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Answers to these perplexing problems can be found here. Link (via Growabrain)

The always fascinating Things Magazine has a terrific entry about strange hums that have confounded authorities and hapless citizens for years.

More on hums, which some have dubbed the Taos Hum, 'a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide.'

So what is the Taos Hum? Spurred on by complaints that the 'Bristol Hum' (which has driven at least one person to suicide) was caused by faulty gas pipeline equipment, British Gas undertook an investigation, canvassing 33 hum sufferers. Of these, 80% were found to have hearing problems, but 20% were genuinely hearing something. Further investigation found that the noise was actually originating from a number of distant sources, including distant machinery, and were 'being amplified by the geometry of particular rooms' in the sufferers' houses.

Related, the concrete sound mirrors on the South Coast, designed to listen in for fleets of approaching enemy bombers in the days before radar.

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BoingBoing reader douglips says,

This morning, Ronn Owens interviewed Michael Powell on KGO radio in the bay area. About 15 minutes after starting the interview, Howard Stern called in. Fur flew.

ASX Link, Real Audio link, and MP3 Link (thanks Erik) Howard kicks in at 32:20 or so into the streams.

Update: BB reader cowicide says, "I noticed your new mp3 download is pretty huge for most people. This might help people out who aren't on broadband: Small (680KB) file, edited to just air Howard's part of the show. Link." Thanks, cowicide!

Update 2: Link to CNN story, and Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine blog says, Here's a transcript of the Howard Stern v. Michael Powell confrontation: Link." .

Gizmodo's got the details on the new color iPod Photo. Link

John Battelle 1000th post (congratulations!) on his Searchblog is a great summary on Mary Meeker's "Update on the Digital World."

Meeker: ...And if there are hundreds or thousands of thought leaders and motivated, interested parties on the Internet with the ability to publish news or insights into any number of local or global issues, then it is safe to say that these blogs often become both the first source of news, a vital proving ground for authors and a source of potential community for other interested parties. For example, you’re probably going to get far more Boston Red Sox specific-content from a blog about the Red Sox made by a die-hard fan than you will from a random sports page, especially if you’re after opinions and community.

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Eboy, a group of isometric pixel wizards, has created a new poster titled "Superbroncobattle." The detail shown here is just a sample of the entire image, which will kick your eyeballs and leave bruises. Link

Chris sez: The American Conservative magazine, headed up by Pat Buchanon, has come out in favor of Kerry by coming out against Bush:

Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal -- Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it -- and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail.

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UPDATE: Anonymous sez: If you look closely, you'll notice that their editorial staff was split and so they each did a seperate endorsement. Among the staff, they pretty much endorsed everyone from Bush to Badnarik to (shockingly enough) Nader. To say they endorsed Kerry is accurate, but also very misleading. One editor endorsed Kerry, the rest endorsed others.

I'm eagerly awaiting the release next month of JG Ballard Quotes: Does The Future Have A Future?--a pocket-sized book of profound and mind-bending JG Ballard-isms. My all-time favorite fiction writer, Ballard is the prophetic British novelist behind such dark, twisted, noir masterpieces as Crash, Concrete Island, and Cocaine Nights. The new book of quotations, published by our counterculture chronicling friends at RE/Search, is illustrated with photographs by Ana Barrado, Charles Gateweood, and others.

"The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology." --JG Ballard

Your best bet is to order the book directly from RE/Search! Link

You may have noticed that the BoingBoing masthead looks a little different today. We've added a link to Apple "Switch" ad director Errol Morris' videos depicting former Bush supporters who will vote for Kerry in 2004. We've also added a banner for moveon.org.

When Mark first launched the BoingBoing weblog, it began as a sort of publicly-viewable personal scrapbook of "wonderful things." More than four years later, with four more participants added to the mix, that is what this project remains.

It may seem odd for a scrapbook to endorse a presidential candidate. But Mark, Cory, Pesco, John and I -- the people who keep this scrapbook alive -- share the conviction that John Kerry is the candidate best suited to lead America for the next four years. And we want you to know why.

In recent days, a growing number of news organizations have posted eloquent endorsements for Kerry. Some of them are particularly suprising, because they come from such unlikely sources. We encourage you to read them, and consider their content.

For us, the choice for Kerry involves simple things. Justice, liberty, privacy, transparency. Freedom of speech, thought, and technological expression. A woman's right to choose. Equal access to health care, education, and economic opportunity for all. The rule of law, at home and abroad. Peace. The enduring value of the American Constitution.

These are wonderful things. The Bush administration has proven both inability and unwillingness to protect them. In 2004, Kerry is the one.

We urge all eligible BoingBoing readers to exercise their right to vote in this election. Democracy is a wonderful thing. It won't survive without your participation.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to break software locks. Under that theory, Lexmark sued a competitor, Static Controls, for making compatible printer cartridges because refilling the cartridges necessitated resetting the cartridge software, and doing that meant breaking the lock that intended to keep you from refilling your cartridge. Get that: they claimed, basically, that the printer cartridge was a copyrighted work, and that by refilling it, you were pirating it.

Anyway, this is so much bullshit, it makes your head spin. And as of today, the appeals court agrees: Lexmark can't use the DMCA to prop up its business-model of charging you a 1000 percent markup on its inkjet carts. Neener, neener, neener. Link

Designed for children with diabetes, Glucoboy is a blood glucose meter cartridge for the Nintendo GameBoy. From an interview with inventor Paul Wessel, founder of Guidance Interactive Healthcare:

"My son Luke was diagnosed at age three with Type 1 (diabetes). At about age six Luke began losing his glucose meter way too often. But he knew exactly where his GAMEBOY was, even if it was under the sofa. So I thought - Why not combine the two devices into one."

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Disneyland's Jungle Cruise skippers have long been the bull-goose studs of the park: Walt's favorites, these castmembers got to fire actual blanks from a real pistol at a (fake) hippo and tell bad jokes about it. Sure, from time to time one would drop his gun in the drink and they'd have to get the frogmen to dredge the firearm back up before they could restart the ride, but damn, it was worth it just to have a real pistol in the hands of a 17-year-old with a bad sense of humor. Then they took the guns away -- shooting at hippos was deemed inappropriate. Now, Disney's embarked on a quest to get back to its roots now, and they're giving the Jungle Boat skippers their guns back.

Giving the Jungle Cruise skippers their guns back is what seems to have delighted visitors the most, however.

"At least once a week somebody would get off the boat and say, `Hey, what happened to the guns?'" said Ribble's daughter, Sherri, one of the ride's operators.

Now, she says, people burst into applause when she opens fire.

Link (via Waxy!)

Last year, I found myself in a restaurant with Johannes from Monochrom, a cool techno-art collective in Vienna. Johannes, espying a vile painting on the wall, began to photograph it and discuss it learnedly as it fit within the pantheon of bad restuarant art -- he was, it turned out, a connaisseur.

No you can share his passion. The Monochromniks have put up a hot-or-not style site for posting your photos of dreadful digestive aids. The next time you find yourself looking at an eatery painting that looks like it came free with the cheap chrome frame, snap a shot, upload it it and share. Link (Thanks, Johannes!)

The Times Online has dug up the spooky secret history of John Kerry's Rocky Mountain retreat, a barn that Teresa Heinz Kerry's former husband imported from Suffolk, Great Britain. The building's former address, Rookery Farm in the village of Elmsett, is known to be haunted by the ghosts of a father and son who hung themselves in the barn in the 19th century after going insane.

The owner of Rookery Farm in Suffolk told The Times that she had detected an unexplained presence in the farmhouse on several occasions since moving there in 1992. Julie Hunn, 47, a legal secretary, who lives at the farmhouse with her husband, Andrew, said: “Sometimes you’ll just get a feeling that there’s somebody there or you’ll see a shadow. It’s happened two or three times since we moved here.”

Maybe it's Karl Rove. Link

Reader Mark Middleton says, "[Legendary BBC deejay] John Peel ruled in the 70's/80's bringing alternative and punk to UK listeners. An immense loss." About the man who launched bands from David Bowie to Joy Division, Warren Ellis says, "Peel broke every major musical movement of the last forty years in Britain." Link to obituary on BBC, and link to listener tributes.

If you're in Los Angeles this week, I hope you'll consider joining me at the 35th Anniversary of the Internet event taking place at UCLA, on Friday October 29. I'll be speaking about blogs and media. There's an amazing list of speakers I'm *really* looking forward to -- They include John Perry Barlow (EFF), Gordon Bell (Microsoft), Bran Ferren (Applied Minds), Dan Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News), Alan Kay (UCLA), John Markoff (NYT), Clay Shirky (NYU), Eric Schmidt (Google), and Ethan Zuckerman (Harvard), and others. Looks like it's going to be great. Link to event details.

NBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites posts a dispatch to his blog before from Falluja. Link, and link to previous post in series.

Mark Hurst says, "[Check out this] bizarre short movie on cosplay, filmed at the Tokyo Game Show, by justin "links from the underground" hall." Link to "Robin in Wonderland," Link to more of Justin Hall's recent Tokyo observations -- Mini-Documentary on Tokyo Game Show 2004: Link, and an item in TheFeature.com about mobile phone games that use PhoneCams. Link

Back in 2001, I thought that this was the coolest Ethernet cord, ever, but I was wrong. Its successor, the new Roadwired CORDZ Multi-Connection Survival Tool is a generation more cool and more versatile. Cased in rugged safety yellow plastic, this retracting 7' RJ-45 cable comes with a set of snap-on ends to convert it to a phone cable, a cross-over or an extension cable. This one went straight into my shoulder bag, and I don't think I'll ever leave home without it. Link