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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Nightclub Circuit, and the Funky 4 MC's Bruce Sterling freebies at Austin Hackerspace Oprah's 3rd hand Realm of the Mad God: NES-level graphics and modern MMO compulsion loops Marvel Comics to US gov't: mutants are not human (and should not be taxed as such) Cosmetic surgery makes you look 7.2 years younger Leaked climate-change denial lobby docs came from water scientist Gay porn soundtrack played over Jazz FM broadcast Lessig's One Way Forward Turning artificial joints into scrap metal at the crematorium Happy 75th birthday to Raymond Scott's POWERHOUSE! Science fiction apocalypses live on stage in New Hampshire Canadian universities sign bone-stupid copyright deal with collecting society: emailing a link is the same as making a photocopy, faculty email to be surveilled GOD HATES CHECKERED WHIPTAIL LIZARDS Circuit-board skull Dish soap art competition How to drug a woman to make her more accepting of doing housework Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Nightclub Circuit, and the Funky 4 MC's
By Ed Piskor on Feb 21, 2012 12:45 pm Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 12:22 pm Hey, Austinites, Bruce Sterling's giving away his books at the ATX, the Austin Hackerspace, on Saturday from 5-7PM.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 21, 2012 12:18 pm The January 2 issue of New Idea Australia revealed something surprising! (Via Photoshop Disasters)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 12:00 pm On Play This Thing! (my favorite games-review site), Greg Costikyan reviews "Realm of the Mad God," a strange blend of vintage graphics and contemporary, MMO-inspired gameplay. Realm of the Mad God takes the compulsion loop of a conventional MMO and boils it down to its essential nutrient broth, eschewing all the frippery and getting down ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 11:00 am Radiolab covers the strange saga of Marvel Comics's fight against the US customs authority over whether X-Men dollies were "dolls" or "toys" -- the difference being that dolls (which are defined as characters that represent humans) are taxed at twice the rate of "toys." The case turned on whether a mutant was, indeed, human, or ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 21, 2012 10:04 am Middle-aged people who get face-lifts look between 6 and 8 years younger as a result, according to a paper published Monday. Caveat: the before-and-after mugshots used in the the 60-patient study were of one co-author's clients. [Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery via Health.com]
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 10:00 am Water scientist Peter Gleick admitted that he was the source for the anonymous leak of documents from the climate-change-denying Heartland Institute. The documents -- obtained under a false name, and then leaked -- showed Heartland's budget, corporate donors (Koch Industries and Philip Morris featured heavily), and a plan to produce deliberately confusing materials about climate ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 21, 2012 09:56 am Listeners tuning into Jazz FM's "Funky Sensations" show were treated Saturday to soft moans, fleshy slapping noises, and the incomparable sax of Sonny Rollins. The station apologized. The mix was recorded for posterity by Radio Fail.
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 09:41 am Lawrence Lessig's new ebook One Way Forward is one of the most exciting documents I've read since I first found The Federalist Papers. One Way Forward is more of a long pamphlet than a book. It's tempting to call it a "manifesto," except that it's so darned reasonable, and that's not a word that comes ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 21, 2012 09:17 am Combine the spike in commodity metal prices with advances in geriatric medicine and the increased trend to cremation and what do you get? A thriving trade in artificial joint harvesting and recycling. A Dutch company called OrthoMetals recycles 250 tons of scrap from cremated bodies -- cofounder Ruud Verberne notes that it takes five hips ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 20, 2012 11:12 pm From the Raymond Scott blog, "Exactly 75 years ago today, Raymond Scott recorded his iconic hit tune, 'Powerhouse.' On the same date, following 8 months of rehearsals with his Quintette at CBS, he also recorded 'Twilight In Turkey,' 'Minuet In Jazz,' and 'The Toy Trumpet' — not bad for a day's work. He didn't realize ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 20, 2012 09:07 pm John Herman sez, "I am producing 'An Evening of Apocalyptic Theatre' in Portsmouth, NH. Nine plays, nine visions of the end -- including new works by Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author James Patrick Kelly and best selling author of The Great Typo Hunt, Jeff Deck. A couple argues in a bomb shelter ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 20, 2012 07:06 pm Under a new deal signed by the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, the act of emailing a link will be classed as equivalent to photocopying, and each student and faculty member will cost the universities $27.50/year for this right that the law gives them for free, along with a collection of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 20, 2012 04:56 pm Lauren, proprietor of the LAMP zine, got frustrated after arguing with a homophobe on Facebook, so she whipped (!) up a parody of a fundamentalist tract called GOD HATES CHECKERED WHIPTAIL LIZARDS, detailing all the ways in which the parthenogenetic, pseudocoupling titular lizards were a perversion of God's will. Someone phonecammed the tract and posted ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 20, 2012 03:06 pm "Circuit Skull" is a prizewinning piece by Graham Rudge from the Yukon School of Visual Arts, entered in a Bank of Montreal competition. 1res Œuvres! Concours invitation destiné aux étudiants en arts visuels, (via Street Anatomy)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 20, 2012 02:06 pm Pril, a brand of dish soap in Germany, had an online competition to create and vote for art to run on the label. The winning art is just so-so, but a few of the runners-up (shown here) are great. In our Hall of Fame, we present a small selection of very creative, beautiful, sophisticated and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 20, 2012 01:59 pm (Via This Isn't Happiness)
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