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This Day in Blogging History: Crowdfunding a stenographer for Manning; Tory MP expensed his servants' wing; Swisscom's epically shitty Wifi One year ago today Help crowd-fund a court stenographer for the trial of accused Wikileaks source Bradley Manning: The trial of Bradley Manning begins on June 3, 2013 The Freedom of the Press Foundation is crowd-funding donations to hire a court stenographer to record trial transcripts. Read the rest... Japanese psychedelic-lite bands of the 1960s A great photo gallery of 1960s Japanese pop-psychedelic bands. I wish there were more links to the music, though. Read the rest... The utter horror of demonic forms in Cheetos The folks who claim Procter & Gamble's logo is a mark of Satan would enjoy the Cheese Curls of Instagram site. Read the rest... Bob Mould on Boing Boing Video, coming soon In a few short weeks, Boing Boing Video will premier an exclusive interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drops June 3; above, a teaser of what's to come. Read the rest... Plush octopus backpack Jen created this beautiful plush octopus backpack: want. Our kid has a plush octopus from Tokyo Disneysea that looks just like this, only smaller, that we call Doctor Octopustorow. Read the rest... Maya Angelou, legendary poet and author, 1928-2014 The great American poet, author, activist, and actor Dr. Maya Angelou died today at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read the rest... How we fuel our brains (at the expense of our bodies) Twenty percent of the calories you eat each day go straight to that big, fat brain of yours. That's a huge fraction compared to other animals. Read the rest... Congressional bill would ban animal testing of cosmetics At Scientific American a congressman and an environmental health scientist make a case for why we could eliminate animal testing of cosmetics, and reduce the use of live animals in other kinds of safety testing. Read the rest... Watching "Knots Landing" on Arcturus This handy chart shows you how far our TV shows have traveled through space. The first televised baseball game is about to hit Regulus. Read the rest... Why it takes so long to improve solar technology "Scientists have a new, promising material for solar panels!" At NOVANext, Tim De Chant explains why an announcement like that doesn't mean you get a new solar panel next year ... Read the rest... There is still ice on Lake Superior Q: What does it mean for Lake Superior to have had its greatest ice coverage in 20 years? A: Memorial Day sunbathing on the beach, with icebergs. Read the rest... Maggie at the Top Coast Festival in St. Paul I'm speaking on Saturday about human experimentation and its impact on the origins and future of medicine at Minnesota Public Radio's Top Coast Festival. Read the rest... South London hackspace urgently seeks home Tom writes, "We're a fledgling makerspace in London (60 members and growing), born from the notion that 'London Hackspace is fantastic but it's a pain to get to from South of the River.' We bootstrapped ourselves in a disused shop earlier this year, have grown quickly and had a second home lined up in a University space for the summer. Read the rest... Kickstarting Muzzled: a musical about a land where singing is power Zach sez, "We've launched a campaign for our musical series MUZZLED THE MUSICAL which takes place in in the Serenadia Kingdom, where singing is power. Read the rest... $10,000 audiophile ethernet cable Bias your dielectrics with the Dielectric-Bias ethernet cable from AudioQuest: "When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio." Read the rest... Talking with APM's Marketplace about the Disneyland prospectus I was on American Public Media’s Marketplace yesterday talking (MP3) about our posting of a rarer-than-rare Disney treasure, the never-before-seen original prospectus for Disneyland, scanned before it was sold to noted jerkface Glenn Beck, who has squirreled it away in his private Scrooge McDuck vault. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: What Will Climate Change Deniers Say…? Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Climate Change deniers say what they will after environmental catastrophe strikes Read the rest... Greenwald's "No Place to Hide": a compelling, vital narrative about official criminality Cory Doctorow reviews Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. More than a summary of the Snowden leaks, it's a compelling narrative that puts the most explosive revelations about official criminality into vital context. Read the rest... Do Not Combine Baby with Hydrochloric Acid Maggie Koerth-Baker reviews Shaun Gallagher's guide to having scientific fun with your brand-new offspring Read the rest... How psychology can improve your sleep life [YANSS 26] William Dement, former dean of sleep studies at Stanford, a man with 50 years of research behind him, once told a reporter for National Geographic – "As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy." Read the rest... Moonlight Corn-Hole The city of Cincinnati has brought the world a remarkable collection of wonders. Carmen Electra. Cincinnati chili. Jerry Springer. The Filet O' Fish sandwich. And perhaps most notably, the game called Corn-Hole. William Gurstelle shows you how to do it in the dark. Read the rest... Call for Speakers: Copycamp Warsaw, with Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Cory Marta writes, "This is an open call for 10-minute presentations at the 3rd International CopyCamp Conference (November 6-7, 2014 in Warsaw, Poland), devoted to social impacts of copyright. Read the rest... Tiny letter service Look at this adorable tiny letter the folks at Leaf Cutter Designs sent me (it took a while for it to get forwarded from the Make offices to my home in LA). Read the rest... 2084 wants to have a word with 2014 about Net Neutrality Chris Burke writes, "Apparently in the future we are all Team Fortress 2 characters and Net Neutrality is dead. This video was a co-production of two machinima pioneers: myself and Frank Dellario of Pixel Valley Studio and was made for the NoSlowLane campaign." As a reminder, Here's EFF's guide to commenting on the FCC net discrimination proposal. Read the rest... Privacy vs network effects Respected cryptographer and security researcher Ross Anderson has a fascinating new paper, Privacy versus government surveillance: where network effects meet public choice [PDF], which explores the "privacy economics" of mass surveillance, pointing out the largely overlooked impact of "network effects" on the reality of who spies, who is spied upon, and under what circumstances. Read the rest... Divorce complaint of Richard Feynman's second wife (Via Clifford Pickover) Read the rest... Scooby Doo's masterful, spooky background paintings The background paintings on Scooby Doo were far and away the best thing on the show, as this 2007 post from Secret Fun Blog ably demonstrates. Read the rest... Women in Game of Thrones [Boars, Gore, and Swords] Since this season's "Breaker of Chains" episode, Game of Thrones' handling of women and sex has been under intense scrutiny, and with a break in the show over Memorial Day, we dedicate an entire episode to bringing on two of our favorite guests and comedians to discuss exactly these topics. Read the rest... Literally: portraits of booksellers Photographer Steve Kenward's Literally is a series of portraits of booksellers in their native habitats (their bookstores). As a former member of the tribe myself, I recognize these for the fine specimens they are: magnificently nearsighted, slightly askew, and posed with the treasures they have personally assembled and arrayed for the public's delectation. Read the rest... Critical cruelty at One-Star Book Reviews "First of all, the whole thing is almost all dialogue." Further to our old friends at You Can't Please Everyone, a Tumblr devoted to "reviews of classic books, culled from the internet's think tank": One-Star Book Reviews. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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