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Science! tees for the scientist in you

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WearScience's SCIENCE! tees illustrate many of the useful and salutary applications for science. Link (via Negatendo)
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Ninja scare results in school lockdowns

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Barnegat, NJ schools were put into "lockdown" because someone saw a "ninja" (turned out to be a camp counselor in a karate uniform going to a costume party). Lesson learned by students: security alerts are bogus, grownups are idiots. Public schools in Barnegat were locked down briefly after someone reported seeing ...
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Serialization of The Deal, Chapter 5

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My friend Joe Hutsko contacted with the intriguing offer to serialize his novel, The Deal, on Boing Boing. I jumped at the chance. I read The Deal when it first came out in 1999 and loved the thrilling story about a Apple-like company's undertaking to create an iPhone-like device. Here's a ...
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New issue of Faesthetic, UPSO’s art magazine

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The new issue of illustrator Dustin UPSO Hostetler's zine/book Faesthetic is now available. The 64-page issue is filled with "art & oddities" related to the theme of infinity. It's entirely ad free and just $10. (Featuring in order of appearance): The Artist's Guide to Infinity, Jason Polan presents Jacob ...
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Scott Beale on the Sierra Wireless Compass 597 EV-DO USB Modem

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Scott Beale of Laughing Squid has good things to say about the $50 (after rebate) Sierra Wireless Compass 597 EV-DO USB Modem on Sprint's $60 a month (not really unlimited) unlimited plan. EV-DO has come a long way since I first started using it back in January 2006, we ...
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BFF project: drawings of two friends as one person

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Police forensic artist Shawn Feeney launched an interesting side project where he's combining the faces of 64 pairs of friends into single drawings. Send him the photos and he'll hand-morph you into a single being. The project is titled BFF. From the BFF page: I'm drawing 64 facial images of composite ...
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HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy

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Here's the final installment in the amazing Instructables series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother. This week, it's a HOWTO on TOR, The Onion Router, a technology for increasing your privacy and anonymity when you look at the web, and for getting around censorwalls. The Instructables folks ...
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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund fundraiser in NYC with Little Brother!

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We've just announced the first of two events in New York as part of the book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother: a charity fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the nightclub Comix. The CBLDF is a fantastic organization who work tirelessly to defend comics ...
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Little Brother at Seattle’s All For Kids and More this afternoon

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This afternoon on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I'll be at All For Kids Books and More. I'm here for one more day, coming to Third Place Books on Tuesday, then it's on to San Francisco. Hope to see you! All ...
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BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack

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Xeni visits the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and speaks with Jake Appelbaum and Bill Paul, two of the authors of a security research paper that shows how your computer's memory can be tricked into revealing data you thought was safely encrypted, and out of the reach of others. ...
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