Caitlin Roper's 25th anniversary appreciation of Katherine Dunn's magnificent novel Geek Love manages the improbable trick of doing the book justice. Geek Love is a one-of-a-kind wonder of a novel,… Read the rest of the article: On the 25th anniversary of the magnificent, enduring novel "Geek Love"
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Cory Doctorow I linked to the seven-hour video file from Trustycon, the convention held as an alternative to RSA's annual security event, inspired by the revelation that RSA took money from the… Read the rest of the article: Videos of individual Trustycon talks
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Cory Doctorow Dan Gillmor's got more to say about the news that K-cups are getting coffee DRM and what it means in the wider world: "Just as the police and security agencies… Read the rest of the article: Coffee DRM and the wider world of state spying and corporate control
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Cory Doctorow Ukrainian leather mask-maker Bob Basset's unveiled his latest creation, a menacing stormtrooper that calls to mind the recent Euromaidan violence.
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Cory Doctorow Carol writes, "After a much-needed break, this week Phil & Kaja Foglio started up a new story arc on their multiple-Hugo-award-winning 'Girl Genius' comic series. This new story arc is… Read the rest of the article: New Girl Genius arc starts today
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Cory Doctorow Jim Munroe sez, "Ten years from now, videogames are so immersive that teenagers learn lethal skills just by playing. They're called hapheads. The folks I made Ghosts With Shit Jobs… Read the rest of the article: Hapheads: new web-series from Jim Munroe and the "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" crew
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Cory Doctorow Our good pal Brandon "Offworld" Boyer has cancer. Lucky for Brandon, he signed up for medical insurance with Humana not long before he was diagnosed. Unlucky for him, Humana has… Read the rest of the article: Humana screws Brandon Boyer for $100K worth of cancer bills – help him pay them
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Cory Doctorow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has submitted written testimony [PDF] to an EU committee investigating mass surveillance. Glyn Moody's Techdirt post gives a great tl;dr summary of the document, but you… Read the rest of the article: Edward Snowden's magnificent testimony to the EU
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Cory Doctorow Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a terrible world leader among terrible world leaders: a xenophobic bigot and homophobe, committed to resource extraction economies and the destruction of social programs,… Read the rest of the article: Australian Green Senator tears Tony Abbott and neoliberalism a new one
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Cory Doctorow Lisa T. McElroy is a law professor who's spending a year at the University of Denver with her two kids, one in high school and one in middle school. She… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you opt your kids out of standardized tests
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Cory Doctorow Five years ago today Super Mario vs NYC — street art: Some street artist in NYC is using tile-mosaics to turn the street-level water hookups into a giant Super Mario… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Super Mario NYC; RNC vs Moveon ads
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Cory Doctorow Adam sez, "This is the first episode of an original Dailymotion production called 'That Was Me' which highlights the achievements of pop culture icons. 'That Was Me' episode 1: A… Read the rest of the article: SXSW founder tells his story
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Cory Doctorow Hang the Bankers has a set of photos from 1972 surrealist ball hosted by Marie-Hélène de Rothschild at the Château de Ferrières, with Salvador Dali in attendance. Hang the Bankers… Read the rest of the article: Photos from the Rothschilds' 1972 surrealist ball
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Cory Doctorow In Safety and Efficacy of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-Assisted Psychotherapy for Anxiety Associated With Life-threatening Diseases, a new paper published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, a Swiss psychiatrist… Read the rest of the article: First clinical LSD trial in 40 years shows positive results in easing anxiety of dying patients
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Cory Doctorow Phil and Limor from Adafruit write, "Make your own flexible, spiky, glowing accessory using NeoPixel strip diffused by NinjaFlex flexible 3D printing filament! Magnets let you attach the spikes to… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make glowing, 3D printed cyberpunk spikes
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Cory Doctorow When you watch Netflix videos in the Chrome browser, the service disables Chrome's developer console, a debugging and programming tool that gives you transparency and control over what your browser… Read the rest of the article: Netflix disables Chrome's developer console
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Cory Doctorow Eric sends us this site documenting the construction of a kid-sized, 2/5-scale Batpod as seen in The Dark Knight: "My friend Travisis a pretty rad maker. He successfully built a… Read the rest of the article: Building a kid-sized Dark Knight Batpod
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Cory Doctorow Senator Joe Manchin delivered a grandstanding, technologically clueless, facepalm-inducing request to the Treasury Department to ban Bitcoin. In response, Rep Jared Polis (who proudly wears Boing Boing tee-shirts in his… Read the rest of the article: Happy Mutant congressman: if Bitcoin should be banned, why not dollar bills?
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Cory Doctorow The Rochester Institute of Technology has announced America's "first minor in free and open source software and free culture." (Thanks, Stephen!)
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Cory Doctorow Mack writes, "XyloVan is a roving musical mutant vehicle that our family built four years ago. Thousands of musicians, kids, Burners and amateur XyloVanists have enjoyed banging on the van,… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding Xylovan: a musical instrument mutant vehicle