Spies Travels, a Danish travel agency, have conceived of a promotion to help reverse Denmark's plummeting birthrate. They're offering a discount for couples who travel during one partner's ovulation period,… Read the rest of the article: Danish travel company offers "ovulation discount" for couples, rewards if you conceive on holiday

Remember the copyright trolls at Prenda Law, the slippery crooks who claimed that no one actually owned their extortionate racket, that no one made any money from it, and that… Read the rest of the article: Another judge hands Prenda Law its own ass on a plate

Leah is looking for a job at a creative agency, so she created a Lego figure of herself and boxed it up as a resume in the form of a… Read the rest of the article: Resume in the form of a custom Lego figure

California Senator Leland Yee has been indicted, along with 25 others, in an organized crime bust that includes charges of wire fraud and firearms trafficking, as well as accepting bribes… Read the rest of the article: Anti-video-game California politician indicted for gun-running

The Turkish government has doubled down on its Internet censorship program, blocking all of Youtube in addition to its ban on Twitter. Despite theories about the political theatre of blocking… Read the rest of the article: Turkish government blocks Youtube to shut down spread of phone recording in which PM conspires to hide millions from investigators

Rudy Rucker writes, "I'll be reading and giving out BIG AHA and some other titles at Scribd in San Francisco on Thursday."

Worker-owned co-ops are a mainstay of crappy economies, and are thriving around the world. Worker-owned co-ops have better productivity than regular businesses, pay higher wages, and offer better benefits packages.… Read the rest of the article: Worker co-ops: business without bosses

As I've written before, Karl Schroeder is one of the sharpest, canniest thinkers about technology and science fiction I know. In the nearly 30 years I've know him, he's introduced… Read the rest of the article: Lockstep: Karl Schroeder's first YA novel is a triumph of weird science, deep politics, and ultimate adventure

Hey, Danes! There's a limited-edition Danish-language translation of Little Brother that's just come out from Science Fiction Cirklen! Tell your friends!

A disturbing new turn in the North Korean Official Haircut Story: men male students can no longer choose from 18 approved haircuts and must henceforth all sport the same haircut… Read the rest of the article: North Korean students must now all wear Kim Jong Un's "Chinese smuggler" haircut

The State of the Discordant Union: An Empirical Analysis of DMCA Takedown Notices , a paper publishing in Virginia Journal of Law and Technology by Stanford/NUS's Daniel Seng, documents the… Read the rest of the article: Censorship flood: takedown notices to Google increased by 711,887% in four years

One year ago today RPG inside an Excel workbook: Cary Walkin, an accountant in Toronto, knows a thing or two about Excel. So great is his expertise that he was… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Excel RPG; Kinetic baby toys; Criminalizing P2P

The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) set up a Change.org petition asking Wikipedia to make it easier to post crazy pseudo-science to Wikipedia, specifically information about "Energy Medicine, Energy… Read the rest of the article: Jimmy Wales tells "energy workers" that Wikipedia won't publish woo, "the work of lunatic charlatans isn't the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'"

Molly Crabapple sez, "In the past three years, I've sketched many courtrooms and seen the "widget factory" that is the criminal justice system firsthand. Courtrooms are a violent theater. The… Read the rest of the article: Reflections from sketching courtrooms

Michael writes, "I'm launching a Kickstarter campaign for a new game founded in the basics of genetics and physics. You're a cell in a 2d underwater universe, and you must… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Lifeform: a fun, educational game about evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nznzIFR51gY When remote areas of Vietnam are flooded out, entrepreneurial swimmers set up informal ferries in which passengers climb into sturdy plastic bags and are then swum across the river… Read the rest of the article: Vietnamese swimmers ferry passengers across flooded rivers in plastic bags

The UK tax authority HMRC abused the country's controversial anti-terrorism law to spy on a whistleblower and journalists at the Guardian after it was embarrassed by the revelation that it… Read the rest of the article: UK tax authority used anti-terror law to spy on whistleblower who disclosed sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs

Before he died, Aaron Swartz wrote a tremendous afterword for my novel Homeland — Aaron also really helped with the core plot, devising an ingenious system for helping independent candidates… Read the rest of the article: Noah Swartz reads Aaron Swartz's afterword to Homeland

Yesterday, I reviewed James Kolchaka's new graphic novel for kids, The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza, which made my six year old daughter laugh until she cried (I liked it… Read the rest of the article: Exclusive excerpt: first three chapters of "The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza"

If you're a Basecamp user who couldn't get into your account yesterday, here's why: the company refused to pay ransom to a criminal who hit them with a 20Gb/s denial-of-service… Read the rest of the article: Basecamp, Meetup hit by extortionist's 20Gb/s DDoS