11/18/2008
BBtv: SELK Bag, Boing Boing Gadgets review with Joel Johnson ...
This week, Boing Boing tv is debuting regular product reviews produced with Joel and the crew, and we'll blog 'em here on Gadgets first. What better way to kick the series off than a lulz-filled analysis of the Lippi Selk Bag, ...
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11/18/2008
What do you call the shop on the corner? - Boing Boing
Wasn't expecting to see that when I opened up BoingBoing. I've always loved that sign - advertsing by truth. Surprisingly good selection of boozes too! Take a look at this. #23 posted by Anonymous , November 18, 2008 8:21 AM ...
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11/17/2008
Chickens stop rabbits from fighting - Boing Boing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.
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11/18/2008
Viridianism's last note: surround yourself with beautiful ...
The Viridian Manifesto is pitched at something very much like what I take to be the BoingBoing readership; technophiles, geeks, crafts-fans, and so forth. Like Pournelle's 'Survival with Style', the message is "The way to save the world ...
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11/18/2008
Boing Boing tv: We're a Year Old, and Yes We Can (Announce a New ...
Today, we announce some changes over at Boing Boing tv -- the good kind. The show completed its first year of Boingsistence on October 2, 2008 (remember our very first day back in 2007?), and we've spent some time in recent weeks ...
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11/18/2008
Boing Boing tv Update: OFFWORLD, YES MEN, and THIS IS THE FIRST ...
In this week's Boing Boing TV update, we discuss what's ahead with the launch of BOING BOING: OFFWORLD, and we speak with the YES MEN about their EPIC STUNT last week in which they printed and distributed lots and lots of copies of a ...
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11/17/2008
That Damn Ram Challenge - Boing Boing
Boing Boing Home · Gadgets · TV · Boing Boing Offworld · Suggest a Link · Archives; Subscribe; Mark · Cory · David · Xeni · John · Boing Boing - A directory of wonderful things ...
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11/18/2008
Scrap market collapse threatens Bay Area recycler - Boing Boing
I don't want to piss on anyone's non-profit parade here, but there are tons of companies who do this same thing in the bay area who are not going out of business and aren't begging for handouts on boingboing. Electronics recycling does ...
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11/17/2008
Boing Boing Offworld launches! - Boing Boing
It's been a little over a year since we birthed Boing Boing Gadgets with our pal Joel Johnson. Ever since, Joel and his trusty lieutenants Rob Beschizza and John Brownlee have been conspiring to launch a new Boing Boing site centered ...
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11/11/2008
Change.gov - Boing Boing
Yeah, I meant that within BoingBoing comments specifically. Clearly restoring civil liberties must be at the forefront of the larger political dialogue / "mandate". I wrote in and asked that he abolish DHS and the TSA...and also to ...
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11/10/2008
Fake NYT hits streets: Iraq War Ends - Boing Boing
I would be shocked at the idea of passing off lies as news, but if Wolf Blitzer can pretend to see a hologram when it is really just "blue-screen" compositing (http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/04/cnns-election-night.html) and call ...
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11/12/2008
Barack is Mac, and Pac? - Boing Boing
it's the strangest thing... after the forces of darkness went down to grossly humiliating defeat, there hasn't been even one single "regular Boing Boing reader who is a liberal and supports McCain and Palin". Not one. Go figure, huh? ...
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11/17/2008
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we started the day with an arboricultural look at a genuine power plant, then mocked CNet's inability to indentify a blue screen of death. A matrioshka-like nesting bowl captured Brownlee's fancy, ...
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11/16/2008
President-Elect Obama's first YouTube address (actually, America's ...
does Obama read Boing Boing? Get them to lower the teleprompter two inches. Also "Service and Sacrifice" is buzzwordworthy, push that with emphasis on sacrificing the ultra-rich. I get the left-overs. Take a look at this ...
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11/18/2008
Disinfo.com - BoingBoing Launches New Gaming Site Called 'Offworld'
BoingBoing's David Pescovitz:
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11/14/2008
Caption this. No, seriously. - Boing Boing
Boing Boing Home · Gadgets · TV. Suggest a Link · Archives; Subscribe; Mark · Cory · David · Xeni · John · Boing Boing - A directory of wonderful things. Caption this. No, seriously. Posted by Xeni Jardin, November 13, 2008 11:53 PM | ...
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11/17/2008
Boing Boing launches new gaming site Offworld
Boing Boing has expanded its blog lineup with the launch of Offworld, a blog dedicated to gaming. The new site will focus on the broader gaming sector, but also (in traditional Boing Boing style) seek to highlight independent producers ...
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11/18/2008
Gabe & Max's Guide to Man Style #2: Beauty Tips - Boing Boing
Gabe Delahaye and Max Silvestri have produced another episode of their manly man beauty tips for Details.com. These are delightfully creepy, and some of the guys in the studio where we produce Boing Boing tv have found them most useful. ...
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10/24/2008
Wassup 2008
Wassup 2008: A brilliant parody short from 60frames. If this means nothing to you, go here, then here, then here. Update: apparently this is the original cast, reunited. Wow, cool. (via Clayton Cubitt, via @brianoberkirch)
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11/17/2008
Hodgman plays uke - Boing Boing
John Hodgman, aka "PC" from the Get a Mac campaign, and recent Guest Blogger on Ukulelia's big sister site, Boing Boing, plays Tonight You Belong to Me at a recent event promoting his book, More Information Than You Require. ...
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11/19/2008
Dale Dougherty Guest-Blogging on Boing Boing | O'ReillyGMT
TrackBack. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2172164/35930182. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Dale Dougherty Guest-Blogging on Boing Boing: ...
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11/18/2008
Cocolobo and Roatan: my perfect honeymoon! - Boing Boing
Maybe I'm overestimating the power of BoingBoing but now you've got me totally worried that Roatan is gonna get mega tourist swamped before I can trick a lady into marrying me and using it as the honeymoon getaway that I've hoped for ...
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11/17/2008
Six foot rubber band for only $5.50! - Boing Boing
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's spotted a six foot long rubber band for only $5.50!! Three or four of these and your Thanksgiving entertainment prep is done. A six foot long rubber band hardly qualifies as a gadget except in the ...
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11/17/2008
Farewell, Boingers - Boing Boing
It is with great sadness that my guestblogging stint at Boing Boing comes to an end. What will I do next? How will I fill the endless days that lie before me? Will I ever be able to guestblog anywhere else after having reaching these ...
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11/07/2008
Maru the Cat - Boing Boing
Hey BoingBoing, I think the coverage you folks gave Maru this week is being acknowledged on Maru's blog. Just last night I noticed some English translations to go along with the Japanese text on the most recent blog entries. Including: ...
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11/13/2008
Your Virtual Girlfriend - Boing Boing
What I also find interesting is the indignant tone of the early posters in this thread compared to the apparently nonplussed ones on the recent Boing Boing thread 'You Will Not, In Fact, Put Anyone's Eye Out' ...
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11/13/2008
Conscious after decapitation? - Boing Boing
Holy blood and guts Boing Boing. Take a look at this. #26 posted by dbarak , November 14, 2008 12:40 PM. Blink? Hell no! I'd stick my tongue out. And it'd be cool if we could be precise enough to leave the brain stem attached to the ...
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11/18/2008
Boing Boing: Offworld - Gadgets
Boing Boing: Offworld - The promise Lips holds Inspired by the latest trailer for the game, we've got to admit, we're frankly a bit worried for Microsoft's soon to be released karaoke game Lips ...
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11/13/2008
Quantum of Solace is an anagram for 18258 better titles - Boing Boing
Boing Boing buddy Ape Lad points out that simple anagrams yield 18258 better possible titles for the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace (which I can't wait to see). Anagrams yield better plot points, too. Here are my favorites. ...
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11/11/2008
Photoshop user interface physicalized - Boing Boing
The above depicts Photoshop if it existed in the physical world instead of in software. Brownlee has the details over at Boing Boing Gadgets, where you can also post comments on it! "Photoshop interface rendered in real-world objects" ...
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11/12/2008
Fetus cookie cutter - Boing Boing
#20 posted by minTphresh , November 13, 2008 12:06 PM. on boing-boing there once was a foetus/ who screamed out to all" please don't eat us"/ wire hangers we shun/ yet we get baked for fun/but if you eat us you'll have to excrete us! ...
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11/11/2008
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we got an eerily prescient look at what an Apple netbook might look like, and laughed along with the Onion at the Windows 7 and Snow Leopard rivalry. A cell phone for the elderly was admired, ...
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10/08/2008
BB exclusive: sneak peek at South Park's sweet, yet-unreleased ...
And as reported previously on Boing Boing, the show's new website offers fans the ability to view episodes in entirety online. You can also buy them in iTunes. What hasn't been announced yet is this: The South Park guys have cooked up a ...
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11/07/2008
Photoshop Interface rendered in real-world objects
1226001873yuF5iwJ.jpg. This fantastic "real world" Photoshop window, made with actual objects, seems to have been made as an Adobe PhotoShop ad for the Indonesian market. There's also a good Flickr photoset that shows how they put it ...
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11/01/2008
Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy - Boing Boing
Boing Boing will (hopefully) return to its old self, without the incessant dirt-digging on Palin. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of hers, but it's all rather wearing. Running stories like the one about Palin getting that guy improperly ...
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09/30/2008
Punching bag changes color when hit
Artist Stefan Gross says: "Love Hate Punch is a punching bag that gives light if you hit it and if you do your best it changes color from dark red to bright red to yellow to white." Love Hate Punch.
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11/12/2008
Scan of WWII US internment camp yearbook for Japanese American ...
Aquila was a yearbook for Japanese American high school students interned in a camp during WWII. The University of California has scans of two editions. Scan of WWII US internment camp for Japanese Americans (Via This Isn't Happiness)
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10/27/2008
German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic ...
Someone in Germany is driving an automobile built for UK roads and has installed a Muppet in the passenger seat. The speed cameras in Germany are made to take photos of drivers who sit in the left side of the vehicle, so drivers of ...
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11/14/2008
Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live: video - Boing Boing TV
The organizers of the annual online video event NewTeeVee Live invited me to join them yesterday to talk about Boing Boing tv's first year on the air, on the intertubes. Here's a video of our "fireside chat," which was in fact, ...
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10/09/2008
macbook in oct. 14 event ad is 13.3", aluminum, and not the ...
applenotebookevent.jpg. it's hard to tell from the gloomy marketing shot, but the apple logo is about 1.5 inches wide on my macbook pro. from that, this machine would appear to be under 13 inches wide, which would suggest a 13.3" ...
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10/22/2008
Video of Big Bird singing at Jim Henson's funeral - Boing Boing
October 22, 2008 4:47 PM. I'm a 61 year old guy not prone to such things, but for some reason I can NOT articulate I, too, need to go wipe my eyes and compose myself. Thank you, Boing Boing. Take a look at this ...
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11/12/2008
Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live, SF, Thu Nov 13 ...
My session is 4pm, and we'll be talking about Boing Boing tv's first year, and some of the fun stuff we have planned. Tickets are still available if you'd like to attend, and the lineup is great -- lots of solid internetelevision. ...
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07/09/2008
Iran: You Suck At Photoshop (updated) - Boing Boing
Boing Boing readers are invited to further manipulate the image, whip up nuclear cat macros, or create topically specific fan-remixed versions of YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP. Post links in the comments, and our digital manipulation ...
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11/17/2008
Charles Platt takes a Zero-G flight - Boing Boing
A few weeks later, after I've decided to write about this for Boing Boing, I call the PR department of Zero Gravity Corporation and ask if I may have an opportunity to talk to Peter Diamandis, its cofounder. Kindly, he spares some time ...
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09/17/2008
Wide open skeletal PC case
Antec's new Skeleton case is pretty rad -- looks like the manufacturer has been paying keen attention to the casemod scene:. The Antec Skeleton is a truly revolutionary enclosure. With a unique design that allows for unprecedented ...
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11/12/2008
60 Minutes Crew Roughed Up in China While Reporting On America's E ...
Great post boingboing! I felt disgusted after watching this segment tonight. I am glad this E-waste issue has been brought to the attention of the nation. The burning of computer parts not only has a negative effect on this community in ...
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10/03/2008
Palin Debate Prep Flowchart
by Aden Renkai, via Political Wire (thanks Teresa Nielsen Hayden!).
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11/13/2008
Seventh human foot found in Pacific Northwest - Boing Boing
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Annie Linteau confirmed that human remains were inside a New Balance running shoe spotted Tuesday afternoon. Seventh human foot found in Pacific Northwest. Previously on Boing Boing: ...
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11/09/2008
Change.gov is going through some changes - Boing Boing
I haven't heard back yet, but I'd like to ask boingboing readers to ask that same question. For more discussion see this thread on freegovinfo.info. (Full disclosure: I'm one of the bloggers on freegovinfo.). Take a look at this ...
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10/29/2008
Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her ...
I can't imagine another scenario in which BoingBoing readers would instinctively feel pleased by this intrusion. And I include myself because my first reaction was along the lines of #3 yahoo, Yahoo. But in a couple of months when this ...
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09/26/2008
Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection ...
Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find ...
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11/08/2008
Untitled 1 - Boing Boing
This post is a blatant attempt change the sex of Boing Boing's mascot. Start with the first word "Untitled." "Un" meaning "not." "Tit," a vulgar term for breast. "Led," invoking Mark's intent to draw women away from their womanhood ...
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11/07/2008
Billboard Liberation Front and Wachovia Bank - Boing Boing
How many people on Boingboing would defend that person's actions as "art", or "free speech"? Well, guess what? Just because someone or some company has lots more money than you doesn't suddenly make it okay for someone who disagrees ...
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11/10/2008
Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks - Boing Boing
The Kami Kami chewing sensor measure your child's mastication · Boing Boing TV latest episodes · Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live: video · Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live, SF,
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10/14/2008
microsoft announces 20 editions of windows 7! (j/k)
earlier today, microsoft confirmed that its next operating system, codenamed windows 7, would in fact be called just that when it hits shelves at some point in the next few years. good on 'em, i say: a simple, no-nonsense name suggests ...
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11/12/2008
Growing list of successful pot smokers - Boing Boing
I think marijuana needs a "pro-pot" advocacy organization along the lines of the Swedish "pro-piracy" Pirate's Bureau/Bay organizations. Can we expect boing boing TV interviews on legal (foreign) grow-ops, and the like? ...
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10/01/2008
Support schools directly with DonorsChoose!
Charles helped Boing Boing pick ten classroom projects that we're hoping you'll join us in supporting. For example, a high poverty middle school is seeking $720 to print the Spring issue of their school newspaper. ...
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10/08/2008
Adding the Benny Hill Theme to Anything Makes it Funny
If YouTube had a Ten Commandments carved on stone tablets, well, this would be one of them. To wit:. * Shrimp * Landmines * War of the Worlds * Lord of the Rings * Friday the 13th. I'd like to see one of these with a video of the stock ...
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10/25/2008
Interesting drawing technique using water - Boing Boing
ps. i love you mark & boing boing. didn't mean to sound so curt in my first comment, I've been known to experience a little human emotion called jealousy when someone else is lauded for something I take for granted ;) ...
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10/13/2008
TSA screener ripped off hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of ...
MadScott sez, "TSA Screener Pythias Brown walked off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of passengers' belongings without ever being observed by the TSA, selling the items on Ebay (apparently he was good about customer service). ...
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11/18/2008
Alfred: New with me - MyBlogLog
Super Obama World - Boing Boing Not related to journalism, but fun - Super Obama World is a simple Flash-based Mario Bros clone. Delicious | Topics: innovation, obama, game, boingboing | Add delicious to your profile ...
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10/27/2008
Multicolr - stunningly elegant Flickr tool
Mister Jalopy is having fun with a cool new tool called Mulitcolr. Idee has built a remarkably easy to use tool for searching Flickr for photos according to color palatte. Besides being completely straightforward and great fun, ...
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09/25/2008
Failin' Palin. (UPDATED: As Putin rears his head.)
Andrew Sullivan, with whom I agree not all of the time, but do this time, says this about the CBS News interview embedded above: "All you can say is: unbelievable. Except it's true. She is the vice-presidential candidate of a national ...
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11/10/2008
The Food Chain Friends eat each other and cuddily illustrate ...
is it just me or is boing boing getting corrected more lately from comment section (e.g. Ford getting blamed for stupidly not putting diesel autos in U.S. when it's more likely a smart business decision due to the poor diesel climate in ...
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10/06/2008
Artificial foreskin lets you keep your sensitivity AND the ...
Boing Boing Home · Gadgets · TV. Suggest a Link · Archives; Subscribe; Mark · Cory · David · Xeni · John · Boing Boing - A directory of wonderful things. Artificial foreskin lets you keep your sensitivity AND the covenant of Abraham! ...
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11/04/2008
Spitzer Won't Be Charged In Call Girl Scandal - Boing Boing
brainspore, don't be dissin pee-wee. he was framed, and i know the cop that did it. the cretinous sumbitch. i prolly shouldn't be admitting that in public, but i doubt seriously he reads boing/boing or anything this far left. free pee ...
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11/04/2008
If you care about democracy, you'll print out this sticker and ...
Here's an election sticker for ya, by Ian Wolterstorff, via John Walsh and los del Bush League. Here's a related video for ya.
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09/19/2008
BBtv: Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston airport LED ...
In today's episode of Boing Boing tv: One year ago, a 19-year-old MIT engineering student named Star Simpson got dressed to go pick up a friend at Boston's Logan airport. She pulled a hoodie out of her closet, a wearable tech design ...
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10/31/2008
Email error on road sign
The Welsh portion of this sign reads, ""I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."" Email error on road sign.
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11/04/2008
Phoenix M. Lander is guestblogging in Gizmodo. - Boing Boing
Sheesh, here I was bragging all over the place about Boing Boing's amazing guestbloggers -- most notably, our current star, Susannah Breslin -- and the guys at Gizmodo have to one-up us over here. ...
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11/04/2008
Letters From Johns - Boing Boing
This letter, though, was particularly sad, and my guess is it came from a Boing Boing reader. Seeing as I hadn't gotten any letters in a while, and this one rolled in the night I started guestblogging, it's likely he came across the ...
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11/04/2008
Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome - Boing Boing
I just think that most readers are BoingBoing are geeks/nerds/scientists/non-conventional people, and that therefore it's normal for us to be marginal regarding test measuring conventionality of thought. ...
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10/01/2008
Neil Gaiman's "Graveyard Book," chapter-a-day reading video from ...
Neil Gaiman's on tour with his fantastic new book, The Graveyard Book. I'm about halfway through it and enjoying it immensely -- it's the spookiest, coolest, most dream-like and smart young adult horror novel I've read. ...
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10/16/2008
Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate
The more things change... (Thanks, Liz!)
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07/14/2008
Funny espresso rant
Jeff Simmermon recounts his recent experience with a snobbish barista at Murky Coffee in Arlington, VA. I just ordered my usual summertime pick-me-up: a triple shot of espresso dumped over ice. And the guy at the counter looked me in ...
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10/08/2008
Nerd library to end all nerd libraries
Stephen Levy toured the personal library of Priceline founder Jay Walker and discovered nerdvana: a wunderkammer piled to the rafters with the most pricelessly awesome nerd artifacts of all time -- an original Sputnik, the Thing hand ...
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09/19/2008
Paid placement for brands in pop lyrics
An company that specializes in sneakily placing product-names in pop-song lyrics (!!) screwed up and accidentally approached an anti-advertising activist for money to include his nonexistent "product" in a pop song -- the activist ...
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10/03/2008
peri peri keychain emulates envelope tear-off strips
after creating the "puti puti", a keychain that recreated the first-world joy of popping bubble wrap, bandai has followed up with the "peri peri", a keychain that gives you the ecstatic frisson of tearing open a shipping envelope sans ...
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11/03/2008
The US Presidential Election: Open Thread - Boing Boing
November 5, 2008 3:44 AM. Congrats Americans! Nice vote! You guys are completely redeemed of the image that (re)electing GWB have bought upon you, at least for me. I just hope that Obama reads BoingBoing now :). Take a look at this ...
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11/18/2008
Man Plays Carrinet (://URLFAN)
That can also help the school lunch program as well, just mix the budget for both and everyone wins. Especially this guy, the ultimate veggie band teacher. -Via BoingBoing. Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source ...
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10/01/2008
Smart coasters detect hot or cold beverages, created by Evil Mad ...
smartcoasters.jpg. Our friends at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories contributed several projects to the wonderful The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, ...
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11/08/2008
Tales of the Unexpected - Boing Boing
This isn't related to this post at all, but something on the main Boingboing page is causing Safari to crash for me, consistently. I don't know what's going on. If I don't click away from the main page quickly, it just crashes -- quits ...
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10/06/2008
Photos from the denim distressing factory - Boing Boing
i also think it's interesting to click the links on boingboing articles to other blog-type sites, because they always seem so aggressive on the other ones. boingboing is usually pretty friendly, and funny, and informative. ...
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09/08/2008
Animated spider Flash toy
Play With Spider is a remarkable, Flash-based 3D animated spider that set my skin a-crawl within seconds of loading, You can even drop little insects for it to feast on. Don't miss the sliders for ultimate creepiness. ...
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11/08/2008
God Hates Signs protest waged against Westboro Baptist Church ...
It's all well and good to be offended at what one believes are "the good who stand by and do nothing," but a hateful term leveled at a poster here by a member of the moderator staff at Boing Boing might qualify as a minor outrage. ...
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09/24/2008
Arctic sea "foaming" with methane?
An article in The Independent reports on a new scientific discovery that massive amounts of a greenhouse gas are spewing into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic sea. Over at WorldChanging, Alex Steffen puts it into context, ...
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10/09/2008
Web Therapy: Lisa Kudrow's smart new web comedy series
I'm really sick and tired of these online series that use the first personal confessional --like Lonelygirl15 and the totally awful Gemini Division with Rosario Dawson -- in service of the hokey dramatic trope of overly expository ...
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10/20/2008
GOOD EVENING. - Boing Boing
I AM ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL to be here, for indeed it was a BOING BOING post which first convinced me to descend from the airy heights of minor television renown and return to my ink-stained former life of writing big books of fake trivia. ...
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11/12/2008
Clowns! art show in Los Angeles
Milne Clown Ducky Crop Clown Of Doom 16X20 Jason Shawn Alexander72 Olddecadentclownrgb A huge group art show all about clowns opens this Saturday, November 15, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California. The lineup is, er, ...
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09/25/2008
Betelnut girl art installation on NYC street
In certain Asian countries, Betelnut is a popular stimulant sold by scantily-clad young girls in streetside booths. A couple years ago, artist Annamarie Ho recreated a Betel nut booth as a gallery installation commenting on this ...
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11/02/2008
Video: The Cowsills on "The Ed Sullivan Show" - Boing Boing
I love how they don't really get the vocal mics going till halfway through the first song. This is The Cowsills people! Turn on a freaking mic or two. Video: The Cowsills on "The Ed Sullivan Show". Previously on Boing Boing: ...
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09/07/2008
Amazon reviewers clobber Spore DRM
Fred sez, "I just discovered that dozens of Amazon users have given Spore 1-star ratings because of it's aggressive DRM. The game's average review is now around 2-stars. Are users acting in concert as a centrally organized boycott, ...
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09/09/2008
Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" sung by octagenerian Aussie ladies
The video above is taken from the exhibition "no future" by Christoph Büchel, at the Sydney Biennale 2008:. 'no future' transforms the gallery into a rehearsal space for a punk band of volunteers who are over the age of 80 years. in the ...
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10/20/2008
Banjo playing during brain surgery
Banjo player Eddie Adcock recently had brain surgery where surgeons installed deep brain stimulator electrodes to control a tremor in his right hand. Patients are sometimes kept awake during brain surgery to interact with the surgeon ...
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10/31/2008
$20 kit produces trillions of universes - Boing Boing
I thought the comments on the original website were good, but these are fantastic. I won't have to think another original thought for the rest of the day. I'm good to go. Thank you, Boing Boing Commenters. You're the best! ...
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10/28/2008
Synchronized Presidential Debating
If you thought the three presidential debates were similar, here's proof you were right. This video show how eerily similar the candidates' canned arguments were. Synchronized Presidential Debating (Thanks, Joe Dolce!)
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09/10/2008
Happy 63rd birthday to Mike the Headless Chicken
Happy birthday to Mike the Headless Chicken! This following is from my book THE WORLD'S WORST: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept and Dangerous, People, Places and Things on Earth. Exotic pets are often quite ugly—that’s ...
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08/19/2008
McCain staffer slams Dungeons and Dragons players
Jimmy sez, "Michael Goldfarb of the John McCain campaign oddly disses gamers in his post yesterday on the John McCain blog." It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war ...
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09/16/2008
Thereminists for Obama badge
Thereminists for Obama: the badge, the lifestyle. Oooeeooeee. Thereminists for Obama Photo Button - 2 1/4" (via Warren Ellis)
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10/29/2008
Dean Kamen Q&A: American culture needs a geek overhaul
(Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief, Jim Meigs (left) and inventor Dean Kamen.) Andrew Moseman says: Dean Kamen is famous for inventing the AutoSyringe, the portable dialysis machine, the iBOT self-balancing wheelchair, and, of course, ...
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