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Gweek 060: Superman is a Happy Mutant; Batman is Jerk Hitchens and Orwell "Everyone Only Wants Temps" Photo of Mount Rainier's snow monster! Kalle Mattson, "Water Falls" (music video) Plug NES USB game controllers into iPhone with GameDock Seedling (Browser game) People's Pantone colors Toe-sucker at Walmart Escape From New York soundtrack reissued GOP state Senate candidate drops out to join rebellion Parking lot baby earns soda sobriquet Creative Commons music contest: Freedom & Free Beer Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin Saveincubus plays "(Nothing But) Flowers" on ukulele Camp stove generates electricity to charge gadgets Gweek 060: Superman is a Happy Mutant; Batman is Jerk
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 16, 2012 01:00 pm Click here to play this episode. 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 this episode are: Michael Pusateri -- a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney and Seth Godin -- author, entrepreneur, and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 16, 2012 12:10 pm The Humanist's Anthony Lock on why Christopher Hitchens' overwhelming hatred of totalitarianism puts him squarely in Orwell's tradition of leftist apostasy: "Try as best as you can, he challenged us, to not allow one belief to squander clear thinking about another ... [or] a kind of worship whereby anything deemed negative against the topic or ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 16, 2012 11:34 am In Mother Jones, Gabriel Thompson goes gonzo with a stint doing "on demand" grunt work for one of America's hottest growth industries: temping. I grab a chair from a stack in the corner and take a seat, studying a sign that implores me to be "true" and "passionate" and "creative." In reality, passion and creativity ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 16, 2012 11:15 am Caught on camera! The horrific snow monster of Mount Rainier Creek! Photo by Gisela Taranovski via National Geographic. Good example of pareidolia - Boing Boing Pareidolia on Mars: Barsoomian Bigfoot spotted - Boing Boing Tree pareidolia in Goshen, NH - Boing Boing Jesus in MRI image - Boing Boing Aliens/ghosts in office windows - Boing ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 16, 2012 11:14 am [Video Link] More about this at HypnoSF. Music by Kalle Mattson, Directed by Kevin Parry, Filmed by Andrea Nesbitt. (Thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 16, 2012 11:00 am GameDock is an iPhone dock that comes with game controller ports. Kyle Orland: "At $125 per Dock (plus the cost of an iOS device), the GameDock at first looks a bit less attractive than the $99 Ouya, which is self-contained. But the creators note the power of Apple's iOS devices and the existing library of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 16, 2012 10:54 am Already had enough of Monday? Sure you have. Seedling is a surprisingly well-tuned Zelda-style adventure that you can play in your browser. Stuck? There's a walkthrough.
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 16, 2012 10:46 am Brazilian artist Angélica Dass is creating an ongoing photo series of portraits of people in front of backgrounds that match the Pantone color of their faces. "The project's objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones," she writes. humanæ (via FP)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 16, 2012 10:45 am Last week at the Grovetown, Georgia Walmart, an unidentified man apparently told a young woman that he was with America's Funniest Home Videos and if he could kiss her feet, she'd get a free shopping spree. She agreed. He grabbed her ankle and began to suck on her big toe, causing her to scream. Before ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 16, 2012 10:30 am John Carpenter not only directed the cult classic 1981 film Escape From New York, he composed the soundtrack too. It's a modular synth masterpiece, melding epic Krautrock-esque cinematic scoring with electro-disco. A-number-one. Death Waltz Recording Company has released a remastered vinyl of the original soundtrack, including six tracks that weren't in the film. Jay Shaw ...
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 16, 2012 01:47 am In Iowa, Republican state Senate candidate Randi Shannon has dropped out of the race to become a US Senator in the Republic of the United States. Seems our government has illegally been pretending to be the "official government,' which clearly it is not!" she says. (TPM)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 15, 2012 08:54 pm A baby born in the Parking lot of a 7-Eleven is to be named Cais "Big Gulps" Malley after the convenience chain's signature soda offering. [Florida Today]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 15, 2012 08:17 pm Christian sez, 2012's Free! Music! Contest has opened it's gates at july first. It is the fourth time, that this event is being organized by Musikpiraten, a german society that promotes free art and espacially free music. Bands from all over the world participate in it to win a publication on CD, the so called ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 15, 2012 04:55 pm I've always admired Steve Martin. He's smart, funny, and avoids engaging in the kind of behavior that ends up in celebrity tabloids. (He's also a terrific banjo player.) I recently read his autobiography, Born Standing Up, and now I admire him even more. This short book is about Steve Martin's career as a stand-up comic, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 15, 2012 04:24 pm [Video Link] Here's Saveincubus playing the Talking Heads' "(Nothing But) Flowers" on ukulele. U900 plays "Ben" on UkuleleZooey Deschanel plays "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?" on ukuleleSophie Madeleine performs "Oil & Gold" on ukulele -- Boing Boing exclusiveLisa Hannigan performs "Knots" on the ukuleleSophie Madeleine plays 30 uke songs in 30 daysNew Order ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 15, 2012 02:55 pm The $129 BioLite wood burning campstove converts heat to electricity, so you can charge your mobile phone while you boil up your freeze-dried beef stroganoff. BioLite
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