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RAW quote: we look for the secret England worst place in the world for bogus "walking while brown" stop-and-searches White House rejects SOPA and PIPA Net-meme tile-game on Kickstarter Was American arrested for spying in Iran producing "propaganda games" for CIA? Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA CyanogenMod, the free/open port of Android, gains traction What happens if you ask Google Images what's most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times? Recursive phishing email RAW Week: My Weirdest Summer Ever, by Erik Davis My Monster Family car stickers Colbert Super-PAC ad: Buddy Roemer does not coordinate with Colbert Super-PAC Brazil: Answering work emails after hours is overtime Lamar Smith and Patrick Leahy blink: take DNS-blocking out of SOPA and PIPA Open medical knowledge saves lives: Oppose H.R. 3699 Caturday: Alfalfa Haz a Hungry RAW Week: My Strange Evening with Robert Anton Wilson, By Lewis Shiner Investigating reader preferences for a core technical reference book on the eve of its self-published rebirth HOWTO beat carny games RAW quote: we look for the secret
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 15, 2012 06:23 am "We look for the Secret -- the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever... and all the time it is carrying us about... It is the human nervous system itself." ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Fnord
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 05:57 am The English and Welsh law allowing the police to stop-and-search people in "exceptional" circumstances was used against black people 29.7 times more often than it is against white people in the past year. According to The Guardian, these stop-and-search stats represent "the worst international record of discrimination involving stop and search." The report was compiled ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 02:27 am Ranking members of the Obama administration have published a memo condemning the approach taken in SOPA and PIPA, the punishing, pending Internet bills that establish and export a censorship regime in the name of fighting copyright infringement: We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet. Proposed laws must ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 01:23 am Some game developers are raising Kickstarter money to fund a production run of For the Win, a fun-looking tile-game based on net memes. The developers have a good track-record for producing great games funded through Kickstarter: For The Win is an abstract game at heart, with a solid theme of internet memes applied. Players control ...
Read in browser Was American arrested for spying in Iran producing "propaganda games" for CIA?
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 12:15 am Dominic Girard from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sez, It's one thing for Iran to arrest an American and sentence him to death for being a spy. It's a whole other thing when you say the spy made video games as propaganda for the CIA. Yet that's precisely one of the charges Iranian-American Amir Hekmati confessed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 11:08 pm On January 18, Boing Boing will join Reddit and other sites around the Internet in "going dark" to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the pending US legislation that creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to the rest of the world. Boing Boing could never co-exist with a SOPA world: we could not ever ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 09:08 pm Here's a good brief look at the state of CyanogenMod, a free/open fork of the Android operating system that lets you do a lot more with your tablet/phone. I really like the way that CyanogenMod exerts force on the Android ecosystem: back when Google was unwilling to ship a tethering app (even for "Google Experience" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 07:59 pm Sebastian Schmieg of the Netherlands created this video by feeding a transparent image to Google Image Search and asking it to find similar images, and then taking the top result and feeding it back into the similarity algorithm, 2951 times. It's a wonderful look at an evolutionary process. Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 06:55 pm Bruce Sterling received a phishing email purporting to be a followup to a report of a phishing email. Coming soon: a phishing email purporting to be a phishing email purporting to be a followup to a report of a phishing email. US-CERT is forwarding the following Phishing email that we received to the APWG for ...
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By Erik Davis on Jan 14, 2012 06:23 pm I first read Robert Anton Wilson in 1985, which also happened to be my Weirdest Summer Ever. After freshman year at college back East, I went to Berkeley and lived with my high school girlfriend in Barrington Hall, the most legendary and notorious of Berkeley's student-run co-ops, already sunk into a long sunset of countercultural ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 04:46 pm In the Neatorama store, a set of "My Monster Family Car Stickers" designed by Mike Jacobsen. These are a great antidote to the ubiquitous sickly-sweet minivan stickers. My Monster Family - Family Car Stickers
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 03:40 pm The Colbert Super-PAC steams on with excellent and helpful election ads like this one, starring candidate Buddy Roemer, who did not coordinate with the Super-PAC in any way. Colbert Super PAC Ad - Undaunted Non-Coordination (via Flogging Babel)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 03:19 pm Workers in Brazil who must answer work emails on their mobile phones after their job shift ends can qualify for overtime pay under a new law. The Star via Slashdot (via @evgenymorozov).
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 02:46 pm After repeatedly insisting that establishing a national censoring firewall with DNS-blocking was critical to the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill's sponsor (and chair of the House Judicial Committee) Rep Lamar Smith has blinked. He's agreed to cut DNS-blocking from the bill, in the face of a threat from rival Rep Darrell Issa, whose House ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 02:41 pm Here's a terrific article by Gilles Frydman at e-patients.net advocating for opposition to H.R. 3699, aka The Research Works Act (RWA). The bill before Congress would seriously impede "the ability of patients and caregivers, researchers, physicians and healthcare professionals to access and use critical health-related information in a timely manner." (@timoreilly via @epatientdave)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 14, 2012 02:34 pm Image: Alfalfa, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by photographer David W. Oliver.
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By Lewis Shiner on Jan 14, 2012 02:23 pm Like, I'm sure, tens of thousands of others, I snapped up the Illuminatus! trilogy when Dell first published it in 1975, reading each volume as it came out, awed by the erudition, the chutzpa, and the sheer lunacy of it. Who were these guys? I reviewed the trilogy in Tales from Texas, a fanzine I ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 02:08 pm John Huntington sez, "I'm preparing a new (and self published) edition of my book, Control Systems for Live Entertainment. And so I put a survey online and got over 100 respondents. It's not a huge sample size, but what was most interesting to me was how much they were willing to pay for a printed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 14, 2012 01:02 pm Mark's written about winning rigged carny games before, and now the Art of Manliness has a nice little guide to winning five midway challenges, including the secrets behind them (for example, the milk-can has a collar welded around the inside of its mouth that makes it just a few millimeters bigger than the ball you're ...
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