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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 12:58 pm The Wall Street Journal published a letter expressing skepticism about anthropogenic climate change signed by a group of engineers, retired weathermen, and scientists from fields other than climate science. In response, a much larger group of actual climate scientists signed onto a letter rebutting the first letter. The WSJ rejected it. Instead, the pre-eminent science ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 28, 2012 09:02 am Kang Duck-Bong is a Korean sculptor who makes pieces from bundled PVC pipes that appear to be in rapid motion. Disguise 1: pvc pipe, urethane paint, 90x28x55cm, 2011 (via Kottke)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 28, 2012 05:57 am I already have a lifetime supply of notebooks, but I'll be buying these Lego Moleskines just in case there's a mortality cure coming down the pipes.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 11:40 pm From an article by Jake Brodkin at Ars Technica: "Twitter has taken the unusual step of making DMCA takedown notices public, in partnership with Chilling Effects, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities. The site shows 4,410 cease and desist notices dating back to November 2010." Here's the database on Chillingeffects.org. (Twitter's effort ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jan 27, 2012 11:18 pm Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf "Waiting for Something" Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades. Their records are lush and beautifully written, and the constant sense of wonder and optimism throughout is a joy for this cynic to discover each time. Nada Surf always makes me ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 10:49 pm An explainer from Eva Galperin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Twitter's "country-based tweet takedown" news. The key point here, which has been missing in much of the initial coverage, is that the policy announcement is specifically related to the company's global expansion: Twitter is opening offices in more countries around the world. A US-based ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 10:14 pm Pat Aufderheide sez, When is it OK for me to put copyrighted material on e-reserves for students? I've got an ancient VHS and the company that made it is defunct. Can I copy it to DVD for a prof's class? A student's thesis analyzes advertisements and includes some of them. Can I put the thesis ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 09:54 pm [Video Link] Amy Seidenwurm says: "'Brothers' by The War on Drugs was possibly my favorite song of 2011. They just released a supremely creepy video for it."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 09:33 pm [Video Link] Sounds like this documentary explores the same kind of mass psychological manipulation that Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays invented to convince Americans that it was a good idea to get involved in World War One, as well as convince women that they'd become socially powerful if they smoked cigarettes. Directed by filmmaker Pete McGrain ...
Read in browser Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977
By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 08:37 pm Klaus Schulze pilots his Moog spaceship through the composition "For Barry Graves" live in 1977. The track can be found on "La Vie Electronique Vol. 5." The Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series, which started in 2009, are reissues of The Ultimate Edition, a CD box set from 2000 that contained a staggering 50 discs, ...
Read in browser Here's the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 08:05 pm Juha Saarinen sez, 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey New Zealand media were raided by police last November just before the general election, after the incumbent centre-right Prime Minister John Key made a criminal complaint over a recording of a conversation in a cafe between him and far right-wing politician John Banks during a staged media event. The ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:54 pm At Los Angeles International airport early this morning, TSA screeners mistook a woman's insulin pump for a gun. Screening and boarding at Terminal 4 were delayed as airport authorities searched for a woman they thought had a weapon.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:26 pm "It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product...He would proof it." Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul's company and former supporter of the Texas congressman, in the Washington Post today about those wacky racist newsletters previously mentioned here on Boing Boing.
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 07:20 pm A worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the town of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, just north of Tuscany. Around 10 ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 07:14 pm [Video Link] Short video of Maus creator Art Spiegelman getting a hero's welcome in France, where a museum in Angouleme is exhibiting a retrospective of his work. (Via Potrzebie)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jan 27, 2012 07:01 pm "This easy-to-use beauty and skincare product was developed by an ordinary housewife. Chikako Hirama was simply concerned about her own age and wanted an easy way to combat those telltale lines. Just try the yellow or pink Pupeko daily using such techniques as puffing out your cheeks or sucking them in while breathing through the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 06:53 pm RePress is a new WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress site into a proxy that can be used to circumvent national firewalls, including the systems used in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other countries where The Pirate Bay is blocked. The plugin is developed by the hosting company Greenhost and allows everyone with a WordPress ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 06:29 pm From the Guardian: "Earlier this month the FBI quietly published a request for information (RFI) looking for companies that might help it build a new social network monitoring system looking at "publicly available" information. Contractors have until 10 February to suggest solutions."
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 06:26 pm If you're working on a DIY version of the Hubble Space Telescope, this may come in handy. It's apparently the Vehicle Power Interface Console used at the Goddard Flight Center during pre-launch testing of the HST, and you can buy it now on eBay for $75,000. From the listing: Everything is housed in a very ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 06:19 pm Gothamist digs into whether NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's statements and actions regarding the production of an Islamophobic propaganda film "screened on a continuous loop for over 1,200 NYPD officers" may have been a violation of NYPD conduct codes. If you're new to the story, first read this NYT item, then this followup.
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 06:06 pm Photographer Edi Go made a beautiful photograph of an ugly plastic bag. "Elastic" by Edi Go (Behance, via Imaginary Foundation)
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 05:53 pm After noticing a lack of space for Rob's vintage synthesizer collection, Happy Mutants has decided not to purchase the ICBM silo and air park for sale in New York's Adirondacks. Instead, we have our sights on the Jamesburg Earth Station now for sale in Carmel Valley, California. As we speak, Weisberger is pawning a handful ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 05:45 pm Dunchead of amazingstuff.co.uk sez, "RBS boss Stephen Hester has accepted his bonus of £963,000 on top of his annual salary of £1.2 million. RBS is 80% owned by the UK taxpayer. This image represents his annual income as 2.2 million pixels, comparing it in 'income parade' style with other taxpayer-employed workers." RBS boss Stephen Hester's ...
Read in browser Newt Gingrich's pro-medical marijuana letter to Journal of the American Medical Ass'n., 1982
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:27 pm "On Sept 16, 1981, Representative Stewart McKinney and I introduced legislation designed to end bureaucratic interference in the use of marijuana as a medicant. We believe licensed physicians are competent to employ marijuana, and patients have a right to obtain marijuana legally, under medical supervision, from a regulated source." Newt Gingrich, hypocritical piece of shit, ...
Read in browser Documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project
By David Pescovitz on Jan 27, 2012 05:19 pm Several years ago, VH1 made a documentary about the Langley Schools Music Project, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. If you're not hip to the Langley Schools Music Project, you're in for a real treat. Between 1976 and 1977, music teacher Hans Fenger and a group of middle school students recorded two ...
Read in browser Richard Branson: It's time to end the failed war on drugs
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:14 pm "Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has failed globally. Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 05:10 pm From Ethan Persoff's ongoing chronicles of vintage weird ephemera: COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #7 - MADONNA ON AIDS. This public health pamphlet was handed out at one of her concerts, one night only, in 1987. Her image appears on the cover, and inside, a handwritten note urging for greater awareness of AIDS and an end to ...
Read in browser In Russia, tiny protest sparks big police response: LEGO minifigs, South Park dolls, and Wall-e demonstrate for democracy
By Xeni Jardin on Jan 27, 2012 04:38 pm (Photo above: RFE-RL; below, Ivan Krupchik.) Authorities in Russia are investigating the legality of a "doll demonstration" demanding "clean elections" in the Siberian city of Barnaul, and looking for the humans responsible. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that Russia's police "[arrest] anyone, young or old, who takes part in an "unsanctioned" opposition rally"—so, some ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 04:35 pm Nicko Margolies from the Sunlight Foundation sez, "A new analysis prepared by the Sunlight Foundation shows that wealthy financial sector donors gave $178.2 million in political contributions in 2010, more than ten times what they gave 20 years ago. More than any other industry, individuals from the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector, particularly ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 27, 2012 03:31 pm Sillysparrowness, a self-described "German teacher with a leaning towards silliness," described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis. I built a TARDIS (Thanks, scottiep!)
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