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South Korea indicts man for retweeting North Tell the US Trade Rep: don't let Hollywood set America's foreign relations agenda French court rules that it's illegally anticompetitive for Google to provide free maps API Make: Talk 003 - Larry Cotton, Multi-Maker Afghan goat giveaway "lacked accountability" Order of the Stick D&D webcomic breaking Kickstarter records The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money Princess Bride V-Day screening & feast at Alamo Drafthouse Bill O'Reilly flunks middle-school math while defending Fox's sleazy hatchet job on the Netherlands US trade rep and hotel caught lying about confidentiality of secret copyright treaty meeting in Hollywood iPhone case looks like old camera Do big cats purr? Giant trans-dimensional humanoids take over hotel swimming pool "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": Romantic anatomy models "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": John Lennon's Rolls Royce HOWTO make a fur-lined barbarian forearm bracer with a digital D&D dice-roller built in "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": A great big chunk of ancient Assyria Beautiful 1912 newspaper comic panel by Johnny Gruelle Ranger tazes off-leash dog walker Toy-sized quadrotors flying in formation Daniel Clowes documentary from 2002: Nostalgia and Paranoia Don Cornelius, R.I.P. Studios winning the battle to stop Oscar screeners from leaking; losing the war My lobster, let me show you it Lorenzo Oggiano's Quasi-Objects" Apple Scotland - iPhone commercial for Siri WSJ publishes actual climate scientists' letter on climate science TOM THE DANCING BUG: God-Man, in "Copyright or CopyWRONG!" Video: how to make cat ears Churchill on drone warfare South Korea indicts man for retweeting North
By Rob Beschizza on Feb 02, 2012 01:02 pm On Twitter, a South Korean sarcastically retweeted something posted by North Korea's official news agency. Treasonous baby photographer Park Jung-geun, 23, will now pay for his crime. The New York Times' Choe Sang-Hun writes: [He] was detained last month on charges of violating South Korea's controversial National Security Law, which bans "acts that benefit the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 02, 2012 12:43 pm Katy from Public Knowledge sez, It's Special 301 season at the office of the US Trade Representatvie, which means that the content industry gets its annual opportunity to tell the USTR which countries should be put on the naughty list for not doing enough to protect American IP. The first round of comments are due ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 02, 2012 08:16 am A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000 fine. Bottin Cartographes argued that Google was only planning to give away the service for free until all the competitors had ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 02, 2012 01:05 am Here's the third episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I'll interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Larry Cotton, a long time contributor to Make. Larry's a retired engineer and part-time math teacher who lives in New Bern, N.C., and likes to listen to, write, ...
Read in browser Afghan goat giveaway "lacked accountability"
By Rob Beschizza on Feb 02, 2012 12:56 am Government investigators suspected that goats may have been used to bribe locals in Afghanistan, but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the goat-giving program. [Muckrock]
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 10:57 pm Courtney sez, "The D&D themed webcomic Order of the Stick has been running a Kickstarter campaign to get some of its out-of-print books back onto shelves. It's now broken $350,000 and is one of the top 10 funded projects of all time on Kickstarter and the most funded comics project of all time." I've been ...
Read in browser The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 10:45 pm I reviewed The Behavior Gap for credit.com. Would you take financial advice from a cocktail napkin sketch? Well, it depends on who is sketching. If it's your brother-in-law, who likes to boast about how he "almost" made a killing investing in Google stock, then the advice is probably not worth the paper it's on. But ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 10:00 pm Austin's astoundingly great Alamo Drafthouse cinema is hosting a Valentine's Night "Princess Bride Quote-Along & Feast" with Rodents of Unusual Size on the menu, and special Inconceivable wine. We love this movie every bit as deeply as Westley loves his Buttercup, and so when we discussed launching our very own Alamo Signature Wine collection, we ...
Read in browser Bill O'Reilly flunks middle-school math while defending Fox's sleazy hatchet job on the Netherlands
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 09:45 pm [Video Link] After Fox aired a video calling the Dutch "naive," and the country "out of control," "a cesspool of corruption and crime," "a mess," and "anarchy," a man from the Netherlands named Max Wezendonk made a video response, backing up his counterargument with facts about the Netherlands' low rates of drug use and murder ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 09:26 pm If you follow Boing Boing, you're probably passingly familiar with ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a treaty negotiated in secret, comprising a kind of wishlist from the entertainment industry, pared down rather a lot after a series of leaks. The sequel to ACTA is TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, yet another secret copyright treaty with ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 08:45 pm With a workable shutter button and straps to hang it around your neck, I prefer this camera attachment to the Big Red Button I mentioned yesterday. And it's $65, which is less than the Big Red Button. Gizmon ICA iPhone case
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 01, 2012 08:07 pm U xpect adorabulness. U gets it. But kittehs also gives u edukashun n' sientific nuance. That's all the LOLcat speak I can muster in one go. Seriously, watch this video from Big Cat Rescue. It's fascinating. And, you should know, at the end, they link you to a slightly less educational feature about ocelots and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 07:45 pm "We're having a whale of a time at the Mildendo Grand Hyatt." (Via Photoshop Disasters)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 01, 2012 07:41 pm "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. I'll be featuring posts in this series all week. Want to see them all? Check out the archive post. I'll ...
Read in browser "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": John Lennon's Rolls Royce
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 01, 2012 07:18 pm "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. I'll be featuring posts in this series all week. Want to see them all? Check out the archive post. I'll ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 07:17 pm The wizards at Sparkfun, an open source hardware company, show us how to make one of these spiffy furry barbarian leather arm-bracers with a charmingly anachronistic D&D dice-roller built into, built around a Lilypad soft Arduino controller. I've got nothing but respect for the DIY/open source community who take conductive thread, LEDs, and Arduino boxes ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 01, 2012 06:54 pm "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. I'll be featuring posts in this series all week. Want to see them all? Check out the archive post. I'll ...
Read in browser Beautiful 1912 newspaper comic panel by Johnny Gruelle
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 06:45 pm Thomas Haller Buchanan posted this scan from a 1912 comic strip panel by Raggedy Ann and Andy artist Johnny Gruelle. He says, "Time to isolate another panel from the comics to celebrate its stand-alone beauty. This panel from the newspaper comics of 1912 looks more like an elegant kid's book illustration."
Read in browser Ranger tazes off-leash dog walker
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 06:05 pm Gary Hesterberg was in a national park in San Francisco with his two lap dogs. A park ranger saw him with his dogs and told him that the dogs must be leashed. She asked for his name and told him to not to leave. When he started walking away, she shot him in the back ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 06:00 pm Researchers from GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania developed software to allow toy-sized nano quadrotors to fly in tight, precise and eerie formation. Gmoke sez, "William Gibson dreams of a mass of these things comprising a flying skyscraper. I imagine them as surveillance and policing drones ready to stop the OWS action or Arab ...
Read in browser Daniel Clowes documentary from 2002: Nostalgia and Paranoia
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 05:45 pm [Video Link] Daniel Clowes is profiled in this 30-minute documentary produced by a Dutch television channel. A little heavy-handed with the mood music but otherwise very good. I was always convinced as a child that those perfect lines in comic books were made by some kind of tool that I just didn't know about, and ...
Read in browser Don Cornelius, R.I.P.
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 05:26 pm NYT: "Don Cornelius, the producer and television host who created the dance show “Soul Train,” was found shot dead in his Los Angeles home early Wednesday morning in what appears to be a suicide, the Los Angeles Police Department and the county coroner’s office said. He was 75 years old."
Read in browser Studios winning the battle to stop Oscar screeners from leaking; losing the war
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 05:25 pm For ten years, Kickstarter founder former CTO Andy Baio has been compiling his "Pirating the Oscars" reports, which document which Oscar-nominated movies are available as downloads on P2P and other file-sharing services, measuring how effective the studios are at controlling leaks of "screeners" -- DVDs set to members of the Academy for review consideration. This ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 04:34 pm There's a caption for this, but I'm drawing a blank. I'm depending on Boing Boing's hive mind to supply one. (Via X-Ray Delta One)
Read in browser Lorenzo Oggiano's Quasi-Objects"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 04:21 pm According to artist Lorenzo Oggiano, his computer-generated art is made to... …stimulate thought and dialogue on the progressive relativisation of natural forms of life as a result of techno-biological evolution. "Quasi-Objects" regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process... Life is a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 04:07 pm [Video Link] Language NSFW. (Thanks, Byrd!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 04:00 pm Andys sez, "The WSJ just published a letter to the editor in response to their No Need to Panic About Global Warming editorial from last week. The response is signed by (GASP!), actual climate scientists. Who'd have thought that we should maybe ask them? Alas, it doesn't get the same editor's note at the top ...
Read in browser TOM THE DANCING BUG: God-Man, in "Copyright or CopyWRONG!"
By Ruben Bolling on Feb 01, 2012 03:50 pm WE INVITE you to visit the TOM THE DANCING BUG WEBSITE, and ENCOURAGE you to follow RUBEN BOLLING on the TWITTER.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 01, 2012 03:48 pm [Video Link] I subscribe to RRcherrypie's videos because my daughter Jane and I like to watch how he or she makes those adorable little food kits (Here's a video of Jane making candy sushi). RRcherrypie's technique is always careful and delicate, and the videos are well-shot, well-edited, and somewhat intriguing. In the above video, RRcherrypie ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 01, 2012 03:00 pm A 1924 article by Winston Churchill imagined drone warfare: "Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings -- nay to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even ...
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