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We don't own the news we break Most risque ad for drain-clog remover, ever Batman matrioshke Evil computer just wants to be friends Pointy pencil sculptures of Jennifer Maestre Cash-strapped UK local authorities spent £0.5B on CCTV in 4 years The Periodic Table Table: all the elements, in carved wooden glory Did Syria's army use sat-phone surveillance to hunt down and kill journalists? Boing Boing's Beschizza talks Megaupload, ACTA, and torrent justice on RT TV Nyan Cat orchestra: composer creates classical music variations on a meme theme Cautionary science fiction on the future of reproductive rights Free science fiction story ebooks from David Marusek 24 Magazine: every ish is done in a day, ad-free and kickstartered Canada doesn't belong on the US piracy watchlist, along with 70% of the rest of the world Belt-driven Devon Tread watches We don't own the news we break
By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 11:44 am MG Siegler complains that the Wall Street Journal failed to credit him when covering a story he earlier scooped at TechCrunch: Apple Acquires Chomp. The Wall Street Journal Is Fucking Bullshit Earlier today, I broke some news. I don't typically do this anymore given my new job. But from time to time this will happen. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 24, 2012 11:23 am Umm? Official Liquid-Plumr Double Impact Commercial (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 24, 2012 10:08 am Russian sculptor Katya Malakhova created a set of Batman matrioshkes that -- judging from the description -- actually nest. I wonder if the ears are hollow? Batman doll (via Neatorama)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 24, 2012 09:58 am In the tradition of The Shining re-cut to look like an uplifting comedy, comes this music video, which repurposes scenes from several movies—most prominently 2001: A Space Odyssey—to tell the story of a misunderstood computer that accidentally hurts the ones it loves. The song is "Limited" by Jascha. The video was created by my friend ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 24, 2012 09:05 am Jennifer Maestre is a sculptor who makes extremely pointy (and beautiful) pieces out of bunched nails and highly sharpened pencils. Jennifer Maestre (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 24, 2012 05:20 am "The Price of Privacy: How local authorities spent £515m on CCTV in four years" is a new report from Britain's Big Brother Watch, and it documents how the skyrocketing expansion of Britain's police and local government surveillance has resulted in over 4,000 fewer patrolling police officers, less privacy, and no appreciable reduction in crime. CCTV ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 23, 2012 07:27 pm Wolfram co-founder Theodore Gray, whose books, puzzles, posters, vaults (!), card decks, and apps about the Periodic Table of Elements we've featured on Boing Boing many times, has a happy obsession: a Periodic Table Table. Beautiful, hand-carved, wood. More about it in this fun video right here. The table isn't new (there's a well-worn page ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 23, 2012 07:14 pm Jillian York and Trevor Timm, writing for the EFF, explore the possibility that the Syrian government used satellite phone surveillance to pinpoint the locations of journalist Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, who were murdered in Homs, Syria this week. On Monday night, Colvin appeared on CNN, telling ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 23, 2012 07:05 pm [Video Link] Boing Boing's managing editor Rob, not Bob, but Rob, Beschizza speaks on the Russian television news network RT about Megaupload, ACTA, the global copyfight wars, and the high-flying hijinks of Kim Dotcom.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 23, 2012 06:54 pm [Video Link]. Craig Davis Pinson, a composer who is a Boston Conservatory student, writes in the liner notes for the video embedded above: This is a set of variations written on the melody heard in the Youtube video Nyan Cat. It is an experiment, in which I tried to find the limits of how far ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 23, 2012 06:23 pm Annalee Newitz at io9: "What will happen if the state takes control of human reproduction? The answers could be weirder than you think — and might terrify pro-life politicians as much as pro-choice advocates.
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 23, 2012 05:56 pm The wonderful science fiction writer David Marusek sez,
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 23, 2012 04:48 pm Rose Fox sez, Right this minute, eleven accomplished creative professionals have wedged themselves into a studio in Brooklyn, New York, and are in the process of putting together the first issue of twenty-four magazine. twenty-four is a quarterly publication for which each issue is conceived, written, illustrated, designed, and produced in 24 hours. The creation ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 23, 2012 02:43 pm Michael Geist sez, In what has become an annual rite of spring, each April the U.S. government releases its Special 301 report - often referred to as the Piracy Watch List - which claims to identify countries with sub-standard intellectual property laws. Canada has appeared on this list for many years alongside dozens of countries. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 23, 2012 01:49 pm New in the Watchismo Vault collection, the $17,500 Devon Tread watches, which use a cunning system of belts and optical sensors to keep and display the time. No, I don't have $17.5K to drop on something like this, but if you asked me to imagine what a $17.5K watch should look like, it would be ...
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