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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 25, 2012 09:14 am Harriet Harman, deputy leader the UK Labour Party, has explained her party's programme for the British Internet: "implement the Digital Economy Act under a clear timetable including getting on with the notification letters." "Notification letters?" Why yes, those would be the letters notifying you that you have been accused, without proof, of downloading copyrighted material ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 24, 2012 08:42 pm This device is a wheelchair steering "wheel" in the form of a dental retainer instrumented with sensors that are activated by a tongue piercing. Georgia Institute of Technology engineers devised the Tongue Drive System prototype for people with high-level spinal cord injuries. From Wired UK: The output signals from the sensors are wirelessly transmitted to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 24, 2012 07:06 pm In 1972, Dr. Ediwn Land introduced the first one-step instant camera, the Polaroid SX-70. According to Charles and Ray Eames' short promotional documentary about the camera, embedded below, the SX-70 was designed from the beginning to topple "barriers between the photographer and his subject." It was, the Eames said, "a system of novelties." In the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 06:33 pm [Video Link: "Birthday Cake in the Face."] A quickie remix parody of "Birthday Cake" by Rihanna ft. Chris Brown. Lyrics quoted directly from the police report (PDF). What is this about? Created by Andrea James and Calpernia Addams. Here's a related analysis that's worth a read.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 05:11 pm Everyone's favorite internet cat goes to the Academy Awards. Well, in poster form. You can't buy the posters, or the cat, but you can buy the book. More about the legend in this previous Boing Boing post. (Cheezburger via Swintons via Bricorama via @antderosa)
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 04:51 pm A job seeker yawns as he queues outside Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province February 22, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Tan New York Times tech columnist David Pogue sure has an interesting take on the Foxconn/worker's rights debacle. One point I agree with: it's a mistake to focus solely on Apple. Many, many Western technology companies ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 04:20 pm North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un aims a rifle at the Sporting Bullet Factory, built in 1996 at the order of the North's late leader Kim Jong-il. The factory produces "sporting bullets" for developing military sports. Its exact location is undisclosed. Undated picture released by the North's KCNA news agency in Pyongyang, on February 23, 2012. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 04:16 pm Illustrator Jack Teagle painted this plaster cast to be auctioned on eBay for the charity Keep A Breast. Kitty Lea Cast by Jack Teagle
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 04:06 pm No more hope. LA-based street artist Shepard Fairey today entered a guilty plea in his criminal case with the Associated Press. He's facing a maximum sentence of six months in prison. The criminal case concerns not the intellectual property dispute itself, but charges of "criminal contempt for destroying documents, manufacturing evidence and other misconduct" in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 04:02 pm Evening Standard: "A prominent Right-wing Republican sheriff in Pinal Country, Arizona, known for his conspicuous campaign against illegal immigrants, is accused by his gay Mexican lover of three years, Jose Orozco, of threatening to have him deported if he revealed their affair."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 03:55 pm After reading Pattie Boyd's memoir, Wonderful Tonight I think this spelling variant is apt. From a photo taken in Okinawa by Lawrence Downes.
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 24, 2012 03:30 pm [Video Link]I have heard many of these lines, myself. Jenny Saldaña (Facebook | Web | Twitter) is a Dominican actor/writer/producer/speaker who is surviving breast cancer with a fierce sense of humor intact. In the video above, she re-enacts some of the many unfortunate things that presumably well-meaning women have said to her, during her experience ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 02:02 pm Historically, people slept for four hours, woke up for a couple of hours, then fell back asleep for another four hours, according to historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech. In 2001, he "published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 01:51 pm On Thursday an El Paso County Commissioner, with a reputation for shouting down any efforts towards drug law reform, was was indicted by a federal grand jury for "conspiracy to distribute more than 110 pounds (50 kg) of cannabis." [Willie Gandara Jr. has] been accused of conspiring to distribute 50 kg of weed. But if ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 01:46 pm Kyle Wiens of iFixit reports on his visit to Molycorp Mountain Pass, the last rare earth metals mine in America. [The Atlantic, via The Verge]
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 01:38 pm Posted by The Chris Valle to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 01:32 pm Imitation is the sincerest form of imitation. (Via Josh Helfferich)
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 01:30 pm Our thanks to Shana Logic, one of the web's coolest indie shops. Everything there is 100 percent handmade or independently-designed. Plus, it's a small business so you're supporting artists. Shana Logic offers jewelry accessories, guys' apparel, tech gear and more: Take 10% off your entire order with the discount code BOINGY, or get free shipping ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 01:28 pm Gawker's Adrian Chen tracked down the man behind @horse_ebooks, the fascinating twitter spambot.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 01:27 pm A new girl indeed! Please give us back the old one, Rimmel. (Via Photoshop Disasters)
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 24, 2012 01:16 pm Photojojo's iPhone Rangefinder case clips onto your iPhone, making it look like an iPhone inside a case that looks like a bit like a rangefinder. It's compatible with Photojojo's magnetic fisheye, wide-angle/macro and tele lenses: you can get it with a full set for $99. [via This Isn't Happiness]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 24, 2012 01:09 pm [Video Link] Jeff Diehl made a great video of a his drive across the barren landscape of Mongolia, condensed to four minutes. It's a time-lapse with occasional real-time breaks and his comments. This is a nice way to present a travel video. Experience the roadlessness, the bandits, the breakdowns, the yaks, and the camels, without ...
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