Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Occupy Atlanta encamps on lawn of house under foreclosure threat QR Markham's plagiarized spy thriller didn't stop being good when he was caught Flash in the pan Blockade Runner Green army man costume Joe Paterno, not getting it. Unique reinterpretations of Frankenstein's monster for sale Identity theft marketplace sells mothers' maiden names, dates of birth, etc Ben from Ben and Jerry's serves ice-cream to OWSers Early picturephone ad Video of an illegal vegetable gardener Trailer Tuesday: Grand Theft Auto 5 Help fund 10-story Tesla Coil lab Wired.com photo policy: all staff-produced photos will now be Creative Commons licensed Black Sabbath to announce reunion tour on 11-11-11 White House: no evidence of ETs yet Occupy-like additions to San Francisco municipal election posters EFF to Chamber of Commerce: of course SOPA is a blacklist Prostitutes, pot, pet peacocks, and plasma TVs found in Mexico prison raid Genomics X-Prize looking for centenarians Experts in use of force shocked by video of Oakland police shooting photographer Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz Billionaire Koch brothers building vast database for political campaigning Preservation Hall Jazz Band: old time jazz from New Orleans ACLU's public records request about Oakland police's use of force against OWS is refused Brain Rot: In The Name Of Art... Researchers to build Babbage Analytical Engine Boyett's Mortality Bridge: Rock n' roll Dante meets Orpheus "Piracy-stricken" Viacom CEO tops pay-raise charts Any Chevrolet Volt Drivers Out There? Occupy Atlanta encamps on lawn of house under foreclosure threat
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 09, 2011 12:55 pm An Atlanta police officer sent an email to Occupy Atlanta protesters asking for help with his house, which is under threat of foreclosure (when the family tried to refinance their mortgage, the bank responded with a foreclosure notice). Dozens of Atlanta occupiers shifted their camp to the house's lawn, erecting "This home is occupied" signs ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 09, 2011 12:53 pm Debutante plagiarist Q.R. Markham's temporarily-lauded spy thriller, Assassin of Secrets, is in fact a string of passages lifted from other books in the genre. No-one noticed until it was released, at which time readers noticed at once. The book's been recalled by publisher Little, Brown, whose president, Michael Pietsch, apologized in a prepared statement: "We ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 09, 2011 12:13 pm Adobe is finally giving up on Flash in mobile browsers, according to Jason Perlow at ZDNet.
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 09, 2011 11:41 am If you like Minecraft and you like spaceships, you may like Blockade Runner. [RPS]
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 09, 2011 04:33 am Harrison Jones created this fabulous green army man costume (which included a coating of green latex paint on his skin, yowch, suffer for your art!), and worked a full shift at a grocery store while so attired: Harrison started by picking out the perfect green tarp, then taking it to the hardware store and having ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 09, 2011 03:27 am "The kids that were victims or whatever they want to say, I think we all ought to say a prayer for them."—Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, on the child sex abuse scandal in which he is looking more and more like a knowing enabler for a child rapist. His former colleague Jerry Sandusky ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 09, 2011 12:04 am The It's Alive project features unique artists' reinterpretations of the classic Frankenstein's monster bust. There's some great pieces there, including 34-FRANCISCO DE LOS MUERTOS by P.J. Tamayo and 47-HALF MAN HALF TONE by Kristen Anderson. It's Alive! (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 11:03 pm Many websites will allow you to "recover a lost password" if you (or a crook) can supply your date of birth, mother's maiden name, etc. So, of course, crooks buy and sell data like dates of birth, mothers' maiden names, Social Security Numbers, and other easily mined minutae. Brian Krebs reports from superget.info, a site ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 11:02 pm Scott Lynch was kind enough to place this photo of Ben "Ben and Jerry's" Cohen scooping up free ice-cream for the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Occupy Wall Street: Day 52, Zuccotti Park, Ben and Jerry's, scooped by the real, actual Ben
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 09:32 pm From the annals of history, this ad for Western Electric's picture phone, which wouldn't catch on for decades more -- probably needed more Chatroulette. It Seemed Like a Good Idea: The Picture Phone
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 08, 2011 09:16 pm [Video Link] Todd Bieber (the fellow who made that video about the snapping turtle that tries to bite a guy that looks like Will Ferrel) says, "I planted this illegal vegetable garden in Brooklyn and documented the experience."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 08, 2011 09:12 pm [Video Link] Grand Theft Auto V is likely to come out in late 2012.
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 08, 2011 09:06 pm Several years ago, I wrote a MAKE: article about Greg Leyh, a brilliant, understated high-voltage engineer/artist in San Francisco who builds the world's largest Tesla coils. For as long as I've known Greg, his dream has been to create a massive lightning laboratory with two 10-story Tesla Coil towers to study high-power scientific phenomena. Indeed, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 08:25 pm Wired.com has a new photo policy: "Beginning today, we're releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream." They've commemorated the event by releasing 50 of their archival images under the same terms, including this fab Jim Merithew ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 08:05 pm Black Sabbath [discography at Amazon] is expected to announce a reunion tour on November 11, 2011. The announcement will be made at the Whisky A Go Go in LA where they performed for the first time in LA, 41 years ago. The video above is from a Sabbath show in Paris that same year. You ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 08, 2011 07:54 pm "We The People" is a White House initiative where the US government will respond to any petition that can land 25,000 signatures (a recently increased threshold) in a month. Today, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy's Phil Larson responded to petitions for the President to "Immediately disclose the government's knowledge of and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 07:21 pm This week, San Francisco municipal election posters have sprouted Occupy-chic "corrections." Political Posters Defiled Day Before Election Day (via JWZ) (Image: downsized, cropped thumbnail from a photo by John Johnson)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 06:14 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more on the deadly Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the most extreme, anti-Internet, anti-privacy, anti-free speech copyright proposal in US legislative history. Today, EFF responds to claims from the Chamber of Commerce that SOPA isn't a blacklist because the law doesn't actually contain the word "blacklist": First, the new law ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 06:04 pm Authorities say a pre-dawn search at an Acapulco prison led to the discovery of two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, two big bags of pot and 19 prostitutes within the prison. Oh, and dozens of recent-model plasma televisions, several bottles of alcohol (LOL: "several"), and lots and lots of knives. A government spokesperson would not say ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 08, 2011 05:50 pm [Video Link] The Archon Genomics X-Prize is offering $10 million to the first research team to sequence the genomes of 100 people who are age 100 or older. The goal: Get a clear view, for the first time, of what makes centenarians different on a genetic level. That's pretty cool. And will probably be a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 05:21 pm A story in the San Jose Mercury News today on the video we published yesterday here on Boing Boing, which shows an Oakland Police officer shooting a photographer with a projectile, for no apparent reason. Geoffrey Alpert, a University of South Carolina criminal justice professor who's an expert in police decision-making and use of force, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 05:10 pm Quinn Norton has a definitive introduction to Anonymous up at Wired.com's Threat Level today. It's a must-read. Quinn was on the NPR radio program Morning Edition today to talk about her research. It's a great segment, but I was disappointed to hear the host echo what may be falsehoods by repeating the "Anonymous takes on ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 05:05 pm "The secretive oil billionaires the Koch brothers are close to launching a nationwide database connecting millions of Americans who share their anti-government and libertarian views," reports the Guardian. The tech project was seeded by the Kochs 18 months ago with $2.5 million, and is being developed by a secretive team of advisors. The database will be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 05:03 pm Last year, I found myself in New Orleans for a rather epic birthday party. One place I knew I wanted to visit was Preservation Hall, (which I'd written about here), a legendary unamplified jazz club. It was everything I'd heard and more. I bought the whole run of Preservation Hall CDs, and they've been in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 05:02 pm The American Civil Liberties Union has asked the Oakland Police Department for information about what happened during incidents of excessive force against Occupy Oakland demonstrators. "The department is refusing to hand over information about what really happened," the ACLU reports.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 08, 2011 04:58 pm Over the next decade, a group of researchers in the UK will attempt to construct a working version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, which he dreamed up a hundred years ago, but did not complete. John Markoff has the story in the New York Times today, and here's a related interactive feature. Cory blogged about ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 04:44 pm Mortality Bridge is Steven Boyett's first book since his comeback novel Elegy Beach, published last year as the 25-years-later sequel to his breakout novel Ariel. Superficially, Mortality Bridge is a very different novel from Boyett's earlier work, an existential horror novel about a man who goes to hell to rescue his lover, but like Boyett's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 08, 2011 04:09 pm Philippe P. Dauman, CEO of Viacom, led the executive compensation raise chart this year with a $50.5 million raise that brought his total annual compensation up to $84.5 (much of the 148.6% raise came in the form of stock options). Meanwhile, Viacom continues to argue that it is in danger of capsizing unless radical changes ...
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By Advertiser on Nov 08, 2011 04:00 pm ADVERTISEMENT The Chevy Volt is getting a lot of attention these days, and if you drive a Volt, you are, too! Volt drivers say they're constantly getting stopped at grocery stores and cornered in parking lots by curious onlookers wanting to know how the Volt works. Surely, you can relate. What is your Volt story? ...
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