Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's public TV DRM demands HOWTO attain radical hotel-room coffee independence How members of Congress make gigantic bank on insider trades, real estate deals, IPOs and other sweetheart opportunities Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to arrest Occupy "anarchists" Grid-It: flexible storage folio for gadgets and cables Real cost of patent trolling Time-lapse video from ISS Kids react to Minecraft OccupyLondon members evicted from St Paul's memorial services And the bride wore zip ties: Nice day for an Occupy Wall Street wedding Egypt: "social media activist" hero Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed for another 15 days Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's public TV DRM demands
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 12:03 pm The Guardian just published an investigative piece I've been working on since the summer: "How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why." It contains the previously secret text of a memo that the BBC sent to the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, explaining why they wanted to put DRM on publicly funded ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 09:30 am I travel a lot -- book tours, sf conventions, paid lectures, activist visits -- and I am no stranger to jet-lag (I even wrote a novel about it). My favored tonic when I find myself restless and awake in the middle of the night (or worse, gummy and semi-zombified after the alarm goes off) is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 07:07 am Marilyn sez, "Even as the Occupy protesters are being swept out of their campsites, Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes is exposing the very greed and corruption they are protesting The 60 Minutes team did a great segment tonight on insider trading on the stock market." Congress: Trading stock on inside information? (Thanks, Marilyn!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 06:48 am Chapel Hill police sent a heavily armed swat team to evict and arrest a group of some 80 Occupy Chapel Hill protesters who'd taken over a long vacant used car dealership (they also arrested members of the press covering the action). The police claimed the force was necessary because they'd been briefed that anarchist squatters ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 06:47 am Grid It uses a clever-looking combination of elasticated cross-cables to allow travellers and those who need to store/arrange tools to array their stuff in a handy, versatile layout. Grid It (via Crib Candy)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 01:51 am Kim sez, "Tech investor Brad Feld has a blog entry up summarizing and linking to a great paper by some BU School of Law students, in which they research the social & fiscal real world costs of patent trolls. From his site: '... a phenomenal paper titled The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 12:43 am This is pretty spectacular footage, an amazing combination of profound human impact on the planet, and vast spaces with no detectable human impact. Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Earth | Time ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 13, 2011 10:25 pm [Video Link] My kids and I like the "Kids React to Viral Videos" series by the Fine Bros. This time, they interview kids about a Minecraft trailer.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 13, 2011 10:14 pm OccupyLondon protesters who attempted to attend services at St Paul's cathedral on Memorial Day were ejected by private security forces who told them they were not welcome at St Paul's as there was royalty in attendance and "other churches will have you lot." Church officials expressed dismay at the news and have vowed to investigate. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 13, 2011 03:01 pm A cute couple is getting married in Zuccotti park this morning in New York City. Have fun occupying a happy future together, kids. Here's a photo of the bride, and here's the "sacred space." Here's the ring. @Newyorkist says, "Friends of couple inform they met here at spiritual circle months ago. Emery and Micha. Being ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 13, 2011 02:58 pm Ahram: "Egypt's military prosecution Sunday ordered the renewal of prominent activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah's detention for another 15 days pending investigation into charges of inciting violence and assaulting military personnel during the Maspero clashes of 9 October."
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