Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% UK media swallowed the "adult content" filter line Enthusiasm for tablets grows in government 24k Gold Sorapot auction to benefit Amit Gupta Bookbinding in the Digital Age: an interview with Michael Greer I Heart Guts: adorable anthropomorphic plush internal organs! No I'm Not Going To Law School: Disrupting Law Schools Octopi* Wall Street Bananas and donuts go great together Bo Diddley's son arrested in park named after Bo Diddley, during "Occupy Gainesville, FL" Post-steampunk movements Lady Liberty's arm and torch Court verdict on Adnan Latif not for you to know #OccupyWallst: video of NYPD arrests in Washington Square Park #OccupyWallSt: video of man arrested at Times Square after following NYPD orders UK media swallowed the "adult content" filter line
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2011 10:49 am My latest Guardian column, "Adult content filters can't replace good parenting," is a critique of the media coverage of Britain's new national "adult content" filter. The reporting on this story all led with uncritical repetition of the government's line that this would block "all adult content" -- nevermind that no two people agree on a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 17, 2011 09:27 am Government workers are dying to get their hands on tablet computers, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and published by Government Attic. The files show, however, that security protocols may result in a slow roll-out at some agencies. The Federal Trade Commission, National Archives and Records Administration, Deparment of Veterans Affairs, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 17, 2011 07:43 am Designer Joey Roth is auctioning a limited run of 24-karat gold Sorapots to help out BB pal Amit Gupta, who recently fell ill with leukaemia: "South Asians are severely underrepresented in the pool of registered bone marrow donors. 100% of profits from the auctions will go to drives, both here and in India, to find ...
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By Avi Solomon on Oct 17, 2011 06:10 am Michael Greer is a Bookbinder. I interviewed him to find out more about his unusual profession and his recent creation, the binary Genesis. Avi Solomon Could you tell us a bit about yourself? Michael Greer I'm a guy who loves books. For years that's meant teaching literature both here and abroad. I like getting into ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2011 12:19 am I Heart Guts sells absolutely excellent plush internal organs. I ran into them at New York Comic-Con today and had a chance to play with their wares, and they're adorable, well-made, and well, organy. They also have a fine line in cute anthropromorphic internal organ stickers.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 17, 2011 12:16 am Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He's just published a barn-burning essay called "#noimnotgoingtolawschool: Or, Why I Love Legal Clinics as well as Lawyers and Law Professors That See Their Primary Job As Helping Students Reach Their Goals, Or, Disrupting Law Schools." ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 16, 2011 11:55 pm Wade sez, "This cartoon appeared in U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, ;Aldrich plan' by Alfred Owen Crozier, published by The Magnet company in Cincinnati, Ohio." *I have one (1) delicious knuckle-sandwich here for the first wisenheimer to engage in octopi/octopuses pedantry. "Octopuses Wall Street?" Really? (Thanks, Wade!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 16, 2011 09:39 pm It appears that infamous wire fraud criminal Charles Keating doesn't have as much influence on the availability of pornography at 7-Eleven as he once did. Photo by Mitch O'Connell
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 16, 2011 08:15 pm From the Independent Florida Alligator via Guardian UK, via Greg Mitchell's blog, proof that awesomeness sometimes just runs in the family: Ellas Anthony McDaniel, the 56-year-old son of rhythm and blues singer Bo Diddley, was arrested for trespassing in the downtown plaza named for his father. At least four members of the Occupy Gainesville movement, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 16, 2011 08:03 pm Some post-steampunk ideas I had at yesterday's preview screening of Vintage Tomorrows (a documentary on steampunk and its relationship to technology), premised on the idea that new movements will simply subtract letters: * Teampunks: dress like athletes * Eamespunks: design chairs * M-punks: use mobile devices * Punkpunks: inhabit a notional contrafactual alternate history where ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 16, 2011 06:58 pm One for the demonstrators in some 1,000 cities in some 80 countries who are #occupying: The arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty in Madison Square Park, New York. These portions of the Statue were exhibited to raise funds for the completion of the statue and its pedestal. The arm and torch remained in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 16, 2011 05:11 pm Fortunately, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion on Gitmo detainee Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif's appeal against his continued detention by the Obama administration. Unfortunately, it's none of your business. Latif's legal status is "indeterminate", according to Wikipedia, despite a judge ordering the administration to "take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 16, 2011 02:44 pm [Video Link] Occupy Wall Street protests took place in New York and around the world yesterday. In New York, thousands packed Times Square, then broke off into smaller groups occupying other public areas of the city. Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones was reporting from the protests in NYC yesterday, and captured this video that shows ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 16, 2011 02:40 pm [Video Link] A video shot at the Occupy Wall Street protest at Times Square yesterday, which at its peak included some 15-20,000 protesters. The man in this video, whose identity we do not know yet, is arrested by NYPD officers in what looks like a situation of entrapment.
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