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- Speaking at the "Long Conversation" in London this Saturday
- Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
- @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
- Opponent of Republican who shouted "You lie!" at Obama is given $25,000 $69,000 by outraged voters
- Year's Best Fantasy Vol 9 is the first book from Tor.com
- Platonic Solids: beautiful generative art
- Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
- Hubble's Greatest Hits: Astronomers discuss their favorite images
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge art show in New York City
- That is not a sufficiently potent botfly maggot unicorn chaser, Mark, this is the strength we require.
- The return of Steve Jobs, and new iPod news on BBG
- Botfly unicorn chaser
- Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video
- Fall 2009 issue of h+
- Fire-breathing dragon boat
- Furniture slider prosthetic legs for turtle
- Documentary series about prehistoric stone circles in Britain
- Man hunts for poo-squirting con artist in Delhi
- Dutch Schultz's secret buried treasure
- Plastic coelacanth figurine
- Incredible Star Wars collection display
- Recently on Offworld: Catan on iPhone, Canabalt on iPhone, cigar-chomping he-Links
- Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book
- Marxist critique of Crayola Factory Tour
- Live Singularity-esque sf writing workshop in London tomorrow night
| Speaking at the "Long Conversation" in London this Saturday Posted: 10 Sep 2009 03:27 AM PDT I'm speaking at the odd and cool-sounding Longplayer "Long Conversation" event this Saturday in London. The "Long Conversation" is a twelve-hour continuous on-stage conversation in which the participants rotate on and off the stage every 36 minutes. One of the organisers is a friend and he waxed so rhapsodic about previous events that I jumped at the chance. Tix are £15 (£12 concessions) and you can get a third off that by using the promo code 144 here. 10:00-10:36 Jeanette Winterson with Susie OrbachLongplayer |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:56 PM PDT Back in July, Michael Duvall, a second-term California assemblyman who "is the vice-chairman of the legislature's commerce committee and a member of its ethics committee, are married with two children and are known as a staunch defender of conservative family values" was to appear on a televised committee meeting. Not realizing his mic was already live, he began to brag about his sexual conquests. It gets better: "She wears little eye-patch underwear," said Duvall, who is married with two children. "So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And so, we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!"...And best of all? He's refusing to resign (though he's taken to actually running away from reporters). Open Mike Likely to Close Out Legislator's Career OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed Update: He resigned. |
| @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:45 PM PDT (Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)
More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo. |
| Opponent of Republican who shouted "You lie!" at Obama is given $25,000 $69,000 by outraged voters Posted: 10 Sep 2009 04:02 AM PDT Simon sez, "I managed to track down a spokesman for ActBlue, the online fundraising tool for Democratic politicians, and found out that within two hours after Joe Wilson yelled out 'You lie' to the president, his opponent Rob Miller raised $25,000 from people who linked to his page on Twitter and blogs." The numbers are still going up. Update: and UP! More than $69,000 now. Joe Wilson's opponent raises $41,000 on ActBlue within hours of Obama's speech (Thanks, Simon!) |
| Year's Best Fantasy Vol 9 is the first book from Tor.com Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:36 PM PDT Pablo from Tor.com sez: Announcing Year's Best Fantasy 9 (Thanks, Pablo!) |
| Platonic Solids: beautiful generative art Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:34 PM PDT Michael Hansmeyer's Platonic Solids uses clever and simple recombined algorithms to create beautiful art. Platonic Solids (via Beyond the Beyond) |
| Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:21 PM PDT  Over at Needles and Sins, Marisa Kakoulas DiMattia blogs: Yesterday was the US launch of the racing game Dirt 2, and what better way to promote virtual off-road rallies than, ya know, a Flash app that lets you tattoo some woman's breasts. The app is called "Dirty Tats." And that's not even the worst part."Dirty Tats." The Game. The Tragedy. (Needles and Sins, thanks Susannah Breslin) |
| Hubble's Greatest Hits: Astronomers discuss their favorite images Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:03 PM PDT  Earlier this year, NPR ran a neat narrated slideshow of astronomers discussing their favorite images of space taken through the Hubble Telescope. It's worth a second look, now that the device is back in action, following a final round of repairs. Above, holy wow, right? This image was one of the earlier images retreived after Hubble launched nearly 20 years ago. Astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson explains that it's a Hubble Space Telescope image of part of the Eagle Nebula, a giant cloud of gas and dust about six thousand light years from earth. These pillars are areas of strong concentrations of gas and dust, in which stars are eroded away, like sandcastles on a beach are blown away by waves. Inside this cloud, new stars are being formed. Hubble's Prying Eyes (NPR News, via Jesse Dylan) And, with that prelude out of the way -- go have a look at the new images NASA released today from the now-upgraded Hubble Telescope. Below, "Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302." |
| Genesis Breyer P-Orridge art show in New York City Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:06 PM PDT      Right now in New York City, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is celebrating the opening of a new career-spanning art exhibition at the Invisible Exports Gallery. The exhibit, titled "30 Years Of Being Cut Up," presents Breyer P-Orridge's photomontage and Expanded Polaroids, from his early mail art to his latest visual explorations. Of course, the cut-up is a powerful creative tool of collage/montage used by the 20th century Surrealists and rediscovered in the 1950s by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, who applied the technique to fiction, film, and sound poetry. As Burroughs once said, "When you cut into the present, the future leaks out." In the early 1970s, P-Orridge became friends with Burroughs and Gysin and embarked on a fully immersive project to "cut up" his entire life. The musical expression of that can be heard in Gen's pioneering work in Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle. And since the early 1990s, Gen collaborated with his wife and collaborator Lady Jaye Breyer to collage their identities into a single "pandrogynous" being. Lady Jaye tragically died last year, but their combined selves live on in Gen. This exhibition traces Gen's quest to break free from Control, in all its forms, by cutting up reality. We are delighted to present this preview of several pieces from 30 Years Of Being Cut Up. Please click on the images to see them larger. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge "30 Years Of Being Cut Up" Previously: |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT  Because dude, this was harsh. And this was cute but not sufficiently cute. It's okay, you guys, Xeni's here now. Boing Boing moderator Antinous points us to this, and says, "I recommend dropping acid and hitting them all simultaneously." (via Teresa Nielsen Hayden) |
| The return of Steve Jobs, and new iPod news on BBG Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:15 PM PDT  This morning in San Francisco, I covered the Apple announcement for Boing Boing Gadgets. The highlights: Steve Jobs made a surprise comeback, iTunes got a makeover, the iPhone has a new OS, iPods got cheaper and slightly fancier, and Norah Jones sang from her upcoming album. Details here: Also: |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:38 PM PDT   Here's a unicorn chaser to follow the botfly infestation video post. My daughter made this for me out of paper mache, and it sits on a dresser in my office. (Click images to enlarge.) |
| Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video Posted: 09 Sep 2009 01:05 PM PDT Video of a woman named Vanessa with a botfly maggot in her scalp. Vanessa got it when she went to Belize. She was planning to go to the doctor to have it removed, but she couldn't stand feeling it and hearing it crawl around under her skin, so she asked her boyfriend (or husband?) to remove it. He wasn't able to get it out (using a bottle full of smoke) so later that day she went to the doctor, but the doctor wasn't able to remove it, either. However, the doctor put a piece of tape over the hole, which cut off the maggot's air supply. Several hours after Vanessa got home, the maggot tried crawling out of the hole, and that's when her friend was able to pull it out. Yes, it's gross, but it is also a very well made and informative short video. (via Bits & Pieces) |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:43 AM PDT  The Fall 2009 issue of h+ magazine, edited by our friend R.U. Sirius, is available for free as a downloadable PDF. The Fall 2009 Issue of h+ Magazine features Erik Davis on Dollhouse, Tweaking Your Neurons, The Psychedelic Transhumanists, Sex and the Singularity, Jonathan Coulton's Inner Squid, and more.h+, Fall 2009 |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:04 AM PDT This is Lucky Dragon, a 49 foot cruise boat enhanced with a dragon head that breathes fire and water. Created by artist Yanobe Kenji, the mechanical monster is cruising Osaka's Ōkawa river and Dōtonbori canal until October 12 as part of the Aqua Metropolis festival. More details and photos at Pink Tentacle. "'Lucky Dragon' fire-breathing boat in Osaka" (Thanks, Kenny Montana!) |
| Furniture slider prosthetic legs for turtle Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT Lucky is a box turtle in Petaluma, California who lost his front legs in what was believed to be an attack by a raccoon. Now he's back in the game with furniture sliders taped to his belly. From the NY Times Regional Media Group: Lucky gets new legs |
| Documentary series about prehistoric stone circles in Britain Posted: 09 Sep 2009 09:46 AM PDT There are nearly 1,000 prehistoric stone circles in Britain. Here's the trailer for a documentary series about them, called Standing with Stones. I just added it to my Netflix queue. (Via TYWKIWDBI) |
| Man hunts for poo-squirting con artist in Delhi Posted: 09 Sep 2009 09:39 AM PDT Sam Miller, the BBC's former South Asia correspondent, is looking for the person who squirts poo on his and other people's shoes in New Delhi's Connaught Place. It's part of a scam - foreigners get a squirt of poo on their shoo when then aren't looking and then a shoe shiner down the road points it out and offers to clean off the poo, for a fee. Only foreigners get squirted, it seems, and only those wearing closed shoes. My epiphany came when I read the rantings of an American blogger, who described with pride how he pushed and swore at the shoeshine man, adding, "All in all, I feel pretty enlightened that I didn't make him lick it off."Seeking Delhi's 'phantom squirter' (via Neatorama) |
| Dutch Schultz's secret buried treasure Posted: 09 Sep 2009 08:23 AM PDT Arthur Flegenheimer, aka Dutch Schultz, was a 1930s German-Jewish-American gangster who was killed while taking a leak in a New Jersey bar. After he was shot, Schultz delivered a fantastically strange stream-of-consciousness rant involving "French Canadian bean soup" and this brilliant bit: You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy. Of course, Schultz's last words later inspired writers William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, and Robert Shea. Besides his mastery of avant-garde poetry, Schultz is also famous for a secret he took to his grave: the location of a safe loaded with $7 million that he buried somewhere in upstate New York. It has never been found. Or if it has, the finders ain't talking. From Mental Floss's "Six Lost Treasures Just Waiting To Be Found": Six Lost Treasures Just Waiting To Be Found |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2009 07:28 AM PDT  Safari Ltd., makers of those plastic dinosaurs and animals found in natural history museum gift shops and kids' rooms, is releasing a coelacanth figurine next year. Of course, the coelacanth is a darling of cryptozoologists. The fish was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was found alive in 1938. Safari Ltd.'s coelacanth model is 5.75 inches long and 3 inches high. I wish it was life size and suitable for wall mounting! Loren Coleman has the details at Cryptomundo. "Wild Safari Coelecanth" Previously: |
| Incredible Star Wars collection display Posted: 09 Sep 2009 07:16 AM PDT   Korean blogger Cho Woong has a massive collection of Star Wars stuff and it is deeply organized."[W.C] Introduce. My Star Wars Collection" (via Cribcandy) |
| Recently on Offworld: Catan on iPhone, Canabalt on iPhone, cigar-chomping he-Links Posted: 09 Sep 2009 08:02 AM PDT  Recently on Offworld, German developer Exozet revealed not only the first screenshot for the upcoming official iPhone version of Catan, but also opened a limited number of beta applications to the public, meaning you might be getting your hands on the game much earlier than expected. Elsewhere, Adam Saltsman proved out just how successful rapid prototyping is and announced an iPhone port of his already widely viral one-button game Canabalt, ngmoco finally revealed its online arena iPhone FPS Eliminate with an interesting take on microtransactions, and Capcom showed more of its fantastically illustrated diminutive DS sequel Okamiden (above). We also went behind the pixel/Rubiks with a video interview with guerrilla artist Invader, saw the Max Max-ian shooter Borderlands go all Christian-Bale-flip-out, found a collection of stunning custom Team Fortress 2 figures, ordered Famicom and Pac-Man business card holders, and our 'one shot's for the day: the BeatlesBox 360, and the most invulnerable he-Link the Legend of Zelda will ever see. |
| Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:32 AM PDT  After this year's World Science Fiction Convention, I was sitting around the bar with some writers and editors and we got to talking about subversive kids' literature. Everyone had their favorites, but then George RR Martin proceeded to describe a book so incredibly twisted, funny and wonderfully wicked that I could scarce believe he wasn't putting me on. But George is the man who introduced me to Froggy the Gremlin from Andy's Gang (immortalized in his classic, page-turning rock-and-roll horror novel The Armageddon Rag) and so I figured he probably knew what he was about. The book was the 1961 Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein. Yes, that Shel Silverstein, author of many books of justly beloved poetry for children. But Uncle Shelby isn't quite for kids (indeed, recent editions bear the subtitle "A Primer for Adults Only"). No, not really for kids at all. Because Uncle Shelby is here to teach the kids the alphabet (mostly -- his alphabet goes abzdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyc) with a series of nasty, laugh-out-loud funny exercises and misinformative advice that nearly cost me a keyboard, as I happened to be drinking water while reading it. Some examples: R is for Red: The fire is red, the fire engine is red, the fireman's hat is red... Too bad the fireman only goes to places WHERE THERE IS A FIRE. T is for TV: See the nice TV. The TV is warm... The TV loves you. Do you know that there are little elves who live inside the TV? ...If you take Daddy's hammer and break open the TV you will see the funny little elves. What will you name them? And then there's the penultimate page: WARNING! It is not nice to burn books. It is against the law. If your Mommy or Daddy tries to burn this book, call the POLICE on them. Previously:
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| Marxist critique of Crayola Factory Tour Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:43 AM PDT DT sez, "A very swell Marxist deconstruction of the The Crayola Factory: A Hands-on Discovery Center. Slightly self-depreciating, somewhat wry, very erudite and extremely accurate. Complex but very, very good." The Triumph Of The Crayolatariat (Thanks, DT!) |
| Live Singularity-esque sf writing workshop in London tomorrow night Posted: 09 Sep 2009 05:14 AM PDT Tomorrow (Thursday) night, I'm appearing on stage in London with my fellow sf writers Gwyneth Jones, Ian Watson and Matthew de Abaitua for an odd live event called "The BAD IDEA Butcher's Shop: FUTURE HUMAN." Here's the pitch: It's £12 to attend, and attendees are given free gin (!), and it runs 7pm - 9pm at the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, 9a St. Thomas's St., London SE1 9RY. Hope to see you! |
Make sure your microphone is OFF before bragging about and giving disgustingly lewd details of your affair with a much younger woman who is also a lobbyist whose clients have business before your committee, and also laughing about the fact that you are simultaneously cheating on your wife and your mistress with yet another woman... 
It's a big week for Tor.com! We're proud to announce the immediate availability of David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's definitive anthology, Year's Best Fantasy 9. 
(Lucky's human companion Sally) Pyne was referred to (veterinary surgeon Robert) Jereb, who has worked on an assortment of animals over the years, including numerous turtles and tortoises whose shells are sometimes repaired with fiberglass, acrylic, Bondo, epoxies and other inorganic substances.
The only other person (besides Schultz) who knew where the safe was buried was the bodyguard who helped him dig the hole. Shortly after, both men were gunned down by hitmen inside the Palace Chophouse Restaurant in Newark, New Jersey.
And so was born the Crayola Factory [sic] Tour. A single production line of original machinery was reassembled in a glassed-in, toplit soundstage. It is tended by a lone, young worker/performer, who demonstrates the crayonmaking process a couple of times each hour. Armed with a headset mic and a remote, he controls overhead lights and cameras and guides the audience's attention to monitors which show close-ups of each step. In other words, the entire Crayola Factory Experience is geared to the re-enactment and re-viewing of the original Mister Rogers/Sesame Street films. 
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