Zahra's Paradise: graphic novel about Iranian uprising is a story and a history Authors Guild declares war on university effort to rescue orphaned books OldUse.Net: historical recreation of Usenet as it was 30 years ago Insurance billing codes for injuries resulting from spacecraft "Half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife" terrorized on 9/11 for Flying While Dark-Skinned Wikinarco: mapping narcoviolence Canada's Tories set to reintroduce DRM-friendly copyright bill without consultation Courteous drivers want your dead and disabled animals Trailer for creepy thriller novel, Bedbugs Documentary about company that made Scar Stuff, Vampire Blood, and Evil Teeth Fifty more exoplanets spotted David Byrne's giant globe inflated under the High Line Texas: Bastrop Fires The wonderful punk and post-punk era photographs of David Arnoff Galileo on the Moon What happened to Mitrice Richardson? Richard Metzger's "Show and Tell" in LA on Tuesday, 9/13/11 A new kind of traffic signal Bushwick Kitten (BB Flickr Pool) The neurobiology of politics "For 9/11″ (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) Deceptive "independent research" from Hollywood front suggests Australians are easily frightened Everyday night is Caturday Night Jesus Santa 9/11 art print for sale Agents tell YA authors: lose the gay characters and I'll get you a deal Mexico: Musica Tribal, Pointy Boots, Los Parranderos and 3BallMTY Arianna finally free to speak mind in TechCrunch-AOL imbroglio Anonymous paper sculptures in Scotland's libraries Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve #12: exclusive preview Carry a clipboard to keep "clipboard zombies" away 
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Zahra's Paradise: graphic novel about Iranian uprising is a story and a history
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 13, 2011 12:40 pm Zahra's Paradise, a new book from FirstSecond, collects in one volume the serialized (and brilliant) webcomic, written by two pseudonymous Iranian dissidents. It's the gripping story of a Medhi, a young man kidnapped by Iran's secret police during the election-season …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 13, 2011 12:04 pm Back in June, I wrote about the Hathi Trust, which is rescuing orphaned literary works from the university libraries that Google has scanned. If they can't find an author for a book, and if it's not in print, they're going …
Continue reading → Read in browser OldUse.Net: historical recreation of Usenet as it was 30 years ago
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 13, 2011 11:05 am OldUse.Net is a historical, realtime re-creation of the Usenet experience, as it was in the heroic green-on-black era of the Internet. That is, it is a command-line-driven interface to Usenet posts, synchronized with Usenet 30 years ago, and every day …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 13, 2011 03:53 am Jon Keegan, a designer for WSJ.com, tweeted at me today: "You will dig some of the crazy medicare codes in our searchable database. Injuries from collision in space." Jon, you are correct.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 13, 2011 03:20 am Shoshana Hebshi, who describes herself as a "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife," was aggressively cuffed and detained from Frontier Airlines Flight 623, then strip-searched, for the apparent crime of being ambiguously "ethnic"—and being seated next to two Indian guys she didn't know …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 13, 2011 03:08 am Over the weekend, I tweeted a question: is anyone using Google Maps or another online mapping service to chart incidents of drug-related violence in Mexico (and/or Central and South America)? The one reply I received was this: Wikinarco.com. In the …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 13, 2011 01:58 am Canada's majority Tory government is poised to reintroduce its disastrous DRM-friendly copyright law, formerly Bill C-32, without any further public consultation. This law repeats the major error made in the US 1998 DMCA, namely granting special status to "software locks" …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 13, 2011 01:24 am Deanna found this vintage home canning and label book from the Worthington Rendering Company. "Our gift to you in appreciation of your calls" for "dead and disabled animals."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 13, 2011 12:27 am [Video Link] In Gweek 014 I discussed a psychological thriller novel I enjoyed by Ben H. Winters called Bedbugs. Here's the trailer for it.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 11:41 pm One day shortly after Halloween, when I was 10 or 11 years old, I went with my mother to a King Sooper supermarket in Boulder, Colorado and came across a bargain bin loaded with tubes of Vampire Blood and Scar …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 12, 2011 11:32 pm Including 16 superearths for you to explore in your imaginations, one in its star's habitable zone. [BBC]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 11:19 pm I'm awfully envious of the folks who get to see this in person! And here comes Byrne himself, arriving as usual by bicycle, dressed all in blue, accented by his white hair, white wristwatch, and white leather sandals. He matches …
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By Jasmina Tesanovic on Sep 12, 2011 10:17 pm Helpful tents with water, food and clothing are installed by the highway, in parking lots and prefabricated buildings. People just pour in with stuff to give, and we did that too. It feels normal. Insurance companies and lawyers are also …
Continue reading → Read in browser The wonderful punk and post-punk era photographs of David Arnoff
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 12, 2011 10:06 pm Dangerous Minds has a great interview with punk/post-punk era photographer David Arnoff. Above: Joey Ramone, 1976.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 12, 2011 09:56 pm Here's an oldy but goody: Video of astronauts from Apollo 15 proving Galileo's hypothesis that, in the absence of wind resistance, two objects will fall at the same rate regardless of how much they each weigh. There are a number …
Continue reading → Read in browser What happened to Mitrice Richardson?
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 09:45 pm Mike Kessler's story "What Happened to Mitrice Richardson?" in Los Angeles magazine looks into the puzzling death of Mitrice Richardson and the sheriff department's baffling mishandling of the case. Two years ago this September, the recent college graduate was jailed …
Continue reading → Read in browser Richard Metzger's "Show and Tell" in LA on Tuesday, 9/13/11
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 09:36 pm My friend Richard Metzger (founder of Dangerous Minds), a collector and disseminator of mind-blowing media, is screening some of his favorite films and videos at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles tomorrow night. I wouldn't miss this for anything! …
Continue reading → Read in browser A new kind of traffic signal
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 12, 2011 09:36 pm Compared to traffic signals that force you to stop your car and then bring it back up to speed again, traffic controls like roundabouts save energy and money, and reduce pollution. The trouble is that roundabouts don't work in all …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 12, 2011 09:28 pm Photographer and Boing Boing reader Chris Arnade of Brooklyn shares this shot with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says, "I was climbing stairs in a building in Bushwick, heading to the roof to see more pigeons when I ran …
Continue reading → Read in browser The neurobiology of politics
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 12, 2011 09:25 pm What, if anything, should we make of studies that purport to find neurological differences between people who self-identify as "conservative" and people who self-identify as "liberal?" You've seen studies like that in the paper. You've heard them argued about on …
Continue reading → Read in browser "For 9/11″ (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 12, 2011 09:22 pm For 9/11, contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Kyle Dettman.
Read in browser Deceptive "independent research" from Hollywood front suggests Australians are easily frightened
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 12, 2011 09:06 pm A press release from a mysterious "independent" Australian research outfit announced that if Aussie ISPs would help the movie industry by threatening the families that Hollywood says are downloading without permission, copyright infringement would fall by a whopping 72 percent. …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 12, 2011 08:43 pm Photo: posted to Glow-in-the-dark cats offer insight into AIDS by BB reader Allybeag.
Read in browser Jesus Santa 9/11 art print for sale
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 08:34 pm A Tea Party fantasy for only $50, framed.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 12, 2011 08:17 pm Rose Fox from Publishers Weekly sez, "Authors Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith wrote a YA novel featuring five POV characters, all of whom are non-white, one of whom is a gay boy with a boyfriend. An agent offered to …
Continue reading → Read in browser Mexico: Musica Tribal, Pointy Boots, Los Parranderos and 3BallMTY
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 12, 2011 08:16 pm Friends from Mexico have been turning me on to a form of electro-fusion music called "musica tribal" for the past year or so. We featured a Mun2 video about one Texas superfan on Boing Boing's Virgin America in-flight TV channel …
Continue reading → Read in browser Arianna finally free to speak mind in TechCrunch-AOL imbroglio
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 12, 2011 07:46 pm The TechCrunch/AOL saga's been an easy way to attract readers of late, but I never wanted to get into it because I had no questions. It's always been obvious that Mike Arrington was an active investor who used his site …
Continue reading → Read in browser Anonymous paper sculptures in Scotland's libraries
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 12, 2011 07:03 pm An anonymous sculptor has been leaving gorgeous carved-book sculptures in Scotland's libraries, along with little notes of encouragement. Some are left out in the open; others are hidden away and may have sat a long time before being discovered. Having …
Continue reading → Read in browser Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve #12: exclusive preview
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 06:27 pm I've been waiting a long time for issue #12 of Adrian Tomine's comic book, Optic Nerve. It'll be available on Wednesday. Find a local comic shop that sells it. Order it directly from the publisher. In the new, long-awaited Optic …
Continue reading → Read in browser Carry a clipboard to keep "clipboard zombies" away
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 12, 2011 05:11 pm Andrew Hyde of Laughing Squid says: Boulder based Mighty Fudge Studios created a set of clipboards for citizens to carry around to help fight "Clipboard Zombies" or those that are raising money for campaigns and charities with the line "do you …
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