Psychedelic anti-Marijuana TV spot from the 1980s

Transmitted from the "Just Say No" 1980s, this delightfully psychedelic anti-pot public service message.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/psychedelic-anti-marijuana-tv.html

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Yahoo Slams Facebook for ?Retaliation? in Patent Lawsuit

Facebook found and purchased eight software patents for the sole purpose of "retaliating" against Yahoo for its pending patent lawsuit against the social networking giant, Yahoo argued in a strongly worded court filing Friday that accuses Facebook of bad faith.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/yahoo-facebook-roundthre/

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2-Cans-and-a-String Technology Updated for Age of Mobility

Relive your childhood memories of tin-can telephone communication with Monkey Wrench Design's The Can.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/two-cans-and-a-string-technology-updated-for-age-of-mobility/

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Redditor with an air-travel pass will become an upvoted summer bindlestiff

Generique is a redditor with a BSc in forensic science, no job, and an unlimited US air-travel pass for the summer (he has a family member who works for an airline). He's volunteered to go anywhere and do anything, based on Reddit upvotes, to have an "epic summer adventure." Want me to hand deliver a [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/redditor-with-an-air-travel-pa.html

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Dork Tower Friday

Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/dork-tower-friday-89/

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Mensa Picks Its Mind Games Winners for 2012!

Last weekend, Mensa members and others gathered for the annual Mensa Mind Games, held this year in Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Mensa Mind Games is an intense weekend of playing board and card games. Game publishers submit games to be evaluated on criteria such as the rules, replayability, and general fun. Anyone at the weekend can play the games and send feedback to the publishers. But only Mensa members can then vote for their top choices of games overall. The top five receive the coveted Mensa Select seal. Here are the winners for this year!

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/mensa-mind-games/

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Brazil's copyright societies indicted for fraud, new law demands efficient, transparent collecting societies

Ronaldo sez, "I am writing because something relevant happened in Brazil two days ago regarding the local copyright collecting societies (analagous to Ascap and BMI in the US). After more than 6 months of investigation by a Senate special inquiry commission, 15 directors have been indicted for various types of fraud and crimes. Also, the [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/29/brazils-copyright-societies.html

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How "jaywalking" was invented

Sarah Goodyear relates the events that gave rise to the concept of "jaywalking," and describes what American life was like before the assumption that roads were primarily for cars became the norm, and when the streets were "vibrant places with a multitude of users and uses." It wasn?t always like this. Browse through New York [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/28/how-jaywalking-was-invente.html

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Apple Reportedly Canceling WWDC Orders for Multiple Tickets

According to developer reports, Apple is canceling the WWDC ticket orders orders of companies that purchased multiple tickets on a single credit card.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/apple-canceling-wwdc-orders/

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After Yelp referral leads to $2K moving company ripoff, thoughts on "genuine reviews"

Justin Vincent chose a moving company based on positive Yelp reviews. Things did not work out well. "I spent 40 days without any furniture and quite a few of my belongings have been misplaced ? forever." Turns out negative reviews were there, but suppressed. Could smarter design have prevented this? (via @blam)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/after-yelp-referral-leads-to.html

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Get Kids Excited About Engineering at Engineering Go For It

Engineering Go For it is a resource for parents and teachers published by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The Engineering Go For It website has information about the different types of engineering and tips for older kids on applying to engineering programs and choosing a discipline.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/engineering-go-for-it/

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Shuttle Enterprise arriving at JFK (big photos)

Two gorgeous photographs shot by C.S. Muncy of the retired NASA space shuttle Enterprise landing at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport earlier today. The original test shuttle piggybacked on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The duo flew from Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC., and landed at 11:22 AM Eastern after flying over [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/shuttle-enterprise-arriving-at.html

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The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!)

The best revolutionaries eventually find themselves hailed in tributes and enshrined in museums. So it's almost inevitable that nearly 30 years after the official birthdate of the internet, some of the net's best-known pioneers, radicals, and troublemakers are being inducted into the Internet Society's Hall of Fame. The inaugural group includes 33 of the net's most influential engineers, evangelists and entrepreneurs including internet fathers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf; internet standards guru Jon Postel; web inventor Tim Berners-Lee; encryption pioneer Phil Zimmerman; and Mozilla's Mitchell Baker.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/isoc-hall-of-fame/

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Apple Wants to Patent Its MacBook Air Design

Passing through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today is an expanded patent application for the wedge-shaped aesthetic of the MacBook Air. Apple posits that the design contributes both to the user's impression of the device, its lightness, and to its durability.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/apple-patents-macbook-air/

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Pray away the Gaga

photo: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won Christians attend a prayer meeting being held as they pray to stop the concert of Lady Gaga, at a church in Seoul April 22, 2012. The Christians blame Lady Gaga for promoting indecency and "homosexual love." Gaga performed live in Seoul today, despite the incantations. Below, her performance during the MTV Video [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/pray-away-the-gaga.html

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Yahoo Slams Facebook for ?Retaliation? in Patent Lawsuit

Facebook found and purchased eight software patents for the sole purpose of "retaliating" against Yahoo for its pending patent lawsuit against the social networking giant, Yahoo argued in a strongly worded court filing Friday that accuses Facebook of bad faith.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/yahoo-facebook-roundthre/

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Kids Dress Up and Make Voices to Play Kinect Star Wars

The reception of a videogame is often as much about expectation as it is about the game itself. Many promises are made a broken between game conception and game launch. As Matt Blum's post eloquently set out, Kinect Star Wars had a whole range of competing hopes.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/kids-kinect-star-wars/

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For the billionaire who has everything: a spaceship

Dylan Tweney has a good read over at VentureBeat on a trend of sorts among the ultra-rich: investing in space exploration startups. "The wonder isn?t that billionaires are doing this, the wonder is that it?s taken them so long."

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/for-the-billionaire-who-has-ev.html

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Your land, my land, island

Uninhabited Market Island in the Baltic Sea is home to an international border between Sweden and Finland that is shaped, convolutedly, like the number 2. The New York Times explains the history behind this, one of the strangest borders in the world. (Via Doug Mack)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/your-land-my-land-island.html

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Douglas Rushkoff interviewed on Motherboard TV

Vice's Motherboard has a good interview with our friend Douglas Rushkoff. Understanding how things work In order to make them work better is the basic hacker ethos, but Rushkoff has applied it to his broader discussion of the way the culture and politics of the many are driven by the interests of the few. Between [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/douglas-rushkoff-interviewed-o.html

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Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter Project Hits $1.5MM Super-Goal

For many of us geeks, Shadowrun was one of the best pen-and-paper RPGs we played as kids. The mix of Lord of the Rings monsters and magic with a Blade Runner dystopian future was rife with amazing stories to tell and adventures to run. Which is why the recent Kickstarter campaign by one of its original creators to develop a new computer game based on the original RPG has caught so much attention.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/shadowrun-returns-kickstarter/

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SpaceX Falcon 9 engine test will be webcast live (woo, fire! woo, space!)

If you like space and/or rockets and/or awesome flames, you'll want to tune in to spacex.com on Monday, April 30 to watch "a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket?s nine powerful Merlin engines in preparation for the company?s upcoming launch." The test is scheduled to begin at 2:30 PM ET/ 11:30 AM PT, [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/spacex-falcon-9-engine-test-wi.html

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Catch up on Origami Yoda?s Adventures in Darth Paper Strikes Back Before the Fortune Wookiee Comes

If you have young Star Wars fans in your house, and they haven't read Tom Angelberger's pair of origami-novel love letters to the franchise, I highly recommend you pick them both up now. And if you don't have young Star Wars fans, but you are yourself perhaps a less-young Star Wars fan, you'll enjoy them yourself. I'm talking about The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and its sequel, Darth Paper Strikes Back.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/darth-paper-strikes-back/

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Kids Dress Up and Make Voices to Play Kinect Star Wars

The reception of a videogame is often as much about expectation as it is about the game itself. Many promises are made a broken between game conception and game launch. As Matt Blum's post eloquently set out, Kinect Star Wars had a whole range of competing hopes.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/kids-kinect-star-wars/

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Talking DRM on the CBC

Here's a quick clip of me talking to the CBC's As It Happens about my publisher's decision to drop DRM.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/talking-drm-on-the-cbc.html

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Samsung?s Next Galaxy Phone to Pack New Quad-Core CPU

Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone -- which is expected to be the Galaxy S III -- will have a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, the South Korean electronics maker said on Thursday.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/samsung-exynos-chip-galaxy-s-iii/

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Brogrammers "rage at gym to attract chicks, scare dicks!" and work "while receiving oral sex"

In Mother Jones, an article exploring some of the sexist excesses of Silicon Valley's male-dominant programmer culture. None of this is news to those of us (and by us, I mean women) who've worked there—but the article contains some hilarious/horrible frat-boy anecdotes. And, no, not all male programmers behave like this, yada yada yada. (via [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/brogrammers-rage-at-gym-to-a.html

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Be Very Afraid: The Cable-ization of Online Life Is Upon Us

Just imagine trying to run a business that is utterly dependent on a single delivery network ? a gatekeeper ? that can make up the rules on the fly and knows you have nowhere else to go. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is feeling just this way. He's trying to get Americans to care about Comcast's power to exempt "first class" streaming video delivered to Xboxes from its monthly internet usage caps.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-crawford-cableization/

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Congratulations to Our Monsuno Giveaway Winners!

Earlier this month Jakks Pacific graciously supplied GeekDad with a few Monsuno to giveaway. Congratulations to the winners!

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/monsuno-giveaway-winners/

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Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter Project Hits $1.5MM Super-Goal

For many of us geeks, Shadowrun was one of the best pen-and-paper RPGs we played as kids. The mix of Lord of the Rings monsters and magic with a Blade Runner dystopian future was rife with amazing stories to tell and adventures to run. Which is why the recent Kickstarter campaign by one of its original creators to develop a new computer game based on the original RPG has caught so much attention.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/shadowrun-returns-kickstarter/

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Vintage 1960s Batman TV show photos

This photo is part of a small set of behind-the-scenes photos found in Harald Haefker's flickr photostream. I do not know the backstory but they are wonderful.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/vintage-1960s-batman-tv-show-p.html

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Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo

Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. After years of research and development, the world's first Swiss mechanical automatic digital watch is a reality: the Ventura Sparc MGS. Pierre Nobs' Ventura Automatic Digital Watch, devised in 2000, allowed movements of the wrist to power a [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/sponsor-shout-out-watchismo-35.html

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Proposed solution for in-game harassment

Penny Arcade TV's "Harassment" episode looks at the phenomenon of in-game trolling, with its disproportionate emphasis on racism, homophobia and sexism, and suggests a solution: identify players who are muted more often than the norm, and set them to "auto-muted" when they join games, and have guild efficacy decline based on the number of automuted [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/proposed-solution-for-in-game.html

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Young Readers Will Never Run Out of Books With MeeGenius

About a year ago I was introduced to the MeeGenius library -- this is a company that is celebrating its second birthday on Thursday, April 26. A very young company! Besides accessing their large digital book library (currently over 700 titles) via a web browser, they also now have apps for both Android and the iPad

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/meegenius/

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Android Gaming Tablet Looks Remarkably Similar to Sony PSP

The wonderful thing about Android is that it can be installed on almost any device. But the bad thing about Android is that it can land in hardware of questionable pedigree -- like a portable gaming system that looks remarkably similar to the product of another company.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/android-gaming-tablet-looks-remarkably-similar-to-sony-psp/

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Alan Turing's obituaries

David Stutz has posted a small collection of obituaries for Alan Turing after he was hounded to suicide as a punishment for being gay. Here's my favorite: ?For those who knew him here [at Sherborne] the memory is of an even-tempered, lovable character with an impish sense of humour and a modesty proof against all [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/alan-turings-obituaries.html

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Game of Thrones: The Sexplanation Show

I'm relatively new to Game of Thrones fandom and that fact that I call it that rather than A Song of Fire and Ice probably shows how new. I got hooked on the story about halfway through HBO's televised adaptation of the first of George R.R. Martin's books. When the show ended, I kept reading.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/game-of-thrones-nudity/

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Girl swallowed by pavement

[Video Link] A kindly hack came to her aid.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/girl-swallowed-by-pavement.html

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Between the Bookends at GeekMom

It's time for another look at the GeekMoms' never-ending stack of books. Collectively, we sure manage to make our way through a fair number of pages, whether we're reading them on dead trees or e-readers. Here's what we've read this month.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/between-the-bookends-at-geekmom/

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Google Begins Selling Unlocked Galaxy Nexus Phones in Google Play Store

On Tuesday, the Samsung-built Galaxy Nexus went on sale in the Google Play store at a price of $399, marking the first physical item to be sold through Google Play and the second time Google is attempting to sell a phone of its own.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/google-begins-selling-unlocked-galaxy-nexus-phones-in-google-play-store/

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Dalek dress documented

Somevelvetmorning made a beautiful Dalek dress and uploaded her work-in-progress photos to Imgur. Perhaps they can serve as a guide to your own dalekwear efforts. Also: matching hat! Dalek Dress (via Wil Wheaton)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/dalek-dress-documented.html

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Apartment covered with mentally ill resident's graffiti

These images depict what is reportedly a Russian apartment belonging to a mentally ill man who carved every surface with graffiti. The Accidental Mysteries site, which is one of several sites to repost the images, introduced them with the visual art concept of horror vacui, a phrase from the Latin for "fear of the empty." [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/apartment-covered-with-mentall.html

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Star Wars Kinect frustrates Darth Vader

Youtube: Star Wars Kinect Official Duel Trailer

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/star-wars-kinect-frustrates-da.html

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US carriers fight law that would force them to see a warrant before giving your data to cops

The California Location Privacy Bill (SB 1434) proposes to require cellular phone companies to stop their practice of giving your location data to the police without a warrant. Phone companies would still be allowed to give your information to the police if they got a warrant, first. Naturally, the CTIA -- the mobile carriers' industry [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/us-carriers-fight-law-that-wou.html

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MTV News, 1991, on San Francisco's technopagan culture

A cyberdelic blast from the past. MTV News reports on San Francisco's emergent technopagan culture, circa 1991, featuring Anarchic Adjustment (the precursor to Imaginary Foundation), Genesis P-Orridge and former partner Alaura O'Dell, Hyperdelic Video, and other icons of the digital underground. Ah, the good ol' daze.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/mtv-news-1991-on-san-francis.html

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Why Internet/GDP Ratios Make No Sense

On Monday, the Economist reprinted a chart from a BCG report, which purported to show the contribution of "the internet" to the total GDP of various different countries. All of this was rather puzzling to me, so I spoke to BCG?s Paul Zwillenberg, one of the authors of the report. And the main thing I wanted to know, of course, was how on earth you could turn ?the internet? into an annual dollar amount divisible by national GDP.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-salmon-net-gdp-ratios/

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Samsung Mocks Apple, Hypes ?Next Galaxy? in New Teaser Video

Samsung's marketing push for the Galaxy S III smartphone has begun with a video depicting iPhone owners as sheep.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/samsung-mock-apple-hypes-next-galaxy-in-new-teaser-video/

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172 Hours on the Moon -- exclusive excerpt

172 Hours on the Moon is a young adult novel about three teenagers who go to the moon as winners of a global lottery, only to discover a terrible secret about why they were sent. Below, the prologue to the novel. Prologue: February 2010 ?Gentlemen, it?s time,? Dr. ----- said, eyeing the seven some of [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/23/172-hours-on-the-moon-exclu.html

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Tim Berners-Lee: We Don?t Need Arbitrary New TLDs

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, is “not a fan” of the arbitrary new�top level domains�(TLDs) that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is�currently offering, he told Wired.co.uk in a press conference at W3C. He was referring to Icann’s application window for brands to bid for the domain name suffix of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/tim-berners-lee-we-dont-need-arbitrary-new-tlds/

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Automatic generator for stupid PayPal product-names

The PayPal Product Name Generator automates PayPal's nasty habit of giving stupid product names to the companies they acquire. I got "PayPal Website Advanced Checkout Online," "PayPal Online Pro Advanced," "PayPal Payflow Payments Express," and "PayPal Payments Link Checkout." PayPal Product Name Generator

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/23/automatic-generator-for-stupid.html

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Poll Indicates ?Huge Potential? for an Apple TV

Twenty-five percent of U.S. consumers and 30 percent of UK consumers find the idea of an Apple-brand TV set appealing, and said they would buy one if it were available, according to a recently released poll.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/consumer-poll-apple-tv/

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Are Carbon Offsets Really Offsetting Anything? (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

Carbon was known about during prehistorical times, of course with less scientific realization about its nature. Carbon was known most familiarly in those times as charcoal and diamonds. Carbon was used to fuse iron into steel, and as the main element in graphite. The truth of all this is that carbon is everything and every where. So then, what are carbon offsets?

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/carbon-offsets-wayback/

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Perhaps Contraption, an art-punk marching band

On Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of watching Perhaps Contraption ("a twisted brass, art punk marching band") at Saturday night's White Mischief steampunk night in London. They've got a shitload of horns onstage, rhythm for days, and some badass vocals. Perhaps you will enjoy them, as well. Perhaps Contraption | Perhaps Contraption is an [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/23/perhaps-contraption-an-art-pu.html

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Leo Geo, a lengthwise comic about a journey through the Earth

Jon Chad's Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth is a kids' comic story that blends science and fancy to tell the story of a scientist who goes all the way through the Earth's center from Argentina, headed for Taiwan. The long, skinny book is meant to be read "vertically," [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/23/leo-geo-a-lengthwise.html

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Orange Bird back at Disney World, a victory for trufans

The Orange Bird, mascot of the Florida Citrus Growers and one-time Adventureland icon from the opening days of the park, has been relaunched at Walt Disney World after a campaign by Disney parks fans and their sympathizers in the park. A source close to the company says, "People had to REALLY fight the system to [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/22/orange-bird-back-at-disney-wor.html

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Bully, the Movie

Not long after my children returned to public school after two-and-a-half years of homeschooling, it started.

At this point, my older son was in 8th grade and so gym meant changing in a locker room with the other kids in his class. A couple of his peers developed a habit of coming up behind my son while he was changing, cupping his chest, and informing him that he had breasts. On the gym floor and in the hallways between classes, these boys would leer moon-faced at my child and call him "Scoops." At the time, my son shared none of this with his father or me or his inclusion teacher or the school psychologist that he was seeing once a week.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/bully-the-movie/

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Are Carbon Offsets Really Offsetting Anything? (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

Carbon was known about during prehistorical times, of course with less scientific realization about its nature. Carbon was known most familiarly in those times as charcoal and diamonds. Carbon was used to fuse iron into steel, and as the main element in graphite. The truth of all this is that carbon is everything and every where. So then, what are carbon offsets?

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/carbon-offsets-wayback/

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Google?s Stock-Split Plan Would Replace Stewardship With Dictatorship

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me. However, its recent proposal to effect a two-for-one stock split by issuing non-voting shares is an abhorrent idea that should be rejected.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-wong-google-dividend/

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BBC Earth Giveaway for Earth Day

It's Earth Day, a day to reflect on the beauty of our island home. BBC Home Entertainment and GeekDad are giving away two prize packages including the award-winning BBC Earth documentaries Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Blue Planet.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/bbc-earth-day-giveaway/

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Microsoft Evangelist Retracts Comments About Windows Phone Updates

Microsoft Developer Evangelist Nuno Silva has retracted his previous statement that current Windows Phones will be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/microsoft-evangelist-retracts-comments-about-windows-phone-updates/

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Microsoft Applies for Patent on Augmented Reality, 3-D Audio

Surround-sound systems are great for playing games and watching movies when you're in the "sweet spot" of focused audio. When you're sitting off-center, however, the audio sounds more like a garbled aural mess. But now it looks like Microsoft may have a solution.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/microsoft-applies-for-augmented-reality-3d-audio-patent/

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Why Internet/GDP Ratios Make No Sense

On Monday, the Economist reprinted a chart from a BCG report, which purported to show the contribution of "the internet" to the total GDP of various different countries. All of this was rather puzzling to me, so I spoke to BCG?s Paul Zwillenberg, one of the authors of the report. And the main thing I wanted to know, of course, was how on earth you could turn ?the internet? into an annual dollar amount divisible by national GDP.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-salmon-net-gdp-ratios/

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TOR is hiring

Runa from The Onion Router -- a privacy and anti-censorship tool used around the world -- writes, "We are looking for another dedicated core developer to join our team. Your job would be to work on all aspects of the main Tor network daemon and other open-source software. This would be a contractor position for [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/tor-is-hiring.html

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Iranian finance/tech manager publishes 3,000,000 bank accounts' details and PINs

A finance technology manager named Khosrow Zarefarid discovered a critical flaw in Iran's online banking systems. He extracted 1,000 account details (including card numbers and PINs) and emailed them to the CEOs of 22 Iranian banks along with detailed information about the vulnerability. A year later, nothing had been done. Zarefarid extracted 3 million accounts' [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/iranian-financetech-manager-p.html

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Happy 75th Birthday to George Takei: Mr. Sulu, Human Rights Champion and Heavenly Body

George Hosato Takei was born 75 years ago, and I?m proud to be one of his diehard fans. Happy 75th birthday, Mr. Sulu! I still remember seeing Hikaru Sulu for the first time on Star Trek. He was so cool, calm and masterful, and he was the helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise, taking the command ship of the United Federation of Planets where no one had gone before! But Takei has always forged new paths for himself and for several important human rights causes. He is instantly recognizable worldwide as the pilot of the Constitution Class starship with the registry NCC-1701.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/george-takei/

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TOR is hiring

Runa from The Onion Router -- a privacy and anti-censorship tool used around the world -- writes, "We are looking for another dedicated core developer to join our team. Your job would be to work on all aspects of the main Tor network daemon and other open-source software. This would be a contractor position for [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/tor-is-hiring.html

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Soldering Is Easy! No Superpowers Required

I was always intimidated by soldering but I don't have the best manual dexterity in the world. Let's just say being a neurosurgeon was never really an option for me. With some practice though, I have found it to be rather easy. If I can solder, you and your geeklings can solder too. Now you can get some great pointers to help you along in comic book style with Soldering Is Easy!

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/soldering-is-easy/

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Apr. 20

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/agad042012/

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Acrobatic show posters from the turn of the 20th century

On How to Be a Retronaut, a well-selected slice through the Library of Congress's 2,114 performing arts posters collection, with an emphasis on acrobatics. Posters for Acrobatics shows, 1892-1903

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Megaupload founder will likely never go to trial, says US judge

Remember earlier this year when the New Zealand government and the US government conspired to send a SWAT team to arrest Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, shut down the service, make 220 people unemployed, seize Dotcom's assets, and deprive millions of users of access to their files? Well now a US judge says that the [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/21/megaupload-founder-will-likely.html

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Tupac hologram as projected by R2D2

Inevitable, but very well executed, the "hologram" of Tupac (not an actual hologram, really a kind of Pepper's Ghost), matted into the "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" sequences from Star Wars. R2-D2's Other Message (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/tupac-hologram-as-projected-by.html

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Leonard Cohen ex-manager/thief/lover/stalker sentenced; Cohen dry and warm throughout

The Guardian's Esther Addley reports on the trial of Kelley Lynch, his former business-manager and lover who was convicted of stealing from him and leaving him penniless, who was ordered to pay $9.5M in restitution but didn't, and who then relentlessly stalked Cohen and harassed and threatened him. Lynch has been sentenced to 18 months [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/leonard-cohen-ex-managerthief.html

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The candle problem

From Futility Closet: "Given a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle, how can you fix the candle to the wall so that its wax won’t drip onto the table below?" Solution

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/the-candle-problem.html

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A Wander Around the New Star Wars Miniland at Legoland Windsor

At last, the galaxy far, far away has come to Legoland Windsor. Just over a year after the Star Wars Miniland opened in Legoland California (read Dave Banks' excellent write up of that one here) the Lego master builders have recreated all the same models again and brought them to UK, and to celebrate the opening of the Star Wars Miniland Experience, they had a special weekend-long, Star Wars-themed party and called it the Star Wars Invasion.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/star-wars-legoland-windsor/

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Metamorphosis Alpha RPG Is Back ? Via Kickstarter!

My first role playing game experience wasn't Dungeons and Dragons. That opportunity would come a few weeks later. Instead, sometime during the summer of 1979 or 1980 (I really can't pin the date down) I had begged my parents to drop me off at a gaming group that met in Pensacola, Florida. A few older friends had told me about it and some of the games they were playing there. I guess my story checked out and the parents of the other kids gave their approval because I was dropped off and told I had three hours or so before they'd come and get me. So, in I walked, having no clue what to really expect other than the few vague stories of some really cool game descriptions and these campaigns that were being run. I stress these two words because I really had no clue what they meant. But all that was about to change.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/metamorphosis-alpha-rpg/

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Don't buy these gadgets

Brian Lam usually tells you what to buy; today, however, he's telling you what not to buy. [Wirecutter]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/dont-buy-these-gadgets.html

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Augmented Reality?s Path From Science Fiction to Future Fact

Google Glass is akin to a concept car, but not like those commercially ludicrous models automakers show off annually just to show how impossibly blue the sky can be. Glass would be a new prism through which we would filter every aspect of our lives ? just as the smartphone went from zero to always on.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-abell-ar-envy/

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To do in NYC: "Surveillance Teach-in" at the Whitney, Fri. April 20, 2012

If you are in New York on Friday, April 20, you'll want to attend this special event, offered as part of the Whitney Biennial: Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, and power. Her current film trilogy, focusing on America post 9/11, documents the Iraq War, secret state surveillance, and the suspension of [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/19/to-do-in-nyc-surveillance-t.html

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CongressTMI campaign: give Congress Too Much Information and tell them how crazynuts CISPA is

Zakkai sez, "We have the feeling that even CISPA's sponsors don't understand how ridiculous their bill is. Do government agencies and corporations really need to be able to spy on us all the time for any reason? To draw attention to how unnecessary and inappropriate CISPA is, Fight for the Future is launching the CongressTMI [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/congresstmi-campaign-give-con.html

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A GeekDad Visits Pixar

Recently I was given the rare privilege of visiting Pixar as part of the promotional campaign for their new film Brave, which opens June 22. In addition to preview screenings of the Oscar-nominated short film La Luna and DisneyNature's Chimpanzee (opening April 20), I got to see the first 30 minutes of Brave, take part in interview and background sessions with several of the animators and designers as well as Producer Katherine Sarafian and Director Mark Andrews. I had the opportunity to ask several of the questions submitted in the comments section of my previous post. Other questions were answered for me by Disney's Marshall Weinbaum, our tour guide and scoutmaster for this adventure.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/pixar-visit/

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Sugar Cube: a platformer with a refreshingly novel mechanic

Another great game review from Greg Costikyan and his Play This Thing! blog: this time, it's the 2010 IGF China Best Game winner Sugar Cube, a platformer with a novel and ingenious (and addictive!) mechanic: At various points on the level are hidden items -- often platforms -- that are revealed, and switch "on," only [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/19/sugar-cube-a-platformer-with.html

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Tim Berners-Lee: We Don?t Need Arbitrary New TLDs

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, is “not a fan” of the arbitrary new�top level domains�(TLDs) that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is�currently offering, he told Wired.co.uk in a press conference at W3C. He was referring to Icann’s application window for brands to bid for the domain name suffix of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/tim-berners-lee-we-dont-need-arbitrary-new-tlds/

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Kids narrate the lives of wild animals for "Planet Earth" promo (cutest. video. ever.)

[Video link] Director Joe Sabia, who co-curates the Boing Boing in-flight television channel with me on Virgin America Airlines, has created this adorable spot for BBC America's natural history series Planet Earth (also available on DVD). In the promo, a series of 4-7 year old children take the place of series narrator David Attenborough—or, as [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/19/kids-narrate-the-lives-of-anim.html

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Chicks Dig Comics! (As If That Wasn?t Obvious)

Although I only made it to Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) for one day, Sunday, it was well worth the trip. While my travel roomie was busy selling out by going to a question and answer session with John Cusak (the nerve!), I went to the lively and fun panel for Chicks Dig Comics, which was centered on the book of the same name that was released this week.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/chicks-dig-comics/

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In a Rigged Game, Twitter?s IPA Lets Developers Rewrite the Rules

Last month, in response to Yahoo?s wrongheaded patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, I wrote about my experience filing patents at Yahoo. Patents I helped to file, ostensibly only for defensive purposes, were turned into blunt weapons to thwart innovation and extort money. Yesterday, Twitter announced their Innovator?s Patent Agreement, an open source contract intended to guarantee patents will only be used defensively, even when sold. The IPA seems to directly address the issues raised in my article. Still, the IPA isn?t perfect, and it needs work to protect the intentions of designers and engineers.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-twitter-patents/

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Chicks Dig Comics! (As If That Wasn?t Obvious)

Although I only made it to Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) for one day, Sunday, it was well worth the trip. While my travel roomie was busy selling out by going to a question and answer session with John Cusak (the nerve!), I went to the lively and fun panel for Chicks Dig Comics, which was centered on the book of the same name that was released this week.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/chicks-dig-comics/

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How to Make a Super-Easy Zombie Cake

What’s better than birthday cake? Zombie birthday cake, obviously. I have few domestic talents, but this is a cake that even the most clueless chef can tackle with ease. Mistakes? No such thing. This zombie rises up out of a grave of chocolate cake, frosting, and crumbled cookies. What you need: foil cardboard box Oreo [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/zombie-cake/

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Prime: Amazon?s New Research Lab

Prime members are Amazon's avant-garde, coming to everything a little bit earlier ? including the company's newest experiments with its website.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/amazon-prime-jobs/

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FGTV Live Draws Back the Curtain on Unusual Halo, Portal and Tomb Raider Reviews

As mentioned in my post before the event, I had hired the theater to see what a live audience would make of some of the more unusual game reviews I have produced over the last few years. We had a near capacity crowd at The BikeShed theater as we drew back the curtain on reviews for Halo, Uncharted, Portal, Limbo, Tomb Raider, Mass Effect and Epic Mickey.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/fgtv-live/

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Samsung Galaxy S III Rumored ?Official Device of the 2012 Olympics?

The Samsung Galaxy S III has been the source of speculation for months, but on Tuesday a new rumor emerged: the Galaxy S III will be the "official device" of the 2012 Olympics.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-rumored-official-device-of-the-2012-olympics/

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In a Rigged Game, Twitter?s IPA Lets Developers Rewrite the Rules

Last month, in response to Yahoo?s wrongheaded patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, I wrote about my experience filing patents at Yahoo. Patents I helped to file, ostensibly only for defensive purposes, were turned into blunt weapons to thwart innovation and extort money. Yesterday, Twitter announced their Innovator?s Patent Agreement, an open source contract intended to guarantee patents will only be used defensively, even when sold. The IPA seems to directly address the issues raised in my article. Still, the IPA isn?t perfect, and it needs work to protect the intentions of designers and engineers.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-twitter-patents/

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Dork Tower Wednesday

Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/dork-tower-wednesday-87/

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Google?s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ?Open Web?

Google's search engine was created when most of the web's information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today's more restrictive environment, Sergey Brin and Google CEO Larry Page may not have even tried.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/open-web-google-brin/

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Gulf seafood "horribly deformed"

Eyeless shrimp. Fish afflicted by sores. Crabs without claws or hard shells. Bizarre deformities are becoming common in seafood from the Gulf, according to Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, and pollution caused by the 2010 BP oil spill is the likely cause. Al Jazeera's Dahr Jamail: The [oil] dispersants are known [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/18/gulf-seafood-horribly-deform.html

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Lacy, laser-cut seaweed sheets

This "designer nori" laser-cut seaweed was created by the Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO for a client whose sushi-wrapper business flagged in the post-tsunami economic trough. Jeannie Huang writes, Each pattern is meant to symbolize good fortune, happiness, and longevity, etc. and the result is a delicate, unexpected reinvention of the classic Japanese food with a [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/lacy-laser-cut-seaweed-sheets.html

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Missouri police greet Nobel Peace Prize nominee with traditional shield-banging dance

Here we see the traditional dance of the Missouri riot police, performed for three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and her friends as they gathered at the Whiteman Air Force Base to protest the escalation of drone warfare. The rhythmic shuffle and banging makes for an impressive display, especially when accompanied by the dancers' [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/missouri-police-greet-nobel-pe.html

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Gigapan photo of Space Shuttle in extreme detail

NetGeo has a photo of the Space Shuttle Discovery's interior that you can pan and zoom way into. Space Shuttle in Extreme Detail: Exclusive New Pictures (Thanks, Rachel!)

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/gigapan-photo-of-space-shuttle.html

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A Split Decision With Google Earnings: Profits Up, CPCs Down, and an Odd Dividend

In a letter to investors posted during Google's first-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Larry Page announced plans for a dividend for owners of Google shares in the form of a new class of non-voting stock. The company also released its balance sheet, which came in nearly on par with Wall Street?s expectations.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/google-earnings-dividend/

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Blurble: 300 Nouns in a Box

Okay, Blurble is more than just 300 nouns in a box, but that is part of the fun. Let me fill you in a bit.

Grant Bernard invented Blurble years ago and played it with his friends, and now he's raising funds on Kickstarter to make it more than just a clip-art-on-index-cards thing with a very limited audience. Since he's also in Portland, I got in touch with him and asked him to come tell me a bit more about the game.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/blurble/

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A Split Decision With Google Earnings: Profits Up, CPCs Down, and an Odd Dividend

In a letter to investors posted during Google's first-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Larry Page announced plans for a dividend for owners of Google shares in the form of a new class of non-voting stock. The company also released its balance sheet, which came in nearly on par with Wall Street?s expectations.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/google-earnings-dividend/

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Apr. 16

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/agad041612/

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Chicago Writers Conference seeks funds

Bill Shunn sez, The Chicago Writers Conference is Chicago's only homegrown mainstream literary conference focusing on practical business advice for fiction and non-fiction writers alike. The brainchild of Mare Swallow, it will feature such editors, agents, and authors as Chuck Sambuchino, Christine Sneed, Robert K. Elder, and Jennifer Mattson. But it can only happen with [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/16/chicago-writers-conference-see.html

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DOJ Announces Terms of Settlement With 3 Publishers in E-Book Lawsuit

Along with filing a lawsuit against Apple and five of the "Big Six" publishers for collusion over e-book prices, the U.S. Justice Department also filed terms of a proposed settlement in the suit with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Apple, Penguin and Macmillan have not accepted these settlement terms. The DOJ will continue to litigate its antitrust suit against them.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/doj-terms-settlement-ebook/

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Intel Shows Off Ultrabook-Tablet Hybrid Running Windows 8

At IDF 2012 in Beijing last week, Intel showed off its latest ultrabook by unveiling an ultrabook-tablet hybrid prototype dubbed Letexo.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/intel-cove-point-ultrabook-tablet-hybrid-running-windows-8/

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Latest iPad Mini Rumor: Number 18 in a Tortured Chain of Speculation

Rumormongers have been talking about a miniature, 7-inch Apple tablet even before Apple released its first iPad in 2010. Really. And the rumor continues today with news out of a Chinese site called NetEase, which says a pint-size tablet will land in Q3 of this year for sub $300.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/ipad-mini-rumor-roundup/

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