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Johnny Depp "Pirates" cookie does not look like Johnny Depp

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 9:10 PM | permalink

Recently here on BoingBoing, my co-editor Mark has been chronicling an internet-wide crusade to improve the quality of representational popsicles.

Earlier today came proof that our collective will can change the edible world. We cheered as one, upon seeing this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles treat in all its resplendent accuracy. At last, the MSM (mainstream sweets manufacturers) heard our cries!

Now, comrades, the time has come to take aim at cookie makers.

BoingBoing reader and fellow traveler Chuck7 sends the image above, and puts down his beer for a moment to type and testify:

Here is a hilarious well-frosted Johnny Depp cookie I found at the local 7-11 last night when I went up to get more beer: Link. They had 6 or 7 uniquely frosted Johnny Depp pirate cookies. I thought this cookie captured his essence pretty well.

Pretty well? Oh, the bittersweet sarcasm, Chuck7. We're gonna let them know America still cares about quality. We're gonna let them know we are here to speak truth to power, until every comestible googly-eye is centered, every tweety bird eyelash aligned.

These cookies we shall overcome, and when we've overcome, we will nom nom nom.

Previously on Boing Boing:
• Popsicle parody ad
• Bugs Bunny popsicle
• Tweety Bird popsicle doesn't look like Tweety Bird
• Turtle popsicle reflects pride in workmanship

(posted from the road in central america / xeni)

Reader comment: Nathan Seven says,

I thought the one looked rather gay myself, so I positioned them next to one another :) Link.

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Google Street View: a cavalcade of reactions, gag pix, paranoid rants

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 8:20 PM | permalink

Here's a roundup of some of the many responses to last week's posts about Google's newly launched "street view" zoom feature.

In a post on the Freakonomics blog, the Google project manager for Street View (actually, all of Google Maps, but that includes Street View) speaks out. His name is Stephen Chau. Link. I have no doubt that he is an exceedingly charming and intelligent guy, but he kind of sounds like a soundbite robot here (ah, the tell-tale signs of an email/IM/publicist-monitored interview). Among the issues Mr. Chau addresses: paranoid speculation about those purported would-be-JFK-bombers having used Google Earth (I bet they used pencils, gasoline, and tape, too -- let's all be scared of that stuff, while we're at it).

Here's a blog post with six tips on how to find cool shit on Street View, like girls' buttcracks or cats in windows. The internet is full of wonders. Link. Wait, here's another (thanks justin). More finds here, in addition to the other "google street view gems" sites I've blogged before.

On Sunday, I asked on this blog:

Would we feel differently about street-level image mapping if it were done by a government agency? The FBI? CIA? NSA? DHS?

Internet Wise Man Kevin Kelly replies in the form of a question, as is his zen-master way:

Here's a question I've not seen addressed yet:
What is the difference between posting a picture of people on a public street on Google Street View or on Flickr? Let's say it's the same image posted on both, and it captures someone late for work, or bending over and showing their underpants. Why is one cause for yawns and the other excitement?

BB reader Christopher says,

Here's a thought... could they not just add an ice cream van type audible warning to the google van that can be played whenever they're taking photos? Then, whenever you hear those soothing google van chimes you can dive for cover, obscure your number plates and whip the curtains shut. Unless of course it's just an ice cream van, then you'll miss out on all that popsicle lookalike amusement.

Andrew Iverson replied,

I guess i'm in a small group, i wish they would cover more than just those cities, but i live in a very small town (River Falls, WI) that on google maps is in very bad resolution. I would worry more if the street views were live or updated often, but since it's pretty much a one time thing, i'm not too worried.

Ivy Mike says,

I think you'll like this blog post, where I ask my readers for their best "Google van self-portraits." I was thinking, the van must have have taken photos of itself! "Google van" self-portraits, if you will. Here's the best one I could find so far, but it's a little obscured by a logo. There must be better Google van self-portraits out there: please post your finds in the comments!

Jon Frush says (and blogs)

With all the talk going on about the images Google is posting with their Street View feature and personal privacy isn't it time to look at what rights they really have?
Since all of these pictures are taken on the street which is considered a public place people have little recourse on what is being shown unless you are able to see in the window.
"Members of the public have a very limited scope of privacy rights when they are in public places. Basically, anyone can be photographed without their consent except when they have secluded themselves in places where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy such as dressing rooms, restrooms, medical facilities, and inside their homes."

Marcus says,

Google is socialising the cost of privacy protection by choosing an opt-out approach rather than opt-in or an expensive internal review of the collected data. On the other hand, it is privatizing the public data and any profit derived from that. It is thus no less evil than other corporations, and considerably more evil than the NSA or CIA, who at least in principle can be held accountable as public institutions.

Michael Rasmussen says,

It feels creepy. Yeah, I agree. When you go out in public the "public" is confined to the public that's also there. So public was always limited. Google Street View destroys that limit. The woman getting into her car on the street can look around the street and see who's there. The woman can't see who's watching her through Street View. I can go to the health clinic, lawyer's office, fetish store or anywhere else with the relative anonymity of being a soon to be forgotten stranger. Not after Google Street View, or the security camera, records the event. I can feel some comfort that the security camera recording will, most likely, be forgotten by the worker and erased after X days if no event of interest was taking place while I was there. Google Street View is going to make that memory available to anyone. And I can't look around to see who's watching. Damn right it's creepy.

Mikel Maron says,

At Where Camp last weekend (post Where 2.0 unconference for map geeks), we stayed up too late drinking beer and eating bad frozen food while hacking on Google Street View.
Highlight outcomes were scripts to automatically insert Google Street View panoramas into Upcoming.org (for real), and GHATS “fixes Google Street View privacy by adding hats and moustaches to every face” (which is fake, but an idea for the taking if Google continues to feel the heat over street view). Street View is slowly but surely being completely cracked. Link.

Brian Klug says, and blogs,

About three weeks ago, I was driving north on 101 to work at PBwiki. There was a van driving by and I saw what looked like a large black cargo container on it. Except it had a large cylinder on top. It looked like a GIANT CAMERA mounted on the roof, aimed at the sky. I thought, "Yeah, Brian, It's a giant camera on top of a van."
Now I just saw William's photos of the Google van. LOL. Turns out the thing on top was a camera after all. Well, a panoramic assembly of normal-sized cameras arranged in a shape that just so happens to look like a giant camera. Is this an engineering joke on behalf of Google? Or maybe it is a disguise: "Nobody will think were hiding cameras in 60x-sized replica of a camera."

René Blais says,

There's one issue I haven't seen addressed in regards to google street view. While indeed it is perfectly legal to take pictures of anyone in a public place - it is not legal to use those photos for a commercial purpose unless the subject has signed a release. I'm only an amateur photographer, and no kind of lawyer at all, but as I understand it, the person IN the shot is the one who is considered to own the rights to all commercial applications of the photo. From everything I've read, the laws are roughly the same in both the US and Canada. Of course the rules are differant if the photo is considered journalistic in nature.
While google isn't really selling it's street view pictures, it IS profiting by them via it's ads, which would seem to qualify as a commercial application. I rather suspect that they'd have a hard time getting a judge to consider it to be journalistic.

Many more of you wrote in, and a sample of your comments are after the jump. As always, these opinions do not neccesarily reflect my own, or those of my co-editors on BoingBoing.

Continue reading Google Street View: a cavalcade of reactions, gag pix, paranoid rants.

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Get your cat totally wasted: brew ultrapotent catnip extract

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 6:17 PM | permalink

Instant LOLcat. BB reader Brent says,

Instructables member talbotron22 (maker of the Megaphone Helmet) has posted a how-to on making an ultra-potent, 99%+ pure Catnip extract to help form that cat army you've always been dreaming of. The guide uses readily available materials and provides very detailed, easy to follow instructions which makes this within reach of the average person with too much time on their hands. Link.

Caveat stoner. This may be potentially harmful to cats, I do not know. Also, the idea of intoxicating animals who cannot give informed consent to getting totally baked raises issues of ethics and animal cruelty. I'm posting this here on BoingBoing because I think it is funny, not because I think drugging animals IRL is cute.

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Popsicle parody ad

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 6:00 PM | permalink

In response to the mutant popsicle posts we've been running lately, James Thornburg created this wonderful parody ad.

(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) Information about popsicle modification is often confusing to potential clients. This can lead to unrealistic expectations and disappointments...

Previously on Boing Boing:
• Bugs Bunny popsicle
• Tweety Bird popsicle doesn't look like Tweety Bird
• Turtle popsicle reflects pride in workmanship

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A reader shares his stun gun story

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 5:30 PM | permalink

After reading the probably-bogus story about a guy who shocked himself with a stun gun, Boing Boing reader Courtland shared this story with me:

I have a first-person story to tell, and this is true because I was there. I witnessed it.
I worked for about four years at a great electronics store in Houston, Texas, called Electronic Parts Outlet. At EPO, we mostly sold surplus electronics, but if you needed anything for ham radio, etchning your own circuit boards, a new speaker for your car, or everything to build a new computer, we had it. Along with the odd pair of Russian tank crew night vision goggles, satellite-band exciters, and once in a while, stun guns.
We carried, for a while, this stun gun that took only a 9-volt battery, but through the magic of transformers, that would ramp up to ten thousand volts or so. (I forget the actual value, but it was really high.) Just pulling the trigger was really loud, but it was not an actual Taser: the leads stayed in place, no pins or wires shot out of the device.
A customer comes in, and wants to see the device. My coworker Lauren advises the man, "Well, ok, but you do know there's a battery in it, right?" Yeah yeah, he knows. He knows! He knows all about these things, he assures us. He grabs the stumpy unit, looks it over real good, and applies the dull metal nubs to the thigh of his pants. I figure several thousand volts can penetrate khaki or denim or what-have-you, but he pulls the trigger anyway, since he's the expert, after all.
His entire leg pulls right on up, like a flamingo. He falls over to that side.
In all the commotion, I forget if I heard him yelp or anything, but I do recall that he looked severely embarassed, and angry, and he loudly muttered something about how he would sue us, and with that, exited the store at high speed. The best part was, amazed customers standing around who saw the whole thing volunteered to be witnesses as to this guy's total idiocy.
I don't know if my story has anything to do with this other story, but this is only one of the many crazy customers we had back then.
Ah...
We had a great electronics store, and that episode is pretty graphic, but my favorite story was the guy who wanted to buy a laser... no, not a laser pointer, no, not the guts of old barcode scanner guns, this particular fellow wanted something strong enough to slice two-by-fours. No, sir, we don't stock that. Try down the road, at NASA.

Previously on Boing Boing:
• UCLA cops taser student who won't show ID
• ULCA taser-cop has a history of sadistic violence
• UCLA chancellor Abrams blames student for tasering
• Testing Tasers on swine
• Pepper spray ring and mobile phone stun gun
• Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun
• Police use stun guns on greased, naked student
• Forensic video-cameras included in next-gen stun-guns

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Discovery stores dying, pluck bargains from their withering corpses

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 2:40 PM | permalink

BB reader says,

Discovery Channel is closing all of their B&M stores by September. Many of their stores started their blowout sale last Friday. (I confirmed this by calling the Century City store in Socal.) If you are low on telescopes, butterfly habitats, or various rave toys, here's the time to stock up!

Link

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Interview with artist Alex Gross on the Chronicle Books podcast

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 1:50 PM | permalink

Tim Halbur says:

We've got a great interview with Los Angeles artist Alex Gross on our most recent Chronicle Books podcast (a collection of his work was just published by Chronicle). It's available as an enhanced podcast with images of his work. The episode also includes an interview with Spiderman 3 producer Grant Curtis about his book on the making of the movie, and particularly the art and design that went into it.
Still working on getting permalinks, but the page I'm linking you to has direct downloads for both the mp3 and m4a versions of the podcast.

The book is incredible: The Art of Alex Gross.

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Bloomberg On JFK Plot: "Stop Worrying, Get A Life"

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 1:41 PM | permalink

Ethan Korngold says: "Finally, a politician with a reasonable view of the true risk of terrorism relative to all of the other risks in the world. Refreshing, indeed."

"On Monday, Bloomberg finally weighed in, but his response was not what some would have expected.
"There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life," he said.
That "What, me worry?" attitude pretty much sums up Bloomberg's advice to New Yorkers on the terror plot. As far as he was concerned, the professionals were on it, so New Yorkers shouldn't let it tax their brains.
"You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist," he added."

Link

Reader comment:

Andrew says:

Just wanted to drop a line and say that your post titled " Bloomberg On JFK Plot: "Stop Worrying, Get A Life"" reminded me of a post dated 08/07/2006 by fellow Boing Boing-er and Caped Internet Crusader Cory Doctorow entitled "Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists." He links to a study released by the Cato Institute and Ohio State University (Go Buckeyes!) which says that the fear of terrorism is many, many orders of magnitude greater than the actual risk of being a victim of a terrorist attack, even in countries like Israel. Bloomberg's quote "You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist" is almost verbatim from Cory's post.
P.S. -- I have many fond memories of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles popsicles with gumball eyes :)

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"PC pop-up teacher" Julie Amero sentencing tomorrow (again)

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 1:31 PM | permalink

BB reader Zan Hecht says,

Julie Amero, the Connecticut substitute teacher facing up to 40 years in jail after pornographic popups appeared on her computer, is due to be sentenced tomorrow. Amero, who claims that the popups were caused by spyware on the computer, was convicted in January of four felony counts of risk of injury to a minor. Sentencing was originally schedule for March 2nd of this year, but has been delayed three times.

Link, many previous BB posts here. (posted from the road in Central America / Xeni)

Update: Karoli says, This is the report published in the Norwich Bulletin about today's motion for a new trial, which will be heard before the sentencing of Julie Amero tomorrow. More on my blog.

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True historic origins of the Laugh Out Loud cats - UPDATED

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 11:23 AM | permalink

Prolific illustrator and historian Apelad tells BoingBoing, "The truth can finally be told regarding the turn-of-the-20th Century origin of the Laugh Out Loud Cats." Snip:

Not many people know this, but my great grandfather Aloysius "Gorilla" Koford, was also a cartoonist. From 1912-1913 he produced a comic strip which was featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadephia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser. The strip was entitled "the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats" and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a sort of cat hobo-raconteur) and his young hapless kitten friend, Pip. The strip did not last long due to a run-in my great-grandfather had with none other than William Randolph Hearst.
See, the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats was run by a one of Heart's competitors, so “Big Willy” (as Hearst was known in his day) used the bully pulpit of his media empire to hound and mock the efforts of my great-grandfather. Hearst scribes insinuated Aloysius was an actual trained gorilla and purported to have evidence in the form of banana shipping statements.

Link to the rest of the tale.

Reader comment: TK says,

Silly Apelad, he should be more careful next time. Cheeseburger was invented as early as 1924 so 1912-1913 timeline wouldn't work! Link. Nice try!

Cheeseburger and LOLcat historian Apelad replies:

Eat it, cheesburger pedants.

His evidence, in the form of an ancient Lascaux JPEG, below.

Adam Morris says,

The Laugh Out Loud Cats obviously inspired George Herriman who produced Krazy Kat cartoons in the 1920s and 1930s. Krazy Kat speaks a mangled form of English as illustrated in this example: GIF link.

See also:
LOLCODE: LOLCats meet programming
LOLPresidents photoshopping challenge
Where LOLCats come from
Massive cache of kittah pix (aka LOLcats, cat macros)
Pedantic overanalyzer sucks all the fun out of LOLcats
Pedantic overanalysis of LOLcats not pedantic enough, says blowhard
LOLtrek
Cat macros hijacked by heartless homosexuals
Oh, how I love the gebril macros!
A fine end to a week of pan-LOLism
Google Maps Zoom and kitty on perch: the inevitable LOLcatting
Schroedinger's LOLCat
LOLbots
LOLCats meet Rocky Horror

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Twitterku

Posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2007 11:01 AM | permalink

Haikus composed from "found" Twitter texts. Por ejemplo:

craptacular day
Up way too late yet again.
UPDATED PICTURE

Link

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Smithsonian: Robert Lang, physicist, origamist

Posted by David Pescovitz, June 5, 2007 10:40 AM | permalink

The new issue of Smithosinian magazine profiles Robert Lang, physicist and pioneer of technical and computational origami. From the article:

No one knows for sure when or where paper folding originated, but it seems to have been well established by the 1600s in Japan, where messages of good luck and prosperity have long been folded into ceremonial pieces. There was also an independent tradition of paper folding in Europe. But until the mid-20th century, practitioners had been limited to only a few hundred classic and oft-repeated designs. Then, in the 1950s, new techniques and designs created by Japanese origami artist Akira Yoshizawa started being published and exhibited. Soon after, experts began working on the mathematics that would allow the design and computation of abstract geometric shapes in folded paper. Lang and others use analytical geometry, linear algebra, calculus and graph theory to solve origami problems.

In the early '90s, Lang and Japanese origami master Toshiyuki Meguro simultaneously hit on a technique that has revolutionized folding. Now called "circle-river packing," the technique allowed origamists to do something that had always eluded them—create models with realistic appendages in specific spots. Each of a design's "flaps"—an area of the paper that is to become a leg or an antenna, for instance—is represented by a circle or a strip. Circles are drawn, or "packed," onto a square piece of paper, like oranges in a crate, with no overlap. The spaces between the circles may contain strips, or rivers, hence the name, circle-river packing. For the first time, designs that existed only in the mind's eye could be reliably reproduced without endless—and sometimes fruitless—trial and error.

Link

Previously on BB:
• Robert Lang's Insect Origami Link
• Curved tetrahedron origami Link
• All shapes in origami Link

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Laura Levine bird paintings

Posted by David Pescovitz, June 5, 2007 8:17 AM | permalink

Laura Levine's new painting show, titled Tweet Suite: Birds of North America, opens at TAG Art Gallery in Nashville this Saturday. Levine painted birds on backgrounds of vintage trading stamps on birch panels. Seen here, "Birds of the Pacific Northwest." (Opening the same night at the gallery is Mekons drummer Jon Langford's show of old country music star paintings.) All of the work is viewable online. Here's what Laura told me about her new bird paintings:

This is the first time I've tackled a subject so natural in my paintings. Up till now it's mostly been portraits (humans) and objects. I had a lot of fun researching the different birds, contacting ornithologists, bird watchers, etc.

I also really love how randomly the stamps are pasted onto the individual pages. I usually find them in completed books, which means some housewife (generally) saved up all her stamps from grocery shopping and then pasted them into the books, and depending on her personality, she was either really neat and obsessive about it or made a mess, and that can be seen in the grids. But then you gotta take a moment to mourn the fact that these were stamps that were never cashed in for the toaster or whatever. And now they have found a new life, fifty years later.

Link

Previously on BB:
• Laura Levine: Music Photos Link

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Time capsule with 1957 Plymouth Belvedere to be unearthed

Posted by David Pescovitz, June 5, 2007 8:02 AM | permalink

BB pal Todd Lappin writes:

If you happen find yourself in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 15, bring a shovel. Buried beneath the dirt of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn, about 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe has been hidden underground for half a century. Swaddled in rust-resistant preservatives and gently placed inside a giant concrete sarcophagus, the tailfinned Plymouth was interred on June 15, 1957 as the centerpiece of a time capsule created for the 21st century citizens of Tulsa 2007.

Link

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Rule the Web live call-in show with Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 6:57 AM | permalink

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Today (Wednesday, June 5, 2007) you can listen to the first episode of my live Rule the Web call-in show, with guest Gina Trapani (shown here holding her Wired Rave Award from 2006).

Gina is the editor-in-chief of the phenomenally popular and incredibly useful productivity blog, Lifehacker, and author of Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.

To listen to the show live, visit the Rule The Web show page at BlogTalkRadio. There, you'll find a dial-in number so you can call with your questions. I hope you'll join us!

If you can't listen to the live show, you can subscribe to the show as a podcast. Here's a link to subscribe to the show in iTunes.

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Scottevest shirts

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 6:52 AM | permalink

Scottevest sent me a bunch of their shirts to check out. They have extra pockets designed to hold cameras, ipods, phones, etc, plus channels to run cables through them. They're very nicely designed and made. On their website, they are selling a lot of their stuff at 50% off through the rest of the week. Link

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Turtle popsicle reflects pride in workmanship

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 5, 2007 6:27 AM | permalink

Eric from Boston sent in this photo of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle frozen novelty bar. This one is markedly different from the misshapen pops we've shown over the last week. As Eric says, "You know, I think we may be having some effect on QC at the ol' pop factory!" Link to previous post about malformed frozen desserts

Reader comment:

Drury Brennan says:

Meredith Allen is a photographer who's made some striking work in the past- this particular series of melting ice-pops against seaside sunsets in New York and Jersey maybe one of my fave photo essays of all time:)

Link

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Economics of NYC businesses

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 5, 2007 5:36 AM | permalink

New York Magazine has a great supplement on the economics of different NYC businesses, from meth dealers to pizza joints, 4-star restaurants to publishing empires, taxi drivers to dollar stores and yoga studios. I've worked a fair bit of retail and started a couple businesses and every now and again, when I go into a store, I think, "Jeez, how the hell does this place many any money?" Now I know.

How It Works: When manufacturers and retailers want to ditch a large stock or some duds, they call Jack’s. While half of Jack’s products inherently cost around $1 (frozen food, Hawaiian Punch), dollar stores are also quietly fed products manufacturers want to expose to a more down-market demographic. “Companies figure that customers aren’t going to overlap from department stores to dollar stores, so they sell the same product at both,” says one analyst. Of course, Jack’s vice-president, Ira Steinberg, can’t tell you who these manufacturers are. “Part of my agreement with national brands is that I don’t admit that I carry their brands.” The week we went, Jack’s had Black & Decker coffeemakers, Hormel salami, and Hamilton Beach blenders.

Link (via Making Light)

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Democracy Player final beta is out: next stop, Miro Player!

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 5, 2007 5:36 AM | permalink

Democracy Player just shipped its last beta version before its 1.0 launch and its re-branding as "Miro" -- a much better name! Democracy is the free and open media player that comes with Bittorrent and video podcast support, so you can install it, pick some channels, and get watching. It plays practically every video format under the sun, can scrape YouTube, and generally rocks the hell out. There are versions for GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows.

I'm a proud member of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit, 501(c)3 charity that oversees Democracy Player, the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF also has a couple complementary projects: VideoBomb, a Digg-like site for rating video, and Broadcast Machine, for making your own Internet TV). PCF has just scored a couple gigantic funding wins: $100,000 from the Mozilla Foundation and second place in the Netsquared conference competition, which comes with a $25,000 grant. They use to money to pay professional programmers to contribute more code to the free players.

The Foundation was started by the same people who gave us the copyfighting guerrilla group Downhill Battle, and Democracy/Miro shows the same admirable verve and energy. And the new version is just so cool.

1. Can't play a video? Try us.
Play virtually any video-- Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Browse your collection, make playlists, stay organized.
2. Get Internet TV Shows
Subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog. Explore over 1,000 free channels with the built-in Channel Guide.
3. Search YouTube
Download and save videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and other sites.
4. High Definition and Fullscreen
Your computer screen is a high-def display. Watch free HD videos in gorgeous fullscreen.
5. BitTorrent Animal
Easily download any BitTorrent file. Fast. Then watch it in the same app. Simple.

Link (Thanks, Nicholas!)

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