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Kate Wilhelm and Ray Bradbury on the StarShipSofa podcast In defense of the much-ridiculed train simulator, Railworks Personal photo postcards from the early 1900s UK government offers unlimited budget to pay ISPs to spy on us New domain name suffix applications published Storytelling the Pixar way eBook Review: the Plagiarist Two minutes of runway models falling down SETIcon II: public conference about space, extraterrestrial life, and imagination Old-fashioned animation expresses Winnipeggers' concern over mass-privatisation Patent for a wristwatch that tells you how much longer you could expect to live "Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society": history of influential culture jammers Trailer for crowd funded zombie web series : The Silent City Brooklyn: "That Sinking Sense of Wonder" art show Kevin Kelly's 1 second/day video of Asia Digital Bill of Rights On Trolling Mophie Juice Pack Pro Dingo killed baby Gamers search for end to ten-year Civ II game Sony RX100: small camera, big sensor Romanian criminals attempt to steal goods from moving truck Indie Game: The Movie available High-res MacBook Pro teardown Scottish cops auto-Godwin Olympic sceptic Funny "Lost Wormhole" sign FunnyJunk's bewildered lawyer: "I'm completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat" ZOMBIE vanity plates lead to arrest of hit-and-run driver who used stun gun to attack man Spirit Level documentary needs your support Burger King goes long on pig with bacon sundae Kate Wilhelm and Ray Bradbury on the StarShipSofa podcast
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 12:45 pm Tony Smith from StarShipSofa sez, Today, StarShipSofa has two of the greats from the SF genre on its show. In July 2010 I carried out an interview with Ray Bradbury - being wet behind the ears at the time and pushing my luck... I asked the question "Are you a science fiction writer?" The speed ...
Read in browser In defense of the much-ridiculed train simulator, Railworks
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 13, 2012 12:30 pm [Video Link] Kirk Demarais (author of the great Mail Order Mysteries book) wrote a positive review of the PC train simulator Railworks, which is frequently derided for its lack of monsters, magic, aliens, or eastern european gangsters. My respect for the Railworks community began to grow as it occurred to me that their passion does ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 13, 2012 12:30 pm House of Mirth asked antique photo collectors to share their favorite vintage Real Photo Postcard (RRPC), often taken using special Kodak cameras from the early 1900s that took postcard-size film. The images were then printed on paper with standard-sized postcard backs to result in a personal one-off postcard. Above is a photo shared by esteemed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 12:29 pm The other shoe is slowly dropping on the "Snooper's Charter" -- the proposed UK Internet spying legislation that will require ISPs to harvest and retain fantastic quantities of user activity and make it available to government and law enforcement without a warrant. In a bid to win support for the proposal, the government has offered ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 12:16 pm Applicants for "bespoke" top-level domains--which will cost more than $100,000--were published by Icann. Looking foward to .bbc, .ninja and .walmart? Go go gadget real estate! [BBC]
Read in browser Storytelling the Pixar way
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 11:55 am From the Twitter feed of Pixar story artist Emma Coats, a series of "Pixar story rules." Some of these strike me as specific to the Pixar business and/or filmmaking, but others are perfect storytelling koans that I plan on stealing for my future writing workshops. Here are a few of my favorites: #1: You admire ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jun 13, 2012 11:32 am Hugh Howey, the author of the Wool series that I love and reviewed a few months ago, is a master of creating interesting realities. Howey's The Plagiarist is the tale of a college professor who moonlights prospecting virtual worlds for great works of art and literature. The moral quandaries, his love life and general lack ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 13, 2012 11:30 am [Video Link] (Via Biotv)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 13, 2012 11:14 am Are you an extraterrestrial? Or you dig thinking about extraterrestrial life and other far out ideas? Then you should attend SETIcon II, June 22-24, 2012, in Silicon Valley. Presented by the SETI Institute, SETIcon II is a public conference for scientists, artists, authors, space enthusiasts, and anyone curious about our place in the universe. SETI ...
Read in browser Old-fashioned animation expresses Winnipeggers' concern over mass-privatisation
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 10:43 am The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500 -- Winnipeg -- has created a video to express the city's widespread horror at the mass privatisation campaign looming over its political landscape. Winnipeg has long been a bastion of progressive labour politics, and is riven by the new prairie politics emanating from the Tar Sands and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 13, 2012 10:30 am In 2007, Kevin Kelly started displaying a life expectancy countdown clock on his computer. (I posted about it on Boing Boing.) Here's what he wrote about it: I've been using this system for several months now and it has been very powerful. Day to day I am aware -- and can rattle off if I ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 13, 2012 10:00 am Launched in 1986, the Cacophony Society is a highly-influential, "randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society." This underground collective of pranksters, culture jammers, and thrill-seekers birthed Burning Man, inspried Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, and freaked out the squares with their proto-flash mobs of SantaCon. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 13, 2012 09:30 am [Video Link] The looks really cool! The Silent City premieres online on July 1. There will be five episodes. Rubidium Wu says: Back in January, you were good enough to publish an article on Boing Boing via the Submitterator about my quest to make a zombie post-apocalypic web series in the real-life abandoned spaces of ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 13, 2012 09:04 am When I first saw this stunning image, I thought it was an antique lunar photograph. Turns out, it's a graphite drawing by Brooklyn artist Juliet Jacobson. She is part of a group show, "That Sinking Sense of Wonder," opening at Brooklyn's SOUTHFIRST gallery this Friday, June 15. The show also includes a piece by one ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 13, 2012 09:03 am Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants, spent two months in Asia and took a one-second video clip each day. He says, "On a few days, I just had to an extra second… This is all the video I took."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 09:00 am The two reps who led the Congressional fight against SOPA have unveiled a draft bill of rights for the Internet. Reps Darryl Issa and Ron Wyden unveiled their proposal at Personal Democracy Forum, and invite the Internet to edit and refine the list on Keep the Web Open. 1. The right to a free and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:42 am Zoe Williams examines the difference between trolls and the merely bad-mannered. [The Guardian via The Awl]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:38 am Mophie's $130 Juice Pack Pro doubles the amount of juice to 2,500 mAh (along with the size) for people who never want to recharge their cellphone again. The good: days on a charge. The bad: all that tactical special ops ruggedry and greebling, if you ask me. Juice Pack Pro [Mophie via Uncrate]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:31 am After 32 years, resolution to a long-running mystery: did a dingo or Azaria Chamberlain's parents kill the infant child in the Australian wilds? The dingo did, a court rules. [Reuters]
Read in browser Gamers search for end to ten-year Civ II game
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:29 am Reddit user Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. But his distant future's Orwellian grind—there are even three nuke-thrashed superpowers stuck in an endless war—might be about to come to and end: the community is unraveling all the possibilities of the freakishly advanced saved game at a new subreddit ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:26 am With the minimally-designed Cyber-shot RX100, Sony puts a large sensor in a pocket camera—and with it, the promise of much higher-quality photographs. It comes with a 28-100mm-equivalent F1.8-4.9 image-stabilized 3x-zoom lens, and that 20MP Exmor CMOS sensor—about a third the size of APS-C—captures raw. On the back, a 3" LCD display and pop-up flash. The ...
Read in browser Romanian criminals attempt to steal goods from moving truck
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 13, 2012 08:22 am [Video Link] Romania's Department for Organized Crime and Terrorism videotaped criminals in a car attempting to break into a moving truck. The criminals succeeded in opening the door to the truck, but they apparently didn't find anything inside to their liking and left empty-handed. Romanian gang attempt to rob moving truck (Via Arbroath)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:08 am The Sundance winner is now available to download or view online for $10.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 13, 2012 08:07 am Apple's new MacBook Pro has a 220 dpi screen and an i7 CPU, yet is only .7" thick. iFixit took a look inside.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 07:29 am Afraid of the Knock on the Door sez, "An old age pensioner, living in a residential care home, received a visit from the Scottish police plain clothes division following his letter to a local newspaper in connection with the Olympics due to be held in London this summer. He wrote about the connection of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 04:52 am An unknown human produced this funny LOST WORMHOLE sign. Have you seen the missing singularity? Lost wormhole (via Beth Pratt)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 13, 2012 01:25 am The Internet's head exploded yesterday at the news that FunnyJunk had sent a $20,000 legal demand letter to The Oatmeal, asserting that the Oatmeal's complaint about FunnyJunk's users reposting Oatmeal content was, itself, an offense warranting a $20,000 settlement. This act of monumental chutzpah ("You want ME to pay YOU $20,000 for hosting MY unlicensed ...
Read in browser ZOMBIE vanity plates lead to arrest of hit-and-run driver who used stun gun to attack man
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 12, 2012 11:17 pm Yardley Joy Frantz of Allentown, PA was released on $20,000 bail after being arrested for using a stun gun on a man who had been aiding another man she'd allegedly hit with her car. It was easy for police to track her down: her license plate read ZOMBIE. When officers arrived at her home, they ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 09:06 pm Katharine sez, "Dartmouth Films are working with the Equality Trust on a documentary film of 'The Spirit Level, which aims to take the message of the book -- that more equal societies are better for everyone -- out to a wider audience. With growing unease over the last year about tax avoidance & the social ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 12, 2012 08:04 pm It seems that Burger King must have taken a very long position on pork futures, because they've rolled out a temporary Memphis Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwich, Carolina BBQ Whopper, Texas BBQ Whopper and a bacon sundae: The AP reports that BK will launch the treat — which has fudge, caramel, crumbled bacon and a full ...
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