Jeff sez: Facing a $2.8 billion deficit and pending insolvency, Washington State's House Bill 3176 proposes changes to its B&O Royalty tax that would give Microsoft an estimated $100 million… Read the rest of the article: Broke-ass Washington state set to give MSFT $100M annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in evasion
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Cory Doctorow Icarus is the latest piece from Dan Hillier, London's brilliant recombiner of old woodcuts and new line-art, creator of the grotesque and the beautiful. He sells prints in various sizes… Read the rest of the article: Icarus: remixed woodcut from Dan Hillier
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Cory Doctorow Jeni sez, "Pictures of the giant snowman a Bel Air family made with their children in front of their home: 'My husband is an engineer and decided later on to… Read the rest of the article: Fire-breathing snowman
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Cory Doctorow In his Guardian column yesterday, Dr Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre schooled us (and the Daily Express) on some basic statistical numeracy: Often one data point isn't enough to spot a… Read the rest of the article: On the likelihood of having all three of your kids share a birthday
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Cory Doctorow Here's a correspondence between an angry person who placed a classified ad soliciting "disguised weapons" and a chain-yanker who was very funny in response: Still thirsty for justice? Try this… Read the rest of the article: Disguised weapons for sale
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Cory Doctorow The Electronic Frontier Foundation's latest t-shirt commemorates its twentieth birthday with this awesome "Liberty Mecha" design. Yours with a $65 tax-deductible membership donation! Become an EFF Member! Previously: Boing Boing:… Read the rest of the article: EFF's Liberty Mecha shirt
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Cory Doctorow Madhis sez, "The Broadband in the Mississippi Delta report analyzes broadband availability and economic opportunity in Mississippi and the impact it has on communities of color. With far too little… Read the rest of the article: Poverty in Mississippi Delta worsened by poor broadband
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Cory Doctorow Abel LeBlanc, a Liberal member of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, was thrown out of the room yesterday after he gave a rival politician the finger, called her a liar,… Read the rest of the article: Canadian politician gives rival the finger, offers to "go outside" with the entire legislature if they don't like it
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Cory Doctorow In this security footage from a Georgia Wal-Mart, a man smashes 27 televisions with a baseball bat he had picked up in the sporting good section. There but for the… Read the rest of the article: Man smashes 27 TVs at Wal-Mart
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Cory Doctorow Technology Review's writeup of Google Nexus One phone hits all the high-notes. I've had one of these for a month now (we bought one for my wife and got another… Read the rest of the article: Nexus One writeup in Technology Review
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Cory Doctorow Wagner James Au sez, "Second Life founder Philip Rosedale (who stepped down from managing the company he founded last year) is attempting an ambitious follow-up with his new spin-off company:… Read the rest of the article: Dreaming AI coming to Second Life
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Cory Doctorow As a near-total teetotaller, I'm in no position to weigh in on the quality of Kraken Spiced Rum (haven't tried it, it might taste like paint-thinner and strip the enamel… Read the rest of the article: Kraken booze package
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Cory Doctorow Google has rolled out a YouTube speed-tester that tells you how your ISP stacks up against other ISPs in your town and country, to "give you the ability to compare… Read the rest of the article: YouTube speed tester: Net Neutrality judo will show you when your ISP is messing with you
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Cory Doctorow Noted security researcher Ross Anderson and colleagues have published a paper showing how "Chip-and-PIN" (the European system for verifying credit- and debit-card transactions) has been thoroughly broken and cannot be… Read the rest of the article: Chip-and-PIN is broken
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Cory Doctorow In this 2007 video, Cody Richeson mashes up the (absolutely dreadful) Goofy Movie with cuts and sounds that are reminiscent of David Lynch, making something dark, creepy, and altogether better… Read the rest of the article: Goofy Movie, by David Lynch
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Cory Doctorow Robert sez, "Rather than a multi-page flipbook, this Instructable shows how to create the illusion of movement with a single sheet of paper and transparency." If you've seen books like… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make paper animations like those in GALLOP
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Cory Doctorow Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, Boing Boing readers may be familiar with the FedFlix program, where Public.Resource.Org obtains government video and makes it available on YouTube, the Internet Archive, and… Read the rest of the article: International Amateur Scanning League will rescue our video treasures!
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Cory Doctorow National Geo's Debjani Seth took this picture of gentleman at an Indian religious festival smoking with a home-made and extremely elaborate pipe. This person was smoking with his specially made… Read the rest of the article: Elaborate home-made pipe
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Cory Doctorow A MAC cosmetics shoot recreated Roy Lichtenstein's halftone-dot comic-girl to very good effect. The Real life Lichtenstein-Comic-Girl (Thanks, Patrick!) Previously: Roy Lichtenstein's source material – Boing Boing Roy Lichtenstein swipes… Read the rest of the article: Real world Lichtenstein girl
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