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Cross-section of America's electronic freedom campaigners Retro rocket ring UK petrol station CCTVs will check insurance/tax status before you are allowed to fill up POV ride-through: Model train replica of Disneyland's Mine Train through Nature's Wonderland Invisible Children co-founder detained for vandalizing cars, public masturbation Doogie Horner's flowchart: Work Habits of the Moon and Sun Evidence of clandestine whipped cream making in the streets of San Francisco Irish gentleman attempts to drink a 1-gallon Shamrock Shake The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect - book and Smithsonian exhibition RIAA prez twirls mustache in anticipation of taking on his role of Internet Witchfinder General New DVD-ripping DRM scheme ripped apart "More Awesome Than A Monkey In A Bacon Tuxedo Riding A Cyborg Unicorn With A Lightsaber For The Horn On The Tip Of A Space Shuttle Closing In On Mars, While Engulfed In Flames." Cross-section of America's electronic freedom campaigners
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 11:05 am Forbes's Carol Pinchefsky profiles "4 Public Interest Groups Who Are Fighting for Your Digital Freedom" including EFF, Public Knowledge, TechFreedom and the Center for Democracy and Technology. It's a great cross-section of the different approaches that activist groups take to technology and freedom (but I would lobby for the inclusion of some of the newer ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 08:56 am Noah Scalin sez, "Just look at this awesome steampunky rocket ring created by Herbert Hoover (not the former president) for his Ring-A-Day project. He also has a laser-cut miniature wooden version for sale on his Etsy page as well." I'm partial to Hoover's espresso ring, too. Ring-A-Day: Rocket Ring
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 03:17 am Under a pending proposal, the license-plate cameras at UK filling stations will soon begin to trigger automatic lookups of every motorist's insurance and tax records. Drivers whose insurance and tax records can't be located or verified will not be allowed to fill their tanks. This requires that the existing cameras, which are there to document ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 02:46 am STNautilus created a detailed model-train replica of the long-gone, dearly missed Disneyland Mine Train through Nature's Wonderland. Dan sez, "I nearly plotzed from this scene being so charming." (Warning: contains animated varmints). Nature's Wonderland Model: Very First POV
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By Dean Putney on Mar 16, 2012 05:25 pm Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, who was involved in the making of the Kony 2012 video, was detained in San Diego yesterday morning after being found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars, running through traffic and screaming in his underwear. NBC San Diego reports: Several people attempted to calm him down and when officers arrived they ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 16, 2012 05:06 pm Doogie Horner, author of Everything Explained Through Flowcharts designed a chart about the work habits of the moon and sun. Here's another flow chart that Doogie created especially for Boing Boing.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 16, 2012 04:54 pm Folks in San Francisco sure like making their own whipped cream in the streets. Greg Long says, "I walked out to find this in the alley behind GAMAGO in SoMa this morning. Our cars have been getting hit with the hippie gap whippit delivery service ads. Apparently they've got a customer!"
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 16, 2012 03:56 pm Irishman Sam Jordan wanted to see if he could consume a gallon of that ancient traditional Irish celebratory beverage, the Shamrock Shake. Did he succeed? You'll have to visit the link to find out. The Shamrock Shake Challenge
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 16, 2012 03:48 pm A major new book on the art of video games was released today to coincide with the opening of an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The show curator, Chris Melissinos, is also the co-author of the book, titled, The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect. In the forty years since ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 16, 2012 03:43 pm Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, has reminded the nation that at his instigation, the largest ISPs in the USA are set to disconnect their customers, and their customers' families, if the companies that Sherman represents makes a series of unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement against them. The ISPs came to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 16, 2012 03:20 pm Here's Molly Wood on UltraViolet, the harebrained new scheme whereby people take their DVDs into stores to pay for them to be ripped to region-locked, time-limited DRM-laden streamable formats: It is appalling to me to hear John Aden, executive vice president for general merchandising for Wal-Mart, say that this move is about helping consumers enjoy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 16, 2012 01:23 pm Robbo sez, "The title for the article is just a portion of an amazing thank you letter from a primary school student in Austin, Texas - sent to a local weatherman who visited the class. Includes a drawing of a unicorn delivering donuts." 'I will not make you a slave, you will live in my ...
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