February 2008
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January 2008
Episode 87 - Mysterious Universe →
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The Stephenville UFO sightings just turned out to be a bunch of F-16s on a training exercise! Ah, I can finally sleep at night now that the mystery has been solved. Thank you USAF. I knew we could count on you to set the record straight.
In keeping with the above theme of questionable news we have a variety of ghostly accounts for you on this...
TED's Miro player launches today →
TED and Miro announce the TED Miro player — a free, downloadable, open-source media player that comes pre-loaded with TED’s channels and content guide. Download the TED Miro player here, for Mac and for Windows. Using the channels, you can browse TEDTalks by Theme — “A Greener Future,” “Africa: The Next Chapter,” and many more. And you have access to the...
Authority →
Recently, our forums had a discussion about gravity, and it got me thinking about some of the things we take for granted. Forum member ‘Robin Goodfellow’ wanted to know why we think of gravity the way we do, and what would be wrong with an alternative idea based on gravity as a pushing force rather than a pulling force. A group of forum members were quick to invoke the revered name of Einstein,...
This Is Nollywood screens in the US →
TEDGlobal star Franco Sacchi’s documentary This Is Nollywood will play at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston February 1 and 10. February 1 is the opening night of the African Film Festival at the MFA. More US screenings are set for LA and Portland, Oregon. This Is Nollywood tells the story of the booming Nigerian film scene, estimated to be the world’s third largest film industry....
Pangea Day: Hear Jehane Noujaim on NPR →
Pangea Day — the global film festival, happening May 10, 2008 — comes from a wish made by filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, who won the TED Prize in 2006. Listen to Jehane talk about her vision for the festival, which is taking busily taking shape now. And it’s not too late to submit your film for the February 15, 2008, deadline! Submit a film. Share a story. The world will be watching....
Zipcar and beyond: Robin Chase on TED.com →
Robin Chase rose to fame by founding Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business, but that was one of her smaller ideas. In this presentation she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a no-fee mesh network as sprawling as the United States Interstate highway system. But how could you build a free wireless system that vast and...
Wilderness Information / Pour Les Jeunes →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today on Boing Boing tv: Wilderness Information Network, an eco-art installation in the woods of the northern New York state. Director Cary Peppermint and the Department of Ecology Art and Technology — more than 30 artists in all — contributed to this project using digital technologies,...
Falco finally honored in San Francisco with... →
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Following up on a pair (1, 2) of Boing Boing tv episodes in which monochrom explores the posthumous legacy of ’80s pop icon Falco, who is memorialized in Austria with honorific stairs, Jacob Appelbaum says:
Some anonymous fans of both Vienna, San Francisco and Falco appear to have taken their love to the stairs. Specifically the Coit Tower stairs! Snip:...
Avian abductions: Fact or fiction? →
Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo recently posted an article about avian abduction accounts. In North America there are numerous legends and apparent sightings of ‘Thunderbirds’ - large birds believed to swoop down and carry away human victims.
Some believe that these creatures might be behind reports of children who have been attacked and pulled into the air by birds. Others may be skeptical about...
We're made for zooming →
It its newest issue, Newsweek publishes a detailed story on Microsoft’s Seadragon technology and the man behind it, Blaise Aguera y Arcas (who premiered it at TED07 last March, watch his speech), and discusses what it calls the “zoom interface”:
The Internet, it seems, doesn’t take advantage of how humans best process information. Evolution granted Homo Sapiens a high...
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A vision for TED: Chris Anderson on TED.com →
At the time of this talk, TED’s future was in the balance. Its founder, Richard Saul Wurman, had just sold the conference to Chris Anderson’s foundation, and had announced that this 2002 conference was the last TED he would run. Many in the audience had concluded that the conference would not survive the transition to a new owner, and few had signed up for the following year’s...
Codehunters: capsule anime by Ben Hibon. →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today on Boing Boing tv: Codehunters, a short animé film by UK-based director Ben Hibon of stateless films, produced with Glasgow-based Axis Animation. From the introduction:
The port city of Lhek is on the brink of collapse. A Pacific Rim state in a not too distant Asian future with no borders, no...
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Ape Lad: Aloysius Koford, Mountain Man. →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Aloysius P. Koford, the great-grandpappy of cartoonist Adam “Ape Lad” Koford, recounts his history as a Mountain Man — kind of like being a hobo, as he explains, only more “grub,” less clothing. Previously on Boing Boing tv:
Ape Lad: The True Hollywood Story of Aloysius...
About Skeptical Activism and Cheating Psychics →
I just got back from The Amaz!ng Meeting 5.5 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and I am wrecked. Just wrecked. I’ve had two cups of coffee and it’s not 10 AM. My thinky meats are made of mush. I am in no shape to write you a compelling blog entry.
Luckily, we have the best listeners in the world and I can let one of them have the floor. I got this note while I was in Florida, and was so ridiculously...
Vlog: Mark Frauenfelder - Rice Demographics →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today on Boing Boing tv, a vlog from Mark Frauenfelder:
I saw you at the Skirball Center over the weekend. Well, not you exactly. I saw a single grain of rice that represented you. In fact, there was one grain of rice for every person in the Americas there, arranged in categorized piles: the number of...
Vlog: 50 Years of LEGO -- Ultimate Collector's... →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today on BBtv, a vlog from Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson: Here are several evenings of my life condensed into 3:38 of time lapse footage as I assemble the “Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon” LEGO set, the largest yet sold, with over five thousand individual elements.
My thanks to...
The Burning Question (Part I) →
A listener e-mailed us last week:
It occurred to me, as I was having a conversation with a friend the other day, that I don’t think you’ve covered the topic of ‘spontaneous human combustion’ (SHC) on the show. I dimly recall you mentioned it in passing in one of your early shows, but never went into it in any depth. I think this might be of interest to your listeners (maybe even on 5×5 instead of...
Looking at celebrity: Alison Jackson on TED.com →
Why can’t you make it through the checkout line without flipping through page after page of pregnant celebs in Us magazine? Alison Jackson knows why. In her work, she photographs the people you think you recognize doing what you really want to see. And in the process, she’s questioning our shared desire to get personal with celebrity culture. Funny and sometimes shocking,...
Hot Couture at the Crucible →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Firefighters, models in flaming pasties and blowtorch antlers, hot contortionists, and geisha stiltwalkers all gathered for a fire-themed fashion show at The Crucible in Oakland. Xeni was there, and brings back this report.
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Ray Comfort is “Mostly” an Idiot →
I really don’t care what people believe. I don’t. As Thomas Jefferson famously quipped, “it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” I respect the freedom of each individual to make up their own mind about the big questions of life, especially those for which there are no or can be no objective answers.
But I do care about logic and intellectual honesty. Fallacious arguments and intellectual...
Sunday Secrets →
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Jan 28th - University of Georgia Jan 29th - University of California at Riverside (facebook event…
History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks were an... →
From the History Channel’s show Conspiracies: Anthrax Attacks explaining how the weaponized strain could only come from the United States BioDefense Program.
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Xenu gets h4×0rd →
The Church of Scientology suffered a small setback this week. A group of hackers who call themselves “Anonymous” has declared war on Scientology by taking down a few of the church’s websites.
Anonymous is a collection of internet users from many different countries. They have made similar attacks against several targets, including a social website called Habbo Hotel and a few white supremacist...
Followup: Stephenville UFO →
Earlier I reported on the UFO activity seen over Stephenville, Texas. There have been some interesting developments in this case.
The Air Force initially claimed that no fighter jets were in the air at the time, despite some reports which claimed that two jets chased the UFO at one stage. They now say that yes there were actually fighter jets on training exercises on the night in question. The...
Build Rome in a Day →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Boing Boing tv’s Matt West visits Machine Project, where scholars and gladiators have gathered to reconstruct Rome in exactly 24 hours.
Bionic Eyesore →
I’m sorry, when I hear the words “bionic eye” I do not think of a contact lens on steroids. I think of the Six Million Dollar Man and Steve Austin’s robotic eye that can zoom in on the bad guy or a license plate or maybe even look down a girl’s shirt from 2 blocks feet away.
So yes, this new bionic eye that’s in the news is a bit of a misnomer but so what? It sure got my attention. It also...
Stopping The Next Pearl Harbor →
I believe this is how the next government organized terrorist event will play out if we do not stop them.
By Daniel F
Source: http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2007/11/stopping-next-pearl-harbor-if-enough.html If enough people read this essay, we just might stop the Bush administration and Israel from engineering the next Pearl Harbor. The Japanese “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor was publicized...
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Steampunk Tree House →
Can’t see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Xeni visits the Steampunk Tree House, a 30-foot-tall interactive sculpture created by a group of artists in Oakland, CA, and assembled for the first time at Burning Man. More than 60 people helped to create it, and in today’s episode, you’ll hear from project participants Alan Rorie, Nathaniel...