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FCC seeks comment on who should be allowed to shut down cellular service and when China Mieville's London: the (authentic) city and the (banks and surveillance) city Washington Post hack to post post-facto fact check BitTorrent's elite switches from Xvid to x264 Sax-playing gorilla at your party Bizarre TV interview with Senate candidate and his 5-year-son Family says Chicago police urinated on their mail Steampunk Addams Family Thing Fanatic Salon's "All Girl Revue" needs help getting to Boston Checking the math in RI GOP Senate candidate Barry Hinckley's "economics for 5-year-olds" campaign spot Romney finance co-chair VanderSloot and his distasteful practice of threatening journalists FCC seeks comment on who should be allowed to shut down cellular service and when
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 04, 2012 08:43 am Concerned by the San Francisco BART system's decision to suspend cellular service to frustrate coordination among protesters angered by the fatal transit police shooting of an unarmed passenger, the FCC is holding a public inquiry seeking comment on who should be allowed to order cellular service shutoffs, and when. Here's the notice, with instructions for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 04, 2012 05:05 am Writing in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, China Mieville blazingly describes two Londons: an exuberant, organic place that has been lived and built over and remade, bursting with energy and vitality; and a fearful, banker-driven collection of megaprojects and guard labour, where billions of pounds can be found to surround the Olympics with snipers ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 04, 2012 12:13 am The Washington Post ran an article about the "inventor" of email, which it identified as V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai. But there's a problem! Ayyadurai didn't invent email. After publishing a risible "clarification" and some
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 03, 2012 09:38 pm A high-level summit of the torrenting world's elite release groups -- the groups responsible for the highest quality, earliest infringing video releases -- has resulted in a consensus on dumping the venerable Xvid codec (a video compression scheme) for x264, requiring the torrent-downloading public to rethink which tools, devices and converters they use. Here's the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 03, 2012 07:15 pm There's little provenance for this photo and the distinctive service offered therein (just a note that it was "donated" by Andrew Wightman), but it appears to date back some while. I don't suppose musical gorillas are still on offer in this hurly-burly modern age. My kind of party. Donated from Illustrator extraodinaire and friend of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 03, 2012 06:42 pm Watch the father's lips when his kid talks. I don't know what is going on here, but Mediaite offers three explanations: 1. That the boy has a earphone in and his dad is telling what to say and, for some reason, thinks he's a much better ventriloquist than he actually is. 2. That Hudson's responses ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 03, 2012 06:22 pm Courthouse News Service: "A family claims Chicago police broke into their house, urinated on their mail, spit in the coffee maker, stomped and slapped them and told them "You've been punk'd," while searching for someone who had not lived there for at least a year." (Via Arbroath)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 03, 2012 05:12 pm Doktor A, a sculptor and painter, produced this steampunked version of Thing from the Addams Family for an Addams-themed exhibition at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro, NC. Thing…. (via Neatorama)
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By Jason Weisberger on Mar 03, 2012 03:39 pm For five years "THE ALL GIRL REVUE" has been performing together, monthly, at Los Angeles' Fanatic Salon Theater. The all woman improvisational troupe, featuring cast members Edie McClurg, Jane Morris, Ruth Rudnick, Mary Wachtel, Maureen Kelly, Kathleen Campbell and Dee Ryan is seeking to return to Boston and participate in the Women in Comedy Festival ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 03, 2012 03:08 pm Citizen journalist John McDaid looks at RI Republican Senate candidate Barry Hinckley's campaign spot in which Hinckley's five-year-old son gives a lecture on economics and gas prices. The spot resulted in some pretty weird stuff (McDaid describes the "bizarre followup interview he and his son gave with Fox's Neil Cavuto, where Hinckley appeared to be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 03, 2012 01:53 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Trevor Timm comments on billionaire Frank VanderSloot's "systematic campaign to silence journalists and bloggers from publishing stories about his political views and business practices." VanderSloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, Inc. (Wikipedia calls it "a multi-level marketing dietary supplement and cosmetics company", Forbes called it "a pyramid-selling organization," and the State of ...
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