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How to assault Cinderella's Castle Analysis of Swiper the Fox Cash-for-coverage chick lit site threatens critic Johnny Depp is doing a movie with Wes Anderson because the world loves pleasant surprises Afghan Whigs cover Frank Ocean You shake a pretty mean cape, Batman! LIFE, 1966: The one true Batman Video: Evolution of PC Games Man wrote his own funny confessional obituary Listen to Kiefer Sutherland wistfully grumble about a high school crush in an ad for Axe Attention Tolkien fans: There might be a third Hobbit movie (maybe) Google execs: our technology can be used to fight narcoviolence in Mexico Kathe Koja's The Cipher, brilliant horror novel, back as an ebook Hacker Dojo, a hacker space in Silicon Valley, is raising funds to save their space Breaking Bad street art in Canada Full Body Burden: Memoir about family secrets, government secrets, and the risks of industrial pollution Brandishing the Olympic Torch Eggs dismayed at own fate A is For: Awareness Secret UK censorship court orders BBC not to air documentary Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution - exclusive interview with author Doug Fine The Hunger Games: Catching Fire casts Sam Claflin as Finnick Rosemary's Baby special edition from Criterion The physics of time travel Kevin Mack's cool 3D art Religion, space, and the power of cultural connections A journey to Aquarius—the last underwater research lab How to assault Cinderella's Castle
By Jason Weisberger on Jul 18, 2012 12:37 pm Finally an interesting Quora question: What are the optimal siege tactics for taking Magic Kingdom's Cinderella Castle? Some of the answers are a lot of fun. A few include mapped-out battle plans, approximations of troop strength, function and tactics. You also may note that classic reference materials on the attack and defense of Disney theme ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 12:34 pm My three-year-old daughter loves the TV show Dora. I find it mostly annoying but I do appreciate Swiper the Fox. In an effort to better understand the complex character's motivations, I consulted the Wikipedia. Tellingly, the section on Swiper totals 1,300 words compared to just 130 for Backpack or even the 300 words that Dora ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 18, 2012 12:19 pm Chick Lit Girls, which publishes positive reviews for money, is threatening legal action against a writer who publicized that fact earlier this week. Describing itself as "basically goodreads[sic] for women", Chick Lit Girls has the stated mission of not publishing negative reviews. To quote, "we're here to help authors, not destroy them!" When author Michele ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 11:56 am Possibly realizing that he me have overstayed his welcome in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie that was not well-received, Johnny Depp has signed on to appear in Wes Anderson's next movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which includes an illustrious cast of thousands and one Mr. Bill Murray. This means a couple of things: ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 11:55 am My old friends in the Afghan Whigs, reunited and on tour, have released their cover of Frank Ocean's "Lovecrimes." It's dark, gritty, and oozing with soul, just like the Whigs. Listen above and download free from their site. The Afghan Whigs Afghan Whigs reunite - Boing Boing
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 11:25 am LIFE has posted rare photos from the classic Batman TV show and spreads from this March 11, 1966 issue. "Mad New World: of Batman, Superman, and the Marqus de Sade." What a headline. And the first two sentences in this paragraph from the story resonate with me for obvious reasons. The boom in bedlam springs, ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 11:06 am On the heels of Reverse Enginears' "A Brief History of Video Games" comes this new one, "The Evolution of PC Games." Again, another nice complement to our Rob's epic "Game Deaths."
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 18, 2012 10:58 am Val "Rocky" Patterson of Salt Lake City, Utah died last week of throat cancer at 59. The man whose motto was "anything for a laugh" has achieved post-mortem celebrity for the confessional obituary he left behind: Now that I have gone to my reward, I have confessions and things I should now say. As it ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 10:28 am Axe, purveyor of men's shower products, is not known for their subtlety in their commercials. Kiefer Sutherland is similarly not known for being a gentle and romantic type of person. But now, both have subverted their usual respective approaches to advertising and acting and the result is Kiefer "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, DAMNIT" Sutherland ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 18, 2012 10:28 am Don't get too excited yet, but Peter Jackson is talking about possibly turning the two Hobbit movies he just completed filming -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again -- into a trilogy. Why? Because 1. Warner Bros. has the rights to the additional notes from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 18, 2012 09:39 am In a Washington Post op-ed, Google's executive chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas director Jared Cohen argue the case for technology as a tool to aid citizen activists in places like Juarez, Mexico. Schmidt and Cohen recently visited the drug-war-wracked border town, and describe the climate of violence there as "surreal." In ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 18, 2012 09:07 am I've mentioned Kathe Koja's fantastic, erotic, terrifying debut novel The Cipher before, and celebrated her recent return to horror after a long stint of writing amazing YA novels. Now I'm delighted to report that The Cipher is back in print as a $3.99 DRM-free ebook, thanks to the good folks at Roadswell, a new ebook ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 18, 2012 08:55 am David Weekly says, "Hacker Dojo is doing a kickstarter. We have $250k we have to raise in the next few months to get the building brought up to code so we can have classes again." I visited Hacker Dojo a few years ago when they first opened, and I witnessed the wonderful community and projects ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 18, 2012 08:37 am Boing Boing reader Peter Schwagly sends in the photo of Breaking Bad street art above and below, and says, I'm a super fan of Breaking Bad and Boingboing as well.... is there something to the shared alliteration? I thought you might like this stencil I found in Vancouver a few months ago. Someone did a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 17, 2012 11:22 pm Image: A worker at Rocky Flats handles a piece of plutonium using gloves built into a sealed box. The plutonium was bound for the innards of a nuclear bomb. National Archives via Wikipedia. Kristen Iversen grew up in the shadow of two big secrets. The first was private. Her father was an alcoholic, and his ...
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By Maureen Herman on Jul 17, 2012 07:23 pm For A is For founder and actress Martha Plimpton, the shock of the rhetoric surrounding the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy, as well as the success of the ensuing advertiser boycott, inspired her to gather a group of friends to brainstorm a strategy more formal than clicking “like” on Facebook. The group was united in their ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 17, 2012 06:26 pm A UK judge has ordered the BBC not to broadcast a documentary about England's August 2011 riots, reports The Guardian. The judge also banned the BBC and media from disclosing the court in which the censorship order was made; the judge's name; or the details or nature of the order. The documentary features actors reading ...
Read in browser Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution - exclusive interview with author Doug Fine
By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 17, 2012 05:37 pm I had a great time interviewing Doug Fine about his latest book: Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution. Too High to Fail covers everything from a brief history of hemp to an insider’s perspective on a growing season in Mendocino County, where cannabis drives 80 percent of the economy (to ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 17, 2012 05:23 pm Lionsgate has apparently cast the all-important role of Finnick Odair in the sequel to The Hunger Games, the victor from District 4 who is best known for being a bit of a firecracker and also for being very, very handsome. Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) has reportedly snagged the role, beating out bigger ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 17, 2012 03:35 pm Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968) is my favorite horror film of all time. The story is exquisitely creepy, the tension is profound, and Mia Farrow is absolutely sublime. I was thrilled to learn that the film is getting a new Criterion treatment with a Polanski-approved special edition DVD and Blu-Ray due out around Halloween. Along ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 17, 2012 03:09 pm The majority of physicists say time travel probably won't work (at least in the Hollywood-go-anytime-you-wanna sense). Several time traveler parties have gone famously unattended by time travelers (at least, any willing to fess up about it). In general, science is kind of a buzz-kill on this one. But if you want some justification for your ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 17, 2012 03:08 pm Mark Frauenfelder & Kevin Mack - Between Order and Chaos from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo. Directed by Francesca Mirabella & Peter J. Brant / Produced by Benjamin Gilovitz / Music by Nicholas Krgovich / Sound design by Brent Kiser. The Avant/Garde Diaries asked me to interview someone that I admired, so I chose artist ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 17, 2012 01:52 pm That's a picture of an Orthodox Christian priest, blessing the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft. It seems like a weird and outdated pairing: Religion and space exploration. But they're actually a lot more intertwined than you might think, writes Rebecca Rosen at the Atlantic. A lot of astronauts are religious. A lot of astronauts that ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 17, 2012 01:19 pm Brian Lam—former editor at Gizmodo, current editor at the ocean-centric Scuttlefish blog—got to visit the world's last remaining underwater scientific research station. Aquarius was built in the late 1980s and launched in 1992, but it was preceded by a huge 1960s-era boom in underwater laboratory development. Conshelf, Sealab, Tektite—these should all be familiar names. But ...
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