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Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail Time moves on: Kodak to end slide film production Danger: massive falling pinecones Marketing marriage of the month: The Lorax and HP Standalone scanners "uniformly disappointing", says Consumer Reports Antique photo of flying child Tiny Baby Sloth gets the Onesie Treatment (VIDEO) Interview with a cyborg anthropologist Sony's dual-screen Tablet P arrives If you are upset about the Bully rating, watch This Film is Not Yet Rated Red Moon: short movie about soviet werewolf submariner Expert medical help and a listening ear‐at the library Censorship is surveillance, and privacy is a public health problem Pulp Shakespeare Hactivistas protest brutal Spanish copyright law with flood of complaints Graphic description of mastectomy sans anesthesia in 1855 Video: Kittens in Space, by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann Rightclearing: one-stop clearinghouse for music licensing Why shrinks diagnose anti-authoritarians with mental illness Georgia school goes lockdown after SMS is autocorrected from "gunna" to "gunman" TED2012: Lucy McRae, Body Architect Arizona politician: Makeup on a freckle = good; Photoshopping it out = bad Types of vagabonds, 1566 Leaf-nosed bat with very odd face Dosing cats with Uncle Sam Stock traders compared to psychopaths Do we need to talk about climate change, in order to talk about energy? Proposed US law bans protesting near anyone who rates a Secret Service detail
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 02, 2012 12:50 pm HR437, "the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011" makes it illegal to protest in the vicinity of anyone who rates a Secret Service detail (even if you aren't aware of the person's presence), thus sparing politicians and VIPs the ugly and unseemly spectacle of having to confront voters who disagree with their ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 02, 2012 12:37 pm Yesterday Kodak announced that it will no longer produce any slide film. Having ended production of the legendary Kodachrome in June 2009, they will now cease production of their 2 remaining products Ektachrome and Elite Chrome. Kodak's lovely Ektar line, as well as Portra (sadly, I don't take people pictures) will continue. Slowly but surely, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 02, 2012 12:32 pm Mayor Diane Blackwood of Warragul, east of Melbourne, Australia, has issued a warning about massive pine cones falling from a tree in the town center: "They are the size of a watermelon, falling literally out of the sky from potentially 20 metres high. So you wouldn't want to be under one, I tell you." "Warning ...
Read in browser Marketing marriage of the month: The Lorax and HP
By Rob Beschizza on Mar 02, 2012 12:23 pm Teaming up with The Lorax and HP isn't just a chance to help clear the Earth of environmentally voluminous trees: print your sustainability stories with the latest PhotoSmart, where each color comes in its own plastic ink cartridge to save cash! [Hp MagCloud via Matt Haughey]
Read in browser Standalone scanners "uniformly disappointing", says Consumer Reports
By Rob Beschizza on Mar 02, 2012 12:07 pm After testing 4 popular models of standalone photo scanner, Consumer Reports determined that they all "pretty much stink." If you want a decent scan, stick with the old flatbed.
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 02, 2012 12:06 pm (via House of Mirth)
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Mar 02, 2012 11:15 am (Video Link) In which a baby sloth is shaved and swaddled. Key quotes: Sloth milk is hard to come by. There's an art to swaddling slippery sloths.
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 02, 2012 11:00 am Jon Lebkowsky sez, "Former bOING!bOING! 'cyborganic jivemeister' interviews 21st century cyborg anthropologist Amber Case. A discussion of cyborganic mind and memory and the new world of digital tribes. In the SXSW Interactive issue of the Austin Chronicle." Case spends a lot of time studying and thinking about how digital extension affects our brains and behaviors. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 02, 2012 10:57 am Sony's double-screened Vaio P Tablet comes with "4G" internet via AT&T, dual 5.5" touchscreen displays, and a selection of apps optimized for the new format. Running Android 3.2, the data plan costs $35 a month for 3GB and $50 for 5GB. At $550, though, it'll be a difficult sell. With a two-year contract--itself a thousand ...
Read in browser If you are upset about the Bully rating, watch This Film is Not Yet Rated
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 02, 2012 08:55 am Bully is a documentary on bullying that follows the lives of bullied teenagers. By all accounts, it is a brilliant and important film, the sort of thing that young people should see. Except that they won't, because the MPAA's secretive, unaccountable ratings board has given it an R rating for "language." Despite widespread calls to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 02, 2012 08:37 am Ben Sellon submits Red Moon, a short film about a werewolf aboard a Russian sub. An Official Selection at the 2011 Atlanta Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, and 2012 Oxford Film Festival, it stars Ben as Capt. Alexei Ovechkin and was directed by Jimmy Marble.
Read in browser Expert medical help and a listening ear‐at the library
By LibraryLab on Mar 02, 2012 08:28 am In her first week working at the Pima County Public Library, Registered Nurse Emily Pogue helped a newly-homeless woman find safe shelter and access to the medications she needed. She listened to the stories of military veterans, helped them organize a buddy system, and she helped library staff deal sensitively with a child's case of ...
Read in browser Censorship is surveillance, and privacy is a public health problem
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 02, 2012 07:48 am My latest Guardian column is "Censorship is inseparable from surveillance," which discusses the fact that network censorship entails surveillance, and how this exacerbates the public health problem caused by our difficulty in evaluating privacy trade-offs. There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 01, 2012 11:51 pm "I dare thee, say 'What?' again." [Pulp Bard via JWZ]
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 01, 2012 09:12 pm Spain's brutal new copyright/censorship law, passed at the behest of the US Trade Rep, has gone into effect. Spanish hactivists working with a recording artist have flooded the service with copyright complaints, busying it out so that none of the major labels' complaints can be processed. Threatened with being put on a United States trade ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 01, 2012 08:25 pm From Letters of Note, this incredible letter written in 1855 by Lucy Thurston, a 60-year-old missionary in Hawaii who had breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy (and lymph node removal) with no anesthesia, no blood transfusion. She wrote the following letter to her daughter a month later and described the unimaginably harrowing experience. The procedure ...
Read in browser Video: Kittens in Space, by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann
By Xeni Jardin on Mar 01, 2012 07:49 pm [Video Link]. I'm recovering from yesterday's chemo infusion (my fifth!), and feeling kind of lousy. Jonathan Mann asked me this morning if he could write a song for me as his daily song project, and if so, if I had any theme requests. I was like, duh! Kittens, and space. And like a beautiful internet ...
Read in browser Rightclearing: one-stop clearinghouse for music licensing
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 01, 2012 07:23 pm Philippe sez, "restorm.com launched rightclearing last week at the prominent Social Music Summit in NYC. The cloud-based music licensing platform provides artists and music professionals a simplified solution that enables them to monetize content through an automated licensing system. In the midst of all the SOPA, PIPA, ACTA rhetoric, and never-ending licensing chaos in the ...
Read in browser Why shrinks diagnose anti-authoritarians with mental illness
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 01, 2012 03:09 pm Bruce Levine, a clinical psychologist, has written on Mad in America about his colleagues' propensity for diagnosing anti-authoritarians with mental illness. Levine says diagnoses like oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder and anxiety disorder are applied to people who question authority's legitimacy by mental health practitioners who are, themselves, unconsciously deferential to authority. Gaining ...
Read in browser Georgia school goes lockdown after SMS is autocorrected from "gunna" to "gunman"
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 01, 2012 02:41 pm When a student from north Georgia's Lanier Technical College sent an SMS to a friend about his upcoming stop-in at West Hall high school, his phone helpfully corrected "gunna" to "gunman." The message's recipient alerted police, who put both the college and the high school in lockdown for two hours. He meant to write "Gunna ...
Read in browser TED2012: Lucy McRae, Body Architect
By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 01, 2012 02:26 pm [Video Link] Lucy McRae was trained as a classical ballerina and an architect, and her work as a "body architect" incorporates these interests and more. She is the recipient of a TED Fellowship. I interviewed her this morning at TED 2012. See all my TED2012 coverage.
Read in browser Arizona politician: Makeup on a freckle = good; Photoshopping it out = bad
By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 01, 2012 02:19 pm [Video Link] Arizona state Rep. Katie Hobbs has introduced a bill requiring disclaimers on ads that digitally retouch models because they are "deceptive." As video producer Ted Balakar points out, even though Hobbs believes Photoshop is a great menace that needs taxpayer money to control, she's OK with "makeup, lighting, haircare products, cosmetic surgery," and ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 01, 2012 02:17 pm The following is a list of the "23 Types of Vagabonds" as identified in a 1566 book by Thomas Harman called "A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds." These "types" were the chapter titles and a decade later compiled into a list in William Harrison's book "Description of Elizabethan England, 1577" I'm ...
Read in browser Leaf-nosed bat with very odd face
By David Pescovitz on Mar 01, 2012 01:45 pm This handsome critter is a newly-discovered species of leaf-nosed bat found in Vietnam's Chu Mom Ray National Park. Scientists suggest that the animal's strange face may enhance the animal's echolocation abilities. "Strange New Leaf-Nosed Bat Found in Vietnam" (National Geographic)
Read in browser Dosing cats with Uncle Sam
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 01, 2012 01:38 pm Over on Submitterator, frycook keeps finding these amazing/horrible old U.S. Army newsreels. He or she has posted some great stuff, including this gem, in which the chemical corps tests psychoactive substances on a cat while the narrator cheerfully natters about the strategic military benefits of hallucinogens. Video Link
Read in browser Stock traders compared to psychopaths
By David Pescovitz on Mar 01, 2012 01:36 pm The behavior of rogue stock traders could be considered more reckless and manipulative than that of psychopaths, according to a new scientific study at the University of St. Gallen. (Of course, the definition of psychopath is rather complex -- and you find them in the darndest places, like running huge companies -- but that's another ...
Read in browser Do we need to talk about climate change, in order to talk about energy?
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 01, 2012 01:30 pm This is one thing that changed for me during the course of researching and writing Before the Lights Go Out, my upcoming book about the future of energy. I used to approach conversations about energy from a climate-centric perspective. First, I have to help people understand the science of climate change and get them past ...
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