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Obama administration plays politics with treaty on copyright exceptions for disabled people More men join the ranks of Former Eagle Scout TOM THE DANCING BUG: What Will Be the Biggest Political Story of 2032? HOWTO drive, the Woz way Goat Man speaks! Canon EOS M mirrorless camera eBook Review: Year Zero by Rob Reid Lodnon 2102 Oimplycs One less thing to worry about today: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart extend their contracts with Comedy Central Unfuck Your Habitat: tidy advice for messy people Body retrieved from river was actually sex doll Government Skype surveillance "may be a good thing" 75 years ago, Amelia Earhart went missing—and the search for her continues History of optical toys Miles O'Brien: Ride, Sally Ride Uninsured Aurora shooting victims face financial devastation Sherman Hemsley, RIP Significant Objects book interview and story reading Rumor: Olympic opening ceremony to have Mary Poppins fighting Voldemort The Saturday Night Live primetime election specials will make a comeback -- whose momentum will it ruin this year? A first for Black Hat hacker con: Apple in the house Report: hackers targeting Iranian nuclear facilities "AC/DC-rolled" workstations after attack Super Mario brought to life with 7,000 post-it notes (video) Gweek 062: The Paleo Solution with Robb Wolf Zulu Pearls - "No Heroes No Honeymoons" (MP3) - Boing Boing Exclusive! Marvel superheroes coming to Disney's Phineas and Ferb in 2013 Bob Dylan's "Titanic" by Tim Heidecker (music video) Woody Roseland, on life with cancer: "You Are Here" (video) Genetically modified mosquitoes proposed for anti-dengue fight in Key West Obama administration plays politics with treaty on copyright exceptions for disabled people
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 25, 2012 12:49 pm An update on the story about the Obama administration stonewalling on a treaty to make it easier for disabled people to access copyrighted works: "Obama can't overcome opposition from a handful of mostly foreign owned publishers to support a treaty for blind people. This is a money in politics story. If blind people were financing ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 25, 2012 12:28 pm On Monday, I published a letter from my husband, Christopher Baker, to the Boy Scouts of America. In that letter, Baker returned his hard-earned Eagle Scout award and explained that he no longer wanted to be associated with an organization that discriminated against gay teenagers and GBLT parents. By the end of the day, I'd ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 25, 2012 11:54 am Mr Roadshow, a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, gave over this week's column to an interview with Apple-cofounder and legendary arch-hacker Steve Wozniak about his philosophy of driving and road use, with some reference to his domestic arrangements. As you might expect, Woz has a refreshingly honest and rational approach to the public ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 25, 2012 11:39 am Goat Man, the fellow I posted about Monday who was photographed in a goat suit hanging with a herd in Ogden, Utah, has come forward. The man called the Division of Wildlife Resources and said he was simply preparing for an archery hunt of Canadian mountain goats next year. "He found out about Utah and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 25, 2012 11:17 am Canon's EOS M is finally upon us. $800 will get you the company's first mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera, with a 22mm prime and a sales pitch centered firmly around its video capabilities. At heart, the EOS M appears to be very similar to the recently-released Canon T4i/650D, the latest in its lineup of crop-sensor DSLRs: it ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 25, 2012 11:10 am Rob Reid's Year Zero is pretty darn funny. Very much in the vein of a Douglas Adams novel, Reid's humor is light-hearted, intelligent and just plain silly! Nick Carter, a seemingly worthless attorney who shares a name with a Backstreet Boy, is inexplicably drawn into the greatest music licensing snafu ever. Year Zero is very ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 25, 2012 11:00 am The official site of the Lodnon 2102 Oimplycs features news and views from an alternate reality London Games, as well as interesting news stories, such as the fact that the wine merchant Oddbins will give a discount to people who carry and use products from the arch-rivals of the official Olympic sponsors, because " any ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 25, 2012 10:59 am In case you thought that the world was going to hell because of everything that has been in the news lately (this weather, amirite?), you can rest assured that Comedy Central's best fake newscasters will be sticking around for the next couple of years. Jon Stewart will host (and executive produce and write for) The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 25, 2012 10:41 am I've been really enjoying "Unfuck Your Habitat," which offers advice and community for messy people who struggle to stay organized and tidy. I especially like the before and after shots of messy rooms that have been successfully put to rights. I'm a super-tidy neat-freak, and compulsive enough about it that I annoy my family with ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 25, 2012 08:46 am Eighteen policemen worked to retrieve a woman's body from a river China's Shandong province. Turns out, it was actually a sex doll. Apparently, Shandong is a center for sex toy manufacturing. "China cops mistake sex toy for body of a woman" (Times of India) Fake vaginas sold as powerful Chinese medicinal mushrooms - Boing
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 24, 2012 11:13 pm John C. Dvorak, on why Skype backdoors allowing government spying on users is "not a bad thing": I would not be surprised if one of the reasons why Microsoft bought Skype was to outfit the product with backdoor access for the US government's top eavesdropping agency, the National Security Agency. This may be a good ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 08:13 pm 75 years ago this month, pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart vanished. Today, a group of searchers looking for proof that her plane crashed on a remote Pacific atoll returned to Hawaii, having failed to find evidence that her plane crashed on Nikumaroro. More on the ongoing search: CNN, NatGeo, CSM, Guardian. There are many theories about ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 24, 2012 08:10 pm Over at Collector's Weekly, Ben Marks traces the history of optical toys from the 19th century, from Thaumatropes to Phenakistoscopes (discs seen above) to Zoetropes. All of these devices played on the persistence of vision, the phenomenon in which a series of still images appears to be one continuous moving image. Thaumatropes from the early ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 07:53 pm At the PBS Newshour website, a post by Miles O'Brien about one of his encounters with the late Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. He writes about the night of January 28, 2003, when Dr. Ride knocked on the door of his house in Atlanta. She was one of the guests of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 07:20 pm Caleb Medley, an aspiring standup comic, YouTuber, total nerd, and enthusiastic fan of Batman, was shot in the eye at the Aurora movie theater mass shooting. He is currently in intensive care in an induced coma. He lost his right eye and suffered brain damage. His wife Katie "is about to give birth to their ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 24, 2012 05:38 pm Sherman Hemsley, best known as George Jefferson on "The Jeffersons" and "All in the Family," died today. He was 74. (CNN) Here is Mr. Hemsley boogying to 1970s prog rock band Nektar.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 24, 2012 05:26 pm Yesterday I was on the Madeleine Brand show on KPCC radio along with Joshua Glenn to talk about Significant Objects, a short story anthology Joshua co-edited with Rob Walker. They even let me read part of the short story I contributed to the anthology. Can a few words dramatically increase the economic value of a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 24, 2012 04:54 pm Caity Weaver on the plans for London's Olympic opening ceremony: Before 40-foot-Voldemort appears, "about 100" children will be wheeled out on hospital beds to perform "a choreographed 'bed dance,'" which sounds quite sexy but probably is not. To these one hundredish beds will be added a dozen more "giant" ones, on which will dance/frolic/be such ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 24, 2012 04:21 pm NBC has announced that, as they did four years ago, Saturday Night Live would make an early return to the airwaves to tackle the presidential election. Two primetime specials were announced for September 20 and September 27 (both Thursdays), and while we know that Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg have left the show, will Jason ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 03:40 pm Apple has never before participated in Defcon or Black Hat, but Bloomberg reports that this will change Thursday "when Dallas De Atley, manager of Apple's platform security team, is scheduled to give a presentation on key security technologies within iOS, the operating system for iPhones and iPads" at Black Hat in Las Vegas, NV. It's ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 02:14 pm Mikko H. Hypponen of F-Secure publishes an email he claims is from a scientist with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (or AEOI), which details a new "cyber attack" wave against Iranian nuclear systems. Snip: "There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 02:03 pm [Video Link] The Final Cut King (Web, Facebook) brings Mario to life with with thousands of Post It Notes in this stop-motion animated video.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 24, 2012 02:00 pm Click here to play the podcast. In this episode of the Gweek podcast I interviewed Robb Wolf. He’s a research biochemist, a powerlifting champion, the co-owner of a strength and conditioning gym, and the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet. He’s also the host of a ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jul 24, 2012 01:50 pm Sound it Out # 30: Zulu Pearls - "No Heroes No Honeymoons" Zulu Pearls is a fellow named Zach Van Hoozer who moved from Washington DC to Berlin a couple of years ago. He's been working on the record with producer Nick Anderson for three years while plugging away at bar shifts and day jobs. I like ...
Read in browser Marvel superheroes coming to Disney's Phineas and Ferb in 2013
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 24, 2012 01:41 pm If you've ever had to watch television while also supervising a kid, Disney XD's Phineas and Ferb might already be on your radar. If it isn't, then here's the good news: this is a kids' show that is actually pretty fun to watch! Even without kids around! And if you're a Marvel fan, there is ...
Read in browser Bob Dylan's "Titanic" by Tim Heidecker (music video)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 01:39 pm [Video Link] Comic genius Tim Heidecker, who is roughly 50% of Tim and Eric (also behind "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," and "Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule"), has yet again created something I find very funny. "Recently, I read that Bob Dylan's new album Tempest will feature a 14 minute song about ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 01:22 pm [Video Link] You may remember a previous Boing Boing post about Woody Roseland—specifically, about his spectacular "Shit Cancer Patients Say" video. Man. I loved that video, and I love Woody. I've followed him on Twitter throughout my own cancer treatment. He inspires me and makes me laugh. Here's a video of Woody speaking at TEDxMileHigh ...
Read in browser Genetically modified mosquitoes proposed for anti-dengue fight in Key West
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 24, 2012 01:05 pm British biotechnology company Oxitec Ltd is trying to convince the locals in Key West to use genetically modified mosquitoes in their fight to eradicate dengue fever in the area. What could possibly go wrong?
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