Hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang is living in Singapore, and he's finding it difficult to board the public transit system because he habitually carries so many RFID-embedded cards that the… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO graft the RFID from a payment-card onto your phone

Disney's put the original Abe Lincolnbot Mark I from the 1964 New York World's Fair on display at the gallery at Disney Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World. Walt Disney:… Read the rest of the article: Lincolnbot Mark I

Jessica Harrison's wounded porcelain dolls depict china maidens with horrible, disfiguring injuries. The gore and the saccharine sweetness make quite a counterpoint. Jessica Harrison (via Neatorama) Delicate porcelain handguns Half-and-half… Read the rest of the article: Horribly disfigured porcelain dolls

Conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista Hogan share part of their brain, and, seemingly, can pass sensory impressions and thoughts between each other: Adding to the conundrum, of course, are their… Read the rest of the article: Conjoined twins with shared brains can pass sensory information to one another

An anonymous reader writes, Crutchfield Dermatology, in the Minneapolis area, requires its patients to give them the copyright for everything they write on the Internet, in exchange for service. The… Read the rest of the article: Crutchfield Dermatology of Minneapolis claims copyright in everything you write, forever, to keep you from posting complaints on the net

South African writer Lauren Beukes's second novel Zoo City, is a remarkable, gritty, noir urban fantasy set in a Johannesburg where criminals and sinners are marked out by animal familiars… Read the rest of the article: Zoo City: hard-boiled South African urban fantasy makes murder out of magic

Here's a video transfer from an 1899 film shot by Thomas Edison of a rail-crossing of the Brooklyn Bridge. As with all Edison films of the day, it ends spectacularly,… Read the rest of the article: Train crossing Brooklyn Bridge: Thomas Edison film, 1899

Security researchers compromised what they believed to be a control server for the Zeus botnet, but after examining it in detail, they concluded that it was a fake, designed to… Read the rest of the article: Botmasters include fake control interface to ensnare security researchers

A young Asian man wearing a mask that made him appear to be an old white man boarded an Air Canada flight from Hong Kong to Toronto. Midway through the… Read the rest of the article: Young Asian refugee claimant sneaks onto Air Canada flight from HK disguised as old white guy

Two studies (Viable skin efficiently absorbs and metabolizes bisphenol A, J.Chemosphere.2010.09.058; and Variability and Predictors of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentrations during Pregnancy, Environ Health Perspect) have linked handling thermal receipt… Read the rest of the article: You can absorb Bisphenol A by handling thermal receipt paper

New Zealand's three-strikes Internet law is back. Under this proposed copyright law, people who are accused without proof of multiple copyright infringements can eventually face disconnection from the Internet, along… Read the rest of the article: New Zealand proposes "guilty until proven innocent" copyright law to punish accused infringers

About 90 cops will be docked a day's pay for illegally removing their nametags during the G20 crackdown in Toronto. Toronto police chief Bill Blair said that the officers removed… Read the rest of the article: Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day's pay

Nerdy Apple Bottom's five year old son is a monster Scooby Doo fan and so he wanted to dress up as Velma Daphne for Hallowe'en. He made an awesome Velma,… Read the rest of the article: 5 year old boy dresses up as Daphne for Hallowe'en, other moms have gender panice

Microsoft has just released its Kinect camera, a USB device that allows you to control your computer with gestures. It incorporates a motorized pivot, an RGB camera, depth-sensor and multi-array… Read the rest of the article: $2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!)

Andy makes and sells groovy scrap-metal light-up "tripods" that look like aliens; he uses the money to fund an enormous, ambitious steampunk pirate ship for Burning Man. The engineer who… Read the rest of the article: Junkbot tripod maker needs firmware so he can send his steampunk pirate ship to Burning Man

A TSA bomb appraisal officer in Philadelphia International Airport repeatedly "pranked" fliers by slipping a bag of white powder (creatine, a nutritional supplement, being used in equipment testing) into their… Read the rest of the article: TSA official slipped white powder into fliers' bags, told them they'd been caught with coke and were under arrest

Strange Horizons, the decade-old and most excellent online science fiction magazine, is holding its annual fund-raiser: "Strange Horizons relies on donations from readers in order to stay in business. This… Read the rest of the article: Strange Horizons online sf magazine annual fundraiser

Michael sends us Bad Things That Could Happen, "A great, fun film that uses giant props made out of cardboard to show bad things that could happen. Made by This… Read the rest of the article: Video: Bad Things That Could Happen, starring enormous cardboard props and your secret fears

London design firm Berg and advertising agency Dentsu produced this short video, "Media Surfaces: Incidental Media," demonstrating a vision for a future in which media surfaces are everywhere, but are… Read the rest of the article: Imagining an augmented reality future that's not an advertising hell

From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, This is My Name's anti-consumerist holiday graphic from 2009, which is also apparently available in sticker form. idolcoupon Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on… Read the rest of the article: Idolatry coupon for Black Friday