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Posters/petitions for Seattle residents against corporate personhood RIM hit with $147.2 million patent verdict Apple rejects "Angry Syrians" Large collection of default spam-comments from a slimy SEO tool Vision of the future, from 1969 Japan Too many lobbyists, not enough strategists Atom magazine interviewed me about the zine days of bOING bOING Breaking Bad's first 4 seasons, in 10 minutes (spoilers galore, duh) Song for telemarketers and other f*cking jerks Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken haiku, by impressionist Jim Meskimen Dog trying to bite oncoming traffic (funny video) It pleases me to see Sirius XM telemarketing calls in my spam folder Breaking Bad: Walt + Jesse amigurimi (the most adorable crocheted meth cooks) One-stop shop Overheard at Comic-Con: The new Community showrunners promise not to ruin the show Real flying car for sale Stuff makes us sad, especially in America Let's go ahead and cast the What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? remake "Adventure Time" poster by Olly Moss for Mondo at Comic Con London Olympic committee says you're only allowed to link to their site if you have nice things to say Happy 100th birthday, Woody Guthrie! The web's best Breaking Bad memes (Season 5 starts this Sunday, w00t!) Comic-con- and Batman- themed Suicide Girl photoset, for your NSFW Friday enjoyment Overheard at Comic Con: The Walking Dead will be around for a while CNN reporter tells Bill Nye that he doesn't understand climate change Tasmanian cops to world: it's not our job to censor the Internet "Lying eyes" may be a myth Internet Defense League will spring into action when dumb laws are proposed, guided by the CAT SIGNAL! The benefits of xenophobia Scientists aren't always right Posters/petitions for Seattle residents against corporate personhood
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 14, 2012 12:00 pm Jeff sez, "Some graphic designers in Seattle anonymously created these cool "Corporations Aren't People" posters for the I103 initiative... they are editable PDFs so you can change the text as needed." What is Initiative Measure 103? Measure 103 is a citizen's initiative in Seattle to elevate peoples' rights above corporate rights and put an end ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 14, 2012 09:31 am Days after CEO Thorsten Heins promised that Research In Motion was not "in a death spiral," it lost a patent litigation case filed by Mformation, maker of remote wireless management software. The jury awarded Mformation $147.2m. The verdict on Friday in a San Francisco federal court comes at a bad time for RIM, whose stock ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 14, 2012 09:04 am Frederic Jacobs produced an iOS app called "Angry Syrians," which was apparently blessed by Rovio. It was intended to raise awareness of the ongoing bloodbath in Syria. Apple rejected it because "We found your app contains defamatory or offensive content targeted at a specific group, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 11:10 pm I get a ton of spam sent to my personal WordPress site, which is evidently sent using some kind of toolkit for would-be SEO scumbags. The spams use the SEO-target's URL as the sender's web-page, and consist of a bland, usually mildly positive, usually ungrammatical comment. This morning, I woke up to find that someone ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 09:01 pm Matt Alt in Tokyo, following up on a recent BB post about a 1979 American view of the future, shares this wonderful scan. He says: This is 1969's view of 1989! It's from Shonen Sunday Magazine, a weekly comic compilation. Beautiful, groovy art. Hey, at least they got the "Roomba" right (even if they were ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 08:57 pm A bit of pithy insight from the latest EDRIgram: "the intellectual property lobby employs too many lobbyists and too few strategists." In other words, Big Content can get lawmakers to do their bidding, even when doing so discredits them and riles up the opposition. (via Beyond the Beyond)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 13, 2012 08:52 pm The special "Zine Issue" of Atom Magazine has an interview with me about the good old zine days of bOING bOING. The made their entire issue look like a late 80s zine -- cool! Read it here.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 08:45 pm [Video Link] An excellent recap, from Slate V. All 46 episodes in 10 minutes. The comment thread in this post also includes spoilers! (thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 13, 2012 08:42 pm Too good not to share -- Jacob Ewing commented in my post about SiriusXM telemarketing pests: "I use a VoIP system, and have been meaning to set it up to automatically play this [NSFW] when certain numbers call in. It's a little acappella piece I and a friend recorded for just such a purpose."
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 08:20 pm Jim Meskimen is a talented impressionist, as the videos in his YouTube channel attest. In this clip, he offers his version of Christopher Walken, reciting poetry in the ancient Haiku style of Japan; three lines of five syllables, then seven, then five again. Below, his Morgan Freeman haiku.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 08:02 pm [Video Link] (Thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 13, 2012 07:55 pm A couple of years ago, the lease on my Ford Explorer hybrid ran out and I returned the car to the dealer. Ever since, Sirius XM Radio has called me on a weekly (and when they are on a roll, daily) basis to try to get me to reactivate their radio service on the car, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 07:24 pm Via a comment in today's earlier Breaking Bad meme roundup post, this DIY yarn project at Ravelry: Inspired by Breaking Bad, patterns to make little Walter and Jesse, everyone's favorite meth cooks. Instructions include patterns for two dolls, two hats, glasses, jumpsuits, and tiny bags of crystal. Because of tiny parts, these patterns wouldn't be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 06:53 pm AGS, in Manistee, MI, has something for everyone -- whether you're shopping for a bong, a dildo or a frisbee. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 13, 2012 05:15 pm Talk about those times when you really wish you could transport yourself to the opposite coast of a country for the nerdiest thing ever. There was a really fun-sounding panel for NBC's Community today, and it featured a reassuring quote from the new guys running the show, David Guarascio and Moses Port. You might recall ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 13, 2012 05:08 pm This fantastic artifact from the history of the future can be yours for just $1.25 million. An aircraft collector is selling his 1954 Taylor Aerocar N-101D. Designed in 1949, this one of only 5 that were produced. The wings fold forward for driving and according to Aerocar designer Moulton Taylor, quoted during the vehicle's, er, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 04:50 pm In the Boston Globe, Beth Teitell discusses Life at Home in the Twenty-first Century: 32 Families Open their Doors, an accessible, illustrated text that summarizes the research of four archaeologists and anthropologists who did a long, deep study of 32 middle-class LA families, and who report that nearly everything that these families had striven for ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 13, 2012 04:06 pm Fantastic news coming out of Comic Con: They are remaking What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?! It's such fun news that there is no way to properly punctuate the end of the sentence! Walter Hill, who just finished directing Sylvester Stallone in the cop drama Bullet to the Head, will direct and write the screenplay, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 03:51 pm Our friends at Mondo share a sneak peek at a brand-new poster for the wonderful animated series ADVENTURE TIME. The poster is by artist Olly Moss, and goes on sale today at Comic-Con, Booth 437. Size: 18" x 24", in an edition of 380, for $50. About Mondo, and their gorgeous posters: Mondo is a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 03:39 pm James Losey from New America Foundation sez, The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal, who has estimated how long it would take to read every privacy policy you encounter highlights an interesting bit from the "Linking Policy" in the Terms of Use for the London 2012 website: "a. Links to the Site. You may create your own link ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 13, 2012 03:35 pm Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday is tomorrow, July 13. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 03:24 pm I'm not a fan of listicles, but I'll stoop to link to this one on Buzzfeed because it is highly relevant to my interests: the 27 best "Breaking Bad" memes. A few months back when I was in chemo, we made a few of our own. The oncology nurses loved my Héctor "Tio" Salamanca impression, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 13, 2012 02:59 pm Jessy Suicide tells Boing Boing, "We are so excited to be at Comic-Con San Diego that we are bringing you the full NSFW pin-up set of Radeo for free." NSFW Link. Also: Dork alert.
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 13, 2012 02:58 pm The creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman offered up this quote concerning the end of the series: We have talked about an ending that we'd do if we ever got to that point, right before our joint suicide, but with the popularity of the comic, and now the show, I don't see an end ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 02:39 pm Watch in awe as CNN's Carol Costello tells Bill Nye, a respected scientist, engineer, and science educator, that he's a "kooky guy who doesn't know what he's talking about" when he asserts the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Bill Nye - Could climate change be wildfire cause?
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 02:18 pm The cops in Tasmania, Australia have informed the general public that it's not illegal to call people nasty names on Facebook, and that they don't want any more complaints on those lines: "If this behavior occurred in a public place it would not be a reportable offence. It is not the role of Tasmania Police ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 13, 2012 02:05 pm Through my early (and brief) curiosity about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques, I learned that when a person looks up and to their right, it's a good sign that they may be lying. Turns out, that probably isn't true. From the BBC: The idea was tested by filming volunteers and recording their eye movements as they ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 13, 2012 02:03 pm Holmes from Fight for the Future sez, "The Internet Defense League is a post-SOPA network of sites that use their reach to defend and improve the web. Because it can sound the alarm quickly to millions of people, people are calling it a 'bat-signal for the Internet'. The league is launching on July 19th, the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 13, 2012 01:51 pm Xenophobia is neither the fear of Xeni, nor of Xena. Rather, it's more about knee-jerk mistrust, dislike, and hatred for people who aren't part of your group. We've come to associate it with not liking people from other countries, but it applies to smaller-scale, less formal tribalism, as well. Over at the Scientific American blogs, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 13, 2012 01:15 pm Remember how scientists discovered alien-esque life forms in California and the Internet was all, "Oh, sheeeet!" But then other scientists started critiquing the research and there was a giant debate about whether one scientist could call out another scientist for bad data on a blog, rather than in a peer-reviewed journal, except that the peer ...
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