The CIA's Inspector General has asked the Justice Department to consider criminally charging CIA agents who spied on a senate committee that was engaged in writing a report that was… Read the rest of the article: CIA spied on Senate committee writing damning torture report and Obama knew about it
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Humans yelling like goats yelling like humans: Full circle, guys. Five years ago today Doctors force patients to sign gag orders forbidding online reviews: Over 2,000… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Humans yelling like goats yelling like humans; Doctors force patients to sign gag orders; Orkut anthem
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Cory Doctorow Tim got an email from someone trying to get rid of comment spams — ever since Google started punishing sites that left comment spam on blogs, this has been going… Read the rest of the article: Comment-spammers threaten to sabotage their victims through Google Disavow if the evidence of their vandalism isn't removed
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Cory Doctorow Robot Mountain Benito Cereno has compiled a partial list of the bad-ass weapons of Catholocism, which include Durendal, "which had in its hilt one of St Peter's teeth, St Basil's… Read the rest of the article: Bad-ass Catholic weapons
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Cory Doctorow Jen from Cake Wrecks made this amazing AT-AT rocking-horse, documenting the build online (she's promised plans to follow). It will be auctioned for charity at Megacon by the Florida chapter… Read the rest of the article: AT-AT rocking horse
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Cory Doctorow A major, critical security flaw in a key cryptographic program used by most flavors of GNU/Linux as well as other free/open operating systems has been reported. The bug, which appears… Read the rest of the article: Massive security flaw in GNU/Linux crypto code
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Cory Doctorow It was a lot of work, rowing The Father Skolnik Maru, but it wasn't torture. It wasn't like Les Miserables or anything. — Daniel Pinkwater (@DanielPinkwater) March 4, 2014 We… Read the rest of the article: Daniel Pinkwater serializes Bushman Lives! sequel on Twitter
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Cory Doctorow The Obama administration has a new negotiator in its effort to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretly negotiated treaty that includes broad powers to censor and surveil the Internet: Robert… Read the rest of the article: Obama whirls the copyright lobbyist/government official revolving door
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Cory Doctorow Vi Hart, the Internet's favorite manic vlogging mathematician, has released a new video in which she teams up with math artists Andrea Hawksley and Gwen Fisher, and Gwen's sister Ruth… Read the rest of the article: Cookie geometry with Vi Hart
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Cory Doctorow Ryan Calo, the organizer of the annual Stanford conference on Robots and the Law has written a new paper called Robotics and the New Cyberlaw , examining the new legal… Read the rest of the article: Robots and the law: what's after cyberlaw?
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Cory Doctorow Carol from the wonderful Cheapass Games writes, "Pairs is our latest project: a classic pub-style card game, designed by James Ernest and Paul Peterson. We've teamed up with Patrick Rothfuss… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a new Cheapass game with Patrick Rothfuss
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Cory Doctorow Tim sends us, "A way of encoding binary numbers into playing cards that I thought up. It usually allows many more bits than there are cards. The method can also… Read the rest of the article: Data-compression with playing cards
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Cory Doctorow Jeff sez, "On Saturday, March 29, 2014, there will be an epic Disney event in San Francisco. The Disney Project proudly presents: Walt, WED, and WESTCot. The evening will consist… Read the rest of the article: Epic Disney event in San Francisco
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Cory Doctorow Thinkgeek's Tauntaun Costume Hoodie not only has horns and ears, but its lining includes line-art innards and gore, to really bring home the feeling of climbing inside your trusty steed's… Read the rest of the article: Tauntaun hoodie with guts lining
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Cory Doctorow Valerie Hegarty makes mixed-media painting/sculptures where the paintings appear to be taking on three dimensionality and bursting out of their frames and off their canvases. The effect is very convincing… Read the rest of the article: Sculptures that appear to be catastrophically rupturing paintings
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Cory Doctorow A London court has found a man named Andrew Meldrum guilty of "unauthorised access to computer material" and "voyeurism." Meldrum "helped" young women fix their computers and covertly installed snoopware… Read the rest of the article: Guy who "fixed" women's computers spied through their webcams
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Cory Doctorow Kevin writes, "A motion just filed by the defense in Barrett Brown's case makes the argument that merely linking to information which is already publicly available should be protected by… Read the rest of the article: Barrett Brown legal motion: linking is protected by the First Amendment
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Cory Doctorow Daniel sez, "Mediagoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. Now the… Read the rest of the article: Mediagoblin seeks funds to finish free, open, privacy-respecting publishing platform
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Cory Doctorow Glenn sez, "An Irish programmer started with a club in Cork to teach (at no cost) kids aged 5 to 17 how to program. It was such a hit that… Read the rest of the article: Coderdojo: global network of self-directed hacker schools for kids
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Cory Doctorow Kayona Hagen-Tietz, a ninth grader at Como Park High School in St Paul, MN, says she developed frostbite when she was made to stand in -5F weather wearing nothing but… Read the rest of the article: Child in wet bathing suit made to stand in -5F weather because school policy forbade her from waiting in teacher's car