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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 12:30 pm Following up from their announcement earlier this year, all ebooks from Tor/Forge -- the largest science fiction publisher in the world -- are now DRM free, in all ebook stores, for all platforms. I'm incredibly proud to be published by Tor, and moreso today. "It's clear to us that this is what our customers want," ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 20, 2012 12:27 pm Romain Jerome is the luxury watch brand that offers the Titanic-DNA timepiece, including bits of the sunken ship, and the Moon-DNA line, complete with moon dust. Their latest in that vein is a Space Invaders-themed watch, "composed of spare parts from Apollo 11." It's limited to 78 pieces and sells for around $18,000. Moon Invader
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 20, 2012 12:25 pm One of the original writers of Saturday Night Live, Tom Davis, has died of cancer at age 59. He was best known for his work with Al Franken, who went on to become a U.S. Senator, representing the state of Minnesota. Not long before his death, he wrote a piece on the site Incident Report ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 20, 2012 12:13 pm Brian Shaw, 30, is the winner of the 2011 World's Strongest Man competition. He is 6'8", 480 pounds. He lifts cars. Drags airplanes. Burkhard Bilger profiled Shaw for The New Yorker: "It's a little frightening," Todd told me. "The strength gains dictate that we make the weights higher, but at what point does the shoulder ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 12:00 pm Tor.com's just published an excerpt from Rapture of the Nerds, the comic science fiction novel that Charles Stross and I collaborated on, which comes out in September. Booklist just gave it a starred review, saying "Doctorow and Stross, two of the SF genre's more exciting voices, team up to produce a story that is mindbendingly ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 11:57 am When the Columbine shootings happened in Colorado in 1999, many pundits and politicians blamed games, goth culture, and dark pop figures like Marilyn Manson. After today's shooting in Aurora, Colorado, Manson's "Whose Fault Is It?" essay from that same year is worth a read again. When it comes down to who's to blame for the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 20, 2012 11:57 am Smithsonian traced the history of the Olympic pictograms. Illustrations to represent the Olympic competitions were first used in 1948 to communicate across languages. (The pictograms above were designed by Lance Wyman for the 1968 Mexico Olympics.) From Smithsonian: The 1948 London pictograms were not a system of communication so much as a series of illustrations ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 20, 2012 11:48 am According to the Canberra Times, "A man caught on the roof of a Braddon car wash wearing a wig and mask has been acquitted after a judge said he wasn't a burglar but was just a "strange man". In other words, he's an artist.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 11:30 am Here are a couple of amazing They Live cosplayers from this year's San Diego Comic-Con -- the shirts and bags really make the outfits. r/movies wouldn't allow it, so here it is. My favorite cosplay from Comic-con! (imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 20, 2012 11:29 am During the 2008 election, writer Shawn Otto lead a charge to get the presidential candidates to unambiguously and publicly explain their positions on key questions concerning science and public policy. The questions were chosen through a process that involved the general public, as well as scientists and engineers. Science Debate 2008 was intended to be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 11:13 am A hacker at HOPE presented a pair of 3D printed "high security" handcuff keys that unlocked cuffs whose designs are supposed to be secret and not widely available. They will shortly be on Thingiverse for you to download. Forbes's Andy Greenberg reports: In a workshop Friday at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 20, 2012 10:05 am Walter White from Breaking Bad, immortalized in street art on Rivington Street, NYC. Photographed and shared with Boing Boing by Daniel Albanese. This wheatpaste work is credited to street artist "ME." Bowery Boogie blog says, Much of his work is co-opting established logos to fit the name, whether it's the ME in Mets or Supreme. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 10:02 am The BBC World Service recently vacated its historic digs at Bush House in the Aldwych in London (a building I have fond memories of, as it's where my wife worked when we started courting). They're selling off all their superannuated, surplus and otherwise unneeded gear. The auction includes pretty much everything you need to build ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 20, 2012 09:53 am The Telegraph's swiftly-deleted article about the "curse" of Batman movies (still live here) is not, however, today's craziest coverage of the shootings in Colorado. That prize surely goes to Nikki Finke: "It is a very real possibility this terrifying tragedy may affect The Dark Knight Rises's opening box office today and this weekend." [Deadline Hollywood ...
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By Boing Boing on Jul 20, 2012 08:55 am A Colorado gunman walked into a 12:30 a.m. showing of the The Dark Knight Rises, tossed a gas can into the crowd, then began shooting. At least 12 are dead, according to reports, with another 50 hurt. The police took him into custody and are searching for explosives at his apartment. Redditor iteg3r collated an ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 08:54 am For a mere $3127.59, you can own a tent shaped like a London Underground carriage, which sleeps 16 and seats "around" 72 people. London Underground Tube Tent (via Red Ferret)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 20, 2012 01:32 am "Shadows in the Woods" is the English version of the German board game Waldschattenspiel, an absolutely beautiful and extremely fun game for two or more kids and one adult. The kids play "dwarfs" who need to hide in a "woods" (a board with 3D trees made from slotted heavy card). The adult plays using a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 20, 2012 12:11 am The BBC: "The computing giant Microsoft has made its first-ever quarterly loss after it wrote off some of the value of its online advertising business."
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 19, 2012 11:19 pm "More than" 200 Chihuahuas were rescued earlier today after a search warrant was executed in Benton, Pa. [AP]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 10:49 pm I love how anachronistic this ad for earning big bucks by learning steno is -- among the obsolete elements contained in it are dictation, shorthand, shorthand gadgets. It's true that continuous speech recognition, autocomplete and pocket recording devices are their descendants, but they're none of them "exciting careers." With Stenotype, the world's fastest shorthand, you ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 10:00 pm This 1958 ad for the latest model mobile homes has me totally sold -- that place looks better than my flat! Mobile Home
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 09:31 pm Donald J. Sobol, the author who created the great Encyclopedia Brown series, died last week. Encyclopedia Brown were kids' mystery stories about a boy detective, whose solution required careful reading and imaginative reasoning. When I started working on Little Brother, I told people it would be "Encyclopedia Brown meets Wargames" -- and I've often noodled ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 09:00 pm "Book Forest" is an outdoor, public bookcase in Berlin, designed to allow BookCrossing users to drop books they're done with so that others can take them in and read them. The "forest" is made from hollowed out logs with protective clear doors. Within the program ‚Research for Sustainable Forestry' promoted by the Federal Ministry of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 08:17 pm Cat Staggs (Gattadonna on DeviantArt) has a series of fab limited edition Star Wars wartime recruiting posters, to be offered for sale at the Star Wars Celebration show in Orlando this August. Here's the latest. The Guns of Endor! Star Wars CVI print (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 08:12 pm The Library of America is publishing a two volume treasure of science fiction next September 27, in which great contemporary science fiction writers introduce classics of the field from the 1950s. The handsome, slipcased edition includes: Volume 1: 1953–1956 * Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants * Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 07:32 pm Security expert Brian Krebs was the target of a malicious email flood, and writes firsthand about the experience. These floods -- which can be directed at any and all of your phone (voice or SMS) and email -- are used by crooks who want to busy-out all their victims' communications channels while they are ripping ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 06:58 pm The German town of Mittenwalde loaned the city of Berlin 11,200 guilders 540 years ago, when Mittenwalde was a seat of power. Berlin has never repaid the debt. With interest, and adjusted for inflation, the note (which has been authenticated) is worth trillions of euros, and Mittenwalde wants it back. Town historian Vera Schmidt found ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 06:20 pm Enokson on Flickr has collected a beautiful gallery of dozens of 1960s library posters, each more delightful than the last. Alas, they're only at a medium resolution. Retro Library Posters (1960's) (via Bookshelf)
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 19, 2012 06:04 pm PetaPixel reports that Fujifilm is discontinuing several flavors of their fantastic slide film, Velvia. Luckily, for me anyways, Velvia 50 will still be around in both 120 and 135.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 19, 2012 05:53 pm O'Reilly, the published famed for the pictures of animals on its book covers, has launched a charitable drive to protect endangered animals: "The truth is that a large number of the animals featured on O'Reilly books are threatened or critically endangered. We've always used colophons in the books as a way to tell readers about ...
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