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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 12:03 pm Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has launched a signature drive to get the UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, to intervene to stop the extradition to the USA of Richard O'Dwyer, who created the TVShack website. TVShack had links to places from which users could download TV shows, and was legal under UK law. The US entertainment ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 11:17 am Nate Phelps, the 6th of 13 of Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps's kids, took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything Q&A. Nate escaped his father's notorious, hateful "church" when he was 18. As you'll see from the interview, the Phelps household was a microcosm of Fred's hateful, loony doctrine -- a place of grotesque ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 10:00 am Are you in Knoxville? Do you want to own a hybrid vehicle? Craigslist's pjbxr-3091802234 has the answer: for sale 1962 international truckcar, has every optional that a car could have ,has frontwheel drive driveline disk brakes all around , has air bags that are in working order has oldsmobile dash with tilt cruise , power ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2012 09:09 am Much-loved Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry delivered the convocation speech to graduates at Ryerson University in Toronto, in the form of a fairy-tale based on A Christmas Carol, by way of a critique of the Canadian swing to a neoconservative right, where social spending exists only to promote "moochers" and society is a fight between bad ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2012 09:00 pm SE Peeze Binkhorst sez, "100 years ago today, Alan Turing was born. To celebrate, I wrote a Universal Turing Machine in 100 Punchcards. I've uploaded a video to explain a small part of the read head (the Jacquard). One needle is shown out of a total of 28. The needle and anything else in the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2012 06:22 pm Here's 13 minutes' worth of the old (rather dreadful) Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, overdubbed with plausibly banal and profane dialog from a group of RPG players whose campaign the cartoon depicts. It's pretty danged funny in places, though 13 minutes is a bit much for the one-note joke. Dadtucks (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 23, 2012 05:39 pm [Video Link] Tarheel Slim's "Number 9 Train" (1958) is so great it makes a spinning record fun to watch.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2012 03:54 pm Here's the Alan Turing statue in Manchester, decorated with pride for the centenary, taken by Josh R with Jonnie B. Happy birthday Alan Turing (via Nelson)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 23, 2012 03:33 pm I've been live-tweeting today from the Aspen Environmental Forums. But in a session this morning, I noticed that my friend Rachel Weidinger—director for the ocean advocacy group Upwell—had a far niftier way of taking notes and communicating what she was learning. While I opened up my iPad, Rachel opened up a full set of watercolor ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2012 03:00 pm Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart, a Bush appointee, was questioned by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) in a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. Polis asks Leonhart about the relative harms arising from prescription painkillers, marijuana, heroin, and crystal meth. She is incapable of distinguishing between them, and stonewalls on questions regarding whether some substances are more addictive ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 23, 2012 01:51 pm [Video Link] Last month I found myself in Palo Alto in need of an espresso. Yelp directed me to a place called ZombieRunner, which turned out to be a running shoe store with a zombie-themed espresso bar. The espresso turned out to be excellent, as did the selection of books, all of which were about ...
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