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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 28, 2011 09:38 am Margaret Thatcher leads Britain's former prime-ministers in claiming expenses back from the taxpayer. She's been reimbursed more than £500,000 in the past five years. Figures revealed by the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, in response to a written parliamentary question by the Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, show that Thatcher has received £535,000 from the state ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 28, 2011 07:14 am Zombie Poodle, an unsourced net-finding, shows how a little creative dog grooming can turn even the cutest dog-breeds into shambling zombies. Just a Zombie Poodle (Pic) (via Neatorama)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 28, 2011 01:41 am OAKLAND RIOT CAT. Here's the background. (via Renny Gleeson)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 11:43 pm The Guardian has an update on the case of Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who suffered serious head injuries after being hit by a projectile fired by police during the Occupy Oakland protests Tuesday night. He will undergo brain surgery within the next 48 hours. Donations collected here to help with medical costs. Updates ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 10:12 pm Lalo Alcaraz, the artist and Uppity Mexican-American commentator who created the totally dope new "Occupy"/"Anonymous" poster above, is at laloalcaraz.com and pocho.com. I asked Lalo for info on how those interested can obtain prints, and he tells Boing Boing: They should check in at laloalcaraz.com to see which signed prints are currently available, and especially ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 10:05 pm Update, Oct. 27, 5pm Pacific: Olsen will undergo brain surgery "within the next one or two days." In the photo above, Veterans For Peace member Scott Olsen, who is identified as a former U.S. Marine and Iraq war veteran, lies on the street after being struck in the head by a police projectile in Oakland, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 09:54 pm JWZ proposed a two-step plan to help Google realize its stated goal of allowing pseudonyms on Google+: 1. Stop deleting peoples' accounts when you suspect that the name they are using is not their legal name. 2. There is no step 2. Googlers voted up the question "can we do this?" for a response at ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 09:31 pm "How can the government justify charging students nearly 7 percent while it charges the banks nothing and can itself borrow for less than nothing?" —Tamara Draut, writing at The Nation. (via Ned Sublette)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 09:27 pm Mexico's Blog del Narco, the subject of a previous Boing Boing interview feature, denounces attempts at censorship as access to their website access is blocked. More: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. (Via @Rosental)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 09:14 pm Forbes and Betabeat report that the TSA screener responsible for leaving a pervy note in Feministe's Jill Filipovic's checked luggage (after finding a sex toy there) has been fired.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 08:44 pm [Video Link]. Fucking gangs, how do they work? Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room blog: "The FBI considers the fans of shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips, Bloods, and Aryan Brotherhood, according to its annual report on gang activity." (thanks, Noah Shachtman)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 08:38 pm [Video Link] "Satellite," the latest music video for pop tunesmith, multi-instrumentalist, and record collector Brandon Schott, directed by Matt Barrios. Buy Brandon's latest record "13 Satellites" on Amazon, iTunes, or Spotify. (via Hustler of Culture)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 07:51 pm Here's a quick and easy recipe for making your own fog machine for $5 worth of household objects: a candle, glycerin, water, a pop bottle, and a disposable pieplate. 5 Dollar Fog Machine (via Red Ferret)
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Oct 27, 2011 07:39 pm Sound It Out #4: Say Hi -- "Devils"It's getting to be the end of the year, which is traditionally a slow time for interesting new music. I'm going to scatter in a few songs in coming weeks that came out in early 2011 and didn't get the attention they deserved. Here's one now: Say Hi ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 07:05 pm Matt Freidell, a video editor/producer who created a company called The Glossary to produce short trailers for books, wrote to say, "I read the novella included in your newest release The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow and between the nostalgia of the actual Disney ride and all the great futuristic elements, it really conjured up some ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 06:33 pm Blackboard, the ubiquitous, hedge-fund-backed classroom software found on campuses around the world, has just changed its billing structure to make it possible for schools to share their courseware without having to pay fees for members of the public who audit the course or download its materials. This is a pretty substantial shift. As EFF co-founder ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 05:52 pm Rob Ford is Toronto's buffonish embarrassment of a mayor, elected by the suburbs to "end Toronto's war on cars" and "open the city for business," he declared that he would save money by "ending the gravy train" of city spending, only to take office and discover that the only discretionary funding that remained to be ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 27, 2011 05:45 pm I'll be the guest on the Dr. Kiki's Science Hour podcast today. The live show starts at 6:00 pm Central time/ 4:00 pm Pacific. Can't join us this afternoon? A recording of the show will be posted on Saturday.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 05:39 pm Christopher Soghoian's NYT op-ed on one important lesson from Wikileaks: infosec for journalists and their sources. "Sadly, operational computer security is still not taught in most journalism schools, and poor data security practices remain widespread in news organizations. Confidential information is sent over regular phone lines and via text messages and e-mail, all of which ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 05:35 pm Kim Zetter, Wired Threat Level: "Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008, according to a report to be released next month from a congressional commission." They accessed the satellites, which are used for climate and terrain monitoring, through a ground station in Norway.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 05:27 pm This concept design for a "microbial home" centered around a methane digester hub that feeds gas from your food into various appliances has a nice, bodgy, Rube Goldberg feel. We can call it methanepunk (not perfect, but better than "fartpunk"). The Microbial Home is viewed as a cyclical biological machine where wastes like sewage, effluent, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 05:23 pm [Video Link: "Police Presence at Occupy Wall Street"] From Casimir Nozkowski and the guys behind Internets Celebrities (Twitter), whom we've featured on Boing Boing's Virgin America in-flight TV channel, here are two new videos about Occupy Wall Street. First: On the morning of October 14th 2011, the NYPD were to come in and facilitate the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 27, 2011 05:02 pm [Video Link: "To Catch a Journalist."] On the website of Andrew Breitbart, who wasn't always like this, this item today: Earlier this morning, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a new video that sheds light on the way the New York Times promotes its favored candidates and causes, from Barack Obama to Occupy Wall Street. Veritas, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 27, 2011 04:23 pm Vimeo's snobbish policy against footage of video games has long upset indie developers. Recently, however, it began pitching a $200 account upsell directly with ban notifications, and the dam of rage has broken. Brandon Boyer sums it up for Kotaku: "it's a deliberate and prejudicial exclusion of an entire mode of creative and artistic expression ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 27, 2011 04:22 pm A five-hour Irvine, Orange County, CA city council meeting ended with the council unanimously agreeing that the Occupy tents on the town hall's lawn were a form of free speech and vowing to "add the needs of 'The 99%' to their official agenda." Afterwards, the mayor asked the protesters if they needed any more blankets. ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 27, 2011 04:12 pm Some of Belgian artist Peyo's early drawings are headed to the auction house, where they are expected to fetch $160,000 or more. [Reuters]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 27, 2011 04:08 pm What happens when you combine science, art, and humor? Join Marc Abrahams of the Ig Nobel Prizes and Brian Wecht, a theoretical physicist and half of the music comedy duo Ninja Sex Party, for a live chat on the connections between creativity and research. The chat starts today at 3:00 pm Eastern time.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 27, 2011 04:08 pm RIM faces class-action lawsuits for its extended service outages last month, with the first already filed in California and Canada. [Ars Technica]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 27, 2011 04:04 pm Once upon a time, people sent monkeys and dogs into the stratosphere as test subjects aboard rockets we weren't yet willing to put a human being on top of. We also used mice to gauge how microgravity was likely to affect humans, as seen in the old video clip above. Today, animals still go into ...
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