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Stealth ship for sale What I've learned by writing stories with the same titles as famous books Motorcycle from Japan washes up in Canada Rocket Ship comic-book ad Pastor Sean Harris: crack the wrists and punch children you suspect of being gay Disabled vet transforms himself though yoga Bordertown shirts Hidden camera records FBI returning snatched anonymous remailer server Court records unsealed for dajaz1.com seizure, reveal that US Customs operated as hired thugs for the RIAA Happy Day Against DRM! Chris Dodd's imaginary topsy-turvy history of Hollywood What dropping DRM across the industry would do for publishing Texas politician's internet ad features gentleman electrocuted while peeing (video) Update on killing of elderly black Marine veteran by police: no charges will be filed YA legal thriller about civics and the US judicial system Dude reading entire Bible in 100 days, tumblogging neat stuff he finds Black-light acrobats Fighting Gravity send trademark threat over unrelated fantasy novel called "Fighting Gravity" Obama vs. Marijuana: What is the deal? Shep Smith makes a political funny US requests for secret spying warrants rose to nearly 2K in 2011, and not a single one was rejected Portland, OR considers ubiquitous CCTV surveillance UK woman refuses to accept speeding ticket The diversity of particle accelerators Why water supply affects your computer How To: Assemble a large hadron collider Japanese "Lolita fashion" anime subculture in Mexico FAA puts man who recorded in-flight bird collision on double secret probation He's Watching You: WWII poster meets Darth Vader in Star Wars mash-up Student abandoned in cell for 5 days by DEA gets apology but wants $20 million Lego wigs Stealth ship for sale
By David Pescovitz on May 04, 2012 12:51 pm Please do not outbid Boing Boing on the Sea Shadow, a stealth ship that the US Navy is currently auctioning off. The General Services Administration is requiring that the buyer dismantle and scrap the 1982 vessel within six months of purchase. But it's stealth! They'll never know that we've restored it and are using it ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 12:39 pm My latest Locus column, "A Prose By Any Other Name," is a state-of-the-project report on my longrunning habit of writing science fiction stories with the same titles as famous books, and the interesting things I've discovered about creativity and my subconscious along the way. The more I thought about writing stories with ''borrowed'' titles, the ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 04, 2012 12:32 pm A couple weeks ago, Peter Mark of British Columbia found this Harley-Davidson buried in the sand on one of the islands of British Columbia. Tracking the license plate led Mark back to the bike's owner. In Miyagi, Japan. Apparently, the March 2011 tsunami, which destroyed Ikio Yokoyam's home and took the lives of three family ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 12:00 pm There are some who'll say that X-Ray Specs illos are the zenith of old-timey kid-targeted comics advertising. Those people are wrong. Cardboard spaceships, with their Voyage to the Mushroom Planet promise, are so far beyond anything ever drawn in service of X-Ray Specs that the championship is easy to perceive. This thing is pure desiderata ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 11:48 am Pastor Sean Harris (motto: "Proclaiming Christ Through a Blog in the 21st Century) gave a sermon on Sunday at his church in Fayetteville NC in which he told parents to beat their children if they showed signs of being gay: Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 04, 2012 11:06 am [Video Link] Inspiring video of a disabled Gulf War paratrooper who lost 140 pounds and went from crutches to sprinting by practicing yoga. (Via Bits & Pieces)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 11:00 am Ellen Kushner, co-editor of the multiple-award-nominated new Borderlands anthology Welcome to Bordertown, writes, "Have you dreamed of a Danceland T-shirt? Some Dancing Ferret beer mugs? A Khandroma (Tibetan girl skater gang) charm? Thanks to the many Bordertown authors who gave their kind permission to allow us to create logos for B-town places they invented! Designer ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 10:22 am Riseup, a "progressive Internet organization" that operates an anonymous remailer had its servers seized by the FBI without notice two weeks ago. They installed a little CCTV camera after the seizure. On Wednesday, that camera recorded footage of the FBI putting the servers back. On April 18, 2012, a Riseup server located in MF/PL's colocation ...
Read in browser Court records unsealed for dajaz1.com seizure, reveal that US Customs operated as hired thugs for the RIAA
By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 09:18 am Remember the seizure of Dajaz1.com, a hiphop blog that posted all kinds of music clips that record company promoters (and even CEOs) begged them to post? The one that was shut down for a year on a trumped-up copyright charge that was quietly dropped without explanation? Now we have an explanation. Rebecca from the Electronic ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 03:33 am Today, May 4, is the International Day Against DRM, the day in which the Free Software Foundation's "Defective By Design" campaign urges you to celebrate DRM-free media and boycott DRM. There are plenty of local events, poster templates, and the DefectiveByDesign page has a lot of suggestions for other ways to participate: Pledge to take ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 01:21 am Former senator Chis Dodd is now the CEO of the MPAA, and was the primary moving force behind SOPA. He's a bit weird. His latest act of performance art, or fabulism, or whatever, is to make up a completely bullshit story about the history of Hollywood, in which the Hollywood film industry sprang into being ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 04, 2012 12:20 am My latest Guardian column, "Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers," looks at the wider consequences of Tor Books' dropping DRM on its ebooks, and what it would mean for writers and publishers if DRM was dropped across the industry: oat. Back when ebook sales began to kick ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 11:41 pm Roland Sledge is a 66-year-old Houston energy lawyer running for a seat on the Texas state commission that regulates the oil and gas industries. In the YouTube ad above, the Republican candidate stares into the camera while standing in a pasture, and riffs on a Will Rogers quote: "Isn't it about time we elected political ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 11:06 pm No criminal charges will be filed in the fatal police shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old Marine vet. He was shot to death in his White Plains, NY apartment after his medical alert device accidentally went off and signalled police to his apartment. According to reports, audio recordings captured by that device showed that ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 10:47 pm Joel sez, "'Wainwright for the People' is a young adult book for ages 10 and up that teaches basic civics, with a focus on our judicial system, in the form of a legal thriller, accompanied by Student and Teacher Guides, made available as a free download under a Creative Commons license. Co-written by a former ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 10:33 pm A Tumblog of greatness: Craig Kanalley decided that reading the entire Bible, cover to cover, would be an interesting challenge. He has committed to doing that within 100 days, and he's documenting interesting stuff he finds here. Update: David Plotz of Slate also did something like this in 2006. (via @producermatthew, thanks Gastronaut!)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 10:00 pm That Neil Guy sez, "Writer Leah Petersen received a Cease and Desist notice. Seems the title of her debut novel, Fighting Gravity, is also the name of a live performance group that appeared on America's Got Talent. As Leah writes on her blog, the claim is that 'the title of my science fiction novel about ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 09:42 pm Michael Scherer writes about President Obama's medical-marijuana policy and the increasing federal intervention on medical marijuana on TIME.com. For the online piece and a related magazine feature, Scherer spoke with "nearly a dozen people" in the medical marijuana industry, three U.S. Attorneys, White House officials and local officials who oppose the federal crackdown. Snip: Despite ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 09:22 pm Say what you will about Shep Smith's politics and personality, he pretty much nailed the cognitive dissonance of Mitt Romney's reaction to Gingrich dropping out of the GOP race. Shep Smith reacts to Mitt Romney reacting to Newt Gingrich quitting (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 08:49 pm The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) reports today that the US Justice Department made 1,745 requests last year to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) for permission to wiretap electronic communications or search for physical evidence in counter-terrorism cases. That's up from 1,579 requests in 2010. Every single one of the requests submitted in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 08:12 pm Devon sez, "Portland, OR is the next city to consider a plan to implement police surveillance cameras throughout the downtown area. The proposal is to have surveillance cameras that can be accessed and controlled by police officers through their mobile devices. Although the Portland Police Bureau has assured the city council that the mobile devices ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 03, 2012 08:05 pm [Video Link] The way this woman tried to talk her way out of a speeding ticket (police video starts at 4:42), reminds me of people who say they don't have a legal obligation to pay taxes. I'm not saying her defense is wrong or right because I don't understand it. I'm posting it because it's ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 03, 2012 07:20 pm Today, I got to tour several particle accelerator research labs at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including an inside look at a working accelerator, something I'd never seen up close before. Suffice to say, it was awesome, and I will be posting more on that here after I'm able to do a few more interviews. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 03, 2012 07:00 pm Between now and 2020, the greatest increases in population growth in the United States are projected to happen in the places that have the biggest problems with fresh water availability. This isn't just a drinking water problem, or even an agriculture problem. It's an energy issue, too. Most of our electricity is made by finding ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 03, 2012 06:45 pm One of my favorite parts about going on tours of laboratories are the signs and jokes that scientists post on office doors and lab walls. This gem comes from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The obvious question: How do you transport an infinite number of protons home from IKEA? Does that fit on the little ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 06:12 pm REUTERS/Daniel Becerrill Above, Alin Nava (C) stands in a checkout line at a supermarket in Monterrey April 5, 2012. Nava, 25, is dressed in the so-called "Lolita" fashion style (ロリータ・ファッション Rorīta fasshon), a fashion subculture from Japan influenced by clothing from the Victorian or Rococo eras. The basic style consists of a blouse, petticoat, bloomers, ...
Read in browser FAA puts man who recorded in-flight bird collision on double secret probation
By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 06:10 pm Grant Cardone used his tablet to record a mid-flight bird-strike on a Delta flight from LFK to LAX. He disobeyed a crewmember who ordered him to stop recording. The FAA is very disappointed in Cardone, so they've put him on a special, nebulous list: Your failure to comply with flight attendant instructions during a critical ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 05:32 pm Boing Boing reader Brock Davis (FB, Twitter, Tumblr) shares this wonderful illustration in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool: "He's Watching You," a mash-up of Star Wars and World War II propaganda art. "I've been wanting to draw this for a while," says Brock. "I love Glen Grothe's original 'He's Watching You' poster from 1942. The ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 03, 2012 05:14 pm Mark blogged yesterday about Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old college student in San Diego who was detained by the Drug Enforcement Administration on "420 day" without charges, then abandoned in a holding cell for 5 days with no food or water. He drank his own urine in an effort to stave off fatal dehydration. Today, he ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 03, 2012 04:44 pm I love the Lego wigs used in this Elroy Klee campaign for Mindplay. They've got the perfect mix of impracticality and strikingness to qualify as gen-you-wine coo-choore. Mindplay: bricks on me (via Geekologie) (Photo: Niki Kits-Polman & Ebo Fraterman)
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