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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 23, 2012 12:04 pm East London's Nobrow Press sent me a review pack last week, including a couple of kids' comics featuring Luke Pearson's Hilda. Poesy is almost four, and we recently graduated from wordless comics (like Régis Faller's Polo) to Art Spiegelman's wonderful Jack and the Box, and I was curious about how she'd like these. My own ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 23, 2012 05:29 am ACTA is a secretly negotiated copyright treaty that obliges its signatories to take on many of the worst features of SOPA and PIPA. The EU is nearing ratification of it. ACTA was instigated by US trade reps under the Bush Administration, who devised and enforced its unique secrecy regime, but the Obama administration enthusiastically pursued ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 22, 2012 11:52 pm Lamar Smith, are you reading this? (Via Mitch O'Connell)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 07:16 pm Christopher Johnson, a Canadian journalist residing (until recently) in Japan published a ghastly account of his return to Tokyo after a short pre-Christmas trip. He was flagged at the border (he implies that this is related to his coverage of Fukushima), held, threatened, and shaken down for bribes before being detained without counsel or a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 06:04 pm Julian Sanchez is on fire in this Ars Technica article on the funny accountancy and outright lies that underlie the harms-from-piracy stats cited in policy debates about Internet censorship and surveillance proposals like SOPA and PIPA: As a rough analogy, since antipiracy crusaders are fond of equating filesharing with shoplifting: suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 05:57 pm The former senator and now CEO of the MPAA can't catch a break: "You've got an opponent who has the capacity to reach millions of people with a click of a mouse and there's no fact-checker." Must be terribly hard to represent the largest media empires in the world, who collectively own all the major ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 04:17 pm Chrisperfer sez, "I randomly came upon this Isaac Asimov graffiti when attending a birthday party in Rome for my 4 year old daughter's friend." Isaac Asimov
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 04:06 pm For Polish readers: StopACTA.pl is your clearinghouse for action in the Polish fight against the punitive ACTA copyright treaty.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 03:06 pm Here's a Filipino traffic-cop performing his duties while breakdancing, to the great delight of a large and excited crowd. Filipino Traffic Cop Doing His Job Like A Boss (via 3 Quarks Daily)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 02:03 pm Inspired by a Warren Ellis tweet, Robert made this fitting Newt bumper-sticker. Newt 2012 (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 01:14 pm Sumitsumit sez, "Tired of carpet, want wood floors, but living in a rental apartment? If you have the low-pile variety, here's an economical way to make yourself a great new floor without damaging the underlying carpet. From the guy who brought you 'rope bondage for laptops.'" How to Install a Wood Floor on top of ...
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