Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Romanians invade Comic-Con Writer: "my publisher said I could only get the rights to my out-of-print book back if I bought their leftover copies from them" U.S. govt's General Services Administration wants $113,680 to respond to FOIA request for internal discussion of iPads #OccupyWallSt: 24 arrested at Citibank, closing their bank accounts #OccupyWallSt sign of the day: "It's Wrong." Occupy Wall Street takes over Times Square (updated) Custom Zombie action-figure kits Cute cosplay wings Japan: High radioactive cesium concentrations found in plankton off Fukushima shores Hostess life: "What I learned by being a migrant sex worker in Japan" US judge says police need judge's permission, not a warrant, to force cell providers to turn over suspect's mobile location data Downs Designs, a clothing line for people with Down syndrome October 15th: "Global Day Of Action," Occupy Wall Street protests planned worldwide Whimsical flickering LED circuit-board sculptures Fat werewolf eating a cupcake in a Michael Jackson "Thriller" jacket tee Caturday: Bonkers Cat Rave Cereal Monsters: Frankenberry and friends as Universal classic monsters Patrons sought for Jack Kirby Museum Photos from Occupy Pittsburgh Geek Chic's insane and beautiful gaming tables A house on the back of a dog: "The Price of Safety" Your ascent to the 1% doesn't mean the system is fair Alabama's racist "immigration" law creates misery and fear for brown people Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama Romanians invade Comic-Con
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 16, 2011 12:39 pm A tip for New York Comic-Congoers: don't miss the Romanian booth for a look at some of the weirdest, coolest comics being made in the world today. See my piece in Forbes from a few years back on Romania's "otaci."
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 16, 2011 11:51 am Writer Doranna Durgin sez, "For eighteen months, publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside has refused to honor the contract reversion clause for one of their fantasy titles; they have persistently demurred, ignored, and rebuffed attempts to discuss the situation, whether approached via agent, SFWA GriefCom, or directly. At this point, silence is their friend--but not in the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 16, 2011 12:17 am [Video Link]Ken Layne at Wonkette: Be patient through the first 90 seconds — haha, attention span of a gnat! — because a remarkable little drama unfolds with protesters inside the Citibank branch communicating with protesters outside, all very reserved, collecting names and birthdates of the people about to be arrested inside. And then, brutish cops ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 16, 2011 12:12 am Snapped by Ben Furnas. Protester/sign-maker's name unknown. Ben got another funny shot here.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 11:26 pm Watch live streaming video from occupynyc at livestream.com 445pm ET: Happening as I post this. Watch live video here. More on the New York City protesters' longer-term plans back at Zucotti Park, including a map, at Mother Jones. (via @antderosa) Update, 715pm ET: I've been following live reports on Twitter from various sources, and the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 10:04 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: the forthcoming "Create Your Own Zombie Action Figure" kits, which are available for pre-order, and sport arms, legs, torsos, heads, chest prosthesis, and wardrobe items that you can mix and match to make the perfect zombie toy. The box-art is fantastic -- the whole package stopped ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 09:29 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: Yaya Han's hand-cut foam cosplay wings, which come in a variety of styles, including devil, fairy, angel, cherub and steampunk. They're darned cute, and I bought a set of batwing devil versions for my daughter.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 09:02 pm From multiple news sources in Japan today: "Researchers from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology collected plankton in waters up to 60 kilometers from the coast of Iwaki City in July. They found 669 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in animal plankton from waters 3 kilometers offshore." Details and video at NHK WORLD ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 09:00 pm Bloomberg News has published a two-part, first-person investigative piece by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, on the lives of Filipina sex workers in Tokyo, Japan. To study the living and working conditions of these "hostess bar" migrant laborers, Parrenas became one. The Bloomberg pieces are excerpts from ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 08:55 pm A federal judge has ruled that police need only a judge's permission, not a warrant, to force cellphone service providers to hand over data to law enforcement that reveals where a suspect used their mobile device. More at AP via MSNBC.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 08:52 pm This is really cool: "Downs Designs." Snip from a post on Springwise: When Karen Bowersox's granddaughter was born with Down syndrome, she saw the challenges her mother faced trying to find clothes that fit her properly. After extensive research she still could not find any clothes made specifically for people with Down syndrome and so ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 08:44 pm Activists in hundreds of cities around the world are planning demonstrations for today, Saturday, October 15th, inspired by Occupy Wall Street.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 08:25 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: Banana Design's whimsical bare-bones lights, which consist of flickering LEDs set into sweet, cut-out circuit boards that look like candelabras, fireplaces and angler fishes. The 9V battery on the back acts as a stand and stabilizing weight.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 07:22 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: these terrific Johnny Cupcakes tees, entitled the "Lycanthriller." The site lists the men's tee as sold out, but the woman's edition is in stock. They had both at the booth.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 06:26 pm Video Link: "Bonkers Kitty." (thanks, Jose!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 06:18 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: Jason Edmiston's "Cereal Monsters" illustration (available as a print) which portrays the Frankenberry family of cereal monsters in the style of Universal classic monsters.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 06:09 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: this plea for 500 Jack Kirby fans to kick in $60 each to get a pop-up Jack Kirby museum in a Lower East Side storefront, to be curated by the folks who do the most excellent online Kirby Museum and Research Center
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 15, 2011 05:34 pm Photos: Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing — CC BY 3.0, allowing commercial use with attribution. Demonstrations inspired by Occupy Wall Street spread worldwide today, with marches across the U.S and Asia. According to Reuters, most large cities in Europe saw protests, with tens of thousands in Rome and London. Here in Pittsburgh, a column of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 05:13 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending, the fabulous, ultra-deluxe gaming tables of Geek Chic, which sport a series of nested, pull-out play-surfaces, drawers, a rail-system for suspending drinks/bins/additional surfaces, erasable acrylic-coated surfaces, and so forth. Shown here is the "Sultan," their top-of-the-range item, but they have a variety of options for smaller ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 04:01 pm Michael Klapthor's ceramic sculpture "The Price of Safety" is a one of a series of beautiful and evocative works featuring stylized houses on the backs of expressive dog-like creatures. (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 02:58 pm From Reddit's Cylinsier, a response to Occupy Wall Street critics who argue that because they somehow managed to bootstrap themselves to wealth and privilege, the system is fair and its critics are just sore losers or lazy, greedy fools.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 01:54 pm The Guardian reports on life for visible minorities under Alabama's new "immigration" law that allows the police to detain and question "suspicious" (that is, brown) people and arrest them if they don't have immigration papers -- even if they're American-born US citizens. Many people of Hispanic origin have walked out of their jobs in protest, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 01:06 pm Jonas Pfiel's "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera" sports 36 cameras and contains firmware that stitches their output together to form a global panorama; you throw it into the air and at the top of its arc, it takes a snap and processes it. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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