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Little digital video camera 
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Fri, 09 Jan. 2009
This ittty bitty DV camera could be used where photography is not permitted by authorities. It's $147.00.
# The Tiny DV Camera Recorder
# Thumb size alloy housing
# Manually and sound activated recording
# Web camera for
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Web site to tilt-shift your photos
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Thu, 08 Jan. 2009
TiltShiftMaker.com gives your photos that delightful tilt-shift look. (Above: From an original photo by Daveness_98)
Tilt-shift
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"Europe Without Barriers" logo appear on barriers
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Thu, 08 Jan. 2009
If this is real, it's my favorite photo so far this year. (Via Neatorama)
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Presidential aging photos
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Thu, 08 Jan. 2009
CNN has a series of photos showing how the stress of being president takes a physical toll in the form of accelerated aging. Above, a guess at what Obama will look like after 4 years.
The president ages twice as fast while in office,
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House prices plummet in Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Thu, 08 Jan. 2009
One good thing about the gloomy economy -- more people can afford to buy a house. For example, for $500 you can buy this three bedroom bungalow (below) in Detroit. From Les Christie's story in CNN:
The real estate market is so awful that buyer
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Jessica Joslin exhibition in LA on Saturday, January 10th, 7-10 pm
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Extraordinary sculptor Jessica Joslin will premiere her new work at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles this Saturday.
Show here: Gustav. 19"x9"x16".
Antique brass findings and hardware, bone, velvet, satin, embroidered glove leather, antique
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Sea ice area returns to 1979 level
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Based on satellite observations, the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center reports that the amount of sea ice on the planet is the highest in 29 years, when satellite rec
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Trailer for Psych-Out (1968)
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Trailer for the 1968 movie Psych-Out, starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg, and Dean Stockwell.
From
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Short documentary about urban foragers in Chicago
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Interesting documentary about a couple of Chicagoans who find and eat edible weed
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Sign for pharmacy in Burkina Faso
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Hypostylin uploaded a few photos of a fabulous sign in a Burkina Faso pharmacy. Most of the people in the poster are suffering from horrible conditions, but the illustration for
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Device alerts drivers to red-light and speed cameras
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
In the LA Times' technology blog, Alex Pham writes about the Cobra XRS 9960G radar and laser detector, which can detect red light cameras and speed cameras.
The Chicago company does this by maintaining a database of intersections know
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Profile of artist Ted Johnson
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
I enjoyed this short video profile of Ted Johnson, an artist who makes delightful k
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Jay Leno's wind turbine
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Ed Begley, Jr, says:
Thought I would send along this video from my friend Jay Leno about a new wind turbine called the MagWind from Enviro-Energies that he and I will be installing soon. As many of you have asked about "vertical axis wind turbines," I thought you'd like to see the latest
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Article about quasi-perpetual motion technology
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Randell Mills, founder of BlackLight Power, claims to have invented a reactor that makes hydrogen atoms drop to an energy state below ground level, which causes them to release "100 times as much energy as you’d get by just burning the hydr
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Clay Shirky on traditional media: "2009 is going to be a bloodbath."
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Tom Teodorczuk of the Guardian interviews BB guest blogger alum Clay Shirky about the future of media. For traditional media, he says, "2009 is going to be a bloodbath."
The things that the Huffington Post or the Daily Beast have are good
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Webcam border stake-out
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Justin Hall twittered this website:
"The Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition has joined BlueServo in a public-private partnership to deploy the Virtual Community Watch, an innovative real-time surveillance prog
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Cookie Monster eats World Trade towers in 1976
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Cookie Monster devours a pair of buildings that resemble the the Twin Towers. From the cover of the October 1976 issue of Sesame Street magazine.
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U.S. household debt down for fist time since feds started tracking it in 1952
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. citizens have suddenly become quite thrifty.
Usually, frugality is good for individuals and for the economy. Savings serve as a reservoir of capital that can be used to finance investment, w
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What it feels like to die in a black hole
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, author of Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, tells the entertaining story of what it's like to be sucked into a black hole.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole
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Naughty speed camera prank
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Some high school students in Maryland are reportedly taping fake license plates to their cars, then speeding past speed cameras so that owners of the cars with the real license plates get fined.
Students from Richard Montgomery High School dubbed the prank the Speed Camera "Pimping" game, according to a parent of a student enrolled at one of the high schools.
Originating from Woot
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