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Study does not show that disconnection threats terrorized France into using iTunes Conclusion of Martian Chronicles podcast An update in very important whale/dolphin friendship news A view inside a nuclear reactor How deadly is bird flu? RAW Week: Everything I Need to Know I Learned From RAW, by David Jay Brown Homebrew Monster Manual Pirate Bay branches out into physical objects Christian Nightmares video performance in Philadelphia, Sat, January 28, 2012 Parents' snooping teaches kids to share their passwords with each other Vintage Photographs of Arcane Americana HOWTO make a boombox out of a toolbox Man didn't notice 3 inch nail go into his brain Movie about robot sex movie Louisiana commissioner proposes ban on public pajama-wearing Trailer Tuesday: Illustrator Ed Emberley documentary BB Video: Mastodon's "Dry Bone Valley," animated by Tim Biskup Violist improvs response to ringing Nokia phone What it's like at CES SF in SF reading series returns Space dive in Star City (photo) Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Kool Herc Is Out, Grandmaster Flash Is In Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appears in New Zealand court Mary Robinette Kowal challenges you to write a letter a day in February What happens when a Coronal Mass Ejection hits the Earth? Homemade D&D module, 1981 Homebrew, 3D printed Fisher-Price record-player disc plays "Still Alive" Study does not show that disconnection threats terrorized France into using iTunes
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 25, 2012 10:00 am IFPI, the international trade group for the record industry, has trumpeted a study that allegedly shows that France saw a surge in iTunes sales following the institution of a mass-scale regime of "disconnection warnings" -- threats to remove you and your family from the Internet if you don't stop downloading. These warnings are the first ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 25, 2012 06:41 am The final installment of Jeff Lane's reading of my YA story "Martian Chronicles" is up on Starship Sofa. It's from Life on Mars, a great YA anthology that came out in 2011. MP3 (Previously: 1, 2)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 25, 2012 02:41 am You guys! Remember yesterday, when we learned that dolphins and whales in Hawaii have twice been caught spontaneously playing together? Apparently, this gets better. Dolphins in a French aquarium seem to be "speaking" whale—making whale-sounding noises at night that mimic the actual whale noises they hear all day on the soundtrack to the aquarium dolphin ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 25, 2012 01:13 am This is not a metaphorical view inside a nuclear reactor. This is for real-real. This month, the good folks at TEPCO sent a remote-controlled endoscope and thermometer into the containment vessel of Fukishima's crippled reactor #2, hoping to learn something about the level of cooling water, the state of the fuel rods, and the temperature ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 25, 2012 01:02 am The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization, say that H5N1 bird flu kills some 60% of the human beings it manages to infect. Basically, it hasn't infected many people—because it can't be spread from person to person—but most of the people it does infect die. But this might not be ...
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By David Jay Brown on Jan 24, 2012 11:23 pm Editor's note: I received so many wonderful essays about Robert Anton Wilson, that I've extended RAW Week for a few more days! -- Mark Robert Anton Wilson departed from this world on January 11, 2007 at 4:50 am. He will be missed enormously by his many loving friends and devoted fans, and his powerful impact ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 11:12 pm After seeing today's entry on a homebrew D&D module, Chris sends us his own addenda to the Monster Manual, lavishly illustrated with youthful zest. My Monster Manual (Thanks, Chris!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 09:58 pm The Pirate Bay has launched a new category called Physibles. They explain: "Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 24, 2012 09:32 pm [Video Link] I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I like this video, and I like the song with the uplifting lyrics about being left behind after the Rapture, too. I learned it is a popular song called "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," and it has been covered by a bunch of bands. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 09:10 pm Matt Richtel's recent NYT article on teenagers who share their Facebook passwords as a show of affection has raised alarms with parents and educators who worry about the potential for bullying and abuse. But as danah boyd points out the practice of password-sharing didn't start with kids: it started with parents, who required their kids ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 24, 2012 08:57 pm A year ago, I posted about Take Me To The Water, a terrific book/CD set and exhibit of river baptism photos from the 1880s - 1930s. The photos were from the collection of Jim Linderman, who has a terrific eye for weird art, antiques, ephemera, and of course vernacular photography. Jim has just published a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 08:03 pm Chicago's Floyd Davis demonstrates how to make a boombox out of any case, including a Craftsman toolbox. Boombox in a Toolbox
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 24, 2012 07:42 pm Dante Antullo, 32, thought a nail gun accident last week had just left him with a surface abrasion. But the next day, he felt nauseous and his girlfriend convinced him to see a doctor. Physicians found a 3 1/4-inch nail in his brain. Surgeons removed it and Antullo is recovering well. From the AP: "When ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 24, 2012 07:23 pm Mike Sullivan is making tiny robot actors to star in his stop-motion robot sex film. Documentary filmmaker Matt Lenski made a documentary about Sullivan's efforts. Titled "The Meaning of Robots," it premiered last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. Above is the trailer. From Lenski's description of the project: In the Spring of 2011, after ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 07:01 pm Caddo Parish, LA commissioner Michael Williams is sick and tired of being able to discern guys' penises through their pajamas at WalMart (apparently, the men of Caddo like to go to WalMart in their jammies, which is pretty boss if you ask me -- I live in my jimjams). He's proposed a local ordinance to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 24, 2012 06:45 pm "Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way. If you like my books [but] you've never met me, there's something about you that's just like me." That must mean I'm a dead ringer for Emberley, because I am positively gaga for his instructional drawing books for kids. Award-winning children’s book author and ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 24, 2012 06:01 pm [video link] Boing Boing is pleased to present the new video for Mastodon's "Dry Bone Valley," from their album
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 05:56 pm In this 2011 YouTube upload, violist Lukáš Kmiť shows what to do when your playing is interrupted by a ringing phone, as happened to him during a beautiful performance at an orthodox synagogue in Presov, Slovakia. Kmiť broke off playing for an instant, regrouped, and then improvised a lovely aria based on the Nokia ringtone. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jan 24, 2012 05:54 pm A bunch of people sit and stand around at CES. Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was dull, giving reporters at the show time to write interesting offbeat coverage. Stars in the firmament of boredom included Mat Honan, Brian Lam, and the marvelous CESTrailer Twitter account. Every year, however, readers ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 05:00 pm The next installment of San Francisco's SF in SF reading series, on Jan 28, features Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife) and Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People). Organizer Rina Wiseman writes, "it's Debut Novel Drink Night! Join us for an SF in SF Sling...we can't tell you what's in it til you get here!" Free ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 24, 2012 04:47 pm Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi dives in a space suit during a refresher training exercise at the Cosmonaut training centre at Star City, outside Moscow January 23, 2012. Noguchi is tweeting his experience here, with cool snapshots from Star City. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov
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By Ed Piskor on Jan 24, 2012 04:45 pm Hip Hop Family Tree, Part 1 Hip Hop Family Tree, Part 2
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 24, 2012 04:41 pm Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a German national formerly known as Kim Schmitz, is seen at court in Auckland, New Zealand in this still image taken from video shot on January 23, 2012. The file-sharing website founder was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of ...
Read in browser Mary Robinette Kowal challenges you to write a letter a day in February
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 04:00 pm Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "I have a challenge for you. When was the last time you got a letter in the mail? December sees a lot of mail and you remember that sense of delight when the first card arrives. You can have that more often. That's what sparked The Month of Letters Challenge The ...
Read in browser What happens when a Coronal Mass Ejection hits the Earth?
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jan 24, 2012 03:01 pm At approximately 11:00 am Eastern time (15 minutes from now as I type this), the Earth will come into contact with the largest Coronal Mass Ejection since 2005—a huge burst of charged particles and magnetic fields that exploded off the surface of the sun Sunday night. Scientists have been tracking it as it headed our ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 03:00 pm Tim H sez, "A recent and amazing donation to the PlaGMaDA.org [ed: Play Generated Map and Document Archive] project: A beautiful, hand-made homebrew addition to the classic TSR Against the Giants series." I wish I had the modules and monster sheets I painstakingly made in my youth. I used to cram them into envelopes and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 24, 2012 02:00 pm Pittance sez, "This is my brand new 3D printed Fisher-Price record player record (for the old clockwork music box one, not the new electronic one) playing "Still Alive" from Portal. It's entirely made using Processing and printed at Shapeways and, now I know how to do it, I really hope I can make more with ...
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