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| Stasi smell museum Cory Doctorow:
The Stasi -- East German secret police -- kept an enormous museum of "smell samples" of German citizens, kept in case they ever needed to give hunting dogs the scent of a fugitive criminal.
The thing about the Stasi is that they illustrate just how daffy any totalitarian authority structure necessarily becomes. Tyrants all have their Rasputins, mystic goonybird [..] |
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| David Byrne's trip report from Berlin's Stasi museum David Pescovitz:
Daniel Ellis of Cape Cod, Massachusetts wanted so badly to be excused from jury duty that he claimed to be homophobic, racist, and a liar. As a result, Barnstable Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson wants him prosecuted. Here are excerpts from Nickerson's conversation with Ellis, according to an Associated Press article:
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A Smell  A simple smellin a roomstops time,it places you before me,you reach out your han [..] |
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| Why do my dog's paws smell so good? I have always loved falling asleep to the smell of my dogs' paws. I started telling other dog-lovers this recently, only to find that many others feel the same way. Then, Dogster founder Ted Rheingold pointed me to a phenomenon referred to as Frito feet: Bacteria and yeast naturally reside on the skin of all animals, including cats and dogs. The feet of both species contain many folds and pockets, [..] |
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The smell of brimstone in the morning  Apocalypse Moby is "a literary "gene-splice" between two great stories: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Herman Melville's Moby Dick." Bruce Sterling describes it as a very deft piece of writing; the highly-illustrative first line follows. MAN Saigon. Shit. Call me Ishamel. Author Perry Hall offers the screenplay as a free PDF from the website. [via Submitterator]... [..] |
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Former Stasi Headquarters Provide Headache for Berlin  The former Berlin headquarters of the East German secret police, the Stasi, are in a sorry state of repair, but no one can agree on what to do about it. Civil rights activists, the federal government and local politicians all have their ideas in a dispute that revolves around how to deal with the communist past. [..] |
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| Smell like a Swiss Army Knife Want to smell like a Swiss Army Knife? Lucky for you, Victorinox has introduced a line of fragrances, sold with a little caribiner for your active scented lifestyle. (via Beyond the Beyond)...
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Stasi: Nuevamente los datos de millones de chilenos disponibles en la red  ¿Se acuerdan cuando el año pasado se filtraron los datos de 6 millones de chilenos? bueno, ahora acaba de pasar lo mismo (no sé si en igual cantidad), pero de manera controlada y con buscador incluido. Se trata de Stasi, un “servicio” creado por Felipe Barriga que te permite buscar personas por nombre y por [...] [..] |
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China's internet censors don't like the smell of "Jasmine"  China's state Internet censors have ratcheted up web filters, and security officers are harassing and detaining bloggers and activists as an online appeal for a "Jasmine Revolution" spreads in China. The apparent crackdown came in advance of two top legislative meetings, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, scheduled for March. Censors blocked [..] |
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| Cyber-stasi firm "Project Vigilant" among those recruiting at Defcon hacker conference Via the Submitterator, Boing Boing reader Trotsky points to some news from the recent Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas: "Project Vigilant says they hope to add 1,300 new employees by 2011 to help profile and identify 'adversaries.' One of their better known and longstanding 'adversary characterizers?' Adrian Lamo. A press release says the organization tracks more than 250 million IP addresse [..] |
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The joy of the Digital Comics Museum  Now that I'm set up with an iPad (protected by a Moleskine-like Dodocase), Comic Book Pad, and the free Digital Comics Museum, there's really no good reason for me to buy anything else ever again. Above, Sparky Watts No. 9, from 1949, by the great Boody Rogers. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers Scan of Boody Rogers' comic Dudley, the Teen-Age Sensation - Boing ... Boody Rogers' profoundly absurd [..] |
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Tiny art museum on the moon?  A mysterious Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation engineer known only as John F. allegedly snuck a tiny art collection aboard the Apollo 12 lunar module, delivering the first art museum to the moon. According to this episode of PBS's History Detectives, New York artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers worked with Bell Labs scientist Fred Waldhauer to imprint images of art by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg [..] |
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Mexico toy museum tribute to 9/11  During his trip to Mexico artist Mitch O'Connell went to MUJAM, Museo Del Juguete Antiguo Mexico (in English, the Antique Toy Museum of Mexico) and came across this tribute to 9/11. "The planes and towers are all filled with rubber and plastic heroes to show, well, to show that the creator's heart was in the right place. I'm still amazed!" 911 Tribute- Mexico Style! Part 1 | 2 | 3... [..] |
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"The Open, by Mattia Casalegno, is a mask that wraps around your face and forces you to smell a fresh patch of grass and listen to your own breath." More at We Make Money Not Art. (Submitterated by mat_kinotek)...
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