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eBook Review: Missing moon rocks! Pepys Road: online story about Londoners weathering the crash Committee to propose blogger ethics guidelines What's Opera, Doc? the mashup George Dyson's history of the computer: Turing's Cathedral Flight attendant rants about plane crash French president's son in tomato attack on police dys4ia Why Monsanto didn't expect Roundup-resistant weeds A heart with no beat Newspapers moot dropping Doonesbury during transvaginal ultrasound plot Guess who else is part of the evil climate change conspiracy? Gweek 043: Cashcats.biz Canada's Parliament summons Anonymous to testify "My feelings could not be lifted but sunk down": Dispatches from Japan on the anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake Maggie speaking Monday afternoon at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alan Turing centennial concert and installation in Seattle, June 22 Pinterest Bingo After slaying of 16 Afghan civilians, American Army sergeant held for investigation Fed court: quoting newspaper articles online is fair use MAKE livestreaming from SXSW today eBook Review: Missing moon rocks!
By Jason Weisberger on Mar 12, 2012 12:58 pm I love it when a true story is better than fiction; Joe Kloc's The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks is just that -- crazier than real life. Six times, between 1961 and 1972, the United States put men on the moon. In addition to leaving footprints in the cheese and sticking a big flag ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 12, 2012 12:30 pm Matt sez, PepysRd.com is an innovative online story based on Capital by John Lanchester, the first big London post-crash novel. Capital interweaves the lives and stories of the residents of Pepys Road, looking at the recent financial crash and its effect on our everyday lives. To support the book, Storythings have been commissioned by Faber ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 12, 2012 11:45 am The "Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation" is to promulgate your new guidelines for blogging. David Carr in The New York Times: "This is not an anti-aggregation group, we are pro-aggregation," Mr. Dumenco told me. "We want some simple, common-sense rules. There should be some kind of variation of the Golden Rule here, which is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 12, 2012 11:11 am djBC, the archduke of mashup, has created a video to accompany his 2005 "wemix" of the classic Chuck Jones 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" Whats Opera, Doc? (dj BC Wemix) (Thanks, djBC!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 12, 2012 10:51 am Science historian and perennial Boing Boing favorite George Dyson's latest book is Turing's Cathedral, and it is, in some sense, the book he was born (or at least raised) to write. Dyson, the son of eminent scientist Freeman Dyson, was brought up on the grounds of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies during the period ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 12, 2012 09:39 am A flight attendant was "subdued" by passengers after she "started ranting about a possible crash" over the cabin PA system, writes Andrew Stern. Thereafter, drinks were free.
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 12, 2012 09:10 am French president Nicolas Sarkozy apologized to a policewoman struck Thursday by a tomato possibly thrown at her by his teenage son. Louis Sarkozy, 15, and a friend are the only suspects in the fruity fracas. [Reuters]
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 12, 2012 08:53 am Anna Anthropy's dys4ia is a game vignette about six months in the author's life, following her decision to seek hormone replacement therapy. The music is by Liz Ryerson. [Newsgrounds] Also just out is Anthropy's book, Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, charting the rise of DIY game design. [Amazon] Previously:Video game sprites posed romantically Mighty Jill ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 12, 2012 08:40 am Whatever its faults, the seed company Monsanto does employ some very smart people, who have a keen understanding of plant genetics. Given that, I've long wondered why the company has been so blindsided by the fairly basic idea that weeds evolve. Did anyone really expect that, when faced with a pressure that threatened their existence, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 12, 2012 08:30 am Artificial hearts are amazing, but flawed. They wear out quickly and, even today, they don't work at all unless the transplantee is hooked up to an external air compressor 24-7. That doesn't make for a great quality of life. In fact, according to a story in Popular Science, written by Dan Baum, the first man ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 10:08 pm As Doonesbury tackles mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds for women considering abortions, rumours abound that newspapers will drop or substitute the strip: In the "Doonesbury" strip, a woman goes to a Texas clinic to have the procedure and is forced to get a sonogram, Roush said. The cartoon ends with the woman going home to wait 24 ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 11, 2012 08:41 pm In a story at that socialist rag Financial Times, the radical environmental group General Electric explains why the Republican presidential candidates' refusal to accept the evidence on climate change is ridiculous. (Sadly, you have to register to read this piece.)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 11, 2012 08:20 pm Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts on episode 043 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing's coding and development wizard, Michael Pusateri, a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 07:00 pm Idlepigeon sez, "Canada's government has moved to call Anonyomous to testify before the House Affairs Comitte, over threats made to a minister who's been pushing to pass Bill C30---online surveillance legislation. In this very funny piece from the Globe and Mail's Tabatha Southey, the entire Internet shows up to testify." Anonymous is so nebulous that ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 11, 2012 06:17 pm Ichiroya Kimono Flea Market is a company that sells vintage and new kimonos. I don't own any kimonos, and I don't expect to ever buy one. But I do subscribe to Ichiroya's email newsletter. Why? Because it's hands-down the best corporate communique I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Honest, earnest, and unfiltered, the newsletter ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 11, 2012 05:32 pm Why does electric infrastructure affect our ability to make energy more sustainable? How is the electric grid like a lazy river at the water park? And why should you never, ever go fishing with a salesman? Learn the answers to these questions—and more—when I speak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Monday, March ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 04:07 pm On June 22, Seattle will celebrate the Alan Turing centennial with an evening concert and installation at the Chapel Performance Space, curated by David Stutz (free software hacker, musician, vintner, and the guy who produced the musical CD that accompanied Neal Stephenson's Anathem -- an all-round happy mutant). The event will be held as part ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 11, 2012 03:41 pm [Large size] Thanks to everyone who contributed "square" ideas. I'm no hater, by the way; you can follow me and Boing Boing there. * 'shooped by yours truly.
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 11, 2012 03:39 pm An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered bodies of civilians killed by an American soldier in Kandahar province, March 11, 2012. REUTERS/ Ahmad Nadeem An American soldier is reported to have "stalked from home to home" before dawn, then methodically killed at least 16 civilians including 9 children, and 3 women. One of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 11, 2012 01:03 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Kurt Opsahl analyzes an important declaratory judgment from a Nevada federal court, which held that excerpting news articles in online postings was fair use. Judge Roger Hunt's judgment confirms that an online forum is not liable for its users' posts, even if it was not protected by the safe harbors of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 11, 2012 01:03 pm Watch live streaming video from oreillymake at livestream.com MAKE is livestreaming from SXSW today. Visit MAKE's Alt.SXSW page for updates and coverage of the festival. Hot on the heels of alt.GDC comes alt.SXSW. What does “alt.” mean? It’s a throwback to the old alt. domains on USENET and refers to MAKE taking a slightly askew ...
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