Shiro writes, This is a tutorial by @shiromarieke and @nsmnsr on how to make a 'GPG BOX' [PDF], a tool to easily explain GPG encryption. It has been made for CryptoParty Berlin.gpgboxENG.pdf [Shiromarieke/Github]

https://youtu.be/kXSz9ZNCmOIHubba Hubba.[YouTube]

Imagine you're in a hip, swinging Italian movie with this killer compilation "Library of Sound Grooves: Jazz Expressions from the Italian Cinema (1963-1975)." The vinyl release is a gatefold double LP in a super-limited edition of 750. To give you a taste of the tunes, below are Nora Orlandi's "Sweet Body of Deborah," Ennio Morricone's "Un Uomo da Rispettare", and Armando Trovajoli's "The Getaway.""Library of Sound Grooves: Jazz Expressions from the Italian Cinema (1963-1975)" (Forced Exposure)https://youtu.be/TRb6RnWaSNMhttps://youtu.be/XRmuHFCGgfohttps://youtu.be/KMuWDBek0K8

The nation-state hackers who stole 5.6 million+ records of US government employees (cough China cough) also took 5.6 million+ fingerprints. But it's no problem: those people can just get new fingerprints and revoke their old ones right?Oh, shit.Biometrics are things that you can't recall, can't change, and that, by definition, are not secret. Authentication tokens are things that you can change, recall and keep secret.

https://youtu.be/WIKqgE4BwAYThe Babymetal song "Gimme Chocolate!!" will be available as a bonus track for the soon-to-be-released Rock Band 4 if you preorder the game on Xbox One, which is important because: Babymetal.If you're not familiar with the delightful Japanese teen girl trio whose unique fusion of heavy metal and J-pop is accompanied by bright, coordinated outfits, dance numbers and cautionary songs about bullying, then today is the day when you get acquainted. The fictional backstory for the band involves a "new style of heavy metal" being invented by a fox deity:

Banned Books Week is just around the corner and to help prepare readers for this event, the folks at Humble Bundle have put together a collection of challenged and banned comics.A portion of the proceeds goes towards benefitting The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, who helped curate this limited time bundle. Many notable creators are represented here including Alan Moore, Scott Snyder, Jeff Smith, Jeff Lemire, Garth Ennis, the Hernandez brothers, and even Cory Doctorow himself.The Humble Comics Bundle: Forbidden Comics Supporting Banned Books Week runs for two weeks and ends Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.For such a unique bundle about controversial comics, it only felt fitting to call upon an individual just as unique to provide the very first Humble Bundle intro; enter comics historian Craig Yoe, no stranger to the most salacious corners of comicdom.Take it away, Craig!--Mother was horrified.She discovered my gaily-painted childhood wooden toy box now had a big steel padlock on it that I had got from Miller's Hardware Store. And it had a hand scrawled sign defiantly affixed: KEEP OUT! THIS MEANS YOU!Mom became hysterical when I refused her demands to open the box to reveal its hidden contents. She could only imagine what dark secrets it contained.It WAS filled with terribly embarrassing stuff that I didn’t want anyone to see because it would reveal emblematic objects of my conflicted, tormented adolescence: “men’s magazines” and “children’s comic books.” Both types of opposing fare were dishonorable possessions for a 13 year-old. Men’s magazines were impure and could incite youthful lusts and comic books were a symptom of some kind of sick arrested development.When he arrived home, Dad pragmatically dealt with this worrisome kerfuffle. He calmly took a hacksaw from his huge metal toolbox and readily sawed off the lock of my diminutive wooden chest. Dad then made me haul my shame to the backyard incinerator and light a match to that terrible, terrible contraband!As the men’s mags with the girly pics and the comics with the kiddie fare went up in flames and big tears streamed down my zit-marked adolescent face, my dad assured me I would someday be proud of this moment because I was now ceremoniously joining the esteemed ranks of the Grown Ups.Didn’t happen.In my lifetime of adolescent rebellion (probably fueled by this incident like gas on a fire) I went on to devote myself to immaturely accumulating hoarding-quantities of comic books. And at one point I even procured a subscription to Playboy (though when renewal time came, I realized I’d rather spend the money on more comic books).My avocation became my vocation as I now make my living publishing collections of vintage classic comic books. It doesn’t take Doc Freud to realize that this is obviously a thinly disguised psychological and pathetic way to symbolically preserve the hijacked comics of my youth that were burned at Fahrenheit 451.You may laugh or cry about my little life experience but you will be horrified to learn that there was a time in America’s history that there were, in fact, organized mass burnings of comic books! In the 1950s, parents, teachers, politicians, religious leaders, scoutmasters, librarians, and other unsavory types had reluctant kids round up their comic books and torch them. What is a good rant these days without calling someone a Nazi? Yes, the photos of these comic book burnings I’ve reproduced in some of my books of comics history look not unlike the photos we’ve all seen of Nazis burning books as part of their march for world domination.In 1938, Superman lit a fire in the eyes of kids happy to give depression-era dimes to candy store owners in exchange for adventures of the caped immigrant, flying and fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Superman’s greatest foes, though, weren’t baddies in his printed, four-colored paper adventures but real life self-appointed do-gooders. These critics claimed from the outset that the Man of Steel was stealing children’s innocence and endangering the country’s moral fiber by glorifying vigilantism, fascism and probably a few other ism’s.Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion, and I can see the criticism of superheroes. I really can. But anything that smacks of censorship rankles me. The criticism of comics and their superheroes, and especially their later crime and horror fare, grew in the 1950s to the point of the public square book burnings. Seduction of the Innocent, a book by a Dr. Fredric Wertham, drummed up tremendous anti-comics sentiment. At the same time, grandstanding politicos looking for scapegoats to demonize and looking for future votes mounted Senate investigations into comic books and their supposed role in the nation’s juvenile delinquency problem.Candy stores and newsstands were now nervous about even carrying comics. Parents were tighter with the allowance money, and sales plummeted.Publishers went out of business and artists found themselves on the streets or, worse yet, having to join the advertising field!To save their sorry asses, the publishers that remained had to band together and adopt the Comics Code Authority a self-censoring initiative that sanitized for our protection the beleaguered 10-cent funnybooks. Comics were lowbrow to begin with—and I like that—but now the publishers were putting lipstick on Porky Pig.Of course that’s all behind us, folks!But wait! Superheroes aren’t the only fascists. There are always real ones lurking and censorship is always one of their primary tactics. Why, comics in this very Humble Bundle have been criticized and removed from library shelves and school curriculums by people who want to tell others what they can and can’t read! Now some of these comics here have unfortunately transcended the base four-color nonsense of my childhood and are even now considered high-lit—I try not to hold that against them and, anyway, people should be free to read what they want! I don’t judge and in my judgment no one else should either!Yes! True! Fascists or their henchmen, ill-meaning and sometimes even well-meaning fellow citizens, want to saw the locks off of our toy chests and march us to the backyard incinerator and make us burn our comics—even today!These nefarious people want to see our comics, certainly the controversial ones, destroyed! This is the opposite of Truth, Justice and the American Way. It’s dangerous to our freedoms! It’s un-constitutional censorship!Worse yet, I strongly suspect these controlling parental-types want us to... GROW-UP!Comic book lovers of the world unite!Hold onto your right to read whatever precious junk or hi-falutin’ lit-ter-a-chur you want to read!Hold onto your comic books, even questionable ones like the funny books featuring fascist guys that wear capes and cowls and their underwear on the outside and slug people for a living!And—most importantly—if it hasn’t already been tragically stolen from you, hold onto your immaturity and…RESIST!!!Craig Yoe with Clizia Gussoni, via their Yoe Books/IDW imprint, reprint classic comics of all sorts in beautifully designed hardbound books. These collections include numerous volumes of Pre-Code horror comic books that your mother and the U.S. Senate didn't want you to see. Vice Magazine called Craig Yoe, "The Indiana Jones of nerd-perv artifacts!" Visit http://YoeBooks.com

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally responded to Boing Boing's uncovering of a 1920s-era story reporting the apparent arrest of his father at a Ku Klux Klan Rally in Queens. As one might expect from The Donald, he confirmed it, denied it, and got angry with "that little website."But it wasn't our reporter, Matt Blum, who wrote that Fred Trump shared lawyers with men charged with attacking cops at the Klan "parade"—it was an unbylined Times writer with no idea of the then-young Fred Trump's future significance as a real estate mogul. And it's present-day Times journalist, Jason Horowitz, to whom Trump stumbled through his excuses."Mr. Trump’s barrage of answers – his sudden denial of a fact he had moments before confirmed; his repeatedly noting that no charges were filed against his father in connection with the incident he had just repeatedly denied; and his denigration of the news organization that brought the incident to light as a “little website” – shows his pasta-against-the-wall approach to beating down inconvenient story lines," writes Horowitz.

https://vimeo.com/139893505More Than Just Parks (MTJP) immerses us in the Redwood National and State Parks to see the tallest trees in the world. What you see in this video is literally in my backyard and I feel so fortunate that I can immerse myself in such beauty just by stepping outside.

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Salesforce / Heroku, and a handful of other tech companies just betrayed billions of people's trust. They signed a letter endorsing CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.""It's a bill that would give those companies sweeping legal immunity to share your personal data with the government, enabling more surveillance and violations of civil liberties. Congress votes on CISA soon, and if more companies endorse it we'll be in big trouble. Thousands of people are fighting back. Get the full list of companies here, and spread the word so people know."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFa_ms4qVI0Full-grown American Bully Prince Hector is the paragon of patience with his itty-bitty playmate, King Rambo.

My latest Guardian column, How to save online advertising, looks at the writing on the wall for ad-blockers and ad-supported publishing, and suggests one way to keep ads viable.

Just look at it.(Thanks, Ron!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=EmnSm_d2ll4Don't believe me? Just watch.

According to McDonald's Japan founder Den Fujita, the design brief for the company's straws specified that they pass liquid at a rate comparable to the rate at which breast milk flows to a nursing baby, "the speed that produces the most delicious feeling."

The Onion proves that it's still got it (and that you can distill the entire joke to a single headline if you have the right shooping skills): Pope Francis Reverses Position On Capitalism After Seeing Wide Variety Of American Oreos.

https://youtu.be/Ey-QATIO4ewFrom the New York Times:“Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died on Tuesday. He was 90.”[caption id="attachment_423060" align="alignnone" width="800"] Yogi Berra stands at home plate, 2008. REUTERS[/caption]

Kashmir Hill invented a totally imaginary business -- "Freakin’ Awesome Karaoke Express" or FAKE -- and paid people on Fiverr to follow it on Twitter with thousands of fake accounts, and to flood Yelp and Facebook with positive reviews. Before long, people were calling her and asking her to take their money in exchange for a nonexistent karaoke truck.When queried by journalists, Fiverr's "SEO specialists" all insist that they only review products that they've tried and enjoyed. But when approached by customers, they cheerfully created positive reviews out of the whole cloth, with enough cunning and verisimilitude that Facebook didn't detect the deception (Yelp caught some of the fakesters).Hill interviewed some of the people who'd taken her money and got some insight into the contradictory impulses and feelings held by the architects of these widespread deceptions.

If you're in central Missouri and have been thinking about fostering a guinea pig, now's your time.From KQFX, Missouri:

A 14 year old London student was questioned by school officials about his possible involvement with Islamic State after he raised the subject of environmental activism in a classroom discussion.The administration's response was part of the Tory government's "anti-extremism" mandate on schools, which requires them to seek out and address evidence of terrorist radicalisation in the classroom.The boy came home in distress and has been afraid to take part in classroom discussions since. His classmates, including white students, say that he was singled out because he is Muslim.His family are suing.

Yesterday's story about a woman who made her Twitter account private because of harassment from men sparked a lot of discussion about how blocking and free speech interact with each other. Here's my $0.02 on the matter:

The ongoing war in Syria has led researchers to make the first withdrawal of seeds from a "doomsday" vault in an Arctic mountainside, to protect global food supplies.The Crop Trust reports that the newly-removed seeds, which include samples of wheat, barley and grasses suited to dry regions, were requested by researchers elsewhere in the Middle East to replace seeds in a gene bank near the Syrian city of Aleppo which was damaged by the conflict.“This diversity provides our scientists, breeders and farmers the raw material needed to improve agriculture to overcome the challenges of climatic changes, population growth, pests, and diseases,” the researchers say.[caption id="attachment_423028" align="alignnone" width="937"] The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, research field station and gene bank in Syria.[/caption]PRI did an amazing profile of the Aleppo seed bank earlier this year. You can listen or read here.“We’re very lucky that [the rebels] realize the importance of conserving biodiversity; it’s one of the activities that has never been interrupted in Aleppo,” Ahmed Amri of the Syrian seed bank told the radio news network a few months ago.“But we cannot predict how each day will be.”[caption id="attachment_423038" align="alignnone" width="800"] Photo: The Crop Trust[/caption]From Reuters' coverage:

https://vimeo.com/92271187Smash TV's Gunslinger mines more than 50 classic and modern westerns and creates a hypnotic hyper-movie that shows off the formal requirements for a great hay-burner.It's an hour long, and groups all the tropes of westerns across the genre's history: squinting, riding out, slapping leather, lighting a cigarillo, walking into a saloon and so on. It's a piece straight out of Pirate Cinema -- watch it now before it's forcibly removed from the Internet by a censorship robot run by a humorless corporate conglomerate!

With five more years of Tory government on the horizon, the BBC is at its most perilous moment. Government ministers are attacking it in every way, from wanting to cut the license fee to demanding that it end all popular programming so as not to "compete" with the private sector.Internally, the BBC is torn between the timid, go-along-to-get-along types who want to keep their heads down, not antogonise the death-eaters, and try to rebuild from whatever rubble remains in 2020; and the bold ones who understand that the only way to save the Beeb is to fight for every inch, making the Tories pay in blood and reputation for every slash to one of the country's most beloved institutions.Opendemocracy solicited 100 ideas for a bold BBC future, asking the likes of Philip Pullman, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Jessica Horn, Ian McEwan, Nigel Warburton, and me. You can vote on your favourite ideas. Here's what I said:

The PKD Award is given for the best paperback original this year, and has been awarded to such classics as Neuromancer. Storybundle's DRM-free collection of name-your-price ebooks includes some of my favorite books of all time: Walter Jon Williams's Knight Moves, Kathe Koja's The Cipher, Lewis Shiner's Frontera, Lisa Mason's Summer of Love, Elizabeth Hand's Aestival Time, and more.A bunch of these date to when I was a bookseller and I keenly remember hand-selling them and pinning my reviews next to them on the shelves. These are all outstanding novels that you should have in your sf collection. There's a reason the PKD award is considered one of the most prestigious in the field.

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE for advance access to comics and more stuff.And READ Ruben Bolling's new book, Alien Invasion in My Backyard: An EMU Club Adventure! You can also pre-order the second book in the series: Ghostly Thief of Time: An EMU Club Adventure!Thank you.Read lots of Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing by clicking here!

https://player.vimeo.com/video/140069127Inspired by director George Miller's own statements on the ideal presentation, Black and Chrome makes the brilliant action flick black and white.

The Burbank Leader reports that a 78-year-old man was attacked after telling a fellow shopper that they had taken quite enough free Nutella from the sample cart.Writes Alene Tchekmedyian:

Flowing Data has a remarkably depressing animated chart. Plug in your age and sex and watch 'em drop.

A monkey who earned fame by snapping a selfie on David Slater's camera has a new advocate: PETA, whose latest stunt is to sue on behalf of the animal.The plan: by having the 6-year old crested macaque declared the image's legal owner, it can be used to raise money for animal welfare.After an earlier tussle over whether the image belonged to Slater, the U.S. Copyright Office listed a "photograph taken by a monkey" an an example of works created by non-humans that are not subject to copyright protection.In PETA's new complaint, however, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the animal rights group claims that the pictures were the result of "a series of purposeful and voluntary actions by [the monkey] Naruto, unaided by Slater.""Naruto has the right to own and benefit from the copyright," PETA's lawsuit asserts, "in the same manner and to the same extent as any other author."Naruto lives on the Tangkoko Reserve on Sulawesi, Indonesia. Slater told Reuters that he felt persecuted by the lawsuit and "described himself as a low-paid wildlife photographer who has been struggling to earn a living."Slater, his UK-based company, and a U.S. publisher selling a book with the photos on its cover are the lawsuit's targets.

Connect through a VPN tunnel of your choice and forget about hackers, digital eavesdroppers, and government spies. Whether you’re connected to public Wi-Fi at the airport or thumbing through your favorite social media site while in line for your morning coffee. High-level encryption ensures you’ll put an end to incessant digital advertising, while IP cloaking lets you stream your favorite movies and shows no matter where you are. With Private Internet Access, the only gateways to the outside Internet are the ones you open. Check out all of the fantastic reviews for PIA here.

The phrase joins Cory Arcangel's "What a misunderstanding" as one that can be used to caption any New Yorker cartoon -- a fact discovered by Frank Chimero, the Louis Pasteur of New Yorker comics remixing.

The Happy Birthday song hasn't been in copyright for generations, and everybody knew it. That didn't stop Warner Chapell music from running a scam where they extorted "royalties" from movies and restaurants that featured the song, charging less than it would cost anyone to litigate the question.Until, that is, a documentary about the song decided to fight the question in court.They won.

A federal judge in Los Angeles today delivered “a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims,” as the LA Times put it. Warner/Chappell Music does not hold a valid copyright claim to the "Happy Birthday To You" song. The royalties they demanded were not theirs to demand.U.S. District Judge George H. King ruled today that the copyright originally filed by the Clayton F. Summy Co. in 1935 granted only rights to specific arrangements of the tune, not the actual song itself.The decision is a big win for filmmaker Jennifer Nelson, who is working on a documentary about the history of the song. Her film just got a lot more interesting. Nelson challenged Warner/Chappell Music's claim to the lyrics, which had them to demand money from anyone who used the song for many years.From the LA Times:

https://youtu.be/zdLAM-wChxYFrom the sustainable living blog Fair Companies, a wonderful profile of a self-titled “Hobo Artist” who lives connected the electrical grid, but off the city water system, and in an underground shelter from which he publishes his “Moonlight Chronicles” zine.

https://youtu.be/xkxjyZmdJgg“NASA-supported researchers have found that ice covering Greenland is melting faster than previously thought. The action is happening out of sight, below the surface.”Why should you care? NASA:

Yesterday, former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli (above) was in the news for jacking up the price of a drug called Daraprim from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. He went on Bloomberg to explain why he thinks a pill that costs less than $1 to manufacture should cost $750. He said that even at that price, "Daraprim is still underpriced relative to its peers." He then went onto Twitter to live up to his douchebag reputation by behaving like a douchebag - calling a journalist a moron for asking Shkreli why he increased the price of the medication, which helps people with compromised immune systems.Today, Shkreli's Twitter account is closed to everyone but confirmed followers. He also said he would reduce the cost of Daraprim to "to allow the company to break even or make a smaller profit," according to NBC.

https://youtu.be/9rNfJClN4jsWhen the beloved West Coast burger chain In-N-Out opened a new store in Oregon recently, loyal fans showed up at 7 a.m. to get in line.On “CBS This Morning,” Ben Tracy scored a rare interview with the company’s reclusive president, Lynsi Snyder, and the secret behind In-N-Out’s success.

https://youtu.be/ZOVYcqZgJEMThis is a thing that people do. No wait, this is a thing that men who are completely insane do. But it's very entertaining stuff on YouTube, so I hope they keep doing it.By Mark Freeman.

https://youtu.be/CCDIuZUfETcThis video is amazing, and feels like something that will become even more graceful, precise, and normal as drone technology and design improve.[caption id="attachment_422936" align="alignnone" width="1200"] ETH Zurich, 2015.[/caption]

Fun little short documentary from the Atlantic on YouTube, in which you meet people who build, live in, and love treehouses. Gotta be honest here, this is very much a lifelong passion and dream of mine.https://youtu.be/FXdj58DpY5M

Jon Lebkowski writes, "Just as Open Source provided an free-as-in-freedom alternative to proprietary software, an Open Source Party can provide a free alternative to proprietary politics.

Adam Jones of Skegness, England was given a year jail sentence for "aggravated vehicle taking and driving without a license or insurance" after leading police on a 100mph chase that damaged countless cars. After he was caught, Jones reportedly told authorities that his driver's education consisted of playing Playstation driving games."You said you 'Only learnt to drive on a Playstation game," the judge told Jones. "You were driving like a Playstation game. You drove as fast as you could as if in a video or playstation game without any care for those around you."(ITV)

Sarah Jeong led an absolutely brilliant Twitter seminar this morning on the subject of DCFAPITM and how it relates to copyright (if at all).

https://youtu.be/MhVw-MHGv4sClick, point goes out. Click, point goes in. Click. Click. Click. (Engineerguy)

A scan of a stroke victim's brain following emergency surgery reveals what her husband claims is a sign of divine intervention. A “figure” in the MRI looked to them both like an apparition of Jesus Christ.

Police have arrested 24-year-old Derrick Gharabighi for punching a 78-year-old man who scolded Gharabighi for grabbing too many Nutella waffles from a sample cart at a Burbank, California Costco. Gharabighi has been charged with elder abuse and "inflicting great bodily harm."From LA Times:I'm not sure if Nutella is available in the California prison system, but if it isn't Gharabighi may have to go without any for a long time -- if convicted, he could receive up to 11 years in prison.

"Based on our data, it seems very unlikely that sexual activity is a relevant trigger of heart attack," said Ulm University medical researcher Dr. Dietrich Rothenbache about a new study. From UPI: