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By Xeni Jardin on May 10, 2012 12:59 pm The lede from a Miami Herald article that will beat all other ledes you reads this week: A Florida man stabbed his computer with a Samurai sword after being accused of downloading kiddie porn. He was in his underwear when he did it.(via @miamicrime)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 10, 2012 12:45 pm [Video Link] Dan Colman of Open Culture has a post about The Beatle's “Tomorrow Never Knows,” which was featured on the most recent episode of Mad Men. On Sunday night, The Beatles made history again when Don Draper slipped a copy of Revolver onto his turntable and started listening to “Tomorrow Never Knows.” According to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 10, 2012 12:32 pm Hewlett Packard's VP of industrial design Stacy Wolff bristles at the suggestion that his laptop design was perhaps informed by Apple's.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 10, 2012 12:31 pm When Dekalb County, Ga., police officer Jerad Wheeler tased her brother, Raven Dozie started crying and demanding to know why. Wheeler kicked the heavily-pregnant woman in the stomach. While he is now under criminal investigation, his superiors on the force squelched an internal affairs complaint and explicitly approve of his conduct. "What kind of a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 10, 2012 12:21 pm [Video Link] The pop hit, as performed by patients and nurses in the Hematology/Oncology ward of Seattle Children's Hospital. Not a big fan of Kelly Clarkson myself, but I can't help feeling admiration for the staff and people with cancer in this video. Anything that makes you feel stronger during this process is a wonderful ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 10, 2012 12:12 pm [Video Link] It was funny already, but this takes it over the top.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 10, 2012 12:06 pm Yikes. (Via Photoshop Disasters)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 10, 2012 11:51 am Here's a typically chewy, dense, thought-provoking essay from Venkatesh Rao, ruminating on the nature of the future and futurism. Rao describes the future as arriving through a "manufactured normalcy field" that prevents us from perceiving it, and proceeds from there to indict futurism as focusing on the part of the future where it is not ...
Read in browser What YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest would have looked like in the '80s and '90s
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 10, 2012 11:51 am [Video Link] Squirrel Monkey makes very funny and almost believable "what if?" videos that imagine what popular websites might have looked like if they were launched 20 or 25 years ago. YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Pinterest | Draw Something | Google | Angry Birds (Via Laughing Squid)
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By Rob Beschizza on May 10, 2012 10:57 am Mojang's massive explore-em-up is now available for Xbox 360.
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By Rob Beschizza on May 10, 2012 10:55 am And Akronyme Analogiker wrote the code. [Creative Applications]
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By LibraryLab on May 10, 2012 10:02 am Douglas County Libraries, in Colorado, is trying something new: buying eBooks directly from publishers and hosting them on its own platform. That platform is based on the purchase of content at discount; owning—not leasing—a copy of the file; the application of industry-standard DRM on the library's files; multiple purchases based on demand; and a "click ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 10, 2012 09:09 am I just got around to reading Endangered Species, the fourth volume of Jeff Lemire's outstanding, post-bio-apocalyptic graphic novel Sweet Tooth (here's reviews of the previous volumes). Damn, this is good stuff. In Sweet Tooth, a plague has swept the planet. Babies are born as human-animal hybrid "monsters." Adults die off in huge numbers, killed by ...
Read in browser Huge, dumb booze producer Diageo orders industry association to give them the prize that had been awarded to small, spunky competitor
By Cory Doctorow on May 10, 2012 07:00 am BrewDog is a spunky craft brewer in Scotland. Diageo is a titanic owner of booze brands, a kind of Wal*Mart of booze. The British Institute of Innkeeping is their mutual trade association. Last Sunday, the BII's independent judges awarded BrewDog a prize for Bar Operator of the Year. When Diageo found out -- just ahead ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 10, 2012 02:27 am A little work with a handsaw reveals that over the years, the amount of ink in a new, official HP refill cartridge has been in decline. Prices, of course, have not been in decline. I then removed the top of the cartridge with a handsaw and as you can see from the picture below the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 10, 2012 01:06 am An 18 month-old toddler was ordered off a plane Tuesday at Ft. Lauderdale airport, after TSA representatives told airline employees they wanted to "speak" to her. Riyanna's father was flabbergasted. "It's absurd," he said. "It made no sense. Why would an 18-month-old child be on a no-fly list?" Riyanna's parents, who asked not to be ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 10, 2012 12:58 am Itwilllbeok sez, "According to the German Police University police officers used exactly 85 bullets in 2011 - 49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed. Germany has a population of about 80 million. (This does only take into account shots in connection with crimes. There were an additional 9000 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 11:56 pm Scorchio75 sez, "Having just moved to NZ from the UK, I'd love to be able to access BBC iPlayer, 4 on Demand, etc., but unless I cough-up for a VPN I'm out of luck. 'Fyx' have just launched in NZ and offer a 'Global Mode' that will allegedly allow their customers to access region-locked services ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 11:14 pm A sadly unsourced but utterly brilliant bento box of horror! Horrifying Bento (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 11:08 pm Razen Cain sez, "David Hunter is a public school teacher who is trying to raise cash on Kickstarter to create a Standards Based curriculum that uses a zombie apocalypse to get kids invested in learning geography. It's a genius idea and David comes across so passionate in the video that it's impossible to say no ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 10:12 pm Byran Boyce takes Robert Di Niro to Disneyland in "Walt Disney's Taxi Driver": According to Boyce this is a trailer for Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film "Taxi Driver". It follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City. New Mashup: Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 09:06 pm Some highlights from the House Oversight Committee's report on the TSA's finance, courtesy of TechDirt: * As of February 15, 2012, the total value of TSA's equipment in storage was, according to TSA officials, estimated at $184 million. However, when questioned by Committee staff, TSA's warehouse staff and procurement officials were unable to provide the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 09:00 pm Emmanuel Goldstein from 2600 magazine writes, "We've begun work on the 2013 Hacker Calendar after a really good response to the 2012 edition. This time the theme is surveillance, something near and dear to all of us. We're looking for ideas for calendar photos that capture some of the surveillance technology that's so pervasive - ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 09, 2012 08:46 pm There's a feature worth reading in the New York Times today by John Hanc on the role that meditation plays in brain development, and scientific studies to explore "the extent to which meditation may affect neuroplasticity — the ability of the brain to make physiological change."
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By Xeni Jardin on May 09, 2012 08:40 pm Photo: At a bar in San Francisco, Horst Linsen of Germany watches TV as President Obama voices support to same-sex marriage. (Reuters) U.S. President Barack Obama said today he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters. Your thoughts on ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 08:29 pm [Video Link] Here's a video trailer for Jack Streat's Lego Heavy Weapons how-to book I mentioned last month. From LEGO guns mastermind and 17–year-old YouTube sensation Jack Streat comes LEGO Heavy Weapons, a collection of complete building instructions for four truly impressive, 1:1-scale replicas of the world's most iconic firearms. LEGO Heavy Weapons will show ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 08:10 pm Thing-a-day guy Noah Scalin sez, "Artist Betsy VanDeusen created this wonderful Star Wars-ified version of a classic Elvgren pinup as part of her yearlong daily project! You can see the rest of her work on her blog, and read a recent interview about her project on my own blog." She explains, "Starting on 2/27/2012, and ...
Read in browser Turtle with boy's initials carved on its shell found by his father 47 years later in same backyard
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 09, 2012 08:05 pm 85-year-old Holland Cokeley found a turtle in his back yard. He picked it up, and recognized it as his son's turtle. “I picked it up, and I thought ‘Oh geez, this is Jeff’s turtle!’” said Cokeley. “It’s been here for 47 years, and it still has the same the same markings on it!” Jeff was ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2012 07:03 pm Floydwebb sez, "I was covered by Boing Boing when I was challenged by the Black Dragon Fighting Society in a fight over my fair use right in making this film. I am in the final days of the Kickstarter Campaign. After 7 years, 4 countries, and with a 3 year court battle behind me, I ...
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