Understanding bullying Admiral Ackbar TRAP poster in the style of Fairey's HOPE design Found object assemblage bird-houses Glass and steel eyeball-spiders Buying a new Alternative Tentacles tshirt after 25+ years Custom centaur skeleton Pop-up, flat-pack camping house for transport on your car's roof 80-year-old woman arrested for dealing crack. Again. Rafe Needleman on the new Facebook: Yes, Google really should worry Behold, Zardog! The New Facebook: Steven Levy breaks it down Brass-effect 3D printed steampunk D6s Texas abolishes "special meal" option for prisoners about to be executed Social media expert's "fired ghostwriter" takes over Twitter account NASA releases collection of space-related audio files Meg Whitman takes over as HP CEO, Apotheker out FBI arrests alleged LulzSec member in AZ for Sony hack LA firefighters in hot water over use of f(ire tr)uck in porn Movie-industry self-piracy proves that IP addresses aren't people, invalidates copyright enforcement schemes CERN claims to have measured particle that travels faster than light Furry "sex romp" music video created by a furry angers furries The wonderful cat videos of Maggie Spotz Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% in ten years Schuler's "Pivoting to monetize mobile hyperlocal social gamification by going viral in the cloud": BUZZWORD OVERLOAD Breaking Brule Musician "plays" a dry cleaning shop as instrument MidPoint Music Festival: live streaming indie bands Pixelated clothing designs: when reality has a render-glitch Ken Jennings is a Maphead and unashamed to admit it Skulllolly: memento mori confection 
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Understanding bullying
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 11:48 am danah boyd sez, "Alice Marwick and I just crafted an op-ed for the New York Times entitled 'Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark.' It's based on a new paper that we just released called 'The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 03:19 am There are a lot of Fairey remixes around, but this Admiral Ackbar/Star Wars TRAP poster's pretty nicely executed. POSTERS > Trap poster (Thanks, Sebastian!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 02:04 am GadgetSponge features some wonderful birdhouses made from found objects and turned into aviary sculptures. Bird Houses (Thanks, Brian!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 01:31 am Etsy seller hand-forges these steel spiders and makes the eyeballs they support, and describes both with a lot of verve: I hand hammer glowing hot steel on an antique anvil and make glass eyeballs that are attached after everything cools …
Continue reading → Read in browser Buying a new Alternative Tentacles tshirt after 25+ years
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 23, 2011 12:25 am I bought a new Alternative Tentacles tshirt to replace the one I bought in the early 1980s. I didn't realize how faded it had become until I placed them side by side. I like the way the old one looks …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 23, 2011 12:13 am Ben says: "Although Skulls Unlimited generally articulates species that actually exist, we are sometimes asked to create custom skeletal mounts, such as this Centaur. Created using the torso of a real human skeleton and melding it with the body of …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 12:02 am From the Nov, 1938 issue to Mechanix Illustrated, a sweet little pop-up camping "house" that folded down flat and could be strapped to the roof of your hupmobile, tin lizzie any other jalopy you find yourself piloting. FEATURING six windows …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 11:45 pm "How do you explain all the drugs in your house?," an Alabama police officer asked Ola Mae Robinson as she was cuffed and taken into custody. "It wasn't mine! Til they found me I was sitting up in my chair noddin!," …
Continue reading → Read in browser Rafe Needleman on the new Facebook: Yes, Google really should worry
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 11:32 pm Rafe Needleman at CNET, on Facebook vs. Google+: "The Algorithm is a big part of today's announcement at the F8 developers' conference. The Algorithm can determine what you're likely to like based on who you like, what you do, where …
Continue reading → Read in browser Behold, Zardog!
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 11:29 pm Photo, by Dave Shumka: At left, Sean Connery as Zed from the 1974 movie Zardoz. At right, Dave's dog Grampa dressed as Zed, Halloween 2009. (thanks, @somebadideas!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 11:25 pm Steven Levy tweets: "It will take people a while to absorb that a Facebook profile is now a timeline of your life, an autobiography rendered by data." Check out his long-read over at Wired today: "Facebook is Ready for Your …
Continue reading → Read in browser Brass-effect 3D printed steampunk D6s
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 11:22 pm Etsy seller MechanicalOddities 3D prints these D6s with gears instead of pips, then finishes them by hand with brass-effect paint. Dice - 3D printed, Steampunk Style, Bronze Finish (Thanks, Alice)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 10:58 pm No more fancy feasts for death row prisoners who are about to be killed in Texas. The state is doing away with them. The meals. And, you know, also the death row prisoners. Brian Evans of Amnesty International, playing the …
Continue reading → Read in browser Social media expert's "fired ghostwriter" takes over Twitter account
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 10:11 pm The Twitter account of Mark Davidson, a self-described social media professional, has apparently been taken over by someone claiming to be an ex-employee who had been paid to ghostwrite Davidson's tweet-feed. Actually, the hijacker claims to have been part of …
Continue reading → Read in browser NASA releases collection of space-related audio files
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 10:08 pm Let the ringtone/remix fun begin! From NASA today: Here's a collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong's "One small step for (a) man, one …
Continue reading → Read in browser Meg Whitman takes over as HP CEO, Apotheker out
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 09:56 pm HP today named Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer. Let the company's deathwatch commence. Quipped @laloalcaraz: "[Her] first task at HP will be to shove all the Asian employees."
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 09:54 pm The FBI has arrested 23-year-old Cody Andrew Kretsinger of Phoenix, Arizona on charges of stealing data from Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this year. Prison: not so lulzy. More from Elinor Mills at CNET News, from Kim Zetter at Wired.com, and …
Continue reading → Read in browser LA firefighters in hot water over use of f(ire tr)uck in porn
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 09:10 pm Los Angeles firefighters are under investigation by the LAFD for apparently allowing porn producers to use their fire engines (the actual fire engines, not a euphemism for their hubba-hubbas) in an adult film. This follows reports in April that two …
Continue reading → Read in browser Movie-industry self-piracy proves that IP addresses aren't people, invalidates copyright enforcement schemes
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 09:08 pm TorrentFreak has excellent analysis of the revelation that a user in the Swedish Film Institute's IP block has been accused of illegally downloading movies in a report from one of the motion picture industry's copyright bounty-hunters. Rather than sniggering at …
Continue reading → Read in browser CERN claims to have measured particle that travels faster than light
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 08:31 pm Big and controversial science news breaking today, via AP: "A pillar of physics — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant …
Continue reading → Read in browser Furry "sex romp" music video created by a furry angers furries
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 08:26 pm [Video Link] Above, a sexually playful video with furries, which was apparently created by someone in the fandom, with his friends. Others in the furry community were upset when the video went viral, with the sort of sexually-focused mockery and …
Continue reading → Read in browser The wonderful cat videos of Maggie Spotz
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 08:19 pm Video Link. Maggie Spotz has a wonderful YouTube channel full of short-form, funny and/or cute animal videos. My favorites are the ones where her cat swats at hamsters and pet rats. Some of her videos are so popular, they've spawned …
Continue reading → Read in browser Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% in ten years
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 08:01 pm According to the US Dept of Agriculture, the cost of raising a child in a middle-income family has increased by 40 percent over the past ten years. Every major category of child-rearing expense has seen steep increase: day-care, education, food, …
Continue reading → Read in browser Schuler's "Pivoting to monetize mobile hyperlocal social gamification by going viral in the cloud": BUZZWORD OVERLOAD
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 07:33 pm Schuyler Erle's FOSSLC presentation, "Pivoting to monetize mobile hyperlocal social gamification by going viral in the cloud," bridges the important gap between marketing and free/open source developers. A real public service. Pivoting to monetize mobile hyperlocal social gamification by going …
Continue reading → Read in browser Breaking Brule
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 22, 2011 06:20 pm Trivia: Actual Tim & Eric vs. Breaking Bad connection? Bob Odenkirk, ya dummy! Now why didn't you think of that? [Shoop: XJ]
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 22, 2011 05:36 pm Earlier this year, I posted about sound designer and composer Diego Stocco who "played" a tree as a rhythmic instrument. Now, Diego has played a dry cleaner. Both projects remind me a bit of David Van Tieghem's excellent 1982 "Ear …
Continue reading → Read in browser MidPoint Music Festival: live streaming indie bands
By David Pescovitz on Sep 22, 2011 05:16 pm Today is the start of Cincinnati's 10th annual MidPoint Music Festival, a very hip indie festival where hundreds of emerging (and cult fave artists) from all over the country play at intimate venues in the city's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Just …
Continue reading → Read in browser Pixelated clothing designs: when reality has a render-glitch
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 04:58 pm Alba Prat's clothing designs are made to look pixelated, as though they've emerged from a video-game. I love how subtle the effect is -- not the chunky, 8-bit fashion we've seen before, but rather, a series of hints at some …
Continue reading → Read in browser Ken Jennings is a Maphead and unashamed to admit it
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 22, 2011 04:30 pm Bob Harris says: I've always been fascinated with maps. They're guides to whole new worlds I'd never imagine otherwise -- real, fictional, modern, ancient, or predicted. Turns out Ken Jennings (the big Jeopardy! winner, and -- full disclosure -- a …
Continue reading → Read in browser Skulllolly: memento mori confection
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 22, 2011 04:06 pm David Sykes's Skulllolly series are sculptural confections that serve as mementos mori. Skulllolly (via Super Punch)
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