James Gurney paints a mud puddle How sneezing up a piece of living tissue inspired Douglas Coupland to write a bio of Marshall McLuhan NBC twitter feed taken over by scoundrels Herman Cain sings God Bless America RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart Friday Freak-Out: Ray Columbus & The Invaders play "She's A Mod" (1964) How has skyscraper design changed since 9/11? The Rocket's Red Glare (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) T-shirts: film director names as iconic band logos The Age of Steam: model railroad music video by Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra Man posts photos with robbery loot on Facebook White House blog: Obama's American Jobs Act, innovation, and crowdfunding Glenn Reynolds: "You have a right to record the police" Curing acne: there's not an app for that Rush Limbaugh explains Douglas Rushkoff to his listeners Innovation and unpredictability: everyone needs a 303 (but not for $1,500) Sea life (BB Flickr Pool) Back to the Future limited edition sneakers auctioned for charity 
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James Gurney paints a mud puddle
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 10:49 pm One of many reasons I admire artist James Gurney so much: he finds beauty in almost everything. Yesterday I took my car to the shop because it needed an inspection. The rain was pouring down. There wasn't much space in …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 10:38 pm Kevin Kelly enjoyed Douglas Coupland's Marshall McLuhan biography, You Know Nothing of My Work!. I have not yet read it, but I'm planning to. Here's an excerpt from the book, in which Coupland explains an incident that led him to …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 09, 2011 10:24 pm NBC News' twitter feed was compromised today and fake reports of new terrorist attacks posted to it.
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 09, 2011 10:12 pm Presidential candidate Herman Cain offers a touching rendition of God Bless America, set to footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a backing track of human screams. [via @Mat]
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 09, 2011 08:15 pm As Mark posted yesterday, Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart, who invented ebooks when he keyed in the text of the Declaration of Independence in 1971, has died. He was 64. He was a copyfighter and a hero of the …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 09, 2011 06:59 pm [video link] Friday Freak-Out: Ray Columbus & The Invaders play "She's A Mod" (1964), originally performed by The Senators. The track is available on the double CD set Ray Columbus & The Invaders: Definitive Collection. Some history of the band …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 09, 2011 06:40 pm Miles O'Brien did a report for PBS NewsHour on how the technology and design of skyscrapers has changed since 9/11. Video here, transcript here. The World Trade Center collapse was a "stark and stunning" reminder to architects and engineers of …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 09, 2011 06:23 pm Bill D. of the "Riding With Robots" blog shares this image with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says, Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA's new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground test, Sept. 8, 2011 at ATK's …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 09, 2011 06:21 pm Last week, Mark blogged about t-shirts that replace classic rock logos with the names of scientists and philosophers. I just spotted a similar line of film director t-shirts! Available from CineFile Video are Scorcese, Ozu, Fassbinder, De Palma, and others. …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 09, 2011 06:10 pm [Video Link] If you fly Virgin America airlines sometime soon, and tune in to channel 10 on the in-flight entertainment TV dial, you'll have a chance to see some beautiful animations, short films, and music videos on the Boing Boing …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 09, 2011 06:00 pm My old roommate worked in a mall photo lab (remember those?) and used to frequently see photos of young men posing with big spreads of contraband -- drugs, guns, piles of money, jewelry. I was reminded of that when I …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 09, 2011 05:46 pm Over at the White House blog, Tom Kalil and Aneesh Chopra look at Obama's American Jobs Act in the context of innovation, entrepreneurship, and crowdfunding, including a link to the iPhone 4 Tripod Mount & Stand project on Kickstarter. That's …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 05:17 pm About the OpenWatch Project from OpenWatch on Vimeo. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit wrote an essay for the Washington Examiner called "You have a right to record the police." In an era when government feels free to record citizens whenever they're …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 04:33 pm Smartphone apps that display certain colors in a way that supposedly eliminates acne don't work, says the FTC The makers of two mobile applications claiming to treat acne have settled FTC complaints that the developers sold the apps without proof …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 09, 2011 04:14 pm Rush Limbaugh explains who our pal Doug Rushkoff is to his dittoheads: Okay, now, I found out who this Douglas Rushkoff guy is. He's a "media theorist," a media theorist, "the author of Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 09, 2011 03:00 pm Photo: Kleine Gelbe Ente This post is brought to you by Columbia Pictures "Moneyball" The novelty of disruputive technology soon becomes second nature. Social networking made the web intimate, a lingua franca to even the barely computer-literate, but its real …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 09, 2011 02:44 pm A photo contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by JKG II.
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 09, 2011 02:40 pm The Nike Mag, based on the sneakers seen in the popular motion picture Back to the Future II, is finally in existence. The NIKE MAG is no longer the "greatest shoe never made." The mythical shoe that originally captured the …
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