Michael from Mother Jones writes, "Most people who use marijuana probably don't give much thought to where it comes from. Alas, a huge chunk of it comes from environmentally devastating… Read the rest of the article: Weed growers versus the environment
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Cory Doctorow Jeroen writes, "about a project I'm working on: FryskLab, Europe's first library-powered FabLab. We're using a mobile lab facility to bring making and 21st century skills to primary and secondary… Read the rest of the article: Europe's first library-powered fablab
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Cory Doctorow Taras sez: I noticed last week that access to the Ukrainian media website tsn.ua was impossible from the UK but there was no issue with me connecting to it via… Read the rest of the article: Sky censoring Ukrainian site, says it has "a white list of international media websites which are currently blocked"
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Cory Doctorow Richard Masten is the executive director of Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers, a service that promises anonymity to the people who send in tips on serious crimes. So when a judge ordered… Read the rest of the article: Miami Crimestoppers head eats a tip rather than hand it over to defense lawyer
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Sheet music for the Mario "coin" sound: From the Mario Piano site. Five years ago today Sen. Grassley to AIG execs: quit or commit ritual suicide:… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Mario "coin" sheet-music; Senator to AIG execs: kill yourselves; Bruce Sterling's open-door SXSW party
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Cory Doctorow Mitchel Resnick runs the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten lab, from which came the amazing, kid-friendly Scratch programming language. He writes, "We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for ScratchJr, an… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Scratchjr: Scratch programming for under-eights!
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Cory Doctorow The Australian attorney general has mooted a proposal to require service providers to compromise their cryptographic security in order to assist in wiretaps. The proposal is given passing mention in… Read the rest of the article: Australian attorney general wants the power to launch man-in-the-middle attacks on secure Internet connections
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Cory Doctorow Here's a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology where I try to convey the insanity of spy… Read the rest of the article: Podcast: If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology
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Cory Doctorow Since 1976, Susan Cahill of All Families Healthcare has been in family practice in Montana, offering compassionate family/reproductive health services — including abortion. It is for this reason that her… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding money to rebuild destroyed Montana family health clinic
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Cory Doctorow Ryan writes, "I was a backer of the Veronica Mars movie, one level of backer got you a digital download of the movie. They ended up going with Warner Bros… Read the rest of the article: Studio gives Kickstarter Veronica Mars movie backers substandard, DRM-crippled "rewards"
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Cory Doctorow The NYPD runs an intelligence agency that is even more secretive, and practically as corrupt as the NSA. They even fly their own intelligence officers to the scene of terrorist… Read the rest of the article: NYPD claims its Freedom of Information Act policy is a secret "attorney-client communications"
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Cory Doctorow Here's a report from the front lines of the neoliberal educational world*, where homework has consumed the lives of children and their families without regard to whether it is improving… Read the rest of the article: Homework is eating American schoolkids and their families
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Maria Del Camino: an art-car that's part tank, part El Camino: Video documentary on my friend Bruce Tomb, who has built an amazing art-car called Maria… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Maria Del Camino; Stuffed monsters based on kids' art; Controlled vocabulary for relationships
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Cory Doctorow Both Mark and I have sung the praises of Hoang Tran's hand-carved pop-culture crayons (I have one in my office!). But Tran has really gone to a new level, adding… Read the rest of the article: Carved crayons — now with color!
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Cory Doctorow As ever, Bruce Sterling's closing remarks to the SXSW Interactive festival were a barn-burner; in them, Sterling rattles off a list of people who should be in the room, either… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Sterling's closing remarks from SXSW Interactive: who isn't in the room?
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Cory Doctorow In case you were wondering how the milk-cups made from warm chocolate-chip cookies tasted, it sounds like they were pretty darned good, especially once the recipe was changed so that… Read the rest of the article: Tasting the chocolate-chip cookie milk-cups
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Cory Doctorow Just look at it. Banana Holder (via Julian Bond/Boing Boing G+)
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Cory Doctorow IO9 has published Tobias Buckell's tense, taut technothriller story "System Reset." It's a story about hacker/bounty hunters, taken from the pages of John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey's new anthology… Read the rest of the article: Tobias Buckell's "System Reset": tense, taut hacker tale
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Cory Doctorow Here's a lovely old advisory from William Matthews Bookseller, explaining how to open a book for the first time, which was a major operation in the age of hand-sewn hardcover… Read the rest of the article: How to open a book
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Cory Doctorow Etsy seller Light Life makes this book-spine masking tape for sealing up your boxes and making them look like they're libraries for tiny flatlanders. The Taiwanese seller has lots of… Read the rest of the article: Bookshelf masking-tape