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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 04, 2011 12:51 pm For no real reason, here is a picture of a cute hedgehog. Image: Acorn is displeased after a bath., a Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from justinandelise's photostream
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 08:58 am Theresa May, the UK Home Secretary, has asked the OccupyLondon protesters to move away from St Paul's cathedral so that tourists won't get the wrong idea about the place.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 05:36 am These upstanding citizens noticed that an Oakland PD officer had hidden his badge, so they calmly, peacefully confronted him about this, escalating to his supervisor when he wouldn't respond. This how to properly engage with police when they do suspicious things. We were riding by on bikes and noticed hes hiding his name and has ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 05:21 am Hoxton Monster Supplies, my local outlet of the 826 Valencia literacy charity, has put some of its marvellous "monster supplies" online, including tins of Mortal Terror and Night Sweats, cubes of earwax, and fang floss. These folks do wonderful work, and they've got really cool package design. Hoxton Street Monster Supplies (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 05:12 am Flickr user Leeloo's "Artoo Tutu" costume may be the single cutest thing I've seen this Hallowe'en. Artoo Tutu (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 05:04 am Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of pharmacology at Oxford, made headlines this week by claiming that video games gave children dementia. She later partially retracted the statement, but it's the latest in a series of unsubstantiated claims about the effect of the Internet on children, including a claim linking autism to computers. She has compared her ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 04, 2011 04:50 am The Associated Press has a long followup on the story of Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams, whose daughter Hillary posted a seven-year-old video of her father viciously beating her for breaking a rule over using a computer at home. The judge has acknowledged that the video is real, and that he is the aggressor ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 04, 2011 01:53 am Ars Technica's Casey Johnston checks out a new Android handset designed to be good at playing music: "we're not sold"
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 04, 2011 01:45 am Video game sprites posed together in such a way as to suggest romance. [via Auntie Pixelante]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 03, 2011 10:11 pm Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in America, began life on August 28, 1845 as a 4-page, black and white newsletter. There were only a couple of illustrations. The cover model was one of the vastly improved railroad cars of the age, which could seat 60-80 passengers, "run with a steadiness hardly equalled by ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Nov 03, 2011 08:59 pm SOUND IT OUT #5. Things are not what they seem here. Phantogram sounds like a sexy, cosmopolitan collective, not a couple of childhood friends recording music in a barn outside tiny Saratoga Springs, New York. The song is called "Don't Move", but it compels you to get up and shake ass right from the start. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 03, 2011 07:36 pm Twenty years ago, the United States sent almost 700,000 soldiers to Kuwait and Iraq as part of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. The war was quick. Bombing began on January 17th and the whole thing was officially over by February 28th. If you started a semester of school just before the first Gulf ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 03, 2011 07:00 pm [Video Link] Hurray! R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is available. I've been waiting for this book for while. A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 03, 2011 05:55 pm The Twin Rivers Police Association in California had been selling a T-shirt that showed a child behind bars along with the humorous text, "U Raise 'Em, We Cage 'Em." After it was pointed out to the association that such a shirt could "could validate feelings of mistrust" for the Twin Rivers Police force, the association ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 03, 2011 05:49 pm A small gallery of "snake menace" cover art from men's adventure mags. I wonder if the snakes are meant to represent something.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 03, 2011 04:18 pm A boy and girl give rides for a fee to flooded residents in Bangkok November 2, 2011. The floods began in July and have devastated large parts of the central Chao Phraya river basin, killed nearly 400 people and disrupted the lives of more than two million. REUTERS/Adrees Latif There may be a shortage of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 03, 2011 04:12 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Destroyers, Restrictors, Crusaders, Surveyors, Observers and Gearheads aren't the job positions available at mercenary companies. They're some of the cool Vestal Watches on sale at Watchismo. And, for a limited time, the entire collection is 30% off. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 03, 2011 04:02 pm Behold, Jessica Wohl's "Hairy Staircase" installation: "2011. synthetic hair, fabric and steel installed in the abandoned Mountainaire Hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas." Mountainaire Hotel (via Neatorama)
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 03, 2011 03:39 pm Over at MyLifeScoop, I wrote a post about five ways I've used technology to improve my quality of sleep. Some are gadgets or apps to buy, but others don't involve purchasing anything, and one tip involves throwing away a gadget you probably already have. We tend to think of gadgets, and technology, as stimulants: games, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 03, 2011 02:57 pm You know how we hear so much about piracy destroying the entertainment industry? Well, not according to the industry itself. The Intellectual Property Alliance's report on the health of the industry paints a rosy picture, which begs the question: why are we prepared to sacrifice free speech, free assembly, privacy, and human rights for an ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 03, 2011 02:38 pm [Video Link] Atari Teenage Riot has released the second edit of the video for the song "Black Flags," featuring video snippets "supplied by fans and friends of Atari Teenage Riot and Anonymous." If you want to be in the video and show that you support the ideals mentioned above, please send us the following footage: ...
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