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By David Pescovitz on Jul 05, 2012 12:58 pm San Diego's big fireworks display suffered a technical glitch causing all of the pyrotechnics to go off all at once. Ooops. From ABC News: Garden State Fireworks, the firm hired by the city to produce the show, acknowledged the mistake. "We will be working throughout the night to determine what technical problem caused the entire ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 12:49 pm "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" is a play written by Peter Weiss, whose conceit is that a group of inmates in a post-revolutionary French insane asylum are talked into acting out a subversive denunciation of ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 05, 2012 12:23 pm Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 05, 2012 12:11 pm In North Carolina, a legislator accidentally pushed the wrong button on her vote-making machine and now the state will be open to fracking operations. Even though Rep. Becky Carney realized she'd hit the wrong button almost immediately, she was not allowed to change her crucial, outcome-changing vote. Suddenly, I feel a bit better about my ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 05, 2012 12:03 pm In light of recent images released by CERN, reader Snark^ reports that the Higgs Boson particle has been given a new nickname by Redditors. Behold: The FSM Particle. RAMEN! On the off chance that you did not spend the 4th of July glued to your computer, you should be aware by now that the Higgs ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 05, 2012 11:53 am Longtime readers will remember my morbid affection for Scutigera coleoptrata—aka, the house centipede—a species of oddly adorable, 30-legged, mostly harmless arthropods that frequently set up housekeeping in bathrooms and basements*. Originally native to the Mediterranean, they now live ... everywhere. (And please, feel free to imagine these buggers speaking in comic, stereotypical Italiano-Greek accents from ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 05, 2012 11:51 am Marco Arment reports a serious problem in the AppStore: corrupt updates crashing every time at launch, affecting many recently-updated apps: "If you're a developer, and you have a non-critical update pending release, I suggest waiting a few days for this to presumably get sorted out before releasing it."
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 05, 2012 11:41 am It appears where retail giants fail, public libraries succeed. McAllen, Texas converted a 124,500 sqft "big box" into the largest single floor library in the US. The LA Times reports: McAllen is near the southernmost tip of Texas, on the Mexico border. "In a city like McAllen, with cartel violence across the river (less than ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 10:40 am The next SF in SF reading series on July 7 is a punk-rock extravaganza: John Shirley and Richard Kadrey, the guys who put the "punk" in cyberpunk, reading together. Kadrey, of course, has reinvented himself as a totally hard-boiled, awesome horror writer with his triumphant Sandman Slim series (I've just read a proof of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 10:11 am Juggling happy mutant conjurer Mat Ricardo is throwing his last "London Varieties" show of 2012. He writes: What started as an odd little idea I wanted to try has, over the course of the last 6 months, become a bit of a bona-fide hit, and this jaded old circus monkey couldn't be happier! It's the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 05, 2012 09:00 am Remember lovable old Andy Griffith, beloved star of music and TV, who died this week? Turns out that his career involved 46-second appearance in a Ron Howard-directed Barack Obama campaign ad, and a 32-second commercial for universal health care. For this, the online right wing have branded him a communist and figuratively danced upon his ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 05, 2012 08:35 am WikiLeaks reports having received 2.5m emails from Syrian government officials, which it began releasing Thursday night. Founder Julian Assange: "The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria's opponents." The database comprises 2,434,899 emails from the 680 domains. There are 678,752 different email addresses that have sent emails and 1,082,447 different ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 11:00 pm Dana Cooper writes on behalf of They Might Be Giants: "They Might Be Giants is calling on fans across the globe to help create a music video for their new, bonus extended version of 'Alphabet of Nations,' and you can be part of the action! The band has asked fans from various countries to snap ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 09:23 pm Tom Greto, a Redditor's young cousin, performs a quite wonderful rendition of the Trololo song. What a treat! So I was browsing my cousin's YouTube videos when suddenly... (youtube.com)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 07:48 pm Sue sez, "If the LibraryCamp Crowdfunder pitch reaches its target, library workers from across the UK be heading to Birmingham in October to attend LibraryCamp 2012 (think Barcamp). The volunteer organisers decided to set up their own DIY conference last year because traditional conferences were too expensive and often staff on the frontline weren't allowed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 07:21 pm Rob posted earlier about a EU high court ruling that upholds the right of people who buy downloadable games to resell them. Many people will point out that this makes it much harder to pursue certain game-distribution business models. This is true, but so what? There are lots of business models that might thrive if ...
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By Teresa Larraz Mora and Sarah White on Jul 04, 2012 05:51 pm A medieval text stolen from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in northwest Spain last year was found in a nearby garage on Wednesday, after police arrested a handyman - fired after 25 years at the cathedral - and three members of his family. The Codex Calixtinus, a 12th century collection of sermons and liturgical passages, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 05:42 pm My latest Locus colum, "Music: The Internet's Original Sin," asks why music copyright is such a hot potato on the Internet, even in the post-DRM age, when most tunes are $0.99 on Amazon in MP3. The short answer: music's ancient compact is not entirely compatible with contemporary commerce, and the industry has tried to "fix" ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 05:14 pm I often get asked by people involved in startups whether they should be patenting the stuff they're working on. Many times they recognize their core idea isn't really patentable -- it's obvious, it's trivial, or it's been done before -- but their investors tell them that they can probably sneak it past the USPTO's overbusy ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 04:41 pm [YouTube link]. Stay with it for the elegant finale. From shironekoshiro's channel, which is basically full of videos exactly like this: inexplicably calm cats, putting up with stuff being put upon them. The blog is pretty great, too. You're welcome.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 04, 2012 04:38 pm Click here to play this episode. Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 57 are: Glenn Fleishman, a long-time tech reporter, a hacky perl programmer, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 04:32 pm At the Atlantic, Ross Andersen speaks with Michael Mischna at JPL about Curiosity, "The Robot of the Future That's About to Explore the Deep Past of Mars."
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 04:27 pm "For the second time in a month, scientists have announced that a simple blood test, rather than more invasive tests such as amniocentesis, can determine a fetus's genetic make-up, identifying mutations causing any of about 3,000 inherited disorders that arise from a glitch in a single gene, such as cystic fibrosis." (Reuters)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 04:24 pm Oscar Pistorius is on track to become the first double amputee runner at the Olympic Games after being picked by South Africa for London 2012. (thanks, Antinous)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 03:48 pm From Wired comes David Wolman's indispensable piece on master counterfeiter Hans-Jürgen Kuhl, a printmaker, artist and rounder who forged millions in flawless US $100 bills, only to have the boodle nabbed in a sting before even one of his Franklins could circulate. Kuhl combined mechanical printmaking talent with an artist's eye and an obsessive commitment ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 03:25 pm [Video Link] Compiled by WorldWideInterweb (via OneCoolThingADay).
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 04, 2012 03:09 pm "Ronald Reagan Riding a Velociraptor," by *SharpWriter on DeviantArt. You can buy prints of this image, and other awesomely weird works by SharpWriter, at his Etsy store. FDR Transformer, Teddy Roosevelt Vs. Bigfoot, Abe Lincoln Riding a Grizzly, John F. Kennedy Alien Hunter on a Unicorn, George Washington Zombie Hunter—hoo-wee, there's a lot to love. ...
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By LibraryLab on Jul 04, 2012 03:06 pm UC Santa Cruz launched the Grateful Dead Archive Online last Friday with tens of thousands of items. But it wouldn't be a Grateful Dead archive if all you could do was look at stuff, so you can also: • Add your own photos and stories - you can even tell us a story over voicemail. ...
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By Dean Putney on Jul 04, 2012 03:02 pm Unicorn Mountain is a collective of Pittsburgh artists that publishes anthologies of local art, comics, music and literature. Their third anthology, The Black Forest, takes a different tack from their previous collections by exploring much darker, stranger themes. My friend Tara Helfer did the layout and supplementary illustrations for The Black Forest and sent me a copy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 03:00 pm Kim Dotcom, proprietor of the legally embroiled file-locker service MegaUpload, says that Joe Biden personally ordered the illegal raid on his business and his house in New Zealand. Biden's an old pal of Chris Dodd, the former senator who now runs the MPAA, and a TorrentFreak investigation shows that Biden met with Dodd and the ...
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