Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Mountain climbing revolutionary play figures

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:22 PM PDT


Couverture and the Garb sell a pricey (£145) set of 9cm toy mountain-men: Henry David Thoreau, VI Lenin, Mao Tse-Tung and Karl Marx. They're evidently popular, as they're sold out.

Mountain Men figures (via Neatorama)

Welcome to Bordertown hits shelves

Posted: 24 May 2011 03:24 AM PDT

w00t! Here's some good news: the first new Bordertown book in decades, Welcome to Bordertown, is finally available in the stream of commerce. (My story, Shannon's Law, is in there, as are stories, poems and other work from Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, Ellen Kushner, Holly Black, Cat Valente, and many others)

Sweet scenes in plastic domes

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:05 PM PDT


Etsy seller MiniMemoryWorlds created this sweet, romantic little domed scene called "Reliving the past." It's part of a series of similar tiny domed scenes.

reliving the past (via Super Punch)

Timenaut: Anatomical collage grotesqueries

Posted: 24 May 2011 02:33 AM PDT


Today's How to Be a Retronaut features two compelling and beautiful "Timenaut" illustrations by Paula Braconnot, whose work reminds me favorably of the wonderful Dan Hillier.

Timenauts

Rise and Fall of an Oakland Potrepreneur

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:25 PM PDT

Three years ago, as Oakland was set to become the legal pot capital of the US, Yan Ebyam, 33, sparked up his entrepreneurial spirit. He rented a massive warehouse boasting 456 grow lights in 16 rooms and set to work growing medical marijuana. His next effort, in a 40,000 square foot building, made national news as the first pot growing operation to be unionized under the Teamsters. Just a few short years after Ebyam got into the business, the statewide marijuana legalization initiative failed and he found himself in a lawsuit over the $1.25 million sale of his first operation. Ebyam's big Oakland facility has been repeatedly burglarized and that's only some of the bad news that's plagued him. The Bay Citizen tells the story of "The Rise and Fall of an Oakland Potrepreneur":
Uploaded Images 2011 5 Yan-Ebyam Lightbox Yanebyam Web The letters in his first name stand for "yes and no." His last name, also the creation of hippie parents, is "maybe" spelled backward. It's perhaps fitting, then, that Yan Ebyam came to be neck deep in the murky, quasi-legal world of Oakland's marijuana-growing industry...

In terms of background, Ebyam seems to have been born for his profession. His parents grew marijuana to put food on the table while raising him in Willits in Mendocino County, he said. But Ebyam rebelled against his hippie upbringing, seeking his fortune instead in Silicon Valley.

"When we were little, my brother surfed and I played computer games," Ebyam recalled.

In his early 20s, he went into the business of buying and selling computer equipment from bankrupt start-ups. His venture ended badly when he was arrested and pleaded guilty to money laundering in the sale of more than $6 million worth of stolen Sun Microsystems servers and Cisco routers. He was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison, where, he said, he became an expert chess and Scrabble player.

Ebyam showed up in Oakland as the medical marijuana bubble was inflating three years ago. He started small but quickly broadened his ambitions, becoming partners with a Los Angles lawyer named Nathan Hoffman. The plan was to grow marijuana on a large scale and sell it to patients in Los Angeles. (Ebyam said his mother was "amused" that he had gone into the business.)

"The Rise and Fall of an Oakland Potrepreneur"

Why do humans have zits?

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:57 PM PDT

A scientific theory for the origin of acne.

From now on, I will call this clam "Kronar"

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:48 PM PDT

Nearly all Corbicula clams are clones—physically hermaphroditic but genetically male, just like their forbears. But that's not the fascinating part. Corbicula clams add new genetic material to their portfolio by, essentially, stealing eggs from other clams and dumping the maternal genome after fertilization. Most of the time, all the maternal genes get dumped. But sometimes, a few genes are kept and get incorporated into the all-male Corbicula line.

Musical Tesla coils

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:14 PM PDT

Here are a pair of Tesla coils playing Girl Talk's "This is the Remix." It is beautiful, and awesome. How does it work? I asked Ian Charnas, one of the brains behind the Open Spark Project, a group that paired musicians—and their original compositions—with the musical Tesla coils. Truly a match made in heaven.

It turns out, you can make music out of anything that makes noise, just by turning it on and off very rapidly.

If you record a noise of you tapping your fingers on your laptop keyboard, and then speed it up so you hear 440 taps per second, you'll hear A4, the A above middle C on the standard keyboard. Likewise with the tesla coils, we make a giant spark and then turn it on and off at the right audio frequency for the note we want to play.

This is accomplished by a series of circuits and microchips we designed, which convert a standard MIDI signal (coming from a MIDI keyboard or from the MIDI output on our laptop) to the fiber-optic signal that the tesla coil requires. Why fiber optic? Because we don't want a copper wire connecting our keyboardist to the thing that makes a million volts ;-)

Oh, and musicians, they're going to do another round of these videos sometime in the future. If you want a heads up the next time The Open Spark Project is looking for musical submissions, head over to their website and ask to "receive updates."

Thanks to Dr. Aaron for Submitterating!

Apple warns patent troll Lodsys off

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:37 PM PDT

A couple of weeks ago, patent troll Lodsys threatened Apple application developers who used in-app upgrade and purchase buttons -- a feature of the iOS development platform. At Ars Technica, Chris Foresman covers Apple's slow-coming but welcome response:
Apple senior vice president and general counsel Bruce Sewell has now sent a letter to Lodsys CEO Mark Small, insisting that Apple's license to the patent in question covers third party developers and that Lodsys should stop threatening iOS developers with "false assertions" of patent infringement.
Apple licensed the exceedingly vague patent as one of a large package, from another company that used to own it. Lodsys has already made clear it believes that the license does not cover third parties. Apple asks patent troll Lodsys to leave iOS developers alone [Ars]

Joplin, MO

Posted: 23 May 2011 07:39 PM PDT


At least 116 people have died in Joplin, Missouri, and the toll is expected to climb. One of the deadliest tornadoes in state history roared through the small Midwestern city on Sunday, leaving a half mile-wide scar and unbelievable destruction.

Touching down at about 5:35 p.m. yesterday, the tornado cut eastward through the city, across an interstate highway, and disappeared into the country. Reported to be a mile wide, the funnel destroyed thirty percent of the city, knocking out wired and cellular communications and forcing authorities to evacuate one of the town's two hospitals. The national guard has been deployed to the city.

Reuters' Mike Stone took these photos in the early hours after the disaster.


A member of the Neodesha fire department looks toward the St. John's Regional Medical Center a day after a tornado hit Joplin, Missouri May 23, 2011. The tornado blew the roof off St. John's where about 180 patients cowered and were eventually evacuated.


A sign lays among the ruins.


A stuffed animal is seen among the personal items scattered in the debris.


Ted Grabenauer sleeps on his front porch the morning after a tornado ripped off the roof of his home when it hit Joplin.


A view of the destruction after a tornado blew the roof off the St. John's Regional Medical Center.


A pool of blood is seen on the floor of a business establishment which was wiped out by the storm.


Scattered debris surrounds a damaged home.


Sheila Donham (R) and volunteers tend to an injured dog as they comb a neighborhood hard hit by the tornado.

Tsunami photos from Fukushima

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:04 PM PDT

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Last week, the Japanese utility company Tepco released photos taken of the March 11 tsunami as it struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Out of the two sets of shots, this photo, in particular, caught me cold. From this angle, the wave looks like such a small thing, doesn't it?

Also chilling: A series of shots taken as the tsunami flooded in and then receded from the power plant, sucking away a bunch of cars and leaving behind one totaled SUV. (Among other damage.)

Video: Bats In Our Midst

Posted: 23 May 2011 02:47 PM PDT

QUEST TV's Bats In Our Midst explores a roosting place for Mexican free-tailed bats in California's Central Valley. These bats are a huge help to farmers in the area. Then they introduce us to volunteers who take care of sick bats! And no, they're not wearing Bauhaus t-shirts. Also, bonus bat flight videos!

Minnesota GOP legislator makes passionate speech in support of marriage equality

Posted: 23 May 2011 02:41 PM PDT

On Saturday night, the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 in favor of putting a proposed constitutional ban on same sex marriage up for a public vote in 2012. Bear in mind, same sex marriage is already illegal in this state. So when I go out and vote on this constitutional amendment, my choices are going to be: A) Continue to discriminate against GLBT families or B) Codify that discrimination into my state's primary document. Good times.

But this post isn't about how disgusting I think it is to put a minority's civil rights up for a vote. No. This post is about offering my genuine thanks and appreciation to the two Minnesota Republicans who were brave enough to speak out against the amendment. Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, and Rep. John Kriesel, R-Cottage Grove—Thank you both. If I wasn't absolutely certain it would set off some kind of security panic, I'd mail you both a box of my best home made bars.

Kriesel, in particular, gave a passionate, moving speech explaining why he changed his mind on marriage equality. The turning point: When he was almost killed while on a tour of duty in Iraq. Quoting from the video above:

"It made me think about this issue and say, 'you know what, what would I do without my wife?' She makes me happy. Life is hard. We're in a really tough time in our nation's history. Happiness is so hard to find for people. So they find it. They find someone who makes them happy. And we want to say, 'Oh, you can be together. You can love that person. But you can't marry them.' That's wrong. That's wrong, and I disagree with it.

... This amendment doesn't represent what I went to fight for. Hear that out there? [referencing protesters in the rotunda] That's the America I fought for. And I'm proud of that. ... If there was a "Hell No" button right here, I would press it. But, unfortunately, I just have "Nay," and that's the one I'm going to press.

If this moved you as much as it moved me—even if you aren't a Minnesotan—I'd encourage you to send a quick thank-you email to Rep. Kriesel.

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Mental myths

Posted: 23 May 2011 02:35 PM PDT

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The following statements are (pretty much) not true:
• We use only 10 percent of our brains.

• "Flashbulb memories" are precise, detailed and persistent.

• It's all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).

• Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.

"Top Ten Myths About the Brain" (Smithsonian)

Open science in The Guardian

Posted: 23 May 2011 02:29 PM PDT

At Institute for the Future, we're looking at the future of open science, not only approaches to opening research to "citizen scientists" but also how to break down barriers within existing research structures. Bobbie Johnson wrote a terrific piece on the subject in yesterday's Guardian:
The first and most powerful change has been the use of the web to connect people and collect information. The internet, now an indelible part of our lives, allows like-minded individuals to seek one another out and share vast amounts of raw data. Researchers can lay claim to an idea not by publishing first in a journal (a process that can take many months) but by sharing their work online in an instant.

And while the rapidly decreasing cost of previously expensive technical procedures has opened up new directions for research, there is also increasing pressure for researchers to cut costs and deliver results. The economic crisis left many budgets in tatters and governments around the world are cutting back on investment in science as they try to balance the books. Open science can, sometimes, make the process faster and cheaper, showing what one advocate, Cameron Neylon, calls "an obligation and responsibility to the public purse".

At the same time, moves are afoot to disrupt the closed world of academic journals and make high-level teaching materials available to the public. The Public Library of Science, based in San Francisco, is working to make journals more freely accessible, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology currently boasts that material for almost 2,000 courses is now available on the web.

"The litmus test of openness is whether you can have access to the data," says Dr Rufus Pollock, a co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a group that promotes broader access to information and data. "If you have access to the data, then anyone can get it, use it, reuse it and redistribute it… we've always built on the work of others, stood on the shoulders of giants and learned from those who have gone before."

"Open science: a future shaped by shared experience" (Thanks, Ariel Waldman!)

Kroil

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:14 AM PDT

IMG_0933.jpgKroil is an extremely effective penetrating lubricant. Almost every professional machine shop I've been in has a bottle of this sitting prominently beside the workbench. I first saw it about 8 years ago, and asked the mechanic why he used it. His words are the same I now say to those who ask me: It will unstick ANYTHING. I frequently take apart antique machinery or general equipment. There is almost always rust, grime, burned grease, metal shavings, and the wear of decades that prevent me from separating bolts from nuts, pins from holes, or keeping sliding surfaces from doing anything BUT sliding. I've used every possible penetrating lubricant on the market. Some worked OK, but nothing really was "magic" until I found Kroil. Not many products make me laugh with glee. But the satisfying twist of an otherwise impossible-to-remove bolt or the turn of a shaft that was rusted solid now make me smile because of this little orange can.

Kroil doesn't work instantly. It takes between a few minutes and a few days (for extremely large bearing surfaces) to work its magic. I once let it sit for a week on a 300 pound flywheel that was being very stubborn, and it came right off.

Kroil is not for general lubrication purposes. It's very thin (which is part of how it works) and is not very sticky. But that's not the reason I use it; I use it to get things apart. Kroil has a weird creeping capability, it finds its way up and across metal surfaces like some sort of strange science fiction amoeba. After I use Kroil to separate things, I'll typically clean them completely (dip in mineral spirits) air-blast to remove residue, and then re-oil with a more permanent lubricant. The Kroil won't hurt anything if it stays, but I like to get a thicker material in everywhere to avoid having to fix the problem again in a few years.

It's somewhat hard to find in a retail setting. I've never seen it in a hardware store, but that doesn't mean some don't carry it. (The label on my bottle says "For industrial use only - not for retail sale" which is somewhat antiquated.) I typically get it directly from kanolabs.com, though eBay also might have some good deals. There are now several variants of Kroil including graphite and silicone, but I stick with the old-fashioned stuff since I haven't read the data enough on the other mixtures to figure out if it's worth changing.

If someone asked me what critical items I'd want for my toolbox, this would be among them. It comes at an even higher value than general-purpose sprays like WD-40. Simply put, Kroil is the most useful lubricant I know of.

--John Todd

Kroil
$9

Sample use:
A recent example of when I have used Kroil came when I bought an Ideal #3 Stencil machine on eBay, which is used for cutting out cardboard or paper letters and numbers for making paint stencils. I purchased the machine for $40, which is about 1/5th the normal price, because the machine was rusty and jammed.
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I took the risk because I knew Kroil would work. Indeed, when I opened up the box, the rust was pretty severe. All of the vertical punch letters were rusted in place, and the dial didn't even spin at all to change letters. I liberally dosed all of the moving component interface areas I could see with Kroil, and then started to take it apart. After an hour or so of time, I was able to get all of the moving components back into fully operational condition after slowly working them through a few gritty and then progressively smoother cycles with the Kroil finding its way into the nooks and crannies.
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Even the central shaft which was frozen solid with several hundred pounds of turning force, after two hours or so I was able to feel a little movement, and after another hour and some huffing and puffing I was able to get the assembly off the shaft.

Don't forget to comment over at Cool Tools. And remember to submit a tool!

Poison Elves

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:31 AM PDT

We've blogged a lot about Cerebus and Elfquest, two series that did much to kickstart indie comics in the late 1970s. One an SF epic with pretty leads and high drama, the other a black-humored and misanthropic sprawl, they couldn't be more different. And yet Drew Hayes blended elements of the two perfectly to create I, Lusiphur/Poison Elves, a spirited classic in its own right that never quite got the attention it deserved.

poisonelves.jpgHis life cut short, dying in 2007 at only 37 years of age, Hayes left his saga of lovable gangster Lusiphur Malache unfinished.

The art was a black-and-white gothic scratchboard, and Poison Elves' mix of choppy dream sequences, drug issues, serial killers, strippers and supernatural weirdness looks rough and adolescent at first blush. But here was an energy and humor that was only just getting started: Hayes self-published his way to success (just like the Pinis and Dave Sim before him) in the early 1990s and should have had all the time in the world to refine his work and provide more comfortable attire for his characters.

Alas, it was not to be.

Hayes also worked on Overstreet price guide, Strange Attractors, Necromancer, Elfquest and others. Collections are available at Amazon, and his publisher also produced a collection of Hayes' columns and personal notes, Deathreats: The Life and Times of a Comic Book Rock Star in 2009. Harder to find is original artwork by Hayes; sketches seem to go for hundreds of dollars, and a a few are in circulation on eBay. Also: toys.

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Old furniture recovered with offcut leather scraps

Posted: 23 May 2011 01:44 AM PDT


Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop recovers salvaged furniture with leather scraps -- offcuts that have been discarded by the furniture industry. The collection is called "Skin."

Leather Leftovers

Miro4: open, cross-platform iTunes replacement that does BitTorrent, podcast channels, and synchs to everything

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:37 AM PDT


Nicholas from the Participatory Culture Foundation sez,
Miro 4 has just been released! We believe the open media world can be just as integrated and usable as the closed, top-down, DRM'ed systems of companies like Apple. And we want to prove it. Miro, free and open-source, is now a full alternative to iTunes and Windows Media Player:

* Syncs music and video to Android phones and tablets
* Buy music and apps from Amazon and other stores inside Miro
* Stream and share music and video on your local network
* Gorgeous, totally new UI
* Works with your iTunes library, so it's easy to try Miro and see if you like it
* A very fast bittorrent client
* Powerful video player supporting and converting almost any format

Basically, it rules. Android is going to be 50% of the smartphone market by the end of the year, but millions of Android users are still using iTunes, software that explicitly refuses to sync to their devices. That seems a little crazy doesn't it? We think Miro 4 can change that.

Miro 4 (Thanks, Nicholas!)

(Disclosure: I'm proud to volunteer on the board of directors for the Participatory Culture Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Miro)

Gweek 004: Deadly, gross, and fascinating bugs

Posted: 13 May 2011 01:38 PM PDT

gweek-004-300x250.jpgHere's episode 004 of Boing Boing's Gweek Podcast, about comic books, science fiction, games, and other neat stuff. Usually, I'm joined by my host Rob Beschizza, but last week I was at Maker Faire in San Mateo CA, so Rob and I didn't record an episode. Instead, here's an interview with Amy Stewart, the author of a terrific book about dangerous vegetation called Wicked Plants, and the her new book Wicked Bugs. I asked Amy to tell me about the most dangerous bug, the most disgusting bug, the most fascinating bug, and so on. Then we talk about people who grow gardens filled with "wicked plants," and people who grow opium poppies and coca plants. Amy is a very knowledgeable and funny writer, and I had a lot of fun chatting with her.

Here's the video version of the interview with Amy.

Download Gweek 004 as an MP3 | Subscribe to Gweek via iTunes | Subscribe via RSS | Download single episodes of Gweek as MP3s

Study: Christians feel guilty after sex

Posted: 23 May 2011 06:24 AM PDT

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Image: Shutterstock A study carried out at the University of Kansas found that Christians are more likely than the irreligious to feel guilty after sex. On some kind of scale of feeling dirty, Mormons came the hardest, scoring on average 8.19 out of 10, "followed closely" by Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, and Baptists. Cathlolics and Lutherans were clustered around 6/10, while atheists and agnostics came in under 5/10. Informing the numbers: almost a quarter of people raised in very religious homes reported being 'shamed or ridiculed' for masturbating as a youngster. They are also more likely to learn about sex from pornography. Atheists have 'better sex lives than followers of religion who are plagued with guilt' [Daily Mail via The Awl]

Ad for space-race condos, 1961

Posted: 23 May 2011 01:47 AM PDT


I love the design for this 1961 Saturday Evening Post huckster ad flogging condos built in the shadow of the burgeoning US space program: "How can you miss? Be one of the first to own prime Florida land right in the "path of progress" in the already established community of Port Malabar--only 32 miles south of Cape Canaveral. Don't delay and be sorry at the opportunity you missed. Act Now! Mail the coupon -- get all the facts--then figure out how big a 'Piece of America' you can afford at these rock bottom prices." Love the lettering!

Invest in the Dynamic Cape Canaveral Area (Nov, 1961)

The Filter Bubble: how personalization changes society

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:50 AM PDT

MoveOn co-founder Eli Pariser's new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You is a thoughtful, often alarming look at the dark side of Internet personalization. Pariser is concerned that invisible "smart" customization of your Internet experience can make you parochial, exploiting your cognitive blind-spots to make you overestimate the importance or prevalence of certain ideas, products and philosophies and underestimate others. In Pariser's view, invisible, unaccountable, commercially driven customization turns into a media-bias-of-one, an information system that distorts your perception of reality. Pariser doesn't believe that this is malicious or intentional, but he worries that companies with good motives ("let's hide stuff you always ignore; let's show you search results similar to the kinds you've preferred in the past") and bad ("let's spy on your purchasing patterns to figure out how to trick you into buying stuff that you don't want") are inadvertently, invisibly and powerfully changing the discourse.

Pariser marshalls some good examples and arguments in favor of this proposition. Students whose teachers believe they are stupid end up acting stupid -- what happens when the filters decide we're dumb, or smart, or athletic, or right wing, or left wing? He cites China and reiterates the good arguments we've heard from the likes of Rebecca McKinnon: that the Chinese politburo gets more political control over the way it shapes which messages and arguments you see (through paid astroturfers) than by mere censorship of the Internet. Pariser cites research from cognitive scientists and behavioral economists on how framing and presentation can radically alter our perception of events. Finally, he convincingly describes how a world of messages that you have to consciously tune out is different from one in which the tuning out is done automatically -- for example, if you attend a town hall meeting in which time is taken up with discussion of issues that you don't care about, you still end up learning what your neighbors care about. This creates a shared frame of reference that strengthens your community.

Pariser also points out -- correctly, in my view -- that filtering algorithms are editorial in nature. When Google's programmers tweak and modify their ranking algorithm to produce a result that "feels" better (or that users click on more), they're making an editorial decision about what sort of response they want their search results to evince. Putting more-clicked things higher up is an editorial decision: "I want to provide you with the sort of information whose utility is immediately obvious." And while this is, intuitively, a useful way to present stuff, there's plenty of rewarding material whose utility can't be immediately divined or described (I thought of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide, which describes an experiment in which subjects who were asked to explain why they liked certain pictures made worse choices than ones who weren't asked to explain their preferences). When we speak of Google's results as being driven by "relevance," we act as though there was a platonic, measurable, independent idea of "relevance" that was separate from judgment, bias, and editorializing. Some relevance can't be divined a priori -- how relevant is an open window to Fleming's Petri dish?

There were places where I argued with Pariser's analysis, however. On the one hand, Pariser's speculation about the future seems overly speculative: "What if augmented reality as presently practiced by artists and futurists becomes commonplace?" On the other hand, Pariser's futures are too static: He presumes a world in which filtering tools become increasingly sophisticated, but anti-filtering tools (ad-blockers, filter-comparison tools, etc) remain at present-day levels. The first wave of personalization in the Web was all about changing how your browser displayed the information it received; the trend to modular, fluid site-design built around XML, CSS, DHTML, AJAX, etc, makes it even more possible to block, rearrange, and manage the way information is presented to you. That is, even as site designers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the way they present their offerings to you, you are getting more and more power to break that presentation, to recombine it and filter it yourself. Filters that you create and maintain are probably subject to some of the dangers that Pariser fears, but they're also a powerful check against the alarming manipulation he's most anxious about. Pariser gives short shrift to this, dismissing the fact that the net makes it theoretically easier than ever to see what the unfiltered (or differently filtered) world looks like with hand-waving: the filters will make it so we don't even want to go outside of them.

I don't believe that anti-filters or personal filters will automatically act as a check against manipulative customization, but I believe that they have this potential. The Filter Bubble is mostly a story about potential -- the potential of filtering technology to grow unchecked. And against that, I think it's worth discussing (and caring about, and working for) the potential of a technological response to that chilling future.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You

LCD trading cards

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:47 AM PDT

Video-Trading-Card.jpeg Italian trading card company Panini's latest trick: LCDs in the traditional form factor. Each will have 2GB of space and come pre-loaded with highlight reels for a sporting icon. They're rewritable, too, meaning you can use them for other stuff. The hacking shall commence in June, but you won't be able to just buy them: they'll be a "a limited insert" secreted inside card packets for an upcoming NBA promotion. Panini Introduces HRX, the Industry's First Video Trading Card [Panini via Wired

Google blocks rooted Android devices from movie store

Posted: 23 May 2011 05:30 AM PDT

Google has blocked rooted Android devices from its movie rental service. Rooting your phone doesn't meet "requirements related to copyright protection," see. [Ars]
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