72 Demons: crowd sourced alternative illustrations of the Ars Goetia William Gibson interview: Boing Boing exclusive Man busted for sex with raft Star Wars: The Tweaking Continues (now on Blu-ray) Christian Pacheco Quijano's lucha libre art Video trailer for new book: Crap at My Parents' House Guardian denies responsibility for unredacted cables Marines vs. Ancient Romans Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: the kind of Internet primer you want to slide under your boss's door 
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72 Demons: crowd sourced alternative illustrations of the Ars Goetia
By Dean Putney on Sep 01, 2011 11:27 pm My friend Tara Helfer, who you may remember as the illustrator of this lovely drawing I posted a while back, is taking on a pretty ambitious senior project: organize seventy two different artists to illustrate each of the demons in …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 01, 2011 07:54 pm William Gibson's most recent novel, Zero History, was recently published (Cory called it an "exciting adventure that wakes you to the present-day's futurism"). I asked William a few questions by email. Here are his answers: The paperback edition of your …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 01, 2011 06:06 pm A gentleman from Hamilton, Ohio was charged with public indecency after being caught having sex with a stolen inflatable pool raft. The raft was pink. Edwin Charles Tobergta has four previous public indecency charges, including one involving an inflatable pumpkin. …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 01, 2011 05:58 pm Apparently George Lucas couldn't leave well enough alone, again, and tweaked the Star Wars films for the new Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI, Blu Ray). As seen in the above clip, Vader now screams "Noooooo!" as the Emperor …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 01, 2011 05:36 pm While at the Gira Telmexhub conference in Mérida, Mexico last weekend, I met artist Christian Pacheco Quijano who showed me his striking series of lucha libre paintings. Seen here, "Príncipe de Seda" (2010, digital illustration). Christian Pacheco Quijano
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 01, 2011 04:59 pm [Video Link] Here's the trailer for a funny book called Crap at My Parents' House. Crap at My Parents' House is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our moms and dads accumulate without …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 01, 2011 02:58 pm The Guardian released a statement today assailing Wikileaks' accusation that one of its reporters published the password to an unredacted set of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. The newspaper admits publishing the password, but says it was assured that the files …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 01, 2011 02:27 pm After someone wondered whether a single Marine regiment could take on the Roman Empire, redditor Prufrock451 took up the challenge the best way possible: with flash fiction. [Reddit via Metafilter]
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 01, 2011 01:22 pm John Naughton's latest book, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, What You Really Need to Know About the Internet, expands on his spectacular Observer feature article, "The internet: Everything you ever need to know, which I described as "a marvel of economy, …
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