I've just finished reading Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, a provocative, well-reasoned, well-informed and sometimes frustrating book about the power of the Internet… Read the rest of the article: Zittrain's "The Future of the Internet" — how to save the Internet from the Internet

The 1982 cyberpunk cinema classic Blade Runner remains one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, and tops many a nerd's favorite films list. Today on Boing… Read the rest of the article: BBtv – Syd Mead with Joel Johnson, part 3: BLADE RUNNER.

Brilliant assemblage sculptor Jeremy Mayer has put up a new gallery of his work, which transforms parts from old typewriters into exotic, fanciful and expressive humans and animals. Link See… Read the rest of the article: Old typewriters turned into beautiful, expressive animals and people

Wired's Danger Room has a good interview with Dan Kaminsky, whose DNS hack has been burning up the wires. Dan figured out a means of disrupting the entire Internet by… Read the rest of the article: Kaminsky on the net-shaking DNS bug

Wired's got a long, loving feature on the cultural significance of War Games, perhaps the greatest geek movie of all time, a film that inspired a generation of hackers and… Read the rest of the article: Wargames: finest geek movie ever

This Swiss goop ("Cyber Clean") is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the… Read the rest of the article: Viscous keyboard-cleaning goop

Virtuoso toy-modder Doktor A created this modified toy VW van for a special show at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. The toy modders were one of the highlights of last… Read the rest of the article: Modded VW van toy in a fez

WearScience's SCIENCE! tees illustrate many of the useful and salutary applications for science. Link (via Negatendo)

Author Iain Banks answered questions solicited by his publisher from the general internet, and it came out just fine: From Mark Wilson: Q: What do you think is the one,… Read the rest of the article: Iain Banks interviewed by the Internet

These XCKD live-action role-players have reenacted the recent strip in which Randall paid tribute to the Discovery Channel's "I Love the World" commercial. It's just one of several on YouTube… Read the rest of the article: XKCD role-players reenact "I Love the World" strip

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel's discovered this fantastic, apocalyptic hand-cranked hard-drive erasifier: The hard drives come out of the cage in mid-write, heads skittering across platters. Doesn't matter.… Read the rest of the article: Hand-cranked hard drive erasotron — Boing Boing Gadgets

Jake sez, "Speculative fiction writer Shira Lipkin is doing a blogathon this Saturday, July 26 – posting to her LiveJournal every half hour for 24 hours to raise money for… Read the rest of the article: SF writer's blogathon for rape crisis center

Jeff sez, "Just ahead of the publication of my second novel, sci fi thriller Plague War, I (author Jeff Carlson) and two friends have released a 'book trailer' entitled 4… Read the rest of the article: Author's book trailer for "Plague War" shot in the Sierras

Last month I went to LA for the American Library Association conference, and sat on a panel called "Privacy: Is it time for a revolution," with Dan Roth from Wired… Read the rest of the article: American Library Association's privacy initiative: white-paper, survey, video

Robbo sez, "A puppeteer colleague of mine, Matt Ficner, has been producing these delightfully weird short videos – a lot of them featuring zombie puppets. This karaoke version of 'Dust… Read the rest of the article: Zombie puppets sing songs of love

A policeman in Kent, UK has been suspended after he detained a child with autism and cerebral palsy. The child is mixed-race and was travelling with his mother and father,… Read the rest of the article: Racist cop uses UK Terrorism Act to detain mixed-race family and take away their disabled child

Watch this episode in Flash above, or download here: MP4 download link On behalf of all my Boing Boing and Boing Boing tv colleagues, I'm excited and proud to announce… Read the rest of the article: BBtv debuts "BBtv World" series. Episode 1: El Molinero (Guatemala)

I've blogged before about the lovely steampunk jewelry on offer from Etsy seller FringeLore, but over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has spotted this wonderful new range of items… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk typewriter key jewelry — Boing Boing Gadgets

The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to lard cable television with "selectable output control," a DRM system that allows broadcasters to specify which of your TV devices can decode which… Read the rest of the article: MPAA wants to randomly break your home theater depending on which channel you're watching

Fred sez, "This week's New Yorker feature article explores how Chinese nationalism is on the rise despite the proliferation of the internet and so-called "democratizing technologies" that many thought would… Read the rest of the article: China's neo-con nationalist youngsters go online