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By adamg - 8/23/13 - 9:40 am

Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor who developed the Creative Commons alternative to traditional copyright, yesterday sued an Australian music company that got YouTube to block a video of a lecture he gave because it included five seconds of music from one of its artists.

By adamg - 8/23/13 - 8:35 am

Mike Moura reports a two-alarm fire erupted this morning at 45 Bellevue St.

By adamg - 8/22/13 - 3:06 pm

Cambridge Police report on an incident Tuesday afternoon down by the water behind Cambridgeside Galleria:

Man stated that he was walking and reading his mail on his iPhone 5 when another man snatched the phone from his hand and shoved him. The man stated that he yelled and ran after the man who then threw his phone at a wall, smashing it, before fleeing.

By adamg - 8/22/13 - 12:53 pm
Man gets onto MBTA with just a ring

Ringing up the MBTA.

Some MIT students (natch) say they've figured out how to build the guts of CharlieCards into stylish rings, which would let anyone, even a superhero in green tights, ride the T without fumbling for their plastic card.

They've set up a Kickstarter to raise funds for mass production of the rings via 3D printing - which they say will let them sell rings in a variety of colors and even with circuitry shaped into particular four-letter words (such as "EMMA" and "YOLO").

By adamg - 8/21/13 - 4:01 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court said today a developer can proceed with plans for a mixed-use development next to St. James Episcopal Church at Massachusetts Avenue and Beech Street that will involve destruction of a historic garden but which will provide money for renovating the "fragile" church.

The Cambridge Historical Commission designated the Romanesque-revival church as "historic" in 2010 as part of an agreement to allow the project by Oaktree Development - and the parish, which signed on as a joint developer.

By adamg - 8/20/13 - 3:15 pm

Seized. gun. Photo by CPD.Seized gun. Photo by CPD.

Cambridge Police report a plainclothes officer spotted a man appearing to be packing a gun around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. When the officer noticed the man and another man engage in a street transaction of some kind on Mass. Ave. near Sidney, he identified himself, an act to which the pair reacted by trying to run away, only they proved unable to outrun Cambridge officers, police say:

By adamg - 8/19/13 - 10:00 pm

Literally: The power at the station went out around 9:45 p.m. At least one person is stuck in an elevator; the T is readying some bustitution.

By adamg - 8/19/13 - 1:06 pm

Current NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is, of course, from Medford. One of the candidates to replace him (and the one who seems to have benefited the most from the Weiner wiener) is Bill de Blasio, a Cambridge native who is now the city's elected public advocate (before which he was a Brooklyn city councilor).

By adamg - 8/19/13 - 9:09 am

Cambridge gets a jump on the festivities, Slums of Harvard shows us.

By adamg - 8/16/13 - 12:10 am

Cambridge Police report a Holmes Street resident who has repeatedly had decapitated rabbits and internal organs dumped on his front porch woke up to more rabbit guts on Monday:

An unknown person left the hind quarters and internal organs of a small rabbit on his front porch.

Earlier, police said they likely culprit wasn't unknown - he was some guy from East Boston.

By adamg - 8/14/13 - 2:52 pm

In the 1990s, an MIT team experimented with large tubes with the air sucked out as a potential way to speed trains between here, there and everywhere. Last year, the BBC talked to now retired professor Ernst G. Frankel about the proposed "vactrains," which could cut travel from Boston to New York down to 40 minutes:

By adamg - 8/7/13 - 9:28 am

Daniel Guzman asks:

Any recommendations on a good pollo a la brasa/Peruvian chicken place in Boston (or Cambridge)?

By adamg - 8/5/13 - 12:04 pm

UPDATE: Wicked Local Cambridge reports police have their eye on an East Boston man, rather than a neighborhood hawk or cat, as a suspect.

The following are some recent entries from the Cambridge Police log:

By adamg - 8/4/13 - 7:20 pm

Batman

Maybe the Batmobile was in the shop today. Whatever, Berfunella says:

By adamg - 8/1/13 - 5:19 pm

Cardboard cop

A roving UHub photographer reports:

This T cop at the Alewife bike cage startled me recently. Until I got closer and saw that he was...a cardboard cutout!

An MBTA spokesman says:

By adamg - 8/1/13 - 9:37 am
Dumais

Transit Police report arresting a man who, on being turned down for money at Alewife around 1 a.m., threatened somebody who'd just gotten off a train:

By anonism - 7/31/13 - 9:45 pm

Galen Moore of the Boston Business Journal uses state data and Google Fusion Tables to create a map of "every outdoor patio bar in the state of Massachusetts."

Caveat imbibor.

By adamg - 7/29/13 - 10:58 am

MIT guy Cambridge Police report they are looking for this guy for a bank holdup in Kendall Square last Thursday afternoon.

By adamg - 7/28/13 - 10:52 pm

Over in Cambridge, Sam Seidel recounts the tale of a guy who walked by him, started shaking his backpack and then walked back and asked if his backpack was ticking.

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