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• Cory Doctorow: Boing Boing Has Gone Dark: Heres Why

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 736
  Consumerist asked Boing Boing blogger and author Cory Doctorow to contribute to our coverage of the anti-SOPA protests, and he asked us to repost his statement from Boing Boing , which were happy to do -- especially since you cant read it on that site today, since Boing Boing has blacked itself out as part of the ...
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• In praise of skeuomorphs

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  I reflected today on the fact that my four-year-old makes a “click” sound when she’s playing with a toy camera because that’s the MP3 that my phone plays when I take her picture. A number of people pointed out that this is an example of a skeuomorph, “a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues ...
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• 2600 to go PIPA-dark, too

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Emmanuel Goldstein sez, “The websites for 2600 will go dark on Wednesday, joining many others around the world in protest against the potentially devastating effects of bills like SOPA and PIPA.” Taken from: 2600 to go PIPA-dark, too
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• Free PDF of the first Diesel Sweeties comic collection

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  The delightful R. Stevens is distributing the first Diesel Sweeties webcomic collection as a DRM-free, free PDF, in celebration of his birthday. “Pocket Sweeties, Volume 1,” is a sterling example of the demented, bitter humor that Rich pulls off so well, and we’re a lucky Internet for getting this great gimmee ...
  1 week ago

• Get writing advice from Lev Grossman in your inbox

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Katie sez, “To help writers get in the habit of working on their craft a little bit each day, Figment has started Daily Themes, a free email service that sends subscribers a writing prompt five days a week. This week (January 16-20) all of the prompts will come from none other than Lev Grossman, author View ...
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• Mitt Romney to wheelchair-bound medical marijuana patient: "I don’t support medical marijuana. Bye."

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  In this old video, an 80 lb man with muscular dystrophy in a wheelchair explains to Mitt Romney that his qualified physician believes that medical marijuana is the only medication that helps him. Mitt tells him he should take synthetic marijuana, and the man explains that this makes him violently ill. The man then ...
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• Mitt Romney to wheelchair-using medical marijuana patient: "I don’t support medical marijuana. Bye."

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  In this old video, an 80 lb man with muscular dystrophy in a wheelchair explains to Mitt Romney that his qualified physician believes that medical marijuana is the only medication that helps him. Mitt tells him he should take synthetic marijuana, and the man explains that this makes him violently ill. The man then ...
  1 week ago

• Life-sized edible Stormtrooper cake

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Pziselberger sez, “This was done by Oak Leaf Cakes, for the Arisia Science Fiction Convention in Boston. It is a 6’4″ tall, edible Storm Trooper.” Follow this link: Life-sized edible Stormtrooper cake
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• Free/open "this site has gone dark to fight SOPA" site template

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Zachary sez, “I needed someplace to vent my frustration with SOPA between calls to my Congress members. I created a homepage design option for people who want to take their sites dark on January 18. It’s public domain and on github so people can fork it.” You can preview it here. zachstronaut / stop-sopa ...
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• Colbert ad: if corporations are people, then Mitt’s corporate raiding makes him a serial killer

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  The latest Colbert PAC attack ad points out that Mitt Romney says “corporations are people,” but he also made his fortune as a raider buying up, gutting and killing corporations. Conclusion: Mitt “the Ripper” Romney is a serial killer. Attack In B Minor For Strings (via Super Punch) Read more here: Colbert ...
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• England worst place in the world for bogus "walking while brown" stop-and-searches

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  A report on the English and Welsh law allowing the police to stop-and-search people in “exceptional” circumstances was used against black people 29.7 times more often than it is against white people. Black people made up two percent of the UK in the last census. According to The Guardian, this represents “the ...
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• Was American arrested for spying in Iran producing "propaganda games" for CIA?

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Dominic Girard from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sez, It’s one thing for Iran to arrest an American and sentence him to death for being a spy. It’s a whole other thing when you say the spy made video games as propaganda for the CIA. Yet that’s precisely one of the charges Iranian-American Amir Hekmati ...
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• Recursive phishing email

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Bruce Sterling received a phishing email purporting to be a followup to a report of a phishing email. Coming soon: a phishing email purporting to be a phishing email purporting to be a followup to a report of a phishing email. US-CERT is forwarding the following Phishing email that we received to the APWG for Read ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Monster Family car stickers

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  In the Neatorama store, a set of “My Monster Family Car Stickers” designed by Mike Jacobsen. These are a great antidote to the ubiquitous sickly-sweet minivan stickers. My Monster Family – Family Car Stickers View article: My Monster Family car stickers
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• Lamar Smith and Patrick Leahy blink: take DNS-blocking out of SOPA and PIPA

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  After repeatedly insisting that establishing a national censoring firewall with DNS-blocking was critical to the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill’s sponsor (and chair of the House Judicial Committee) Rep Lamar Smith has blinked. He’s agreed to cut DNS-blocking from the bill, in the face of a threat from rival Rep ...
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• Investigating reader preferences for a core technical reference book on the eve of its self-published rebirth

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  John Huntington sez, “I’m preparing a new (and self published) edition of my book, Control Systems for Live Entertainment. And so I put a survey online and got over 100 respondents. It’s not a huge sample size, but what was most interesting to me was how much they were willing to pay for a printed Visit site: ...
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• VHS Cassette notebooks

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Peleg Design’s “Video Notebook” bears an uncanny resemblance to a VHS cassette, and comes with labels for extra verisimilitude. Video Notebook (via Neatorama) More here: VHS Cassette notebooks
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• WWII bomber jacket art

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  How to Be a Retronaut’s latest gallery is a world-beater: “U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets, WWII.” Stylin’. U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets, WWII See the original post: WWII bomber jacket art
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• The Google-Kenya ripoff

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Mocality is an African startup that has a Kenya-wide business directory. There is no Kenyan yellow pages, so the directory was crowdsourced, paying thousands of Kenyans to help create and validate its database. When the businesses in Mocality’s database started asking them about the premium service they were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kickstarter project for Skallops: clips that turn playing cards into building toys

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  Evan sez, “This is a new construction toy on Kickstarter that uses clever laser-cut clips to assemble regular playing cards into almost any kind of sculpture. We hit our first production goal for the Skallops in the first 12 hours We launched on Kickstarter a week ago, and hit our first production goal in just ...
  2 weeks ago

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