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Canadian Supreme Court's landmark privacy ruling The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in R. v. Spencer sets an amazing precedent for privacy that not only reforms the worst practices of Canadian ISPs and telcos; it also annihilates the Tories' plans to weaken Canadian privacy law into insignificance. Read the rest... Dream Cars: the lost wonders of the automotive age Dream Cars, an exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum, features the most amazing, doomed, gorgeous automotive designs of the automotive age. Read the rest... Blogging History: NSA's Prism talking-points; UK top cops' multi-year fraud; Stanley Milgram's shocking biography One year ago today Leaked memo details NSA talking points on Prism: It's almost as though the NSA has grown accustomed to getting its own way by sneaking around behind America's back and doing whatever it wants, rather than by setting out its case with compelling logic. Read the rest... Persistence-of-vision holotank "mirror" Brady Marks exhibited his We Are with You, Mirror at the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire; it uses spinning light-up persistence-of-vision pixelboards to create a low-rez holo-tank mirror. 3D LED POV Mirror Read the rest... Not selling out: Teens live in commercial online spaces because that's their only option danah boyd points out that when kids conduct their social lives in commercial spaces, it's not because they don't care about selling out; it's because they have no other option: "In a world where they have limited physical mobility and few places to go, they're deeply appreciative of any space that will accept them." boyd's extensive fieldwork with teens (documented in her must-read book It's Complicated) backstops her opinion. Read the rest... Cat Paint, Bike GPS, and an Audeze headphones giveaway [Gadgets 006] In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient sound maker for human babies, a great $14 pocket knife, a wireless home security camera, plus an exclusive giveaway for a pair of Audeze LCD 2 Bamboo ($1,000 value)! Read the rest... Blogging History: By His Things Will You Know Him; Crashed botnet prices; State of Wireless London One year ago today By His Things Will You Know Him: A sad story about the Internet of Things, written for the Institute for the Future's "Coming Age of Networked Matter" (podcast, too! Read the rest... Kickstarting a documentary about Moondog, the blind, homeless father of minimalist music Michael sez, "One of my all-time favourite composers was a blind street musician, Louis T Hardin, who went by the stage name Moondog and who performed on the streets of Manhattan from the 1940s through to 1974. Read the rest... Boilermaker-ready bomb shotglasses Thinkgeek's Bombs Away Shot Glasses ($15/4) are perfect for boilermakers but would also make nice bar glass for general shots. The bases are weighted metal, while the tops are plastic. Bombs Away Shot Glasses Read the rest... James Bond Gunbarrel Sequences 1962-2012 [Video Link] Andy Ihnatko can come up with interesting things to say about anything you put in front of him. Read the rest... Rare 'Honey Moon' tonight. Turn away from the internet long enough to enjoy it. Friday the 13th, 2014: A rare "honey moon" in the sky. June's full moon is known by that name because of all the full moons each year, it is most likely to give off an amber glow. Read the rest... California baby is said to be first to be born with genome fully sequenced In MIT Technology review, a feature about how an infant delivered last week in California is believed to be the first healthy human born in the USA "with his entire genetic makeup deciphered in advance." The baby boy's father, Razib Khan, is a grad student, conservative blogger, and geneticist who says he "worked out a rough draft of his son's genome early this year in a do-it-yourself fashion after managing to obtain a tissue sample from the placenta of the unborn baby during the second trimester." "We did a work-around," says Khan, 37, who is now finishing a PhD in feline population genetics at the University of California, Davis. Read the rest... American, Delta, and United just reduced size limits for carry-on bags. Will yours fit? If you're planning to fly on American, Delta, or United, and carry a piece of luggage on board, better check the size. Read the rest... Psychology of risk The Economist interviewed cognitive scientist professor Gerd Gigerenzer of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, author of a new book called Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions, about how we frequently make terrible choices based on misinterpreted information: You also talk about an unconscious rules of thumb, or intuition. Read the rest... Redditor's discovery leads to white supremacist investigation at Army base Officials at an Army base in Colorado are investigating white supremacist flyers found on the base and posted to Reddit. Read the rest... Bot alerts you every time the Supreme Court silently alters its rulings As the New York Times recently reported, the Supreme Court has a habit of silently altering its rulings on its websites. Read the rest... Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-To History, Part 5 Home Target Range! What could possibly go wrong? asks Matt Maranian. Read the rest... Explosive reaction of sodium in a pond These young folks have a lot of fun throwing a big hunk of sodium into a pond. If you're impatient, forward to the boom at :53. Read the rest... Mountain Simulator is a new game where "you get to do all of the things that a mountain does, which I'm sure appeals to all of your darkest and most disgusting fantasies." Previously: Goat Simulator. Read the rest... Monsters of Grok: 'band t-shirts' honoring intellectual greats "Fake band t-shirts for history's greatest minds." Monsters of Grok. [via @argonne] Read the rest... Fashion in Westeros The Hairpin's Nadia Connor on women's attire in the seven kingdoms: "As in all regimes which deny civic and personal agency to women, costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register unavailable elsewhere, a textural iconography of self." Read the rest... Kickstarting a Breaking Bad fan fest in Albuquerque Boing Boing reader Miguel Jaramillo sends word of a crowdfunding campaign with which I am fully on board: A Breaking Bad fan-fest. Read the rest... You don't know me, but I'm your 12th cousin AJ Jacobs is getting ready to host the world's largest family reunion. He has invited Barack Obama, who is his aunt's fifth great aunt's husband's father's wife's 7th great nephew. Read the rest... Ben Frost: paintings on packages The work of Ben Frost. If you're in Los Angeles, check out more of his paintings on packages in his show at Sozer Gallery through June 27, 2014. I seriously want to buy every single piece. Read the rest... Obama mulling military action in Iraq, but not troops AP: "The president did not specify what options he was considering, but he ruled out sending American troops back into combat in Iraq. Read the rest... Artist Ryan Heshka's "Mean Girls Club Exhibition" Ryan Heshka announces his first solo art installation project, presented by the Wieden + Kennedy Gallery in Portland, Oregon. "For this show, Heshka resurrects his Mean Girls characters: a band of vicious female hoodlums devoid of morality but oozing with feminine pulchritude." July 3rd – July 30th Opening: Thursday July 3rd, 6 – 10 p.m. Read the rest... Agostino Arrivabene: paintings 2014 works from Agostino Arrivabene, an artist who lives and works in Gradella di Pandino, Italy. The images in this series are oil paintings; some on wood, some on brass, many of them with gold. Read the rest... Museum of patent models The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum in Cazenovia, New York is the world's largest publicly-viewable private collection of models made as part of patent applications. Read the rest... Photography: the surreal digital manipulations of Martín De Pasquale A sample of the amazing images created by Martín De Pasquale, digital retouching genius based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [via Asylum Art] Read the rest... 'Use Sparingly,' a tumblr of business jargon A Tumblog of Greatness: "Use Sparingly." "jargon: a business dialect spoken by many but understood by few." Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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