"I tend to find Japanese people are very interested in swear words," writes Chris Broad, a British ex-pat living in Japan. Read the rest

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"The thing to bear in mind about the Redskins trademark case is that it was basically about the ‘60s," writes Geoffrey Nunberg, "--and the ‘60s of Mad Men, not Woodstock."

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Don't tell anyone, but I plan to break into the Mus'ee du Louvre and snatch this 17th century skull watch made by Jean Rousseau, grandfather of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Mega Dead Pixel is an endless runner game where you have to avoid colliding with retro-shaped obstacles while collecting coins and special pixels. This episode is brought to you by Care.com, offering any type of care your family needs. As an Apps for Kids listener, you can save 25% when you become a Premium Member. Read the rest

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Fears that seagulls would "dive-bomb" fundraisers led organizers of a charity abseil to delay the event. While inspecting the site beforehand, safety and conservation experts were attacked by birds protecting baby chicks.

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This magnificent crop circle appeared last night in Poirino, Italy. Read the rest

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Tomorrow (Sunday, June 22) is Barcelona's Mini Maker Faire and as part of my participation in this weekend's WebVisions Barcelona conference I'll be speaking on a Maker Faire panel at noon at Gigamesh Bookstore! Read the rest

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Open Wireless Movement, a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Mozilla, Free Press and others, will reveal its sharing-friendly wifi router firmware at the HOPE X conference in NYC next month. The openwireless operating system allows you to portion out some of your bandwidth to share freely with your neighbors and passersby, while providing a high degree of security and privacy for your own communications.

The Open Wireless Movement's goals are to both encourage the neighborliness that you get from sharing in your community, and undermining the idea that an IP address can be used to identify a person, establishing a global system of anonymous Internet connectivity. The project includes an excellent FAQ on the myths and facts about your legal liability for things that other people do with your network. Read the rest

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One year ago today Brit spies GCHQ harvest all undersea cable comms, all UK calls and data, share with 850,000+ NSA spooks and contractors: The GCHQ program, called Tempora, stores all submarine cable traffic and all domestic traffic (Internet packets and recordings of phone-calls) for 30 days, using NSA tools to sort and search it; the quid-pro-quo being that the NSA gets to access this data, too.

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Apple co-founder, nerd legend, and all-round Good Guy Steve Wozniak has recorded an excellent video explaining why he's supporting Larry Lessig's Mayday.US super PAC, which is raising $5M to elect lawmakers who'll promise to vote to abolish super PACs and effect major campaign finance reform.

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In this video, shot in April by "Ex-Cop Law Student," Gray County Sheriff's Deputy Stokes tries every conceivable tactic to illegally intimidate a citizen who is peacefully recording him without interfering. Deputy Stokes invents imaginary laws, tries repeatedly to seize the camera, illegally orders the citizen to stop recording, demands identity papers without justification. When all else fairs, the Deputy declares that if the citizen journalist doesn't comply, "I'll just make stuff up" to make him stop. Read the rest

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Cubicles and Careers a new webseries from Fantasycon's Murray Triplett and Greg Johnson that brings us to the gaming table where fantastic monsters gather to role-play at working in mundane offices, making saving throws against being noticed by their bosses when they sneak in to work late. Looks like fun! (more…)

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Cable lobbyist-turned-FCC-Chairman Tom Wheeler can promise to override state laws prohibiting publicly owned ISPs, but it doesn't matter if all the big cities are locked into ten-year franchise agreements with cable and phone companies. As an Electronic Frontier Foundation editorial points out, US mayors can and should take steps to make municipal broadband a reality, putting competitive pressure on America's foot-dragging, worst-of-breed ISPs. Many cities are sitting on a gold-mine of "dark fiber" that can be lit up to provide blazing-fast connections, and even in places where state law prohibits municipal Internet service, there are loopholes, like the one that Chattanooga, TN used to light up a gigabit network that's 100 times faster than most Americans can get. Read the rest

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Netcraft reports on a rising tide of automated phishing deployed against online dating sites; crooks steal accounts, strike up romantic relationships with their victims, then run 419-style cons on them.

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Leavin' me lookin' like a dumbstruck fool

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"A group of 16 news organizations is asking a federal judge to make public a batch of videos of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being forcibly removed from his cell and force fed," reports Josh Gerstein at Politico.

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In the mainland United States, everyone went nuts over ukes in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Read the rest

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Nest Labs, a division of Google, announced late Friday that it will acquire video surveillance startup Dropcam for $555 million "as part of a push to become the dominant operating system for connected devices in and around the home." Read the rest

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In The Magazine, writer Liana Aghajanian has a feature on the Amelia Rose Earhartyep, that's her namewho plans to fly across the world next week, like the famous aviator after whom she was named.

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Images from "Love Letter" parts I and II, by Xiao Yang, a photographer based in Beijing, China. Read the rest

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