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Click here to see the image above in the wild. News story, auto-translated to English in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. More on Google Maps. (thanks, BB reader Kjetil Rydland in Norway!)

Boing Boing

On the drive back from Madison yesterday, I listened to a lecture by MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle on the very personal relationships we have with objects, particularly the objects that help us think. Turkle talked about her 2008 book, Falling for Science, a collection of interviews with MIT students, and established scientists, about the objects that first drew their minds to math...

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Stephen Fry spricht auf der Intelligence² Debate über die katholische Kirche. Er fängt sehr höflich an (und bleibt es auch), teilt aber im Verlauf des Videos immer heftiger aus, auf seine eigene Gentleman-Art und die Metapher zum Verhältnis der katholischen Kirche zur Sexualität bei Minute 16 ist so grandios wie treffend. Und das gefrorene Lächeln auf den G...

Boing Boing

The official Muppets Studio channel on YouTube just keeps getting better and better. First "Bohemian Rhapsody," now this: Beaker performing the Kansas prog-rock classic "Dust in the Wind," and being pelted by caustic overlay annotations from anonymous strangers. Video Link: Beaker's Ballad.(via Laughing Squid)

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A Munich-based design studio is proposing a unique alternative to washing clothes by hand in developing countries. Swirl is the concept design for a giant candy-striped ball that you can stuff your clothes in; roll it around using removable handlebars or by kicking it around, and that rolling motion launders the clothes inside. It has the added benefit, the studio claims, of doubling as a...

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Passagen des Buchs “Axolotl Roadkill” basieren auf einem anderen Buch, sind teilweise davon abgeschrieben. Die Reaktion der sonst nach stärkstem Urheberrecht Rufenden offenbart Doppelmoral.

Die siebzehnjährige Helen Hegemann hat mit “Axolotl Roadkill” ein erfolgreiches Romandebüt hingelegt:

Das Buch stieg auf den vorderen Rängen der „Spiegel“-Bestsellerliste ein; derzeit findet man es dort auf...

There, I Fixed It

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Favorite Comment: Fixer Stevo says, “Now we can watch paint drying AND grass growing, at the same time!”

Slashdot

A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, "The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom."

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Hack a Day

[Nick] tipped us off about a guide to unlock extra features on Panasonic televisions. The hack works on the G10 models of plasma TVs and uses the service menu to gain access to the EEPROM memory. With a few quick steps you can change some data with a built in hex editor, unlocking several new settings menus, or bricking your entertainment centerpiece. We’ve seen some Samsung TV hacking in the p...