MC Frontalot's latest nerdcore album: SOLVED Wikileaks releases new batch of diplomatic cables Uncle Ricky sings "Offer True Love" Rare but only 5.8 quake generates as much Twitter traffic as Japan's devastating 9.0 PONPONPON finally available as MP3 purchase on Amazon MakerBot gets $10 million investment round Ex-WikiLeaker Domscheit-Berg disputes claims of deleted files; Wikileaks dumps thousands of new leaks Rare quake damages Washington Monument Japan: Fukushima robot operator publishes tell-all diaries and videos, now offline Oops: B-roll in TV report said to expose Chinese military cyberattack on US WSJ: Apple iPhone 5 coming to Sprint in October Retired Russian cop arrested on suspicion of organizing execution of journalist Anna Politkovskaya Meet the Makers from MAKE Volume 27: Doug Bradbury Alaska: Mother convicted of child abuse after taping "hot sauce torture video" for Dr. Phil Show Steve Gunn: "Traditional american song structures with a raga influence" Ohio: Gentleman crashes stolen truck into adult store, steals $800 sex toy Venezuela: Ancestral thugs become modern-day saints Torture of dissidents in Bahrain enabled by Nokia Siemens, charges Bloomberg report Paintings by Nathan Stapley Shaken East Coast of US braces for Hurricane Irene Virginia earthquake: epicenter close to nuclear power plant Myk31′s 16-bit music video for Sound Boy Earthquake rocks eastern U.S. — Pentagon evacuated, Nukes offline Lenny Bruce on Playboy's Penthouse, 1959 Spacesuit adjusts for gravity, or lack thereof The Construction of Secret Hiding Places Mondo 2000 in today's context Happy Hot Dog Man Hitting 52.5 mpg won't require major tech advancement Rick Perry explains the cause of the bad economy: it's a lesson from God 
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MC Frontalot's latest nerdcore album: SOLVED
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 24, 2011 06:44 am Nerdcore rap legend MC Frontalot sez, "SOLVED, my new album came out today! It's a concept record about how all solutions are hacks. It has got guest appearances from some other nerdcore rappers (MC Lars, ZeaLouS1, Dr Awkward), some rockstars …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 24, 2011 03:32 am Wikileaks is to release 35,000 U.S. diplomatic cables today. Contents are said to include evidence of multi-billion dollar contracts issued as political rewards, the likely details of John McCain's interesting conversation with the interesting man in charge of Libya, and …
Continue reading → Read in browser Uncle Ricky sings "Offer True Love"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 24, 2011 02:21 am [Video Link] "Uncle Ricky is Ochen Kaunda. He was trained to sing in Uganda by his uncle who called himself the northern king. Coming to California a year ago, he pursues the grand American musical dream and reaches higher than …
Continue reading → Read in browser Rare but only 5.8 quake generates as much Twitter traffic as Japan's devastating 9.0
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 02:04 am From the official Twitter account, on, you guessed it, Twitter: "Within a minute of today's earthquake, there were more than 40,000 earthquake-related Tweets. And, we hit about 5,500 Tweets per second (TPS). For context, this TPS is more than Osama …
Continue reading → Read in browser PONPONPON finally available as MP3 purchase on Amazon
By Dean Putney on Aug 24, 2011 02:04 am [video link] I am pleased to announce that "PONPONPON", the totally insane and deliciously obnoxious J-pop song Mark posted about last month, is finally available for purchase as an MP3 download on Amazon. Until now the song has been unavailable …
Continue reading → Read in browser MakerBot gets $10 million investment round
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:59 am "Today, I'm excited to announce that MakerBot is taking $10 million in investment, with Foundry Group leading the round," blogs Makerbot founder Bre Pettis. "We are proud to be working with such great people and we are going to use …
Continue reading → Read in browser Ex-WikiLeaker Domscheit-Berg disputes claims of deleted files; Wikileaks dumps thousands of new leaks
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:55 am Kim Zetter at Wired News spoke to Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former WikiLeaks spokesman reported to have recently destroyed thousands of unpublished documents submitted to Wikileaks last year. "[He] says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files, in …
Continue reading → Read in browser Rare quake damages Washington Monument
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:41 am Via the Washington Post, news that "the Washington Monument may have suffered cracks near its top during Tuesday's earthquake, and the monument could be closed indefinitely." Aftershocks from the 5.8 quake, Virginia's largest since 1897, continue this evening.Earthquake rocks eastern …
Continue reading → Read in browser Japan: Fukushima robot operator publishes tell-all diaries and videos, now offline
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:31 am IEEE Spectrum reports on a pseudonymous/anonymous tell-all blog written by a Fukushima Daiichi cleanup worker whose job is to operate robots (actually, iRobot robots) at the tsunami- and quake-damaged, radioactivity-spewing power plant in Japan. The IEEE Spectrum item includes complete …
Continue reading → Read in browser Oops: B-roll in TV report said to expose Chinese military cyberattack on US
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:12 am [Video Link] Falun-Gong-founded newspaper Epoch Times reports that a "standard, even boring" Chinese military propaganda video broadcast in mid-July on state-run networks revealed screengrabs showing a Chinese military university actively engaged in cyberattacks against the US. Now, some perspective on …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 24, 2011 01:06 am The Wall Street Journal today reported that Sprint will begin selling a new edition of Apple's iPhone in mid-October. Non-paywalled Reuters item summarizing the WSJ story is here.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 10:49 pm In Moscow today, a retired police officer has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. She was shot dead in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. But this arrest, like the arrest …
Continue reading → Read in browser Meet the Makers from MAKE Volume 27: Doug Bradbury
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 23, 2011 10:22 pm Meet Doug Bradbury. In MAKE Volume 27, Doug wrote an article describing how to make a treadmill desk, that is, a desk with a runner's treadmill below it. The idea is to stay in shape while you work. It turns …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 10:21 pm A mother in Alaska has been convicted of abusing her adopted Russian son by "pouring hot sauce into the crying child's mouth and not allowing him to spit it out for more than a minute," then forcing him to stand …
Continue reading → Read in browser Steve Gunn: "Traditional american song structures with a raga influence"
By David Pescovitz on Aug 23, 2011 10:07 pm [video link] Last week I purchased a copy of "Not The Spaces You Know, But Between Them," a magnificent 4 LP box set compilation from Three Lobed Recordings. Each side contains exclusive recordings by Three Lobed Recordings acts and friends …
Continue reading → Read in browser Ohio: Gentleman crashes stolen truck into adult store, steals $800 sex toy
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 10:07 pm "Police are looking for the sex-crazed loser who crashed a stolen semi-truck into an adult store early Monday morning, and swiped a very expensive XXX toy." Full news report, such as it is, with video. Thank you, Ohio, for ensuring …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 09:48 pm (Image: recién llegados, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from ronaldrivas's photostream) France24 has a report with photos documenting "Santos Malandros", or "Corte Malandra", a contemporary saint culture spreading in Venezuela (not entirely unlike "Santa Muerte" and "Jesus …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 09:34 pm In Bloomberg Magazine, a damning report that links surveillance and torture of dissidents in Bahrain with Siemens AG and Nokia Siemens Networks. The report focuses on the interrogation and brutal abuse of Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar: First, Bahraini jailers armed …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 23, 2011 09:28 pm Gallery 1988 in Santa Monica is exhibiting paintings by Nathan Stapley from August 26 to September 10, 2011. The show is called "Same Gang." Of the samples shown here, this one, which depicts the Ramones checking out The Warriors, is …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 08:37 pm East Coasters, now that you're shaken? You may as well get stirred. Hurricane Irene threatens the Eastern Seaboard, and populations throughout the Caribbean may be hit hardest: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and islands in the Bahamas. (via Ned Sublette)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 23, 2011 07:31 pm Following up on Rob's earlier live-blogging: A 5.9 5.8 (downgraded from earlier assessments) and 6km deep earthquake centered near Richmond, Virginia earlier today. It was felt in NYC and other states, and generated countless "I felt it" tweets throughout the …
Continue reading → Read in browser Myk31′s 16-bit music video for Sound Boy
By David Pescovitz on Aug 23, 2011 06:28 pm XLR8R just premiered Myk31's epic 16-bit video for Samo Sound Boy's "Shuffle Code." Long live the Sega Genesis! Video: Samo Soundboy "Shuffle Code"
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 23, 2011 06:06 pm I thought the Great East Coast Earthquake of O' Eleven was the FedEx truck and dashed to catch it. No packages! Here in Pittsburgh, I seem to be far from the epicenter; reports from D.C. suggest a larger local tremor, …
Continue reading → Read in browser Lenny Bruce on Playboy's Penthouse, 1959
By David Pescovitz on Aug 23, 2011 05:38 pm The late, great Lenny Bruce on the first episode of Playboy's Penthouse in 1959. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. A decade later, Bruce's mom Sally Marr, appeared on the second Hefner TV series, Playboy After Dark.
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 23, 2011 05:29 pm This vintage illustration actually depicts a modern spacesuit in development at Draper Laboratory. The suit has built-in sensors for measuring inertia and flywheel gyroscopes to tweak the resistance of movement in the suit so that the experience is more Earth-like. …
Continue reading → Read in browser The Construction of Secret Hiding Places
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 23, 2011 05:28 pm The Construction of Secret Hiding Places, by Charles Robinson will come in handy when President Bachmann bans your collection of Zap comics. Mr. Homegrown says: I love alternate views of our normal notions of domesticity and home economics. On a …
Continue reading → Read in browser Mondo 2000 in today's context
By David Pescovitz on Aug 23, 2011 05:21 pm Over at RU Sirius's Acceler8or, Dorien Zandbergen posted a fascinating essay about the early 1990s cyberdelic "New Edge" culture embodied by Mondo 2000 magazine in the context of today's schizophrenic, always-on culture. From Acceler8or: Advanced technologies today don't only appeal …
Continue reading → Read in browser Happy Hot Dog Man
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 23, 2011 04:59 pm [Video Link] The Happy Hotdog man will enhance your life. When combined with the Ketchup Kritter and Mustard Monster, it will utterly transform it.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 23, 2011 04:48 pm By 2025, US automakers will have to have an average fleet fuel economy of 52.5 miles per gallon. That standard is 27.3 mpg today, so it sounds like a great, big, scary leap. But not really, say vehicle technology experts. …
Continue reading → Read in browser Rick Perry explains the cause of the bad economy: it's a lesson from God
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 23, 2011 04:43 pm [Video Link] Multimillionaire presidential candidate Rick Perry tells an audience of rapt listeners to appreciate the economic crisis that is making life difficult for them. It's just God's way of bringing us back to Biblical principals. (Via Cynical-C)
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