Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Fresh German police-malware uncovered; everything the police said in defense to date revealed as lies Russia dumps daylight savings Welsh nightclubs to fingerprint customers Class War funnies: 1935 Daily Worker comics Christian groups: we will bodily protect Occupy London from St Paul's Video visit to Tim Biskup's studio Ford reintroduces the 1965 Mustang Danger 5: 1960s superspies fight Adolf Hitler HOWTO defend yourself against tear-gas Mirror-ghost candid camera prank HOWTO make a steampunk pumpkin Flaming rocket-ship sparkplug ad Firefox with built-in PDF support Linux Foundation memo: how to make a computer that doesn't lock out GNU/Linux Top US foreclosure law firm threw Halloween party where staff dressed as homeless, foreclosed-upon Americans Traders talk back to Occupy Chicago SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history? Zombie Apocalypse: tonight on SyFy Justin Bieber: senator who sponsored anti-streaming bill should be "locked up -- put away in cuffs" Fresh German police-malware uncovered; everything the police said in defense to date revealed as lies
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 30, 2011 12:34 pm More revelations on the official police-spread malware that Germany's Chaos Computer Club discovered in the wild and reverse engineered: pretty much everything the German police said in their defense turns out to be a lie. Another trojan has been uncovered, and it confirms the German police's depraved indifference and incompetence in their cyberwar efforts. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 30, 2011 12:29 pm Most of Europe's clocks fell back by an hour last night, but not Russia, which will stay on "summer time" forevermore. Or until it changes its mind again.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 30, 2011 12:27 pm Clubgoers in South Wales are to be fingerprinted, with the resulting biometric data to be retained indefinitely. The scheme is "voluntary" -- unless local councils make it a licensing condition for clubs. Gerry Shy notes, "The march to sleeping submission of our biometric data to anyone and everyone who can invent a security/convenience justification continues. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 30, 2011 09:01 am Ruling Clawss was a Daily Worker comic strip by "A Redfield," better known for his contributions to the New Yorker under the name Syd Hoff. The strips are pretty resonant today, amid the Occupy uprisings and crackdowns. Syd Hoff's Teeth: The Leftist Satire of A. Redfield (via MeFi)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 30, 2011 05:21 am British Christian groups have vowed to protect the Occupy London tent-city out front of St Paul's cathedral by surrounding it with a "circle of prayer" in the event that the cathedral attempts to evict the protesters. Christian groups that have publicly sided with the protesters include one of the oldest Christian charities, the Fellowship of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 30, 2011 12:27 am [Video Link] Here's a fun look at artist Tim Biskup's studio.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 30, 2011 12:07 am A pricey, but cool, offering for Mustang aficionados. Ford Motor Co. will soon sell brand-new 1965 Ford Mustangs for just $15,000 each. The only hitch: There's some assembly required. As part of its Ford Reproduction business, Ford revealed today it had approved a new stamping of the steel bodies for first-generation Mustang that buyers could ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 09:05 pm Danger 5 is an wonderfully kitschy and awesome indie video production about a "1960s-inspired version of World War II" in which five chainsmoking, wisecracking superspies take on Adolf Hitler. Danger 5 (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 08:57 pm A flier circulating within the Occupy movement gives detailed instructions for defending yourself against tear-gas attacks, noting that it is "only for defense purposes" and warning "never incite violence." Flier to OWS Protesters: "Defending Against Tear Gas" (via Beth Pratt)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 07:54 pm This clip -- from some sort of Japanese candid camera show -- shows a guy having the bejeezus scared out of him by a woman dressed as a ghost hiding behind a half-silvered mirror. Japanese ghost prank (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 06:51 pm Brute Force Studios's Thomas Willeford wrote this great guide to steampunking your jack-o-lantern to make a "Steampunkin." Awesome. Behold, the Steampunkin! (PDF) (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 05:45 pm Something about sparkplugs brings out the exuberant lunatic in advertising illustrators. Above, exhibit B (exhibit A here). AC Spark Plugs
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 04:37 pm A near-future version of Firefox will have PDF support right in the browser, with no plugins; there's a preview of the feature you can see now. That's awfully handy (though it would be handier if people would finally give up on trying to use PDFs to disseminate information that worked just as well in HTML). ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 03:35 pm UEFI is a new hardware standard nominally aimed at stopping malicious software, but it could also make it illegal to replace Windows or MacOS with GNU/Linux on your computer. The Linux Foundation has written a technical memo for hardware vendors explaining how they can ship PCs that still protect users from malware, without putting them ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 29, 2011 03:10 pm From a NYT opinion piece by Joe Nocera, "What the Costumes Reveal"— On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a "foreclosure mill" firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 29, 2011 03:01 pm Someone in the Chicago Board of Trade dropped this printed rant on top of "Occupy Chicago" protesters this Wednesday, as demonstrators and union workers gathered in the city's financial center: We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money. Whether it's a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn't ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 02:06 pm SOPA, the House version of the US Senate's PROTECT-IP Bill, might be the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has begun a series of articles examining the bill in depth, explaining just how insane it is. Here's part one: If an IP rightsholder (vaguely defined – could be Justin Bieber ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 01:22 pm Zombie Apocalypse is a new movie written by BB pal and SyFy digital honcho Craig Engler -- it premieres tonight on SyFy: The film takes place months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population and follows a small group of survivors who are fighting their way across the country ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 29, 2011 01:13 pm Justin Bieber's lawyers might object to the FreeBieber campaign, but Justin himself has called for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who sponsored the anti-streaming legislation that would criminalize uploading videos of yourself singing copyrighted songs, to be "locked up -- put away in cuffs." In the interview, Bieber said that he had no objection to fans ...
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