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• WWI pro-reading ad
• Old sweaters reborn as mittens
• Evolution toys for kids: Charlie's Playhouse
• Broke-ass Washington state set to give MSFT $100M annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in evasion
• Icarus: remixed woodcut from Dan Hillier
• Fire-breathing snowman
• For Valentine's: A musical ode to the joys of being single

WWI pro-reading ad Posted: 14 Feb 2010 11:35 PM PST This WWI-era American Library Association ad has it all: reading, design, and beating up Kaiser Bill. ALA Camp Library Previously: At the edges of libraries Boing Boing Boing Boing: Mule library Boing Boing: Tolkien collector builds Hobbit house library Boing Boing: Children's book library from 1937: My Book House

Old sweaters reborn as mittens Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:50 PM PST Cristine sends us her "environmentally friendly mittens handmade from recycled wool sweaters that have been washed and felted. Polar fleece lined, your hands will stay toasty warm and dry." Cristine's Mittens (Thanks, Cristine!) Previously: Felted sheep-skulls - Boing Boing Arts, Crafts and Hoo-has - Boing Boing Pong felt necklace charm Boing Boing Flying spaghetti monster tree ornament - Boing Boing TED: Felt containers feature cool topology - Boing Boing LOVE / HATE baby mittens - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Vecro mittens for babies

Evolution toys for kids: Charlie's Playhouse Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:44 PM PST Kate sez, "Charlie's Playhouse is the first company ever to make kids' toys and games about evolution and Charles Darwin. I'm a scientist and mom, and decided to start this company when I discovered there are NO kid's products on evolution. Maybe that's why only 40% of US adults accept evolution - because we don't talk to kids about it. This link goes to a short, fun video (with a great bluegrass soundtrack) in which our cartoon 'Charlie' Darwin explains how there are no evolution toys. It's catchy, please take a look! While there, you can also check out our flagship product, the Giant Evolution Timeline, an 18-foot-long play mat covering 600 million years of evolution." Evolution for kids | Science for kids | Evolution activities - Charlie's Playhouse (Thanks, Kate!) Previously: Toys R Us puts elf toys in the science section Boing Boing Nekosaur crystal robot toy with mecha-guts Boing Boing Maglev toy train - Boing Boing DIY science toys for kids - Boing Boing Panopticon toy for trapped insects - Boing Boing How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist ... Make a pseudoscope, a reverse depth perception toy - Boing Boing Scary UK evolution survey - Boing Boing Creationist documentary premiere bars science blogger ...

Broke-ass Washington state set to give MSFT $100M annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in evasion Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:30 PM PST Jeff sez: Facing a $2.8 billion deficit and pending insolvency, Washington State's House Bill 3176 proposes changes to its B&O Royalty tax that would give Microsoft an estimated $100 million tax cut annually and possible amnesty for more than a billion dollars in past tax evasion. Under current law, all of Microsoft's worldwide licensing revenues of approximately $20.7 billion annually are taxable at .484 percent or ~$100.1 million. Under the new law, only the portion of software licenses sold to Washington state customers would be taxable - perhaps resulting in less than a million annually in royalty tax from the company. The lead sponsor of HB3176 is Democratic Representative Ross Hunter, who represents Medina, home to Bill Gates and a number of current and former Microsoft billionaires and multi-millionaires, and other areas around Microsoft's corporate campus. Washington to Give Microsoft a $100 Million Annual Tax Cut...and Possible Amnesty on Past Tax Evasion (Image: WEB DEVELOPERS!, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Nick, Programmerman's photostream) Previously: Washington State to Microsoft: why aren't you paying your taxes? Boing Boing: Girls Gone Wild tycoon charged with tax evasion

Icarus: remixed woodcut from Dan Hillier Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:57 PM PST Icarus is the latest piece from Dan Hillier, London's brilliant recombiner of old woodcuts and new line-art, creator of the grotesque and the beautiful. He sells prints in various sizes -- I've got them up at my office and in the flat, too. Icarus. Previously: Dan Hillier's new tentacle horrors Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier Horned cyclops Victorian engraving tees from Dan Hillier Dan Hillier's altered engravings Dan Hillier's tentacle horrors -- now on moleskine notebooks! Demented woodsy woodcuts from Dan Hillier - Boing Boing Web Zen: group show zen - Boing Boing

Fire-breathing snowman Posted: 14 Feb 2010 07:45 AM PST Jeni sez, "Pictures of the giant snowman a Bel Air family made with their children in front of their home: 'My husband is an engineer and decided later on to make the snowman breathe fire.'" The fire-breathing snowman of Bel Air (Thanks, Jeni!) Previously: Laughable abominable snowman doll - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Real-snow versions of Calvin and Hobbes's gory snowmen Boing Boing: Wooden snowmen protest global warming in Norway Boing Boing: China Mieville's Socialist Review Christmas story

For Valentine's: A musical ode to the joys of being single Posted: 14 Feb 2010 07:32 AM PST I may be a smug married, but that doesn't mean I don't remember how the public messages surrounding this holiday can be a royal pain in the butt. For those of you who are single and quite-happy-about-it-thank-you, I present you this gift: "Just By Myself", a song by Greg Brown, one of my favorite musicians and a good Midwestern fella. Be sure to listen through to the end, the funniest bits are when he starts improvising. This recording comes from Greg Brown's album The Live One, available from Red House Records. Image courtesy Flickr user cgparkhouse via CC

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