Korea: Apple sued by 27K iPhone users who claim location-tracking privacy violations On Navajo reservation, half a million dogs roam wild, sometimes eating people Cops in trouble for xtranormal cartoon, police dept. claims their YouTube video amounts to "cyberstalking" UK riots: update on two young men each jailed for four years "for using Facebook to incite disorder" Help this man launch his plastic bottle island Gene Leonhardt ("You Dun Goofed" dad) dead at 53 Spherical playing card lampshade Stephen Colbert's 3D printed head goes to space Doctor Who corset Charlie Stross on network security in 2061 Daily Mail rips off my wife's photo after asking permission and being turned down Paintings of paused VHS frames Damning 2007 letter asserts that phone hacking was an open practice at News of the World Renault: the car for men who don't worry about their penises Copyright troll handed ass (again), tries saddest trick ever to get out of paying its victim's legal bills Woman who recorded Massachusetts police beating charged with illegal wiretapping Ex-PBS affiliate KCET inks $50 million TV deal with 3D tech co Cat requires privacy while on potty David Byrne's fake iPhone apps MTV explains the Internet in 1995 Boing Boing on Rachel Maddow Show: Subverting hate with "Trojan t-shirts" Lizzy Mercier Descloux's "Fire" (1979) Report: Two UK citizens get 4 yrs each for "inciting riots on Facebook" Jim Jones plotted a 9/11-style plane crash Behind the scenes at Purebred Studio's Monster Hunter photo shoot In-game Ponzi nets US$50K Biosensors as temporary tattoos Leaping cow crushes car, dies Tibetan monk self-immolates to protest China Arduino device mutes uninteresting celebrities on TV 
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Korea: Apple sued by 27K iPhone users who claim location-tracking privacy violations
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 04:09 am A group of 27,612 iPhone users in South Korea is suing Apple, claiming that the iPhone's gathering of user location data amounts to a violation of personal privacy. Each claimant is demanding 1 million won (US$932); if all 27,612 of …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 02:02 am More than 445,000 dogs, most of which "roam unchecked," are killing livestock and sometimes attacking humans on Navajo Nation land in the American southwest. AP via MSNBC.com.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 01:10 am [Video Link for one of the nine videos in question; the Seattle Stranger has all nine here.] Two Washington state policemen used xtranormal to create a series of videos mocking each other, and the correctional systems management company that oversees …
Continue reading → Read in browser UK riots: update on two young men each jailed for four years "for using Facebook to incite disorder"
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 17, 2011 01:04 am The Guardian has more on the cases of Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, who were today sentenced to four years each in jail for "using Facebook to incite disorder." However, neither of their Facebook posts "resulted in a …
Continue reading → Read in browser Help this man launch his plastic bottle island
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 17, 2011 01:01 am Last year Xeni posted about Rishi Sowa, who lives on a floating island made from plastic bottles. Today he wrote to me and said: I have spent the last several years building my home on an island I have made …
Continue reading → Read in browser Gene Leonhardt ("You Dun Goofed" dad) dead at 53
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 17, 2011 12:55 am Gene Leonhardt, who became an instant internet legend after angrily defending his daughter from online critics, died this week of a heart attack. He was 53. Know Your Meme writes: On August 14th, 2011, Jessi's mother posted a status update …
Continue reading → Read in browser Spherical playing card lampshade
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 11:48 pm Nick Sayers (whose Flickr stream is stuffed with photos of awesome stuff he's made) created this beautiful playing-card sphere lampshade, based on a similar IQLight design, uponwhich he's produced further impressive variations. Playing cards sphere (slotted) (via Craft)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 10:38 pm The MakerBot folks printed out Stephen Colbert (they'd scanned it earlier for an appearance on Colbert's show) and attached it to a weather balloon with a FlipCam and a GPS; Colbert's head sailed into space, got some killer photos, and …
Continue reading → Read in browser Doctor Who corset
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 10:31 pm Hugh sez, "This corset was made by my good friend, Nikki Cohen of MayFaire Moon Corsets. It's designed to look like the TARDIS from Dr. Who. It may be the first corset that's larger on the inside than the outside..." …
Continue reading → Read in browser Charlie Stross on network security in 2061
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 10:28 pm Charlie Stross has published the text of his smashing and mind-bending keynote to the 2011 USENIX conference, on the subject of network security in 50 years: Initially I see lifelogging having specific niches; as an aid for people with early-stage …
Continue reading → Read in browser Daily Mail rips off my wife's photo after asking permission and being turned down
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 10:25 pm Last week, I published my wife Alice's picture of The Gap's "death-camp chic" ultra-skinny mannequins. Various newspapers subsequently approached my wife for permission to use the pic, and while she gladly gave permission to the Washington Post, she was much …
Continue reading → Read in browser Paintings of paused VHS frames
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 10:21 pm Swiss artist Andy Denzler makes oil paintings inspired by the glitchy paused frames of VHS tapes. From Wired UK: "I'm pushing the boundaries and possibilities of abstract and photorealism. It's as if I've pressed the fast-forward on a video machine, …
Continue reading → Read in browser Damning 2007 letter asserts that phone hacking was an open practice at News of the World
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 10:14 pm Clive Goodman, the News of the World royals reporter who resigned in disgrace, wrote a letter to News International's HR department four years ago asserting that the editorial staff of the NoTW knew about the phone hacking, that it was …
Continue reading → Read in browser Renault: the car for men who don't worry about their penises
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 09:34 pm This 1970 Renault ad attempts to entice customers who don't worry if their car makes them feel inadequate in the penis department. I'm inordinately fond of the phrase "fancy-price fantasy wagon," I must say. Renault (1970)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 09:33 pm Everyone's favorite copyright troll Righthaven has once again had its ass handed to it. The company, which was spun out of a Nevada newspaper, sublicenses the right to sue people from copyright holders, then sends legal threats to bloggers and …
Continue reading → Read in browser Woman who recorded Massachusetts police beating charged with illegal wiretapping
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 09:33 pm Michaelann sez, "Four Springfield Mass police officers beat Melvin Jones in 2009 and the incident was captured on videotape by a resident. Now, one of the four officers involved, who was suspended for 45 days, is seeking a criminal complaint …
Continue reading → Read in browser Ex-PBS affiliate KCET inks $50 million TV deal with 3D tech co
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 08:44 pm KCET, a Southern California television station that was once a PBS affiliate, has signed a 5-year deal valued at $50 million to create local programming with a 3D modeling and scanning company, Eyetronics (web, Facebook). Among the assets Eyetronics brings …
Continue reading → Read in browser Cat requires privacy while on potty
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 07:32 pm [Video Link, thanks Tara McGinley]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 16, 2011 07:02 pm David Byrne made a bunch of fake screenshots for iPhone apps that don't exist. They'll be in an exhibit called "Social Media," at The Pace Gallery (510 West 25th Street) from September 16 - October 15. Show description: "The exhibition …
Continue reading → Read in browser MTV explains the Internet in 1995
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 16, 2011 06:00 pm [Video Link] In 1995 MTV explained the Internet. Kurt Loder: "Are you jacked into the Internet? Are you one of those computer guys?" David Bowie: "I did at one time; a couple of years ago. But I got so tired …
Continue reading → Read in browser Boing Boing on Rachel Maddow Show: Subverting hate with "Trojan t-shirts"
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 05:49 pm Rachel Maddow featured an excellent BB post that Cory wrote about "trick" t-shirts to punk neo-nazis on last night's show. She described BB as "One of the websites that most justifies the existence of the entire internet." Thank you, Rachel! …
Continue reading → Read in browser Lizzy Mercier Descloux's "Fire" (1979)
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 05:43 pm [video link] French no wave chanteuse Lizzy Mercier Descloux flipping her hair and "performing" "Fire," written by Arthur Brown, from Descloux's 1979 album "Press Color." Yes, that's good ol' Serge Gainsbourg grinning at the beginning. (via Holy Warbles)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 05:36 pm The Sun, such as it is, reports that "Two men have been jailed for four years for inciting riots on Facebook." They are reported to be Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22.
Read in browser Jim Jones plotted a 9/11-style plane crash
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 05:26 pm Before cult leader Jim Jones convinced more than 900 people in Guyana to kill themselves, or be killed, in an act of what he called "revolutionary suicide," he had plotted to hijack an airplane and crash it into the city …
Continue reading → Read in browser Behind the scenes at Purebred Studio's Monster Hunter photo shoot
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 04:58 pm Remember Purebred Studio's magnificent phantasmagoric photographs that I posted last month of artist Alex Pardee battling a tree monster? By popular demand, Purebred's Stacey Ransom and Jason Mitchell posted amazing "behind the scenes" documentation at their Fake Believe site. They've …
Continue reading → Read in browser In-game Ponzi nets US$50K
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 04:51 pm Two players of the Eve Online MMORPG pulled off a Ponzi scheme that netted them over 1 billion ISK (Eve Online's currency, a sum that can be exchanged for about USD50,000). They ran the Ponzi scheme like any other, soliciting …
Continue reading → Read in browser Biosensors as temporary tattoos
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 04:48 pm Continuing efforts to more seamlessly integrate biosensors with our bodies, Princeton University researchers developed a temporary tattoo-like platform for "epidermal electronics." Nanoengineer Michael McAlpine and his colleagues published their work in last week's issue of the journal Science. From Science …
Continue reading → Read in browser Leaping cow crushes car, dies
By David Pescovitz on Aug 16, 2011 04:38 pm In Leek, Staffordshire, England, a cow fleeing a farmer managed to jump a roadside fence but landed on the hood of a car. Robert Gould's car suffered dents and a broken wheel, but sadly the cow died. From The Telegraph: …
Continue reading → Read in browser Tibetan monk self-immolates to protest China
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 04:33 pm Free Tibet reports: "A 29-year-old monk, Tsewang Norbu, also known as Norko, set himself on fire on the Chume Bridge in the centre of Tawu, Kandze Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province at 12:30 pm [Monday, Tibet local time]. Tsewang Norbu drank …
Continue reading → Read in browser Arduino device mutes uninteresting celebrities on TV
By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 16, 2011 04:22 pm Matt Richardson of MAKE built this wonderful Arduino device that scans a TV show's closed caption track and mutes the TV when anyone on of his celebrity-blacklist is mentioned. The Enough Already: The Arduino Solution to Overexposed Celebs
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