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Righthaven: copyright troll zombie! Raise Every Voice Cartoon of YouTube commenters The great GIFs of Matthew Devito 3D printed rocket-ship espresso cup Happy Fourth of July! Precious memories $99 Android game console planned "E-Readers won't catch on" Apple loses UK patent battle iPad Mini predicted Android 4.1 Jelly Bean "fast, fluid, and beautifully designed" Chicago turned into giant Monopoly board by street artist(s) Chinese-built ghost town in Angola - the first of many to come? ACTA IS DEAD (ish) (for now) Charles Carreon: "Mission accomplished" Snooper cleared after reading colleague's email Put bankers in jail Nasty men's rights ad banned Inmate hails cab Talking urinal cakes to warn drivers Charles Carreon drops lawsuit against The Oatmeal EU: software licenses may be sold by consumers Chuck E. Cheese gets a crappy makeover 51-pound tumor removed from woman What news ombudsmen should do to make the news part of the Web, and vice-versa Retired NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter dies in watercraft accident Andy Griffith: Before Mayberry, A Movie Monster Star Wars Tatooine locations today Monster storms and aging power grids nix many July 4th festivities in Eastern US Righthaven: copyright troll zombie!
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 12:56 pm Remember Righthaven, the copyright troll whose ass was handed to them by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, who got a court to declare that fair use exists, you can't license the right to sue over a copyright without licensing the copyright itself, and terrifying random bloggers into turning over their life's savings for quoting ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jul 04, 2012 12:46 pm Photo: Scott Snider The phone system doesn't allow us to hear people at a distance in the same way they quite literally sound to us when up close. Alexander Graham Bell's accidental dehumanization has been redeemed in part by a technologically related godchild. And it only took about 150 years. SHARETweet Bell helped teach the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 04, 2012 12:20 pm Funny videos by Jonathan "Chunkus O'Suck" Gran
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 12:03 pm In a rebounded age of ubiquitous animated GIFs, Matthew DeVito makes spectacularly good ones. Fast Company profiles a master of the medium: "it's not unusual for one of his posts to get more than 20,000 notes."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 12:00 pm Shapeways contributor Isohedral came up with this awesome design for a two ounce stubby rocketship/espresso cup, which is available as a 3D print in ceramic: Rocket Espresso Cup 3D Printed in Ceramics All Systems Are Go!!!!
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 04, 2012 11:47 am Happy Independence Day! (Classic animation by PES.)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 11:29 am Capture the magic of a Child or Puppy or Charles Carreon.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 11:18 am What do OLPC designer Yves Behar, former XBox executive Ed Fries, and Peek's Amol Sarva got in common? They're planning a hackable $99 game console running Android, complete with a development kit and online store. [The Verge]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 11:09 am Can you guess which company had prototype e-readers 15 years ago, but buried the project in internal feudal bullshit after the CEO said they'd never catch on? [Telegraph]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 11:06 am In the UK, Taiwan's HTC challenged four Apple patents covering "slide to unlock" and other touchscreen-related features. The High Court agreed today, describing them as either too obvious, or foreshadowed by earlier patents. Analysts expect the outcome to significantly influence the many other patent battles taking place between Apple and its competitors worldwide.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 10:54 am Bloomberg's Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano report that the long-rumored 7-inch iPad is finally on its way. Apple plans to debut a smaller, cheaper iPad by year-end, two people with knowledge of the plans said, to help maintain dominance of the tablet market as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. prepare competing handheld devices.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 04, 2012 10:51 am Dieter Bohn on the latest version of Google's Android operating system: "compared to what [iOS and Windows Phone] bring to the table today, I think Jelly Bean is a stronger offering, especially if you're a participant in the Google ecosystem." [The Verge]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 10:47 am Colossal has the story of a massive, awesome street-art installation in Chicago created by Bored, who turned the city into a huge, spread-out game of Monopoly, complete with enormous Chance cards containing marriage proposals and massive dice. After a few desperate tweets and some emailing, I finally got in touch with the artist (or artists!) ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 08:40 am The BBC's Louise Redvers reports on the ghost town of Kilamba, Angola, a horrendously expensive high-rise enclave built by Chinese companies on a line of credit secured with Angolan oil, which has only seen 220 apartments out of 2800 sold. Kilamba is the most ambitious of several new towns being built outside of existing Angoloan ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 07:48 am Michael Geist sez, On October 23, 2007, the U.S., E.U., Canada, and a handful of other countries announced plans to the negotiate the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The behind-the-scenes discussions had apparently been ongoing for several years, leading some countries to believe that a full agreement could be concluded within a year to coincide with the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 04, 2012 12:40 am Hours ago, Rob brought you the news that Charles Carreon had voluntarily dismissed his dumbass lawsuit against webcomic The Oatmeal, its creator Matthew Inman, and the charities he'd nominated to receive more than $220,000 sent by people who thought that Carreon (and his client, FunnyJunk) were full of lima beans, the American Cancer Society and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 11:59 pm Photo: Shutterstock A New Jersey teacher rifled through a colleague's email after she left her mailbox open on a public computer. She and her correspondents sued him. Jurors cleared him on hacking charges, however, agreeing that her failure to log out amounted to "tacit authorization." Timothy B. Lee at Ars Technica: According to New Jersey ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 03, 2012 11:39 pm Joseph Stiglitz -- former World Bank economist and Nobel economics laureate -- has a suggestion for dealing with the Barclay's bank scandals and those that follow: put bankers in jail.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 11:29 pm Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints leveled against a men's rights group's controversial ad campaign. Fathers4Justice's ad depicted a crying baby, his body emblazoned with perjoratives such as "pig" and "rapist", with text attacking Mumsnet, a popular online hangout for mothers of young children. According to Fathers4Justice, Mumsnet presided over an anti-male hate campaign ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 10:58 pm A prisoner hatched a plan to escape the clink: sneak out of the hospital in his jailhouse jumpsuit, flag down a cab, ride to freedom. The plan failed. [Beaver Times]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 10:50 pm High-tech urinal cakes, equipped with piss sensors and speakers, will warn bar-goers not to drive home drunk. The female voice will also remind patrons to wash their hands. [Bay City Times]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 10:27 pm The EFF reports that Charles Carreon has withdrawn his mad lawsuit against Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal. Attorney Charles Carreon dropped his bizarre lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman today, ending his strange legal campaign against Inman's humorous and creative public criticism of a frivolous cease and desist letter that Carreon wrote on ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 03, 2012 10:14 pm The European Union's Court of Justice ruled today that software licenses may be resold. By its judgment delivered today, the Court explains that the principle of exhaustion of the distribution right applies not only where the copyright holder markets copies of his software on a material medium (CD-ROM or DVD) but also where he distributes ...
Read in browser Chuck E. Cheese gets a crappy makeover
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 03, 2012 09:39 pm Like his eighties brethren Alvin and The Chipmunks, Chuck E. Cheese has been redesigned in a manner that removes all remaining crumbs of original loveable kitsch. What was once a heart-warming pastiche of "scary clown" meets "stoned furry" is now just another soul-less CGI belch. Is nothing sacred? Bonus in this AP article: a bungled ...
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By Jonathan Allen on Jul 03, 2012 09:39 pm Photo courtesy Riverview Medical Center. NSFW: Reveal / Blur New Jersey surgeons removed a rapidly growing, 51-pound (23-kg) cancerous tumor from a woman who had delayed treatment for more than a month until she became eligible for health insurance, her doctor said on Tuesday. "She was a skinny lady with a huge belly. I mean ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 03, 2012 09:21 pm Dan "Mediactive" Gillmor sends us his latest Guardian column, a thoughtful and fascinating manifesto for what the role newspaper ombudsmen could morph into, in order to maximize the relevance and centrality of newspapers and news organizations on the Internet: • Aggregate (quote and link to) every thoughtful critique of the organization's work that I could ...
Read in browser Retired NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter dies in watercraft accident
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 03, 2012 09:14 pm Alan Poindexter, 50, a U.S. Navy Captain who joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1998 and made two space shuttle flights, died this weekend in a WaveRunner accident. Before his space career, "Dex" flew combat missions in Iraq, then became a test pilot. He logged more than 4,000 hours of flying time in more than 30 ...
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By Bill Barol on Jul 03, 2012 08:03 pm Boing Boing recently presented a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. We are extending the series for several additional days. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing Movies series. -- Mark Andy Griffith: Before Mayberry, A Movie Monster, by Bill Barol [Video Link] If for ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 03, 2012 07:15 pm Evidently, the sets built for the original Star Wars famed Tatooine location were simply abandoned. Beautiful to look at, impressive in how well they've held up and are instantly recognizable; these well-built shelters appear to have attracted quite an interesting slice of Tunisian culture to move on in. I'm sure there must be a great ...
Read in browser Monster storms and aging power grids nix many July 4th festivities in Eastern US
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 03, 2012 07:12 pm Storm damage and high temperatures have left 1.3 million homes and businesses in the eastern United States without power since Friday. At least 23 people have been killed, some crushed by falling trees, others from heatstroke. From Illinois to Virginia, "Many Fourth of July celebrations were canceled as local governments confronted damage from the hurricane-force ...
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