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"Our position on the 'Movement', billboard about to post. #ows. Unlike other #OWS ad campaigns recently featured on Boing Boing, this one is real.

Reuters: "Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system."

Kevin Nutt (who loves pizza, cats, and Boing Boing) writes, I wanted to share this awesome (I think) picture. My wife's co-worker (who happens to be named 'Cat'), just celebrated her birthday. Her husband sent over this special pizza order for the office to share. Pretty clever I thought. I love how they arranged the [...]

I have no idea who shot these, or who is responsible. Update: here are some daytime shots, from the San Francisco Mission district.

NYPD cracking down on Occupy Wall Street protesters near the New York Stock Exchange on the November 17 Day of Action in NYC. Photograph by Jon Tayler (web), Columbia School of Journalism student, reporter, photographer. Via @katz, also as seen on The Awl.

"I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet."—Richard Branson, quoted in The [...]

Video from The Guardian: "Protester and three-tour American veteran Kayvan Sabehgi was beaten by Oakland police during the Occupy protest's general strike on 2 November. Sabehgi, who was 'completely peaceful', according to witnesses, was left with a lacerated spleen."

Bloomberg with books destroyed by NYPD raid. From those radical libroterrorists at the Occupy Wall Street Library working group: On Monday, November 7, 2011 Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in attendance at one of New York City’s top cultural and social events: The New York Public Library’s Library Lions gala. The individuals honored as Library Lions [...]

© C.S. Muncy/csmuncyphotography.com At the Village Voice, photographer C.S. Muncy has a slideshow of images from the Occupy Wall Street: National Day of Action - New York. Related: Muncy's eyewitness account of the pre-dawn police raid earlier this week. © C.S. Muncy/csmuncyphotography.com  NYPD raid Occupy Wall Street, evict OWS encampment after two ... Occupy Wall [...]

Crowds at the OWS Day of Action, November 17, 2011, in New York City. © C.S. Muncy/csmuncyphotography.com You'll want to read this essay on OWS as API by Atlantic senior editor Alexis Madrigal—and then you'll want to share it with friends who don't totally get OWS yet: The most fascinating thing about Occupy Wall Street [...]

This is what democracy looks like, gliding up toward the heavens on helium-filled balloons after campus police beat students and smashed all their Occupy Cal tents. This was shot outside UC Berkeley by zunguzungu.  The Grass Is Closed: an Occupy Cal protester, on police and power ...

This song is made of sugar-coated cotton candy dreams and creamy pudding pie rainbows. I know it's called "Please Ask for Help" and it's probably about something sad or desperate or crybaby-like, but what you need to know is that it's a boppity little new wave-y number that might loop endlessly in your head while [...]

Officials at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have issued a list of 1,500 words that must be automatically censored from text messages by celphone service providers. The list includes "more than 50 phrases using the word "fuck" and 17 involving "butt". The list includes several apparently innocuous words and phrases, including "flatulence", "deposit" and "fondle". [...]

[From ilovecharts, and here's the song, released on cassette ca. 1990: "It Takes Two." Video below.]

[Video Link] Frits Lyneborg (creator of the delightful Yellow Drum Machine) kludged a gadget to carve the shape of a magnet's field. Robotic 3D Carver of Invisible Stuff

Espen sez, "Yesterday, the Norwegian book industry introduced a scheme where they would sell electronic books on little plastic cards, to be inserted in proprietary readers - an astonishingly stupid idea even by their standards. Here is my riff on that idea - and a solution to the 'books as status signals' conundrum."

One more incredibly cool video from research diver, musician, and filmmaker Henry Kaiser. Henry says: "Since support workers in town cannot make their usual recreational trips out onto the sea ice, the powers-that-be at McMurdo Station installed the OB TUBE within walking distance of town. Anyone can climb down the ladder and watch us divers [...]

[Video Link] MAKE's Becky Stern shows how to add conductive thread to gloves so you can use a capactive touchscreen (like the kind an iPhone uses) without removing your gloves. Complete instructions at Make Projects

This video was made by Henry Kaiser, a musician and research diver who guest blogged here yesterday about the problems caused by thinning sea ice in Antarctica. The film takes you on a tour of McMurdo Station and the research being done there by Gretchen Hoffman of the University of California Santa Barbara. Kaiser dives [...]

What does mommy put in her kids' orange juice? (Via X-Ray Delta One)