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Ask Neal Stephenson anything WobbleWorks: animatronic dinosaurs and animated floppy-ear hats Powerful EU committee rejects ACTA - now it's unanimous DMZ is finished: Brian Wood nailed the ending Tor anonymity developers tell all G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces Jackhammer Jill, Ape Lad style Scout: get notified every time Congress proposes legislation with keywords you care about Test, Learn, Adapt: using randomized trials to improve government policy LN2-frozen cocktail popsicles -- the cocksicle! The Silver Cord, by Kevin Kelly and others What paper means in prison Canine gelato Lead Breakfast (and how Pogo makes 'em) Cover for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother Woman glued to Walmart toilet Daydream Vacation- "Dare Seize the Fire" (MP3) Bacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf Adidas pulls "shackle shoe" design Portal's Chell in the style of Norman Rockwell Kids eating carrots on sticks, 1941 How stupid is Charles Carreon's lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid Watercolor animation of Blade Runner Author claims knowing the secrets to magic tricks actually deepens the mystery The only good abortion is my abortion Ask Neal Stephenson anything
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 12:34 pm Neal Stephenson's doing an AMA on Reddit right now. (Thanks, Steve!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 12:00 pm Engadget's Brian Heater visited the WobbleWorks folks at the Somerville, Mass. hackerspace, where animatronic dinosaurs and rabbit-ear hats are the order of the day. The WobbleWorkers sound like they have a hell of a time. Dilworth flips three switches on the robo-dino's neck, firing it up. It looks around quizzically at first before its creator, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 09:27 am A fifth and final EU committee has reported unfavourably on ACTA, the controversial, secretly negotiated, far-reaching copyright treaty. The damning move came from the committee for International Trade, seen as the most important of the committees considering ACTA. Now that it has reported in, the verdict is unanimous: every expert committee in the EU has ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 08:39 am After six years and 72 issues, Brian Wood has finally finished his epic graphic novel DMZ, and the final issues are collected in a collection, entitled The Five Nations of New York. There is practically nothing I can tell you about this installment that isn't a spoiler. So, without going into detail, let me say ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 05:50 am Runa from the Tor anonymity project sez, "Karen and I will be answering questions on Reddit today. Feel free to ask us anything you'd like relating to Tor and the Tor Project!"
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 21, 2012 12:09 am G4S, the scandal-haunted private security firm, is one of the world's largest companies, with 657,000 staff. It's about to get bigger, according to G4S's UK/Africa chief David Taylor-Smith, who predicts that the UK's police forces will begin to privatize, turning duties over from public employees (who are, theoretically, accountable to the public) to private mercenaries ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 11:10 pm Our dear pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford has done us the honor of adapting Jackhammer Jill as a Twitter avatar, in his characteristic style, and plunking the result in the Boing Boing Flickr pool. bOINGbOING's Jackhammer Jill Avatar
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 10:06 pm Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, It is nearly impossible to follow all the activity in state and federal laws, regulations and speeches in Congress without a significant policy team or an army of lobbyists. Now you can. For free. The Sunlight Foundation's new tool called Scout allows you to create customized keyword alerts to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 08:51 pm "Test, Learn, Adapt" is a new white paper documenting the ultimate in evidence-based-policy: government policies that are improved through randomized trials. It's co-authored by Laura Haynes, Owain Service, Ben Goldacre and David Torgerson. Ben Goldacre elaborates: We also address – and demolish – the spurious objections that people often raise against doing trials of policy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 08:18 pm Karen sez, "Instructables user kazmataz has figured out how to freeze alcohol using liquid nitrogen, and made her own cocktail popsicles." CAREFULLY pour your liquid nitrogen into the container, making sure to not hit the top of your pops. You want enough LN2 to go about halfway up your pop molds. While that's continuing to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 20, 2012 08:09 pm My friend Kevin Kelly is senior maverick at Wired, editor of Cool Tools, co-founder of Quantified Self, and author of many books. He has been working with some colleagues for the last 8 years on a graphic novel called The Silver Cord. He sent me a hard copy, and it's terrific. It's available free to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 20, 2012 07:32 pm "The vast majority of altered paper is harmless. Some officials tend to look the other way when toilet paper is crafted into chess pieces (using an age-old prison paper mâchè recipe of toilet paper and water: wetted, molded, dried and wetted again). But where a rook and a knight have an innocuous purpose, the same ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 20, 2012 07:26 pm Italian dogs may now avail themselves of cool, refreshing gelato. [AP]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 20, 2012 07:13 pm From Pogo, of Alice fame. [Video Link] Update: Pogo has a howto explaining his methods, so you can learn to make your own mashups! [via Waxy]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 07:13 pm Click for the huge, full version I recently turned in the manuscript for Homeland, the sequel to my 2008 YA novel Little Brother. Tor's going to be bringing it out next February, 2013. I've got two more books coming in the meantime: Rapture of the Nerds (with Charlie Stross) and Pirate Cinema (a YA novel). ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 07:02 pm Police are investigating a Monticello, Kentucky Walmart after a woman used the restroom there and found herself Super Glued to the toilet seat. The same thing happened in a Maryland Walmart just prior to April Fool's Day. Regarding the latest case, Monticello Police Department Chief Ralph Miniard told WCPO, "We're looking at it. Right now, ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jun 20, 2012 06:29 pm Sound it Out # 28: Daydream Vacation- "Dare Seize the Fire"I'm pretty sure Dave Einmo is some kind of pop music savant. He has a band called Head Like a Kite in which he's the only consistent member and where he combines movie samples with rock-leaning electronic grooves and often has interesting guests join in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 05:46 pm Paolo Bacigalupi (whose books have been reviewed here in the past) writes in Wired about the way that cyberpunk saved science fiction: For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were ...
Read in browser Adidas pulls "shackle shoe" design
By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 05:29 pm Adidas has decided not to sell this particular shoe design after a photo of it on their Facebook page generated quite a negative response. "The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive," the Rev. Jesse ...
Read in browser Portal's Chell in the style of Norman Rockwell
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 05:11 pm Jesse Rubenfeld's aptly named painting "This Was a Triumph" is a handsome, Norman Rockwell inspired version of Chell from the game Portal: "Based on Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter cover for the Saturday Evening Post. Featuring Chell from Valve's Portal video games. Also starring GLaDOS and Wheatley and the weighted companion cube." This Was a ...
Read in browser Kids eating carrots on sticks, 1941
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 03:39 pm Would you look at these adorable BritishWWII urchins enjoying their wartime carrot-on-a-stick in these stills from a 1941 Pathe newsreel? CARROTS ON STICKS, 1941
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 20, 2012 03:25 pm Regular readers of Boing Boing will know that Charles Carreon is a lawyer hired by the humor-aggregating website FunnyJunk to send a letter to the webcomic The Oatmeal, demanding $20,000 and threatening a defamation suit (over The Oatmeal's year-old post about FunnyJunk's unauthorized use of his comics, and their bad behavior when this was pointed ...
Read in browser Watercolor animation of Blade Runner
By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 03:20 pm Swedish artist Anders Ramsell animated 3,285 watercolor paintings to recreate this sequence from Blade Runner. "Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition, Part 1 (Teaser)"
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 20, 2012 02:49 pm Alex Stone is the author of a new book called "Fooling Houdini," about magic, psychology, and perception, in which he reveals how many illusions are achieved. In fact, last week in the Wall Street Journal he explained how to steal a watch. Of course, this flies in the face of the traditional magician's code of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 20, 2012 02:28 pm As I write this, it is 1:17 am on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012. I am lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion. Of course, we don't call it an abortion. We call it "a procedure" or a D&C. See, my potential abortion is one of the good abortions. ...
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