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Papercraft CCTV 
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Nude Magazine's got a free, downloadable papercraft CCTV camera, for freaking out your neighbors. Put one in the bathroom. The dog house. Use it for a hood-ornament.
Build Your Own Nude Magazine CCTV Camera
(Thanks, Alice!)
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Papercraft CCTV
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Nude Magazine's got a free, downloadable papercraft CCTV camera, for freaking out your neighbors. Put one in the bathroom. The dog house. Use it for a hood-ornament.
Build Your Own Nude Magazine CCTV Camera
(Thanks, Alice!)
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Wolfenflickr: Wolfenstein in Flash, with your Flickr photos
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Wolfenflickr is a Flash-based implementation of Castle Wolfenstein that decorates the castle's walls with random images pulled from any Flickr stream (or any Flickr tag). Shooting Nazis and looking at snapshots: two great tastes that taste great together.
Wolfenflickr
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Wolfenflickr: Wolfenstein in Flash, with your Flickr photos
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Wolfenflickr is a Flash-based implementation of Castle Wolfenstein that decorates the castle's walls with random images pulled from any Flickr stream (or any Flickr tag). Shooting Nazis and looking at snapshots: two great tastes that taste great together.
Wolfenflickr
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What's worth more, a pound of grass or a pound of peacock feathers? Or a pound of human blood?
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The Evil Mad Scientist Labs folks have conducted exhaustive investigation into the value of objects relative to their weight, starting with coins and bills and working through commodities like flour, and thence to exotics like human blood and antimatter. This is extremely useful information if you're ever trying to get a lot of valuta through a narrow aperture.
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English is a user-modifiable technology
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Here's a stirring Boston Globe op-ed from master lexicographer Erin McKean, presenting the humane case for a dynamic English language in which speakers are allowed to coin neologisms and new usages without grammar tightasses insisting that language is not a user-modifiable technology .
Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I
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Chinese people discovering fortune cookies
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Here's a funny short video of Chinese people being exposed to fortune cookies (an American invention) for the first time:
Americans find high emotional att
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Chinese people discovering fortune cookies
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Here's a funny short video of Chinese people being exposed to fortune cookies (an American invention) for the first time:
Americans find high emotional att
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Steroid abuser's horrific chest-acne
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The photos of this steroid abuser's violent chest-acne (and the subsequent scarring) ought to be posted in the changing room at every gym in the world. Before you complain about how gross the photos on the click-through below are, just be thankful they didn't photograph his shrivelled, damaged testicles, too.
He was a
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Teddy Bear USB drive is a headless horror
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The Teddy Bear USB drive does a really nice job of switching from sickly sweet to just sickening -- just rip its head off and plug its neck into your computer and it looks like you've crushed a little anthropomorphic bear's noggin and forced it into a tiny, little USB port.
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Teddy Bear USB drive is a headless horror
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
The Teddy Bear USB drive does a really nice job of switching from sickly sweet to just sickening -- just rip its head off and plug its neck into your computer and it looks like you've crushed a little anthropomorphic bear's noggin and forced it into a tiny, little USB port.
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Neuros OSD gets a free/open web-browser for your TV
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Hackers continue to add improvements to the Neuros OSD open set-top box -- now you can download a Web browser for it. Neuros leads the pack in providing a wide-open platform for your TV set, encouraging users to invent their own software and features for the device.
If you're like me, your first reaction to hearing that the web
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TELUS Canada royally hoses its wireless broadband subscribers
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
TELUS, one of the large Canadian phone companies, is playing really scummy tricks on its wireless broadband subscribers. A Slashdot post has the dirt:
"Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but their Terms
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DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Security guards contracted by the DHS threw a woman out of a Social Security office in Van Nuys for wearing a t-shirt that read "lesbian.com." He claimed that "The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property" gave him the right to throw her out for wearing a t-shirt with the word "lesbian" on it.
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DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Security guards contracted by the DHS threw a woman out of a Social Security office in Van Nuys for wearing a t-shirt that read "lesbian.com." He claimed that "The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property" gave him the right to throw her out for wearing a t-shirt with the word "lesbian" on it.
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Stylish anatomical drawings
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Tom Giesler's My Anatomy illustrations are stylized, stylish and scientific, bringing anatomy to life with a lot of wit and a good clean line.
Tom Giesler My Anatomy
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Cory Doctorow: Bills are useless as proof of identity
Cory Doctorow via guardian.co.uk Global: Cory Do on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Cory Doctorow: The belief that a gas bill somehow proves who you are and where you live is preposterous and actually heightens the risk of identity theft
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North Korea claims to have invented anti-hunger noodles
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
A North Korean propaganda release claims that the hunger-stricken country has developed a "hunger-delaying" soy-protein noodle that doesn't induce the same carb-based hunger pangs that starch-based noodles cause:
According to the newspaper, which is seen as closely linked to the Pyongyang leadership, the new noodles have twice as much protein and fives times as much fat as ordinary n
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Kimya Dawson's "Alphabutt" -- weird, jangly, hilarious awesome music for kids
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Anti-folk icon Kimya Dawson's latest album is Alphabutt, a collection of hilarious, catchy, scatological kids' music that's sure to delight parents who are weary of treacly children's songs. If your kids are going to sing a song over an over again, isn't
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Kimya Dawson's "Alphabutt" -- weird, jangly, hilarious awesome music for kids
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Anti-folk icon Kimya Dawson's latest album is Alphabutt, a collection of hilarious, catchy, scatological kids' music that's sure to delight parents who are weary of treacly children's songs. If your kids are going to sing a song over an over again, isn't
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