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The Freedom Maze: a different sort of slavery-time alternate history SOPA: the whole world's Internet under US jurisdiction Joe Biden: SOPA is Un-American - but not when America does it Infographic: How SOPA will change the net U.S. council of mayors discussed strategies to deal with OWS Police shoot man inside UC Berkeley computer lab Police raid Occupy Seattle, tear gas reported used on demonstrators New York supreme court ruling on OWS Occupy Cal: School-wide student strike at UC Berkeley City of Seattle passes resolution supporting Occupy movement OWS: Occupiers return to Zuccotti Park in force, watch it here AV Club vs Frank Miller vs Occupy Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure OWS: NYPD occupy Zucotti Park, but what are their demands? HOWTO make your own 3D printer The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics HOWTO "safely" cover your body with squirming, gorging raccoons CubeDudes: Cartoony, geometric Lego figures Playboy: Krassner vs. Breitbart Responses to Herman Cain's "Libya" embarrassment Lab-grown meat gets closer to reality The connections between "itch" and "ouch" 4th Annual Machinima Expo: Saturday & Sunday, November 19th & 20th Which came first? Flood-hacking in Thailand Future of Citizen Science: "honing the division of labour between professionals, amateurs and bots" Puppy gives cat a massage (video) OWS: Who's raiding whom, where? A city-by-city guide of police crackdowns NASA now accepting applications for astronaut position Florida Atheists' Xmas ad campaign The Freedom Maze: a different sort of slavery-time alternate history
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 12:55 pm Delia Sherman's alternate history The Freedom Maze is really nothing like the contemporary and mythology-infused fantasy she is best known for, except that, as with Sherman's other books, the story here is subtle, nuanced, uncomfortable and brave. It's 1960: Sophie Fairchild is 13, and her parents have just divorced. Her father has moved to New ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 12:35 pm Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Congress is currently embroiled in a heated debated over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), proposed legislation that supporters argue is needed combat online infringement, but critics fear would create the "great firewall of the United States." While these measures have unsurprisingly raised concern among Internet companies and civil society ...
Read in browser Joe Biden: SOPA is Un-American - but not when America does it
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 01:52 am A reader writes, "A video made by TechDirt and Fight for the Future of a speech VP Biden gave on November 1st at the London Conference on Cyberspace. In the video VP Biden explains EXACTLY why the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT-IP Act are both bad ideas and decidedly un-American." A couple of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 01:51 am Dean sez, "Here's a really helpful infographic that shows how the Blacklist Bill/SOPA could drastically change the Internet." SOPA Infographic
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:46 am As noted previously on Boing Boing, Oakland's mayor Jean Quan disclosed today that she was one of 18 elected officials on a conference call last Thursday organized by the United States Conference of Mayors to discuss local responses to OWS around the US. The New York Times reports that Portland mayor Sam Adams says there ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:40 am A man armed with a weapon was shot by campus police in a computer lab at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Read in browser Police raid Occupy Seattle, tear gas reported used on demonstrators
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:29 am The Occupy Seattle is marching, and police have responded in force, according to multiple eyewitness accounts. The Occupy Seattle account tweets, "Pepper spray has been deployed against protesters including a priest and a blind woman." One participant tweets, "They maced a pregnant woman, a kid, a priest, and a blind woman w/ a fucking cane!" ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:20 am The Guardian has a copy of the New York State Supreme Court's ruling on Occupy Wall Street. The 'petitioners' application for a temporary restraining order is denied.'
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:13 am Turnstyle News photog Denise Tejada has a set of photos from today's mass protest at UC Berkeley, in California's Bay Area. At the time of this blog post, the crowd gathered is somewhere north of 1,500 people. (thanks, Alejandro de la Cruz)
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:07 am The City Council of Seattle, Washington today adopted Resolution 31337 in support of the Occupy movement. "The resolution recognizes and supports "the peaceful and lawful exercise of the First Amendment as a cherished and fundamental right in the effort to seek solutions for economically distressed Americans at the federal and local levels".
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 12:05 am Protesters are returning to re-occupy Zuccotti Park in New York City. Mayor Bloomberg's administration maintains that the occupiers will not be allowed to stay overnight. Watch the live video stream here. At the time of this blog post, a GA is taking place. NY Daily News is one of a number of news organizations live-blogging ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 12:04 am The Onion's AV Club does quite a good job examining the weird world of Frank "Dark Knight" Miller's view on the Occupy movement: Comic book crank Frank Milller's political philosophy has become as angry—and jagged, and messy—as his drawing style pretty much since 9/11, when Miller first began turning his grim, nihilistic viewpoint into an ...
Read in browser Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 12:04 am Ben sez, "I want to share a short documentary that I recently produced about the hidden Infrastructure of the Internet called Bundled, Buried and Behind Closed Doors. The video is meant to remind viewers that the Internet is a physical, geographically anchored thing. It features a tour inside Telx's 9th floor Internet exchange at 60 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 12:00 am OWS, bloodied but unbowed, has made a rather good funny: "What are their demands?" asked social historian Patrick Bruner. "They have not articulated any platform. How do they expect to be taken seriously?" Critics of the new occupation allege that meddling billionaire Michael Bloomberg is behind the movement. Others question the new occupiers' militant posture, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 15, 2011 10:57 pm Karen sez, "Instructables user RobHopeless has engineered a way to make your own 3D printer. This tutorial is an entry in Instructables' 4th Epilog Challenge, which is accepting all sorts of creative projects for the chance to win an Epilog Laser." I have wanted a 3D Printer for a while now and there are some ...
Read in browser The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 15, 2011 10:24 pm A couple of years ago our friend Clifford Pickover wrote the terrifically fun book, The Math Book. Now he's got a new one that's just as good about physics. It's called, as you might guess, The Physics Book and the publisher has kindly given me permission to run some examples from the book. You can ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 15, 2011 09:54 pm Vice profiles the efforts of one woman to "snuggle" with a bunch of feral raccoons, a feat she accomplished by donning a protective suit of material she judged thick enough to fend off rabid scratches and bites, then covering this suit with rotting food to attract a head-to-toe blanket of living, gorging raccoons. 2 As ...
Read in browser CubeDudes: Cartoony, geometric Lego figures
By John Baichtal on Nov 15, 2011 09:41 pm Pixar animator Angus MacLane created a way to show humanity in Lego that is bigger and more creative than a minifig, while still being charming and lovable: the CubeDude. Consider the Tron Guy CubeDude, above. His head is a cube seen from one corner -- hence the name. Nevertheless, the best of these creations are ...
Read in browser Playboy: Krassner vs. Breitbart
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 15, 2011 09:14 pm Playboy ran a lengthy conversation between our pal Paul Krassner and our former-pal Andrew Breitbart. KRASSNER: As a Supreme Court Justice, Thomas has declared that the Constitution gives states a right to establish an official religion, that prisoners have no constitutional right to be protected from beatings by guards, that a school official is allowed ...
Read in browser Responses to Herman Cain's "Libya" embarrassment
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 15, 2011 09:03 pm After Herman Cain drew an utter blank when an interviewer asked him how he felt about Obama's handling of Libya, and proceeded to unconvincingly fake a response, Andrew Sullivan rounds up the responses of bloggers around the net, from Cain's supporters and detractors alike. Drezner invokes the mercy rule: There's a mercy rule in Little ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 15, 2011 08:59 pm You see that whitish stuff in the petri dish? That, my dears, is lab-grown meat. Meat made without all the physical, environmental, and ethical mess that goes along with raising actual animals for food. The little tabs on either end of each piece of meat are Velcro, used to stretch and "exercise" the muscle cells ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 15, 2011 08:38 pm The biology of itching and the biology of pain are intertwined in interesting ways, writes graduate student and science blogger Aatish Bhatia. Understanding itching can help us better understand how to treat pain. I'd not seen Bhatia's blog before, but I'm really liking his style. He does a great job of breaking down the science ...
Read in browser 4th Annual Machinima Expo: Saturday & Sunday, November 19th & 20th
By Ricky Grove on Nov 15, 2011 08:25 pm Machinima (real-time animation in a 3D engine) grew out of the gamer-hacking community who, back in the mid-'90s, took games like Quake and figured out how to hack the game's pod camera to create a new 3rd person perspective camera. Death matches and speed-runs were some of the early "films" using this 3rd person camera ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 15, 2011 08:17 pm A large study of men from Southern California found a correlation between men who are taking more medications, and men with an increased risk of erectile disfunction. Medical reporter Helen Branswell points out that this poses an interesting chicken/egg problem: Does taking lots of medications cause ED? Or do guys with ED have lots of ...
Read in browser Flood-hacking in Thailand
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 15, 2011 08:10 pm Meanwhile, it's still flooding in Thailand. And, after three months of this, the Thai people have been forced to get creative. Thai Flood Hacks is a Tumblr that feels like a pean to human ingenuity. Here, you will find boats made out of old water bottles. Homemade jet skis. Raised walkways built from shopping carts. ...
Read in browser Future of Citizen Science: "honing the division of labour between professionals, amateurs and bots"
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 15, 2011 08:00 pm Fiona Romeo, who has worked with Greenwich Observatory on some successful "citizen science" initiatives, gave a presentation called "The near future of citizen science," explaining what she's learned and what she thinks the future will hold: It's my contention that the near future of science is all about honing the division of labour between professionals, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 15, 2011 07:41 pm [Video Link, thanks @kaepora]
Read in browser OWS: Who's raiding whom, where? A city-by-city guide of police crackdowns
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 15, 2011 07:33 pm The Guardian has an excellent cheatsheet of city-by-city police crackdowns so far for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Read in browser NASA now accepting applications for astronaut position
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 15, 2011 07:25 pm I'll be honest. I did not realize that you could just apply to be an astronaut like it was any old job listing. Nor would I have guessed that the NASA "Apply to be an Astronaut!" recruitment video would feel as odd and strangely lame as the recruitment video for any old normal job. Astronauts: ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 15, 2011 07:24 pm After years of hearing the Christian right complain about the nonexistent "War on Christmas," the Florida chapter of American Atheists have decided to finally essay a skirmish. They'll be placing bus-ads in Florida this season advertising the fact that millions of Floridians are atheists and inviting atheists to attend their Ft Lauderdale convention Dec 18-19. ...
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