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Wire creator to atty gen'l: "Thanks for your interest in another season; end the war on drugs and we'll talk" Cory in Philly United Republic: creative, inclusive group aims to end corporatism and corruption in US politics In yet another midnight police raid, Occupy Dallas eviction under way #OWS: Message from a prison cell #OccupyMap Dorli Rainey, octagenarian pepper-sprayed by police at Occupy Seattle, on "the importance of activism" (video) Yellow Magic Orchestra on Soul Train NYPD hates books: police and Brookfield properties workers destroy #OWS library. Again. Piece of chicken thinks it's an eagle Occupy Wall Street gears up for a big day: Thursday, November 17 NYPD raiding Occupy Wall Street / Zuccotti Park, set to "New York New York" (video) Occupiers set up Occupy tent inside "occupied" Bank of America in SF, live-tweet from within Six Finger toy commercial Test driving the Mitsubishi i electric car Open source tool to evaluate redistricting proposals and stop gerrymandering Extreme Lego organization methods Harvey Pekar statue campaign on Kickstarter gets Alan Moore's help Introduction to Kafka-inspired fiction anthology Rebecca McKinnon in NYT: SOPA will strengthen the Great Firewall of China Gary Valentine Lachman on Secret Societies MAKE's Ultimate Kit Guide - on newsstands this week The new "Seven Wonders of Nature" Associated Press reminds its reporters not to break news Long String Instrument: Ellen Fullman performs at Berkeley this week Beautiful mechanical wooden hand Introducing the MacBook HP Bicycle with USB ports to charge devices off a built-in dynamo The "Frozen Zone" Image of the day: 84-year-old woman hit with pepper spray, Occupy Seattle Wire creator to atty gen'l: "Thanks for your interest in another season; end the war on drugs and we'll talk"
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 12:53 pm Last summer, US attorney general Eric Holder made a public plea for another season of The Wire to be produced; series creator David Simon emailed a response saying he would do another season if Holder ended the war on drugs. The Attorney-General's kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I've spoken to Ed Burns and we ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 10:46 am A reminder: I'm giving a free lecture tonight at 17h at the Wharton School in Philadelphia; I'm in town because I'm the guest of honor at PhilCon, the world's oldest science fiction convention.
Read in browser United Republic: creative, inclusive group aims to end corporatism and corruption in US politics
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 17, 2011 09:47 am United Republic is a group that campaigns to get corporate money, corruption and lobbying out of politics. They've formed coalition with similarly aimed groups like Larry Lessig's Rootstrikers and Dylan Ratigan's Get Money Out campaign, and have an inclusive, credible campaign strategy to make democracy accountable to the interests of people, not money. We aim ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 05:19 am "Dozens of Dallas Police officers holding shields, batons and wearing helmets about to enter the #Occupy camp," tweets WFAA (Dallas, TX) reporter Jason Whitely. By various reports, about 50 Occupy Dallas protestors are gathered. Police are in riot gear. Media were ordered by police to move away from the camp (at a distance that would ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 04:59 am Via @newyorkist, and found on Pastebin, a statement written collectively from the Men's holding cell, Precinct 1, NYC. November 15, 2011: We are prisoners in a cell but we are also prisoners in a system where political participation is hollow, economic inequality is rampant and our comments are violently enclosed. Today we came together in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 04:53 am #OccupyMap: a live, crowdsourced, online map you can update with reports from the #OWS November 17 day of action, by using the hashtag #occupymap. (via @newyorkist)
Read in browser Dorli Rainey, octagenarian pepper-sprayed by police at Occupy Seattle, on "the importance of activism" (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 04:32 am Dorli Rainey, the elder woman in this iconic and shocking photograph shot by Seattlepi.com photographer Joshua Trujillo, says to Keith Olbermann during this interview: "I feel great. I feel so energized. It's so amazing the effect a little pepper spray can have on you." She's incredible. "Now the FCC are trying to take away the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 17, 2011 04:06 am Yellow Magic Orchestra doing "Firecracker" on Soul Train, 1980. The original version of that tune was written by Martin Denny in 1959. YMO's cover was a commentary on Denny's kitschy orientalist trip. (via @brainpicker)
Read in browser NYPD hates books: police and Brookfield properties workers destroy #OWS library. Again.
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 02:06 am "NYPD & Brookfield have taken the People's Library again. and we love you all," tweet the Occupy Wall Street librarians of Zuccotti Park. They also raided all the energy bars, waters, and snacks from the re-created library, and threw them away, too. This is not the first time. Then, shortly after: "A few of our ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 17, 2011 02:05 am Look what I found on my dinner plate tonight.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 01:54 am [Video Link, via occupywallst.org] Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones: At 7 a.m. tomorrow Occupy Wall Street will attempt to live up to its name. Hundreds of activists will converge upon the Street's most famous address—the New York Stock Exchange—in a coordinated attempt to shut it down. The blockade will be the first protest in a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 01:44 am [Video Link, via @sgtkeso]
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 17, 2011 01:01 am Yo, dawg, I heard you like occupations... so I pitched a tent inside your bank while you occupy the bank! Photo above taken by Aaron Muszalski, of Occupy protesters' tent, erected inside a Bank of America in San Francisco during a takeover-protest. There are 10 people inside the tent, and one protester, Kendra Yukiko, is ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 17, 2011 12:13 am When I was a tiny kid, this was the coolest toy imaginable. My opinion hasn't changed much about it, either.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 16, 2011 11:58 pm On Monday I was handed the keys to a Mitsubishi i electric vehicle to try out for the day. This four-passenger vehicle is not a plug-in hybrid, but a true electric car. The price is very attractive: it starts at $21,625 after a federal tax credit of $7,500. I drove the Mitsubishi i in the ...
Read in browser Open source tool to evaluate redistricting proposals and stop gerrymandering
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 10:26 pm Dave sez, The redistricting process is one of the most important -- yet least understood -- aspects of the US political system. It's full of smoke-filled back room dealmaking by political insiders with little public input. The result? Districts are often drawn by the policial parties themselves -- usually the majority party -- AKA gerrymandering. ...
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By John Baichtal on Nov 16, 2011 10:20 pm Lego fans take their organizational methods very seriously -- there's even a Flickr group where they can share their techniques. Basically, Lego fanaticism translates into tons (sometimes literally!) of bricks. So, how can you organize all those elements so that you can find them? Bin Method All sorting methods begin with the Bin Method, whereby ...
Read in browser Harvey Pekar statue campaign on Kickstarter gets Alan Moore's help
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 16, 2011 09:38 pm [Video Link] Ed "Brain Rot" Piskor says: Harvey's wife Joyce is spearheading this effort to get a Pekar memorial created at the Cleveland library, where he spent most of his time. As an incentive for $99 donors, the notoriously aloof Alan Moore has volunteered to participate in an exclusive web conference to field whatever questions ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 09:00 pm Jeff VanderMeer sez, "James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel were kind enough to let us run their entire introductory essay to their new anthology Kafkaesque from Tachyon, and we've used that as a jumping off point for a ton of content related to Kafka and that tradition of weird writing, including original fiction by Czech ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 08:30 pm James Losey from New American Foundation sez, "Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief and now a researcher focusing on the intersection of the Internet, human rights, and foreign policy warns that the Stop Online Piracy Act introduces Chinese style censorship to the United States in a New York Times op-ed:" China operates the world's ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 16, 2011 08:17 pm Over at The Daily Grail, Gary Lachman, author of the excellent Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius and co-founder of Blondie, posted his fascinating short essay looking at the common themes within historical secret societies, from occult symbols to conspiracies. He wrote the text as ...
Read in browser MAKE's Ultimate Kit Guide - on newsstands this week
By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 16, 2011 08:10 pm A special issue of MAKE, the Ultimate Kit Guide 2012, is hitting newsstands this week! In it, we review over 175 different kits, ranging from rockets, robots, and remote control, to cocktails, kombucha, and cured meat. This wide-ranging kit guide is something I'm really excited about. The MAKE staff and our friends spent a lot ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 16, 2011 07:59 pm The New7Wonders campaign has announced the "New 7 Wonders of Nature," chosen by a combination of public voting and an expert panel led by the former head of UNESCO. National Geographic posted a photo essay of these natural wonders. Above, Iguazú Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina. The others include the Amazon, Halong ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 16, 2011 07:59 pm After it was reported on Twitter than an AP reporter and photographer were arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street, the AP sent out an angry internal email reminding staff
Read in browser Long String Instrument: Ellen Fullman performs at Berkeley this week
By David Pescovitz on Nov 16, 2011 07:48 pm For three decades, Ellen Fullman has been developing and playing her Long String Instrument that stretches seventy-feet. She's performing at the Berkeley Art Museum this coming Friday evening. Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday), she'll also be there to discuss the Long String Instrument and demonstrate how it's played. The video above is from her 2009 performance at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 07:02 pm Dug North sez, "I don't know what to say other than this mechanical wooden hand is awesome. The articulating hand and arm were made by the talented automatist Keith Newstead. There is nothing in the video description to suggest what form this will ultimately take. The fact that the video is titled 'Prototype' leads me ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 16, 2011 06:25 pm From HP: HP today introduced its first business Ultrabook™, which features a thin and light design, strong security options and a responsive solid state hard drive for the ultimate mobile experience. The HP Folio13 also delivers up to 9 hours of battery life, the highest performance available among Ultrabook devices currently on the market. ... ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 16, 2011 06:03 pm German bike-maker Silverback has a new bike that incorporates a dynamo into the wheels that powers a recharging USB port on the handlebars, so you can charge your phone or tablet while you ride. The Starke 1 and 2 models come with a USB port that uses power generated from a dynamo front hub to ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 05:52 pm "So, what's a 'frozen zone'? It's an area secured by police typically because they're guarding it from possible terror threats. Zuccotti Park is very close to Ground Zero, which is being built up, finally, and the last time there was a 'frozen zone' there it was when the cops were girding for the 10th anniversary ...
Read in browser Image of the day: 84-year-old woman hit with pepper spray, Occupy Seattle
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 16, 2011 05:46 pm Image at left: "Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at Westlake Park." Seattlepi.com photographer Joshua Trujillo captured this shot, along with other shots of Seattle Police officers using pepper spray to disperse a crowd. One woman at the scene ...
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