SmarterComics — graphic novel adaptations of business and self-help books Folsom Prison Gangstaz: Eazy E vs. Johnny Cash Big photo gallery of a novelty collector from Japan Flipboard features Boing Boing as "Cool Curator" Los Angeles may demand ID for buying spray paint, other art supplies MakerBot TV launches Braaiday: South African barbecue parody of Rebecca Black's "Friday" The New Yorker on the Blackwing 602 Zippos of the Vietnam War Studio visits with Black Panther designer Emory Douglas, poster artist Frank Kozik, and others Pop or Soda? Elderly person gets "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo Survival Research Laboratories in Los Angeles, 10/1 Fired Yahoo CEO says "They f'd me over" Gumby's fumbled robbery Google acquires Zagat Chili peppers' surprising pain relief RIP Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart Celebrating Star Trek's 45th anniversary with USS Enterprise crew character sugar cookies Ecuadorean Sky (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) Japan: Kan feared Tokyo would become uninhabitable after Fukushima nuclear crisis PBS Travel Guru Rick Steves: Smoking Pot is "My Civil Liberty" Reconstructing lost memories of a bike crash, with GPS Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo Newspaper publishes inadvertently lulzy Libya headline Guy who is Muslim: "Muslims should stop apologizing for 9/11." Mexico: "Twitter terrorists" face 30 years in prison for inciting panic Offworld successor Venus Patrol launched 
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SmarterComics — graphic novel adaptations of business and self-help books
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 12:10 am Over at Credit.com, I reviewed SmarterComics, a new line of well-written graphic novel adaptations of business and self-help books. When I was a kid my parents told me I read too many comic books. "You are wasting your time," my …
Continue reading → Read in browser Folsom Prison Gangstaz: Eazy E vs. Johnny Cash
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 10:48 pm [video link] I spent the day shooting (video) inside Folsom Prison. It was pretty intense in there. We listened to Johnny Cash's famous Live at Folsom Prison on the way to the site, and listened to this driving home. (Thanks, …
Continue reading → Read in browser Big photo gallery of a novelty collector from Japan
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 08, 2011 10:30 pm Kirk Demarais of the fantastic Secret Fun Blog came across a website of a Japanese collector who has an incredible collection of 1960s and 1970s novelties. The collector's site is difficult to navigate, especially if you don't understand Japanese. For …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 10:29 pm Flipboard is currently spotlighting Boing Boing in its "Cool Curators" category, along with a number of other sites we dig that look really nice on the popular iPad app.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 10:23 pm Liz Ohanesian of the LA Weekly says, Dennis Zine of LA City Council has proposed checking IDs, and keeping tabs on the info, for purchases of various art supplies that are considered "graffiti paraphernalia." He just introduced the motion, but, …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 10:14 pm [Video Link] Eddie Codel sends word of the launch of MakerBot TV, a new online video series. "It's a new weekly series about all things MakerBot and 3D printing," says Eddie. "Entertaining and informative. And robots!"
Read in browser Braaiday: South African barbecue parody of Rebecca Black's "Friday"
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 10:06 pm [Video Link] Griffin of watkykjy.co.za says, In South Africa, the word "barbeque" translates to "braai" in Afrikaans but the word is used by all cultures in our country and people look at you funny when you use the word "barbeque". …
Continue reading → Read in browser The New Yorker on the Blackwing 602
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 08, 2011 07:24 pm Blake Eskin writes about the Blackwing 602 pencil for The New Yorker's News Desk blog: In June, I learned from the omnium-gatherum site Boing Boing that the Blackwing has been resurrected. I shared my excitement with our most experienced and …
Continue reading → Read in browser Zippos of the Vietnam War
By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 06:11 pm Air & Space has a gallery of Zippo lighters sold during the Vietnam War at PX stores and customized for US soldiers by village artisans. From Air & Space: "Snoopy the Flying Ace replaced Bugs Bunny of World War II …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 05:23 pm San Francisco photographer Shaun Roberts, who has taken a number of portraits of underground/street artists in their homes/studios, collaborated with bookstore Babylon Falling on multimedia studio visits with the likes of Black Panther "Minister of Culture" Emory Douglas (above), poster/toy …
Continue reading → Read in browser Pop or Soda?
By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 05:14 pm Several years ago, Alan McConchie created the Pop Vs. Soda project that attempted "to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms "Pop" and "Soda" to describe carbonated soft drinks." I wonder if usage has shifted over time. …
Continue reading → Read in browser Elderly person gets "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo
By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 05:04 pm Joy Tomkins, 81, had "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed on her chest. On her back, it says "P.T.O." (please turn over) with an arrow. From the BBC: The grandmother, who is diabetic but said she was not seriously ill, said she …
Continue reading → Read in browser Survival Research Laboratories in Los Angeles, 10/1
By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 04:48 pm In 1979, machine artist Mark Pauline staged the first ever Survival Research Laboratories performance. Pictured above, the show, titled "Machine Sex," took place at a San Francisco Chevron station where dead pigeons dressed in Arab thawbs were gruesomely "processed" by …
Continue reading → Read in browser Fired Yahoo CEO says "They f'd me over"
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 08, 2011 04:43 pm Photo: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Outgoing Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, fired over the phone by board chairman Roy Bostock, is famous for using foul language. Following her departure, she did not disappoint. "These people fucked me over," she says, in her first …
Continue reading → Read in browser Gumby's fumbled robbery
By David Pescovitz on Sep 08, 2011 04:30 pm Gumby attempted to rob a 7-11 store in San Diego on Monday but failed, in part because he couldn't get into his pockets to retrieve his weapon. Police are offering a $1,000 award leading to his arrest which could land …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 04:09 pm Tim and Nina Zagat's eponymous review service has been acquired by Google. I give this news a 25-25-25.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 08, 2011 03:56 pm This post is brought to you by Columbia Pictures "Moneyball" Human beings are supposed to avoid chili peppers. The fruit contains a fiery irritant, called capsaicin. It's so strong that one milligram of the flavorless white crystalline stuff placed in …
Continue reading → Read in browser RIP Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 08, 2011 03:42 pm Sad news: Michael Hart, who founded Project Gutenberg in 1971, died this week. Michael Stern Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 8, 1947. He died on September 6, 2011 in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age …
Continue reading → Read in browser Celebrating Star Trek's 45th anniversary with USS Enterprise crew character sugar cookies
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 03:35 pm Bakingdom has a cute photo gallery and how-to on the occasion of Star Trek's 45th TV anniversary: Star Trek Sugar Cookies.
Read in browser Ecuadorean Sky (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 03:23 pm Boing Boing reader Porter Yates shares this photo, titled "The Earth is Flat," with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool—and explains: Looking onto Andean fields near Simiatug, Ecuador. My vantage point was from ~ 13,000 ft. The clouds filled the valley …
Continue reading → Read in browser Japan: Kan feared Tokyo would become uninhabitable after Fukushima nuclear crisis
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 03:18 pm Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan shared candid thoughts on the Fukushima nuclear disaster in an interview this week. "Deserted scenes of Tokyo without a single man around came across my mind," he told Asahi Shimbun, describing his state of …
Continue reading → Read in browser PBS Travel Guru Rick Steves: Smoking Pot is "My Civil Liberty"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 08, 2011 03:18 pm [Video Link] "I'm a hardworking, tax-paying, kid-raising, church-going citizen of this country," say author and PBS travel host Rick Steves, "and if I work hard all day long and want to go home and relax with a joint, that is …
Continue reading → Read in browser Reconstructing lost memories of a bike crash, with GPS
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 03:08 pm In the NYT, John Markoff tells a personal story of how GPS data helped him fill in details of a bike crash lost to memory: While I healed, I became obsessed with figuring out why I had crashed. Hitting a …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 08, 2011 02:57 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Watchismo is offering BoingBoing readers a 10% off BOINGISMO coupon code for their new collection of German Aeromatic mechanical & automatic watches …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 02:53 pm Jessica Stephens snapped the pic of the newspaper headline, above, and asks, "Seriously? Nobody at the Washington fucking Post saw a problem with this headline?" (via @rstevens)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 02:42 pm Comedian and writer Aman Ali of the "30 Mosques" project featured previously here on Boing Boing has an opinion piece up at CNN about how he's sick of feeling like he has to apologize, on behalf of all Muslims, for …
Continue reading → Read in browser Mexico: "Twitter terrorists" face 30 years in prison for inciting panic
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 08, 2011 02:24 pm Gilberto Martinez Vera, a 48-year-old school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio host, are accused of spreading fake reports of gunmen attacking schools in Mexico's south-eastern city of Veracruz. The pair faces up to 30 years in …
Continue reading → Read in browser Offworld successor Venus Patrol launched
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 08, 2011 02:10 pm Brandon Boyer, IGF Chairman and former editor of Offworld here at BB, is launching its successor: Venus Patrol. Within hours of establishing a Kickstarter project to make it possible, he's already raised $47k, leaving the $50k target within easy reach …
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