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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 03, 2012 12:52 pm There are photographers and there are people who collect equipment.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 03, 2012 12:00 pm Runa from the Tor project, which oversees production of the anti-censorship/anti-surveillance technology, sez, "We have managed to determine exactly how Ethiopia blocks Tor and we have developed a workaround. We will publish a full technical analysis very soon."
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 03, 2012 11:43 am Today, we're the only living member of the genus Homo and the only living member of the subtribe Hominina. Along with chimpanzees and bonobos, we're all that remains of the tribe Hominini. But the fossil record tells us that wasn't always the case. There were, for instance, at least eight other species of Homo running ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jun 03, 2012 11:43 am What a steaming turd of an opening line in David Streitfeld's otherwise serviceable New York Times piece about the Ellen Pao/Kleiner Perkins sexual harassment lawsuit, and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley. Here's the opening graf (bold-ing, mine): MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock ...
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By Rob Pegoraro on Jun 03, 2012 07:00 am The cable box can make channel serfs of us all. It's big, it's bulky, it has an interface an Excel spreadsheet might salute, and it sucks down too much electricity. It's one reason why cable TV bottom-feeds in customer-satisfaction surveys--only airlines and newspapers score lower in the University of Michigan's research. But for a still-sizable majority of American viewers, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 03, 2012 03:15 am My latest Publishers Weekly column is "Publishing's Virtue," a look at the relative moral uprightness of trade publishing, especially when compared to the record labels and movie studios, with their just reputation as rapacious crooks who rip off artists at every turn. if you're trying to convince Internet users to buy instead of pirate because ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 02, 2012 08:19 pm Shikhei Goh knows his way around a macro lens. Check out his incredible gallery of insect eyes at 500px. (Via This is Colossal)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 02, 2012 02:07 pm An essay by Matt Stoller called "Profit-Driven Surveillance and the Spectrum of Freedom" on Naked Capitalism looks at the way that analytics, real-time tracking, and the for-profit prison and debt industry combine to produce a dystopia: "In fact, whether you are tracked because you get a discount on your auto insurance or whether you have ...
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