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Occupy Wall Street hand signals, an illustrated guide by Ape Lad Cesaria Evora, 1941-2011 Are there more people with autism, or more people diagnosed with autism? Pastafarians to put up holiday display in Leesburg, VA town square SOPA and everyday Americans HOWTO make polyhedral chocolate dice Gay couple learns they're about to become grandpas Google: Universal lied about its private kill-switch for YouTube videos How SOPA will destroy Internet security Math coincidences are weird Fort Magic: rod-and-connector system for building elaborate fabric forts Cats scream yawns HOWTO make a penny disappear by changing the speed of light Desmond Tutu to Trinity Church: let Occupy stay! So, Dog Cafes are a thing. I did not know this. WTF is happening with SOPA now? Caturday: Istanbul Die Antwoord album cover revealed for "TEN$ION" Everyday Swedes take over management of nation's Twitter account Podcast chat with writers Lisa Goldstein & Ayize Jama-Everett Was the G20 hacker a mad bomber, or a model rocketry hobbyist with a nice garden? Occupy Wall Street hand signals, an illustrated guide by Ape Lad
By Xeni Jardin on Dec 18, 2011 03:05 am Link. Some context. A related video. A NY Mag article. A Boston Globe article. Ape Lad is the guy behind this. I give it massive uptwinkles.
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 18, 2011 02:28 am One of the great vocal artists of our time has died. I saw Cesária Évora play once, many years ago, and she really was the "barefoot diva." Her voice filled the auditorium, and it seemed to pierce through the roof to fill the skies above. She died today in her native town of Mindelo, on ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 18, 2011 02:22 am The LA Times has a really interesting and well-done four-part series on autism. The central question: Does the increase in people diagnosed with autism represent an actual increase in prevalence of autism, or an increase in diagnosis and awareness? The evidence presented in the Times story seems to suggest the latter. In the first part ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 18, 2011 01:00 am Outtacontext says: "There is a controversy brewing in Leesburg, VA over just what constitutes a 'holiday display.' The traditional creches have already been joined this year by a skeleton Santa nailed to a cross and displays put up by atheists. Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are scheduled to put up their ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 12:13 am Alec Macgillivray (Twitter General Counsel, former Google attorney, Berkman Fellow) has a great post explaining how SOPA might impact everyday Americans: The harm that does to ordinary, non-infringing users is best described via a hypothetical user: Abe. Abe has never even so much as breathed on a company's copyright but he does many of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 11:16 pm On OffbeatBride, a great (but complicated) HOWTO for making your own polyhedral chocolate dice molds from your D&D dice, and then cast delicious chocolates from it: Before we begin, some disclaimers. First and foremost: This is about as complicated and expensive (net cost: $100 + shipping) a mold as you're likely to get, for anything ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 09:52 pm Via Reddit, where one commenter says, "Those pesky gays, ruining the family structure what with all the genuine, unconditional love and affection they shower on their kids/grandkids." (thanks,
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 09:46 pm Google claims that Universal had no basis for removing the "Mega Song" video posted in support of the MegaUpload service (which Universal is trying to drive off the Internet). Earlier this week, a court filing from Universal suggested that the company had negotiated the right to remove videos it doesn't own from YouTube as part ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 09:33 pm Last week's SOPA hearings were punctuated by facepalming moments in which learned members of the House Judiciary Committee dismissed the distinguished engineers who say the bill weakens Internet security. They said things like, "I'm no nerd, but I just don't believe it." Well, you don't have to be a "nerd" to understand a) what DNSSEC ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 08:26 pm π * 1,337% = 42 (ish). (via Reddit)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 07:24 pm Fort Magic is a kit for building fabric forts; Tinkertoy-like connectors and rods are combined to make a frame that you can stretch blankets over to make elaborate, cool, fun play-forts -- teepees, airplanes, castles, etc. Fort Magic (autoplays sound, argh) (Thanks, JahFurry!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 06:58 pm [Video Link, created by justin johnson] via Joe Sabia
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 04:52 pm A physics teacher created this video showing how to make a penny "disappear" by placing a Pyrex beaker over it and filling it up with water, asking why and how this illusion worked. On IO9, Esther Inglis-Arkell explains how the effect is achieved -- it's all down to the strange motion of light in water. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 03:48 pm An open letter from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to New York's Trinity Church urges the church to allow the Occupy protest in Duarte Park, which is owned by the Episcopalian parish: Yours is a voice for the world not just the neighborhood of Duarte Park. Injustice, unfairness, and the strangle hold of greed which has beset ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 03:41 pm Via Reddit, today I learned that just as there are "cat cafes" in Tokyo, there are "dog cafes" in Seoul. Redditor oddipus visited one such establishment, and shot the photo above. Corgis do, in fact, gotta corg. I've been to a cat cafe, but wonder if any Boing Boing readers (perhaps some of you in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 03:30 pm If you followed my tweets from the markup session for SOPA in the House of Representatives, you know how frustrating it was to watch: you had these lawmakers blithely dismissing the security concerns of the likes of Vint Cerf, saying things like, "I'm no technology nerd, but I don't believe it." In other words: "I'm ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 03:24 pm A wonderful shot by Tokyo-based photographer Jon Siegel, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool.
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 17, 2011 03:15 pm Due out February, 2012. This will be the first independent release for the much-Boinged band since they split from Interscope. The business story behind this one is fascinating... Sneaky Prawn (Die Antwoord snapshot) - Boing Boing Die Antwoord leave Interscope, will release "TEN$ION" on their own ... Die Antwoord: "Fok Julle Naaiers" (music video) - ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 02:41 pm The Swedish tourism agency has convinced the government to turn over management of the official national Swedish Twitter account to everyday Swedes, on a rotating basis, to show the world what a swell place full of swell people Sweden is. I want brokep to run the account for a week. "No one owns the brand ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 02:00 pm Rick sez, "Ayize Jama-Everett, Lisa Goldstein in discussion with live music by Fenyang Smith at the Capitola Book Cafe. Ayize's book, The Liminal People (MP3), and Lisa's book, The Uncertain Places (MP3) are easily two of the best books this year." I haven't read Liminal People yet (though Rick is a good source of book ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 17, 2011 01:28 pm The strange, farcical trial of Byron Sonne continues (here are earlier installments). Sonne is a Toronto hacker and security researcher who was arrested during the G20, with much attendant press about the "fact" that he had been planning to make bombs in connection with the event. Sonne was left in jail for nearly a year ...
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