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| Wikipedia vandal accidentally predicted Chris Benoit murders Cory Doctorow:
A Wikipedia vandal inadvertently set off a nationwide conspiracy craze when he edited the entry for Chris Benoit, a pro wrestler who murdered his family. The anonymous vandal coincidentally edited Benoit's entry to say that Benoit had murdered his family several hours before the news became public, sparking speculation that the murder had been some kind of setup.
Now the vandal has confessed, saying that he'd put the murder accusation in as an unfortunately timed joke.
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| Profile of steampunk maker Jake von Slatt Cory Doctorow:
Today's Wired News has a feature on Jake von Slatt, a steampunk maker whose many projects have been frequently featured here on Boing Boing. Wired has an article and a lovely gallery of von
Slatt's creations.
"The Victorian era was really the last era in which a high school graduate was given the complete set of scientific concepts to fully understand the technology of the age," von Slatt says. "Because of this, part of what I wanted to do was to co-opt the term 'steampunk' and imbue it |
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| UK Open Rights Group report: evoting can't be trusted Cory Doctorow:
Back in March, I blogged the UK Open Rights Group's call for scrutineers to investigate irregularities in the use of electronic voting machines in Britain. Now, ORG has compiled the results of your observations and released a report. The news isn't good: evoting can't be trusted.
Becky Hogge, ORG's executive director, says:
ORG is releasing its report into the UK 3 May elections today, where both England and Scotland made heavy use of new electronic voting and countin |
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| Robert Williams line of Vans sneakers David Pescovitz:
Famed hot rodder and lowbrow art pioneer Robert Williams designed an absolutely amazing series of limited-edition Vans. These are my favorites. From an interview with Williams on the Vans site:
How long have you been wearing Vans?
I've been wearing Vans since about 1970 or '71. I just needed some funky sneakers so I |
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| Toddler in MENSA David Pescovitz:
Georgia Brown of Hampshire, England, has a 152 IQ and is the youngest member of MENSA. She's two years old. Brown's parents noticed how clever she was after she started crawling at five months, walking at nine, and chatting with people by the time she was eighteen months old.
From the BBC News:
(Middlesex University) psychologist Joan Freeman, who tested Georgia, said she thought the toddler could have scored even higher but needed a nap after 45 minutes of work...
She told the BBC: "She is two years, nine months - not very much older th |
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| Hillary Clinton's new "pick my song" contest Xeni Jardin:
If you are already familiar with the videos from Hillary Clinton's campaign asking supporters to pick a campaign theme song (Video Link), then ridiculing them for submitting mostly shitty songs (Video Link), you will find this new video hilarious (Video |
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| Creep's threats shut down library reading program Mark Frauenfelder:
Jean says: "A news story from the School Library Journal describes how threatening emails and phonecalls saying that the library's summer reading program was promoting "withcraft" and "drug use" led to the librarian decided to cancel the program to keep preschoolers safe from picketers and threatened violence."
The Pickens County Library System?s half-hour summer programs for middle and high school students were supposed to take a light-hearted look at the topics "Secrets and Spies: How to Keep a Secret by Writing in Code or Making Invisible In |
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| Lawyer to RIAA: Sue the First Twins for copyright violations! Cory Doctorow:
Mitchell Silverman, an attorney in Florida, noticed in a recent news-story that GW Bush's twin daughters presented him with a mix CD of exercise music for Father's Day. Since the record industry maintains that making and distributing mix CDs is a copyright infringement, Silverman sent their legal offices a letter on letterhead asking them to sue the first twins for "stealing music."
As you will see from the attached article from today?s The Miami Herald, Presiden |
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| Thomas Crampton: How Facebook ended my marriage Xeni Jardin:
Facebook has implemented fixes that should prevent this from happening again, but -- tech journalist Thomas Crampton experienced an unfortunate side effect of that Facebook personal profile bug I blogged about here yesterday. Thomas says:
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| Josh Wolf on Colbert Report Mark Frauenfelder:
I missed blogger Josh Wolf's appearance on The Colbert Report on June 12, 2007. Here it is. As you'll recall Wolf was jailed for 228 days for refusing the government's request to turn over video he'd shot of a G8 protest in San Francisco. Wolf was articulate and did a great job of defending himself against Colbert's faux attack. Link
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| Real ID foes manage to block mandatory carding -- for now. Xeni Jardin:
Here's an update to Cory's earlier post about the Real ID Act vote -- snip from News.com item by Declan McCullagh:
The U.S. Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become America's first federal identification card in a few years.
During Wednesday's floor debate over a massive immigration bill, Real ID foes managed to preserve an amendment to prohibit the forthcoming identification card from being |
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| CA court rules T-Mobile contract terms unconscionable Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing reader Stephen Lindholm says,
Good news for T-Mobile customers. In a class action brought against T-Mobile, this past week, the plaintiffs have successfully argued that T-Mobile cannot prevent its customers from filing a class action against it. The plaintiffs are suing over non-prorated early termination fees and the selling of SIM-locked handsets.
T-Mobile, as many other cell phone companies do these days, had written into its contract with customers that any disputes between T-Mobile and the customers |
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| Jeffrey Vallance's modern relic art show Mark Frauenfelder:
LA Weekly has a great profile of prankster artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has a new exhibition called Relics and Reliquaries in Santa Ana, California.
I first learned about Vallance from Re/Search's Pranks book, where he recounted his now-famous 1978 art stunt of taking a thawed frozen supermarket chicken to a pet cemetery in Los Angeles and straight-facedly requesting it be given a proper burial. (The tombstone read, "Blinky, The Friendly Hen).
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| Gold farming makes the NYT Cory Doctorow:
Julian Dibbell, author of the stellar Play Money (a book about making real money in virtual worlds), has a great NYT feature up about the life of Chinese gold farmers (a subject I tackle in my story Anda's Game). This story keeps on getting weirder and more interesting.
At the end of each shift, Li reports the night?s haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week |
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| Google enters Kenya, hires first sub-Saharan African exec Xeni Jardin:
South Africa is a more common first destination for international tech companies looking to establish a presence in Africa -- so why is Google opening its first major operation on the continent in Kenya?
Some of the answers are in this interview with Joseph Mucheru, former CEO of Kenyan ISP Wananchi, who will head up the new outpost. Asked what Google will do here, Mr. Mucheru explains:
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