BART Police website hacker had no previous experience Copyright complaint as phishing email Competitive lockpicker explains his sport Trouble resetting your password or making a new account? Try again, please! Ugandan police firing pink-dyed water at protestors Special ed student raped by classmate, forced by school to apologize to him, then raped again, lawsuit claims (UPDATED) More migraine headaches caused by cleaning products: from N=1 to N=2 People taking naps with stuff (big photo gallery) Why poor people support tax breaks for the rich? 10 songs from the Hokum Scorchers Patent for a combination sparrow-catcher / cat-feeder Website used by al-Qaeda posts death threat against David Letterman Cisco sued by Chinese political prisoners for providing tech China uses to monitor, censor, suppress Planking for peace: Guatemalan activists stage "die-ins" to protest migrant killings Alan Moore drawn by Gilbert Hernandez Paul Krugman: save the economy by staging an alien invasion hoax Should you use public cell-phone charging kiosks? BART police officers website hacked, database released Escaped capybara spotted at sewage treatment plant In California Ben Grosser's interactive robotic painting machine Economic inequality in America: how bad is it? We regret the error Model helicopter controlled with iPhone TOM THE DANCING BUG: Hey, Kids! The World You're On… has CORPORATIONS! Save money and have fun roasting your own coffee Internets Celebrities: Japanese curry-eating contest edition (video) A brooch made of living beetle Mark Ryden pendant How the human brain lies to us Scary face in the clouds 
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BART Police website hacker had no previous experience
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 18, 2011 05:49 am Lamaline_5mg, the French woman who cracked the BART Police Officers' Website Association site claims to have no experience with hacking: "They had zero security." SFWeekly writes, "she figured out how to get into BART's website by a one-page PDF tutorial …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 18, 2011 05:49 am An anonymous bank worker writes, "What follows is the content of an email send to the whole company as a warning:" A fraudulent email has recently made its way into xxxxxxxx entitled "Cease and Desist". It claims to be from …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 18, 2011 05:44 am Kevin sez, "Schuyler Towne is a competitive lockpicker and professional security researcher, but mostly he's a charming geek who knows a lot about locks. In this video, Schuyler talks about his passion for locks, demonstrates simple lockpicking, and tells the …
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By Dean Putney on Aug 18, 2011 12:24 am This week, I got some reports from our faithful and dearly-beloved readers that they were unable to reset their passwords or create a new account due to an error in our system. If you're one of those people, or want …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 17, 2011 11:41 pm On MSN's photoblog, striking photos of Ugandan police attacking demonstrators with water-canon that fire pink-dyed streams of water. Presumably, the pink dye helped the police track down protestors after the fact. Ugandan police disperse protesters with water cannon (Image: James …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 11:11 pm The Republic School District of southwestern Missouri expelled a 7th-grade special education student because they didn't believe her when she told adults at her school that a classmate raped her. School officials forced her to apologize to him, then kicked …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 10:57 pm Seth Roberts has an update to the piece he wrote for Boing Boing about a woman who cured her migraines by getting rid of cleaning products. At Thursday's Quantified Self Silicon Valley Meetup (where I gave a talk called QS …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 10:33 pm A worker takes a nap surrounded by ducklings at a duck farm on the outskirts of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. What could be more satisfying than a nap? A nice nap taken while surrounded by piles of stuff. More photos …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 17, 2011 10:30 pm Why do lower middle-class and working class Americans support tax breaks for the rich? New research suggests it might not be about aspirations—i.e., "Maybe I could be rich someday." Instead, says the Economist, people are more concerned with how social …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 09:20 pm Artist Amy Crehore and her luthier husband Lou Reimuller are also musicians. They have a duo called The Hokum Scorchers. Here's are 10 delightful songs they recorded in the 1990s. We play various instruments on these recordings. This is traditional …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 09:13 pm From Futility Closet: Patent 4150505 for a Bird trap and cat feeder, issued on April 24, 1979 Why spend money on cat food when there's a more immediate solution? Leo Voelker's 1979 invention simultaneously curbs the local sparrow population and …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 08:17 pm Sure, Late Night ain't what it used to be, but... "I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears, one of the lowlifes of the Jews, and one of their pigs, mocking one of the leaders of …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 08:00 pm An American lawyer is suing Cisco on behalf of Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin and 10 other unnamed Chinese political dissidents. They claim the company sells technology to China that enables the Chinese Communist Party to "monitor, censor and …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 07:51 pm An activist simulating a corpse lies on the ground during a protest in front of the Mexican embassy in Guatemala City August 16, 2011. He and others were demanding justice for the murder of Julio Fernando Cardona Agustin, a 19-year-old …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 17, 2011 07:42 pm Alan Moore as drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, from Comics Interview #65 (1988). (via A Moment of Moore) For much more Moore, check out the new art book Alan Moore: Storyteller, reviewed here.
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 17, 2011 07:33 pm Paul Krugman has an unorthodox suggestion for saving the economy: stage a fake alien invasion like the one the superhero Ozymandias pulls in Watchmen: Think about World War II -- that was actually negative social product spending and yet it …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 06:35 pm Beware of Juice-Jacking, warns security researcher Brian Krebs. Those cell-phone charging kiosks in airports and other public places amount to an "unknown device that could be configured to read most of the data on your phone, and perhaps even upload …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 06:31 pm Reports are circulating that databases containing BART police officer information from the website for The Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officers' Association site have been published. The bartpoa.com site is currently down. Who is responsible for the hack? Whoever ends …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 06:30 pm Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy My favorite animal is the capybara, and Gary Peare knows it, so he sent me the following story about a capybara that was spotted by Nick Kamp, a …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 06:21 pm Ben Grosser says: I don't know if you'll recall, but we met in Champaign, IL in 2008 at a dinner following your lecture at the University of Illinois. I described a machine I was planning to build at the time …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 06:16 pm Real bad. On PBS NewsHour last night, correspondent Paul Solman went to the line outside the Letterman show in NYC and showed people three different pie charts representing the possible distribution of wealth in three different countries. Most people figured …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 17, 2011 06:08 pm YanquiUXO, the Reddit user who originally posted this sign says that it comes from the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which hosts an annual event that allows artists to set up installations and performance art inside the museum. This is …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 06:08 pm Griffin, the Mac accessory company, announced its latest product: the Helo TC, a $50 model helicopter you control with an iPhone. HELO TC is a twin-rotored, indoor helicopter built on a lightweight metal frame with a black polycarbonate body. It …
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By Ruben Bolling on Aug 17, 2011 06:00 pm Read in browser Save money and have fun roasting your own coffee
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 05:59 pm I wrote a short article for Credit.com about roasting coffee with an air corn popper. It's not as hard as you might think. You don't need a large, noisy, smoke-belching contraption in your kitchen or garage. All you need to …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 05:38 pm [Video Link] In the latest episode of Internets Celebrities, a NYC-centric web video series which you can also view on Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America Airlines, stars Rafi and Dallas participate in the qualifying round of a …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 17, 2011 05:37 pm Ironclad beetles play dead when they feel threatened. And they're so good at it that, in Mexico, the living animals are often bedazzled and sold as jewelry. Jewelry that, occasionally, moves on its own. Neat! But you should not try …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 17, 2011 05:27 pm Mark Ryden and Pressure Printing/Porterhouse's Brad Keech have issued a large enameled metal pendant featuring Ryden's "Rose" painting, one of his most iconic works first seen in his 2003 "Blood Show." This lovely item is 1-3/8" x 1-13/16" and sells …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 17, 2011 05:20 pm Even in important moments, our brains are not as good at creating accurate memories as we think they are. This clip from the World Science Festival features two stories that show how easily the brain can be manipulated. In the …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 17, 2011 05:16 pm Recently seen above New Brunswick, Canada. Could it be... SATAN? This image is a framegrab from a fantastic YouTube clip. "A face. A face. Holy frig," says the person holding the camera. (via @forteantimes)
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