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Puppyday Bunnyday Caturday Lana Del Rey Dancing (a tumblog of greatness) Sciency, girl-positive steampunk kids' adventure novel on Kickstarter Original pitch-reel for the Muppet Show is delightfully bonkers Orbital on dance CERN manager weighs gnome Thomas Kinkade, 1958-2012 Stalin notebooks are hot sellers in Moscow Gweek 046: How to See the 4th Dimension Understanding TPP, ACTA's nastier, more secret little brother WIPO caught secretly funneling cash to North Korea to buy patent database computers What's wrong with corn ethanol? HOWTO make zombie chocolate bunnies and undead eggs for Easter Having lots of well-paid staff around is good for retail profits Excellent William Gibson video interview Randy Regier's roadtrip photos "The Warrior Class": Blackwater videos in Harper's Magazine show brutality on display Blogger scoops news of Malawi President's death, is detained and harassed by police Old cartoons depicting women as cuts of meat $130 check that bought rights to Superman on auction (current high bid: $45k) For Passover fun in Israel, a safari of animals crafted from Coca-Cola trash London's Overthrow: China Miéville's love poem and lament for London Baraklava Obama This church scandal in Russia involves Photoshop, and a disappearing $30K watch Brass porthole cover for a laundry chute Food critic Jonathan Gold attends a 9-course marijuana dinner Santorum's wife authored children's book on good manners, with foreword by Joe Paterno, blurb by Bono Best Made: cloth extension cords and other classic goods Puppyday
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 07, 2012 12:58 pm "murlin, buttercup," shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by beckitten. Says the photographer, "My mother is documenting her pup at murlin.net if you're interested in more photos and videos of murlin."
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 07, 2012 12:51 pm Photo: Family Dinner, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from reway2007's photostream, shared in the BB Flickr Pool.
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 07, 2012 12:45 pm "Martini," by photographer JKG III (web), shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 07, 2012 12:32 pm Link. (thanks, Tara McGinley!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 07, 2012 11:56 am Kyle sez, "My friend Jordan Stratford has launched his first Kickstarter (currently funded, yay!) but the idea is simply too lovely not to share. From Kickstarter:" This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems. This is the made up story about two ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 07, 2012 08:52 am Here's the original, extremely bonkers pitch-reel produced for The Muppet Show, which appears on the DVD set The Muppet Show: Season One. Not shown in this clip is the finale, which the Wikia Muppet wiki describes thus: "After Leo's powerful speech, Kermit appears from off-screen against a CBS logo and shrugs, 'What the hell was ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 07, 2012 07:45 am Orbital talks vintage synths and its new album with Wired's Geeta Dayal. (It's available streaming at NME or as a fancy import CD on Amazon)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 07, 2012 07:23 am Mike Stoor of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, weighs a gnome in the Control Room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on April 5, 2012. A German precision scale maker sends the gnome to different scientific institutions to demonstrate that, due to gravity and the Earth not being a perfect sphere, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 07, 2012 06:59 am Thomas Kinkade is dead at 54. He died unexpectedly of natural causes at home, reports his family. [AP]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 09:31 pm The hot new bestselling product in Moscow's stationers is a notebook emblazoned with a completely non-ironic portrait of Josef Stalin, looming large in his uniform and bristling medals. In his generalissimo uniform with a chest full of medals, Stalin now proudly stares from notebook covers on a shelf of the Pedagogical Book House store in ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 08:18 pm Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 46 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing's software wrangler and the Johnny Appleseed of weird awesomeness, and Glenn Fleishman, a long-time tech reporter, a hacky perl programmer, and one ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 08:00 pm On TechDirt, Glyn Moody covers the highlights of a new report by Carrie Ellen Sager of infojustice.org that compares the provisions in ACTA, the secretly negotiated copyright treaty currently up for adoption in Europe, the USA and other countries; and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a more extreme, more secretive version of ACTA being negotiated by ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 07:36 pm A trusted insider source writes, "A real blockbuster of bizarre at WIPO [ed: The World Intellectual Trade Organization, the UN body responsible for copyright and patent treaties]. It seems that [WIPO director general] Francis Gurry has personally approved payment for new computer equipment to go to North Korea to modernise their patent office, and that ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 06, 2012 06:25 pm We grow a lot of corn in the United States, much of which never sees the inside of a human stomach. In fact, in 2010, something like a quarter of all the corn grown in this country went to ethanol production. That's a massive amount of corn grown for gas tanks. And it's a problem. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 06:18 pm At the Criminal Crafts blog, a fun tutorial on "pairing zombies with a fuzzy pastel holiday," through delicious zombie bunny rabbits and haunted eggs. There's a photo gallery here. (via Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 06:15 pm Why "Good Jobs" Are Good for Retailers, a Harvard Business Review study by MIT's Zeynep Ton, argues that the success of retailers like Uniqlo and Trader Joe's can be attributed, in part, to maintaining high levels of well-paid staff. This runs contrary to contemporary retail wisdom, which has relentlessly focused on cutting staff levels to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 06:10 pm Kaely says: Alex Pasternack has a terrific interview with the legendary William Gibson in Motherboard. This isn't another re-hash of what's in his latest book, Distrust that Particular Flavor. Bearing in mind that Gibson doesn't have to predict the future anymore (because it's already here, as he says, "it's just not very evenly distributed") Alex ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 06:04 pm Artist Randy Regier and Bill North took a road trip from Kansas to Oregon, snapping photos along the way. They have a good eye for funny things. Are we there yet? One van, two friends, and the road.
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 05:45 pm [video link] This month's Harper's Magazine includes a feature by Charles Glass about the growth of private security firms since 9/11, "The Warrior Class: A golden age for the freelance soldier." The conclusion to the piece describes a series of videos shown to Glass by a source who had worked for the private-security company Blackwater ...
Read in browser Blogger scoops news of Malawi President's death, is detained and harassed by police
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 05:30 pm Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic tells Boing Boing, My pal Andrew Evans who blogs for National Geographic Traveler just happened to be in the capital of Malawi yesterday when the president was rushed to the hospital. The local media insisted he was in stable condition but people were saying he had died, so Andrew stopped ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 05:30 pm Mitch O'Connell digs into his old-timey ephemera cornucopia to assemble a gallery of women depicted as slabs of beef ready to be butchered. The Most Sexist Images EVER!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 06, 2012 05:22 pm In 1938 Detective Comics purchased the rights to Superman from his creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster for $130 (click image above). This check is now on the auction block and the current high bid is $45,500. (Via Illustration Art)
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 05:14 pm A monkey sculpture is pictured on a pick-up truck before it is placed in an exhibition at Hiriya recycling park, built on the site of a former garbage dump near Tel Aviv. The Coca-Cola Recycled Safari featuring animals made of recycled Coca Cola packages will be open to the public during the Passover holiday. More ...
Read in browser London's Overthrow: China Miéville's love poem and lament for London
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 05:05 pm London's Overthrow is an expanded, illustrated version of 'Oh, London, You Drama Queen', China Miéville's editorial in the New York Times. Part warning, part love-poem, a must-read. 30 November. Above the invisible bridge at Blackfriars, red Victorian pilings jutting from the Thames, helicopters dangle like ugly Christmas baubles. They surveil thronging streets. Two million public-sector ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 04:32 pm Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, a storyteller and video director who collaborates with us to produce Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America, sends this snapshot from Istanbul. He's in Turkey for an international storyteller's convention. "While visiting a hip Baklava spot in Istanbul," says Joe, "This chef proudly walked out exhibiting his political ...
Read in browser This church scandal in Russia involves Photoshop, and a disappearing $30K watch
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 04:20 pm You can tell by the pixels: The Russian Orthodox Church is accused of Photoshopping a photo on their website of Patriarch Kirill I to "disappear" a $30,000 watch. The church leader has previously said that the watch does not exist. Where a Breguet timepiece once existed, the 'shoop extended his black sleeve, but the sloppy ...
Read in browser Brass porthole cover for a laundry chute
By Cory Doctorow on Apr 06, 2012 04:00 pm Songwriter Allee Willis installed this fab brass porthole cover on her laundry chute. I am tempted to install a laundry chute just so I can follow suit. As much as I love these they're not my favorite porthole around here. That honor is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 03:49 pm Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold, who recently departed the L.A. Weekly to join the Los Angeles Times, writes about his experience attending a nine-course "Marijuana and Chinese Herbs" dinner hosted by serial restauranteur Nguyen Tran and prepared by chef Laurent Quenioux. High Times columnist Elise McDonough, author of the newly-released "The Official High Times Cannabis ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 06, 2012 03:22 pm This is not a joke. Ethan Persoff, archivist of weirdo ephemera and "comics with problems," tells Boing Boing: In 2011 Rick Santorum insulted the planet by comparing traditional marriage to a napkin. But did you know he ALSO wrote a short piece of fiction about "the birth of the napkin" in 2003? And to add ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 06, 2012 03:03 pm In 2009, graphic designer Peter Buchanan-Smith designed a classic, high-quality ax. That product led to "Best Made," Buchanan-Smith's online catalog of vintage-inspired, "authentic"-feeling products like shears, blankets, tin cups, caliper pens, and that sort of kit. (Here's a 2010 NYT article about the ax, etc.) I like the look of these cloth extension cords! They're ...
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