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• Pakistani Starfleet Explorers
  

  Allow me, please, to introduce you to The Pakistani Starfleet Explorers, a project by Kenny "Hassan" Irwin, an artist based in Palm Springs, CA:

  [M]illions of courageous men and women heroes that span the cosmos who know no bounds, no limits and explore in a bold way as far as their Bedford Truck Starships will take them to the very ends of galaxies we know so little about to learn more about & in turn learn more about ourselves. There is literally 1000s of stories to be told about these adventurous heros who comprise the flagship of Earth based Starfleets under direction of UNIPASA [United National Inter Planetary Space and Air Association], A galactic village of federal star-travel achievers represented by countless 10,000s of intelligent species which include humans. Yes, indeed.............we must not forget the Pakistani Starfleet have saved more lives than you can imagine from fate less than kind to sowing the seeds of new emergency civilizations to making new friends they knew they never had with life never seen before. They are true bold achievers where others may ask "what is out there?" and the people of the Pakistani Starfleet say......."we shall see".

  View the massive Flickr set here. I think this one is my favorite so far.

  You can purchase prints of his work here.

  (via Tim Bailey)

  The epic photoshopper behind this project is also the guy behind the awesome "outsider news" YouTube channel Dovetastic Microwave Theater (via this BB comment).

  

  
  

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• Microsoft's Bill Buxton exhibits gadget collection 35 years in the making
  

  You don't get to be Microsoft's Principal Researcher without a strong sense of technology and design history, and Bill Buxton certainly has plenty of evidence to show he's well qualified in that respect. That swath of devices pictured above is just a sample of the impressive gadget collection Buxton has amassed over the past 35 years, which he is now exhibiting in public for the first time at a conference in Vancouver, British Columbia this week. Not able to check it out in person? Then you can thankfully settle for the next best thing, as Microsoft Research has also put the entire collection online, complete with Buxton's own notes for each of the items (which range from Etch-a-Sketches to watches to a range of different input devices). Hit up the source link below to start browsing.

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• Just look at this banana Dalek.
  

  Just look at it.

  Banana Dalek!

  (Thanks Darkfynne!)

  
  

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• A codified set of the builder's, crafter's, maker's rules
  
  The Wondermark webcomic has wrapped up its 8-day sendup/tribute to maker culture with a stirring and wonderful "codified set of the builder's, crafter's, maker's rules," including "If it has screws, they shall be turned," and "The insides of things are beautiful." Truer words were never spoken!

  A codified set of the builder's, crafter's, maker's rules

  
  

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• Kirk Here…

  

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• Help identify this vintage electronics component

  

  [Windell] over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has reached out in order to help them identify a mystery piece of electronics equipment they came across a few years ago. Discovered at an electronics surplus store, the mystery component looks like a cross between an over-sized chess board and a breadboard. Failing to identify it they eventually disposed of the board, snapping a couple of pictures for good measure before it was gone for good.

  Recently while visiting a local electronics flea market, they came across what looked to be a similar, though much smaller board. This piqued their curiosity and compelled them to dig out the pictures of the mystery board in hopes of finally discovering what it was. Using markings on the new board they found, the team at EMSL located some images of a patchboard cartridge that looked quite similar to their mystery object. Upon closer inspection however, they think that the two pieces might be related, but are not quite the same item.

  Swing by their site and chime in if you happen to have any good leads – we’re sure they will appreciate it.

  Filed under: misc hacks

  

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• New Guinness World Record Set for Longest Freestyle Rap [VIDEO]

  During Thursday night’s first-ever MTV O Music Awards, Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege of Chiddy Bang broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap, as well as the Longest Marathon Rapping Record.

  Chiddy stole the throne from M-Eighty — who broke the record in 2009 by rapping for nine hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds — by freestyling for nine hours and 18 minutes. He also beat out D.O. (aka Duane Gibson, Canada) for Longest Marathon Rapping session — D.O. rapped for eight hours and 45 minutes.

  Check out the video above, which shows the final countdown. He gets a little random toward the end, but rallies for a big finish.

  Credit Tom Donoghue

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• SpaceX video depicts crewed Dragon spacecraft landing on Mars

  This SpaceX video unveiled today at a NASA press conference shows how commercial flight crew will take off, travel, and land in the company's Dragon spacecraft.... on a mission to Mars. Notable for details like, "escape engines for on-target propulsive landing will enable landing on any solid surface in the solar system," followed by a CGI dude high-fiving another CGI dude.

  (YouTube via SpaceX)

  
  

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• Ken Robinson on reforming education: ADHD is a "fictitious epidemic."

  [Video Link] Ken Robinson's presentation about reforming education is beautifully enhanced with RSA Animate's incredible illustrations.

  He believes ADHD is a "fictitious epidemic."

  RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

  
  

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• Time-lapse macro video: ferrous particles in liquid suspension, drawn to magnet

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  Kim Pimmel shares the video above, and explains:

  Ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by a magnet and align to the invisible magnetic field around them. The patterns and motions that result are strangely ordered and organized. Time-lapse sequences were created from individual photos shot with a Nikon D90, DIY macro lens and DIY intervalometer.

  
  

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• Innovation and the unexpected: an impassioned rant

  Tim Hurson's TEDxMaastricht talk "The shock of the possible" is a great, impassioned rant about the power of the unexpected in innovation, making connections between many of the turning points in human history. It reminded me of the stellar discussion of the history of randomness and information theory in Gleick's The Information -- a reminder that the unexpected is the source of everything that delights and uplifts.

  TEDxMaastricht - Tim Hurson - "The shock of the possible"

  (Thanks, Tim!)

  
  

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• Susannah Breslin: How your journalism sausage is made
  Former Boing Boing guestblogger Susannah Breslin is doing a series over at Forbes.com titled "How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made," on how she does what she does as a journalist.

  I didn't go to journalism school, my comma usage is sometimes flawed, and I don't believe I've ever been a member of a journalism-related organization. I have been a journalist for over a decade, and, as I go about creating a piece of original reporting over the next few days, I'll be recording that process here.

  
  

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• Watching People Skydive in Slow Motion Is Absolutely Mesmerizing [Video]
  
  
  

  I always imagined skydiving to be a frantic, chaotic experience. Okay, maybe you get 15 seconds of "whoa this looks cool" before panic sets in as you start zipping down the air and plummeting to earth—don't freak out, oh MY GOD PULL THE CORD, PULL THE EFFING CORD ALREADY YOU JOKESTER. This slow motion video, taken with the Melbourne Skydive Centre, is nothing like that. More »

  
  

  

  

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• Mesmerizing [Video]
  
  
  

  If you have eight minutes to spare for some excellent automated Lego Rube-Goldberg porn, park it in that chair and hit play on the video above. More »

  
  

  

  

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• If Logos Were Honest, They'd Be Exactly Like This [Art]
  
  
  

  In a clever art project, Viktor Hertz re-fashioned logos of popular companies and flipped into something a little more...honest. He says the honest logos reveal the content of each company instead of what's hidden behind the branding. I think it's hilariously brilliant. See more at Honest Logos. [Honest Logos via Laughing Squid] More »

  
  

  

  

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