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Mind Blowing Movies: Invaders from Mars (1953), by Douglas Rushkoff Internet freedom activists arrested/detained after Internet freedom conferences Hacking a vintage phone into an old VW minibus to use as a kids/driver intercom eBook Review: Old Soul Farcical wishlist from Canada's copyright/pharma lobby: warrantless search, Canadian SOPA, jail time for downloaders, public subsidy of copyright enforcement Catcopter artist explains all Mind Blowing Movies: Popee the Performer (circa 2000), by Lars Martinson Doctor tried bath salts and liked It Get a free copy of "Share or Die" - strategies for a shared, post-austerity world Vintage Sex Pistols record sells for $19,672 on eBay "Thank You Hater!" by Clever Pie and Isabel Fay John K's T-shirt commercial for Stussy Artist makes clouds in gallery Missing: King Kong's headphones Mind Blowing Movies: Invaders from Mars (1953), by Douglas Rushkoff
By Douglas Rushkoff on Jun 09, 2012 01:00 pm This week, Boing Boing is presenting a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series here. -- Mark Mind Blowing Movies: Invaders from Mars (1953), by Douglas Rushkoff [Video Link] The first film that blew my mind was ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 09, 2012 12:37 pm James Losey from the New America Foundation sez, "I noticed a pattern of people getting arrested, detained, or sentenced following Internet Freedom conferences. The timing is coincidental, but its a poignant reminder of the risks people face when pushing back against unjust authority and fighting for basic rights." In late October 2011, Alaa Abd El ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 09, 2012 11:00 am Caleb sez, "My kids really have to scream from the back of my VW bus for me to hear them while we're flying down the highway. With this little hack, we have a nice intercom for them to talk to me with!" The circuit to make two phones work as an intercom is extremely simple. ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 09, 2012 09:39 am Joseph Wurtenbaugh's Old Soul is a fantastic Kindle Single. I tore through this short story, unwilling to put it down. A tale of survival, change and perhaps the source of that eerie deja-vu that plagues you; Wurtenbaugh tells the story of That-Which-Had-Been. We follow a microbiological organism as it journeys from its dying host to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 09, 2012 09:00 am Michael Geist sez, The Canadian intellectual property's lead lobby group, the Canadian IP Council (which represent the music, movie, software and pharma industries) released a new policy document yesterday that identifies its legislative priorities for the coming years. Anyone hoping that the SOPA protests, the European backlash against ACTA, and the imminent passage of Canadian ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 08, 2012 09:08 pm In the event that you were wondering about the motives of the Dutch artist Bart Jansen, who attained notoriety by taxiderming his dead cat and retrofitting its corpse to serve as a quadcopter, wonder no more. The CBC's As It Happens recorded an interview with Mr Jansen, and it is one of the strangest, finest ...
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By Lars Martinson on Jun 08, 2012 08:00 pm This week, Boing Boing is presenting a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series here. -- Mark Mind Blowing Movies: Popee the Performer (circa 2000), by Lars Martinson [Video Link] [Video Link]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 08, 2012 06:40 pm Here's the latest Narco Polo comic from You Will Die author Robert Arthur: On May 26, 2012, a naked Rudy Eugene ate the face of Ronald Poppo by a Miami causeway. That evening CBS Miami featured the following interchange between news anchor Cynthia Demos and reporter Tiffani Helberg: Cynthia Demos: "The officer believes the man ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 08, 2012 06:02 pm Share or Die is a new anthology from Shareable.net (whose mandate is to promote sharing in all its guises), written by 20-somethings struggling through austerity and econopocalypse, who find in sharing a solution to some of their problems. I was privileged to write the book's foreword, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You can buy a ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 08, 2012 05:46 pm What Sells Best reports that a 35-year-old Sex Pistols promotional record sold for $19,672 on eBay today. The bidding ended at $19,672 (£12,629) for this rare vintage Sex Pistols record on eBay, placing it among the highest-priced Sex Pistols memorabilia we've monitored in recent years. The record, listed as a 35-year-old 7-inch promotional acetate featuring ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 08, 2012 04:13 pm [Video Link] "Dedicated to hard working internet trolls everywhere." (Thanks, Jesse Thorn!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 08, 2012 03:33 pm Stussy x John K. from Stussy on Vimeo. My pal John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimpy) made an animated commercial for his T-shirt designs that Stussy released today. I love John's animation work. I asked John to write a bit about the making of the commercial and here's what he had to say: A ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 08, 2012 01:46 pm For his Nimbus series, Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds in empty gallery settings. They are short-lived, but damned lovely. More images at Smilde's site and you can see a video of the cloud-making over at the Washington Post. (Thanks, Lindsay Winterhalter!)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 08, 2012 01:17 pm Someone stole these giant headphones from a bus shelter in in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. According to police, "Given the size, it is believed that two or more people are responsible for the theft." Or one big ape. In any case, I bet they sound much better than the stock 'phones that come with this ...
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