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Peter "Brokep" Sunde, railroaded into Swedish prison by Big Content Just look at this banana cream pie ad. High-security first pet naming guidelines John Scalzi, profiled in the NYT Police Tape: an ACLU mobile app to secretly record the police Police recruitment videos from different cities reveal astonishing differences in attitude Weatherman predicts the end-times Junkbot insects from a metalworker in Afghanistan Credentialism is just as screwed up as corporatism Peter "Brokep" Sunde, railroaded into Swedish prison by Big Content
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 08, 2012 12:17 pm Peter "Brokep" Sunde was convicted in Sweden's notorious Pirate Bay trial, and now faces prison time and a multimillion-euro fine. As his imprisonment looms, he describes, in detail, the bizarre circumstances of his conviction, which started with an illegal raid ordered by the US trade representative, continued with an investigation led by a prosecutor who'd ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 08, 2012 09:04 am Just look at it. Contest entry - Pie
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 08:57 pm From the humor site NewsBiscuit, a brilliant set of security guidelines for naming your first pet, so that when your bank uses "what was the name of your first pet," in order to verify your identity, you will be safe. Banks are now advising parents to think carefully before naming their child's first pet. For ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 07:53 pm John Schwartz wrote a great profile of John Scalzi in the NYT, in honor of his latest book, the absolutely cracking Redshirts, an existentialist comedy space-opera. The novel, Mr. Scalzi's eighth, is something of a hit, especially for a work of science fiction without light sabers — or any of the accouterments of big-brand series. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 07:00 pm Police Tape is an Android app from the American Civil Liberties Union that is designed to allow citizens to covertly record the police. When activated, it hides itself from casual inspection, and it has a mode that causes it to send its recording to an ACLU-operated server, protecting against police seizure and deletion. Citizens can ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 07, 2012 06:31 pm Police recruitment videos from Decatur, Georgia (top), and Newport Beach, California (Bottom). I wonder if the differences in attitude here reflect real differences in the quality of police service. Two Videos, Two Cities, Two Attitudes
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 05:54 pm Here's a weather report for the apocalypse: "On WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, VA, weatherman Aaron Justus provides the last weather forecast you'll ever need." Hot Weather in Richmond this Weekend (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 04:20 pm Noah sez, "I thought you would appreciate these giant insects made from repurposed materials (including vehicle parts and bits of a blown up toolbox) by metalworker Ben Marcacci, who is currently at Camp Dwyer in Afghanistan." Noah is correct. I started making these types of piece's when I relocated to Camp dwyer (Aug 2011), I ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 07, 2012 02:50 pm "Death by Degrees," a thoughtful piece in N+1, compares the inherent injustice in a system rigged to produce unequal wealth distributions to the injustice in a system that demands expensive, time-consuming higher education in order to access professional and political life. The authors present this as a blind spot for the left, who criticize poor ...
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