Marilyn sez, "It's the "Stop Groping Me" T-shirt, printed up with TSA directions on how to do an 'enhanced' pat-down: 'Breast area: Gently caress, using palm of hand. Try cupping… Read the rest of the article: Stop Groping Me TSA shirt

ExiledSurfer sez, "In support of NATIONAL OPT OUT DAY on NOVEMBER 24th, this is a website dedicated to people who decide to opt out of the TSA scanning procedures, with… Read the rest of the article: We Won't Fly: national aviation opt-out day in protest of TSA porno scanner/genital grope "security"

Just look at it. Banana mania – Repper experimentation (Thanks, Walter!) Previously: Just look at this zombie banana. Boing Boing Just look at these awesome banana-sticker design contest winners. Boing… Read the rest of the article: Just look at this awesome laser-cut banana.

Today in New Orleans French Quarter, I shot this short video of the gutterpunk busker-band Natchez on Fire performing "Red Rocking Chair." I was completely blown away by their performance,… Read the rest of the article: Gutterpunk bluegrass buskers in the French Quarter

Kalaisha sez, "A once abandoned (or, rather, off limits) subway station from 1908 in Brooklyn is now accessible to the public. And it is beautiful. Beautifully preserved too!" The city… Read the rest of the article: Secret Brooklyn Bridge subway station revealed

This Saturday's SF in SF event features Steven Boyett and Dale Pendell. Boyett is the author of Ariel and Elegy Beach — two of my all time favorites. It's free,… Read the rest of the article: SF in SF: Steven Boyett and Dale Pendell this Saturday

New revelations on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secretive global copyright being privately negotiated by rich countries away from the UN: ACTA will require ISPs to police trademarks… Read the rest of the article: ACTA will force your ISP to censor your work if someone lodges an unsupported trademark claim

The swell hackers at Adafruit Industries have declared a winner in their cash-prize contest to reverse-engineer the Microsoft Kinekt controller and release a free/open library that would let hardware hackers… Read the rest of the article: Free Kinect drivers released; Adafruit pays $3k bounty to hacker, $2k more to EFF

A high-school in Phoenix, Arizona is mounting a production of the theatrical adaptation of my novel Little Brother (this is the same script that was mounted for the 2008 performances… Read the rest of the article: Little Brother, the play, back on in Phoenix, AZ

Public Knowledge's Michael Weinberg has a new white paper: "It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great… Read the rest of the article: White paper on 3D printing and the law: the coming copyfight

Creative Commons is in the midst of its annual fundraising drive, and Hindawi, the open access scholarly journal, will match your contribution, up to $3,000. Creative Commons is an astonishingly… Read the rest of the article: Creative Commons fundraiser with matching grant from Hindawi

Baroness Neville-Jones, the UK government's security chief, was stopped at Heathrow with an oversize aerosol can in her hand-baggage. When security officials upbraided her for trying to bring banned objects… Read the rest of the article: Report: UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow

Libel-fighting science writer Simon Singh writes, This week is the first anniversary of the report Free Speech is Not for Sale, which highlighted the oppressive nature of English libel law.… Read the rest of the article: A message from Simon Singh: The Mass Libel Reform Blog – Fight for Free Speech!

Here's a brief listing of five "utterly incomprehensible" math papers from Cornell's arxiv.org. As the list's author says, "Every now and then it is necessary to refresh our sense of… Read the rest of the article: Math papers with complicated, humbling titles

Tom Fury sez, "This Saturday, the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum in Muskegon MI is hosting a day long program of training and lectures (PDF) in Great Lakes history… Read the rest of the article: Build an underwater robot workshop, Muskegon, MI, Nov 13

Australia's school system is making great strides in closing the bigoted homophobia gap with Mississippi: Hannah Williams, a 16 year old lesbian in Sydney Melbourne, has changed schools because she… Read the rest of the article: Gay prom panic strikes Australia

John Montgomery hacked an Arduino board into a cheap wireless doorbell, and connected that to an servo attached to a brass bell. Now when his doorbell rings, the wireless doorbell… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO: make a bell-ringing Arduino doorbell

JourneyQuest is an independently produced, fan-financed, Creative Commons licensed comic fantasy series about "a wizard with a quest problem." It's just concluded its first season of seven short episodes; I've… Read the rest of the article: JourneyQuest: fan-supported, CC-licensed fantasy/comedy series

According to Submitterator user Frycook, the largest image on Wikipedia is a 25MB, 461 megapixel panorama of the interior of the Georgetown Power Plant Museum in Seattle. My browser refused… Read the rest of the article: Biggest image on Wikipedia?

The new T-Mobile/HTC G2 Android phones have great specs, but they also have a "security feature" that wipes out any OS you install and replaces it with T-Mobile's crippled version… Read the rest of the article: T-Mobile G2 phones comprehensively jailbroken