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Communist tablet? Martian Chronicles, part two Room-sized computers, tended by labcoat priests, narrated in cheerful midwestern tones, with uptempo orchestral music RAW quote: intelligence blocking RAW Week: Giant mind-map of Discordianism, by Gwendal Uguen Twitter CEO says SOPA blackout protest idea "silly" RAW Week: Cosmic Trigger helped me get out of Jehovah's Witnesses, by Angus Stocking RAW Week: Interview with RAW in German Be Prepared to See More Than You Expect RAW Week: Interviews with Douglas Rushkoff, RU Sirius, David Jay Brown, Phil Farber, and Antero Alli, by Propaganda Anonymous Get writing advice from Lev Grossman in your inbox A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol, co-directed by Yuki-7 creator Kevin Dart Warren Ellis explains comics scripts Unpacking the invisible knapsack RAW Week: Mark Dery's 1997 interview with Robert Anton Wilson US copyright lobby to Canada: pass our stupid laws or we won't let you into the suicide pact! Mexican horror magazine cover artwork Teens React to Bronies/My Little Pony Vintage hotdog images How USPTO's recklessness destroys business, innovation, and competition Quiz: Cop or Soldier? Todd Bieber's "Commercial Interruption" performance Wikipedia will go dark to protest SOPA/PIPA RAW Week: Wilson and I, by Richard Metzger James Hills' Banjo-ukulele song video features maple syrup making Junior TSA badges for young fliers Emergency NY Tech Meetup SOPA/PIPA protest Wednesday at Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand's offices Googler on how best to black out your site I Have A Dream Man buys old crates for firewood, finds arsenal inside Communist tablet?
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 17, 2012 12:56 pm This story is sketchy and unsourced, but it claims that the Chinese Communist Party has commissioned its own Android tablet, a boondoggle that costs twice as much as an iPad and comes with a state-run miniblogging app, an app for reading state newspapers, and an app for reading official announcements. I'm blogging it because even ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 17, 2012 09:13 am The StarShipSofa podcast has the second installment of Jeff Lane's reading of my YA novella The Martian Chronicles (here's part one). Lane does a great job with the reading. MP3 link.
Read in browser Room-sized computers, tended by labcoat priests, narrated in cheerful midwestern tones, with uptempo orchestral music
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 17, 2012 07:00 am This short, unsourced video contains 100 percent of your daily allowance of nostalgic paper-tape, punchcard and patch-panel techno-nostalgia. Classic old computers and machines (Thanks, Frycook!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 17, 2012 06:23 am "Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies, etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission." -- Robert Anton Wilson Fnord
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 17, 2012 01:23 am Gwendal Uguen has created this terrific mindmap about Discordianism, and has kindly given us permission to run it on Boing Boing. Click it for full-size. Discordianism is a religion founded in the late 20th Century by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, and it featured prominently in RAW's books. Interestingly, Thornley served alongside Lee Harvey Oswald ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 17, 2012 01:10 am In The Guardian, Domninic Rushe quotes Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's dim view of "Blackout" SOPA protests from Wikipedia, Reddit, and others. That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish. Which nation's laws and court rulings does your global business have to obey, Dick? Update: Commenters say that Dick ...
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By Angus Stocking on Jan 17, 2012 12:23 am Written and first published (on my radio show) shortly after Bob's death in 2007. Robert Anton Wilson is dead, again, and I'm not feeling so good myself. Wilson -- or let's call him 'Bob', as he would have preferred -- was first reported dead on February 22nd, 1994. But the reports of his death turned ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 11:38 pm Mathias Broeckers says: "I edited some of Bob's books in Germany and did a fine interview for the German edition of Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups. Perhaps worth a link for the German readers and fans, which are lots. I joined him on an some lectures in Berlin in the 80's & ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 10:57 pm Artist Randy Regier (I love his work and have posted it quite a few times on Boing Boing) visited a place called Roadside America in Shartlesville PA. As he told me, "To any of us makers or wannabes, it's the shit." I stopped by Roadside America in January of 2012 on my way back to ...
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By Propaganda Anonymous on Jan 16, 2012 10:23 pm Robert Anton Wilson Remembered: Interviews with Douglas Rushkoff, RU Sirius, David Jay Brown, Phil Farber, and Antero Alli, by Propaganda Anonymous. My favorite memory of Bob, hmmm. Late one night during one of many infamous Discordian Salons that Bob and Arlen hosted for their fellow writers, scientists and misfits, I found my gaze drifting to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 10:13 pm Katie sez, "To help writers get in the habit of working on their craft a little bit each day, Figment has started Daily Themes, a free email service that sends subscribers a writing prompt five days a week. This week (January 16-20) all of the prompts will come from none other than Lev Grossman, author ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 09:28 pm [Video Link] A very nice commercial, directed by Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel. Kevin Dart's Yuki 7 illustration for LA WeeklyLaunch party for Yuki 7 and the Gadget Girls book: Looks that KillBook: Kevin Dart’s "Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7"Time lapse of mural painting for LA store Q PopFleet Street Scandal artworkYuki 7 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 09:06 pm Warren Ellis has advice for writers who are trying to figure out how to write comics scripts. I've written a few of these, and I've been looking for a guide like this. I especially like his advice on understanding how to give direction to artists: When you're starting out, you may well find yourself writing ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 16, 2012 08:35 pm Seven years ago, I read an article that completely changed the way I thought about what racism is, and the privileges I experience as an upper-middle class white person. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I'd like to share that article here. I didn't know it at the time, but Peggy McIntosh's Unpacking the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 08:23 pm Here's an essay about RAW (followed by interview with him) by our friend Mark Dery, which ran in 21C magazine. Mark Dery: You're best known as the co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy, which seemingly interweaves every known conspiracy theory. What do you think makes this moment in history such a breeding ground for paranoid visions ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 08:10 pm Michael Geist sez, "The U.S. government just concluded a consultation on whether it should support Canada's entry into the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. The TPP raises significant concerns about extension of copyright and overbroad protection for digital locks, so staying out might be a good thing. However, the IIPA, which represents the major movie, music, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 08:03 pm Monster Brains has a large gallery of Mexican horror magazine cover artwork. If you are like me, you will head straight over to his Flickr photostream and launch your copy of Bulkr (Let Verona Belmont explain Bulkr to you).
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 07:54 pm Benny and Rafi says: Why would we show teenagers the new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic show? Because of the internet meme. "BRONIES" of course! Why do teen guys love this show intended for young female children? We ask the source directly and get across the board results including one 17 year old who ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 07:48 pm Fine artist Mitch O'Connell has the largest archive of hot dog ephemera on the planet. All five multiplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion, and sixteen clippings are stored in a giant vault in an undisclosed location in the continental United States. He spends an inordinate amount of time playing in the hot dog ephemera, explaining, "I ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 07:22 pm Luma Labs is a small company that sells a camera sling with a sliding clip. When a competitor of theirs filed for a patent on the idea, they weren't concerned. After all, Luma knew of prior art for their mechanism stretching all the way back to 1885. So they were surprised when the USPTO recklessly ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 07:19 pm Radley Balko says: I've put together a little quiz that may be of interest to Boing Boingers. The idea is to illustrate just how hard it can be distinguish police from military. Which is a problem, given that they have two very different jobs. I got 9 out of 21 correct. Really, I just guessed ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 07:03 pm [Video Link] Todd Bieber (whose work we have featured previously on Boing Boing) is performing Commercial Interruption this Wednesday Jan 18th at 9:30PM at UCB Theatre in Chelsea, NYC. It looks like a lot of fun. I hope he comes to LA and does it. Todd Bieber used to make shitty local commercials in rural ...
Read in browser Wikipedia will go dark to protest SOPA/PIPA
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 06:31 pm Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikipedia will join Reddit, Boing Boing, and many other sites around the Internet in going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA/PIPA, the pending US legislation that would make it impossible to run any website that links or allows commenters to link, by making us liable for copyright infringement on the ...
Read in browser RAW Week: Wilson and I, by Richard Metzger
By Richard Metzger on Jan 16, 2012 06:23 pm As "outsider" teenage readers of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's classic Illuminatus! Trilogy in the early 1980s, it seemed to some of my friends at the time (all big Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan and Philip K Dick fans, too) that the novel's authors were trying to communicate something "in code" to their readers, like ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 16, 2012 06:22 pm [Video Link] Tony Coleman of Mighty Uke says: "This might be the very first maple syrup music video. It's for James Hill's new single "Hand Over My Heart" His songwriting is as good as his ukulele virtuosity."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 06:00 pm Neal Stephenson snapped a pic of this Junior TSA badge during his REAMDE tour. He notes, "Remember when we used to give them little pilots' wings?" Junior TSA badge (via Beth Pratt)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 16, 2012 05:56 pm Andrew sez, The New York Tech Meetup, a 20,000 member community of people working in the New York Tech Industry are protesting the pending legislation in the US Senate called Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and its companion legislation in the House of Representatives, called Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA). These proposals pose a great ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 16, 2012 05:22 pm Pierre Far recommends using a 503 HTTP status code—but read on for important details. Other options include Zachstronaut's beautiful splash page; a WordPress plugin; and a simple javascript method.
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 16, 2012 05:17 pm Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963 (via Archive.org)
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 16, 2012 05:11 pm A truck driver hauling wooden crates from an arms plant in Russia's Ural Mountains to a landfill stopped at a village to make some extra cash by selling the containers as firewood. The guy who bought them found 79 Kalashnikov rifles, 250 cases of ammo, and assorted other gun parts inside. Apparently, the rifles had ...
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