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All the news that's fit to print Will Eisner's 1968 M16 rifle manual HOWTO make cheap Louboutin knockoffs Olympic missiles on your roof, whether you want 'em or not SOPA IS BACK: Lamar Smith trying to quietly revive SOPA and cram it down the world's throats Gweek 059: The $8 Billion iPod Amanda Palmer's awesome stop-motion music video [NSFW] AT&T sued phone hacking victim for $1.15m Alleged burglar tangled in window blinds Silicon Valley reality TV show "offensive" Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses: Wacky Packages meets AdBusters Camp Carreon's new strategy: rape puns! Scientists: Batman would plunge to doom A very British patent ruling Russian Wikipedia blacks out over censorship plan Basebrawl Porno-copyright trolls named in RICO class action suit Flying robot makes 3D map of building's interior Oatmeal Spells F U in Money Shots Vacuum tube skulls "Queen of Clown Porn" Hollie Stevens, 30, dies of breast cancer Self-published automation book is out, at a researched price Chiffon pie that doesn't look right Judge Judy fight spills out of "court" NYT series on genetically-targeted cancer treatments Nicki Minaj, discussing sexism in the music industry while applying eyeliner (video) How the record industry killed legal P2P, created a generation of pirates, and laughed all the way to the graveyard X-Wing fighter in beard Thunder sends baseball players running Stop motion music video uses hundreds of strangers holding up a tablet on the streets of Sydney All the news that's fit to print
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 10, 2012 12:37 pm FYI: Wild hawks are doin' it in New York City.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 12:00 pm How to Be a Retronaut has a complete scanned copy of The M16A1 Rifle Operation and Preventative Maintenance, a US Army manual created by Will Eisner in 1968. The M16A1 Rifle Operation and Preventative Maintenance
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 11:36 am British women are painting their shoe soles bright red to replicate that expensive Louboutin look. For your own Beckhampunk effort, use Duracoat 'Flame' or 'Show Stopper' and a size 4 brush. [Telegraph]
Read in browser Olympic missiles on your roof, whether you want 'em or not
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 11:29 am Hey, guess what? If you live in the UK and the army wants to put surface-to-air missiles on your roof, you don't get a say in it.
Read in browser SOPA IS BACK: Lamar Smith trying to quietly revive SOPA and cram it down the world's throats
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 11:19 am It's not just ACTA that is being snuck back into law through undemocratic means. Lamar Smith, the powerful committee chairman and corporatist archvillain who tried to ram through SOPA last year is now bent on reviving his slain monster and unleash it upon the earth. The new bill, the Intellectual Property Attache Act, will create ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 10, 2012 11:00 am Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for this episode are: Kevin Kelly, senior maverick at Wired, editor of Cool Tools, co-founder of Quantified Self, co-creator of The Silver Cord, and ...
Read in browser Amanda Palmer's awesome stop-motion music video [NSFW]
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 10:54 am Amanda Palmer's just posted her latest video for a new song called "Want it Back," and it's a fabulous piece of stop-motion animation in which the lyrics are calligraphed across Palmer's body, sheets, companions, books, and some nearby graffiti walls in Melbourne. The inking here is nothing short of inspired. Palmer provides extensive notes on ...
Read in browser AT&T sued phone hacking victim for $1.15m
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 10:13 am Michael Smith's phone bill is usually $700. In 2009, criminals hacked the Ipswitch, Mass. man's business phone and racked up $891,470 in calls to Somalia. Julie Manganis of The Salem News reports that AT&T—which isn't even his service provider, just a hop in the international call chain--sued him for $1.15m over fraudulent charges it admits ...
Read in browser Alleged burglar tangled in window blinds
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 09:34 am Albuquerque's KRQE reports that a burglar found himself unable to leave the scene of a crime: "Thomas Molina, 38, is charged with burglary and breaking and entering. APD says they got a call about someone trying to break in at CNM on Sunday. When they arrived they say Molina tried to get away but got ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 09:20 am Some folks in Silicon Valley are unhappy about a reality TV show that "captures the raucous reality of the tech industry," reports David Streitfeld for the NYT: The series, which is now being filmed and is scheduled to be broadcast this winter, shows hard-partying youngsters vying to start companies in a frenzy reminiscent of the ...
Read in browser Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses: Wacky Packages meets AdBusters
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 09:00 am Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses is an inspired collection of stickers from one of the world's most iconic sticker artists. Ron English designed the iconic Ronald McDonald parody for Super-Size Me, and has built his reputation on grotesque, trenchant, and funny graphic attacks on corporate logos and marketing. The book opens with English's reminiscence of ...
Read in browser Camp Carreon's new strategy: rape puns!
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 08:47 am The longer it goes on, the stranger it gets. Here's Nate Anderson at Ars Technica on the latest stunt. Camp Carreon isn't done with [The Oatmeal's Matthew] Inman yet—a new video depicts the cartoonist as a "Psycho Santa," while a new website suggests that Carreon might like to pursue litigation against those who engaged in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 08:34 am Michael Holden writes: "The crime-fighting caped crusader could fly, but if he did, he would smash into the ground and probably die, a group of British physics students have calculated."
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 08:30 am In a win for Samsung, a British judge dismissed Apple's claims of patent infringement over similarities between the two companies' products: "The Galaxy tablets do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design," Justice Birss said. "They are not as cool." [via Daring Fireball]
Read in browser Russian Wikipedia blacks out over censorship plan
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 01:41 am People visiting the Russian-language Wikipedia today will find it blacked out, in protest of a proposed far-reaching Internet blacklist plan in Russia. Similar measures were used in the Italian Wikipedia to protest an Italian Internet censorship law, and in the English Wikipedia to protest SOPA/PIPA. The Russian proposal, Bill 89417-6, will establish a national censorwall ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 11:32 pm Angry dads flail uselessly at one another for a while at a little league game in Georgia, earning themselves citations for disorderly conduct.
Read in browser Porno-copyright trolls named in RICO class action suit
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 11:00 pm A group of notorious copyright trolls from the pornography industry are the defendants in a new class action suit that alleges that they have violated the RICO Act (the law regarding organized crime syndicates), as well as "fraud, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and unjust enrichment." The trolls are pornography companies that accuse people ...
Read in browser Flying robot makes 3D map of building's interior
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 09, 2012 10:44 pm [Video Link]The video is from 2010, but the flying robot that stars in it makes the same kind of 3D map of a building's interior that the drones in Prometheus make.
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jul 09, 2012 09:21 pm I am kneeling on a sun-dappled hardwood floor with stacks of $20 bills in $2,000 bundles in each hand helping to spell out the word "douchebaggery," and thinking: $220,000 just doesn't seem like that much money. I found myself in this position after asking Matthew Inman, the artist behind the cartoon and business The Oatmeal, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 09:15 pm Noah Scalin's bonus skulls on his skull-a-day site, made from two- and three-inch vacuum tubes, are tremendous: "Most of the ones I own have this extra bump at the top so I decided to try leaving it unpainted giving you a peek inside and making them have a bit of an alien/robot feel." [BONUS] 399/400. ...
Read in browser "Queen of Clown Porn" Hollie Stevens, 30, dies of breast cancer
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 09, 2012 09:09 pm Image: Hollie Stevens, via Flickr. The alt-adult performer known as Hollie Stevens (Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Wikipedia, MySpace) has died of breast cancer. In addition to her work in indie pornography (including "clown porn", NSFW link), she was also a model for, and contributor to, the weirdo horror-rotica zine Girls and Corpses. From an early account ...
Read in browser Self-published automation book is out, at a researched price
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 06:39 pm John, a lighting/show automation guy, has written a new edition of Show Networks and Control Systems, a book about networking for automation techs. He sez, "Back in January, Cory re-posted my analysis of the reader survey I used to determine the price and title of my newly self-published book. Self publishing has been a fascinating ...
Read in browser Chiffon pie that doesn't look right
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 05:40 pm There's something ineluctably aspic-y about this 1958 chiffon pie picture -- I can't escape the feeling that this is a pie filled with ground organ meat and shredded pickles. I dunno, this just doesn't look appetizing.
Read in browser Judge Judy fight spills out of "court"
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 05:39 pm The loser in a recently-taped episode of Judge Judy is harassing the winner, according to a restraining order filed in Los Angeles—all over a dog. The two squared off on an episode of "Judy" that was taped May 23 -- after Gardenhire claimed Whitman owed her money for taking care of an Ace of Hearts ...
Read in browser NYT series on genetically-targeted cancer treatments
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 09, 2012 05:25 pm When you have been diagnosed with cancer, as I have, you quickly grow accustomed to "friendly cancer spam." Friends, relatives, and well-meaning acquaintances routinely forward you a gazillion identical links to whatever this week's hot cancer news headline may be. So it was for me with this New York Times story on Lukas Wartman, a ...
Read in browser Nicki Minaj, discussing sexism in the music industry while applying eyeliner (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 09, 2012 05:01 pm [Video Link] "Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking the pickle juice right now."—Nicki Minaj. (via Maggie Koerth-Baker, via Upworthy)
Read in browser How the record industry killed legal P2P, created a generation of pirates, and laughed all the way to the graveyard
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 05:00 pm TorrentFreak's Enigmax does a great job of summarizing Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story, a remarkable scholarly paper written by Rutgers law's Michael A. Carrier, forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review. Carrier interviewed the 31 subjects for the paper: "CEOs, company founders, and vice-presidents from technology companies, the recording industry, and venture capital firms," and asked ...
Read in browser X-Wing fighter in beard
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 03:42 pm This is Chad Roberts, who wins the Internet today with a Star Wars X-Wing beard. EPIC STAR WARS X-WING BEARD (via Geekologie)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 09, 2012 03:34 pm Baseball players took off running after a very close lightning strike and thunderclap at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas yesterday. Folks who were there said it sounded like a bomb went off. Minnesota Twins center fielder Denard Span's Tweet: "That's the loudest noise I've ever heard. I thought Jesus was comin!" (via Dave Pell's ...
Read in browser Stop motion music video uses hundreds of strangers holding up a tablet on the streets of Sydney
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 02:37 pm Australian band Abe & Tell's video for their song "This Man's Brighter Days" uses a neat animation gimmick: most of the video is displayed, frame-by-frame, on a tablet held up by various strangers the band approached on the streets of Sydney, with some nice cutaway shots to the video being edited, all pieced together to ...
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