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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 23, 2011 07:39 am Researchers who've investigated the way that "nonlethal" weapons like pepper spray and tasers affect policing weigh in on the epidemic of callous and brutal police attacks on protesters. They conclude that the effect of giving police an "intermediate force" option isn't a reduction in lethal force, but rather to escalate situations where police might have ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 23, 2011 03:23 am Source. Yiff in hell, Gingrich.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 23, 2011 02:38 am Brian Krebs reports: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today took aim at widespread media reports about a hacking incident that led to an equipment failure at a water system in Illinois, noting there was scant evidence to support any of the key details in those stories — including involvement by Russian hackers or that ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 23, 2011 02:35 am Mitt Romney today said that 'Mitt' was his first name, a statement that makes no sense even as the joke it must surely have been intended as. This led commentators to suggest that he just says whatever comes into his mind that he thinks might get him elected. "I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's ...
Read in browser Anil Dash: Facebook attacks the open Web, becomes a badware site
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 09:43 pm Anil Dash examines Facebook's latest navigational practices, which go beyond making a walled garden of its own content and begin to attack the open Web, including websites that incorporate Facebook's technology. Dash concludes that Facebook now meets the formal definition of a "badware" site -- the sites that generate those "Warning! This site may harm ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 09:43 pm New Zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis, and are trying to find a way to train bees to help them diagnose TB: "When we tested them with the tuberculosis odours we found the bees can still smell it down to parts per ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 09:40 pm Jan Rubak has once again set out to create a fan-audiobook of my essays, reading aloud from my book Context as he did with my earlier collection, Content. He's a great reader, and he's uploaded half the book so far, with the rest promised soon. Here's an MP3 of his reading of "Think Like a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 09:23 pm One of the greats of science fiction and fantasy literature, Anne McCaffrey, is reported to have died. She will be missed. Our condolences to Todd McCaffrey and the rest of her family.
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 22, 2011 08:21 pm It's easy to get overwhelmed with the flood of outernational and psych reissues released these days, so here is one that's not to be missed. For 50 years, Erkin Koray has been a pioneer of Turkish rock, melding the music of his native Istanbul with Western psych, prog, swirly folky pop and funk to deliriously ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 22, 2011 07:44 pm Saul Griffith, maker hero and MacArthur "Genius," has released video evidence of his latest creations, inflatable robots. So far, Saul and his colleagues at Otherlab, Meka Robotics, and Stanford University have built a 15-foot-long walking robot, called the Ant-Roach (that I've seen Saul's toddler son riding proudly atop) and a robot arm/hand. The Ant-Roach Lightweight, ...
Read in browser Penguin fights Amazon by cutting off libraries' access to the books they've paid for (Updated)
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 07:39 pm The American Library Association has weighed in on Penguin's dispute with Amazon's Kindle library lending program, calling on the publisher to restore access to its books to library patrons. Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 22, 2011 07:35 pm On the 48th anniversary of JFK's assassination, Errol Morris posted a video interview with Josia Thompson, author of Six Seconds In Dallas. The discussion centers on The Umbrella Man, the star of quite a few conspiracy theories that were spawned on that tragic day at Dealey Plaza. "The Umbrella Man" (Thanks Scott Matthews and Hugh ...
Read in browser Best. research paper abstract. evar.
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 07:21 pm On arXiv.org, where astronomers and physicists post pre-publication research papers, the possibility of neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light has led to dozens of new papers, including this one. So, even if FTL neutrinos end up being disproved, we at least know for certain that they will be responsible for one of ...
Read in browser Tor project asks supporters to set up virtual Tor bridges in Amazon's cloud
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 07:17 pm The Tor project, whose network tool helps people avoid online censorship, works by bouncing traffic around several different computers before it reaches its destination. The more computers there are in the Tor network, the better it works. Now, Tor's developers want its supporters to set up Tor "bridges" on Amazon's cloud computing platform, EC2. EC2 ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 07:04 pm Reduce your consumption of turkey this Thanksgiving by simply reading Maryn McKenna's report on drug-resistant staph bacteria infecting the U.S. meat supply.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 06:59 pm Mitch Green, a US Army vet and economics PhD candidate, has written an open letter to members of the US armed forces, who, he believes, will soon be called upon to put down the Occupy movement in America: Those that take this oath seriously are faced with a terrible conflict. You must battle internally between ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 22, 2011 06:52 pm UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who now knows that issuing wheedling, lawyer-approved statements doesn't help, has figured out what does. This morning, she headed out to the protest and talked with students on the quad: "I want to advocate for you"
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 06:51 pm In Science Ink, Carl Zimmer's new book collecting photos of cool science tattoos and the stories behind them, there's a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The Iceman, who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian Alps. Mike Goldstein, the guy who got the tattoo, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 06:28 pm I wrote earlier this month about how much I loved coffee table books as a kid, and a couple of people asked me about recommendations for science books that kids will love today. Smithsonian has a great list up right now: 10 books that cover everything from inventors, to failed experiments, to whales.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 06:18 pm Perhaps you've heard the tale of the octopus that broke out of its tank at the aquarium and walked across the room to break into another tank where it proceeded to eat other forms of sea life. That story is kind of an urban legend. It's supposedly happened at every aquarium in the world, but ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 22, 2011 06:01 pm As you read this, there are robots swimming across the Pacific Ocean. (Via Rowan Hooper)
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Read in browser Occupy 1-2-3, a DIY mini-kids-book about Occupy-
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 04:54 pm John Seven sez, "We are a children's book author/illustrator team who have decided to create this free download-it-print-it-fold-it-distribute-it-yourself mini picture book called Occupy 1.2.3. We thought Occupiers - and Occupy supporters - could stick this book in their back pocket out of the sight of police when they come to tear up the encampment and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 04:52 pm As SOPA ("the worst Internet law in American legislative history") steamrolls its way through the House, the slightly less batshit senate version, PROTECT-IP, is also heading for passage. But Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has vowed to block it with an epic filibuster in which he will read into the record the names of every American ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 22, 2011 04:49 pm Forty-eight years ago today, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, and a thousand conspiracy theories bloomed. This is the Zapruder film stabilized. More here.
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 04:00 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted an interactive map showing where the chokepoints are for online free speech, and which laws, proposed laws, and tactics can be used to force them to take your material offline: Speech on the Internet requires a series of intermediaries to reach its audience. Each intermediary is vulnerable to some ...
Read in browser Evidence-based copyright: UK online movie marketplace is expensive, broken, patchy
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 03:08 pm My latest Guardian column is "Movie fans turn to piracy when the online cupboard is bare," a report on the Open Rights Group's study of the lawful options for people who want to watch great British movies online. The UK government and courts keep ratcheting up Internet censorship proposals because they say that there are ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 22, 2011 02:46 pm A mega-post on the Vintage Ads LJ group rounds up ads from the 1920s and 30s for products that were "enhanced" with radium, then believed to be a great way of improving your health and appearance. Missing from the set: delicious radium butter and radium suppositories. Radium and You
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 22, 2011 02:20 pm Over at Mother Jones, Dave Gilson has a look at how manufacturers market pepper-spray machines, monster Tasers, "pain compliance rounds," and other toys to make occupiers obey.
Read in browser Breaking: Occupy Lulz/Pepper Spray Cop meme continues to be funny
By Xeni Jardin on Nov 22, 2011 02:02 pm More here at our previous post. The image above: "Casually spraying Crispus", and here's a related Reddit discussion. (thanks, Mike Outmesguine)
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