W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Webs standards, says its OK for your browser to say "I cant let you do that, Dave" – Boing Boing.

Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life.

CISPA is not dead! It's coming back — get ready! – Boing Boing.

Making in the classroom: "Decades of research confirm that making and doing things cement knowledge in ways that lectures can't" – Boing Boing.

Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o's laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay – Boing Boing.

Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station – Megan Garber – The Atlantic.

Cory Doctorow & War Against Computer Freedom – FORA.tv Videos.

Detect | DCWG.

you have until Monday people

Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized – Boing Boing.

ACTA IS DEAD (ish) (for now) – Boing Boing.

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Google+.

Press release – MEP: “Decisive vote against ACTA”.

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit | Security & Privacy – CNET News.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Will Explore Mars—Like a Boss.

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Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car – Hack a Day.

words fail to express how freakin’ cool this is if!

Adam Savage's Maker Faire 2012 Talk: Why We Make – YouTube.

Byron Sonne is an innocent man – Boing Boing.

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For those of you who might want to take a photo of the “super moon” at Perigee tonight

Stop Shooting Auto!

If you’re in a hurry you can ignore the discussion and skip straight to the summary


moonSince a couple of people have requested this, here’s the Stop Shooting Auto! lesson in shooting the moon.

Back in the olden days, when cameras were carved out of stone and didn’t have whizbang light meters and dozens of confusing exposure dials, photographers had to choose their settings manually. In fact, my first 35mm camera, a Kodak Pony IV, had printed inserts that went into a slot in the back of the camera to help you pick your settings. For bright sunlight you used this, for cloudy bright you used that, etc. And horror of horrors, there was no Photoshop– if you screwed up the exposure, you had to try to fix it in a (gasp) darkroom. And that was if you were lucky– most people just lived with whatever bad photos they took.

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Happy Day Against DRM! – Boing Boing.

Microsoft Backs Away From CISPA Support, Citing Privacy – Slashdot.

MST3K headboard – Boing Boing.

ZOMG! must make!

Office of Management and Budget to Obama: veto CISPA – Boing Boing.

Sneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment – Boing Boing.

Debunking CISPA supporters' claims of harmlessness, inevitability – Boing Boing.

Open-source Hardware Movement Seeks Legitimacy | PCWorld.

Scientists Find First Definitive Genetic Links to Autism.

St. Cloud police officer shot in the hand.

This is why we have “neighborhood watch” Captains. Lack of confidence in the local police force to protect or serve.

Consumer Reports: people care about online privacy – Boing Boing.

Really…who would have thought.

Report: Mac trojan claims 500k machines – Boing Boing.

Brady Cash Custom Cadillac Baby Stroller – YouTube.

Somebody please get that little badass some palmade!!

SOPA changes name to CISPA – YouTube.

This won’t be the last assault on our interwebs, that much is for sure.

A Google Summer of Code: Civic Developer Tools | Code for America.

DCoded: Washington's many plans for smartphone privacy.

Project Glass: One day… – YouTube.

As a person who already wears glasses I can’t wait for this. Just a little more info to add to what we absorb already.

Researchers release new exploits to hijack critical infrastructure.

Researchers release new exploits to hijack critical infrastructure.

Spam levels still low a year after Rustock botnet takedown.

Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes – Slashdot.

Slow learner? MPAA chief hints at talks to revive SOPA.

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