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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 12:58 pm Everyone's seen the video of Mitt Romney being booed at an address to the NAACP where he promised to kill "Obamacare" (AKA Romneycare). But did he plan on being booed? "He's not likely to receive many black votes in any case, and boos would allow him to look principled in the face of opposition and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 12:14 pm FCC chief Julius Genachowski has slammed the Russian government for considering a law that will make it possible to ban websites in the country for violating nebulous, poorly policed "illegal content" rules. Which is basically what SOPA proposed: "The world's experience with the Internet provides a clear lesson: a free and open Internet promotes economic ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 13, 2012 12:08 pm iPod Magic - Deceptions from Marco Tempest on Vimeo. Marco Tempest is an illusionist who works with technology, as well as traditional magician's skills like sleight of hand. Although its easier to imagine how you program three iPods to do the things he has them doing in this video, it's still a neat display of ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 13, 2012 12:04 pm UK celebrity physician Dr. Hilary Jones is reporting that the current men's fashion of tight, skinny jeans is leading to an increase in twisted testicles, weak bladders, low sperm count, fungal infections, and urinary tract infections. Interestingly, Jones's efforts to raise awareness about said dangers are sponsored by TENA, makers of adult diapers and other ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 12:00 pm Thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo's 3rd Annual Summer Vestal sale is on! For a limited time, take an additional 20% off the entire Vestal Watch collection (including sale watches) with the coupon code VESTAL20 to save more than ever. Vestal timepieces are consistently ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 11:50 am Louis Freeh's report on child abuse at Penn State confirms the worst: the college's brass, including Joe Paterno, knew about and actively covered up coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual exploitation of children. Paterno, who bullshitted to the end ("Nobody had any inkling", "I never heard of a man rapin' another man"), saw his personal and institutional ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 13, 2012 11:49 am At Discover's big-idea blog The Crux, Emily Willingham has a really interesting post about the prevalence of autism—is it actually increasing, or is this really about medical definitions and increased attention? This is a topic we've talked about here on BoingBoing before, most recently back in March, when Steve Silberman offered some scientific evidence that ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 11:29 am "When we launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, AOL used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. Think of that. Not a single music CD or Microsoft CD was produced during those weeks." — Reggie Fairchild. [Quora]
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 13, 2012 11:13 am Last night at Comic Con, during a DC Comics panel that focused on its Vertigo imprint, it was casually mentioned that Neil Gaiman would debut a prequel to his Sandman series in November 2013. In a prerecorded message, he provided the following quote: "When I finished writing The Sandman, there was one tale still untold. ...
Read in browser Ralph Lauren charges $2K/pop for Made in China Olympic outfits
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 11:00 am At $2,000 a pop, the costumes supplied by Ralph Lauren to America's Olympic athletes are not cheap. But apparently, Mr Lauren and co still couldn't afford to pay American workers to sew them -- they were made in China. From the BBC: The classic navy blue blazers, white trousers and skirts, and red-accented ties and ...
Read in browser People overestimate mobile privacy, lawmakers are out of touch with privacy expectations
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 10:53 am My friend Jen Urban of UC Berkeley and her colleagues Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Su Li have just published Mobile Phones and Privacy, a paper in the BCLT Research Paper Series, and a summary. In a nutshell, people totally overestimate the privacy of the data on their mobile phones, they oppose all the current legislative ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 10:51 am Let the whiteness shine through with today's Gold Box Deal of the Day! [Ta, FP]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 13, 2012 10:35 am Twig Case Co. in Minnesota makes nice iPhone cases out of paper and bamboo, including this beautiful Jim Woodring model, called "Frank in the Tempest." The founder of Twig Case, Jon Lucca, is an illustrator, too, and I really like his art on "The Bunker" bamboo case. I saw a little easter egg in it ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 10:27 am A reader writes, "The creative industries are busy again luring the UK Labour Front Bench with their charms. However, DCMS is not only responsible for the creative industries, they are also responsible for libraries, museums, and Internet policy. The Culture Secretary of State should definitely not be just a mouthpiece for one industry." Yeah, but ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 10:15 am I got an over-the-air update to my Nexus Galaxy last night, and I'm now running version 4.1 of Android, AKA Jelly Bean. My preliminary impression: holy shit, this is awesome. Fast! Like a time-lapse of my old phone with all the waiting edited out. Haven't tried the voice-search yet, but I will.
Read in browser The Silver Cord graphic novel 1/2 way to funding on Kickstarter
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 13, 2012 10:12 am The Silver Cord is an enjoyable and thought-provoking graphic novel about a war between humans, angels, and robots with human-like intelligence. I've never read anything like it before, but many of the concepts ring a bell with me because they are what my friend Kevin Kelly has been thinking about and writing about for many ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 09:49 am Finally! the Asteroids MMO you've been waiting for, with old-school vectorbeam-style graphics. Needs more RPG elements, stat! [via Indie Games]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 09:44 am Alexis Madrigal on what went wrong at Digg: letting publishers, PR hacks and power users rule the roost instead of everyday readers. The only way to consistently get stuff on the home page was to work at it like a job. ... everyday users were realizing that nothing they submitted ever even had a chance ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 13, 2012 09:30 am Sega and Sanrio plan to sell this "Hello Sonic" toy. From AFP: Sega mascot Sonic the Hedgehog's getting a super-cute makeover in the form of a Hello Kitty jumbo plushie, which commemorates the reopening of Sega's Japanese amusement park.The blue softie is destined for Sega's amusement arcades and retail outlets, with overseas deployment planned for ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 13, 2012 08:54 am Photo: Port of San Deigo (cc) Yesterday was the official first day of San Diego Comic Con following Preview Night last night, and that means that stuff happened! The panels have commenced, the pictures are starting to surface, and here are some of those points of interest. AMC's The Walking Dead booth gives everyone the ...
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By Cool Tools on Jul 13, 2012 07:00 am We've always used a standard, run-of-the-mill garlic press, probably just because it was what was in the drawer. It only used half the clove. It was a pain to clean. And stinky hands were hard to avoid. It's a device whose engineering is outdated. We were downtown recently, just having finished brunch, and decided to ...
Read in browser Member of European Parliament sends "Thank you for fighting ACTA" email with 2K emails in the body
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 04:00 am Lee sez, As part of my protest against ACTA I signed up to the fightforthefuture.org web page, and asked them to contact my MEP on my behalf, which they did. Now that ACTA has been defeated, Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP for the North West and UKIP Deputy Leader, emailed people who had protested, en masse. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 11:37 pm Jason sez, BurningManRides.com is a carpool site that helps attendees share rides to the Burn. Created by the rideshare service Ridejoy, the site allows users to easily request or offer a ride and get matched up with other Burners going along their route on the same date and time frame. For those lucky enough to ...
Read in browser Romney demands apology over Bain claims
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 12, 2012 11:06 pm The Boston Globe reported that presidential candidate Mitt Romney still controlled Bain Capital for years after he claimed to have left in 1999—a period marked by layoffs and bankruptcies. An Obama campaign official suggested that he committed a felony by claiming otherwise on official forms. The Globe's Callum Borchers follows up: "Romney's campaign asked for ...
Read in browser How Yul Brynner avoided tipping off What's My Line? contestants
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 12, 2012 10:12 pm *whistle*! Vincent Price, another distinctive voice, took a different tack: singing. Muhammed Ali, of course, had no chance at all.
Read in browser Furious religious establishment figures decry Life of Brian and John Cleese, who parries them masterfully
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 09:00 pm In this BBC 4 video, apparently contemporaneous with the 1979 release of Monty Python's classic The Life of Brian, a collection of robed clerics from the Church of England (and possibly others?) tell John Cleese that he's been very, very naughty for helping to make the movie, while Cleese and other Pythons parry them. It's ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 12, 2012 08:18 pm In his book, The Beginning of Infinity, Oxford physicist David Deutsch writes: If a one kilometer asteroid had approached the Earth on a collision course at any time in human history before the early twenty-first century, it would have killed at least a substantial proportion of all humans. In that respect, as in many others, ...
Read in browser Why everyone in America should have access to public safety codes: "Show Me the Manual!"
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 08:00 pm Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, One of the big issues we face in trying to make legal documents available to citizens at no charge is a feeling in Washington that "ordinary" people just aren't smart enough to read things like public safety codes. They think charging $850 for a 30-page elevator safety spec or $500 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 07:13 pm Hurr hurr weiners hurr hurr. Skinless Weiners
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 12, 2012 07:08 pm The DEA discovered this impressive 240-yard tunnel running between an ice plant in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico and a "one-story, nondescript" building in San Luis, Arizona. They didn't find any drugs in either building though. "Feds uncover drug tunnel from Mexico to Arizona" Huge underground drug tunnel with subterranean rail system ... Tour ...
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