Every year, thousands of shipping containers are lost to the briny deep. Maggie Koerth-Baker on the strange new homes they create for marine creatures. Read the rest

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Today is the day we Reset the Net! It's been one year since the Edward Snowden disclosures hit the news and the whole world woke up to the scale of mass, indiscriminate Internet surveillance -- a spying campaign that was only possible because our own tools leak our private information in great gouts. Reset the Net provides you with a technical, political, and social toolkit to harden our Internet against the spies; and Boing Boing is proud to be playing a role. Read the rest

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It’s been one year.

Technology has been a liberating force in our lives. It allows us to create and share the experiences that make us human, effortlessly. But in secret, our very own government—one bound by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights—has reverse-engineered something beautiful into a tool of mass surveillance and oppression. The government right now can easily monitor whom you call, whom you associate with, what you read, what you buy, and where you go online and offline, and they do it to all of us, all the time. Read the rest

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UK government proposal: "cyber" attacks with "catastrophic" but otherwise ill-defined outcomes deserve life in jail.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xkshNU2lMsk/uk-proposes-life-sentences-for.html

One year ago today Leaked top-secret court order shows that NSA engages in bulk, sustained, warrantless surveillance of Americans: In an explosive investigative piece published in the Guardian, Glenn Greenwald details a top-secret US court order that gave the NSA the ability to gather call records for every phone call completed on Verizon's network, even calls that originated and terminated in the USA.

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Haley Mlotek on the author of the SCUM Manifesto, 45 years on.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/DccB5gQhQOw/on-valerie-solanas.html

"The last of 29 Navajo Americans who developed an unbreakable code that helped Allied forces win World War Two died in New Mexico on Wednesday of kidney failure at the age of 93," Reuters reports. "Chester Nez was the last survivor of an original group of 29 Navajos recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to create a code based on their language that the Japanese could not crack."

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"Dedication," a photo by Boing Boing reader JayRaz, shared in our Flickr Pool. "Seen somewhere along South Congress in Austin, TX." The photo was taken in 2013, so it probably looks very different on the wearer by now!

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Washington Post: "A sweeping review of NASA’s human spaceflight program has concluded that the agency has an unsustainable and unsafe strategy that will prevent the United States from achieving a human landing on Mars in the foreseeable future.

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Did 6 soldiers die searching for Bowe Bergdahl when he went missing in Afghanistan? What little we know so far, we owe in part to Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning. Read the rest

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Nothing captured the spirit of 1964-era optimism better than General Electric’s Carousel of Progress, perhaps the World Fair’s most popular exhibit. But the life of leisure it promised was a big con, says Bob Sullivan Read the rest

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[Shoop: XJ]

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Stop motion animated animals, by Yuki Ariga, produced for Japanese paper manufacturer Nepia. Read the rest

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Esther Inglis-Arkell on the "Thermal Grill Illusion" [io9]

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Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book is hands down the best guide I've found for making ice cream at home.

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“The Mountain and the Viper”, Season 4, Episode 8 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, is both the end for some cherished characters as well as a new beginning for others. Read the rest

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Man, I love this guy's work--particularly the cats. Eldar Zakirov is on DeviantArt, and you can support his high weirdness by purchasing prints. He is based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Website here. Read the rest

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Not all of us can agree to disagree on these important matters. [via]

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"It is not a human being," says Matthew J.X. Malady. "And we probably shouldn’t talk about it as though it were."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/F0jmevzSFg0/stop-anthropomorphizing-the-in.html

I was moved to tears by Save the Children's video, which is powerful and beautifully made. I donate to Syrian relief through the UN High Commission on Refugees.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vMvvF81bUno/moving-effective-video-about.html