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UK library lending down, generation of readers to go missing? Bankster might lose his knighthood MegaUpload raided, founder arrested; Anonymous launches mass DDoS against entertainment companies and US law enforcement Wikileaks van guy harassed again Where the funny piracy numbers used to justify SOPA/PIPA spring from EFF staffers with blacked out sites Colbert explains how to deal with Internet censorship protests Sound it Out #14: The Young Knives "Human Again" How the Internet blackout affected congressional support for PIPA/SOPA Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers: exclusive excerpt Greatest 404 of all time David Cronenberg on Freud's weird chair Life-sized mammoth skeleton made out of scrap farm-equipment PIPA/SOPA understanding and action: flowchart edition Big Content's moneymen speak out: We expect our politicians to stay bought, dammit When the sky crashed in Odessa Lawrence Lessig's SALT talk: the new federal government corruption Rugs made from skinned soft toys Fissure opens in chess AI scene Ten-year employee fired for skipping lunch to work Introducing the Bell & Howell Headliner Colour Slide Projector Zombie Family Car Stickers SOPA: Big Content loses a fight with the Internet Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea SOPA Debate: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales vs. Sandra Aistars of Copyright Alliance Cyberspace's creator says SOPA is Draconian Rep Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) Senators behind PIPA are a bunch of copyright infringers TOM THE DANCING BUG: Your Handy "Sex-Act Morality Flow Chart" Apple sets eye on textbook market UK library lending down, generation of readers to go missing?
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 10:02 am Charlie Stross looks at some leading indicators of library decline in the UK, which he attributes to cuts and closures, and notes: "if the drop in my PLR loans reflects library closures, then we have just slammed the door in the face of a new generation of readers. I got my start reading fiction from ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 09:00 am Fred "the Shred" Goodwin, an infamous figure in Britain's aristocracy and a symbol of finance industry greed and incompetence, stands to lose his knighthood. Goodwin was knighted for "services to banking," and a few years later presided over the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which the British public had to bail out. Goodwin ...
Read in browser MegaUpload raided, founder arrested; Anonymous launches mass DDoS against entertainment companies and US law enforcement
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 07:24 am New Zealand police, responding from a request from the US government, raided MegaUpload today, arresting founder and CEO Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz and three "associates." The service, which allowed users to upload files that were too big to email, claimed 150 million users. The entertainment industry alleged that the service was primarily intended to facilitate copyright ...
Read in browser Wikileaks van guy harassed again
By Rob Beschizza on Jan 20, 2012 05:51 am DC-area photographer Chris Wieland writes in: "Stumbled upon the Wikileaks van guy getting searched by capitol police today!" As if!
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 01:40 am Writing for Cato At Liberty, Ars Technica alum Julian Sanchez has a timely redux of the research he did on how the made-up piracy numbers quoted during debates about SOPA and PIPA come from, and how little relation they bear to reality. It seems like every discussion of SOPA/PIPA includes a phrase like "Everyone agrees ...
Read in browser EFF staffers with blacked out sites
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 20, 2012 12:40 am Here's a great photo of the beaming staff of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, posed with their laptops showing the sites that were blacked out yesterday. Visitors to EFF's site sent over one million emails to Congress yesterday. Thank You, Internet! And the Fight Continues
Read in browser Colbert explains how to deal with Internet censorship protests
By Dean Putney on Jan 20, 2012 12:35 am Stephen Colbert provides some perspective on the net-wide blackouts yesterday, as well as some alternatives in case the Internet needs to stand up for itself again. Now I've got to find that video of Vader eating cheesy bread...
Read in browser Sound it Out #14: The Young Knives "Human Again"
By Amy Seidenwurm on Jan 19, 2012 11:49 pm The Young Knives - "Human Again" I've been eagerly waiting for the new Young Knives album Ornaments From The Silver Arcade to come out in the US. Now I've learned that it's not being released here at all, except for on iTunes. Apparently my nation-mates in the music business these days don't value cheeky and ...
Read in browser How the Internet blackout affected congressional support for PIPA/SOPA
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 11:44 pm Amy Seidenwurm says: "Pro Publica posted a simple/powerful image of the members of Congress' position on SOPA/PIPA today vs. yesterday." SOPA Opera Update: Opposition Surges
Read in browser Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers: exclusive excerpt
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 11:17 pm [Video Link] Soft Skull Press has kindly given Boing Boing an exclusive excerpt of Mike Edison's history of Playboy, Penthouse, Screw, and Hustler magazines, called Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers -- An American Tale of Sex and Wonder. A wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind ...
Read in browser Greatest 404 of all time
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 11:14 pm You know all those times someone claimed to have found the greatest 404 page, ever? They were wrong. (Thanks, Marko!)
Read in browser David Cronenberg on Freud's weird chair
By David Pescovitz on Jan 19, 2012 10:17 pm David Cronenberg is one of my all-time favorite film directors and I alway enjoy hearing his thoughts on the obsessive and curious details that, in my opinion, really elevate his films. In fact, back in 1997 I had a great time interviewing Cronenberg for the print bOING bOING and all we talked about were the ...
Read in browser Life-sized mammoth skeleton made out of scrap farm-equipment
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 10:13 pm Jud Turner sez, "My latest piece is a life-sized Columbia Mammoth skeleton made from 95% recycled material, mostly old farm equipment. It was created as a commission for Pacific Studio, and will be permanently displayed at the new Moses Lake Museum and Art Center, which is in Washington state. In 1950, a farmer found parts ...
Read in browser PIPA/SOPA understanding and action: flowchart edition
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 09:12 pm Joey Sellers sez, "I know you've been covering PIPA-SOPA and wanted to share a large flowcart I just completed on the subject. It brings together a slew of material to get folks new to the subject up to speed and fill in the blanks for those who have been following it." Super PIPA-SOPA Flowchart (Thanks, ...
Read in browser Big Content's moneymen speak out: We expect our politicians to stay bought, dammit
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 08:33 pm Markos of DailyKos tears into Democrats who lack the fortitude and intellectual honesty to oppose SOPA, and continue to back it because they fear losing the campaign funding that comes from Hollywood. PNH sez, "Markos highlights a couple of paragraphs from a Politico story assessing the landscape following the SOPA/PIPA protests:" Leo Hindery, a major ...
Read in browser When the sky crashed in Odessa
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 08:12 pm This 2009 image captures the scene on a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky. Windows Error Box Floating in the Air (5 pics) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Read in browser Lawrence Lessig's SALT talk: the new federal government corruption
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 07:47 pm Kevin Kelly provided a nice summary of Larry Lessig's recent SALT ( Seminar About Long-Term Thinking) talk. It was about corruption in the US congress. Lessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash ...
Read in browser Rugs made from skinned soft toys
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 07:11 pm This magnificent thing is Agustina Woodgate's "No Rain No Rainbows," a rug made from skinned teddybears. There are many more. They are equally wondrous. augustina woodgate, an artist originally from buenos aires and now based in miami, has created 'skin rugs', a collection of hand-sewn rugs made from the skin of donated stuffed animals. the ...
Read in browser Fissure opens in chess AI scene
By Rob Beschizza on Jan 19, 2012 06:32 pm Rybka, a powerful chess program, was stripped last year of its titles and its author publicly disgraced. Declared a plagiarist by the International Computer Games Association, Vasik Rajlich was also handed a lifetime ban on competition and ordered to return thousands of dollars in prize money. But the investigation's conclusions are now being challenged, opening ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 06:08 pm Chicago real estate company Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. fired a receptionist named Sharon Smiley for violating company policy and working through her lunch break. She had worked for them for ten years. Because she was fired, she was ineligible for unemployment benefits. After a protracted legal battle, she won her benefits claim. After being fired, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 06:07 pm Here, Sabrina shows off her Bell & Howell Headliner Colour Slide Projector.
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 19, 2012 05:17 pm Earlier this week, Cory posted about fun "My Monster Family" car stickers. Coincidentally, our pals at GAMAGO just released their terrific Zombie Family Car Stickers! Calvin, zip up your pants and run for your life! Zombie Family Car Stickers
Read in browser SOPA: Big Content loses a fight with the Internet
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 05:08 pm Writing in Mother Jones, Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann describe the unprecedented legislative difficulty that the entertainment lobby faces today in Congress. The MPAA was able to win a legislative battle with Wall Street's over "movie futures," but they're losing the fight to pass SOPA and PIPA, and they're losing to people, not lobbyists. Minds ...
Read in browser Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 04:48 pm Clay Shirky gives a great talk in the TED offices about the biggest danger of PIPA/SOPA. What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. Clay ...
Read in browser SOPA Debate: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales vs. Sandra Aistars of Copyright Alliance
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 19, 2012 04:34 pm Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales engages with the Copyright Alliance's Sandra Aistars, who says she's the voice of 11 million artists in the US whose ability to make a living urgently require the country to abolish due process, hand over the DNS to a cabal of media robber barons, and criminalize innocent websites by making it impossible ...
Read in browser Cyberspace's creator says SOPA is Draconian
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 04:30 pm William Gibson weighs in on SOPA/PIPA: "I think that SOPA as it stands now, or as it stood before they paused to think about it, is extremely ill thought out, and a basically crazily Draconian piece of legislation."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 04:30 pm has come out against SOPA. He previously had no public position on it.
Read in browser Senators behind PIPA are a bunch of copyright infringers
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 19, 2012 04:08 pm Vice's Jamie Lee Curtis Taete continues to investigate the copyright shenanigans that SOPA and PIPA's authors get up to (see the saga of how SOPA author Lamar Smith (R-TX) ripped off the photo on the front page of his website). Now Taete is digging into PIPA supporters, having a quick look at their Twitter profile ...
Read in browser TOM THE DANCING BUG: Your Handy "Sex-Act Morality Flow Chart"
By Ruben Bolling on Jan 19, 2012 03:50 pm RECOMMEND: Visit the TOM THE DANCING BUG WEBSITE, and follow RUBEN BOLLING on TWITTER.
Read in browser Apple sets eye on textbook market
By Rob Beschizza on Jan 19, 2012 03:39 pm Reuters: "Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalize the U.S. education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad."
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