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Romance and autistic spectrum Jonathan Lethem talks about 'The Ecstasy of Influence' Stratfor hacked; clients and credit card numbers exposed Amateur color film of San Francisco, 1955 Let there be sequels Anti-SOPA soap Christmas gun ads Kid's patch-panel maker Christmas present Romance and autistic spectrum
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 26, 2011 12:24 pm Amy Harmon, who wrote in September about Justin Canha, an autistic high school student, has returned with another long, incisive, moving piece about young autistic adults striving to forge romantic relationships with one another: From the beginning, their physical relationship was governed by the peculiar ways their respective brains processed sensory messages. Like many people ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 26, 2011 04:47 am Rick Kleffel and the Agony Column have a long podcast interview with Jonathan Lethem commemorating the publication of his new essay collection, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., a discussion about how art builds on other art and how writing is done: An interview about 'The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.' with Jonathan Lethem is, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2011 02:47 am Intelligence and security research group Stratfor was hacked Saturday by Anonymous, which released a list of clients and claimed to have taken emails, personal information and 90,000 credit card numbers. Having exposed the group's customers, hackers apparently used the card numbers to make donations to the Red Cross and other charities. The New York Times' ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 06:51 pm Rick Prelinger sez, "Here's a little holiday gift from Prelinger Archives. It's the work of accomplished amateur filmmaker (and expert tinkerer) Tullio Pellegrini, who combined a 16mm Bell & Howell Cinemascope lens with the wonders of Kodachrome and made this homage to the city of San Francisco. You'll see Playland, our oceanside amusement park which ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 25, 2011 06:33 pm Mission Impossible 4, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 did well at the Christmas box office in the U.S., while Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and Tintin both bombed. Depressing. [Reuters]
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 05:07 pm A reader writes, "One more time, some lobbyists try to regulate the Internet with some of the stupidest laws or rules. SOPA (in US) is again one of this tentative to break down the freedom of citizen worldwide to preserve some archaic business model. As I have a preference for concrete action leading to a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 02:22 pm On How to Be a Retronaut, a seasonal gallery of Christmas gun ads, including this sugar-addled, gift-crazed lad with a rifle and a thousand-yard stare. Christmas Guns
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 25, 2011 01:04 pm Erik sez, "Here's a Christmas toy I made for my toddler son. It is a custom patch panel, wiring, and button pushing toy created in the 'maker' tradition! I am a broadcast engineer and recently noticed that my two-and-a-half year old son was fascinated when I was moving cables around behind the family stereo. He ...
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