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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 10, 2011 12:50 pm Yesterday, I blogged about the tribute raised to Megaupload by several famous recording artists, who objected to their labels' campaign against the service. Overnight, Universal Music filed a series of fraudulent copyright complaints against the song, prompting YouTube to repeatedly remove it, and to threaten to terminate the Megaupload YouTube account for incurring multiple piracy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 10, 2011 07:56 am There's never been a better time to donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading organization fighting to keep the world's Internet free and open. Never a better time because there's never been more threats facing the free Internet, from SOPA to illegal domain seizures to warrantless shutdown of Wikileaks. And never a better time ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 10, 2011 07:42 am There I Fixed It has an historical overview of the "bookwheel," a sixteenth-century book-desk combined with a water-wheel, which lets you easily rotate several books into your field of vision. But imagine yourself back then attempting a research project. You want to learn about a topic from multiple sources and cross-reference each one. A desk ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 10, 2011 06:31 am Ah, civilization! (Via Mitch O'Connell)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 10, 2011 12:44 am I've blogged old radium-based health product ads before, but this one is a bit of a cake-stealer: the Revigator, sold in the 1920s, was a uranium-infused crock that you filled with drinking water so that it could be made radioactive prior to imbibing. The glazed ceramic jar had a porous lining that incorporated uranium ore. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 09, 2011 11:58 pm "An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur -- that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals. Nevertheless, if you are making coffee you might as well make it well." -- by Kelefa Sanneh, writing for The New Yorker on ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 09:21 pm Video Link, via Mike Monteiro.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 08:30 pm Kummerspeck Literally, "grief bacon." A German word meaning weight put on through emotional overeating. (via Reddit)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 08:18 pm Drunkenmaster sez, "MegaUpload is one of the main sites frequently vilified by the RIAA and MPAA as a rogue site dedicated to destroying their business models. But top music stars including P Diddy, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West disagree and are giving the site their full support in a brand new song. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 07:40 pm Andy Baio looks at youngsters' persistent misapprehensions about copyright law, which is stricter than many realize. Exhibit A: a popular YouTube of Pulp Fiction scenes, remixed in chronological order, posted with the disclaimer "No copyright infringement. I only put this up as a project." Under current copyright law, nearly every cover song on YouTube is ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 09, 2011 07:34 pm Five years ago, I
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 06:38 pm This 1932 douche ad does some Astaire-grade hoofing around the idea that "your vagina smells bad and you should be ashamed of it," dancing right up to the phrase without ever uttering it. It's a perfect satanic miracle of gendered body-shaming. Zonite
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 09, 2011 06:25 pm The Museo de los Soldaditos de Plomo in Valencia, Spain holds the world's largest collection of toy soldiers and miniature figures. There are more than 85,000 of them on display in intricate dioramas and displays, and more than an million more in storage. Smithsonian's Derek Workman paid a visit and took beautiful photos inside. (Above, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 06:16 pm Law and Order was shooting an episode about Occupy Wall Street, and the production team built a perfect replica of Zucotti Park, as it was before the brutal eviction of the protesters by NYPD. So members of the original Occupy camp went and occupied it. As of about 1:00 a.m., the police had begun to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 05:31 pm William Patry is no copyright radical. He's the author of some of the major reference texts on copyright, books that most copyright lawyers would have on their bookcases, books like Patry on Copyright. But Patry -- once copyright counsel to the US House of Representatives and policy planning advisor to the US Register of Copyrights ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 09, 2011 05:15 pm A construction project in Lancanshire, northern England has uncovered a 17th century cottage that archeologists think was the home of one of the Pendle witches who in 1612 were famously tried for murdering ten people with "witchcraft." One of the accused was found innocent and ten were executed by hanging. According to the BBC News, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 05:14 pm Want to check out the surface of Mars the way you'd use Google Earth? HiRise makes it possible. (Via artimusclyde on Submitterator)
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 09, 2011 04:59 pm Medical doctor Heng Khuen Cheok saw a pedestrian hit by a car in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday. He rushed to help but was initially rebuffed. Why? Because he was dressed as Superman -- part of his bachelor party hijinks that evening. "One of the man's friends was crouching next to him and he took one ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 04:53 pm BoingBoing reader davidsongray visited Biosphere 2 recently, and took some photos of the site. Today, Biosphere 2 is owned by the University of Arizona. It's also being used for scientific research projects, including the Landscape Evolution Observatory, which will study the natural cycles of carbon, water, and energy, and how those cycles are affected by ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 04:34 pm On Submitterator, Musicman pointed me towards this great presentation on LOLspeak as a form of language play, and why people engage in that play. According to Lauren Gawne, who gave this speech last week at the Australian Linguistics Society conference, the choice to use LOLspeak has a lot to do with establishing identity—the playful identity ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 04:32 pm Emmanuel Goldstein from 2600 Magazine sez, "As part of a massive archiving project, 2600 Magazine is releasing all of the remastered videos from the second Hackers On Planet Earth conference - Beyond HOPE in 1997. Last month, videos from the first HOPE conference back in 1994 were put online. This weekend's hour-by-hour video release from ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 04:15 pm China keeps the identities of its taikonauts a closely guarded secret. But a philatelic cover—postmarked envelope, to those of us who don't collect stamps—may have given away the names of the seven military pilots who are being trained go to space, including the woman who could be China's first female in space. Collect Space says: ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 03:36 pm Some archaeologists get to discover Tutankhamun's tomb. Others go down in history for finding Kaiser Wilhelm's urinal. (Via A blog about history and Cort Sims)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 03:30 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo is introducing new collections from 01 The One Watches and Nixon Watches. There is nothing quite like the 01 The One Spinning Disc Watches out there. These unusual timepieces look amazing on the wrist; a blend of digital ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 03:03 pm The government seeks to block every defense witness named by alleged wikileaker Bradley Manning's defense team. [Threat Level, Wired]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 09, 2011 03:02 pm I talk a lot about the importance of context in understanding science. The results of one, single research paper do not tell you everything you need to know on a given subject. Instead, you have to look at how those results fit into the big picture. How do they compare to the results of other ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 02:52 pm Telemarketers may soon be permitted to call cellphones at the owner's expense. Here's a campaign to throttle the legislation in committee. [Credo Action]
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 02:47 pm This heroically impractical Nest Chair, designed by Tjep, is composed of fifty soft branches and can be expanded as needed with more branches as your family grows. I love the shot of the transport problems presented by it. Nest Chair by Tjep (via Crib Candy)
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 09, 2011 02:30 pm A simple, well-executed idea: a macro lens embedded in a rubber band, making it work with practically any phone that shoots pictures. It is $15 from Photojojo.
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 09, 2011 02:03 pm Good Art is selling a pricey set of traditional green army men cast in sterling silver -- $2,400 for the set. Just the thing for the one percenter in your life who has everything. Ages 80 and Younger (via Neatorama)
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