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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 12:59 pm Gretchen Ruben, author of the terrific Happiness Project book, posted seven tips for good social interaction, written by Desiderius Erasmus around 1500 A.D. in his book De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus: A Handbook on Good Manners for Children: According to Erasmus, you should not… 1. gossip 2. tell unkind stories 3. boast 4. indulge in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 12:57 pm James from the New America Foundation sez, "I wanted to share this blog post on why civil society voice is essential in Internet governance and some efforts shift control to government-only entities:" While Indian courts are attempting to control content domestically, a simultaneous effort from India’s national government is focused on increasing governmental control of ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 01, 2012 12:42 pm Pam Grossman of the entrancing Phantasmaphile blog curated a group art show in Brooklyn of works inspired by magick and occult symbology. Above, Jesse Bransford's "Magic Square (Jupiter)," {2011, acrylic, ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 39.75" x 25.25"}. The exhibition, titled "Sigils & Signs," runs until June 17 at the Observatory. You can also ...
Read in browser Letting someone die for their faith: Moving essay by photojournalist who documented snake handler's death
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 12:33 pm Randy Wolford made the news this week. A pastor in a Christian sect that promotes holding and carrying venomous snakes as a way of expressing faith in God, Wolford died from a snake bite. Just like his father had. Lauren Pond, a photojournalist with the Washington Post, was at the church service when Wolford was ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 01, 2012 12:30 pm Profile pic Alex Kinyua, aka COREeye67, used for his "WARRIOR SYNDICATE RADIO (WSR-366)" podcast. Maryland resident Alexander Kinyua reportedly confessed to police that he killed his a man who lived with his family for months by cutting him up with a knife, then eating his heart and parts of his brain. Kinyua was "always in ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 01, 2012 12:28 pm Paralyzed rats were able to walk and run again through a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, and robotics-assisted rehabilitation. In the new issue of the journal Science, the researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne report that their technique spurred a regrowth of nerve fibers in the brain and spine. From ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 01, 2012 12:05 pm A professor at Sweden's Karolinska Institute is being held for reportedly cutting off his wife's lips and eating them, according to the Sidney Morning Herald. She was allegedly having an affair. From the Baltimore college student who allegedly ate his housemate's brain and heart to Miami's nude face-eater to Montreal's animal-torturing, human dismembering porn star, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 01, 2012 12:00 pm Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspects centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant. Reporting for the New York Times, David Sanger confirms what internet security researchers suspected all along: Stuxnet, the worm that targeted computers in Iran's central nuclear enrichment facilities, was a US/Israeli project and part of an expanded effort at cyberweaponry by the Obama administration. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 01, 2012 11:53 am Last week, the proprietor of Sue Warren Cleaning service tidied up Sherry Bush's home in Westlake, Ohio and left a bill for $75. Thing is, Bush never hired her. Warren broke into the home, cleaned it, and left. Interesting, albeit illegal, approach to marketing. From WKYC: When the Bushes read (the bill), they thought Sue ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 11:53 am The Goodness lavishly photo-documents a Minecraft-themed wedding: Matt and Asia are simply the most perfect couple ever. They met through their church (Matt said he fell for her watching her dance, awww) but they truly bonded over the game of Minecraft. They built a house together in the digital world and have been inseparable ever ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 11:50 am Anything that inspires a good angry rant in real life can be turned into a Downfall video. Getting a peer reviewed research paper through the aforementioned review process can be a stressful, rant-inducing experience. Remember, in order to be published, the paper is read by three (usually anonymous) reviewers who work in the same field ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 01, 2012 11:47 am Wired has instructions for making a simple broom/twine/blanket fort based on Buckminster Fuller's concept of tensegrity, "tensional integrity." Buckminster Fuller hand-painted designer toy - Boing Boing Biggest (in 1971) Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome for sale - Submit Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion hits the road - Boing Boing Sales-model of a Fuller geodesic home - Boing Boing
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 11:19 am About a month ago, Mike Martin published a profile in Psychology Today, all about Margie Profet, a controversial evolutionary biologist and McArthur fellow who had been missing since 2004. (I posted a link to his story here.) Now Martin says that Margie Profet has turned up—alive, if not totally physically well. His story led her ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 11:00 am I liked Chris Sumers's "Bottle Cap Blues," a well-edited and nicely shot comic short featuring all the different (and often dangerous) ways by which one might open a stubbourn beer bottle when caught without a church-key. This is a short film that I was a part of for Adam Young's solo Art Show at Common ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 10:17 am Florida governor Rick Scott has ordered a high-velocity purge of the state's voter-rolls, using secret criteria to target 180,000 Floridians and requiring them to prove their citizenship in 30 days or lose the right to vote. Democrats and activist groups claim that this violates federal laws. For 91-year-old WWII vet Bill Internicola, it's an insult. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 09:09 am In the New York Times, Lizette Alvarez reports on a "tsumani of fraud" in the form of tax-refund identity theft. Using only a very little information, crooks file tax returns in their victims' names (the IRS helpfully corrects any mistakes they make in the particulars), then collect the victims' tax refunds: The criminals, some of ...
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By Tom Chatfield on May 31, 2012 11:30 pm Photo: Ceridwen (cc) China Miéville is one of the most important writers working in Britain today. The author of ten novels of "weird fiction"—as well as short stories, comics, non-fiction, a roleplaying game, and academic writing on law and ideology—his 2011 science fiction novel Embassytown was acclaimed by Ursula K le Guin, among others, as ...
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By Avi Solomon on May 31, 2012 11:25 pm Isaac Kehimkar is an avid naturalist and the author of The Book of Indian Butterflies Isaac's photostream of Indian Butterflies is at Flickr. Avi Solomon: What early influences drew you to the study of nature? Isaac Kehimkar: I grew up in Deonar, a suburb of Mumbai. It was a time when black and white television ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 10:58 pm Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov builds miniature fantasy settings, designed to coax the ants he sets loose upon them to follow certain paths, bringing the scenes to life. Антрей (Thanks, Derryl!)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 09:22 pm Michael Geist has more detail on the fortunes of ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty that seems to be crash-landing in Europe, about which Rob posted earlier: Earlier today, three European Parliament committees studying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 08:17 pm Dug North sez, "The upcoming auction at Skinner features a macabre coin-operated mortuary scene automaton. When a coin is inserted, the doors open revealing four morticians and four poor souls on embalming tables. The morticians move as if busily at work and the mourners standing outside bob their heads as if sobbing in grief." Video ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 07:13 pm Arrêtez-moi quelqu'un! ("Someone stop me!") is a site where Quebeckers and their supporters around the world can post photos of themselves holding signs in which they state their intention to violate Special Law 78, which suspends the right to freedom of assembly in Quebec: "Nous nous engageons à continuer à lutter; à rester mobilisé·e·s, en ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 06:04 pm The caption writer on the Globe and Mail's "Celebrity Photos of the Week" department has some trenchant political fun with the feature. Opening with a picture of the mass demonstrations still rocking Quebec, the writer notes "Thousands of Quebec students march through Montreal to protest university tuition fee hikes. Oh wait. Sorry about that, English ...
Read in browser LAPD wants tapes of 1969 chats between Manson Family member and attorney
By David Pescovitz on May 31, 2012 05:49 pm Tapes of 1969 conversations between Charles Manson's right hand man Tex Watson and his attorney may give new insight into the Manson family murders. The recordings turned up as part of the late attorney's law firm's bankruptcy proceedings. Watson remains in prison, convicted of Tate/Labianca murders, and his current attorney is fighting against the tapes' ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 05:48 pm The judge presiding over the Google/Oracle suit has ruled that Google didn't infringe copyright by using the Java APIs, though he didn't rule on whether APIs themselves can be copyrighted.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 31, 2012 05:36 pm The Mysterious Mr. Hokum is a fascinating story about an enigmatic con-man—and the subtle cons that even the most skeptical tech-savvy marks fall for—told by documentarian and internet archivist Jason Scott. He died of a heart attack at his expensive, beautiful home outside of Indianapolis. He was well off, he was a beloved member of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 04:53 pm 3bute's comic has adapted Chris Kirkley's blog post about an MP3 street-market in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It's a fascinating look at the intersection of traditional developing-world counterfeit/bootleg markets and the digital world: The market itself is a labyrinthine of stalls, glass display cases filled with "fake" Nokia/Samsung cellphones, sporting two or three SIM cards, cameras, mp3 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 04:51 pm A quiet announcement from the Fedora Linux community signals a titanic shift in the way that the computer market will work from now on, and a major threat to free/open operating systems. Microsoft and several PC vendors have teamed up to ensure that only operating systems bearing Microsoft's cryptographic signature will be able to boot ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 31, 2012 03:44 pm Zak from Fight for the Future/Privacy is Awesome sez,: It's only days before the Senate votes on its version of CISPA, and the SECURE IT Act. The bill would open all your data up to the government, no matter how personal. Good bye privacy, hello police state. Since the vote is soon, anything we do ...
Read in browser Toddler kicked off plane after iPad deprivation tantrum
By Xeni Jardin on May 31, 2012 03:37 pm A family from Washington state had to cancel an island vacation when their flight was grounded after their 3-year-old son pitched a tantrum. The toddler had been quietly playing with an iPad while waiting for the plane to take off, the father said. When the iPad was taken away—you know how all electronics must be ...
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