Chinese netizens angered by "princelings" — spoiled children of the rich and powerful Flying Spaghetti Monster cosplayer LibDems get to vote on copyright reform, but who inserted the clause saying downloading should be a criminal act? Insurer: music-festival tragedy caused by illegal downloading Live sketches of panels from SF MusicTech Summit 1937: AP claims blondes are "much more dangerous" drivers Author's Guild versus university libraries: a dead letter Teacher Levi Simons: No reason why you can't get meaningful scientific data from 14-year-olds Buddhist monks destroy Muslim shrine in Sri Lanka Amish buggy decals Arkansas town plagued with series of "toe-sucking" creeps FBI on reports of anti-Muslim lecture for agents: move along, nothing to see here Excellent gentleman changes name to "Led Zeppelin II" Catthursday (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) Crónicas de Héroes: positive actions by everyday citizens in México House Industries makes furniture for Herman Miller in Japan Papercraft 1:1 model of a 1969 Mustang, accurate to the smallest component If She-Ra had been a golden age sf movie TONX: New, subscription-based "artisanal coffee" by mail Typo in romantic novel causes bowel movement during love scene Mugshots of Amish who won't put orange triangles on their buggies IUDs may offer cancer protection Feds wrongly raid home of CBS correspondent Futures Impossible : a new methodology to study world events Launch of a honey bartering business Two stars, one planet 6-year-old finds rare fossil Mini-documentary on immigrant musicians Diana Gameros and Sandy García Pérez Elephants are friends (BB Flickr Pool) LAPD detains man in SpongeBob SquarePants outfit 
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Chinese netizens angered by "princelings" — spoiled children of the rich and powerful
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 12:09 pm From CNN, an article about the growing anger in China at "taizidang" ("princelings"), the spoiled children of the rich and powerful who make the news for driving luxury cars into innocent bystanders, demanding special treatment from law enforcement, and receiving …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 12:05 pm DotD snapped this excellent photo of an adorable Flying Spaghetti Monster cosplayer at this year's DragonCon.I love the noodly appendages! Flying Spaghetti Monster (sexy version!)
Read in browser LibDems get to vote on copyright reform, but who inserted the clause saying downloading should be a criminal act?
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 11:02 am My latest Guardian column, "Lib Dems get a chance to vote on copyright reform," discusses the new Liberal Democrat IT white paper that's being presented at the party conference this weekend, where members will get the chance to vote in …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 10:57 am Ernesto sez, "In August, after an unexpected summer storm, 4 people died when one of the festival tents at pukkelpop collapsed, leaving 10s of other people injured. The festival's insurance companies now claim this drama was caused by illegal downloading. …
Continue reading → Read in browser Live sketches of panels from SF MusicTech Summit
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 03:19 am Long time friend of Boing Boing Brian Zisk throws the SF MusicTech Summit, the conference at the convergence of Internet Music and Technology. SF Intercom Creator Stefan Aronsen creates awesome live sketches of the panels he attends, and finally created …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 03:17 am Scott Edelman sez, "In a statement which I assume has all the scientific accuracy of phrenology, optometrist Irving Strauss was quoted in a May 1937 Associated Press article as stating that blonde drivers are 'much more dangerous' than brunettes because: …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 16, 2011 03:14 am You may have heard that the Author's Guild is suing the HathiTrust, a coalition of libraries that is proposing to share their scans of some out-of-print books whose authors can't be located, passing them around among themselves. Corynne McSherry from …
Continue reading → Read in browser Teacher Levi Simons: No reason why you can't get meaningful scientific data from 14-year-olds
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 16, 2011 12:51 am Hurray for Crashspace member, high school science teacher, and Boing Boing reader Levi Simons for winning an "Unsung Heroes" grant from ING, the financial services institution! The honor comes with a $2,000 grant that Levi will use to fund "The …
Continue reading → Read in browser Buddhist monks destroy Muslim shrine in Sri Lanka
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 16, 2011 12:10 am Just because you're a Buddhist monk doesn't mean you can't be an asshole. BBC News reports that "a group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine last week," in Anuradhapura, an ancient Buddhist …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 16, 2011 12:01 am nervousMONSTER says: "Saw your Amish Mugshots post & thought you might be interested in this buggy picture I snapped on Sunday."
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 11:52 pm Police in a small town near Little Rock, Arkansas "have received two complaints in the past week about a man who seems desperate to suck women's toes — whether they want him to or not." This same town was previously …
Continue reading → Read in browser FBI on reports of anti-Muslim lecture for agents: move along, nothing to see here
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 11:24 pm The AP reports that the FBI says a lecture at the bureau's training academy which portrayed moderate American Muslims as inherently violent and prone to terrorist tendencies "has been discontinued." Spencer Ackerman at Wired.com first broke the story yesterday. AP: …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 11:09 pm Missouri resident George F. Blackburn had a moment of inspiration one day when he went to the local courthouse to finalize his divorce from his third wife. The 64-year-old gentleman seized the opportunity to file papers with the clerk's office …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 10:11 pm In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, reader Chris Arnade shared another great photo of a kitten in Bushwick, Brooklyn, just in time for CAT-THURS-DAY. In the same grimy stairwell as this guy, Bushwick Kitten, was this little tortoiseshell-tabby playing on …
Continue reading → Read in browser Crónicas de Héroes: positive actions by everyday citizens in México
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 10:04 pm If you see something (awesome), say something. Crónicas de Héroes is a mapping project to document and pay tribute to the honorable actions of normal people in cities like Juarez and Monterrey, held captive by a worsening climate of terror …
Continue reading → Read in browser House Industries makes furniture for Herman Miller in Japan
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 10:04 pm The wooden crates for these Eames Office wire frame tables -- which House Industries designed for Herman Miller in Japan -- are as cool as the contents. House Industries and Herman Miller Japan announce a conceptually elegant collaboration that combines …
Continue reading → Read in browser Papercraft 1:1 model of a 1969 Mustang, accurate to the smallest component
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 07:59 pm Artist Jonathan Brand is working his way through a papercraft 1:1 model of a 1969 Mustang coupe, beginning with the engine, and (eventually), making his way through the rest of it. It's fabulous all in one piece, as shown here, …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 07:56 pm Sean Hartter does a great line in "Alternate Universe Movie Posters," prints of which he sells from his site; the latest edition is this "She-Ra Princess of Power" golden age pulpy sci-fi flick, written by Andre Norton, whom, I sure, …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 07:56 pm My friend and fellow coffee-lover Tony Konecny, aka @tonx, has launched a cool new business with co-founder Nikolaus Bauman at tonx.org. For $35 a month, they'll ship you a 12-oz bag every two weeks of their favorite beans fresh-roasted (like, …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 07:32 pm "I apologise to anyone who bought my on-sale ebook of Baby, I'm Yours and read on pg 293: 'He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shitted on the ground'," writes Susan Andersen. "Shifted …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 07:08 pm Mugshots of Amish men who refuse to put reflective orange triangles on their buggies.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 15, 2011 06:53 pm Really interesting new study of 20,000 women suggests that the use of IUDs might reduce the risk of both major types of cervical cancer, even in women who contracted cancer-causing HPV. The researchers speculate that the IUD's presence—it is, after …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 06:52 pm Whoops, wrong house. Some new parents got an unexpected scare Wednesday morning when they awoke to a team of armed Federal Bureau of Investigation agents attempting to raid their home. CBS News correspondent Priya David and her husband Alex Clemens …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 06:30 pm I asked my friend and fellow beekeeper Russell Bates to write about a new honey bartering concern he and his wife Amy started, called Feral Honey & Bee. They don't sell honey; they barter it for other goods from businesses …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 15, 2011 06:26 pm Stream videos at Ustream The Kepler space telescope has found a new, fun discovery that promises years of great Star Wars jokes. Kepler-16b is a planet that represents a type of system we've never seen before—at least, in the real …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 15, 2011 06:02 pm So, it's not a T-Rex skeleton, but otherwise I think this little girl is pretty much living out the childhood dreams of you, me, and everyone we know. Video Link Thanks, Kimberly Clarke!
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 15, 2011 05:37 pm BAMM.tv recently made a lovely mini-documentary about two Latin musicians who emigrated to San Francisco, including my dear friend singer/songwriter Diana Gameros from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose music has been previously featured on Boing Boing, and percussionist Sandy García Pérez …
Continue reading → Read in browser Elephants are friends (BB Flickr Pool)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 05:26 pm (Image: Best friends., a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image contributed to the BB Flickr Pool from hyper7's photostream)
Read in browser LAPD detains man in SpongeBob SquarePants outfit
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 05:11 pm From the Los Angeles Police Protective League email newsletter: "A man dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, officials said Wednesday. The man was questioned but not arrested Tuesday in what a Los …
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