Agatha H. and the Airship City is the first prose novel about Agatha Clay, the heroine of their Hugo-winning webcomic Girl Genius. I've been reading the Foglios since I was a sprout poring over Dragon magazine, and doting on Phil Foglio's back-page comic What's New? — Read the rest
Etsy seller WeirdlyCute (an apt name!) makes these "Zombie Stitch" necklaces that make it appear that your head has been sewn on. Alice and I went as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein last year, and this would have made a dandy addition to my Sugru neck-bolts. — Read the rest
Apple's co-founder and longtime CEO was a "very challenging photo subject." Photographer Albert Watson, however, once heard that his 2006 photo of Jobs–currently serving as a memorial at Apple's homepage–was the entrepreneur's favorite.
Prints are available for $16. Designer Yoni Alter also published a cheat sheet, if you can't figure them all out!
Do you like Daffy Duck? Do you like 1970s-style fantasy-themed heavy rock? Then you will like this. [Merrie Melodies via Flooby Nooby]
The ZenBook, from Asus, is a Windows 7 "ultrabook" hewing closely to the MacBook Air's mold: an 11" or 13" display, teardrop shape, SSD as standard, and i5 or i7 processors from Intel. Previous challengers to Apple's popular laptop (and subnotebooks of yore) suffered from uncompetitive prices; this one, however, matches it at $999 for the base model — albeit with a slower processor.
Discount airline Ryanair continues to wage war on dignity and comfort with a plan to remove all but one of the toilets from its aircraft, leaving 200+ people to share one bog:
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The prospect of only one toilet being shared by 195 passengers and six crew caused alarmed in the travel industry.
The malware that infected unmanned aerial drones in the US Air Force "is routinely used to steal log-in and password data from people who gamble or play games like Mafia Wars online," notes the Associated Press, citing an anonymous defense official. — Read the rest
Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post.
He was the designer and original developer of the C programming language, and a central figure in the development of Unix. — Read the rest
Here's a nice gallery of video-game-themed fine art remixes, including this curiously appropriate Escher/Portal remix.
(via JWZ)
Sam sez, "Copyright laws are supposed to spur innovation by protecting creators' rights. But after 400 years of legal wrangling, and the complexities of new technology, the law has become muddied. Instead, it's now being used to protect powerful corporations and maintain monopolies. — Read the rest
Jeff Simmermon says:
— Read the restI am not sure if you saw this Funny or Die clip about insufferable coffee snobs — but it REALLY reminded me of the whole "iced-espresso" incident I wrote about that you promoted on BoingBoing all those years ago.
Here's Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig in Boston NYC: "If this movement can be identified as a fight against the corruption that our political system has become, then it has the potential to bridge left and right in a way that could become much more generative, much more important, because people on the left and people on the right look at the crony capitalism of this system and they look at the way in which money from Wall Street bought the regulatory infrastructure that led to the collapse of 2008. — Read the rest
In a remarkable feat of balloon twistery, Twisty Kristy made this full-sized balloon Tardis for eAtomic Comics at Chandler Fashion Square Mall.
(via Neatorama)
Geert Matthys, research and development manager at Barco, a Belgian company specializing in high-definition projectors and displays, gives an explanation inside a fully immersive 360-degree flight simulator in Kuurne October 11, 2011. Barco has unveiled what company executives claim is the ultimate fighter jet training tool designed to reproduce reality exactly as a pilot sees it. — Read the rest
Here's a poodle styled to look like My Little Pony. Visit The Telegraph to see more full-size photos of the creature.
This just isn't fair. Wall Street bankers are making less today than they were in 2007!
This year's Core77 Design Awards trophy is a mold. The winners also get a supply of crayons to melt for casting.
— Read the restThis year we invited New York design team Rich Brilliant Willing to create the first trophy. Their approach was to design an artifact that could be employed in the creation of multiples, honoring the kind of group effort that designers and their clients engage in every day.
The feds believe they've nabbed the man who hacked into the personal e-mail accounts of celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, whose nude pics were then spread out all over the web. His name is Christopher Chaney, and he's from Jacksonville, FL. He is charged with accessing protected computers without authorization; damaging protected computers without authorization; wiretapping; and aggravated identity theft. — Read the rest
Watch the creative Needham brothers (who built the underwater bubble fort that Maggie wrote about in August) demonstrate their awesome moon jumper on tonight's episode of National Geographic's Mad Scientists.
— Read the restHost John Bowler tries out the Needham brothers' Moon Jumper invention.
