Cory at the Edinburgh Festival tonight, Reno WorldCon this week David Cameron's net-censorship proposal earns kudos from Chinese state media Combat Gnome Shepard Fairey beat up in Copenhagen: by thugs, and by local media Stephan Guyenet's critical examination of Gary Taubes' anti-carb book, Good Calories, Bad Calories Caturday: Ninja edition Science fiction music video about a woman with speakers in her skin AOL hacked WITH A LITTLE HELP at U Washington Bookstore AT&T merger leak: it's all about raising prices and reducing competition CC-licensed music video seeks music, after being orphaned by the band The annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012 Brits: Tell Parliament to keep its hands off social media 
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Cory at the Edinburgh Festival tonight, Reno WorldCon this week
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2011 10:56 am I'm about to fly to Edinburgh for a gig at the Edinburgh Festival, tonight at 8:30PM. There are still a few tickets left. From there, I'm headed straight to Renovation, the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, where I'll be …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2011 05:56 am UK prime minister David Cameron (who is reported to have rioted himself and then fled police while at university) has proposed a regime of state censorship for social media to prevent people from passing on messages that incite violence. This …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 14, 2011 12:59 am "I don't know what it was that finally prompted the gnomes to take up arms. Maybe it was one too many gopher invasions. Perhaps it was the overwhelming gaudiness of neighboring plastic pink flamingos encroaching on their ancestral homeland. Or …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 13, 2011 11:11 pm Artist Shepard Fairey was ambushed and physically assaulted in Copenhagen. The attack may have been sparked by false reports in local press that he was hired by the city to produce what amounts to "propaganda." Fairey's longtime friend Sean Bonner …
Continue reading → Read in browser Stephan Guyenet's critical examination of Gary Taubes' anti-carb book, Good Calories, Bad Calories
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 13, 2011 06:45 pm Stephan Guyenet, a neurobiologist who studies the neurobiology of body fat regulation, wrote a long, detailed critique of Gary Taubes' book, Good Calories, Bad Calories on his terrific blog, Whole Health Source. A couple of weeks ago on Gweek, I …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 13, 2011 05:32 pm "Don't F*** with Joao," a photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by JesseJesseJesse.
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 13, 2011 05:32 pm The video for Seasons' song "Of Our Discontent" (from the indie album Winter, $5 on Bandcamp) is a moving and odd little science fiction story about a woman with speakers in her skin: For the shimmering psychedelic indie rock on …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 13, 2011 05:30 pm Postmaster.aol.com, at time of writing, is hacked. For several hours! Perhaps a DNS thing that can't be fixed by turning off the server?
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 13, 2011 04:38 pm Seattle's kick-ass University of Washington bookstore is the latest local store to start selling my DIY science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help, printing it on demand from their Espresso Book Machine. They're even giving away some copies …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 13, 2011 04:28 pm An AT&T legal staffer inadvertently (and briefly) posted a damning internal document to the FCC's docket for the pending AT&T/T-Mobile merger. The document makes it clear that "AT&T is giving Deutsche Telekom $39 billion primarily to reduce market competition" and …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 13, 2011 01:21 pm Brandon sez, "Earlier this year a friend and I produced a self-financed music video for a song we loved, with permission from the band. After several months work, we posted the video online, where it drew viewers for a week …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 13, 2011 12:00 pm It's August of 2011, do you know when your Apocalypse is? There are 1000s of people who think that something important—if not the end or the world, then something—will happen on December 21, 2012. These speculations spring from a well-seasoned …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 13, 2011 10:17 am Jim from the UK Open Rights Group sez, "David Cameron is trying to gain new powers to close social media and mobile messaging when there's 'trouble': he's also thinking about new snooping powers. We need to stop these plans before …
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