poetry, by extension?), but I don't know if I'd say it's a forerunner of ASCII art.

ASCII art is the ASCII chars, yes, just like your finding on the typewriter -- but it's also all the chars found on a (usually) fixed grid (vertical, if not horizontal) and with no individual shading variations (cf key-pressure on a typewriter) aside from the relative solidity of the char.

OTOH, that's a semantic quibble?

Jeez, Al -- 15,16 years ago is no longer wonderful?

Remind me not to talk to you about 27-line mechanical television recordings from 1920s.

Hey -- old news that we never heard about (like, you know, vintage ads, in-car record players, and the like) is a wonderful thing!

Ever breathlessly tell somebody about a book you just read, over to have their eyes glaze over when they heard it was published more than two weeks ago?

"Sorry, old news."

I'm not sure what I dislike the most -- people whining about the perceived political slant of posts, or unapeeling puns (made by garden-variety liberals, no doubt).

It's true in the US, too. Everyone's an infringer. At every talk I give, I say, "Is there anyone in this room who isn't a copyright criminal?" No one ever puts up a hand -- not at universities, law schools, technology conferences, or at motion picture studios.

Uh, waittaminute. "Everyone in the US" is not a subset of "everyone at every talk Cory gives."

I know I haven't attended one of his talks. And I strongly suspect that my grandmother hasn't, either.

That's an overly broad generalization. Nevertheless, the point is well made about a police state using overly broad laws.

tase-proof jacket or vest, or whatever.

I hear you, Billy.

I'd love to have this collection -- it looks fantastic! But at $114 there is no way I can justify it to my fiancee. :-(

If, you know, there were _more_ than 1000 copies, it might be affordable. The arts and crafts movement created some beautiful works, but there's something to be said for the age of large-scale mechanical reproduction, as well.

Careful -- although the strips themselves may be public domain, the cleaned-up version in your book may not be.

Taschen can't copyright public domain work, but they do hold some rights to their clean-up efforts.

As to how much "some" is, I have no idea. But I'm sure there's some legal difference between that dollar-store video-rip DVD, and the Criterion Collection version, namean?

Barnacle Press, above, posts scans from original newspapers (er, quite often microfilm, which accounts for their often poor repro quality). So even though they have (some) Little Sammy Sneeze, it doesn't interfere with the Checker publication, becuase they aren't using Checkers remastered, cleaned-up etc. version (if you've ever tried scanning & cleaning up b&w line art from a poor source, it ain't no bed of roses).

You might want to check out some of the weirdness over at vintage-comics site Barnacle Press, like The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead -- a DotRF-like strip, and a few minor McCay's, and a youtube of a Little Nemo Short from 1911.

alphaville

This is a cool example of constrained writing, from yet another piece of constrained writing:

TCITH was the first of the Beginner Books, which (across the series) use only 379 words, "considered the basic vocabulary for young readers".

Eventually the limb ended up in a barbecue smoker in a storage facility.

Why, exactly, are there OTHER words the the article containing this sentence?

Yeah, the store saw her.

And instead of confronting her BEFORE she checked out, they waited until she walked out.

C'mon.

There's dealing with shrinkage, and there's deliberate humiliation.

Yeah, the store saw her.

And instead of confronting her BEFORE she checked out, they waited until she walked out.

C'mon.

There's dealing with shrinkage, and there's deliberate humiliation.

People ARE free to believe whatever they want about religion -- but that doesn't mean they're not idiots if they refuse to think about it.

big props to andrewjc for having the contrarian-balls to speak up in generally-religion-bashing thread.

The problem isn't religious people, the problem is religious idiots and religious nuts (not sure if these are separate groups). Sadly, the latter outnumber the former.

infamous still means bad to me. I don't think its shifted enough yet.

Anonymous, you must be new here.

1) Don't you agree to the EULA by USING THE PRODUCT?

2) you're anonymous.

Dan't data letter #186 (scroll down) also turns on this crank.

#5, you're looking for a #9

Tip: look for an Oliver in the film "Naked Lunch," disguised as a "Mojahedin." Watch as it transforms into an obscene hallucination ....