An entrepreneur is looking for $100K on Kickstarter to fund production of Shareroller, an ingenious, portable, snap-on electric motor for city-share bikes, like those in NYC, London, Toronto, Montreal, DC,… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a portable electric motor for city-share bikes
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Cory Doctorow Glenn sez, "R&B music was pretty bawdy before its entered the era of white appropriation and radio play. Leah Reich, an ethnographer by training and a music lover and singer… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly dirty R&B: gloriously filthy music from the 30s-50s
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Cory Doctorow Sheer hilarity. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) See also: Black metal meets Benny Hill
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Cory Doctorow Trip Pixel Furniture, from Studio Badini Createam/Seletti, adds pixellated fine-art images to the Trip line of furniture, created a tastily dissonant juxtaposition of modern glitchiness with ponderous, weighty French classic… Read the rest of the article: Pixel-art on classic furniture
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Cory Doctorow Zack Smith writes, "I recently got to talk to John Ridley, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of 12 YEARS A SLAVE, about his past writing superhero comics and cartoons including JUSTICE LEAGUE… Read the rest of the article: Talking diversity in comics with John Ridley, writer of 12 Years a Slave
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Cory Doctorow Davi Barker was flying from Manchester, NH when, he says, he was stopped by two men who identified themselves as "managers" for the TSA, who claimed they had seen Bitcoins… Read the rest of the article: TSA agents demand bag-search to look for "Bitcoins"
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Cory Doctorow Charles Koppelman writes, "Zero Day (working title) is a documentary film being produced and directed by Charles Koppelman. BBC Storyville is co-producing and intends to air it. The film begins… Read the rest of the article: Doc film on surveillance seeks fund to film Syrian activist subjected to state surveillance
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Cory Doctorow One week after Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovuych fled Kiev and the government snipers who'd murdered dozens of protesters ran for the hills, Vladimir Putin has received approval from the Russian… Read the rest of the article: Putin launches Russian invasion of Ukraine; UN security council meets
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Frank Frazetta's painting of Ringo Starr on the back cover of MAD (1964): The portrait itself was painted with full Ralph William Williams lusciousness by infrequent… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Frazetta paints Ringo for MAD; Sterling on Web 2.0
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Cory Doctorow Disney has dropped the Boy Scouts of America from the roster of charities eligible to benefit from its Voluntears program, through which the company donates money to charities when its… Read the rest of the article: Disney drops $4.8M in Boy Scouts funding over anti-gay policy
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Cory Doctorow The South Carolina House of Representatives has withdrawn $52,000 from the College of Charleston for including Alison Bechdel's brilliant, celebrated memoir Fun Home in its summer reading program. Bechdel, creator… Read the rest of the article: South Carolina legislature confiscates budget of college for assigning Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" as a reading
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Cory Doctorow Earlier today, I reviewed a new book by Kevin "Lowering the Bar" Underhill called "The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance and Other Real Laws That Human Beings Have Actually Dreamed Up, Enacted,… Read the rest of the article: German beekeeping laws are weird: an excerpt from "The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance"
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Cory Doctorow Just look at it. (Sugary sweet J-pop goes death metal) (via Mefi)
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Cory Doctorow Seth Rosenblatt reports from Trustycon, the conference formed as a protest against, and alternative to the RSA security conference. RSA's event is the flagship event in the security industry, but… Read the rest of the article: Report from Trustycon: like RSA, but without the corruption
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Cory Doctorow Kevin Underhill, the very funny lawyer behind Lowering the Bar, a very funny law-blog, has published a book of weird laws through the ages, called The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance and… Read the rest of the article: The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance and Other Real Laws
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Cory Doctorow DC resident Ashley Brandt was surprised to meet a TSA agent at Phoenix airport who didn't think that DC drivers' licenses were valid ID, because DC isn't a state.
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Cory Doctorow King Games, makers of Candy Crush, have backed down from their insane campaign to trademark the use of "Candy" in connection with games, a gambit that brought them ridicule and… Read the rest of the article: King no longer claims to own "candy," still claims it owns "saga"
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Cory Doctorow The "squared" in Pi(R)^2 means that the area of a pizza grows exponentially polynomially in relation to its diameter. As an interactive graph on Planet Money demonstrates, pizza places generally… Read the rest of the article: Pies Are Round: why a big pizza is a better deal
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Cory Doctorow Glenn Fleishman writes, "A responsible dealer of the radioactive element radium, a substance once pushed widely as a quack cure, tried to keep the genie in the bottle. Theresa Everline… Read the rest of the article: Where did all that quack-cure radium end up?
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Cory Doctorow UC Berkeley has just appointed its first Wikipedian in Residence: Kevin Gorman, who has been a Wikipedia editor since he was a Berkeley undergraduate. Though some 50 cultural institutions —… Read the rest of the article: UC Berkeley gets its first Wikipedian in Residence