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- Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists
- Colton Harris-Moore has a posse.
- Tibet is exactly like America's Civil War South, says China.
- Tibetan Tantric Masters: video
- Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
- Happy Little Drop-and-Give-Me-50
- Vans with R. Crumb artwork
- Web Zen: group show zen
- Howard Kurtz and conflicts of interest
- Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now With Fire!)
| Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:56 PM PST During the health care debate in congress, more than a dozen US lawmakers all parrotted talking points scripted for them by lobbyists working for biotech/drug giant Genentech. So what? Said one of those lobbyists, "This happens all the time. There was nothing nefarious about it." |
| Colton Harris-Moore has a posse. Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:12 PM PST Momma Tried: Colton Harris-Moore has a posse. And t-shirts. (previous post / thanks Jason Weisberger) |
| Tibet is exactly like America's Civil War South, says China. Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:05 PM PST "He is a black president, and he understands the slavery abolition movement and Lincoln's major significance for that movement. Thus, on [Tibet] we hope that President Obama, more than any other foreign leader, can better, more deeply grasp China's stance on protecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity." ● Obama arrives in Shanghai tomorrow. China is pre-emptively detaining dissidents (via Instapundit). ● Related: Obama snubbed the Dalai Lama in DC this week (and that's a first, Bush and Clinton met with him every time). |
| Tibetan Tantric Masters: video Posted: 14 Nov 2009 07:40 PM PST 1) His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma lineage in IndiaVideo: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. |
| Koalas may go extinct in 30 years Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:55 PM PST  [Image: Koala, a CC-licensed photo by Mshai] The Australian Koala Foundation reported this week that koala populations are declining because we humans continue to invade their habitats. Wildfires and global warming aren't helping, either. They could become extinct within a few decades. More: BBC, Reuters. |
| Happy Little Drop-and-Give-Me-50 Posted: 14 Nov 2009 03:59 PM PST What did Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross do before becoming PBS's resident mellow hippie artist on The Joy of Painting? Would you believe, Air Force master sergeant? Turns out, the Ross we know is really a reaction against 20 years spent being "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work." |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:13 PM PST  I've been wearing Vans slip-ons since I was a teenager. In recent years, Vans has made shoes featuring designs from pioneering underground artists I really dig like Robt. Williams and Rick Griffin. I was thrilled to find out that they recently added a series of shoes featuring the art of comix pioneer R. Crumb! Seen above are slip-ons emblazoned with Crumb's Fritz the Cat. They're $50. (Mr. Natural appears on a pair of high-tops.) R. Crumb Slip-On Vans (Amazon) |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2009 12:25 PM PST  [image above: Dan Hillier. Cory and Alice gave me this print for Christmas a few years back, and it hangs in my office!] ♦ dan hillier Permalink for this edition. Web Zen is created and curated by Frank Davis, and re-posted here on Boing Boing with his kind permission. Web Zen Home and Archives, Store, Twitter. |
| Howard Kurtz and conflicts of interest Posted: 14 Nov 2009 12:25 PM PST Clay Shirky asks, "Is there a worse media reporter in America than Howard Kurtz?" American Progress article. |
| Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now With Fire!) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:24 AM PST The Ruben's Tube: Proving that basic science concepts are more fun to learn when you add open flames since 1904. Want to build your own? There's an Instructables for that. Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user tom_adams, via CC. |
You can find a lot of crap on YouTube, but you know what? You can find gems like this, too. I don't know much about the origin of this video, but it's one in a series of three ten-minute chunks on YouTube -- rare color footage of Tibetan tantric masters meditating, in retreat. Looks a few decades old. Start at 0:39 and just zone out. According to the notes from the uploader, the last 3 faces you'll see in the video are: | You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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