Former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer says that the U.S. must also prosecute Rupert Murdoch's companies, because British authorities are too corrupt to get to the bottom of it all.

"Henry Waltz" is a feature-length animation in development by director Emil Goodman. The trailer gives me the same feeling as Peter Chung's early Æon Flux shorts. I look forward to the full film! Henry Waltz

Susannah Breslin, periodic Boing Boing guestblogger and current Forbes contributor, was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation to talk about President Obama's plan to begin sending condolence letters to military families whose loved ones committed suicide while in combat zones. — Read the rest

McIntosh now offers the MCLK12 mantle clock, which has the same faceplate and meters as its amplifiers, including hands that "fly back in retrograde fashion when they reach the end of their scale". It is $2,000. [McIntosh via Uncrate]

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Yesterday I posted a demonstration of the raw power of a great sword. Someone in the comments requested that the video be Benny-Hillified, and now, thanks to reader zax I can share that with you.

From zax's description of the video:

Ever wanted to see a "portly" gentleman with an awesome tache chop up pigs with a two handed sword to the theme music from benny hill?

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This robotic pipe bending machine looks like a snake charmer but with raw steel, or maybe a real life version of that old screensaver. It basically just extrudes metal and oozes raw, controlled power.

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Unfortunately, one of the more interesting videos of the machine is blocked for embedding. — Read the rest

A van promoting Banksy's movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, was grievously tagged in Japan. BB Reader Bender points out: "And yet what it's promoting is still perfectly visible. What thoughtful taggers!" [Timeout]

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Rupert, the adventurous teddy bear turned evil media mogul, has been summonsed to answer questions in parliament over the phone hacking affair. [BBC]

A U.K. ad agency created these 3D papercraft ponies to stand out from the usual flyposted fare. [Ads of the World]

Jawbone's new bracelet, called "Up", tracks your movements, sleeping patterns and eating habits, then transmits the data to an accompanying cellphone app. Just what I've always wanted!

Fast Company's Neal Ungerleider discusses the "Chinese Way" of hacking with Adam Segal.

Q:As far as preparing the battlefield, do you think it is mostly organized by the government, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and groups like that, or is it just bored kids with some sort of connection to government?

For its twelfth anniversary, MetaFilter collected stories from its members, bought the first domain that the sharing site ever linked to, cat-scan.com, then used it to host them. [Metafilter Memories]

Alexis Madrigal just published an excellent and timely profile of Bradley Manning.

He was the conscience that sparked these international controversies. He was the human being who felt he had to speak out. And he was a very confused young man in an incredible amount of psychological pain.

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Video artist Ronen V (who had nothing to do with the video embedded in this post) alerts us to news that fellow New Yorkers Seanna Sharpe (in the photo below) and Thomas "Savage" Skinner are in jail today. — Read the rest

[Video Link] The people of St. Louis sure love their bricks, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, poachers from other Louisiana and Mississippi love St. Louis bricks, too, and are stealing them. — Read the rest

The STS-135 space shuttle crew transmits a video thank-you message to the workers who made their voyage, and the 134 missions before it, possible. "Basically, 10,000 people have to do everything right all the time, and you have, constantly. (…) You are the best of the best."

Matt Blaze analyzes the contents of The 2010 U.S. Wiretap Report: "Despite dire predictions to the contrary, the open availability of cryptography has done little to hinder law enforcement's ability to conduct investigations." (crypto.com)

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Thanks Brian!

"Law enforcement representatives are planning to endorse a proposed federal law that would require Internet service providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months," Declan McCullagh at CNET News.com reports.