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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2012 12:23 pm Last month, I gave a talk called "The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computing" at DEFCON, the Long Now, and Google. We're going to have a transcript with the slides on Monday, but in the meantime, here's a video of the Long Now version of the talk. Stewart Brand summarized it thus: Doctorow framed ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 16, 2012 11:56 am This is going to happen in the year 2013: when Arrested Development comes to Netflix, it will feature an arc for a new character being played by Mad Men's John Slattery. TV Line asked a rep from the show what kind of character he'd be playing, and their lips were sealed. But you know what? ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 16, 2012 11:46 am Can you count how many ways this Life Savers ad is creepy? (Via X-Ray Delta One)
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 16, 2012 11:43 am The Dandy, Britain's long-running childrens' comic, is to end after 75 years. Publisher DC Thomson promises that plans are afoot for its popular characters; sister comic The Beano will remain in print. [BBC]
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 16, 2012 11:28 am If there is anyone whose career should just never ever end, it's probably Michael J. Fox. So it's really great news that he's ready to come back to television full-time! Working with Sony Pictures Television, Fox is trying to find a home for a single-camera sitcom based on his own life. He's teaming up with ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2012 09:56 am "Defending Junk-Debt-Buyer Lawsuits" is a paper written by Peter A. Holland of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and published in the May 1 issue of Clearinghouse Review. It's a clear, short, absolutely readable (and indispensable) guide to fending off speculative lawsuits from vulture debt-collectors. These are the debt collectors who ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 16, 2012 09:01 am Editorial note — Cow Week is a tongue-in-cheek look at risk analysis and why we fear the things we fear. It is inspired by the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, the popularity of which is largely driven by the public's fascination with and fear of sharks. Turns out, cows kill more people every year than sharks ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2012 08:36 am The Guardian's John Harris looks at the battle taking place in the Devon town of Totnes, a kind of counterculture/hippie haven on the "English Riviera," where residents are furious at the plan to open an outlet of the Costa Coffee chain. Harris paints a picture of Totnes as the kind of place that would be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2012 07:16 am Alex sez, Seminal science fiction author Jeff Noon has a new book coming out called Channel Sk1n. This is Jeff's first novel in 10 years, and what makes it even more exciting is the fact that Jeff has chosen to publish it independently, and as an ebook before print. After decades of working with the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2012 05:39 am Anton Vickerman is a British entrepreneur who operated a search-engine called "Surf the Channel," indexed links to online video content. After an estranged former business-partner filed a complaint, he was targetted by FACT, the UK branch of the Motion Picture Association of America (a shadowy enforcement organization staffed with former police offers), who played every ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 11:26 pm Here's a cute idea from CHOW and Chris Rochelle for baking chocolate cakes in campfire coals, using scooped-out orange peels as molds: Cut the tops off about 10 oranges and scoop out the pulp. Fill the oranges three-quarters of the way with chocolate cake batter (cake mix works fine), then put the orange tops back ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 09:21 pm Some concrete dates and prices for the Hiroko Fold, a folding electric car that can park in teeny places and turn with "zero radius." The following is from PSFK's Yi Chen: Researchers from MIT's Changing Places group and DENOKINN have developed a convenient and eco-friendly car to commute around the city. The Hiriko Fold is ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2012 08:50 pm UK Police are definitely inside the ecuadorean embassy #wikileaks #assange— odotm (@odotm) August 16, 2012 The UK governments threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest Assange is an assult on the rights of asylum seekers world wide.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 16, 2012 The government of Ecuador says British authorities have threatened to barge into ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 08:37 pm How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection, by David F. Dufty is about the creation of the Philip K. Dick android head, and how it vanished. Two people are chiefly responsible for making the Philip K. Dick android head: David Hanson, a sculptor/animatronic artist who makes lifelike rubber ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 08:14 pm It's no carrots, all sticks at Tom Heck's son's middle school. Click the thumbnail to see the entire page.
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By Lindsay M. Starke on Aug 15, 2012 07:33 pm "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." —Marcus Garvey (Lindsay with Paleo Solution author Robb Wolf at AHS11) I'll start with a disclaimer: Many of you have family, friends, or coworkers who credit their weight loss, disease management, amazing hair, or other miracles to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 06:44 pm Darren sez, "Obsidian Abnormal is the creator of Commissioned, a madcap webcomic with zombies, gnomes, ninjas, cats and nerds. So Obsidian and I made a card game that pits them against each other - 3v3: Commissioned. It's a unique spin on deck-building. While every card has the normal attack values, defense values and special abilities ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 05:48 pm Last night I went to Crash Space, a hackerspace in Los Angeles, to see the cool things that its members have been working on. One of my favorite projects was Naim Busek's "Bike Luminance," a signal light that you can attach to a bike helmet so drivers can see where you are and where you ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 15, 2012 05:23 pm Condoleezza Rice and I have very few things in common, but here is one thing we can probably break bread over without too much shouting: NFL football. Good gravy, do we both love football. (And from the looks of the jersey she's wearing, we share a predilection for wide receivers.) But even while we may ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2012 04:47 pm In 1983, Michael Sporn Animation Studios produced this terrific video for Liquid Liquid's "Cavern," released by seminal downtown NYC music label (and shop!) 99 Records. Of course, the "Cavern" bassline became the foundation of Grandmaster Melle Mel's pioneering hip hop track "White Lines (Don't Do It)." Much more from Michael Sporn Animation at the company's ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 04:37 pm U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney threw out a lawsuit against the FBI for illegally spying on Muslims in Orange County, CA. "The state secrets privilege may unfortunately mean the sacrifice of individual liberties for the sake of national security," he explained. (Via Reason)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 04:37 pm Stephen sez, "A few months ago I became fascinated by 3D printing and have read some of your work on the subject. Then I came across some stats by The Journal of Peer Production and decided to make a really short video using the results." 3D Printer Community Survey Results
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 04:27 pm [Video Link] (Via Arbroath)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 04:21 pm From one of my favorite blogs, $5 Finds: a Micro Sonic Grenade. Want to scare the living crap out of somebody? Well nothing better than a grenade explosion sound at 110 decibles. You can set the “explosion” timer to 5, 30 or 60 seconds then BOOM it happens. Battery powered and ready to scare. Micro ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 04:01 pm [Video Link] "DiResta" is a a new video series on MAKE. In each episode, artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) will let us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. In this episode, Jimmy finds a slab of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 03:00 pm Given a black light, some tonic, some gin or vodka, and pink lemonade concentrate, you can mix a cocktail that looks like the aurora borealis: Aurora is TCCs black light phosphorescent take on jungle-juice. Originally conceived in 2006, it is a drink that is pink in natural light, but glows aqua-marine in black-light. Thus, it ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2012 02:32 pm Timothy Leary wrote The Periodic Table of Energy while he was in Vacaville state prison in 1974. "The work explores 'correspondences among the Periodic Table of Elements, the Neurogenetic Theory of Evolution, the Tarot, the I Ching, [and] the Zodiac.' The 203-page typescript is profusely annotated and edited in manuscript, and illustrated with images, advertisements ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2012 02:22 pm Elizabeth on ifixit tells us the heartwarming story of Robert Litt, a teacher at ASCEND, "a small arts K-8 school in the Alameda County School District." Litt needed a computer lab. His school had no budget, So he called around to local businesses and individuals and collected all their "broken" computers (refusing anything made before ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Aug 15, 2012 02:08 pm Sound it Out # 33: Beth Orton- "Magpie" (MP3) I can't think of anyone who makes more consistently beautiful, melancholy music than Beth Orton. Her songs are full of nuanced wisdom and the sound of her voice alone can make your heart delightfully heavy.Orton's new album is her first in six years and is out ...
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