Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
Today on Boing Boing tv, Cory Doctorow invites you to create and share HOWTO videos based on an ongoing series of Instructables posts that draw from his latest book, Little Brother.
Here's how Andrew “bunnie” Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, describes the book:
[A] scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker-turned-hero pits himself against the government to fight for his basic freedoms. This book is action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile’s civil protest.Here's how to submit your Little Brother HOWTO video to Boing Boing tv:
(1) Shoot it!
(2) Upload it to YouTube or another video hosting site!
(3) Tell us where to find it! Submit the url here.
(4) Selected videos will be featured on BBtv!
Also in today's episode (which, by the way, is Cory's BBtv debut): Legendary dumpster-diver Darren Atkinson was the subject of Cory's first-ever WIRED magazine feature in 1994. Cory returns to the trash-heap for BBtv with the "modern industrialist philosopher of garbage," who also performs in multiple WHO cover bands.
In related news, here's a Little Brother library/school donation project update, and if you're in Chicago, come on out to one of the Little Brother events taking place in your area over the next two days!
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I'd love to see the actual dumpster diving!
Do the videos need to be how-tos of things that are on the Instructables site, or can they be of other things done by the characters in the book?
OMG! Cory finally debuts on bbTV! About freakin' time! Have you got a taste for it now? Or will we need to wait another seven months for a followup?
@ #1 Guabaman: Cory's got some pix of the adventure on his Flickr stream.
I love dumpster diving and Freeganism in concept, but I might be a skosh too germaphobic to ever indulge. Maybe I just need some peer pressure to egg me on. And some good thick gloves and boots. And a shitload of hand sanitizer and lotion.
Oh, and because it seems to be mandatory whenever Cory promotes his own work: blah blah indulgent blah crass blah blah steampunk blah if I wanted to read a blah blah I'm taking my business elseblah. Does that more or less cover all the bases? This message has been brought to you by Count Blah.
Finally! CoryTV!
I can't wait to start making stuff from the book!
Game On!
Thanks for the link LF!
LicenseFarm, we've got to work on turning that into a drinking game.
AriB@2: Anything you can come up with from the book, I'm game to see!
@ #6 TNH: Wait, you mean those bellyachers weren't actual bitter drunks? The verisimilitude is stunning.
But you bring the Cuervo and we'll figure out the rules.