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Tor Books goes completely DRM-free Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner Internet freedom fighters listed Well-dressed chaps and chapettes protest Savile Row invasion by Abercrombie and Fitch Actor playing Judas dies on stage Car heads down subway stairs Places with single-letter names (including seven places in Norway called Å) Most highlighted passages on Kindle Famous painters breathing Hasbro tricks fan-blogger into revealing his address so they can send him legal threats over widely available leaked product Daniel Pinkwater's Mrs Noodlekugel, a kids' story that's as silly and pleasurable as ice-cream 172 Hours on the Moon -- exclusive excerpt 95 year old veteran and 85-year-old friend humiliated, searched and robbed at San Diego TSA checkpoint Vintage photo-portraits remade as superheroes Giant 6mm Nikon Fisheye for $160k Pay-What-You-Like pricing study is bullish on naming your own price Automatic generator for stupid PayPal product-names Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, King Tim III Lights A Fuse Reading all the privacy policies you "agree" to would take a month per year Harvard Library to faculty: we're going broke unless you go open access Art and science: "Your Inner Neanderthal" Is this the banana your grandchildren will eat? Logical fallacies poster Perhaps Contraption, an art-punk marching band Inside Santa's science workshop Tuesday: Live taping of Minnesota Public Radio's "Bright Ideas" Pizza sweatshirt Occupy Dagobah Tor Books goes completely DRM-free
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 12:52 pm Today, Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, announced that henceforth all of its ebooks would be completely DRM-free. This comes six weeks after an antitrust action against Tor's parent company, Macmillan USA, for price-fixing in relation to its arrangements with Apple and Amazon. Now that there is a major publisher that ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 12:44 pm "I came to the conclusion that this is not science fiction; this is not fantasy, it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism" [Philipkdick.com via Frankie Boyle]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 12:12 pm The Guardian picks its "Open 20" fighters for internet freedom. Included are Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jacob Appelbaum, and anonymous.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 11:50 am Readers of England's The Chap magazine staged an incredibly well-dressed protest outside Number 3 Savile Row, the former Apple Records headquarters, which is to become an Abercrombie and Fitch. Chaps of all description dressed in very nice suits and stood around bearing signs and banners with slogans like "give three piece a chance." The Chief ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 11:31 am "Klimeck was re-enacting the scene in which Judas commits suicide in repentance for his betrayal of Jesus Christ. Police are investigating the apparatus that was meant to support Klimeck. It appears the knot may have been wrongly tied." [BBC]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 11:04 am A driver tried to drive into the Chaussee d'Antin La Fayette Metro station in Paris on Tuesday, reportedly having mistaken it for a subterranean parking garage. The driver, who gave his name as Johan, told AFP: "There's a sign saying 'Haussmann Parking' right in front (of the Metro entrance), and ... I made a mistake." ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 10:57 am TheWorldGeography has a list of six places whose names are a single character: seven villages in Norway called Å and another in Sweden called Å, a river in Oregon called D and another in Scotland called E, Denmark's Ø hills, and a village in France called Y. Why not? Å is a village in the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 10:50 am The most highlighted passage on Kindle is "because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them," from Susanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Following is Jane Austen: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Then, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 24, 2012 10:40 am Whileseated posted this supercut of breaths, umms and ahhs from Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons and more. [via Animal New York]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 10:35 am Australian Nerf fans were outraged to learn how Martyn Yang, a Nerf-gun blogger writing for Urban Taggers, was tricked by Hasbro into revealing his home address with an offer of a giveaway for his readers, only to receive a lawsuit threat and takedown demand from Nerf's lawyers at that address. At issue is a review ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 24, 2012 09:00 am Daniel Pinkwater, a much-loved living treasure of children's literature, has a new book out today. It's called Mrs Noodlekugel and it is a simple, silly pleasure that feels like the end-product of a lifetime of telling children's stories, carefully removing all the elements that are extraneous to young readers' enjoyment until nothing but the essentials ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 24, 2012 12:31 am 172 Hours on the Moon is a young adult novel about three teenagers who go to the moon as winners of a global lottery, only to discover a terrible secret about why they were sent. Below, the prologue to the novel. Prologue: February 2010 "Gentlemen, it's time," Dr. ----- said, eyeing the seven some of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 11:26 pm Omer Petti is a 95-year-old USAF veteran with artificial knees and a heart condition. Madge Woodward, his partner, has an artificial hip. They recently flew home to Detroit from San Diego, and were humiliated and robbed at the San Diego airport TSA checkpoint. The metal in their bodies set off the TSA magnetometer, and Petti ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 09:00 pm Foto Marvellini, a Milanese art workshop, posted a set of vintage portraits remade as contemporary superheroes called "Le Biciclette." Le Biciclette - Milano (via The Mary Sue)
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By Jason Weisberger on Apr 23, 2012 08:09 pm Wide angle lenses are some of my favorite. Imaging resource has identified the widest of wide angle lenses for sale at a bargain price: $160,000. According to Amateur Photographer, the jumbo fisheye lens was created as the "the world's most most extreme wideangle lens to cover the 24x36mm image area when it was unveiled at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 08:00 pm A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports on an experiment to test how pay-what-you-like pricing performs when compared with merchant-driven "discount" pricing, and suggests that people pay more when given the choice. Ironically, the paper isn't priced on a pay-what-you like basis (it's $10 for two days' access). We investigate ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 07:20 pm The PayPal Product Name Generator automates PayPal's nasty habit of giving stupid product names to the companies they acquire. I got "PayPal Website Advanced Checkout Online," "PayPal Online Pro Advanced," "PayPal Payflow Payments Express," and "PayPal Payments Link Checkout." PayPal Product Name Generator
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By Ed Piskor on Apr 23, 2012 05:41 pm Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! If you're in the Pittsburgh area April 27, 2012, I'm going to be giving a presentation at Carnegie Mellon University at Baker Hall, 4:30pm-5:30pm. Click the pic below for the Facebook Event page for more info.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 05:40 pm In The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies (PDF), by Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor, the authors calculate that the average Internet user would have to spend one full working month per year in order to skim all the Internet privacy policies she encounters in a year. Mike Masnick reports on Techdirt: In fact, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 04:45 pm Henry sez, "Harvard Library's Faculty Advisory Council is telling faculty that it's financially 'untenable' for the university to keep on paying extortionate access fees for academic journals. It's suggesting that faculty make their research publicly available, switch to publishing in open access journals and consider resigning from the boards of journals that don't allow open ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 23, 2012 04:38 pm If you're in the Twin Cities area on Saturday, April 28th, I recommend going to check out artist and science geek Lynn Fellman talk about the Neanderthal contribution to the modern human genome, and how art can help people understand complicated science. "Your Inner Neanderthal" is part of the Hennepin County Library's DNA Days events. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 23, 2012 04:33 pm Over the weekend, I stumbled over a great Damn Interesting post about the history and future of the banana. Some of you already know the basic story here: Bananas, as we know them, cannot reproduce. The ones we eat are sterile hybrids. Like mules. The only way that there are more bananas is that humans ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 23, 2012 04:18 pm A printable logical fallacy poster. (via @mrbadexample)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 04:07 pm On Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of watching Perhaps Contraption ("a twisted brass, art punk marching band") at Saturday night's White Mischief steampunk night in London. They've got a shitload of horns onstage, rhythm for days, and some badass vocals. Perhaps you will enjoy them, as well. Perhaps Contraption | Perhaps Contraption is an ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 23, 2012 03:35 pm On Saturday, I spoke at an Earth Day Tweetup at the Science Museum of Minnesota. As part of the event, the museum took tweeters on a behind-the-scenes tour, including the exhibit workshop. (The Science Museum of Minnesota is one of the few science museums in the United States that designs and builds all its own ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 23, 2012 03:11 pm Tomorrow at 7:00 pm, you can get inside the Minnesota Public Radio headquarters in downtown St. Paul, Minn., for a live taping of the interview show "Bright Ideas". I'll be the guest, talking with host Stephen Smith about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy in the United States. Tickets are free, but you do ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 03:03 pm I can't figure out if this pizza sweatshirt is a shoop or an article of commerce. If you must wear a pizza garment, Pizza Shirt sells shirts that look like pizza. Veggie, pepperoni, long sleeved, short sleeved. Made in the USA. pizza shirt . net (via Crazy Abalone)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 01:02 pm A little bit of Star Wars-meets-Occupy street art, snapped near my flat in Hackney, London. Occupy Wall St The 99% We Are, Yoda stencil, Great Eastern Street, Hackney, London.jpg
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