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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 11, 2012 11:36 am Zombies that aren't even really dead! Jess Walter's Don't Eat Cat is a new (to me) and creative take on the coming zimbo epidemic. Set in not-to-far-in-the-future Seattle, Walters paints a picture of a broken America. People frustrated by reproduction laws, intelligence testing that dictates the course of their lives, and Starbucks playing a lead ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 09:00 am Ars Technica's Nate Anderson writes about the FTC's lawsuit against Streaming Flix and its billing partner, Billing Services Group. The companies are accused of putting random charges on peoples' phone bills through trickery (fine-print in seemingly unrelated signups) or outright fraud (simply adding charges to random phone bills, like a local public library's storyline, which ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 11, 2012 08:37 am The authorities in Athens, Ga., are hot on the trail of thieves who stole 374,400 toothpicks. The haul included not only MicroPicks, but coveted ProPicks. [Online Athens]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 11, 2012 08:33 am The British Prime Minister left his 8-year-old daughter at a public house near Chequers: "The prime minister and Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn't with them. Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well." [BBC]
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By Nikol Hasler on Jun 11, 2012 07:56 am Nikol Hasler is a writer, producer, and single mother living in Los Angeles. She was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma almost two years ago, and has undergone surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, with another surgery and more radiation still to come. An alumnus of the foster care system, her current work is focused on using her life ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jun 11, 2012 07:55 am Download The science geekiest show on broadcast television was once Futurama, an animated series co-created by The Simpsons' Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, a Simpsons writer and showrunner. The show has competition now from programs as varied as broadcast's Big Bang Theory, cable's Mythbusters and Eureka, and Felicia Day's Web network "Geek & Sundry." ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 06:41 am Last Friday, June 8, I was immensely, fantastically thrilled to receive an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University, an institution I have long held in high esteem and where it has been my privilege to serve as a visiting senior lecturer. The degree was conferred in a fabulous ceremony at the Milton ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jun 11, 2012 03:50 am Do you love nameless, creeping horrors in the deep? Unnaturally! Do you love fonts? Of course, you do. Thomas Phinney, a veteran type designer, is attempting an unholy union of the two by resurrecting the moldering corpse of three typefaces: Columbus, Columbus Initials, and American Italic. Columbus was used for all the Call of Cthulhu ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 11, 2012 01:23 am Laurie Penny takes a look at G4S, the scandal-embroiled "private security firm" (they're not technical mercenaries because the "security" people who work from them are usually born in the same territories in which they operate) that is the world's second-largest private employer, after WalMart. The company is providing 10,000 "security contractors" to the London Olympics, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 11, 2012 12:22 am Dmitry Samal offers a range of pixelated sunglasses (top left), priced $150 or so. Triple Optic has a similar design (top right), which are almost as cool ... and just $10.
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By Tiffany Lee Brown on Jun 10, 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 The Other Side: Brazil, by Tiffany Lee Brown Warning: Spoiler alert! [Video Link] When I told Boing Boing a few ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 10, 2012 05:47 pm Oldredjalopy DeviantArt piece "The Kessel Run" is a bit Star Wars, a bit Cannonball Run, and a whole lot of awesomesauce. The Kessel Run (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 10, 2012 03:13 pm Henry Rothwell has an epically long, epically snarky review of Prometheus, entertainingly and engagingly written. Its fundamental point is that science fiction films are visually consistent, not logically consistent (the opposite of science fiction novels, which is why I'm a pain in the ass to take to sf movies). Rothwell gets there by pretty humorous ...
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