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ATMs either 6 feet or 2 feet above sidewalk in Romanian town Bully gets cut, rated Hippo attack! MPAA boss: we're cooking up a new SOPA behind the scenes Bosnian war, 20 years later, marked in Sarajevo with 11,541 red chairs: one for each dead Successful, full, gay-friendly, arts-friendly public high-school in Peterborough, Ontario slated for closure Police officer in fatal shooting of Marine vet ID'd, was sued in 2008 racism and brutality case World's most distracted driver? Moorhead, MN, police steal $12,000 tip from waitress Make: Talk 012 - Ayah Bdeir of littleBits.cc Fallout for free Muji's background music Instructions on a smoke grenade: Don't be a dick Why storytellers lie 3D printed Goatse ear-plugs Infringe-a-licious Tokyo tee: best Star Wars shirt ever? Olbermann sues Current TV for $50-70 million Well-dressed children Net censorship and pro-ana: How should social media sites deal with self-harm culture? Twitter sues spammers Livestream of Dan Clowes event at Meltdown Snarky and funny illustrated account of a day at the New York Toy Fair New book shows you how to make Lego guns Podcast: Neil Gaiman's "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" Dave Pell's NextDraft: great daily e-newsletter 3D printed Sierpinski tetrahedron What was your first book crush? Flaming muscle-car stroller Dropbox ups free bonus space to 16GB Cancelled student loan debt creates tax nightmare ATMs either 6 feet or 2 feet above sidewalk in Romanian town
By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 12:49 pm One ATM in the town of Timisoara, Romania is six-feet above street level. If you want to use it, you need to bring a ladder with you. A nearby ATM down the street is so low you have to get on your knees to use it. Therefore, average height of ATMs in Timisoara is perfect ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 12:47 pm The Weinstein Company has caved to the MPAA and edited down the documentary Bully in order to get a PG-13 rating. Unrated, uncut versions of the movie will still be shown in some theaters -- a concession from the MPAA. See more about the story here, and here. (Thanks, Xeni!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 12:38 pm [Video Link] Insert statistic here about how hippos kill more people every year than the distance from earth to sun if stacked end-to-end and reduced to a single day. (Via 22 Words)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 11:43 am Former Senator Chris Dodd, head of the MPAA, has hinted to the Hollywood Reporter that he's already greasing the wheels for a new version of SOPA, though he's shy about revealing details because of the public outcry that might ensue. Dodd is the guy who went on the record to tell Obama that he would ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 11:06 am 11,541 red chairs are pictured along Titova street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, April 6, 2012. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 11:00 am PCVS is a venerable high school in Peterborough, Ontario (northeast of Toronto). It's older than Canada, and boasts a roster of eminent alumni. It is fully enrolled, gay-friendly, and a success story from top to bottom. It's also slated for closure. In a bid to redistribute its students to half-full schools on the edge of ...
Read in browser Police officer in fatal shooting of Marine vet ID'd, was sued in 2008 racism and brutality case
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 10:48 am Democracy Now has a big update in the homicide of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, a black Marine vet shot dead at his home by police in White Plains, New York, last November after he accidentally set off his wearable medical alert device. A previous BB post on the story is here. The victim's son and other ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 10:19 am A 29-year-old woman in Torrance, CA, has been arrested for driving on the 405 freeway while texting on her cellphone, with a kid in the back seat without a seatbelt, another kid in the back seat in an unsecured child seat, and an infant on her lap, while her license was under suspension. At least ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 06, 2012 10:04 am A Minnesota waitress had to hire a lawyer to force police to return a $12,000 tip she gave to them as lost property. From Reuters: "Knutson, a mother of five, called local police and turned in the cash as lost property. At first, police said the cash would be hers if it remained unclaimed for ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 10:00 am Here's the 12th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! Our maker interview this week is with Ayah Bdeir, the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets, making it fun and easy to build interactive electronic projects. I met Ayah at the TED2012 conference last ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 06, 2012 09:58 am Classic computer RPG Fallout is free of charge today. [GoG]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 06, 2012 09:48 am Muji sells high quality generic products at inexpensive prices; think Ikea with better taste and a Japanese flavor of minimalism. This is its background music. Bruce Sterling: "More starkly minimal than the muzak from lesser outlets of capitalism."
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 09:14 am An unnamed brand of smoke grenade includes "Don't be a dick with our products" in its instructions. Apparently this is Canadian (judging from the bilingual instructions). Smoke grenade instructions.. (imgur.com) (via Lowering the Bar)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 06, 2012 03:52 am In the wake of Mike Daisey's exposure as a fabulist, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human arrives at the perfect moment. The Atlantic's Maura Kelly examines Jonathan Gottschall's argument that storytelling's deceptions emerge from deeply human needs: When we tell stories about ourselves, they also serve another important (arguably higher) function: They help ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 12:22 am The final item from today's Shapeways rummage is Artfulshrapnel's "GOATSEarring," a goatse.cx tribute ear-plug: "The worst ear plug the internet has to offer." GOATSEarring Standard Gauges
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 05, 2012 10:03 pm Writer and comics creator Brian Michael Bendis (Twitter) is in Tokyo, and tweeted a series of infringment-spotting snapshots today. The Stormtrooper/Star Wars shirt he found and photographed, above, makes me weep with desire.
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 05, 2012 09:24 pm Wow, wow, wow, wow. If you'd like to read the court documents, here's a 43-page PDF.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 05, 2012 09:24 pm Izismile has collected 19 unsourced photos of extremely well-dressed children. Does anyone know where young Joker here comes from? TinEye search came up blank. So Young, Yet So Hip (19 pics) (via Geisha Asobi) Update: Here's the source: it's Redditor H1Ben1's young fellow (thanks, HarshLanguage!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 05, 2012 09:13 pm Antonio A. Casilli at BodySpaceSociety, a "blog for recovering social scientists," has an interesting post on understanding "pro-ana"/"pro-mia" on social media sites like Pinterest and Tumblr. Snip: On February 23rd, 2012 Tumblr announced its decision to turn the screw on self-harm blogs: suicide, mutilation and most prominently thinspiration – i.e. the ritualized exchange of images ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 05, 2012 08:16 pm Twitter, on its blog, declares legal war on companies providing tools to spammers. This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers. With this suit, we're going straight to the source. By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 05, 2012 06:54 pm Video chat by Stickam.com UPDATE:Here's the recorded video. If you would like to see my interview with Daniel Clowes, along with the Enid Coleslaw cosplay contest and other festivities that are being held to tonight to celebrate the release of Daniel's monograph, The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, then watch it on the livestream ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 05, 2012 06:17 pm Writer and illustrator Lisa Hanawalt snuck into the New York Toy Fair and wrote/illustrated a very funny, very snarky account of it for The Hairpin. My wife used to go to Toy Fair every year for work, and she always made it sound like a cross between a season in hell and Willy Wonka's toy ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 05, 2012 05:47 pm [Video Link] Jack Streat, the 17-year-old boy who made the AK-47 out of Lego pieces in the video above, has landed a book deal. LEGO Heavy Weapons will be released in May by No Starch Press. From LEGO guns mastermind and 17–year-old YouTube sensation Jack Streat comes LEGO Heavy Weapons, a collection of complete building ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 05, 2012 04:46 pm Starship Sofa has just podcasted Neil Gaiman's novelette "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains," which won this year's Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. Here's the text of the story, and above is a video of Neil reading from it. You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 05, 2012 04:10 pm You're probably familiar with Dave Pell's excellent Tweetage Wasteland essays about online culture that appear with some frequency at Gizmodo, NPR, and his own site. Dave recently started a terrific daily email newsletter called NextDraft, a roundup of news links (far beyond just tech) that strike him as curious, important, or freaky. As a diehard ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 05, 2012 04:01 pm The second item of note from my rummage on Shapeways this morning is Wahtah's Sierpinski tetrahedron, a fractal pyramid with 499,994 faces. Sierpinski tetrahedron
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 05, 2012 03:56 pm What books do you cringe at having loved? Nadia Chaudhury collects the teen-age literary crushes of 30 popular writers. The feelings are so strong and obsessive. The books seem smart, sophisticated, cool; the characters in them say and do such great things, they seem like guides sent to teach you how to be that way ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 05, 2012 03:21 pm Kaiser21 and child show off this flaming tailfined auto-stroller at the 2010 June 5 Monthly Muscle Car Show in Plano, TX. Papa Kaiser notes, "This little stroller won first place in the Open Car class. It has air-ride, lights under the car, and even fire out of the tailpipes!" Brady Cash Custom Cadillac Baby Stroller ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 05, 2012 02:54 pm Dropbox just made it so that I you can get up to 16GB of storage by referring new users to the awesome, life-changing free-of-charge cloud service. Noobs also get the same bonus for being referred, too. Let's get this pyramid scheme rolling, people. Update: I'm maxed out. Scroll down to the comments and give your ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 05, 2012 02:31 pm When Kim Thompson was diagnosed with a tumor that resulted in "the removal of most of her small intestine, a pulmonary embolism, and 12-hour-a-day IV feeding sessions" she had to quit her job and go on total disability. Her $91,000 student loan was forgiven, but the IRS hit her up with a $26,000 tax bill. ...
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