Blowing up Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here" Review: Canon Eos M Iron Lady delays Iron Man Anne Frank, Belieber Canadian govt demands a 10-page questionnaire & CV in order to seek permission to comment on oil pipeline Major Disneyland attractions shut over OSHA violations Glow-in-the-dark Haunted Mansion tee Loungy, alt-country version of The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" Google adds a "dead-man's switch" -- uses cases from torture-resistance to digital wills Insane tees - Kickstarted, full-shirt printing with indie artist designs Sokolsky's surreal girl-in-a-bubble Paris fashion photos, 1963 Day care worker bites child to show that biting is wrong Blowing up Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here"
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2013 11:42 am Tim Wu has written an admirably economical and restrained review of Evgeny Morozov's new book, "To Save Everything, Click Here." I wrote a long critique of Morozov's first book in 2011, and back then, I found myself unable to restrain myself from enumerating the many, many flaws in the book and its fundamental dishonesty, pandering ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 14, 2013 11:35 am Great shots, but the autofocus is crap. 3/5 Canon EOS M [Amazon]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 14, 2013 11:23 am Organizers of the UK premiere of Iron Man 3 delayed the event due to its conflict with Baroness Thatcher's funeral.
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 14, 2013 10:42 am Anne Frank House writes: Yesterday night Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. In our guestbook he wrote: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2013 09:25 am Under Canada's newly gutted environmental laws, members of the public who want to comment on the upcoming hearings on the new Enbridge oil pipeline must beg for permission by fillling in an obscure, ten-page questionnaire and submitting a CV. It's as though the Harper government has fingerpainted FUCK OFF AND DIE on Parliament in heavy ...
Read in browser Major Disneyland attractions shut over OSHA violations
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2013 12:18 am California Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) has served notice on Disneyland over three attractions, which led to their shut-down yesterday. In 2006, Disney agreed to make changes to the staff areas at the park, and the OSHA notice apparently related to lack of progress on these promises. The citations were related a 2006 agreement to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2013 11:46 pm I'm at LAX as I type this, heading home from a great family spring break in LA that culminated with a trip to Disneyland. While I was at the Mouse, I happened upon this killer Haunted Mansion t-shirt, which wasn't available in my size at first, but later got re-stocked. I'm wearing it now. it ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 13, 2013 11:31 pm For BB pals Gil and Steph, here's a fan-made video for alt-country group Lambchop's wonderful folky, loungy cover of "This Corrosion," the epic 1987 triumph of goth bombast by The Sisters of Mercy. And if it makes you yearn for some Sisters, check out the original video below.
Read in browser Google adds a "dead-man's switch" -- uses cases from torture-resistance to digital wills
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2013 11:12 pm Google's rolled out an "Inactive Account Manager" -- a dead-man's switch for your Google accounts. If you set it, Google will watch your account for protracted inactivity. After a set period, you can tell it to either squawk ("Email Amnesty International and tell them I'm in jail," or "Email my kids and tell them I'm ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2013 10:03 pm Jordan sez, "Our t-shirt company was just successfully funded through Kickstarter, now at $46,000+ with 4 days to go. We take insane art from independent artists and throw them on shirts using a new type of printing called Sublimation. It allows us to print ALL OVER the shirt in extremely vibrant colors." Not all this ...
Read in browser Sokolsky's surreal girl-in-a-bubble Paris fashion photos, 1963
By David Pescovitz on Apr 13, 2013 07:52 pm For the 1963 spring collection fashion editorial in Harper's Bazaar, Melvin Sokolsky photographed model Simone d'Aillencourt in a bubble, dreamily floating around Paris. All of the stunning images have been collected in a limited-edition art book packaged in a die-cut lucite slipcase. "Harper's Bazaar 'Bubble' Spring Collection" Paris 1963: A Limited Edition Art Book
Read in browser Day care worker bites child to show that biting is wrong
By David Pescovitz on Apr 13, 2013 02:35 pm A biting incident got someone kicked out of a Cincinnati-area day care on Thursday. That someone was day care worker Robin Mullins, 56, who bit a young child "to teach him a lesson," according to court records. From Cincinnati.com: According to court documents, the 5-year-old bit another child at Andrew's Friends Pre-School & Daycare, 9870 ...
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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