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Music: "You Sexy Thing," Hot Chocolate (1975) I believe in miracles. Read the rest... Network as though it was the first days of a better nation To celebrate the release of my new book, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, I've invited some of my favorite creators and thinkers to write about their philosophy on the arts and the Internet. Today, Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com and UK Champion for Digital Inclusion, talks about the promise of an Internet-enabled fairer world. -CoryRead the rest... Creative Commons and Aaronsw's sweet hack All over the world today, people are having hackathons in memory of Aaron Swartz, and Creative Commons co-founder Lisa Rein talks about Aaron's role in hacking the law with the Creative Commons licenses. Read the rest... UK spies secretly granted power to spy on journalists and lawyers The UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal secretly granted permission to MI5 and MI6 to spy on journalists and lawyers, in ways that violate attorney-client privilege. Read the rest... Involuntary updates: a drama in an imaginary future Apple car From law professor James "Public Domain" Boyle: a thrilling, chilling tale of life in an "ecosystem" when the company can arbitrarily "upgrade" the devices you depend on for llfe and limb, while they're hurtling down the road at 100mph. Read the rest... Xenomorph live-cycle magnets Jason writes, "Adorn your fridge or cryo-chamber with four magnets depicting the Xenomorph life-cycle! ($30, 25 sets available) Alien Egg, Facehugger, Chestburster and fully grown Xenomorph." Read the rest... WATCH: How to tell if your copy of Action Comics #1 is worth 5 dollars or 3 million dollars Heritage Auctions created this video to teach you how to tell the difference of an original Action Comics #1 from a Famous First Edition reprint. I have the $5 one! Read the rest... Surgical sim dinner: food made to look like entrails of writhing "patient" It's another one from the twisted and brilliant imagination of London's Miss Cakehead: diners were given surgical gowns and gloves, and feasted on trompe l'oeil dishes the they dug out of a rib-cage that appeared to be connected to a screaming victim. Read the rest... Google to offer employees cancer DNA test to improve treatment Starting in 2015, Google will offer its employees and their family members with cancer free tumor DNA testing to guide treatment decisions. Image: Benzopyrene DNA adduct 1JDG by Bstlee Read the rest... Roca Labs sues unhappy customer who agreed to testify against it This is the "non-surgical gastric bypass" company whose terms of service forbid complaining, and require you to let them use any kind of success you experience to publicly endorse the company, who are suing pissedconsumer.com for having a message board where its customers are complaining about its product. Read the rest... People more likely to vote based on how healthy a candidate looks rather than how smart they seem This week we started the This Week in Science podcast on a low note talking about the climate, or as we like to call it on TWIS, 'Climytia.' The IPCC is done futzing about with its most recent report, and as we have been told all along... Read the rest... 8th grader fundraises for school trip with minicomics instead of hustling chocolate bars Erik writes, "My daughter is raising money to go on her school's 8th grade trip to DC. She tried doing the school-sponsored chocolate thing, butit's lot of work for a little pay-off, so now she's creating minicomics and presidential portraits on Etsy and an Indiegogo campaign...and having way more success." My name's Jemima and I'm an eighth grader, which means that this year is my school's eighth grade trip. Read the rest... My Maker Dad book is $2 on Kindle My book, Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects is just $2 as a Kindle right now. Read the rest... Patricia Highsmith's "Desert Island Discs" The great suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley, Strangers on a Train,The Price of Salt) was interviewed in 1979 for the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio program. She talks about writing for comic books, her childhood, her interest in snails, her favorite music, and more.HTML5 audio not supported Read the rest... Hulk and Wolverine cushion From UK Etsy seller This Shop Really Rocks, available with stuffing or without, the Hulk Wolverine Cushion (with art directly printed on the fabric) -- also noteworthy: Princess Bubblegum, Alice finds a TARDIS; Beemo faces. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest... Tig Notaro, breast cancer survivor, does a topless comedy set A moment that will go down in comedy history. Read the rest... Kitten in a blanket tunnel, a photo shared in our Flickr Pool A photograph shared by Beckitten in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the rest... Paolo Bacigalupi and AS King on writing Rick Kleffel writes, "I spoke with Paolo Bacigalupi (MP3) and A. S. (Amy) King (MP3 about SF, YA and comparing their different methods of composition (MP3) with predictably entertaining and smart results." Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi and A. S. King (Thanks, Rick!) Read the rest... Too Many Cooks "It takes a lot to make a stew". Read the rest...