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DHS explains how to protect your pet fish in a disaster Meet the sexist, racist pigs of Capcom's fighting-game reality show Seth Godin: Apple won't sell ebooks that link to Amazon Raspberry Pi launch so popular that retail partners collapse under load Backyard Brains at TED2012 - Neuroscience kits for high school students Wyoming state reps propose bill to investigate buying an aircraft carrier in case the USA collapses Internet Blueprint: positive proposals for future Internet regulation Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa Homeland Security memo warned of violent threat posed by Occupy Wall Street HOWTO sneak an accelerometer-triggered Tardis sfx box into an elevator Apple tees up product launch for March 7: whatever could it be? Cocktail party science: Day 3 at AAAS 2012 (+ our short video interviews with science writers!) Cooking with Poo! Spain, South America arrest 25 in Anonymous crackdown, with Interpol assist Star Wars pancake molds T-shirt: UFO abducts Bigfoot Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown, one year later: Frontline doc airs tonight on PBS Faces of Death creator interviewed In the ruins of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Christian themepark TechCrunch not dead yet Middle-aged men explain why they should make women's health decisions   1964 World's Fair documentary raising funds on Kickstarter By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 12:01 pm The 1964 NYC World's Fair is legendary -- birthplace of animatronics and Belgian waffles, the zenith of exuberant goofy corporate futurism and the beloved coming-of-age for millions who entered a modern world filled with promise. Documentarians are raising funds to produce "After the Fair," a doc featuring any amount of droolworthy archival footage of the ... Read in browser Finance industry bemoans hard times in an era of reduced bonuses By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:56 am Bloomberg's Max Abelson takes us deep into the spectacle of members of Wall Street's 1% bemoaning their difficult straits as they struggle to make ends meet with their reduced bonuses. One doesn't know how he'll tell his children that they can't go to an exclusive private school anymore, another bemoans his mere 1200sqft New York ... Read in browser Map of a notional city whose streetnames come from iconic place-name songs By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:48 am Ali Johnson sez, Song Map is a new litho print by Dorothy. The Map is, as its name suggests, made up entirely from song titles: Highway to Hell stretches past Itchycoo Park, Heartbreak Hotel can be found on Alphabet Street and take a left off Penny Lane to find 22 Acacia Avenue. Just like places ... Read in browser Make little, make often: how manufacturing could work in the UK By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:44 am An inspiring call-to-arms from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, founder of Tinker London: This should be a golden age for UK manufacturing. People are making things everywhere at various scales. In Hackspaces, studios, universities, at home, in their sheds. This is a nation on tinkerers after all. People are coming up with an idea using an Arduino, building ... Read in browser Canadian record labels to Canadian Parliament: we want to be able to control search engines, social networking, blogs, video sites, and community sites. Oh, and we want an iPod tax. By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:36 am Michael Geist sez, "The Canadian music industry is scheduled to appear before a Parliamentary committee today with some of the most radical demands to date that would effectively create liability for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, and video sites such as Google, Facebook and Reddit. As if that were not enough, the industry ... Read in browser SOPA's author wants everything you do online logged and made available without a warrant By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 11:00 am Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the ill-starred SOPA Internet regulation, has an even dumber idea for the Internet. In the name of fighting child pornography, he wants to force ISPs to log everything you do online, then make it available to police and government agents without a warrant. Leslie Meredith has a writeup on the ... Read in browser Minimalist ambient from Celer By David Pescovitz on Feb 29, 2012 10:57 am Celer is an experimental/minimalist ambient duo founded in Southern California in 2005 by Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long at the start of their romantic relationship. For several years, the couple released more than a dozen very limited edition recordings in handmade packaging. Tragically, Baquet-Long died of congenital heart failure in 2009. Long continues to release ... Read in browser Indie rock cruise By David Pescovitz on Feb 29, 2012 10:42 am My sister-in-law Heather Sparks just returned from the Bruise Cruise Festival, a rock and roll weekend cruise from Miami to the Bahamas. Judging from the video above and Heather's report to me, the Bruise Cruise is, well, exactly what you'd think: hundreds of indie hipsters, loud music, and debauchery on the open seas. Performers included ... Read in browser Apps for Kids 011: Bag It! By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 29, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 8-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Bag It, a puzzle game where you are challenged to bag grocery items without damaging them. Bag It! is 2.99 in the iTunes ... Read in browser DHS explains how to protect your pet fish in a disaster By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 09:00 am The Disaster Preparedness Plan prepared by the local DHS for Union County NC explains what steps you should take if you have to evacuate and take your pet fish: "Your name and where you will be located should be on an ID tag and taped to the fish bowl. This should include your description of ... Read in browser Meet the sexist, racist pigs of Capcom's fighting-game reality show By Rob Beschizza on Feb 29, 2012 08:36 am At Penny Arcade Report, Ben Kuchera reports on Cross Assault. A "fighting game" reality show sponsored by Capcom, creator of the classic Street Fighter game series, it was a disaster of sexual harassment, casual racism and adolescent nastiness. Aris Bakhtanians, the coach of the Tekken team ... stated that sexual harassment and the fighting game ... Read in browser Seth Godin: Apple won't sell ebooks that link to Amazon By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 07:52 am David Weinberger sez, "Seth Godin reports that the Apple store is refusing to carry his new ebook, Stop Stealing Dreams, because it links the books it references to Amazon. Seth argues that the market dominance of a mere three ebook vendors, and the fact that the vendors of ebooks are also the vendors of ebook ... Read in browser Raspberry Pi launch so popular that retail partners collapse under load By Cory Doctorow on Feb 29, 2012 03:15 am Raspberry Pi, an innovative $35 GNU/Linux box in a tiny package, launched yesterday -- sort of. Demand was so hot that all the company's retail partners collapsed under load. From Ars Technica's Ryan Paul: The product is a bare board with a 700MHz ARM11 CPU and 256MB of RAM. It's roughly the size of a ... Read in browser Backyard Brains at TED2012 - Neuroscience kits for high school students By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 28, 2012 09:14 pm [Video Link] Here at TED2012 Gregory Gage of Backyard Brains showed me how to measure the electrical activity of a neuron in a cockroach leg. At around the 12:00 minute mark, Gregory pumps the electrical signal from music on his iPhone into the cockroach's leg, causing it to twitch in time with the beat. (The ... Read in browser Wyoming state reps propose bill to investigate buying an aircraft carrier in case the USA collapses By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 08:40 pm Wyoming state representative Lorraine Quarberg (R-Thermopolis) has proposed Wyoming House Bill 85, which will prepare Wyoming for the day that the USA collapses. It includes an amendment proffered by Rep. Kermit Brown, which establishes a task force to investigate "conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine ... Read in browser Internet Blueprint: positive proposals for future Internet regulation By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 08:22 pm Michael Weinberg from Public Knowledge sez, "After coming out against SOPA and PIPA, many people are asking what the Internet is for. The Internet Blueprint is designed to help create a positive agenda for laws that impact the Internet. Come and check out fully drafted bills, and contribute your own ideas. If they get enough ... Read in browser Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 07:36 pm Japanese photographer Satoru Niwa, whose work I blogged in a previous Boing Boing post, has a new series from Fukushima marking the one-year anniversary of the March 11 disaster: Invisible You. Again, beautiful, evocative work. Above: a shot from the town of Namie, which is some 40 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. View ... Read in browser Homeland Security memo warned of violent threat posed by Occupy Wall Street By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 07:10 pm An October, 2011 Department of Homeland Security memo on Occupy Wall Street warned of the potential for violence posed by the "leaderless resistance movement." (via @producermatthew). Update: Looks like there's a larger Rolling Stone feature on this document: As Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation last fall, sparking protests in more than 70 cities, ... Read in browser HOWTO sneak an accelerometer-triggered Tardis sfx box into an elevator By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 06:59 pm The Sparkfun folks have a sweet recipe for building an Arduino-based, accelerometer-triggered Tardis sound-effects box into the ceiling of an elevator, noting that care must be taken not to freak out riders and precipitate a bomb-squad visit. As it stands, the contraption works well enough (much like the TARDIS itself). But for those looking for ... Read in browser Apple tees up product launch for March 7: whatever could it be? By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 06:29 pm Apple today invited tech reporters to an event in San Francisco on March 7, with the following graphic suggesting that the unveiling relates to a new iteration of its market-dominating iPad. As is the custom with Apple, no confirmed details have been released about either the event, or any future iPad. But word is the ... Read in browser Cocktail party science: Day 3 at AAAS 2012 (+ our short video interviews with science writers!) By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 06:24 pm Last week, Maggie went to the largest science conference in the Western Hemisphere for four days of wall-to-wall awesomeness. Every day, she learned amazing things, watching scientists from all over the world talk about their work. Check the bottom of each post to find links to earlier posts in this series! One of my favorite ... Read in browser Cooking with Poo! By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 06:15 pm This book is called Cooking With Poo. Yes, "Poo" is Thai for "crab" and it's also author Saiyuud Diwong's nickname. But this book is called Cooking With Poo. Heh heh. Heh. It's on the shortlist for The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Here are the others: A Century of Sand ... Read in browser Spain, South America arrest 25 in Anonymous crackdown, with Interpol assist By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 06:09 pm With help from the international police organization Interpol, Spain and three South American countries today arrested 25 people who are suspected of being Anonymous activist/hacktivist/hackers. They are accused of defacing government and corporate websites. Reuters: Spanish police also accused one of four suspects picked up in the cities of Madrid and Malaga of releasing personal ... Read in browser Star Wars pancake molds By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 06:00 pm Williams-Sonoma sells Star Wars vehicle pancake molds. The X-Wings and TIE-fighters are pretty cool. Star Wars Vehicles Pancake Molds (via Geekologie) Read in browser T-shirt: UFO abducts Bigfoot By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 05:58 pm This fun BigFoot UFO Abduction t-shirt hits me right in my high strangeness receptors. It reminds me of my delightful Bigfoot/UFO "Believe" painting by Pietro Ramirez. Read in browser Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown, one year later: Frontline doc airs tonight on PBS By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 05:54 pm Airing tonight on PBS Frontline (check your local listings, or watch it online!), a documentary film that provides the definitive inside account of what really happened, moment to moment, during the Fukushima disaster. "Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown" features exclusive interviews for the first time with Japan's prime minster and the top executives at TEPCO. Tomorrow, ... Read in browser Faces of Death creator interviewed By David Pescovitz on Feb 28, 2012 05:27 pm Faces Of Death is the infamous 1978 shockumentary depicting a variety of violent and horrible ways that humans and animals can die. Much of it was faked, some of it obviously so. Regardless of its semi-authenticity, it is a classic of mondo VHS cinema. Radio show/podcast On The Media's Brooke Gladstone recently spoke with Faces ... Read in browser In the ruins of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Christian themepark By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 04:45 pm Here's a set of photos from the ruins of Heritage USA in Fort Mill, SC, the Christian themepark built by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker at the height of their evangelical empire, now fallen to ruins since its closure in 1989. It's arguably a lot more fun to visit now than it ever was in ... Read in browser TechCrunch not dead yet By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 04:26 pm Jeff Roberts at PaidContent claims that TechCrunch's traffic is plummeting. TechCrunch, the long-time darling of the digerati, is smashed to bits and all of AOL's horses and men will be hard-pressed to put it together again. The site has lost almost every one of its top writers and traffic has dropped sharply, dropping by 35 ... Read in browser Middle-aged men explain why they should make women's health decisions By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 04:00 pm From Funny or Die: middle-aged men explain why they are best qualified to make decisions about women's reproductive health. Let These Middle-Aged Men Explain Why They're Better at Discussing Women's Health [Video] Read in browser More to read:  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe immediately. Our mailing address is: Boing Boing 905 Wettach St Pittsburgh, Pa 15122 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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The Latest from Boing Boing Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. WATCHISMO TIME MACHINES - Timing is everything... The tweets that homeland security spooks look for What happens at the edge of the solar system? Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Bull99 Becomes Fred Fab 5 Inside Kabul: landmine survivor aid activist live-blogs from lockdown in Afghanistan What's Occupy Minnesota doing during winter? Quilts inspired by the Large Hadron Collider Miserable working conditions in ecommerce packing facilities Quick! Apply to taste Mars mission food during 120-day study in Hawaii The Story of Sushi, told in video with handcrafted miniatures Romantic Death Star cake serving suggestion The End of Chiptune History Thumbdrive computer up for pre-order Antichamber, for Windows and OS X Tom Gauld's Goliath: exclusive excerpt Anthology of upbeat steampunk fiction from Singapore: Steampowered World The problem with body mass index Celebrity gift party operator threatens blogger who wrote about it Big ships can leave "contrails" too Friends With Boys: graphic novel about fitting in at high school, seeing ghosts Occupy London says St Paul's Cathedral colluded with eviction effort Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's square Coffee Common at TED2012 Kickstarter success for DRM-free webcomics, reader-funded long-form journalism Clever assemble-yourself toys and models made with laser-cutters Techdirt post about SOPA censored from Google results due to bogus DMCA complaint Bolivian riot cops gas, beat wheelchair protesters Maggie speaking at public events in Minneapolis and online HOWTO make shark jaws out of paper plates Download the Universe: Reviews of science e-books and apps Blackboard anatomy art and the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge   The tweets that homeland security spooks look for By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 12:53 pm Joel Johnson found that the Department of Homeland Security's list of Facebook and Twitter search terms was not in an easily-available public format, "curiously embedded as an image of text" in a PDF to prevent indexing. He fixed it. [Animal] Read in browser What happens at the edge of the solar system? By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 12:46 pm This is a drawing of what the edge of the solar system might look like, as envisioned by plasma physicist Merav Opher. One of the few women in this field, Opher is also one of the top scientists, of any gender, studying what happens at the edges of space. John Rennie has written a great ... Read in browser Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Bull99 Becomes Fred Fab 5 By Ed Piskor on Feb 28, 2012 12:45 pm Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! Read in browser Inside Kabul: landmine survivor aid activist live-blogs from lockdown in Afghanistan By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 12:44 pm I've known of James Hathaway and the NGO he co-founded, Clear Path International, for many years. They do great work to help landmine blast survivors with disabling injuries live better lives through better access, medical care, education, and other forms of support. Clear Path originally focused their efforts in Vietnam, but have since expended into ... Read in browser What's Occupy Minnesota doing during winter? By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 12:11 pm It's cold outside in Minnesota (though, not as cold as it usually is), but the Occupy movement has not been idle here. They've been busy occupying a house threatened with foreclosure and saving homeowner Bobby Hull from becoming homeless. Hull says the very public pressure and media exposure provided by Occupy played a major role ... Read in browser Quilts inspired by the Large Hadron Collider By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 11:58 am Last week, while I was on a train, researchers at CERN announced that neutrinos are probably not traveling faster than the speed of light. Last year, as you'll recall, the OPERA experiment clocked the neutrinos breaking that speed limit. Unfortunately, it looks like those measurements were probably caused by one or more problems with the ... Read in browser Miserable working conditions in ecommerce packing facilities By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 11:43 am Mother Jones's Mac McClelland goes underground at an unnamed ecommerce packing facility in a rural American town and reports on the terrible, back-breaking working conditions that are compounded by continuous verbal abuse, unsafe working conditions, mandatory overtime, and humiliating disciplinary procedures. At lunch, the most common question, aside from "Which offensive dick-shaped product did you ... Read in browser Quick! Apply to taste Mars mission food during 120-day study in Hawaii By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 11:42 am Yes, the deadline is tomorrow. But I know this is the perfect opportunity for at least one of you, so hop to it! Cornell and the University of Hawaii are putting together a series of studies aimed at finding out what it's going to take to keep people well-fed (both in the physical and psychological ... Read in browser The Story of Sushi, told in video with handcrafted miniatures By Xeni Jardin on Feb 28, 2012 11:35 am [Video Link] Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, who works with me to create our in-flight Boing Boing Virgin America TV channel, shares his latest project. This delightful short film was 7 months in the making, all done with hand-made miniatures. It's a promotional video for Bamboo Sushi, a restaurant in Portland. Joe says: Lori Nix/Kathleen ... Read in browser Romantic Death Star cake serving suggestion By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 11:00 am If you're looking for serving suggestions to accompany yesterday's post on how to bake a Death Star cake, have a look at this groom's cake that @paulblomdahl's wife made for him. Read in browser The End of Chiptune History By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 10:32 am Thomas Gilmore offers a brief history of chipmusic, whose practitioners "make complex music in a minimal way." The more popular tools of the chipmusic (or chiptune, or 8bit) trade were made from the early '80s to the early '90s, when the most efficient way to add sound to a video game or computing experience was ... Read in browser Thumbdrive computer up for pre-order By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 10:12 am Cotton Candy, a computer the size of a (big) thumbdrive, is available for pre-order and will ship in March. The $199 machine, which runs Ubuntu or Android 4, has a 1.2GHz ARM CPU, 1GB of RAM, and HD video acceleration. [FXI via Ars Technica] Read in browser Antichamber, for Windows and OS X By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 10:02 am With hellish out-of-body action and 3D graphics that look eerily like an Amiga-era Cyberpunk game left to self-replicate for 20 years, Antichamber already defies description. But it's the soundtrack's sinister naturalism that really screws with your expectations. The work of Alexander Bruce, it's coming later this year to Windows and OS X. At Kotaku, Stephen ... Read in browser Tom Gauld's Goliath: exclusive excerpt By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 28, 2012 10:00 am As reviewed in Gweek - Tom Gauld's tragic, darkly funny retelling of David and Goliath from Goliath's perspective. Gauld's work is always quietly powerful and emotionally grabbing. Here's a seven-page taste of the new graphic novel, which is presented in a beautiful hardcover format from Drawn & Quarterly Buy Goliath on Amazon Read in browser Anthology of upbeat steampunk fiction from Singapore: Steampowered World By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 10:00 am On IO9, Jess Nevins reviews The Steampowered World, a Singaporean anthology of steampunk short stories published by a "micropress" called Two Trees. The editors put out a call for upbeat stories ("No depressive ending, no preaching, no agendas, no angst-ridden misery."), noting that "depressive endings with angst‑ridden misery is prevalent here in local (Singapore) publishing. ... Read in browser The problem with body mass index By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 09:53 am The Body Mass Index is a popular way to measure and assess whether someone is overweight or underweight. Basically, it's just your weight divided by your height. BMI is a simple system, but it does have some flaws. Over at the Obesity Panacea blog, Peter Janiszewski (who has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology) has a ... Read in browser Celebrity gift party operator threatens blogger who wrote about it By Rob Beschizza on Feb 28, 2012 09:43 am Gawker's Hamilton Nolan was invited to and attended one of those pre-Oscar parties where celebrities are loaded with luxury gifts. Subsequently, Secret Room Events, the "product placement" outfit concerned, threatened him with a lawsuit for having written about it. It has come to our attention the Hamilton Nolan has written a very unessessary and hateful ... Read in browser Big ships can leave "contrails" too By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 28, 2012 09:34 am You're familiar with contrails, the tracks left by airplanes as they move across the sky. Those are made when hot water vapor from the exhaust of jet engines hits cold, high-altitude air and condenses into ice. Under the right conditions, big ships can leave a very similar trail, but it's caused by a slightly different ... Read in browser Friends With Boys: graphic novel about fitting in at high school, seeing ghosts By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 09:00 am Faith Erin Hicks's new graphic novel Friends With Boys launches today. It's the story of Maggie, who is about to follow her three older brothers to the town high-school after a lifetime of home-schooling. Maggie is understandably nervous, because everything in her life is unsettled: her mother mysteriously left the family at the start of ... Read in browser Occupy London says St Paul's Cathedral colluded with eviction effort By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 05:27 am Following last night's eviction of Occupy London from St Paul's Square, many of the protesters blame the cathedral for colluding with the eviction effort. This past winter, the cathedral was rocked by a series of high-profile departures from clerics who sided with Occupy, and this culminated in the cathedral "pausing" its action against the protests. ... Read in browser Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's square By Cory Doctorow on Feb 28, 2012 01:21 am The Occupy London camp at St Paul's Cathedral has lost its legal fight to remain in place. Once the injunction was ordered, bailiffs and officers from the City of London Police (a separate police force directed by the Corporation of the City of London, whose council is elected by the companies in the financial district, ... Read in browser Coffee Common at TED2012 By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 28, 2012 12:10 am [Video Link] Our friend Sean Bonner filled me in on the goings on here at TED2012's Coffee Common. Read in browser Kickstarter success for DRM-free webcomics, reader-funded long-form journalism By Cory Doctorow on Feb 27, 2012 07:58 pm Some heartwarming news on the Kickstarter front: fans of the Diesel Sweeties webcomic have oversubscribed R. Stevens's DRM-free ebook, for which he was hoping to raise $3,000, and brought the total up to nearly $40K. Meanwhile, Matter, the startup that wants to fund long-form journalism online, blew past its $50K target in two days, and ... Read in browser Clever assemble-yourself toys and models made with laser-cutters By Cory Doctorow on Feb 27, 2012 06:52 pm Artifacture Studios is a maker shop based near Dallas, TX (I met the founders at a recent speaking gig at U Texas at Arlington) that does pretty amazing stuff with laser-cutters. They are probably best known for their laser-cut Eiffel Tower models, ornate models of the iconic building cut from stiff card that use cunning ... Read in browser Techdirt post about SOPA censored from Google results due to bogus DMCA complaint By Cory Doctorow on Feb 27, 2012 05:56 pm James from New America Foundation sez, "Mike Masnick has done an incredible job covering copyright issues and the SOPA debates at Techdirt but today he had a troubling post: an important post on why SOPA/PIPA are misguided has been removed from Google over a DCMA request. Mike writes:" We've talked a lot about how copyright ... Read in browser Bolivian riot cops gas, beat wheelchair protesters By Cory Doctorow on Feb 27, 2012 05:24 pm A group of protesters in wheelchairs who gathered in La Paz to demand legal recognition of disability along with monetary benefits were met by a line of riot cops with shields and batons and gas. The photos of the ensuing violence are shocking. The demonstrators had been on the road since Nov 15, and they ... Read in browser Maggie speaking at public events in Minneapolis and online By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 27, 2012 04:50 pm This is, to say the least, a busy week. There's several events happening that I'm involved in. They're all related to my upcoming book on the future of energy, and they're all open to the public. I wanted to take a quick moment to tell you about them, because I'd love for you all to ... Read in browser HOWTO make shark jaws out of paper plates By Cory Doctorow on Feb 27, 2012 04:19 pm From last August, here's Jeanette Strole Parks on Dollar Store Crafts outlining a method for turning a paper plate into a set of shark jaws: 1. Fold your paper plate in half "backwards" (with the bottom of the plate facing you, and the folded edges coming toward you). 2. Using small scissors trim away the ... Read in browser Download the Universe: Reviews of science e-books and apps By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 27, 2012 04:12 pm I'm really happy to be a part of Download the Universe, a new group blog dedicated to reviewing science e-books and apps. No dead trees allowed. It fills a long-ignored niche, helping readers find high-quality science writing in the digital realm, and my partners in this little side project are all top-notch. Download the Universe ... Read in browser Blackboard anatomy art and the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge By David Pescovitz on Feb 27, 2012 03:56 pm This is a 2006 winner in the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science. The Challenge always showcases mind-blowing work, but I just love this one -- A DaVinci Blackboard Lesson in Multi-Conceptual Anatomy -- because it's so, er, analog. As explained on the NSF site, ... 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