More than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge Little people climbing into rum drinks Buddhist monk vs hackerspace Thousands attend funeral of Troy Davis, executed for a crime advocates say he did not commit United Steelworkers union, North America's largest, joins Occupy Wall Street Mouthy ceramic sculptures Occupy Wall Street: images, reports, and ambient soundscapes, from Dan Patterson Breast cancer survivor forced into invasive patdown by TSA, even after submitting to backscatter imaging scan Caturday: Bodhi Fire-escape haircut Hacker Prom tonight at San Francisco's Noisebridge hackerspace Fully automatic Lego Gears of War rubberband assault rifle Science Saturday: Allergies, symbiotic bacteria, and scientific literacy Jon Stewart on NYPD Mace in the Face cop Tony Baloney Animatronic axe-murderer prop door 
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More than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 02, 2011 05:21 am The Guardian reports that 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in "chaotic scenes" as a group of "several thousand" protesters move to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. At one stage 500 protesters were blocked off by police on the bridge. At least one journalist, freelancer Natasha Lennard for the New York Times, was among those ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 11:04 pm I just love the little fellers crawling around in these fancy-pants rum drinks of yore. They sure don't make 'em like that anymore.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 08:58 pm Here's a piece of hackerspace lore from earlier this summer. Rinpoche Fa Zang, a Buddhist monk, believed (incorrectly) that the rule of the San Francisco Noisebridge hackerspace was that "if the space was not being used, it could be used for anything." So he and his disciples rearranged the hackerspace into a shrine and began ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 07:31 pm Many attending the memorial for Troy Davis in Savannah, Georgia, wore t-shirts that said I am Troy Davis. "Troy... told us to keep on fighting until his name is finally cleared and Georgia admits what Georgia has done," Benjamin Jealous, NAACP president, said at the service. "Troy's last words were to keep on fighting until ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 07:15 pm Leadership of the United Steelworkers (USW), with 1.2 million active and retired members, issued a statement on Friday in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. "[The USW] stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street. The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 07:14 pm Sculptor Ronit Baranga's ceramic pieces sport sensual mouths and walking fingers, something between Clive Barker and Giger, and beautiful. (via Street Anatomy)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 06:52 pm Broadcast journalist Dan Patterson of ABC News Radio went down to Occupy Wall Street on Friday, and has posted extensive reports in Storify, image, and audio form. Below, an ambient soundscape of the protest. Dan, I'm glad you did this—in any story, the background is as important as the foreground, and nothing makes me feel ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 06:34 pm My longtime friend Scott Beale, who runs Laughing Squid, says: My wife Lori Dorn, who has breast cancer, tells her story about a TSA agent at JFK on Friday who required her to submit to a pat down due to her breast implants, even though she had an identification card for the implants that is ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 01, 2011 06:20 pm Bodhi, a photo by TomorrowGirl contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Boing Boing's Caturday cover-kitten of the week is available for adoption at Friends of Animals Los Angeles.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 05:43 pm From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, a candid moment of a young man cutting his hair on a San Francisco fire-escape, by Erik Wilson.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 05:03 pm NoiseBridge, the celebrated hackerspace in San Francisco's Mission district, is celebrating its third anniversary tonight with a Hacker Prom. There's a makeout room (featuring Makerbots), pre-spiked punch, and awkward prom photos. You're encouraged to bring a robot date. Oh, this does look fun! The whole event is a fundraiser for NoiseTor, a part of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 04:01 pm Plumb B made this rubber-band-firing, full auto-capable chainsaw/assault rifle out of Lego, inspired by the Lancer Assault Rifle in Gears of War. (via DVICE)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 01, 2011 02:48 pm I had a great conversation with Christina Agapakis, a science blogger at Scientific American and a scientist studying synthetic biology. In this episode of Bloggingheads.tv's Science Saturday, you'll find out what Christina learned when she traced her allergies on a phylogenetic tree, why she's currently obsessed with symbiotic bacteria, why I think adults need more ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 01:58 pm Here's Jon Stewart and the Daily Show crew and some very special guests on the future TV show featuring ruthless NYPD mace-rampager Anthony Bologna. (via Salon) Occupy Wall Street: "Mace-in-the-face" officer named in 2004 protest ... Another hit from NYPD's "Mace in the Face" cop, DI Anthony ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 01, 2011 01:09 pm Etsy seller Patricaia Rodriguez has created an astounding Hallowe'en prop: an animatronic door inset with an LCD that looks like a window showing a corridor beyond it. An axe-murderer stalks down the hallway, glares menacingly at you, then begins to attack the door with his axe. Each blow of the axe is synchronized with a ...
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