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- Mutilated Afghan woman on cover of Time: Afghansploitation?
- North Korean soccer team fails at "ideological struggle"
- Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt (via Serafinowicz and Popper)
- How Tettix tried to design a T-shirt and ended up with a remix album
- SPECIAL FEATURE: High Design
- The 100 best magazine articles ever
- Girls Like Boys With Skills - new song from Rocky and Balls
- Burmese protesters using "Team America" likeness of Kim Jong-Il on posters
- Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA
- Report: Army admonished Manning for YouTube uploads referencing classified facilities
- Google computer and Western media report China outage, actual humans in China beg to differ
- DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract
- When 2 dinosaurs become 1
- Kite-flying in a thunderstorm leads to pseudo-telekinesis
- 3D-printed clothing
- Maggie speaking in Albuquerque Aug. 16
- Win free tickets to Outside Lands 2010!
- Moresukine -- a comic book about a German cartoonist's experiences in Tokyo
- Tokyo's oldest man actually dead for 30 years
- Haircuts and Popsicles
- Refutation of a children's book
- Hallucinogen to be tested as cure for opiate addiction
- MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands!
- Hard Russian hardware
- Glenn Beck's website gives him something to cry about
- Cartoon about prohibition: The Flower
- Manning linked to classified Afghanistan reports
- How to clone vinyl records
- White House wants easier access for FBI to internet activity logs
- Bitten by a radioactive Carl Sagan
| Mutilated Afghan woman on cover of Time: Afghansploitation? Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:00 AM PDT On the cover of the current issue of TIME: Aisha, a 19 year-old Afghan girl whose nose was cut off for "shaming" her in-laws. The cover is sure to shock, and some criticize it as "Afghansploitation": an image to inspire support for endless war. (Thanks, Kristie LuStout) |
| North Korean soccer team fails at "ideological struggle" Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:46 AM PDT The coach for the North Korean soccer team has been banished to a life of hard labor as a construction worker, because the team failed in their "ideological struggle" to succeed at the World Cup in South Africa. |
| Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt (via Serafinowicz and Popper) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:48 AM PDT [ Watch video: view at YouTube or Download MP4. ] Boing Boing Video proudly presents this documentary on Markets of Britain, discovered by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz from the archives of a great and underappreciated documentary filmmaker named Lee Titt, who also never existed. Earlier this week, we presented this Boing Boing Video interview with Popper and Serafinowicz about their "Look Around You" DVD, just been released in the USA. This film was presented at a recent launch event in Los Angeles, blogged previously on Boing Boing. Mini emus! Buy the DVD. Below, a trailer for the DVD produced by BBC America. The actual show is a lot weirder.
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| How Tettix tried to design a T-shirt and ended up with a remix album Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:29 AM PDT  Electronic musician Tettix just released A New Challenger, a remix album featuring tracks from his earlier T.K.O.E.P.. Alex Mauer, Derris-Kharlan, Disasterpeace, Hélas Techne and Minusbaby worked with him to create it. How did it come together? Well, it's a funny story. Initially it was a project for Attractmode. Adam Robezolli over there contacted me about doing a shirt for Dragon Punch. He was going to get this guy Akutou to do the shirt, print it up, split the proceeds with me. I was totally down for that. Then he recommended maybe releasing an EP of Dragon Punch remixes to go with the shirt and had some remixers in mind. This was almost a year ago now. That's an aeon in internet time! Obviously things did not go according to plan. The shirt, it turns out, was a total creative block for me and I eventually gave up and told Adam it was too stressful to work a design job all day and then come home and try to design a shirt, so I was handing the reins back to him. Perhaps a shirt will one day be created, perhaps not. So it goes. So you took over the remix project yourself? I took over the remix project myself. Started contacting chiptunes musicians I respected about being involved. Decided it would be more fun to open up the entire album for remixing instead of Dragon Punch. I was surprised how responsive people were! Initially, it was still going to be called "Dragon Punch E.P." and was also going to feature the album version of Dragon Punch in addition to the remixes. Did you get everyone involved you wanted? I had the whole thing buttoned up and ready to release. And then minusbaby got back to me three weeks after I emailed him and wanted to remix Clothesline. Obviously, I wanted him involved so I decided to hold off the release. His sudden unexpected inclusion was also when I got the "A New Challenger!" idea. So what was once "Disasterpeace's Dragon Fist Rising Mix" became "Disasterpeace vs. Dragon Punch!" and so on. I wrote the interstitial tracks, which were a ton of fun. Might do an extended mix of Continue, too. And then rebuttoned the album up for release. I'm glad minusbaby was such a late-comer, I think the album concept is much stronger because of it. And his remix is sick. So, somehow, this project started as a Dragon Punch t-shirt and ended up as a T.K.O.E.P. remix album. Download A New Challenger free of charge at Tettix's website.
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| Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:30 AM PDT In the world of design, urban mobility is much more than how you get from point A to point B. Urban mobility operates at the intersection of myriad innovation freeways, from architecture to infrastructure, technology to transportation, city planning to style. It's about feet, fashion, bikes, busses, automobiles, and yes, even cars that fly. Just ask Jens Martin Skibsted, co-designer of Terrafugia's new Transition Roadable Aircraft, aka flying car.
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| The 100 best magazine articles ever Posted: 29 Jul 2010 09:04 PM PDT  Kevin Kelly has compiled a list of the 100 greatest long-form magazine articles ever published. He has found links to the text of each article, and says: "I'd like to have folks start to vote up the best (although they can still add). There's a Top Five that has emerged. Maybe we can get a top 10." Here are the top 5 (based on the number of people who have recommended them to Kevin): David Foster Wallace, "Federer As Religious Experience." The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006. David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet Magazine, Aug 2004. Neal Stephenson, "Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet." Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable. Gay Talese, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." Esquire, April 1966. Ron Rosenbaum, "Secrets of the Little Blue Box." Esquire, October 1971. The first and best account of telephone hackers, more amazing than you might believe. My contribution to the list is Susan Orlean, "Orchid Fever." The New Yorker, January 23, 1995. The Best Magazine Articles Ever
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| Girls Like Boys With Skills - new song from Rocky and Balls Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:03 PM PDT Rocky and Balls's "Girls Like Boys With Skills" is probably the dirtiest double-entendre ukulele ditty since George Formby sang "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand."
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| Burmese protesters using "Team America" likeness of Kim Jong-Il on posters Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:46 PM PDT  Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong Il puppet from the Team America movie. I shot the photo during a visit earlier this year to South Park Studios. The little guy does get around.
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| Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:20 PM PDT A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the "Collateral Murder" video and the recent "Afghan War Diaries" archive— was today transferred from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia. Snip:
Earlier today, an announcement that investigators had found evidence linking Manning to the Wikileaks material, and Wired reported of previous conflicts Manning may have had with Army higher-ups, over YouTube videos the 22-year-old uploaded containing information about classified facilities.
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| Report: Army admonished Manning for YouTube uploads referencing classified facilities Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:12 PM PDT "An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident." Wired News has more. |
| Google computer and Western media report China outage, actual humans in China beg to differ Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT Rebecca MacKinnon reports: "Numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China service availability page. However no journalist has actually confirmed with a human being at Google that this information is correct. What's more, I've heard from several dozen people all over China who say that Google isn't blocked for them when they access it on their Internet connections from Beijing to Shanghai to Sichuan to Hunan." |
| DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract Posted: 29 Jul 2010 04:21 PM PDT  In this Instructable, talbotron22 shows how to make "Kitty Crack," an ultra-potent catnip extract containing nepetalactone, catnip's active ingredient. One pound of catnip yielded 143mg of nepetalactone. A note about safety. Yes, it is safe to use this extract on cats. I have looked into it, and there are a number of studies (very interesting in their own right) using pure nepetalactone on cats in experiments trying to figure out why it causes them to go bonkers. The upshot is that it's pretty safe. In the last of the references below, the LD50 of nepetalactone was determined to be 1550 mg/kg (about the same as aspirin), meaning you would have to force feed your average 5 kg cat ~8 grams in order to cause it any harm. So as long as you are reasonable with the extract it should pose no harm.DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT  Prepare to have your mind blown. Certain dinosaurs—physically disparate enough that we've always thought of them as different species—may actually be the same animal at different stages of its life cycle. Also: Those big, protective-looking bone formations surrounding some dinos' heads and necks probably weren't all that useful as a defense against predators. Case in point, triceratops. Or, maybe we should be calling it torosaurus now, I'm not sure. See, according to research done by scientists at Montana's Museum of the Rockies, the familiar triceratops is really just the juvenile form of the more-elaborately be-frilled and be-horned torosaurus.
There are other species this might apply to, as well. Some with even bigger shifts in appearance. While this is a Big Hairy Deal for dinosaur science, it also elicits a little bit of a "duh" moment when you go back and look at the animals in question. What you should really be getting out of this story is an illustration of how difficult it is to study a creature that's been extinct for millions of years. After all—as my husband pointed out—nobody would be shocked to learn that a baby chick, an adult chicken, and plate of parmigiana were all the same animal. But that's because we've experienced chickens. Were an alien to drop in on Earth for one afternoon, they might be just as amazed at the life cycle of poultry as we are now at the triceratops/torosaurus'. Paleontologists are tasked with reconstructing the lives of animals nobody has ever seen alive. And that creates a world where the obvious just isn't. New Scientist: Morph-o-saurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us (Via John Taylor Williams) Image courtesy Flickr user lindseywb, via CC
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| Kite-flying in a thunderstorm leads to pseudo-telekinesis Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:34 PM PDT Kite designer Tim Elverston sent in this video through Submitterator, showing his friend making a piece of kite line move "magically" with the help of static electricity. Also, they got shocked. If you listen to the video through headphones, you can clearly hear an electrical buzzing every time their fingers get close to the kite line. Interestingly, the effect seems to have been dependent on the line material, and the bench the kite was tied to—both of which were made from plastic composite.
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT Via our Submitterator, Fang McGee points us to this novel use of 3D printers: spitting out fabric structures for clothing. From Ecouterre: "Are 3D-Printed Fabrics the Future of Sustainable Textiles?" (via Submitterator)
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| Maggie speaking in Albuquerque Aug. 16 Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:26 PM PDT I'm speaking Monday, Aug. 16th, at the University of New Mexico's INCBN IGERT Symposium, which focuses on the integration of neuroscience and nanotechnology. As the pre-symposium dinner entertainment, I'll be talking about "Those Fabulous Octopus Brains"—looking at cephalopod intelligence and brain structure. I fully admit that my topic choice is a blatant attempt to curry audience favor w/ cute pictures of octopuses. If you won't be attending, don't worry. It looks like I should be able to get video of the presentation, which will be posted here. (Unless I bomb, in which case we shall never speak of this again.) |
| Win free tickets to Outside Lands 2010! Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:56 PM PDT   On August 14-15, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park will host Outside Lands, a massive music festival with several dozen excellent bands, food, wine, art, and a big dose of Bay Area culture. Main stage performers include Kings of Leon, Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, Al Green, and Cat Power. There are also a slew of killer acts throughout the day on smaller stages, from Gogol Bordello to Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars to Rebirth Brass Band. The best news is that our friends at Outside Lands kindly provided Boing Boing with two pairs of two-day tickets to give away to our readers! ($140/ticket value!) Want them? Tell us why. Or rather, sing it to us. To enter our Outisde Lands 2010 ticket contest, please compose a song about why you want to go to the festival, and record it on video or audio. Your song can be as simple (a capella!) to as elaborate (orchestral!) as you want. If you make a video, please upload it to YouTube. Audio only recordings should be posted on Archive.org. Our own Dean "Dino" Putney is going to judge, so email dean at boing boing dot net with a link to your entry. The deadline for entries is August 4 at 11:59pm PDT. We'll announce the winners on Friday, August 6. Good luck and we look forward to, er, hearing from you! For more on Outside Lands, click here. For Boing Boing Video coverage of Outside Lands 2008, click here.
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| Moresukine -- a comic book about a German cartoonist's experiences in Tokyo Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:26 PM PDT  The assignments included eating fugu (blowfish sashimi that has a toxin that could kill you if not prepared properly), going to a capsule hotel, visiting the Ghibli Museum, riding a roller coaster on top of a building in a shopping center, reporting on the "coolest of the cooler things happening in Japan" (some kind of barrel with poles on it and tentacle-backpacks hanging from it -- I have to admit I had no idea what he was talking about here), eating okonomiyaki (a bowl of raw egg, red ginger, pork, squid, shrimp, and cabbage that you cook yourself), and so on. Schwieger's art is funny and detailed, and his observations are insightful. Moresukine is an enjoyable, too-brief account of a Westerner trying to discover Japanese culture.
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| Tokyo's oldest man actually dead for 30 years Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:36 PM PDT  Sogen Kato was believed to be the oldest man in Tokyo. Officials heading out to congratulate him on his 111th birthday, however, met not an ancient gent but a corpse, mummified in his own bed for perhaps 30 years. [BBC; photo and cake by Ann Larie Valentine]
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 11:01 AM PDT  I like haircuts and I like Popsicles -- hell, who doesn't? But I will apparently never be an art impresario, let alone a performance art impresario, because it never would have occurred to me to combine the two, as the downtown Los Angeles gallery Actual Size is doing this Saturday: Filmmaker Josh Lee will sell his inventively flavored popsicles to onlookers while they watch haircuts and buzz cuts performed by artists in the gallery space. The hair clippings will accumulate for the duration of the performance, resulting in a sculptural work. Walk-ins are welcome. No appointments are necessary.This comes via PSFK, which adds: The project has the potential to lead to a meditation on human waste; however, the act of cutting people's hair builds on a set of power relations that allow artist and audience to forge a more intimate relationship as he/she manipulates the image of the viewer.Plus, come on: Popsicles!
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| Refutation of a children's book Posted: 29 Jul 2010 11:25 AM PDT  I admire Sheila C. Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, more than any other official in government. Ms. Bair's actions during the financial meltdown in 2008 and in intervening years has shown a steady hand, remarkably free of partisan favor, that likely prevented a much worse banking and mortgage catastrophe. Thus it is with a heavy heart I must reveal a book she's written that hasn't gained much notice, which is full of the bad ideas that led to low consumer savings, inflated investor expectations, and financial innumeracy.In this book, Ms. Bair advocates: • Immediate gratification of consumer desire. • Disregarding employment opportunities that aren't a perfect fit when a job is needed. • Undercutting a market with unfair competition through low-cost labor. • Zoning violations. • Tax avoidance on earnings. • Avoidance of rent. • Lack of collateral against risky investment. • Use of shared resources for private gain. • Disdain for state taxes. • The use of monetary symbols to substitute for Roman characters. The book also tells investors to expect a 100-percent return on capital in a single day, along with the dissolution of a 24-hour partnership. And, she claims that newspapers continue to print stock charts every day. On the plus side, she encourages entrepreneurship, word-of-mouth marketing, and the value of hard labor. Now, you might argue, "This is a children's illustrated book, you moron, and uses simple lessons to tell a complicated story!" And then you might grab me by the shoulders and shake me, and possibly slap me a few times across the face. When I'd recovered, I'd argue in response, "True. But Ms. Bair muddles some of the fundamental aspects of economics and the market in this lesson in a way that may leave questions." I'd say that while running away from you, fast, and holding my hands in front of my head. I hear in the distance, "Aren't you like that ranting Sun-Times columnist, Terry Savage, who, along with her brother, yelled at kids running a lemonade stand for giving away lemonade and Cory Doctorow blogged about here before and stop running away!" Well, no. I'm not ranting. I'm dispassionate. And my concern about this book arises from the real world, not a fever dream of Ayn Randism dreamt by Ms. Savage. My children have read this book several times, and request it all the time. This leads to awkward questions, like, "Daddy, is negative amortization a function of deflation, or does the basis of a loan remain the same regardless of CPI?" I find those questions hard to answer, or even understand. In the book, Isabel's Car Wa$h (see what she did there with the "s"?), Ms. Bair tells the story of a little girl who wants a $10.00 doll, but only has 50¢. Rather than recommending the age-old solution of begging her parents for money until their ears are bleeding, Isabel comes up with the idea of suckering her friends. After discarding dog walking and babysitting, Isabel spots a car wash. She fails to examine the price the car wash charges, but sees plenty of vehicles entering. She decides to go into business washing cars without any additional market research, training, or a business plan. She finds herself $4.50 short of the funds for the supplies she needs to bootstrap the business. Isabel remembers that friends once loaned her money for lunch, and her mother repaid them with a 40-percent premium for assuming the risk. Using that as the basis, she prepares a road show to sell her initial public offering, selling 50 percent of her shares split evenly among five friends. Ms. Bair now takes a huge leap into socialism. Isabel sets up shop, without any permits, in her parents' front driveway in likely contravention to neighborhood convenants about operating businesses. She uses her parents' water and facilities, but pays them no dividend or rent. Shameful. Her first customer isn't concerned about quality, but price. She spreads the word that a child laborer is offering what is likely an 80-percent discount off the going rate for an automatic car wash. (Remember that Isabel didn't find the going price, so she has imperfect knowledge and underprices her labor. She realizes this when called upon to wash a dog.) After a hard day's work in which Isabel generates about $2.50 per hour, she repays her investors a 100-percent dividend and cashes them out, dissolving her company. For a total of $25 raised, Isabel keeps $10, or about $1.25 per hour. She pays no taxes and provides no 1099 forms to her shareholders. (Once again, socialism: her mother provides free cookies and lemonade, and provides a meeting space for the corporation at no cost.) Isabel is set to purchase her doll (street price, $10), but on arrival at the store is visited by the dread spector of state sales tax: a 5-percent fee is levied on the doll. (Dolls have a 5-percent tariff in Isabel's state, along with shelled split peas, dog collars, and used DVDs.) Curses, she thinks (I'm assuming that), as Ms. Bair veers into libertarianism. Unjust state, taking my earnings! Nonetheless, Ms. Bair has Isabel deplete her savings, taking her last 50¢ to pay the full $10.50 for the price. This leaves her with nothing, and the doll is only worth $4 when she leaves the store with it. Consumer impulses--gratified! In a dense two-page addendum, Ms. Bair explains what happened, but likely leaves children more afraid of bears than they were when she started. This short book contains the entire spectrum of economic philosophy and speculation, leading children into a trap: kids who read these book are likely to become economists and derivative traders, and create new, worse financial vehicles and theories that will eventually take us down. Ms. Bair is the worst form of super-villain. A patient one.
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| Hallucinogen to be tested as cure for opiate addiction Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:42 AM PDT Ibogaine, a hallucinogen derived from an African plant, is used (illegally) as a cure for opiate addiction. This month, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research will test the effectiveness of Ibogaine on heroin addicts. Popular Science has a brief article about the upcoming trial.
Fighting Drugs With Drugs: An Obscure Hallucinogen Gains Legitimacy as a Solution for Addictions Photo by Hive. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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| MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands! Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:17 AM PDT MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intellectual Ventures made their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper, how to use the industrial-strength microcontrollers called PLCs, and a lot more. Project highlights in MAKE Volume 23 include: The Most Useless Machine
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| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:14 AM PDT   Russian manufacturer Lenpolygrafmash makes the computer component equivalent of brutalist architecture. According to the Russian culture blog Metkere.com, the devices such as the printer and scanner above are designed for harsh mechanical and climatic conditions. Lenpolygrafmash (via Submitterator, thanks Metkere!)
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| Glenn Beck's website gives him something to cry about Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:11 AM PDT Glenn Beck's website, it turns out, can be manipulated into doing strange and NSFW things by messing with the URL. An insecure PHP utility accessible at the site allows for shenanigans like directory traversal, exposing all sorts of things that should not be exposed. Like password files, and a user group named for Rush Limbaugh. [Thanks, Dean!] Update: the discussion thread is down. Here's the Google cache of it. |
| Cartoon about prohibition: The Flower Posted: 29 Jul 2010 09:35 AM PDT |
| Manning linked to classified Afghanistan reports Posted: 29 Jul 2010 08:57 AM PDT Investigators say they've found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the "War Logs" ultimately leaked to the Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel. From the WSJ: A search of the computers used by Pfc. Manning yielded evidence he had downloaded the Afghanistan war logs, which span from 2004 until 2009, the official said. It's not clear precisely what that evidence is. The investigation is also looking at who might have helped Pfc. Manning provide the documents to WikiLeaks, a web-based group that earlier this week released 76,000 secret reports from Afghanistan.Evidence Ties Manning to Afghan Leaks [WSJ]
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| White House wants easier access for FBI to internet activity logs Posted: 29 Jul 2010 08:29 AM PDT The Obama administration wants to make it easier for the FBI to force ISPs to turn over records of individual Internet activity without a court order if agents believe the information is relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. "The administration wants to add just four words -- 'electronic communication transactional records' -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. " |
| Bitten by a radioactive Carl Sagan Posted: 29 Jul 2010 08:26 AM PDT If you're interested in becoming a science writer—or even just a writer, in general—hop over to Not Exactly Rocket Science, where blogger Ed Yong has started a collection of Science Writer Origin Stories. It's chock-full of career-path tales and helpful advice from people like the amazing Carl Zimmer, Wired's Steve Silberman, Newsweek's Mary Carmichael ... and, hey, me! |
...Designer-researchers like Freedom of Creation in Amsterdam and Philip Delamore at the London College of Fashion are cranking out seamless, flexible textile structures using software that converts three-dimensional body data into skin-conforming fabric structures. The potential for bespoke clothing, tailored to the specific individual, are as abundant as the patterns that can be created, from interlocking Mobius motifs to tightly woven meshes.
In late 2005 Dirk Schwieger, a German cartoonist, went to live in Japan for a year. He got an office job, and started keeping a journal of his experiences in Tokyo. On his 
"As great as ibogaine seems, no one knows exactly how effective it is as a treatment," says Valerie Mojieko, the director of clinical research for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research (MAPS), a privately funded Massachusetts-based nonprofit. So starting this month, MAPS will enlist Clare Wilkins, the director of Pangea Biomedics, to run the first long-term study to gauge the drug's lasting effects at her clinic in Mexico (where patients already pay $5,000 for the treatment). She will treat 20 to 30 heroin addicts and, for the next year, MAPS will subject them to psychological and drug tests to quantify ibogaine's effectiveness.
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