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Esther Dyson snapped this vertiginous shot of a glass floor at the Digital Moscow event. I have a mild fear of heights, but this kind of thing goes straight into my spine and my digestive-tract's pucker-reflex without consulting my brain. (via Super Punch)

The live streamed coverage of the NYC protests by the Occupy Wall Street organizers is pretty impressive stuff.

This video from the #OccupyWallStreet livestream on Saturday shows what is being widely reported as a "13-year-old girl" being arrested by the NYPD on the Brooklyn Bridge, in full restraints, and an awesome GIR hat (character from Invader Zim). I am trying to confirm her identity and age with NYPD and eyewitness sources, along with [...]

The Village Voice notes a changed account at the New York Times of what exactly happened between police and demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. Nick Greene at the Voice writes, The above photo of juxtaposed screenshots from the New York Times website has been making the rounds on Facebook, and it shows two very [...]

[Video Link] From Media Sanctuary TV: "We get to the root of what many protestors are looking for from Occupy Wall Street."

Here's a frank discussion (an "IAmA" in Redditese) from someone claiming to work as a censor for the Internet ministry of a "Middle Eastern country." It makes for interesting reading, as this guy comes across as a geek who's ridden the slippery slope from technician to technocrat without hardly noticing. How do you feel about [...]

A coincidence, I imagine, but it sure is poetic. In mid-June, just before the Occupy Wall Street movement took shape, JPMorgan Chase donated what the financial organization itself described as "an unprecedented" $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation, part of which will be used to expand and fortify surveillance systems. The gift [...]

Etsy seller Boobercakes made these Pac Man ghost Hallowe'en dresses (though, honestly, I don't understand why you couldn't wear them to the office or out at the shops). She'll make 'em to order, and do kids' sizes, too. (via Craft)

Britain, the land that "sleepwalking into the surveillance state" was coined for, continues its somnambulistic randomwalk into a privacy-free zone. Recently, without any public discussion or debate, some rail stations have started adding airport-style body-scanners: We seem to have swallowed the security nightmare of airports without much fuss. Someone uttered the magic words "international terrorism" [...]

This ad for the Super-Charged Auburn from the May 5, 1935 Newsweek shows a car sporting a four-yard-long hood driving at 100mph to the red-faced chagrin of someone in a merely very large car.

The Guardian reports that 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in "chaotic scenes" as a group of "several thousand" protesters move to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. At one stage 500 protesters were blocked off by police on the bridge. At least one journalist, freelancer Natasha Lennard for the New York Times, was among those [...]

I just love the little fellers crawling around in these fancy-pants rum drinks of yore. They sure don't make 'em like that anymore.

Here's a piece of hackerspace lore from earlier this summer. Rinpoche Fa Zang, a Buddhist monk, believed (incorrectly) that the rule of the San Francisco Noisebridge hackerspace was that "if the space was not being used, it could be used for anything." So he and his disciples rearranged the hackerspace into a shrine and began [...]

Many attending the memorial for Troy Davis in Savannah, Georgia, wore t-shirts that said I am Troy Davis. "Troy... told us to keep on fighting until his name is finally cleared and Georgia admits what Georgia has done," Benjamin Jealous, NAACP president, said at the service. "Troy's last words were to keep on fighting until [...]

Leadership of the United Steelworkers (USW), with 1.2 million active and retired members, issued a statement on Friday in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. "[The USW] stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street. The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating [...]

Sculptor Ronit Baranga's ceramic pieces sport sensual mouths and walking fingers, something between Clive Barker and Giger, and beautiful. (via Street Anatomy)

Broadcast journalist Dan Patterson of ABC News Radio went down to Occupy Wall Street on Friday, and has posted extensive reports in Storify, image, and audio form. Below, an ambient soundscape of the protest. Dan, I'm glad you did this—in any story, the background is as important as the foreground, and nothing makes me feel [...]

My longtime friend Scott Beale, who runs Laughing Squid, says: My wife Lori Dorn, who has breast cancer, tells her story about a TSA agent at JFK on Friday who required her to submit to a pat down due to her breast implants, even though she had an identification card for the implants that is [...]

Bodhi, a photo by TomorrowGirl contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Boing Boing's Caturday cover-kitten of the week is available for adoption at Friends of Animals Los Angeles.

From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, a candid moment of a young man cutting his hair on a San Francisco fire-escape, by Erik Wilson.