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Editor do Boing Boing, o blog mais popular do mundo, Doctorow lança livro e defende a liberdade na internet Sabe a liberdade que você experimenta na internet -de navegar onde quiser, baixar músicas e filmes, pegar uma foto aqui, um texto ali e colocar em seu blog- e que parece inerente à rede, como se fosse uma qualidade natural do sistema? Bem, ela não é assim, como uma dádiva inalienáve

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Boing Boing - A directory of Wonderful Thing, one of my favarite blogs. There are a lot of sites out there that aggregate similar information, but no imitators can replicate the Boing Boing staff's uncanny ability to catch every bit of cool info that hits the Web, from comics to flowcharts to unicorns, and far, far beyond.

I have been reading Gizmodo for about the last three years. It has been my #1 stop for all gadget related news. Back when I started Joel Johnson was writing the posts and he did a damn good job of it. He covered gadgets that I was interested in and he had a great sense of humor. Just as Gizmodo started to blow up some kind of drama went down and Joel was forced to leave. I stuck with Gizmodo as they made it big and hired an entire team of writers to cover the gadget world. They still do a great job but lately it just hasn’t been the same. These guys are posting machines probably averaging, I would guess, about 40 posts a day. That is great but on any given day there are only maybe 15 that I am really interested in. The rest of it is just a bunch of crap. I had added Gizmodo to the RSS reader on my Blackberry but after a few days of going through posts I didn’t care about I had to remove it. Luckily for me my man Joel Johnson popped his head up over at Boing Boing and became

According to this article, beauty-seekers in Southern China (and other parts of the world) are soaking themselves in pools filled with a type of small fish that eat human skin: Garra Rufa, a type of small tropical fish, also nicknamed Chinchin Yu, nibble fish or simply doctor fish, are put in hot springs. As they can live and swim freely in at least 43-degree-hot waters, they are naturally used for the treatment of skin diseases in such spas. When placed in the spa, these fish can feed themselves on the dead cells of the human body, since they only consume such cells, leaving the healthy skin of the human body to grow. The whole process is reportedly free of pain. It won’t hurt and the bather might feel a pleasant tingling on his or her skin.

David Pescovitz: I Make Projects posted plans for "giving yourself a sixth sense for wireless networks" through a small wearable device. It's made from a cannibalized Wi-Fi detector, microcontroller, vibrating motor, and a bit of custom electronics. From the project description: This project is for a small electronic unit that allows the user to sense the presence and relative signal strength of wireless hotspots. It can be worn as a pendant or carried in a pocket. It is "always on" and communicates the presence and signal strength of an in-range hotspot by way of sequences of pulses - like a heartbeat you can feel. The stronger and faster the "heartbeat", the stronger the wireless signal detected. Link (via MAKE: Blog) Blog Search Links: Blogdigger Bloglines Blogpulse Feedster Icerocket Technorati

Xeni Jardin: Click on any of the photos in this post to view a larger (900 px wide) version. (image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4). Allen Sullivan, a photojournalist currently working in Guatemala (allen @ allensullivan.com) who shot these images, says: These images were made in Tecpán, Guatemala on Monday, March 12. US President Bush, Guatemala President Oscar Berger and their entourages visited the nearby Mayan historical site, Iximché, while Bush was on his Latin American tour. I was working with Marc Lacey, a New York Times writer, the previous week on a story about child labor in Guatemala. On the day of Bush's visit, I decided to head to Tecpán instead of Guatemala City because I knew there would be protests there, too, and I wanted something that said "Guatemala" more than another riotous metropolis like those in his previous stops. My assistant and I had little trouble getting there, even though they were closing the road to Tecpán

Xeni Jardin: IBN reports that just last week in Delhi, air traffic radar spotted "two unidentified flying objects over Delhi moving northwest to south between 0930 hours and 1000 hours." Woooo. Link to story, with this video of the flying saucery things whizzing over the airport. (Thanks, Sameer Pitalwalla) Reader comment: Ed says, I was poking about on scribd.com late last night, wading through various documents. When I saw your boingboing post today about UFOs in India, it struck a chord. Here's the URL of the piece on scribd that resonated with your post: Link. Apparently, the aliens have landed, built a base in a "forbidden zone" (Ladakh valley, in the Himalayas), and are broadcasting to the locals! According to this document, the aliens appear to be friendly and can make black and white televisions show colour pictures, and are using local "emmisaries" to communicate with people in India, Pakistan and China. The plot thickens, methinks .

Cory Doctorow: I just finished listening to the 3-CD Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection -- I was mostly interested in the classics like Howl and Kaddish, Pull My Daisy and Don't Grow Old, but the poem that totaly took me away was "Put Down Your Cigarette Rag," a poetic song that can make me laugh, dance, and sing along even after about 20 listens. It's also totally stuck in my head and I find myself singing it under my breath as I walk down the street. Here's a video of Ginsberg performing the piece on the AllenGinsberg.org site: Communism's flopped Let's help the Soviet millions Sell 'em our Coffin-Nails & make a couple billions Big Bucks Big Bucks bucks bucks bucks bucks smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke Bucks smoke bucks Dope bucks big Dope Bucks Dig Big Dope Bucks Big Dope Bucks dont smoke big dope bucks Dig big Pig dope bucks Nine billion bucks a year a Southern Industry Buys Senator Jesse Fear who pushes Tobacco su

Xeni Jardin: Robert Pearlman of the excellent space ephemera site collectspace.com writes, Adorning the entranceway to the U.S. Destiny Laboratory on the International Space Station have been two pennants: one for the Army and one that reads "Go Navy, Beat Army." The pair are not the first pennants to fly in space: hundreds of flags and banners championing colleges, societies and even sports teams have been carried to orbit by the space shuttle. Now, NASA wants a pennant of its own and is turning to grade school students to design it. In partnership with Mad Science and AOL's Kids Service KOL, NASA is hosting a contest for 6 to 12 year olds to create pennants that celebrate either of two themes: the upcoming STS-118 shuttle mission including the flight of the first educator astronaut Barbara Morgan or the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA's plans to send humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The winning design will fly with Morgan on-b

Who'da thought the USPS would be so cool?! Alas, the URL printed on them doesn't work yet. Via boing boing.

Greetings everyone who found us through Boing Boing & Digg. Our site was down this morning due to a cache "error" on my part but is back online thanks to the quick rescue by Anarcat from Koumbit. If you've never heard of them, be sure to check them out! If you're looking for the comic, click here. A great many thanks to Cory Doctorow for accepting my submission on Boing Boing and to Robin for suggesting I submit in the first place. Thanks to Hilton for submitting the story to Digg. A I hope you all enjoy the first two chapters, the third one is underway. From the age of Big Brother, Frederic Guimont