Free Culture Swarthmore is planning street-demonstrations against DRM in Philly! The protest will take place Saturday, February 25th at noon at the Tower Records Store on South Street. It will… Read the rest of the article: Anti-DRM protests planned for Philly

Lots to love in today's Worth 1000 photoshopping contest, whose theme is to create anachronistic high-tech products, like this transistor iPod. Link

The "How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?" page lists snippets of notional folk-songs notionally performed by well-known folkies on the subject of light-bulb changing: Mike… Read the rest of the article: Notional folk-songs about changing lightbulbs

A new suite of free and open tools let you watch TV, make TV, and recommend TV in a way that's easier, cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Democracy… Read the rest of the article: Democracy: a new platform for making and seeing TV on the net

An Argentine artist has designed a line of sneakers called "Brincos" (from Spanish Brincar, to jump) for immigrants who are sneaking accross the Mexican border: "The shoe includes a compass,… Read the rest of the article: Shoes designed for illegal Mex/US border crossings

A Chinese artist has built a huge city in miniature out of biscuits at Selfridges department store in London: An estimated 72,000 biscuits, including digestives, chocolate digestives, rich tea, hobnobs,… Read the rest of the article: City made of biscuits on display in London

A toy company has reintroduced the Digicomp, a mechanical computer kit from the 1960s. This looks like an amazing educational toy. As Retrothing notes: The Digicomp is a plastic mechanical… Read the rest of the article: Mechanical computer kit from 1960s available again

The head of the US Copyright Office says that a controversial treaty that would bring harm to webcasters — especially podcasters — has been rejected by the rest of the… Read the rest of the article: US copyright head: world "totally rejects" webcasting restrictions

The head of the US copyright office has accused Congress of making a mistake by extending the length of copyright in America, calling the term "too long," and saying that… Read the rest of the article: Copyright office head denounces "big mistake" of extending copyright

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively… Read the rest of the article: Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop

An underground artist clade in Detroit is painting the city's many derelict buildings "Tiggeriffic Orange," in order to liven the landscape. They call the project "Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland." The artistic… Read the rest of the article: Artists paint Detroit's derelict buildings Tiggeriffic Orange

Skinny Coder, a Flickr user, creates genius recreations of video-game scenes using legos. Shown here — the wonderful "Katamari Blockacy." Link (via Wonderland)

Paul sez, "This link shows what the Tube Map might look like if TfL decided to allow companies to sponsor stations in return for slight station name-changes, e.g. Alliance &… Read the rest of the article: What if London Underground stations were sponsored?

VersionTracker, an excellent repository for Mac software, has been threatened with legal action by Macrovision (a company that sells malicious anti-copying software that blocks owners of movies and software from… Read the rest of the article: DRM arms-dealer threatens Mac software site

A person claiming to be a Canadian barrister has threatened to sue Boing Boing over a post about a Canadian family that refuses to return an expensive digital camera they… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious "lawer" threatens to sue over Bad Samaritan story

The OSX86 project, where owners of copies of Apple's OS X discuss how to install their property on non-Apple computers, has instituted a policy of censoring links to entire sites… Read the rest of the article: Mac-on-Intel site self-censors to avoid Apple's wrath

These glowing, multicolored, hand-carved tiki idols run on three AA batteries; Toby sez the designer "might make a USB powered version if there are enough people interested." Link (Thanks, Toby!)

My friend Suzy Conn has written a great insider article on the process of creating, mounting and succeeding with an indie musical. Suzy wrote and shepherded her musical Plane Crazy… Read the rest of the article: Inside look at producing a musical

Bandai is releasing an inexplicable fake cat-paw toy, with claws. Furries, start your engines: Bandai is releasing the "Neko Nyanbou" in Japan sometime in April. So what is it? Well,… Read the rest of the article: Fake cat-paw toys with claws

A marketing student's project to produce little magazines that are shipped under the removable label of a pop bottle is going into commercial production. The idea is to bypass traditional… Read the rest of the article: Little magazines that come stuck to pop bottles