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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 05:07 am The network of global corporate control (PDF), a study published in PLOS One, analyzes the ownership structures of the world's corporations and finds a tightly-knit cluster of 147 entities control 40 percent of the world's wealth. Not only is this creepy inasmuch as it puts a lot of power into a small number of hands, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 03:59 am Some damned good fiction advice from Teresa Nielsen Hayden, just back from teaching the Viable Paradise science fiction/fantasy writing workshop on Martha's Vineyard. Rules 3 and 4 are particularly nice stuff, just the sort of thing I find myself paying attention to as I work on the sequel to Little Brother: 3. Recycle your characters. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 02:53 am Since you know that November 1 is the day that retailers bust out their Christmas dross, why not combine Hallowe'en and Xmas with this zombie nativity scene from Etsy seller fetishforethics? (via Making Light) Zombie Nativity Set, Six Clay Figurines for the Holiday [etsy.com]
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 02:07 am Etsy seller GeekyCuteCrochet (and there's a descriptive moniker for you -- a 16-character repudiation of the theory that real names make for better commerce than nyms) has these sweet little crocheted combustible lemons, $12 a throw. Cave's Combustible Lemons - Aperture Science [etsy.com]
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 01:04 am "Toronto Tempo," a 3:42 timelapse video of Toronto captures the city's many iconic rhythms and gaits, from the subway's rocketing roar to the deceptive stillness of the lakeshore to the beetling crowds of the Eaton Centre and the St Lawrence Market. It's beautifully edited, even if it sports the obligatory ethereal timelapse music. (via @davidakin) ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 23, 2011 12:32 am Video Link: Willie Nelson and his wife wrote this poem in solidarity with the "Occupy" movement. "We're the ones we've been waiting for," they read. Disclosure: I love this totally awesome dude, and he can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. (via Greg Mitchell's excellent OWS liveblog at The Nation) Willie Nelson, Richard ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 12:16 am Etsy seller CarryTheWhat created these 3D printed Minecraft pickaxes and swords. They're handpainted to your spec: "wood, stone, iron, gold or diamond available." There's a Thingiverse model for you to download and print at home, too. (via Wonderlandblog) 3D Printed Minecraft Pickaxe [etsy.com]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 22, 2011 11:17 pm Muammar Gaddafi may have died the richest person on earth, with more than $200bn in assets sneaked out of Africa's most oil-rich nation.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 11:07 pm The ACLU of Tennessee has brought suit against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a warrantless raid on an apartment complex where ICE officers believed some illegal immigrants were housed. After ICE agents broke into the complex and were asked for a warrant, one agent reportedly said, "We don't need a warrant, we're ICE," and, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 10:07 pm Ransom Riggs's photo-essay on the airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert features astounding imagery of ancient, rotting aviation hardware bleaching its bones in the desert sun. I thought it was a mirage the first time I saw it. I was driving through the wastes of the Mojave Desert, two hours from anywhere, when off in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 22, 2011 09:04 pm [Video Link] Thanks for reminding me how to store my 100-foot extension cord, Muskrat and Rat Man!
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 22, 2011 09:03 pm The Escapist's Leigh Alexander interviews Anna Anthropy, author of a dating sim that breaks out of the "nerd harem fantasy" conventions of the genre.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 09:02 pm New from PM Press: Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion, a short story collection "that revolves around riots, revolts, and revolution." It includes "I Love Paree," the story I co-wrote with Michael Skeet.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 07:00 pm The Canadian Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that linking does not constitute libel, arguing that subjecting linkers to the same libel risks as publishers would cause the Web to collapse. This reverses earlier, free-speech-chilling decisions by lower Canadian courts and is a watershed for Internet freedom in Canada. "The court recognises that simply posting a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 06:52 pm "Occupy the Classroom," Nicholas D. Kristof's NYT op-ed, argues that the fight for economic justice needs to include a demand for universal access to high quality early childhood education, as this is the key to social mobility. "This is where inequality starts," said Kathleen McCartney, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 05:55 pm TheNewHobbyist has posted an Instructable for re-creating the "Singing Busts" effect from the Disney Haunted Mansion rides, using an Arduino to control the effect so that it springs to life when trick-or-treaters step up to your porch. After I started learning to program my Ardunio this evolved into a photocell actuated video "on demand" Halloween ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 22, 2011 05:53 pm [Video Link] An interesting 30-minute documentary about 2011 CrossFit champion, Annie Thorisdottir. I've never been to a CrossFit gym before. The workouts look intense! Join filmmaker Sevan Matossian as he captures the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games winner Annie Thorisdottir back at her Iceland box, CrossFit BC Island. She reveals more about herself as an athlete ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:51 pm As Blake Hounsell says, "The civilized way to kill a dictator's entourage." Video Link. In Sirt, Libya. The Day Gaddafi Died: Photos (warning, graphic content) Muammar Gaddafi killed
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:27 pm An instructive lesson in what not to do on television, from a FOX affiliate news program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. YouTube ("Funny Local News"), via Gawker.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:18 pm New reports about DSK coming out in the French press involving pimping, paying for possibly underage prostitutes with company funds, and related activities—some while in the United States— do not paint a more sympathetic portrait of the man whom multiple women have accused of sexual assault. A French police commissioner is alleged to have personally ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 04:09 pm Next week marks the inaugural Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (AKA Rightscon) in San Francisco. This event will explore the role that technology plays in the expansion -- or elimination -- of human rights and the ways that technologists and high-tech firms can either help or harm humanity. In an age when American companies supply ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:09 pm [Video Link] Soul Kitchen is a new restaurant opened in Red Bank, New Jersey, by Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea. The establishment offers a "pay what you can afford" payment model, and serves wholesome, gourmet food made with fresh ingredients grown in the restaurant's garden, and other local produce. On the website, they ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:08 pm Walter Isaacson's definitive biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is out Monday. All week long, excerpts have been leaking out, with little snippets of the late Apple CEO's reported thoughts on alternative medicine, Android, Bill Gates, being strategically mean to people, Obama, what apps Obama's staffers had on their iPads, cancer, teachers' unions and labor ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 03:56 pm China Digital Times verifies a long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo's search function that combine "occupy" (占领) with a place name inside China: "provincial capitals, economically developed regions, and few symbolic local areas." Here are some of the keywords that contain the names of the capitals of Chinese provinces (in fact, all provincial ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 03:52 pm From Dandingeroz Designs, from the Philippines (created by Dan Eijah Fajardo, aka Dandingeroz, and Pedro Kramer, aka Badbasilisk). It's currently up for voting as a Threadless t-shirt design. (MyModernMet via Curiosity Counts via @brainpicker)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 03:42 pm Justin Elliott in Salon: "New documents obtained by the ACLU show that the FBI has for years been using Census data to "map" ethnic and religious groups suspected of being likely to commit certain types of crimes."
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 03:39 pm "I was a little sorry Wozniak wasn't along that day because I'd read that he had lived in a tree. I'm partial to tree-dwellers, having as a kid hoped to be one, when my little friend Bob Nelson (we were both little, of course) and I, out of sight of our parents, set to constructing ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 03:34 pm One wonders if a trial for crimes against humanity might have been a little more dignified—not because the deceased deserved it, but because the living deserved something better than perpetuation of the cycle of gore, brutality, and dehumanization. From Arab News: In Misrata, residents crowded into long lines to get a chance to view the ...
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