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Paul Krugman on science fiction's relationship to economics Caturday How book publishing learned from music's digital mistake Canadian politician: My internet spying bill would help us catch serial killers like Luka Magnotta Austerity obliterates transparency: budget cuts mean cuts to Canada's Freedom of Information Austerity obliterates history: Canadian heritage docs no longer available through interlibrary loan Hard words for good spellers: the evil spelling test PENIS graffiti R2D2 USB drive cufflinks Car with a dead Christmas Tree on its roof HOWTO make a papercraft Enigma machine Gweek 053: Fitness for Geeks Income inequality can be seen from space 20-year-old bOING bOING T-shirt spotted in the wild Google image search for "European," "American," "African," "Asian" Prominent GOP spokesman says "Let's hurl some acid at those Florida zombies" Anarchist group targets scientists in terrorist attacks What's quantum physics got to do with biology? The Pirate Bay gift card And then there were three ... hard drive manufacturers Wired's first issue (1993) plus 12,000 word oral history of Wired as a free iPad app Responding to "cannibal fever," CDC denies existence of zombies Cannibal news: MMA fighter, high on 'shrooms, ate friend's still-beating heart Documentary about combat pigeons, starring 103-year-old pigeoneer Happy Jubilee, Ma'am Paul Krugman on science fiction's relationship to economics
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 12:55 pm In this long interview with Wired, Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman talks about the relationship between science fiction and economics. Krugman says he was inspired to pursue economics by Asimov's Foundation series (he's written the introduction to a forthcoming commemorative edition) and praises Charlie Stross for the economics work in The Family Trade books. Wired: In ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 02, 2012 12:02 pm A wonderful photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Ben Lepley, who explains that this is his cat Yoshimi Minski, "sleeping in the semi-mummy position."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 11:54 am Rob Reid writes in the WSJ, praising publishing for getting behind ebook publishing by licensing books for electronic formats, rather than boycotting e-readers, as the music industry boycotted MP3 players in its early days, and suggests that publishing may fare better than music because of it. I agree with Reid that publishing has generally handled ...
Read in browser Canadian politician: My internet spying bill would help us catch serial killers like Luka Magnotta
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 02, 2012 11:27 am The Toronto Sun today reports that "politicians and their aides in Ottawa have been shocked by the gruesome killing" attributed to Luka Magnotta. But not too shocked to exploit it for their own political gain! Buried in a story about how the missing accused serial killer will face charges of "Criminal harassment" for sending dead ...
Read in browser Austerity obliterates transparency: budget cuts mean cuts to Canada's Freedom of Information
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 10:53 am A reader writes, "Yet another voice calling attention to the ever narrowing access to information in Canada as the Harper Government repeatedly thumb their nose at the Canadian Access to Information Act." And the CBC's Meagan Fitzpatrick reports: Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault reported today that the federal government's budget cuts could jeopardize a "fragile" access ...
Read in browser Austerity obliterates history: Canadian heritage docs no longer available through interlibrary loan
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 09:53 am A reader writes, "Canadian heritage documents that used to be accessible through inter-library loan will be no longer accessible. If you want to access documents of Canada's history, be prepared to do some traveling, and even at that, those documents may no longer exist since standards of preservation may be compromised. This is of particular ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 09:20 am Teresa Neilsen Hayden's evil spelling test is back, with more "words that trip up good spellers, arranged in an order that's intended to increase their difficulty." The origin of the test was pragmatic rather than theoretical. I made it out of words and word combinations which I'd seen misspelled by good spellers. I've gradually come ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 01:10 am WE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO LEARN TO PROGRAM AND JUST LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 12:06 am I remain skeptical of high-priced novelty USB drives (because today's beautifully made, high-capacity USB drive is tomorrow's beautifully made, laughably low-capacity USB drive, and gadgets with close-in obsolescence horizons should be designed to degrade back into the materials stream, not to last for the ages), but I confess a frisson of desire for the forthcoming, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 02, 2012 12:03 am BB pal Eric Paulos snapped this photo today of a car in Pittsburgh. Yes, that's a (dead) Christmas Tree tied to the roof. Yes, this is June.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 01, 2012 11:00 pm Franklin Heath, a UK security consultancy, offers plans for printing and assembling your own papercraft Enigma machine, approximately like the ones that Alan Turing and the Polish cryptographers and co broke at Bletchley Park. Now all we need are papercraft bombes, and a papercraft Collosus, and several thousand papercraft young women to work on code ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 07:30 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. Every once in a while on Gweek, we take a break from talking about movies, science fiction, video games, and gadgets. This is one of those ...
Read in browser Income inequality can be seen from space
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 05:46 pm How? It's surprisingly simple. Turns out, demand for trees in neighborhoods behaves a lot like a luxury item, as opposed to a basic necessity. Tim De Chant at The Per Square Mile blog wrote about research on this a couple of weeks ago. Then, he went out and found examples, using images from Google Earth. ...
Read in browser 20-year-old bOING bOING T-shirt spotted in the wild
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 05:25 pm Our pal Joel Johnson of Animal New York snapped this photo of fellow staffer Jane-Claire Quigley wearing a 20-year-old bOING bOING T-shirt, lovingly "hung together with safety pins and shit" (as Joel put it). I'm wondering where the hell she got it.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 05:14 pm One of these is not like the other. (Via Twisted Sifter)
Read in browser Prominent GOP spokesman says "Let's hurl some acid at those Florida zombies"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 05:09 pm Oh wait, Jay Townsend said, "Let's hurl some acid at those female democratic senators." Never mind, just business as usual at the GOP, carry on.
Read in browser Anarchist group targets scientists in terrorist attacks
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 04:55 pm Last year, I told you about Individuals Tending Towards Savagery, a terrorist group that has mailed bombs to nanotechnology researchers in Mexico, Chile, France, and Spain. Their stated goal: Stop technological innovation. And they aren't alone. At Nature News Leigh Phillips reports on a group called the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation, which ...
Read in browser What's quantum physics got to do with biology?
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 01, 2012 04:34 pm Photosynthesis allows plants to convert light from the Sun into energy, and, in some cases, it does this incredibly well. In fact, certain bacteria can capture 95% of the light that hits them and turn it into useful energy. Solar panels also convert light from the Sun into energy—but they aren't nearly as good at ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 04:09 pm It's got a Cory quote, and he gets a 10% royalty on each card sold. (Via Twisted Sifter)
Read in browser And then there were three ... hard drive manufacturers
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 01, 2012 03:34 pm How three hard drive companies gobbled up the industry [Buzzfeed]
Read in browser Wired's first issue (1993) plus 12,000 word oral history of Wired as a free iPad app
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 03:26 pm I started working at Wired in 1993 (3rd issue), but I wrote a piece for the first issue (a review of Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown) so I'm excited that Wired is releasing the first issue for free as an iPad app along with a 12,000-word oral history and archival images from the original team behind ...
Read in browser Responding to "cannibal fever," CDC denies existence of zombies
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 01, 2012 03:21 pm "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," wrote the US government agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post.
Read in browser Cannibal news: MMA fighter, high on 'shrooms, ate friend's still-beating heart
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 01, 2012 03:12 pm A California judge has determined that a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter accused of killing his friend and sparring partner "by ripping his still-beating heart from his chest after gruesomely beating and torturing" him is mentally fit to stand trial. Prior to the attack, the two had consumed mushroom tea. There have been an awful ...
Read in browser Documentary about combat pigeons, starring 103-year-old pigeoneer
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 01, 2012 02:39 pm [Video Link] Col. Clifford Poutre - my new ShorDurPerSav. The film, The Pigeoneers, opens June 8. In this debut film, director Alessandro Croseri delivers a stunningly beautiful ode to combat pigeons and their pigeoneers. The documentary follows Col. Clifford Poutre at age 103 during the final year of his life and examines his innovations in ...
Read in browser Happy Jubilee, Ma'am
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 01, 2012 01:23 pm From Cyriak, of course. [Video Link]
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