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The Librarian of Congress has issued new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as part of a triennial review, and one of them grants people access to parts of the computer software running their cars. While you’ve always been allowed to tinker with your car’s engine or change the oil and rotate the…
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This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport
This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport to read…
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Ai Weiwei accepts Lego donations after company refuses his order
Ai Weiwei accepts Lego donations after company refuses his order I’m disappointed in LEGO.
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The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company
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Milton and the Machine
Milton and the Machine “I wanted to measure Milton’s surprise: his wrong-way cyclists. But in order to do that, I needed to know his structure. We know what people see when they look at a video: light, colors, motion. But what do we hear when we listen to Milton? Far, far more—the words, yes, their…
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Near-future Ikea catalog: the Internet of Things’ flat-pack as a service
mostlysignssomeportents: Julian Bleeker and his Near Future Laboratory have followed up on theiramazing Skymall-of-the-future catalog with an imaginary near-future Ikea catalog that jam an insane amount of witty futuristic speculation into elegantly presented, arresting images. The whole catalog is a brilliant exploration of the way that the Internet of Things will change our economic and…
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The Beatles, live on YouTube
jkottke: Did you know The Beatles have a YouTube channel? On which they have only posted three videos in the past year? Do you even know who The Beatles are? I mean, they aren’t on Spotify or any other streaming music service so maybe that won’t be an absurd question soon. After all, current and…
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apatosaurus: obsessionfull: shorterexcerpts: peterwknox: poldberg: A late night interpretation of Jesus’ thoughts about rich people by Sensitive Mark. Not enough notes on this post. But as a Sunday School graduate, I enjoyed this. Also pretty sure “give it away” does not mean “to your already spoiled children” but $2 says at least one asshole will call…
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From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality’s shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white. The real world, as most of us know (if not all presidents and prime ministers), is rarely…
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Army dudes in yoga poses: now an article of commerce
mostlysignssomeportents: Yoga Joes started life as a wonderful, weird Kickstarter to produce a set of nine “Green Army Men” in yoga poses; having raised over $100K in direct sales at $20/set ($10 for military personnel) Brogamats is nowselling them in retail channels at a $28 premium, for all nine: “headstand, meditation pose, cobra pose, warrior…