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Sen Ron Wyden promises hard questions over US Customs Enforcement's secret seizure of domain names Font swap in iBooks Deep-voiced "vocal fry" thought to be creeping into American women's speech The most intense taekwondo fight ever Tim Sweeney, tinkerer Tory MP regrets attending Nazi stag party Gear cube Sen Ron Wyden promises hard questions over US Customs Enforcement's secret seizure of domain names
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 12, 2011 12:54 pm Senator Ron Wyden's staffers have promised a flood of Freedom of Information Act requests to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the DHS over its program of seizing domains it believes to be implicated in copyright infringement. ICE's domain-seizure program made news this week when the Kafkaesque tale of dajaz1.com, a hiphop site that ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Dec 12, 2011 12:15 pm Apple is a cipher, and its reasons for making changes often a mystery. A new update to iBooks for iOS devices adds a full-screen mode, a night-time reading color theme, and nicer covers for free, public-domain books. The release notes mention four new fonts, all superb choices, but avoid the fact that
three less-loved fonts were removed. Read in browser Deep-voiced "vocal fry" thought to be creeping into American women's speech
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 12, 2011 12:44 am A small sample-set study of young American women to be published in Journal of Voice found a high incidence of "vocal fry," a form of low-register speech once classed as a speech disorder and thought to cause damage to the vocal chords. Vocal fry occurs when speakers drop into the lowest register and sort-of gargle ...
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By Dean Putney on Dec 11, 2011 08:53 pm They're ripping each other to shreds! Oh the humanity! Thanks for Submitterating, hombrelobo! [Video Link]
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 11, 2011 08:37 pm Kotaku's Stephen Totilo interviews Tim Sweeney, creator of the tech behind the Unreal series, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade: "He's a tinkerer, a man who believes he was born five years too late to become an auto mechanic ..."
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 11, 2011 04:38 pm UK conservative MP Aidan Burley has apologised for any offense given by his attendance at a stag party in France where some attendees dressed up like members of the SS, chanted "Himmler Himmler Himmler" and "Eichmann Eichmann Eichmann," taunted French waiters by asking (in thick German accents) where in the Third Reich they hailed from, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 11, 2011 03:58 pm This cube made of gears is a great example of some of the really brilliant stuff coming out of the 3D printing scene; it's a phenomenon on Thingiverse, where the method for turning any solid shape into a geared wonderment has been generalized into a formula that can be applied to your 3D model-file. Cube ...
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