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EFF Pioneer Award nominations are open Short comic about the life of a female pirate PoV documentary on underground bike-messenger racing eBook review: the Renewal Excerpt from Rapture of the Nerds, Charlie Stross's and my comic novel of the Singularity Hollywood's secret, aggressive copyright lobbying campaign in Canada Why the ebook you want isn't for sale in your country UK economic crisis ends, Tories celebrate by committing £1.8B to spying What happened with the salty slug-maze Selling zip guns to cops for $300 apiece Photo released of Ray, the "forest boy" of Germany Todd Lappin's Instagram tips UK-wide workshops on how to talk to your MP about Internet spying and censorship Tories divided over UK spying bill, Home Secretary dismisses critics as "conspiracy theorists" who want to protect freedom for "criminals, terrorists and paedophiles" PGP founder creates secure voice mobile app, bets people will pay for privacy Smart people are especially prone to stupid mistakes Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship Real-life Portal adventure Fun with trains NSA whistleblower to keynote HOPE hacker conference in NYC Meritocracies become oligarchies Solving this maze might be a bit of a stretch Corporations are people, Sarah Guthrie paints their portraits Salt-maze kills the stupid slugs, rewards the clever TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Passive Aggressor Enters His CITADEL OF SOLITUDE! EFF Pioneer Award nominations are open
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 12:52 pm Nominations are open for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Pioneer Awards, which are given out "to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology." The nominations are open to the general public until August 6. What does it take to be a Pioneer? There are ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 14, 2012 12:46 pm Back when I worked at mental_floss magazine, I wrote up a short article on the life of Cheng I Sao, a 19th-century Chinese woman who rose from prostitution to became one of the most successful pirates of all time, commanding a fleet of thousands. It's a great tale, though I'd almost forgotten about it until ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 12:13 pm Here's a trailer for "Line of Sight," a documentary on underground bike-messenger racing that uses helmetcams to capture some pretty insane (and often terrifying) examples of cycling skill: Line Of Sight is a rare view into underground bicycle messenger racing which has become a global phenomenon. For over a decade Lucas Brunelle has been riding ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 14, 2012 11:19 am The Renewal by JF Perkins is a post-apocolyptic tale of rebuilding American society. It is intentionally short and sets the stage for future installments. I was interested enough that I'll be reading the second. China and the U.S. apparently let the nukes fly and absolutely nothing good comes of it; society has collapsed. 30-40 years ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 10:42 am Suicide Girls has published an excerpt from Rapture of the Nerds, the novel Charlie Stross and I wrote, which will come out in September. Charlie and I will be touring the book together briefly after Labor Day. The details are still being settled, but there's going to be some very exciting stops! Rapture is the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 10:29 am Michael Geist sez, Over the past few years, the Motion Picture Association - Canada, the Canadian arm of the MPAA, has recorded nearly 100 meetings with government ministers, MPs, and senior officials. While their lobbying effort will not come as a surprise, last October there were several meetings that fell outside the norm. On October ...
Read in browser Why the ebook you want isn't for sale in your country
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 09:53 am Tor Books' senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden takes to the comments of John Scalzi's Whatever to explain why ebooks are often not available at all places in the world at the same time. It's a combination of the way that publishers feel about e-rights (publishers who acquire print rights almost always demand e-rights, too), the ...
Read in browser UK economic crisis ends, Tories celebrate by committing £1.8B to spying
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 09:13 am The pricetag for the UK "snooper's charter" -- a comprehensive warrantless spying proposal from the government -- is in: "at least £1.8 billion." This is how the coalition fight crime, even as thousands of police take to the streets to protest cuts in front line patrols, and even as private companies are taking over "policing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 09:03 am In case you're wondering what happened with the salt-maze that killed stupid slugs and rewarded the clever with jam, here is an update. So my friend HAD a problem with slugs. I think he did it right. (imgur.com)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 14, 2012 09:00 am From Wikipedia, Tom Sachs entry: Many works from the show conflated fashion and violence, as with HG (Hermés Hand Grenade) (1995) and Tiffany Glock (Model 19) (1995), both of which were models made with Hermes or Tiffany packaging. Although these sculptures were non-functional, another piece - Hecho in Switzerland (1995) - was an actual working ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 14, 2012 07:05 am Last year, this young fellow showed up at Berlin's City Hall and said that he's been living the forest for the last five years with his dad who died last summer. He claims not to know anything about himself beyond his birthday (June 20, 1994) and that his name is Ray. He speaks English and ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 14, 2012 07:00 am Mark F and I really dig the photos that our pal Todd Lappin posts to Instagram under his telstarlogistics account. His shots always have a wonderful hyperreal quality that is just subtle enough not to push them into the realm of over-filtered kitsch. We asked Todd how he does it and he says: I usually ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 06:41 am As the UK government ramps up to pass the snooper's charter -- a sweeping, unaccountable regime of tax-funded, warrantless snooping on all online activity -- the Open Rights Group is offering workshops across the country on how to talk to your MP about this proposal. Workshops are coming up in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 14, 2012 06:35 am The UK Conservative party is embroiled in a public internal squabble as its libertarian wing contemplates the "snoopers' charter," a proposed warrantless Internet spying bill that will require ISPs to store fantastic amounts of your online activity and make it accessible to police and government without a warrant, at a cost of billions of pounds ...
Read in browser PGP founder creates secure voice mobile app, bets people will pay for privacy
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 10:00 pm PGP creator Phil Zimmerman has launched Silent Circle, an encrypted phone-call app for Android and iOS. The service will likely cost $20/month, for which Zimmerman does not apologize: "This is not Facebook. Our customers are customers. They're not products. They're not part of the inventory" (from CNet). Silent Circle's planned debut comes amid recent polls ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 08:44 pm Jonah Lehrer takes to The New Yorker to discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow, the latest book from Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who's won the Nobel prize in economics. Lehrer discusses Kahneman's contention that smart people are no less prone to cognitive bias than anyone else, but are prone to believing that they are immune to ...
Read in browser Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 08:00 pm XML creator Tim Bray has proposed a new HTTP error code: 451, "Legally restricted." The idea is to create an unambiguous code that ISPs can return when a user requests a page that has been censored by a court or government. Note the specific number of the error code. Bray thanks Ray Bradbury in the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 07:00 pm Jason Craft is very good at special effects. As proof, I offer this homebrew Portal video, in which Craft and friends animate an excellent (and rather comical) Portal adventure. I was amazed to discover that the gun itself is also animated. My interpretation of what a real POrtal gun would be like if one existed. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 13, 2012 06:37 pm For those of us who saw Mark's post on the train simulator game and thought, "Man, I want that," here's a couple more bits of train-related goodness. First, back in February, I rode Amtrak's Empire Builder from Seattle to Minneapolis and did my best to live-tweet the whole, multi-day adventure. It's an amazing route, full ...
Read in browser NSA whistleblower to keynote HOPE hacker conference in NYC
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 05:54 pm 2600 Magazine's Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "Our second keynote speaker at this year's HOPE conference is someone who has been deep inside the National Security Agency. Former analyst William Binney became aware of an increased tendency at the massive center of surveillance to focus their attention on American citizens, something the NSA was never supposed to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 05:00 pm In The Nation, Christopher Hayes has a brilliant article on the way that "meritocracy" inevitably turns into oligarchy, and what that means for our society today. Hayes's account of the transition from meritocracy to oligarchy isn't just about self-delusion ("I am on top, and I am superior, therefore we live in a meritocracy") but also ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 03:08 pm By Drimble at B3TA via Pineapplecharm at Reddit.
Read in browser Corporations are people, Sarah Guthrie paints their portraits
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 02:49 pm Scott Edelman sez, "Artist Sarah Guthrie (whose work I discovered at the Crystal City, VA art installation Artomatic) believes that since Citizens United grants corporations the same legal status as human beings, they's surely want their own portraits. And so she has painted AT&T, Mattel, General Mills and other corporations in the style of the ...
Read in browser Salt-maze kills the stupid slugs, rewards the clever
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 01:49 pm A person on the Internet is combatting a nasty slug problem with a nastier slug-maze, which promises a fiery death for slugs who stray from the true course, but rewards the cleverest slugs with all the jam they can eat. Let the selective breeding begin! Soon this person will have sentient, maze-solving MENSAslugs who'll be ...
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