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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 28, 2011 04:26 am Here's the video of my keynote last night at the 28C3, the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, entitled "The coming war on general computation." The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 28, 2011 12:35 am [Video Link] Joshuah Bearman has a 10,000 word article in The Atavist. He says it's... ... about the one Western watering hole in Baghdad during the height of the insurgency! Basically, the Baghdad Country Club was like the Rick's Cafe Americain of the Green Zone. Or maybe the Mos Eisley cantina at times. Depending on ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 28, 2011 12:24 am [Video Link] Andrew says: "This video is wonderful, I had never heard of Hymn For Her but this video (a Led Zeppelin cover, needless to say) got me hooked on them and their albums even moreso."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 28, 2011 12:14 am "The average consumer earns $622 per year in [credit card] rewards and leaves $205 of that on the table." Beverly Blair Harzog of credit.com writes about three websites to help you keep track of your reward programs.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 27, 2011 11:57 pm [Video Link] Ted Balaker says: "There's a good chance anyone who likes Firefly, free speech, and Neil Gaiman will enjoy this story about sci fi fans who beat back the forces of censorship! A quotation from Neil Gaiman (in the documentary): There are people you do not want to upset in the world. And big ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 27, 2011 09:38 pm Restaurant owner Qu Zhibo spent three years building this cool looking little car in his spare time. It cost about $600 in parts. "I am a military fan, my design is inspired by armored command vehicle. I am thinking painting it camouflage to make it look more of a real thing." Said Qu. As for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 27, 2011 09:33 pm This "Gamer Girl Manifesto" is more stirring than any two minutes' worth of video has any right to be. The Mary Sue nails it: Whether you refer to yourself as a Gamer Girl, a Girl Gamer or simply a Gamer, it's likely you've been singled out at one point or another for being a woman ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 27, 2011 09:17 pm We've got a new Boing Boing T-shirt in the shop! It's called Beetle, and it was designed by the great illustrator Barnaby Ward, who we've featured on Boing Boing previously. (You can see more of Barnaby's work here.) The Beetle T-shirt is available in a variety of sizes for men and women for $14.95. (If ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 07:47 pm This fellow is undergoing a test of a mid-century modern net seat developed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. "Seat Vibration Set" (Thanks, frycook!)
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 07:00 pm New Humanist magazine interviewed master storyteller and comics author Alan Moore about science and imagination backstage at last week's "Nine Lessons for Godless People" event. Over at Daily Grail, Greg transcribed some choice bits including Moore's response to the question "Is there a conflict between what can and can't be proven by science?": I would ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 06:18 pm Tino Contreras is a Mexican jazz master who for five decades and counting has melded Latin influences with free jazz, psychedelia, avant-garde experimentation, and global sounds from Egypt, India, Turkey, and elsewhere. The Jazzman label has just issued "El Jazz Mexicano De Tino Contreras," a compilation drawing from many of his exceedingly rare LPs such ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 05:55 pm Longtime BB fave Chris Reccardi has a permanent installation of new work at the Tender Greens #5 restaurant in Pasadena, California. You can see the art online at Chris's site and purchase prints at his Etsy shop. Chris also explained his approach to the project at the Tender Greens blog. Chris Reccardi - "Love, Pasadena"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 27, 2011 05:48 pm [Video Link] Avi Solomon says: "The Einstein Theory of Relativity" is a silent animated film made in 1923 that tried to explain Einstein's work to the general public. It was produced by Fleischer Studios, best known for their delightful Betty Boop cartoons.
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 05:36 pm The Boy In The Plastic Bubble (1976) starred John Travolta as a young man with severe combined immune deficiency syndrome who was forced to live his life inside a sterile environment. It was based on the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita. When I was little, I found this film to be quite moving. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 27, 2011 04:56 pm If you'd like to spend $1,323 on a device that "enhances audio playback quality by modifying the interaction of your gear's circuitry with the ambient electromagnetic field," have I got a deal for you. Above is the Blackbody Ambient Field Conditioner. Of course, to really notice a difference you'll most certainly need the same company's ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 27, 2011 04:03 pm After weeks of promises, a game controller company failed to deliver a long-placed order in time for Christmas. The customer complained, carbon- copying his email to industry bloggers and luminaries. The company's representative not only threw abuse back at the customer, calling him a "bitch", but boasted abut his relationships with the CCd editors of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 27, 2011 02:37 pm During our holiday gavagement, we had on a terribly kitch "Yule Log HD" cable channel, which offers an endlessly-looping video of a fireplace and the enforced cheer of Christmas music. It struck me that someone must have made a GIF 'n' MIDI version of it, as would be appropriate for use on the internet. There ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 27, 2011 01:20 pm TorrentFreak continues to crawl through YouHaveDownloaded, a database of IPs that have been logged by a BitTorrent-spying tool run by some folks in Russia. They've already revealed the downloading habits of the RIAA and DHS as well as the behavior detected at Nicholas Sarkozy's official residence, and now they're publishing stats on the US House ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 27, 2011 01:17 pm Adam Christopher's debut novel Empire State is a noir, Philip K Dick-ish science fiction superhero story about a pocket universe that's created when two battling New York superheroes open a vent through spacetime. New York City is reflected through this vent into the pocket, and in the distorted surface of the pinched-off bubble of reality, ...
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