Icelandic Pirate Party statement on asylum for Snowden Low-cost hi-fi: the amazing world of cheapo mini-amps Gweek 100: A.J. Jacobs, extreme self-experimenter Bulgarian protesters take to Twitter, ask Will You #ДАНСwithme? Why isn't "Snowden" trending on Twitter? Edward Snowden has disappeared Bubblenomics: how the Beanie Babies speculators got it wrong Technology and Activism: where does the Internet fit? Hyperlapse video from the PoV of a Tokyo automated train Fixing Network Attached Storage with commodity hardware and BSD HOWTO singlehandedly erase traffic jams by driving slow Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador Lunar gravity-maps Icelandic Pirate Party statement on asylum for Snowden
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2013 12:59 pm Icelandic Pirate Party MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir has released
a statement on the possibility of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden being granted asylum in Iceland: "Snowden should not come to Iceland unless he will request and be granted citizenship by the Icelandic Parliament.
Read in browser Low-cost hi-fi: the amazing world of cheapo mini-amps
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2013 12:17 pm Back in 2005, I
wrote about the Sonic Impact T-Amp, a $30 toy amp that stereophiles had figured out how to mod into a brilliant, high-quality amplifier.
Read in browser Gweek 100: A.J. Jacobs, extreme self-experimenter
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 24, 2013 11:00 am Your browser does not support the audio tag.
This episode of Gweek is brought to you by MailRoute. Visit mailroute.net/gweek to start your free 15-day trial -- No credit card required. Read in browser Bulgarian protesters take to Twitter, ask Will You #ДАНСwithme?
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2013 10:56 am Elida sez, "#ДАНСwithme is the hashtag for the protests in Bulgaria that have been going on for 10 days now. The spark was the choice of the head of the State Agency for National Security, ДАНС or DANS (hence, the hashtag - if you say "ДАНСw" in Bulgarian it is the same sound as in "dance").
Read in browser Why isn't "Snowden" trending on Twitter?
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2013 10:40 am A
pastebin dump, purportedly from the Twitter "firehose" feed (the feed of all public tweets), shows a remarkable amount of traffic mentioning NSA whistelblower Edward Snowden.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 24, 2013 09:59 am Edward Snowden has disappeared. The NSA whistleblower, who was presumed to be on a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow and thence to Havana did not board the flight to Havana.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 10:36 pm Buzzfeed's Hunter Schwarz revisits 1998's "Scholastic Beanie Baby Handbook," which predicted values of Beanie Babies in 2008, and compares them to the current-day eBay clearing price for these same speculative items.
Read in browser Technology and Activism: where does the Internet fit?
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 08:59 pm Last weekend, I took part in a panel at Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival at Southbank in London, on "Technology and Activism," along with Jamie Bartlett (Director for the Analysis of Social Media at DEMOS) and David Babbs (Executive Director of 38 Degrees), chaired by Olivia Solon from Wired UK.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 06:05 pm Here's time-lapse footage from the front of a Tokyo Yurikamome automated train, shot and post-processed by
DarwinFish105. It's a properly Gibsonian bit of video:
Read in browser Fixing Network Attached Storage with commodity hardware and BSD
By Ben Laurie on Jun 23, 2013 04:18 pm Many years ago, I finally got sick of failing disks and the panic that follows them, so I decided to buy a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
Read in browser HOWTO singlehandedly erase traffic jams by driving slow
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 03:01 pm Update: I've updated the link to
Bill Beaty's
original article -- the one I linked to originally was a scumbag plagiarist.
Read in browser Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 02:29 pm Ecuador's foreign ministry has confirmed that Edward Snowden has officially applied for asylum in Ecuador. He
left Hong Kong this morning,
landed in Moscow, and is said to be heading for Cuba next.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 02:03 pm Joly sez,
These print-resolution stills were created for the cover of the February 8, 2013 issue of Science. They show the free-air gravity map developed by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
Read in browser Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century.
Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their inner maker” as they design and build projects like stamps, stop-motion animation clips, and “vibrobots.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRKXqDwieY&feature=plcp]
This might seem all shiny and new. And it is—but only in part. What’s so striking (and exciting) about SparkTruck is the way it combines old and new. It does so in the tools it gets kids using, which range from pipe cleaners to laser cutters. It does so in its educational approach, which combines cutting-edge (get it?) STEM and design pedagogy with the fundamentals of an old-school shop class. And it does so in its method, which combines the iconic, century-old technology of the bookmobile with the hot new form of the maker space.
In doing so, SparkTruck joins a growing number of libraries which are combining time-tested principles (like equal access to information) with new technologies (like 3-D printers), putting in maker spaces and media production labs alongside bookshelves and meeting rooms. As I’ve argued over on bookmobility.org, these combinations make sense because reading and making actually have a lot in common. They’re both creative processes that take existing materials and combine them in new ways. Getting people engaged in those kinds of processes—through imaginative thinking, contemplation, hands-on problem-solving, and collaborative learning—is what both maker spaces and libraries are all about.
Taking that commitment on the road with scissors and hammers and 3-D printers and a great big bookmobile-like truck, SparkTruck serves as a laboratory for new approaches, as well as a reminder that trying new things doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t!) necessarily mean tossing old ones out.
After all, what would those vibrobots be without classically crafty pipe cleaners and tongue depressors? And what would a library be without the creative, participatory, straight-up awesome experience of reading?
SparkTruck schedule [sparktruck.org]
How to arrange a visit from SparkTruck [sparktruck.org]
SparkTruck YouTube channel [youtube.com]
Signature: --Derek Attig, bookmobility.org
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