The angel making Jacob hit himself Indiana State Fair stage collapses Anonymous hacks BART after wireless shutdown; protests planned for Monday Compton-native rapper "The Game" pulls Twitter prank on Compton sheriff's station. Sheriff: not amused. Bed Peace: John and Yoko 19th-c. African-American village unearthed in what is now NYC's Central Park Important baby-monkey-riding-a-pig news Long Beach Police Chief: we detain photographers, and I don't have any guidelines for that policy, photography is classed with attempts to acquire weaponized smallpox Custom R2D2 sweater RIP Paul Meier, father of the randomized trial 
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The angel making Jacob hit himself
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 15, 2011 02:30 am Anyone know the original author of this spiffing remix of The Angel Making jacob Hit Himself, Gustave Doré's 1855 woodcut? Update: Married to the Sea!
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 15, 2011 02:04 am Five are dead and dozen injured after a stage at the Indiana State Fair fell in on itself Saturday. The collapse was caught on video, embedded above, which shows the sudden high winds said to be responsible. More from the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 01:28 am Anonymous has delivered on earlier threats to hack BART after the San Francisco Bay Area transit entity "pulled a Mubarak." Wireless data service was killed in some stations last week, after BART supervisors got word that protesters were planning demonstrations …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 14, 2011 06:15 pm "The Game" tweets the phone number to the sheriff's station in his native Compton, CA. Phone calls from many of his 580,000 Twitter followers flood the station, crowding out "legitimate calls about a missing person, a spousal abuse incident, two …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 14, 2011 05:50 pm Moved by the recent unrest in London, Yoko Ono, artist and wife of the late John Lennon, has decided to share the 1969 film "Bed Peace" (directed by Yoko and John and filmed by Nic Knowland), online. [The film] is …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 14, 2011 05:19 pm Just a few months ago, anthropologists and historians finally received permission from the city of New York to begin digging in an area of Central Park (near 85th Street and Central Park West): a critical step in a decades-long quest …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 14, 2011 05:00 pm [Video Link: "Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig) Art Show!!!"] Boing Boing pal Andrea James says, It seems that the video you posted on Boing Boing of the baby monkey riding a baby pig backwards has inspired a lot …
Continue reading → Read in browser Long Beach Police Chief: we detain photographers, and I don't have any guidelines for that policy, photography is classed with attempts to acquire weaponized smallpox
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2011 04:06 pm The Police Chief of Long Beach has confirmed that his department's policy is to detain photographers who do nothing more than take pictures in public places, and that he neither has, nor plans to implement, any guidelines for these detentions. …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2011 01:59 pm Etsy seller EricaKnit will custom-make you an R2D2 jumper (there's a matching toque, too). 4-6 week lead time, so get your autumnal plans in gear. CUSTOM made to order -- Star Wars R2D2 sweater (via Craft)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 14, 2011 01:21 pm David sez, "Paul Meier, who had an extraordinarily high impact/fame ratio, passed away this weekend. Meier is probably best known for the introduction of randomized trials into the evaluation of medical treatments, though his creation of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator likely …
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