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UK education minister: times are tough, let's spend £60M on a new yacht for the Queen! You Can't Read This Book, new book on the ugly truth of English libel law RAW quote: a monopoly on communication Mitt Romney to wheelchair-using medical marijuana patient: "I don't support medical marijuana. Bye." Life-sized edible Stormtrooper cake Free/open "this site has gone dark to fight SOPA" site template Grumpy children with toys, 1860s Colbert ad: if corporations are people, then Mitt's corporate raiding makes him a serial killer RAW Week: Pope Bob Remembrance, by Rev. Ivan Stang Anatomically correct papercraft torso with organs UK education minister: times are tough, let's spend £60M on a new yacht for the Queen!
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 11:15 am Britain's flamboyantly weird education secretary Michael Gove sometimes seems to me to be some kind of secret saboteur, bent on discrediting Tories as out-of-touch rich nutjobs. Education budgets are being hacked and slashed, teachers being laid off, class sizes ballooning -- so he proposes stuff like "Let's give every child a Bible!" and "Let's make ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 09:27 am The Guardian published a long excerpt from Nick Cohen's forthcoming You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom, a fantastic-looking book that reveals the dirty truth of English libel law, where "money buys silence" for some of the world's most notorious dictators, thieves, and bad guys. English libel law is so broad ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 06:23 am "A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production." -- Robert Anton Wilson Fnord
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 09:42 pm In this old video, an 80 lb man with muscular dystrophy in a wheelchair explains to Mitt Romney that his qualified physician believes that medical marijuana is the only medication that helps him. Mitt tells him he should take synthetic marijuana, and the man explains that this makes him violently ill. The man then asks ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 09:27 pm Pziselberger sez, "This was done by Oak Leaf Cakes, for the Arisia Science Fiction Convention in Boston. It is a 6'4" tall, edible Storm Trooper."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 08:24 pm Zachary sez, "I needed someplace to vent my frustration with SOPA between calls to my Congress members. I created a homepage design option for people who want to take their sites dark on January 18. It's public domain and on github so people can fork it." You can preview it here. zachstronaut / stop-sopa (Thanks, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 07:19 pm These 1860s vintage photos of children posing with their toys (from the collection of Musee McCord Museum) hints at a mid-19th century in which children were a lot more serious about everything. Children With Toys, 1860s
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 04:15 pm The latest Colbert PAC attack ad points out that Mitt Romney says "corporations are people," but he also made his fortune as a raider buying up, gutting and killing corporations. Conclusion: Mitt "the Ripper" Romney is a serial killer. Attack In B Minor For Strings (via Super Punch)
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By Ivan Stang on Jan 15, 2012 02:23 pm RAW (seated) and Rev. Ivan Stang (left) If Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea had not written the Illuminatus! trilogy, there might still be a Church of the SubGenius, but we probably wouldn't get it. All SubGeniuses, Dr. Philo Drummond and myself in particular, owe Pope Bob big time, and we've never made any bones ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 15, 2012 01:05 pm Horst Kiechle made this astounding card-stock human torso, stuffed with anatomically correct paper organs. Its for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi, Fiji Islands. Man, what I'd give for a set of plans for this! paper torso (via Colossal)
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