What the Mounties pirate
Travis sez, "The Pirate Party of Canada has uncovered that IP addresses from within the RCMP and Industry Canada are used to download copyrighted material. The point here isn't that they are downloading, it's that because all we have are IP addresses we d.....»»
Patent lawyers: Help! The evil Makers won"t let us apply for bullshit 3D printing patents!
Two minor characters from my novel Makers have apparently come to life and written an article for 3D Printing Industry. These two people are patent lawyers for Finnegan IP law firm, Washington, DC, which I don't recall making up, but this is definitely a .....»»
Nintendo claims ownership over gamer fanvids on YouTube
Alan Wexelblat comment on the news that Nintendo has claimed "monetization rights" to fan videos on YouTube that feature tips on playing its games. Some of these videos are incredibly popular, and while their use of Nintendo's creations are often fair use.....»»
NYPD wrongfully seize wrong SD card
Photography is not a Crime shares the story: New York City police officers arrested a woman who was video recording them from a public sidewalk as they conducted some type of “vehicle safety checkpoint.” The officers apparently stole a memory card f.....»»
Top UK government officials tamper with inquest into Brit assassinated by Russian spies in London, suppress evidence
Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko (a British citizen who was assassinated in London by two former KGB agents who poisoned him with radioactive polonium) has accused the British government, Secretary of State William Hague, and PM David Came.....»»
Is this the best song from this year"s Eurovision Song Contest?
The battle of the bands, featuring acts from Ireland to Israel, is underway as we speak. Our Europe Correspondent Leigh Alexander will be filing a report, but not until she's had a bit of a lie down afterward. The battle of the band.....»»
Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system
Do you remember the Associated Press's 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license fees (for quotes as short as 12 words, yet!)? Didn't work. Sin.....»»
To do this weekend: Maker Faire Bay Area
Maker Faire Bay Area is this weekend, in San Mateo, California! Pesco, Mark and I will all be there, and I'm sure many of you reading Boing Boing will be, too. Mark has been posting some great behind-the-scenes snapshots on his Instagram. And of course, t.....»»
Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation
I reviewed Ronald Diebert's new book Black Code in this weekend's edition of the Globe and Mail. Diebert runs the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and has been instrumental in several high-profile reports that outed government spying (like Chinese.....»»
World"s tiniest monkey eats a noodle
About this video, which shows a Pygmy Marmoset noshing on a macaroni, Meredith Yayanos says: "The tinier the primate, the deeper the Uncanny Valley." I don't know anything about the conditions under which this video was shot, but obviously monkeys belong .....»»
India"s OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time
OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. OMICS.....»»
Brain hacking: using neurofeedback to master conflicting wills in your mind
I've written before about Moran Cerf -- celebrated neuroscientist, former military hacker, and good-guy bank robber -- who also happens to be a great storyteller. Here's a video in which Cerf recounts some clever and fascinating neuroscience experiments t.....»»
Yuck! NYC fourth grader sneaks camera into school, makes documentary about gross cafeteria food
Here's a clip from an upcoming documentary on the enormous gap between the food described by Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New York City public elementary school. Each day he reads the Department of Education lunch menu online to see what is bei.....»»
Video of a maker"s everyday day carry
At Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 longtime Make pal Kent Barnes kindly opened his everyday carry case and showed me what’s inside. It’s a highly personalized collection of tools, including a flashlight, X-Acto knife, drivers, laser pointer, and lock pick t.....»»
HOWTO kill a tiger (1902)
The Public Domain Review has a nice gallery of plates from Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield's 1902 book "How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India.....»»
Crazy guy with a gun shoots at Cannes film festival
A man with a gun described as a "starting pistol" was arrested at the Cannes film festival today after firing the weapon during a live TV broadcast of a Canal+ show. Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil, who were being interviewed at the time, scampe.....»»
George Takei responds to "traditional" marriage fans
Star Trek star and noted homosexual George Takei responds to bigots who believe in restricting the right to love to straight people only: an image gallery on Imgur. Oh, snap, oh glorious snap. Star Trek star and noted homosexual Geo.....»»
Grizzly bear eats video camera: close up of terrifying maw
Here's a video of biologist Brad Josephs's GoPro camera being eaten by a grizzly bear in Alaska; he'd set it out in order to get footage for a BBC documentary. The grizzly went above and beyond the call of duty. A grizzly Ate My GoPro!!! GoPro HD (Than.....»»
Who Said It: Rob "alleged cracksmoker" Ford, or Simpsons Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby?
Justin Peters at Slate.com says Toronto Mayor Rob Ford "most closely resembles" the mayor on TV's The Simpsons, Diamond Joe Quimby. "Both men are heavyset. Both are often at odds with constituents, colleagues, and the press. And both are prone to saying o.....»»
MIT Master"s Thesis on Denial of Service attacks as a form of political activism
Molly sez, "For the past two years I've been researching activist uses of distributed denial of service actions. I just finished my masters thesis on the subject (for the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT). Guiding this work is the overarching ques.....»»