RSSCory Doctorow
Cory is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a co-editor at Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and an award-winning science fiction writer (craphound.com/est). He lives in London, England.
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Shortcut to Omniscience
Wikipedia's secret weapon and its greatest weakness.
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Make Free
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20: For Kids of All Ages page 14
Positive Externalities
Fight against the greed of a small band of vocal dinosaurs.
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19: Robots page 17
Open Government
There's never a good reason for the government to keep its everyday workings a secret from the people who own it: the citizenry.
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Make Free
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18: ReMake America page 17
Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
The biggest appeal of steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the mechanization of human creativity.
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17: Lost Knowledge page 14
Selectable Output Control
Hollywood's most insane idea yet.
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16: Spy Tech page 14
Gander Sauce for Hollywood
Cory Doctorow advocates the entertainment industry take a little bit of their own sauce.
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15: Music page 14
Too Much Time on My Hands
All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around. Enjoy it.
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14: Optics page 14
Predicting the Present
Science fiction writers may not accurately predict the future, but they're often excellent predictors of the present.
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13: Magic page 14
Make Free
The great, perverse joy of steampunk.
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12: Upload page 24
Attack, Defend
Nearly ten years after the invention of Napster, there's more file sharing than ever.
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11: Alt Vehicles page 15
Agree to Disagree
Bogus agreements are everywhere. Void them.
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10: Home Electronics page 15
I Agree
In order to "protect intellectual property," these bandits are perfectly willing to take away your rights to your physical, personal property.
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09: Fringe page 15
High-Definition = Highly Deadly
Forget plugging in a PC or Slingbox. Goodbye open platforms, hello monopoly lockware.
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08: Toys and Games page 16
A for Anything
Creative destruction opens more doors than it closes.
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07: Backyard Biology page 16
A House Divided
Hollywood feels the sting of its own copyright laws.
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06: Robots page 26
Cogs and Cocktails
Meet the drink-serving, drunk-driving droids at Roboexotica.
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06: Robots page 65
Traitors to History
A copyright-controlled museum is a crime against humanity.
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 16
RIP: Rip, Mix, Burn
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 183
Real Security Vs. Junk Science
Why copy-restriction technology succeeds only in hurting the user.
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03: Cars and Halloween page 10
The Last Generation of Engineers
Why digital rights management kills innovation.
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Make Free
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02: Home Entertainment page 187
Hacking the Dog
Who says you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a cool robot? The world's toy stores brim with cheap-ass, rough and ready robotic platforms just begging to be modded. Meet a hacker who converts toy robots into toxic waste dump avengers.
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Make Free
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01: Make Premiere page 22
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