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Daniel Pinkwater explains his role in the mystery of the NY State reading test pineapple race kerfuffle CISPAcat: using memes to fight America's terrible, net-breaking "cybersecurity" bill Interview with MAD's Al Jaffee Eurocrat in charge of digital agenda: disconnecting people from the Internet is not a just punishment TSA program to turn jumped-up mall cops into mind-readers didn't work TOR is hiring Mule-based bookmobiles for remote Venezuelan communities Leonard Cohen ex-manager/thief/lover/stalker sentenced; Cohen dry and warm throughout Sea-Monkeys and X-Ray Spex: Collecting the Bizarre Stuff Sold in the Back of Comic Books Barbapapa matrioshkes AnonPaste: anything-goes, zero-knowledge version of PasteBin, hosted by some Anons Acrobatic show posters from the turn of the 20th century Secret Alan Turing cryptanalysis papers released by GCHQ Iranian finance/tech manager publishes 3,000,000 bank accounts' details and PINs Two years after BP oil spill, a health crisis continues in the Gulf On Tweetbombing and the Ethics of Attention Ze Frank's demos his new special effects software TV news blooper reel Time Traveler print by Barnaby Ward Daniel Pinkwater explains his role in the mystery of the NY State reading test pineapple race kerfuffle
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 11:09 am Absurdist kids' literature hero Daniel Pinkwater is at the center of an appropriately absurd kerfuffle. An eighth-grade New York reading test published by Pearson republishes an edited (and much less funny) version of a fairy tale told in his novel Borgel (reprinted in this outstanding omnibus). In the original, an eggplant challenges a rabbit to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 09:11 am Zakkai from Fight for the Future (the folks who brought you the war on SOPA) sez, "Want to fight for Internet privacy with cute cat photos? CISPAcat is a new advice animal that wants nothing more than to spy on your internet activity. He's the child of the privacy-killing cybersecurity bill CISPA and the equally ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 21, 2012 12:00 am CNet's Seth Rosenblatt interviews Al Jaffee, the MAD Magazine legend who created "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" and the back-page Fold-In, and mentions the mouth-watering Fold-In complete boxed set books, woah. How do you make a Fold-In? Do you use a computer? We could see it being complicated. Al Jaffee: I don't do anything digitally. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 11:18 pm Neelie Kroes is Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, and recently gave a speech to the World Wide Web Conference 2012 in Lyon, France. It was a hell of a good thing, making the case for network neutrality and open standards, and stating unequivocally that it is not legitimate to punish ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 09:52 pm Bruce Schneier commented this morning on the Government Accounting Office's assessment of the TSA's "behavior detection" program, which is like the pick-up artist movement for creepy security agencies. Behavioral detection is a mishmash of pseudoscience, woo-y stuff like neurolinguistic programming, wishful thinking and witch-hunting that holds that you can train squadrons of jumped-up mall-cops to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 09:00 pm Runa from The Onion Router -- a privacy and anti-censorship tool used around the world -- writes, "We are looking for another dedicated core developer to join our team. Your job would be to work on all aspects of the main Tor network daemon and other open-source software. This would be a contractor position for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 08:32 pm Proyecto Bibliomulas is a Venezuelan initiative to improve literacy in remote and rural areas, by turning mules into travelling bookmobiles. Srsly. And how awesome is that? Anyone who was not out working the fields - tending the celery that is the main crop here - was waiting for our arrival. The 23 children at the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 07:05 pm The Guardian's Esther Addley reports on the trial of Kelley Lynch, his former business-manager and lover who was convicted of stealing from him and leaving him penniless, who was ordered to pay $9.5M in restitution but didn't, and who then relentlessly stalked Cohen and harassed and threatened him. Lynch has been sentenced to 18 months ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 06:07 pm The delightful Kirk Demarais (interviewed here on Gweek) was interviewed at Collectors Weekly about his terrific book, Mail Order Mysteries. "The ad says, “U-Control 7-foot life-size ghost. It obeys commands indoors and outdoors, acts life-like, soars 30 to 40 feet. You control in secret, conceal in your pocket, ready to operate, floats, dances, spooky effects, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 05:44 pm Here's a lovely set of Barbapapa matrioshkes, which is a rather fitting depiction of the family -- though $46 is on the steep side. Barbapapa Nesting Dolls (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 05:00 pm Jeroen Vader, the owner of PasteBin (a service that provides a simple way to share blobs of text, originally popular for sharing code-fragments and error messages, now also very popular as an anonymous repository for leaked documents and manifestos, especially those affiliated with Anonymous) has revealed that he sometimes shares his server logs with law ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 04:21 pm On How to Be a Retronaut, a well-selected slice through the Library of Congress's 2,114 performing arts posters collection, with an emphasis on acrobatics. Posters for Acrobatics shows, 1892-1903
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 03:17 pm GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has published a set of code-breaking papers written by Alan Turing during WWII. The papers had been held in secret since they were written. The papers are c"The Applications of Probability to Crypt" and "Paper on the Statistics of Repetitions" and they deal with cryptanalysis techniques to optimize breaking ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 20, 2012 02:12 pm A finance technology manager named Khosrow Zarefarid discovered a critical flaw in Iran's online banking systems. He extracted 1,000 account details (including card numbers and PINs) and emailed them to the CEOs of 22 Iranian banks along with detailed information about the vulnerability. A year later, nothing had been done. Zarefarid extracted 3 million accounts' ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 20, 2012 01:58 pm Clean up crews walk past beachgoers as they look for globs of oil on Dolphin Island, Alabama June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Sean Gardner This Nation investigation into health problems caused by the BP oil disaster two years ago is a must-read. Reporter Antonia Juhasz chronicles the personal stories of families affected by lingering toxic crap—the oil, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 20, 2012 01:49 pm Something weird happened on Twitter yesterday. It was annoying and upsetting at the time, but now it's meaty fodder for behavioral analysis discussions. Ethan Zuckerman wrote a blog post about it that extracts some of the more interesting questions raised about social media and activism. * Postscript: I've since traded tweets with the two guys ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 01:44 pm I'm glad Ze Frank is doing videos again!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 01:36 pm [Video Link] This cavalcade of Freudian slips made me chuckle. (Via biota)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 20, 2012 01:15 pm Artist Barnaby Ward (who designed the Boing Boing Beetle T-shirt) has a new print for sale, called Time Traveler.
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