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Steel velcro that supports 35 tons/square meter

Boing Boing -- Metaklett is a steel velcro-like substance created by Josef Mair and teammates at Technical University of Munich. One square meter of it supports up to 35 tons at temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. Conventional hook-and-loop fasteners are used for everything from bandages to cable boots in aircraft and securing prosthetic limbs. Mair thinks his spring-steel fastener is tough enough to be used...     09-08
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Upgrade Complete: game whose objective is to upgrade the game

Boing Boing -- Upgrade Complete is an hilarious Flash-game where the objective is to complete all the upgrades needed to play the game. I haven't had this much fun since I spent three days downloading a 50GB World of Warcraft "upgrade" that made the game stop running! Better even than spending a week patching Black and White! A wonderful homage to games like Achievement Unlocked.Upgrade Complete(via Kottke)     09-08
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Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left

Boing Boing -- Yesterday (Sept 7), Samoa's drivers switched from driving on the right to driving on the left. I've had Swedish friends recount the thrilling tale of .se's change, which involved midnight road-crews changing signs and repainting road-markers, and morning radio DJs exhorting all and sundry to remember to change over. The Samoans are changing over thanks to Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegao...     09-08
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Converted Toyota amphibious van crosses NZ's Cook Strait

Boing Boing -- A reader writes, "Aeronautic machinists Adam Turnbull and Dan Melling converted their Toyota van - called 'Roofliss' - into an amphibious vessel.Yesterday they drove it across Cook Strait (between the North and South Islands of New Zealand)"Men drive van across Cook Strait     09-08
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Gamer motto illustrated with stitch markers

Boing Boing -- This crafty little sweet from Etsy seller Proserpia illustrates my favorite gamer-slang motto "Less QQ [crying -- the Qs look like crying eyes], more pew pew [shooting]" -- in other words, "Stop whining and fight like an orc!" Set of 4 Less QQ More PewPew Stitch Markers(via Wonderland)     09-08
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Al Franken draws map of the US

Boing Boing -- Here's Senator Al Franken drawing a surprisingly detailed map of the USA, live on stage at the Minnesota State Fair. One cynic of my acquaintance claims he's tracing. I dunno, looks freehand to me (even though I'll freely admit that it would be easy to create indented trace-lines by using a pen with no cartridge in advance. Still, wouldn't it be cool if this was part of every senatorial race? Sena...     09-08
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Louis Rosen, physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb, dies.

Boing Boing -- The "Los Alamos lifer" died at age 91 at his home in New Mexico.He was one of the last surviving links to the scientific giants who had created the atomic age -- men like J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi as well as Dr. Teller. But more than that, he had also advanced the era.Dr. Rosen was a lifer at Los Alamos. Where other scientists drifted away, he spent his career there, and built the mos...     09-08
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Police Line: Do not cross.

Boing Boing -- A lovely, noirish tat by the talented skin-n-ink artist David Allen (via Chuck Anderson)     09-08
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Arcade in Congo

Boing Boing -- Tomas on Flickr took this amazing shot of a video-arcade in Congo.Arcade(via Wonderland)     09-08
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Child-safety software sells your kids' IM conversations to market-research companies

Boing Boing -- You know that "child-safety" software that monitors your kids' every click and sends it to some spyware creep whose main profit-center is running national firewalls for totalitarian states who use the same service to figure out whom to hood, kidnap and torture? Turns out that these same sleazeballs also monitor your kids' IM sessions and sell the info to market-research companies that want to fine...     09-08
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

Boing Boing -- Mathematics, as presented by Clifford Pickover, is a palace filled with awe-inspiring curiosities.His Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics is a 500-page, full-color tour of mathematical highlights from 150 Million B.C. to 2007. Each two-page spread has a fascinating story about a mathematical principle, discovery, puzzle, artifact, or perso...     09-08
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Recently on Offworld: Vectorpark on iPhone, PAX info influx, sex lives of Famicom programmers

Boing Boing -- Recently on Offworld, this weekend's Penny Arcade Expo opening has brought with it a tidal wave of new game details and announcements: Ubisoft crosses Splinter Cell with Keyboard Cat, Grasshopper's No More Heroes 2 goes 8-bit (on purpose), 2K reveals BioShock 2's multiplayer in motion, Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert's DeathSpank gets its debut trailer, and Valve show off Left 4 Dead 2's undead ...     09-08
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Haunted Mansion embroidery

Boing Boing -- Etsy seller Giddygirlie makes these wonderful Haunted Mansion embroideries to order.Haunted Mansion Hitchhiking Ghosts CUSTOM embroidery(via Craft) Previously:Haunted Mansion ringtones - Boing Boing Haunted Mansion tombstone winner "burial" photos - Boing Boing The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland - Boing Boing Doombuggies.coms 10th anniversary Haunted Mansion bash: a ... Vintage MAD-style ...     09-07
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Normalcy is the future

Boing Boing -- Here's some inspiring words from Bruce Sterling on how normal the future will be, taken from his Webstock address. Well, let's consider some consensus notions for the future of glamorous Webland. I totally dote on these, for a host of good reason. There are zillions of 'em, stuff like mobile robots, 3d printers, online video, locative tech, quantum computing, social networks. With an almighty effo...     09-07
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Singapore's second-creepiest animatronic exhibit

Boing Boing -- Dave sez, "In Singapore's Fort Canning Park is an old WWII bunker that was repurposed a decade or two ago as a tourist attraction. They installed a number of lifelike animatronic British generals so visitors could experience what it must have been like as they deliberated surrendering to the Japanese. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they've oiled their robots in a while..."Under ordinary circu...     09-07
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Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)

Boing Boing -- This is not the first video of daily highlights from a NASA mission, but it just struck me now, watching today's silent vlog from STS-128, that this video really is amazing. It is amazing because it is equal parts banal and mindblowing. And all I can think is: just as our grandparents were wowed by silent black and white film, our grandchildren will one day find these little YouTubes from space qu...     09-06
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Damien Hirst chargest teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation

Boing Boing -- A teenaged artist who was forced to stop selling his collages when Damien Hirst sent threats to his gallery (the collages incorporated ironic images of Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull sculpture) is now facing a possible jail sentence because he took a box of pencils from a Hirst installation as a prank and offered to return them only if Hirst would let him go back to displaying and selling his art...     09-05
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Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities

Boing Boing -- Chinese gamers shut down the relaunch of "Hot Blooded Legend," a beloved, classic game, by massing their avatars at city gates and stopping others from entering. They were upset that the relaunch didn't do justice to the original. Many years ago, the online game Hot-blooded Legend had been the classic game that touched an entire generation of games.As all types of new games rushed onto the market,...     09-05
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Kenyan blacksmiths make bellows from cement sacks

Boing Boing -- Afrigadget has a wonderful post on two ingenious blacksmiths in Lamu, Kenya, whose bellows have been improvised from cement sacks. Lamu Cement-bag Bellows (AfriGadget) from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. Adam and Abdul make all types of items, but they told me that their main products are anchors, which range from small to large (2000-5000/= or $26-65) and, chisels and coconut shellers. They create a lot ...     09-05
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How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers

Boing Boing -- Glyn sez, "The British Government's official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry, the BBC has revealed. The BBC then went on to show how 136 people saying they used file-sharing software was turned into 7 million illegal file sharers - the figure now being used by the government to justify a proposal to disconnec...     09-05
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