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Naughty speed camera prankSome high school students in Maryland are reportedly taping fake license plates to their cars, then speeding past speed cameras so that owners of the cars with the real license plates get fined. Students from Richard Montgomery High School dubbed the prank the Speed Camera "Pimping" game, according to a parent of a student enrolled at one of the high schools. Originating from Wootton High School, the parent said, students duplicate the license plates by printing plate numbers on glossy photo paper, using fonts from certain websites that "mimic" those on Maryland license plates. They tape the duplicate plate over the existing plate on the back of their car and purposefully speed through a speed camera, the parent said. The victim then receiv
» 6 Jan 2009, 9:15 am

Law prof wants to webcast RIAA lawsuitCampaigning law prof Charlie Nesson wants the whole world to see how the RIAA shakes down students, so he's asked for the proceedings to be webcast. The RIAA wants to hide under a rock: A Harvard Law professor representing some students sued by the recording industry for illegally downloading music has filed a motion to broadcast online the proceedings of two cases being heard by the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The professor, Charles R. Nesson, argues in the motion that to stream the court proceedings over the Internet ??? or as the students put it in their request, 'admit the Internet into the courtroom' ??? would help the public understand the legal issues at play in the industry???s lawsuits against thousands of computer users,
» 6 Jan 2009, 8:42 am

Legal Beatles MP3 archive goes darkNRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, has had to pull its legal MP3 archive of all 212 Beatles songs. Turns out the agreement they had with the local rights society didn't mean what they thought it meant. Our new agreement with rights holder TONO gives us rights to publish radio and TV shows we aired a long time ago. But the agreement NRK has with rights holders IFPI and FONO only allows us to publish shows that has been aired the last four weeks. And since ???Our daily Beatles??? was aired in 2007, we have to pull it from the podcast (see below for details about the agreements). NRK pulls ???Our daily Beatles??? podcast because of rights (Thanks, Oyvind!) Previously:Free, legal downloads of every Beatles song - Boing Boing...
» 6 Jan 2009, 7:28 am

Tumbarumba: a surreal fiction anthology in the form of a browser pluginEthan Ham sez, Turbulence.org recently released ???Tumbarumba,??? a project by Benjamin Rosenbaum and myself (Ethan Ham). Tumbarumba is an anthology in the form of a browser add-on. To read the stories, readers must stumble upon them while browsing the web. The browser add-on will occasionally insert a story fragment into a web page as it loads it. The result is a disorienting surreal sentence that sometimes is nonsensical and sometimes amusingly close making sense. If the reader spots the fragment, they can interact with it in a way that will cause the full story to appear???albeit in the format of the web page on which it was found. The authors in the anthology are: Haddayr Copley-Woods, Greg van Eekhout, Stephen Gaskell, James Patrick Ke
» 6 Jan 2009, 7:17 am

Mommy? Maurice Sendak's monstrous kids' pop-up bookThe coolest thing about your kid's first Christmas is that you get to watch her unwrap all the amazing kiddy treasures that your friends and family found. It was a fantastic haul this year, no doubt about it, and my favorite was Mommy?, a 2006 pop-up book by Maurice "Where the Wild Things Are" Sendak that I'm thinking of keeping for myself. Mummy? is a practically wordless, six-page popup that follows the travails of a little boy who's looking for his mother in a castle full of monsters. The left panel shows junior saying "Mommy?" and the right panel shows a leering monster; flip it up and see how the boy has defeated it. Mommy?'s dimensionality is fabulous -- the monsters explode in all directions, portrayed in fabulous grisly style that's
» 6 Jan 2009, 6:50 am

Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive successA UK campaign to raise money to buy London bus-ads to promote atheism was a massive success -- 800 of the busses took the streets today, and the campaign is spreading around the world. Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming ??135,000, breaking our original target of ??5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I'm very excited to tell you that 800 buses ??? instead of the 30 we were initially aiming for ??? are now rolling out across the UK with the slogan, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", in locations all over England, Scotland and Wales, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Cardiff, Devon, Leeds, Bristol and
» 6 Jan 2009, 6:29 am

Hank Paulson's literary bailoutJulian Gough sends us his NYT piece, "A Modest Proposal For The Publishing Industry": "It's a piece in yesterday's New York Times. It's a parody of all the recent, massive, Treasury bailout plans. (Having done banks, insurance and cars, the Treasury are now solve the unread books crisis for us). It is written as an official statement from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, using language taken directly from all his real statements (with just a few key words changed)." "As we all know, lax writing practices earlier this decade led to irresponsible writing and irresponsible reading. This simply put too many families into books they could not finish. We are seeing the impact on readers and neighborhoods, with 5 million readers now behind on the
» 6 Jan 2009, 6:26 am

Maker Faire comes to the UK: Newcastle, March 14-15Josette from O'Reilly sez, "Call for makers! It is now official the long awaited first UK Maker Faire will take place in Newcastle, UK on March 14th-15th! Maker Faire seeks to inspire, inform, connect and entertain thousands of Makers and aspiring Makers of all ages and backgrounds through the public gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, students, authors and commercial exhibitors." Maker Faire seeks to inspire, inform, connect and entertain thousands of Makers and aspiring Makers of all ages and backgrounds through the public gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, students, authors and commercial exhibitors. The first UK Maker Faire will take place in Newcastle 14-15 Ma
» 6 Jan 2009, 6:23 am

Disneyland home movie from 1956 makes Library of Congress's National Film RegistryMolly sez, "Robbins Barstow's film Disneyland Dream was included in this year's National Film Registry (25 films selected by the Library of Congress annually). He is a tireless advocate for amateur film and a great supporter of Home Movie Day. Steve Martin wrote to Robbins Barstow after the news of Disneyland Dream being selected for the Film Registry. Martin appears in the home movie, he's 11 years old and worked selling guidebooks. Go home movies!" We've blogged Robbins's amazing home movies here before. The man's a hero of the medium. Well-deserved congratulations indeed. From the Library of Congress???s press release: Disneyland Dream (1956) The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to Disneyland. Robbins and Meg Bar
» 6 Jan 2009, 6:20 am

Hugo nominations open!The 2008 Hugo award nominations have opened -- if you were a member of the 2008 WorldCon in Denver, or have bought a membership to the 2009 WorldCon in Montreal, you're eligible to nominate. I'll be sending in my nominations this week, and just in case you were wondering, here's the stuff I wrote that's eligible for this year's ballot: * Best novel: Little Brother, Tor, 2008 * Best related book: Content, Tachyon, 2008 * Best novella: True Names (with Benjamin Rosenbaum), published in Fast Forward, Pyr Books, 2008, edited by Lou Anders * Best novelette: The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, Tor.com, July 2008 No matter what you plan on nominate, I urge you to send in your form! Hugo participation seems to dwindle ever
» 6 Jan 2009, 12:24 am

A Brief Essay on the Sad Lack of Imagination in Invertebrate Oriented Erotica with Brief Notes on the LascivioLoligo Lothario sez, "With all of the recent postings on cephalopod oriented erotica (or tentacle porn, as it is coarsely called), I had wondered if you had not stumbled on this musing on why those fixated on tentacles really lack imagination, and how other invertebrate oriented erotica can be really really hot. Invertebrates are amazingly kinky, as pointed out in some lovely marine science blog The Oyster's Garter as it looks at the sex lives of tunicates, slugs, and more. So really, why can't we get beyond the tentacle, I ask?" Taking a step to the side, let us briefly consider phylum Mollusca class Bivalvia. Yes, bivalves at first seem boring - little sessile clam-like things that they are. However, bivalves engage in the one behavior th
» 6 Jan 2009, 12:09 am

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Classrooms will not look or be the same in the futureclipped by: balthazarusclipper's remarks: "Unlike lectures, games can be adapted to the pace of the user," Mayo writes. "Games also simultaneously present information in multiple visual and auditory modes, which capitalizes on different learning styles."While no one is saying that an experience akin to Call of Duty or World of Warcraft will ever replace more traditional lessons, research into the effectiveness of video games as learning tools indicates that classrooms of the future will certainly include a virtual component. Clip Source: www.sciam.comUsing virtual worlds and video games to teach the lessons of reality Researchers are beginning to wonder whether video games, long seen as a top time waster for kids and a roadblock to their e
» 3 Jan 2009, 5:09 am

Orangutan rides a jetskiclipped by: balthazarusclipper's remarks: "So we discovered wearing children's lifejackets helps to give them confidence. Now some of them can even swim without their life jackets."Is this not one of the definition for intelligence? getting over basic instincts through education and learning. Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.ukOrangutan rides a jetski enjoys floating across the wide pool, before waving at onlookers.Surya lives at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Miami, Florida, USA.He is put in the pool every week to keep him active and challenged and appears to enjoy splashing about with his trainers."He is quite content when he's bobbing around on the top. And he loves the jet ski because he can look down on all of us
» 4 Jan 2009, 1:48 am

Palestine Girl stands up to Israel Soldierclipped by: reimersClip Source: www.youtube.com[Video]
» 6 Jan 2009, 9:30 am

Online friendships are, essentially, self-selecting.clipped by: balthazarusclipper's remarks: The question that arises is, what is considered as real? does one's identity online is less real than her offline one? on what basis? Clip Source: www.guardian.co.ukVirtual people, real friends people are increasingly open to turning "online" friends into people they'd deign to call real life friends.The friends I've made online – from blogging in particular, be they other bloggers or commenters on this or my own site – are the best friends I now haveAnd yet, when I say this to people, many times they'll look at me like I'm a social failurethe internet is full of lively minded, like-minded engaging people – for the first time in history we're lucky enough to choose friends not by location or
» 3 Jan 2009, 4:49 am

In Africa- The cellphone is the single most transformative technology for development"clipped by: balthazarusclipper's remarks: "Democratic Republic of Congo, with a population of 60 million, there are just 10,000 fixed-line telephones, but more than one million mobile subscribers. In Chad, the fifth-least-developed country in Africa, usage jumped from 10,000 to 200,000 in three years. At the end of 2007 there were more than 280 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, representing a penetration rate of 30.4%.""now they can call around and know what the prices are. They can call their relatives in town, for example, and ask how much is a bunch of bananas, so they get an idea of what the price is for their produce" Clip Source: www.guardian.co.ukMobiles give Africa's farmers the chance to set out their stallThe latest tec
» 5 Jan 2009, 1:36 am

We must ride technology – or be swamped by itclipped by: wildcatclipper's remarks: The year is 2004. You are Karl Lagerfeld. And technology is about the make a fool of you. This, obviously, is a hypothetical scenario. Clip Source: www.independent.co.ukBeing a pre-eminent designer you are ahead of fashion, you know what is stylish, you're celebrated as an artist and, as a result, you have an iPod. In fact, you have 40 iPods containing all your favourite music – you're what they call an "early adopter". Further, you have designed a bespoke Fendi case to contain a dozen of them called an iPod "jukebox" which will later retail for around £1,000. All this, incidentally, actually happened. Now, here is how the savage terrier of technological evolution is about to nip at the ankles of yo
» 3 Jan 2009, 4:03 am

"WiTricity"- wireless electricityclipped by: balthazarusclipper's remarks: Amazing. Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk'Wireless power' spells end for cablesNo more batteries, no more chargers and no more wire spaghetti. This is the future promised by "wireless power", a means of broadcasting electricity through the air to laptops, iPods and other gadgets without the need for cables and sockets.Experts believe this is just the beginning and that eventually wireless electricityYou'd be able to buy a desk that charged any gadget placed on it, or power any PC you put on topThe technology also promises energy efficiency because it would only power products when needed.once you walked through the front door your mobile would start charging up - even while still in your bag or pock
» 5 Jan 2009, 1:28 am

Five sisters killed in Gaza while they sleptclipped by: JackieDelclipper's remarks: Israel expects us to swallow its lame duck excuse that their attack on Gaza is justified because they are protecting Israel from home made rockets. Of course their real objective is to terrorise and demoralise the Palestinian people by beheading their democratically elected government. The Israeli government wants a compliant submissive Palestinian people who accept the Israeli occupation.Lets hope that Pakistan doesn't use the same justification to attack the US in retaliation for the bombing of its borders in June 2008 when US warplanes killed innocent civilians, including children. Clip Source: www.independent.co.ukIsrael's target was the mosque next door. But the rocket attack claimed the lives o
» 5 Jan 2009, 4:46 pm

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Historical Amnesia and Gazaclipped by: zizzyclipper's remarks: This is what has really happened. CNN tells lies. Clip Source: therealnews.comPhyllis Bennis: Where you decide to start the clock determines how you define the crisis Pt.1/3Several days into Israel's military operation in Gaza, The Real News speaks to Phyllis Bennis about the conflict. After giving a brief background on the events that led to the invasion of the Gaza Strip, Phyllis explains the various ways in which the United States facilitates Israel's activities. According to Phyllis, it is the unquestioning military and political support from Washington that makes Israel's actions possible.BioPhyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of
» 6 Jan 2009, 8:23 am

WARclipped by: fjbryantclipper's remarks: How we fuck up and what the world thinks we are doing. Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.comworld. "We have cable TV, and we know what the Americans are doing," said Mehrabuddin Ali, a baker in a working-class Kabul district. "First they attacked Iraq. They didn't find any nuclear weapons, but they killed a lot of Muslims. Now they are supporting Israel in killing innocent Palestinians. If they have come here to help us, we will welcome them. But if they come to destroy us, we will drive them out like we drove out the Russians. Real Muslims only need the protection of God."
» 6 Jan 2009, 12:22 am

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