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CryptoParty: like a Tupperware party for learning crypto Eagle nabs crocodile Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique New York Comic Con 2012: Justice Is Served SWAT team injures 12-year-old girl with flash grenade - no drugs found The Mixed Magic of "Looper" Anti-choice Tea Party Congressman: My mistress wasn't pregnant when I insisted she have an abortion Is Obama a communist? "Study it out" Steven Johnson's favorite video games Eyeball the size of a softball washes up on a Florida Beach Myhrvold patents 3D printing DRM Spam of the day Cory at NY Comic-Con today Bottles beware! Compilation of Will Keith destruction videos The Vice-Presidential debate, in animated GIFs Wyclef Jean's highly-hyped Haiti charity defunct and in debt, surprising approximately nobody Outlook.com's social life Scanning whole books is fair use Nerdy custom dresses Panorama of a despoiled library Cheating F1 team wins the right to deduct its fines from its taxes Peanut butter ads had the best typography, seriously AwayFind gives you the peace of mind to ignore your inbox without fear of missing an important email First new Rolling Stones song in six years cashes in on zombie craze [Video] Latest celebrity to get swallowed up by the "Bermuda Triangle" of drug bust checkpoints: Nelly Illustration from a vintage issue of OCD Monthly magazine Adrian Tomine's New York Drawings: exclusive excerpt Video-game tights Amazing build of the Batcave using Lego Bong: "Live At Roadburn 2010" music review CryptoParty: like a Tupperware party for learning crypto
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2012 01:00 pm CryptoParty is a global movement for people who want to teach their neighbors how to use cryptography to protect themselves from snoopers, especially broad government surveillance. It was kicked off by @Asher_Wolf in response to the broad, sweeping Australian Internet surveillance bill, and involves throwing parties where folks who know how to use disk encryption, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 12, 2012 12:46 pm Wildlife guide Mark Sheridan-Johnson snapped this thrilling photo on a Tanzania river bank. The Eagle nabbed the juvenile Nile crocodile while the reptile was lunching on some fish. "Amazing Image: Eagle Snatches Crocodile From Riverbank" (ABC News)
Read in browser Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique
By David Pescovitz on Oct 12, 2012 12:45 pm Auction appraiser Guy Schwinge was visiting a Dorset, England home when he noticed an unusual planter in the garden. It turned out to be a Roman sarcophagus from the 2nd century. According to the Antiques Trade Gazette, research revealed that the family had purchased it a century ago from auction house Hy. Duke & Son. ...
Read in browser New York Comic Con 2012: Justice Is Served
By Jamie Frevele on Oct 12, 2012 12:42 pm Greetings from the Javitz Center and the second day of New York Comic Con! Besides being a hotbed of debuts, premieres, and news, NYCC is also pretty great if you're in need of creative inspiration. I found a lot at one panel, Justice Is Served. This panel featured a panel of authors -- Myke Cole ...
Read in browser SWAT team injures 12-year-old girl with flash grenade - no drugs found
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2012 12:30 pm Radley Balko says: "Montana SWAT team drops a flash grenade through a window into a bedroom where two children are sleeping. No arrests. No alleged meth lab." A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West ...
Read in browser The Mixed Magic of "Looper"
By Nathan Pensky on Oct 12, 2012 12:17 pm Looper is an elegant, beautifully rendered time travel story with quality performances and cool action sequences…completely hijacked in its second half by an evil kid who talks like a 50-year-old man.
Read in browser Anti-choice Tea Party Congressman: My mistress wasn't pregnant when I insisted she have an abortion
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2012 12:15 pm Anti-choice Representative Scott DesJarlais, who made a tape recording of himself insisting that his mistress get an abortion, has an explanation that should clear the whole matter up. She wasn't really pregnant. "I don't mind telling people that there was no pregnancy, and no abortion," said Representative Scott DesJarlais, who is running for reelection, in ...
Read in browser Is Obama a communist? "Study it out"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2012 12:05 pm This woman was with a group of Tea Party supporters outside the Vice Presidential debate last night. After she shouted several times that Obama was a communist, Chris Matthews asked her to explain why she thought so. She told him to "Study it out and you will see. You haven't done your homework buddy."
Read in browser Steven Johnson's favorite video games
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2012 11:58 am Author Steven Johnson spoke to the Gameological Society about his latest book, Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age, and the games he enjoys playing. The Gameological Society: What are you playing this weekend? Steven Johnson: Well, I’m on book tour, so there’s very little play. When I get home, I will ...
Read in browser Eyeball the size of a softball washes up on a Florida Beach
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2012 11:51 am Video!
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2012 11:10 am Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures has received a patent for a DRM system for 3D printers, to stop people from printing out trademarked and patent objects. Like other DRM systems, this won't work (it will either have to be so broad in its parameters for recognizing prohibited items that it will balk at printing innumerable harmless ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2012 09:16 am Hey, NYC! Start spreading the news, etc, as I'm appearing today and tomorrow at NY Comic-Con -- signing today at 1715h at Table 2, speaking Sunday at 10AM, and signing again at the Tor booth on Sunday at 3PM. I'll be at Brooklyn's WORD books on Monday night (today's the last day to submit your ...
Read in browser Bottles beware! Compilation of Will Keith destruction videos
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2012 12:55 am YouTuber goosmurf published this compilation of videos from
Will Keith aka "bbillyk," which includes much smashing.
Read in browser The Vice-Presidential debate, in animated GIFs
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2012 12:28 am The Atlantic Wire does what must be done: live-blog the 2012 VP debate, in animated GIFs. "The highlight of the debate is Biden's face. Ryan's eyebrows a distant second."
Read in browser Wyclef Jean's highly-hyped Haiti charity defunct and in debt, surprising approximately nobody
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2012 12:13 am Yéle is bust. How bust? So bust that their domain, yele.org, has expired. Deborah Sontag in the NYT, writing about the rockstar who once thought himself a good choice as president of Haiti: "In a new memoir, Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop celebrity, claims he endured a "crucifixion" after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake when ...
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By Advertiser on Oct 12, 2012 12:12 am ADVERTISEMENT This post sponsored by Outlook.com: For the majority of us, our online connections with friends, family, colleagues and internet celebrities are managed through Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. When YASN (Yet Another Social Network) comes along and asks us to rebuild those social connections from scratch – but this time in "their" sandbox – most ...
Read in browser Scanning whole books is fair use
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 10:30 pm A landmark fair use ruling: a judge in the Southern District Court of New York has ruled that Google's program of scanning books for libraries, and giving them copies to use for full-text search is fair use. The suit was brought by the Authors' Guild against the Hathitrust Digital Library, which holds the digital books ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 09:13 pm Etsy's Lameasaurus Awesomesauce makes and sells these custom nerdy dresses, including R2D2, Tardis, Dumbo, Vader, Mickey, Snow White, and many others: "The dress is fully lined dress with a semi-fitted bodice and elasticized back, circle skirt that twirls and swishes beautifully. It is made of 100% cotton with the exception of detailing. The dress can ...
Read in browser Panorama of a despoiled library
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 08:04 pm Jeffrey sez, "Because there aren't enough things to be sad about in the world. Behold, a once-glorious attic full of books falling victim to entropy and vandalism. I don't know the real story behind this, but I know a sad sight when I see it." Weberei Eibau Walddorf Dachbodenbibliothek (Thanks, Jeffrey!)
Read in browser Cheating F1 team wins the right to deduct its fines from its taxes
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 07:36 pm McLaren, a cheating Formula 1 team, got caught and fined £34M, so they deducted it from their taxes. The British tax authority objected, but they appealed, and won. Ren Reynolds has a gamerly perspective on this on Terra Nova: In short McLaren argue that the fine was an expense related to the trade that they ...
Read in browser Peanut butter ads had the best typography, seriously
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 06:59 pm On the LJ Vintage Ads group, the always-reliable Man Writing Slash has assembled a collection of some of the finest illustrated peanut butter ads this writer has had the pleasure of seeing. It's a slice of idealized simulacrum straight from the collective unconscious of the American appetite. Peanut Butter, food of the gods
Read in browser AwayFind gives you the peace of mind to ignore your inbox without fear of missing an important email
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 06:44 pm I've found that having big stretches of time where I don't frequently check my email boosts my ability to accomplish things. A service called AwayFind gives me the peace of mind to ignore my inbox. In a nutshell, AwayFind lets you add selected email addresses to a Priority Inbox. When someone on your list sends ...
Read in browser First new Rolling Stones song in six years cashes in on zombie craze [Video]
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 05:42 pm Listen to the first Rolling Stones song in 6 years.
Read in browser Latest celebrity to get swallowed up by the "Bermuda Triangle" of drug bust checkpoints: Nelly
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 05:25 pm Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, and Fiona Apple have all been famously busted for possession of cannabis at Texas' Sierra Blanca border checkpoint. But Nelly, who was detained last night, could be in a little more trouble than his fellow musicians. When his bus was searched, officers found 36 bags of heroin, a loaded pistol, and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 05:14 pm Have you been saving your milk cartons? (Via Phil Are Go!)
Read in browser Adrian Tomine's New York Drawings: exclusive excerpt
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 05:06 pm Yesterday, I posted my interview with Adrian Tomine on the Gweek podcast. We talked about his new book, New York Drawings, which has every illustration he's done for The New Yorker. Below are some of the illustrations we talked about at length in the podcast. I like the way Adrian tells a little story in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2012 04:48 pm Etsy's eatmeclothing makes kick-ass video-game themed tights, including a Galaga set, Wonderboy, and Bubble Bobble (via The Mary Sue)
Read in browser Amazing build of the Batcave using Lego
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2012 04:28 pm Our friends at Laughing Squid have lots of photos of this great Lego build of the Batcave. I like the dramatic lighting. Incredible LEGO Batcave Built Out of Over 20,000 Pieces
Read in browser Bong: "Live At Roadburn 2010" music review
By Aquarius on Oct 11, 2012 04:03 pm After enthused hails from the crowd, the first of two loooooong tracks starts up, or seeps in, eerie and airy and understated, quite lovely really, not at all heavy, but nicely hypnotic...
Read in browser Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century.
Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their inner maker” as they design and build projects like stamps, stop-motion animation clips, and “vibrobots.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRKXqDwieY&feature=plcp]
This might seem all shiny and new. And it is—but only in part. What’s so striking (and exciting) about SparkTruck is the way it combines old and new. It does so in the tools it gets kids using, which range from pipe cleaners to laser cutters. It does so in its educational approach, which combines cutting-edge (get it?) STEM and design pedagogy with the fundamentals of an old-school shop class. And it does so in its method, which combines the iconic, century-old technology of the bookmobile with the hot new form of the maker space.
In doing so, SparkTruck joins a growing number of libraries which are combining time-tested principles (like equal access to information) with new technologies (like 3-D printers), putting in maker spaces and media production labs alongside bookshelves and meeting rooms. As I’ve argued over on bookmobility.org, these combinations make sense because reading and making actually have a lot in common. They’re both creative processes that take existing materials and combine them in new ways. Getting people engaged in those kinds of processes—through imaginative thinking, contemplation, hands-on problem-solving, and collaborative learning—is what both maker spaces and libraries are all about.
Taking that commitment on the road with scissors and hammers and 3-D printers and a great big bookmobile-like truck, SparkTruck serves as a laboratory for new approaches, as well as a reminder that trying new things doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t!) necessarily mean tossing old ones out.
After all, what would those vibrobots be without classically crafty pipe cleaners and tongue depressors? And what would a library be without the creative, participatory, straight-up awesome experience of reading?
SparkTruck schedule [sparktruck.org]
How to arrange a visit from SparkTruck [sparktruck.org]
SparkTruck YouTube channel [youtube.com]
Signature: --Derek Attig, bookmobility.org
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