Seems the RIAA has got to Archie too! The very first story in Archie #577 (September 2007) is a cautionary tale for kiddies called "Record Breaker" wherein all those leechers… Read the rest of the article: Archie becomes tool for the RIAA
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Mark Frauenfelder Andrew says: I'm not an engineer type at all (I could short out the power to my television by boiling water in another room), so forgive my explanation… I live… Read the rest of the article: DIY bike noisemaker
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Mark Frauenfelder Nomad4ever has a tutorial on how to avoid paying phony fines to crooked traffic cops in Bali. He lists several things you can do to save yourself from paying a… Read the rest of the article: Avoid paying corrupt traffic cops in Bali
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Mark Frauenfelder Concept cars of the past. (Via Neatorama) Video — 1961 Rural Civil Defense TV spots use marionettes. (Via Endless Parade of Excellence) How to wind a center-pull ball of yarn… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 5
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Mark Frauenfelder Erik says: The "Never Get Busted Again" video is indeed lousy, and gives lots of terrible advice that involves 'cooperating' with cops and renouncing your constitutional rights (4th and 5th… Read the rest of the article: Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
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Mark Frauenfelder Bre Pettis of MAKE shows you how to make a tabletop biosphere. Magnetic shapes to decorate your car. Kansas takes pride in first white child born in Jamestown. Calculate your… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 4
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Mark Frauenfelder Rory Mayberry is a former subcontractor employee for First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Company, which was contracted by the US State Dept. to build the $600 million US Embassy in… Read the rest of the article: Slave labor used to build US Embassy in Iraq?
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Mark Frauenfelder LA Weekly has a funny short profile of Paul Krassner, founder of The Realist, a newsletter that was a huge influence on the formation of bOING bOING (the zine the… Read the rest of the article: Paul Krassner profiled
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Mark Frauenfelder Jonathan Gold writes about Lardo — "slabs of pure, white hog lard cured for months in special coffin-shaped basins hewn from marble" — in the latest LA Weekly. At Dario… Read the rest of the article: Jonathan Gold praises lardo
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Mark Frauenfelder Yesterday I wrote about a video called Never Get Busted Again, in which a former narc teaches potheads how to stay out of jail. Today, a Boing Boing reader named… Read the rest of the article: Update to "Never Get Busted Again" video
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Mark Frauenfelder Former narcotics officer Barry Cooper says he feels guilty for making over 800 drug arrests in his career: "The war on drugs is an utterly losing proposition," he tells Radar.… Read the rest of the article: Former narc teaches potheads how to stay out of jail
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Mark Frauenfelder Josh says: A couple of days ago you noted Elbruz.org's geographical claim, in this post: There is a larger one on Glover Island on Newfoundland. I should know: I believe… Read the rest of the article: The largest island on an island on an island (update)
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Mark Frauenfelder Earlier this month Max Blumenthal went to the Christians United for Israel's (CUFI) annual Washington-Israel Summit and made a video. In its call for a unilateral military attack on Iran… Read the rest of the article: Video: Christians United for Israel Tour
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Mark Frauenfelder Jill says: I thought you might be interested in this little article I just wrote up on the "sustainable" farm exhibit at Disney's EPCOT center, which features lots of genetically… Read the rest of the article: Mickey Mouse shaped vegetables at EPCOT farm
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Mark Frauenfelder David Mackett, the president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance, says the "almost incomprehensible size of the air transportation system" is the reason why the TSA's "entire approach to airline… Read the rest of the article: Pilots' security org: "Our entire approach to airline security is almost completely ineffective"
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Mark Frauenfelder Three easy magic trick videos Trailer for new Cohen bros. movie, No Country for Old Men (Via Grow-a-brain) Anime-masked models charge $100 per hour to be photographed by eager amateur… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 3
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Mark Frauenfelder Girlguiding UK surveyed 1000 girls and women in its organization to find out what skills they wanted to learn. Popular answers included "surf the Web safely," "stand up to boys,"… Read the rest of the article: Girl Guides want badges for "safe sex" and "flat pack"
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Mark Frauenfelder The US House voted against the Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment, which would have prohibited the feds from busting people for possession of small quantities of marijuana. To celebrate, the DEA… Read the rest of the article: Congress votes to raid medical marijuana dispensaries
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Mark Frauenfelder Steve Silberman has a story in Wired about Jim Gray, who is lost at sea. He says: The story is partly about the massive and fascinating DIY effort to try… Read the rest of the article: Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
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Mark Frauenfelder My friend Bill Barminski told me about this video that Christopher Louie, his production partner at Walter Robot, did. It stars Christopher's brother who has Down Syndrome. "ARC is a… Read the rest of the article: ARC, by Christopher Louie