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  • Cory Doctorow
    1:10 pm Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    Obsessive shopper blogs drawings of purchases and credit-card bills

    Kate Binagaman's ObsessiveConsumption.com is a site that features drawings of her purchases and drawings of her credit-card bills. Link (via Consumerist)

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  • Cory Doctorow
    9:02 am Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    BBC: "File sharing is not theft"

    The exec producer of a BBC show that ran a short segment on BitTorrent where file-sharing was equated with theft has apologized: First though, an apology. File sharing is not… Read the rest of the article: BBC: "File sharing is not theft"

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:52 am Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    Detailed rumors of update to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion

    Woobot has an Imagineer friend who's passed him detailed (but unconfirmed) rumors of an upcoming renovation of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion: The biggest changes will be coming to the attic scene,… Read the rest of the article: Detailed rumors of update to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion

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  • Cory Doctorow
    8:04 am Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    Free/open source blogosphere

    iBiblio's Paul Jones sez, "Create your own secure open source blogsphere with Lyceum and WordPress. Lyceum, from ibiblio.org, is designed to be the best secure scalable solution for deployments with… Read the rest of the article: Free/open source blogosphere

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  • Cory Doctorow
    5:10 am Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    Anthology of podcast sf stories launches

    The first volume of an anthology of science fiction stories in podcast form has been published. Voices is a new "podiobook" anthology released under a Creative Commons license, which collects… Read the rest of the article: Anthology of podcast sf stories launches

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  • Cory Doctorow
    4:39 am Wed, Mar 1, 2006
    Transcript: Octavia Butler's conversation with Delany at MIT

    Henry Jenkins of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program has posted a bunch of Octavia Butler related material in Ms Butler's memory. Octavia Butler was the first widely read African American… Read the rest of the article: Transcript: Octavia Butler's conversation with Delany at MIT

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:33 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    New comic sf story: Paris Hilton gets a conscience transplant

    Futurismic has posted its latest story, "The Jiminy Device," by Lisa Mantchev and it's one of the finest comic stories they've posted to date. It's the story of a kind… Read the rest of the article: New comic sf story: Paris Hilton gets a conscience transplant

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:21 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Choose Your Own Adventure covers photoshopping contest

    This old Something Awful photoshopping contest challenged participants to remix the covers of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books — some of these are sheer genius, like this Schrodinger's Cat C-Y-O-A with TWO exciting… Read the rest of the article: Choose Your Own Adventure covers photoshopping contest

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  • Cory Doctorow
    11:08 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Open forum for travelers locked out of airport electricity

    WiFiNetNews has an open forum for travel-geeks to talk about which airports are dumb enough to lock travelers out of recharging their laptops on lay-overs, following on from yesterday's post… Read the rest of the article: Open forum for travelers locked out of airport electricity

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:54 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    HOWTO build a humane mousetrap out of a toilet paper tube

    A great HOWTO explains an ingenious method for creating a homebrew humane mousetrap out of common household objects: 1. Get a toilet paper tube and crease two lines to form… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO build a humane mousetrap out of a toilet paper tube

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:40 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    HOWTO repurpose old phones as an intercom

    Here's a HOWTO explaining the best ways to rewire the old phone lines and phones in your house or office to use them as an intercom. I haven't had a… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO repurpose old phones as an intercom

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:37 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Nebula Awards finalists announced

    The 2005 Nebula ballot is out! Air – Geoff Ryman (St. Martin's Press, Sep04) Camouflage – Joe Haldeman (Analog, Mar-May 04, also Ace book Aug 2004) Going Postal – Terry… Read the rest of the article: Nebula Awards finalists announced

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:35 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Bouncing breast simulator from sports-bra company

    Shock Absorber, a UK line of sports-bras, has a Flash-based boobies-physics simulator. Plug in a cup-size and a level of activity, and it produces a 3D animation of breasts of… Read the rest of the article: Bouncing breast simulator from sports-bra company

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:25 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    HOWTO defeat Iranian censorship with Anonymizer and Voice of America

    Michael sez: The Anonymizer company has a contract with the Voice of America to provide anonymous internet access for users in a number of foreign countries, including Iran and China.… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO defeat Iranian censorship with Anonymizer and Voice of America

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  • Cory Doctorow
    10:09 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Anagram transit maps for NY/NJ PATH, Sydney

    Two more anagram transit maps trickled in yesterday. March 1's the cutoff for new anagram maps — I'll blog all the ones I receive by midnight, Eastern time! Get anagramming!… Read the rest of the article: Anagram transit maps for NY/NJ PATH, Sydney

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  • Cory Doctorow
    3:00 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Fight AOL/Yahoo's email tax!

    EFF has coordinated a massive effort to push back against AOL/Yahoo's proposed email tax that will only guarantee delivery of email if the sender pays AOL/Yahoo for every message they… Read the rest of the article: Fight AOL/Yahoo's email tax!

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  • Cory Doctorow
    2:43 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Inexplicable, funny video: screaming tape-player sliding down a clothesline

    This inexplicably funny video features a portable tape-player playing back panicked screams as it slides down a clothesline, hung from a carabiner, across a variety of settings. It's amazingly funny… Read the rest of the article: Inexplicable, funny video: screaming tape-player sliding down a clothesline

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  • Cory Doctorow
    2:39 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Trove of rare Alabama civil rights movement photos unearthed

    A newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, has unearthed a collection of dozens of never-published, haunting photos from the civil rights movement. They've republished many on the Web and are hosting a… Read the rest of the article: Trove of rare Alabama civil rights movement photos unearthed

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  • Cory Doctorow
    2:27 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Free CC music on community WiFi network

    Wireless Nomad, a cooperative WiFi network project in Toronto, has signed a deal with Fading Ways, a Creative Commons-licensed label, to distribute music free on its network: Toronto's Fading Ways… Read the rest of the article: Free CC music on community WiFi network

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  • Cory Doctorow
    2:25 pm Tue, Feb 28, 2006
    Collection of vintage BBS GIFs

    Here's a giant Flickr gallery of GIFs from the golden age of BBSes, when every board had a file-repository of low-rez color images, just so that you could download them… Read the rest of the article: Collection of vintage BBS GIFs

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