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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 23, 2011 11:54 am Nick sez, "I wrote a post on my company's blog (The Positive Internet Company) explaining why SOPA is a big deal not just in the US, but for the Internet as a whole. We have rescued a number of sites from malign censorship (like Dr Ben Goldacre's 'Bad Science' blog), so we know exactly how ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 23, 2011 05:12 am This 13-pound, 3.6 foot metal ball fell from the sky in the Republic of Namibia in southern Africa last month. Nobody has claimed ownership. From CNN: Paul Ludik, director of the country's National Forensic Science Institute, told The Namibian the sphere… is made of a "sophisticated" metal alloy that is known to man, but he ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 11:38 pm An update on Louis CK's no-DRM experiment in direct-selling a $5 comedy concert video: he's crossed the $1M mark and he's giving half the money to staff bonuses and charity: "One million dollars. That's a lot of money. Really too much money. I've never had a million dollars all of a sudden."
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 10:28 pm Maxwell sez, "Following GoDaddy's announcement backing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, many customers have started to move their domains to other hosts. I guess that throwing your customers to the wolves isn't a good business tactic." For the record, I use Hover for all my domains and swear by 'em.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 22, 2011 10:05 pm Between 1937 and roughly 1946 there was only one radio astronomer in the entire world: Grote Reber, an amateur from the Chicago suburbs. Reber was a HAM operator who worked in radio manufacturing. At night, he'd come home and tune into the stars, using a home-built telescope he erected in his backyard in Wheaton. It was the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 22, 2011 09:35 pm If you or a loved one has recently been diagnosed with cancer, consider calling the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-422-6237. You'll find The operators can tell you about their personal cancer stories, answer your questions, help you find financial help for medical bills, put you in touch with medical specialists and local ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 22, 2011 09:27 pm I experienced an MRI for the first time this week. It did not sound like this, unfortunately. I'm told this is a classic viral video among magnetic resonance imagine specialists: one group of MRI techs programmed sequences to play the guitar riff from Deep Purple's rock classic 'Smoke on the Water.' (thanks, Tobias Gilk)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 22, 2011 09:10 pm Neanderthals had different bodies than we do. In general, they were stockier and shorter, for instance. And there were other physical differences, as well. It's hard to say what these differences meant in practice but it's fun to speculate. You could build up a pretty good about how those short, study bodies might have helped ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 08:23 pm This gorgeous knife is elaborately engraved with scenes replicating Dore's illustrations to Dante's Inferno; I'm not clear on whether this is a knife or a razor (which is technically a knife, I know) -- the forum is called "Straight Razor Forum," the poster calls it a "knife," and the piece does not resemble straight razors ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 22, 2011 08:13 pm It doesn't appear to count toward the tally at GayHomophobe.com (where it's now been 6 days since the last time a homophobic public figure turned out to be queer), but Minnesota state senator Amy Koch has joined the vaunted ranks of politicians who are deeply concerned about the sanctity of all marriages except their own. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 06:44 pm Rebecca writes, At Las Vegas International Airport, TSA supervisor [REDACTED] is keeping travelers safe from the terror of delicious cupcakes-in-a-jar. I learned this firsthand earlier today, when I put myself and my fellow travelers at risk by attempting to travel with one. The agent who first found my dangerously delectable snack consulted [REDACTED] about it ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 22, 2011 06:28 pm Wired's Kim Zetter, reporting from Army Pvt. Bradley Manning's first hearing on charges of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks: "Manning asked "Nathaniel Frank," believed to be Assange, about help in cracking the main password on his classified SIPRnet computer so that he could log on to it anonymously. He asked "Frank" if he had experience ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 05:37 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Global Voices Advocacy have produced a guide for bloggers who believe that their work is liable to get them arrested or kidnapped by the authorities: All bloggers should: * Consider providing someone outside the country with the following information: - Login credentials to your social media, email, and blog accounts ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 04:39 pm The DOJ has rejected a Freedom of Information Act request from the New York Times that asked the agency to reveal the legal basis for the newly unveiled American program of strategic drone-attack assassinations of American citizens off the field of battle. Summary: * The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen, * who, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 04:00 pm In the event that you found a 3D printer under the Hannukah bush this year, here's a shapefile for a 3D printable dreydl to run off to your heart's content, courtesy of Zydac. As it gets to the candle-lighting hour here on the East Coast, it really feels like (C)Hanu(k)kah 2k11 is going to be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 03:00 pm House Speaker John Boehner's office ordered CSPAN to switch off its camers during a fellow Congressman's scathing dressing-down over the Speaker's refusal to entertain further debate on unemployment benefits. The Speaker asserts control over CSPAN's cameras and has made it clear that Americans can only expect to see their government in session when he believes ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 02:21 pm Tor, the censorship-busting technology developed by the US Navy and promoted by the State Department as part of the solution to allowing for free communications in repressive regimes, is likely illegal technology under the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA makes provision for punishing Americans who contribute expertise to projects that can be used to defeat ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 22, 2011 02:08 pm Mark your calendars, Twin Citians. The Powderhorn Park Art Sled Rally is January 28. If you've never been, you're missing out. It's a Happy Mutant-filled fun fest of creatively themed homemade sleds careening down a steep hill, ridden by costumed characters. It's also the perfect way to cure some depth-of-winter blues. Check out the video ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 22, 2011 01:17 pm Gremlin sez, "Sonos recently pushed an update to their once stellar music system which disabled windows DRM. They decided that it was unnecessary to continue to support this feature moving forward. Unfortunately they also pushed this update without warning to many customers, and they are offering no way for those customers to roll back to ...
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