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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 18, 2012 12:55 pm (Via Subtropic Bob) Previously: Mean Monkey Mondays
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 12:46 pm Last night's Jane Goodall Daily Show appearance started with a warm, chimp-style greeting. Jane Goodall made her second appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, and the first order of business was to make sure Jon Stewart remembered the proper chimp greeting. And then she talked about the new documentary from Disney, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 12:34 pm Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, testifying in the Java-Android copyright case, sounds like a gift to Google's lawyers. "Do you understand that no one owns the Java programming language?" lead counsel Robert Van Nest asked. Ellison began a longer answer, but Judge William Alsup interrupted him and said it was a "yes or no" question. Finally ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 12:12 pm The completion of Britain's move to digital television means the end of its earliest distinctively digital TV service. Ceefax, the teletext service launched in 1974, vanishes with the analog TV signals that carry it. After service to millions of Londoners ended yesterday, the only regions still able to access the service are Kent and Tyneside. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 18, 2012 11:43 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Got Cow?, a game where you have to save innocent cows from alien abductors. It's 99 cents in the iTunes store. Don't forget ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 11:42 am Iran's governing elite have been making noises for years now about the construction of a "Halal Internet," a kind of national intranet with its own email service, microblogging, search tools, etc. Now a leaked Persian-language "Request for Information" from the Research Institute for ICT in Tehran, which consults on technology for Iran's Ministry of ICT ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 11:34 am Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut into an unusual cake at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm this Saturday, and found herself at the center of a controversy some might say could have been predicted. The remarkable cake design--featuring a edible black torso and the artist's head screaming as guests tucked in--was intended ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 11:14 am Brian Fung on our obsession with fresh breath: "while alcohol-based rinses have been tentatively linked to higher rates of oral cancer, manufacturers aren't making it up when they say their products have been clinically proven." [The Atlantic]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 11:07 am "You know, my face and body kind of look like a monkey, so from a young age everybody used to tease me, saying 'monkey, monkey'. But I wasn't really bothered because I really liked them, and somewhere inside of me I had this ambition to adopt one of their traits. When I saw a monkey ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 11:00 am In The Atlantic, Alexander Furnas debunks the DHS's proposal for a "precrime" screening system that will attempt to predict which passengers are likely to commit crimes, and single those people out for additional screening. FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology) "will remotely monitor physiological and behavioral cues, like elevated heart rate, eye movement, body temperature, facial ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 11:00 am Eyeless shrimp. Fish afflicted by sores. Crabs without claws or hard shells. Bizarre deformities are becoming common in seafood from the Gulf, according to Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, and pollution caused by the 2010 BP oil spill is the likely cause. Al Jazeera's Dahr Jamail: The [oil] dispersants are known ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 10:34 am Do you miss The Puppy Channel? Your wait for 24/7 canine-related programming may soon be at an end, thanks to DogTV. After its debut two months ago in San Diego, the channel is available via the Internet and has plans for national distrubution. The conceit is that it's actually for dogs, writes Steve Gorman at ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 18, 2012 10:18 am Via ShutterstockBritish advertising regulators have dismissed a complaint against Amazon UK, which advertises release-day delivery for video games, but occasionally—as forum rage attests—falls short. The Advertising Standards Authority said that Amazon's couriers usually made it on time, and that fine print concerning the possibility of delays and offering shipping refunds meant that the promise wasn't ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 18, 2012 10:00 am Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Got Cow?, a game where you have to save innocent cows from alien abductors. It's 99 cents in the iTunes store. Don't forget ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 09:48 am Allison sez, "Michael Geist provides some commentary on yesterday's announcement by Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and Access Copyright. His conclusion: 'For those that sign the model license, the new AUCC - Access Copyright deal is simply more of the same: AUCC and its institutions pass along copyright costs to students, Access Copyright ...
Read in browser Inventor of the Web condemns UK Internet surveillance plans
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 09:12 am Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, has publicly decried the UK government's plan to introduce an Internet spying bill that allows for warrantless, real-time surveillance of the nation's clicks, email and other online communications. Berners-Lee said: "The idea that we should routinely record information about people is obviously very dangerous. It means that there will ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 06:44 am After 50 years of secrecy, the British archive of papers related to colonial handovers have been made public. The trove of papers document (among other things), the brutal torture of Kenyans who participated in the Mau Mau uprising, a vicious purge of "enemies" in colonial Malaya, and the forced relocation of indigenous people from the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 01:00 am A Nature Chemistry paper by researchers from the University of Glasgow describes a process for "printing" pharmaceutical compounds from various feedstocks, and supposes a future in which we have diagnosis/medication manufacturies at home. The process uses an off-the-shelf 3D printer technology to assemble pre-filled "vessels" in ways that create the desired chemical reaction in order ...
Read in browser Why a pro-SOPA MPAA technologist changed sides and went to work for ISOC
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 18, 2012 12:20 am My latest Guardian column is "Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?" which digs into the backstory on the appointment of former MPAA CTO Paul Brigner as North American director of the copyright-reforming, pro-net-neutrality Network Society group, which manages the .ORG domain name registry. I asked Brigner whether his statements about DNS blocking ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 11:13 pm On the Vintage Ads LJ group, a widescreen, two-page Mary Blair ad for AT&T and Disneyland's Tomorrowland. It's everything I love about Blair's illustration in an x-wide package. There's a 1600px+ wide version that deserves your scrutiny. Tuesday Two-Pagers: AT&T/Disney/Mary Blair
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 17, 2012 10:25 pm The talented illustrator Jason Edmiston has a show at Phone Booth Gallery in Long Beach. One fun thing about his gorgeous "Monsters of Rock" portraits is how easily recognizable the musicians are.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 10:10 pm From John W Campbell Award-nominee Mur Lafferty, an open letter to her (delightful) daughter, decrying all the ways in which the deck is stacked against girls and women in our world. It's a pretty much perfect summation of every fear, aspiration, and upset I feel on behalf of my own daughter. You should know that ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 17, 2012 09:21 pm "Make the process as annoying, as painful and as difficult as possible for them." [TED via Waxy]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 09:14 pm Torrenfreak covers The Pirate Bay's new "Promo Bay" service, which has been flooded by 5,000+ submissions from artists who want to have their work promoted on The Pirate Bay -- mostly musicians, but also writers like Paolo Coelho. "Thus far we've done 14 regular campaigns in 3 countries each and 8 worldwide promotions," Pirate Bay's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 08:04 pm This "designer nori" laser-cut seaweed was created by the Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO for a client whose sushi-wrapper business flagged in the post-tsunami economic trough. Jeannie Huang writes, Each pattern is meant to symbolize good fortune, happiness, and longevity, etc. and the result is a delicate, unexpected reinvention of the classic Japanese food with a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 06:59 pm On Tor.com, author and reviewer Jo Walton has an insightful look at why so many science fiction readers and writers are discussing David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years, a book that is already a darling of the Occupy movement: One of the problems with writing science fiction and fantasy is creating truly different societies. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 06:16 pm This bookmobile for the sick was wheeled around Los Angeles hospitals in 1928, a service of the LA public library. Bookmobile
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 17, 2012 05:05 pm We've talked about arXiv here before. It's a pre-print server for scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer sciences. Basically, what that means is that scientists can post papers to the site without first putting that research through the process of peer review. And that's not a bad thing. ArXiv is a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 17, 2012 04:45 pm A followup to the wonderful Caine's arcade story Mark blogged two weeks back: the Internet's many users were so impressed by Caine's ingenuity that they raised $164,000 for his college fund. The funds are matched 1:1 by the Goldhirsh Foundation, and these matching funds are earmarked to fund the Caines Arcade Foundation "which will help ...
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