IO9's Vincze Miklós has collected a marvellous gallery of photos from abandoned and rotting themeparks around the world. Several of these have been featured here before, while others are entirely… Read the rest of the article: Photos of ruined and rotting themeparks around the world
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Cory Doctorow Remember The Beastles, the amazing Beastie Boys/Beatles mashup? Hope you got a copy on your hard-drive because the RIAA's gone on a totally predictable jihad against a piece of delightful,… Read the rest of the article: Beastles get nuked by the RIAA – the merciless, indiscriminate boot of Big Content stamps on humanity's face, forever
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Cory Doctorow Back in April, I wrote about the impending demolition of the Book House in St Louis, MO, and the problems they were having with their fight to stay put. They… Read the rest of the article: Book House of St Louis faces closure, seeks cash
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Cory Doctorow What you will hear, should you click "Play" above, is the sound of frequency-shifted bats singing the Batman theme, by means of a sampler and keyboard: Bats produce sounds that… Read the rest of the article: Bats sing Batman theme
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Cory Doctorow Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-authors of the excellent book Big Data write in the MIT Tech Review with a good, skeptical look at the risks of relying on data… Read the rest of the article: Lies, damned lies, and big data: the dictatorship of data
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Cory Doctorow The street protests in Brazil have gained momentum, with huge crowds in the streets. At issue is a kind of corporatist corruption symbolized by two upcoming football tournaments that are… Read the rest of the article: Brazil rises up: 2M march across 80+ cities, 110,000 in the streets of Rio
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Cory Doctorow Mat Ricardo writes in with news of his next London Varieties show: It's the latest episode of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties – featuring Eddie Izzard, Piff the Magic Dragon, Original… Read the rest of the article: London Varieties show: Jun 27, with Eddie Izzard
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Cory Doctorow An Icelandic businessman and Wikileaks supporter named Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson has offered to fly Edward Snowden to Iceland by private jet, pending Icelandic Interior Ministry approval of asylum-seeker status for… Read the rest of the article: Private jet to Iceland awaits Edward Snowden
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Cory Doctorow The Guardian has published two more top-secret NSA memos, courtesy of whistleblower Edward Snowden. The memos are appendices to "Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons" (1, 2), and… Read the rest of the article: More NSA leaks: how the NSA bends the truth about spying on Americans while insisting it doesn't spy on Americans
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Cory Doctorow Next on San Francisco's excellent "SF in SF" science fiction reading series: Cliff Winnig, Heather McDougal, and Cassie Alexander will present their work in an evening emceed by Terry Bisson.… Read the rest of the article: Saturday in SF: Cliff Winnig, Heather McDougal, and Cassie Alexander
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Cory Doctorow By Crom, what sorcery is this? These women with their motley tights have backdoored my brain's habitual human-recognition heuristics and keep fooling my eye into seeing impossible acrobatic half-humans with… Read the rest of the article: Phase-shifted torsos and impossibly acrobatic legs: the black-and-white tights dance
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Cory Doctorow Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) is the first Congresscritter to get a look at the text of the super-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership, currently being negotiated by Obama's US Trade Representative (the Obama… Read the rest of the article: Congressman gets a look at secret Trans-Pacific Partnership draft: "This agreement hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests"
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Cory Doctorow The latest release from Chuck D and Public Enemy is the Public Enemy BitTorrent Bundle, where you trade your email address for access to a torrent of "Get Up Stand… Read the rest of the article: Public Enemy releases a new song on BitTorrent, along with remixable tracks
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Cory Doctorow Ogilvy Colombia did a promotion for Coca-Cola wherein they dispensed The Black Waters of American Imperialism in rather appealing little bottles made of ice. I'm fond of ice shot-glasses full… Read the rest of the article: Serving Coke in ice-bottles
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Cory Doctorow Make Magazine profiled the incomparable steampunk maker Jake von Slatt; he's got all kinds of great stuff to relate: Two past mistakes you've learned the most from: 1. Propane is… Read the rest of the article: Make profiles Jake Von Slatt
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Cory Doctorow Here are some outtakes from Eric Boman's shoot for the classic Roxy Music album Country Life, and the shoots for the covers of such albums as Stranded and For Your… Read the rest of the article: Outtakes from Roxy Music album photo shoots
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Cory Doctorow General Keith Alexander, who is in charge of the NSA, has asked Congress to pass legislation immunizing companies from liability if they break the law following NSA spying orders. While… Read the rest of the article: NSA boss wants companies to be immunized from liability if they follow illegal orders from the NSA
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Cory Doctorow In a public statement, Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus Ministries, apologized for his group's practice of offering cruel "gay cure" camps. I am sorry for the pain and hurt… Read the rest of the article: Christian "gay cure" group apologizes
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Cory Doctorow Well, the brewing takes a lot longer, but that's some admirably compact instructional video right there. They skip the filtering step, which can be messy. You can do it one… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO cold-brew coffee, in six seconds
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Cory Doctorow I'm pretty taken with these Lightahead animal-headed coathooks, which come in everything from polar bear to camel, and cost $20 each. I haven't seen one in person and can't attest… Read the rest of the article: Animal-head hooks