Report: "West Memphis Three" may be freed Tasmanian Devils and contagious cancer An Apollo astronaut on political quagmires "Headless" Post-man Put to Pasture A touching tribute to HP's WebOS and the legacy of Palm Ancient Egyptians: They're just like us! The questionable birth of Times New Roman Grant Morrison's Supergods reviewed by Jeff Kripal The freaky murals at Denver International Airport HP kills TouchPad and Pre Sponsor shout-out: Watchismo Infographic: crimes through time and their punishments Doctors are using ecstasy to treat Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' PTSD Marijuana genome sequenced Whodunnit? The Making of the Shining Hubble telescope hand-stitched in felt is awesome New astronaut-themed manga series: "ST&RS" What Fukushima can teach us about coal pollution Ark Encounter: theme park expansion of Creation Museum Did Harper Collins rip off Brazilian illustrator Nathália Suellen? 100 days of summer in New York City Report: HP to buy software company, spin off PC division Movie Trailer: "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place" "Enterprise expert finder" gplus.com mistaken for Google+, stupid user hijinks ensue Confused by "Jersey Shore," Reuters issues best correction notice ever Mexican man captures live fairy Impressionist Jim Meskimen does Shakespeare in celebrity voices HOWTO take "magazine cover pictures" of your cat (1955) At the gathering of the Juggalos 
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Report: "West Memphis Three" may be freed
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 19, 2011 05:28 am According to news reports from local papers in the West Memphis, Arkansas area, and the Associated Press, some or all of the so-called "West Memphis Three" may be released from prison tomorrow through a no-contest plea deal. Craighead County Circuit …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 10:18 pm Tasmanian Devils, the real-life marsupial inspiration behind the cartoon beastie, were already an endangered species when nature added insult to injury. In 1996, researchers first formally described Devil Facial Tumor Disease, a cancer that would later turn out to be …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 09:55 pm Thank you, Tim Lloyd. This made my day.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 09:38 pm Last year, the killer who inspired the famous New York Post headline "Headless Body in Topless Bar" was denied parole. This year, the author of that (frankly fabulous) headlne retired. (As a side note, the author of my favorite headline, …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 18, 2011 09:36 pm Read in browser Ancient Egyptians: They're just like us!
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 09:27 pm Egyptian mummies were coiffed for the afterlife with the help of animal fat-based hair gel. Bonus moment of cultural weirdness: The article linked here seems to ignore the fact that styling the hair of the dead isn't just some odd …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 09:21 pm Here's some interesting history for font-heads*. Times New Roman has, as we know, become the default type for everything from school term papers to magazines. It's usually attributed to Stanley Morison, who "oversaw" the design for The Times of London …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 18, 2011 08:35 pm This summer saw the publication of Supergods, comic mage Grant Morrison's meditation on comicbooks, mythology, symbolism, and his own life as an artist/writer. Morrison is one of the characters profiled by BB contributor and Authors of the Impossible author Jeff …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 08:18 pm There have been plenty of looney theories about Leo Tanguma's murals at Denver Airport (AKA "America's Most Inconvenient Airport".) My favorite ones are about the D.U.M.B. (Deep Underground Military Base) there. I had to tear my 8-year-old daughter away from …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 18, 2011 08:15 pm In this advertisement for the HP TouchPad, a singer asks, "Let me entertain you! Let me make you smile!" Unfortunately for HP, customers were insufficiently entertained by the tablet, and they did not smile. The result? Death. Along with the …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 18, 2011 08:01 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring another week of Boing Boing Blast, our delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Here's an unusually cool one, at least by Swiss standards! Tendence Watches of Switzerland introduced a radical new watch display …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 07:53 pm A fond look back at historical punishments around the world. Crimes & Punishments Through Time
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 07:46 pm Alex Pasternack, editor of Motherboard.tv says: "We did a profile of the (promising) quest to treat Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' PTSD with MDMA." Michael and Annie Mithoefer's patients come to their clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, as a last resort …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 18, 2011 07:37 pm Biotech start-up Medicinal Genomics has sequenced the DNA of Cannabis sativa. From Nature News Blog: Thus far the company is only posting the raw sequence reads – meaning that the over 131 billion bases of shotgun sequence have not yet …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 06:20 pm "You find this site while doing research on endangered species. What type of website is this? Who is the author of this entry? Where did this information originally come from?" Note entry number 2 on this Computer Literacy class quiz …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 18, 2011 06:15 pm Watch "The Making of The Shining," the 30-minute documentary shot by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian, who was 17 at the time. (Thanks, Sarah Ruxin!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 06:09 pm @flyingjenny made this excellent needle felted rendition of a scene from the NASA Hubble Servicing Mission 4 as part of an Etsy craft competition. She plans to use the funds raised from its sale to get to a space tweetup …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 05:59 pm The top-selling weekly Japanaese manga magazine, Shonen Jump, recently debuted a new astronaut-themed series titled ST&RS. BB pal Marc Weidenbaum pointed us to it and explains, It's about a boy who wants to be an astronaut (like most shonen manga, …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 18, 2011 05:44 pm Earlier this week, I told you about a new study tracking radioactive fallout from the nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. It started with a team of researchers in California, who had been monitoring radioactive sulfur in the atmosphere …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 18, 2011 05:41 pm Answers In Genesis, the Christian ministry behind the Creation Museum in Hebron, Kentucky -- where dinosaurs and cavemen live in harmony -- is expanding with a new $155 million religious theme park. The Ark Encounter, slated for construction next year …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 05:34 pm "The story starts with Harper Collins inviting me to create a cover to 'Bewitching," Rio de Janeiro-based artist Nathália Suellen writes on her blog. "They wanted something similar with 'City of Angels,' and I remember I had refused it because …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 05:13 pm Carlito (aka Charles le Brigand) whose "Bronx Riviera" work I featured here on Boing Boing a couple of months ago, has a new photo essay up: "100 days of summer," with images of "hydrants and life in the street during …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 04:57 pm Bloomberg reports that the world's largest computer maker, HP, plans to purchase software company Autonomy Corp. for $10 billion—and (here's the real stunner news) sell off its personal-computer business. What the?
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 04:48 pm [Video Link] The LA Times writes about a new documentary, Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place. Over the decades, Kesey, who died in 2001, attempted to edit the footage into a documentary but was never able to …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 04:48 pm I pity the moderators at gplus.com. The site is a forum for Gerson Lehrman Group, "the premier enterprise platform for connecting to experts and their insights." But countless Stupid Users trying to find Google+, the search giant's new social network …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 18, 2011 04:37 pm This Abercrombie vs. Jersey Shore item on Reuters now contains the best wire service correction notice ever.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 04:25 pm Jose Maldonado, a 22-year-old bricklayer in Guadalajara, found a live fairy. "I was picking guavas and I saw a twinkling. I thought it was a firefly. I picked it up and felt that it was moving; when I looked at …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2011 03:56 pm Celebrity impersonator Jim Meskimen recites Shakespeare in many different voices. Impressionist Jim Meskimen Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices (Via Blame in on the Voices)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 18, 2011 02:56 pm Who can resist the advice of the "world's most famous cat photographer"? I hear he got the title from the World Cat Photography Society, which, as any fool can tell you, is the world's leading authority on the subject. How …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 18, 2011 01:33 pm "The Insane Clown Posse version of hip hop—politically anti-racist, but very white and non-urban—is the escape plan for the kids who don't ever leave." [Deadspin]
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