Apple Patents Show Steve Jobs’s Attention To Design

The patents that carry Steven Jobs’s name help reveal a chief executive whose design choices reached into every corner of the company.

Apple Patents Show Steve Jobs’s Attention to Design

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Edinburgh Fringe Show Asks Audience To Shred Banknotes

"Crash," Gary McNair's one-man Edinburgh Fringe show, asks audiences to rethink their relationship with money, and culminates with audience members feeding banknotes through an office shredder:

McNair promises a "five-step programme" to "release you from the terrors of the financial system". En route he takes in the history of monetisation, the notion of the collapse of trust in money (the bank run); and orchestrates a vigorous bidding war for an unspecified number of banknotes contained in a sealed envelope. Bids have, in the past, reached £100, although on his opening night in Edinburgh the bidding stopped at £26.50.

He also bartered with an audience member for her treasured necklace – her eventual price was a tour round Edinburgh, a bike ride, home-cooked lunch and the promise that he would come round and assemble her flat-pack furniture. Afterwards McNair said: "I wasn't expecting her to say she lived in Austria but if it's viable, yes, I will go to Austria and put up her shelves."

The climax of the show was, however, the moment when he suggested members of the audience feed their hard-earned cash through an office shredder, "as a vaccine against the disasters of the future, so that money and greed will lose their grip on you". Five did, with £10 notes as well as £5 notes returned to their owners as useless slithers of paper. (Destroying banknotes is not an offence, as commonly believed, though defacing them is.)

Crunch time at the Edinburgh festival: audiences step up to shred cash (via We Make Money Not Art)

(Image: downsized thumbnail from a photo by Murdo Macleod)

Edinburgh Fringe show asks audience to shred banknotes

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An Electronics Show That Media Companies Dare Not Miss

The Consumer Electronics Show’s status as a media summit meeting has risen in the last few years.

An Electronics Show That Media Companies Dare Not Miss

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An Electronics Show That Big Media Companies Dare Not Miss

The Consumer Electronics Show’s status as a media summit meeting has risen in the last few years.

An Electronics Show That Big Media Companies Dare Not Miss

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Watson Computer Challenges Jeopardy! Game Show Champions

Watson, an I.B.M. Super Computer competes against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, combined $5.2 million Jeopardy! champions, on February 14, 15, and 16, 2011.

Watson Computer Challenges Jeopardy! Game Show Champions

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Wikileaks: Cables show India accused of widespread, systematic torture in Kashmir

A new set of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks tonight is parsed by The Guardian, and includes revelations that:

US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees. Other cables show that as recently as 2007 American diplomats were concerned about widespread human rights abuses by Indian security forces, who they said relied on torture for confessions.

Other cables released tonight reveal that:

• The Dalai Lama has told US officials that combating climate change is more urgent than finding a political solution in Tibet, which "can wait five to 10 years".

• Rahul Gandhi, the crown prince of Indian politics, believes Hindu extremists pose a greater threat to his country than Muslim militants, according to the American ambassador to India.

• Five doctors were coerced by the Sri Lankan government to recant on casualty figures they gave to journalists in the last months of island's brutal civil war.

WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir

Wikileaks: Cables show India accused of widespread, systematic torture in Kashmir

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Advertising: Buick Underwrites MSN Travel Show ‘Re: Discover’

The deal is an example of branded entertainment, and the company’s cars appear only incidentally in the videos.

Advertising: Buick Underwrites MSN Travel Show ‘Re: Discover’

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Report: Wikileaks cables show Texas company "helped pimp little boys to stoned Afghan cops"

In the Houston Press, an extensive blog post

Report: Wikileaks cables show Texas company "helped pimp little boys to stoned Afghan cops"

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Report: Wikileaks cables show Texas company helped pimp little boys to stoned Afghan cops"

In the Houston Press, an extensive blog post

Report: Wikileaks cables show Texas company helped pimp little boys to stoned Afghan cops"

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Extravagant all-star cover of "Let It Be" for Norwegian TV show

This very long promo for Norwegian show Gylne Tider (Golden Times) features a bunch of people I have not thought about in a while, greenscreened onto a Santa Monica beach background, covering The Beatles' "Let It Be." It made me feel simultaneously amused, perplexed, and old. Video link. (via Jimmy Kimmel)

Extravagant all-star cover of "Let It Be" for Norwegian TV show

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Fed Papers Show Breadth of Emergency Measures

Efforts to help stabilize the markets at the height of the financial crisis reached far beyond Wall Street and deep into the economy, newly released data show.

Fed Papers Show Breadth of Emergency Measures

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Boing Boing is answer to "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" TV game show question

Boing Boing reader John Wessling of Texas kindly alerted us to the fact that "Boing Boing" was the answer to a question on the television game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," hosted by Meredith Viera. The contestant incorrectly chose "Bang Bang," and lost $20,000.

Boing Boing is answer to "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" TV game show question

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