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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:40 pm "Tim being Englishman Tim-Berners Lee... if you haven't heard of him, [laugh], we haven't either." Video here. (via @stevesilberman)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:37 pm The internets are a-flutter with critics of these new Apple ads. I'm not crazy about them. They feel like they're for Best Buy or something, not Apple. I do wish they'd just bring back John Hodgman. (via @nytjim)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:28 pm Greg Leuch at fffffat unveils the Olwimpics content blocker for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Sweet Jesus, thank you. (via @gautamramdurai)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:22 pm "Student, writer, and self-identifying geek" A.J. Focht, writing on a Suicide Girls blog, talks about the experience of surviving the recent mass shooting at "The Dark Knight Rises" premiere at an Aurora, CO movie theater— and, how a friend and fellow survivor was hounded by content-hungry television producers: With only a small charge left in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:10 pm "It's an honor to be welcomed by the President of France/Who would have been that World Bank guy if he'd kept on his pants"—Jerry Adler's poetic interpretation of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's visit to the capital of France. (via Steven Levy)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 12:06 pm [Video Link] Chris Kipiniak, who is a working actor, puts all those many years of training and practice to work in a dramatic interpretation of an online restaurant review for the Stratford Diner. This appears to be the first in a series, to which you can subscribe. (video by Joe Plummer; thanks Joe Sabia!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 28, 2012 11:54 am Muaz Mohamed shot this lovely photo of a kitteh wishing you a happy Caturday, with a high-five paw. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 28, 2012 10:26 am We've talked here before about the importance of the protein CCR5 in HIV/AIDS treatment research. CCR5 is a protein on the surface of immune cells. Some people have a genetic mutation, called Delta-32, which alters how that protein works, how often it appears, or changes its structure. People with the mutation have immunity to some ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 27, 2012 09:00 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 Ruben Bolling, author of the weekly ...
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By Douglas Rushkoff on Jul 27, 2012 07:59 pm This is one in a series of essays about enthralling books. I asked my friends and colleagues to recommend a book that took over their life. I told them the book didn't have to be a literary masterpiece. The only thing that mattered was that the book captivated them and carried them into the world ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 27, 2012 07:27 pm Cryptocat Adventure! from Nadim Kobeissi on Vimeo. Sean Bonner shared this cute video for Cryptocat, a web-based service that enables secure, encrypted online chatting and file transfer between two parties. The creator of Cryptocat, a 22-year old named Nadim Kobeissi, says Cryptocat has earned him the dreaded "SSSS" mark of suspicion on his boarding passes. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 06:09 pm [Video Link] A PSA by "Why Marriage Matters (Maine)", featuring Harlan Gardner of Machias, ME along with four generations of his family, talking about what marriage means to him and why it matters to the gay and lesbian people in his life. "It takes a great deal of bravery to be a lesbian. I am ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 05:52 pm Moogieland has a recipe, and photos, for this delightful Star Wars-themed sweet. Snip: In a galaxy far, far away, I purchased the Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube tray from Think Geek. I knew that I wanted to use it to mold chocolate. But I wanted more than a chocolate bar. And by harnessing the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 05:40 pm [richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com]: Rich Kids Of Instagram. "They have more money than you and this is what they do." (via @mistergif)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 05:34 pm Zachary Sanders, 38, traveled to Cuba as an unauthorized tourist 14 years ago. He was 23, and had been teaching English in Mexico. He decided to travel to Cuba for a couple of weeks in 1998. "I wanted to learn about how a socialist country worked in practice," Sanders says. "I had no illusions. ... ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 05:26 pm A very happy Sysadmin Day to Boing Boing's own Ken Snider (@orenwolf on Twitter), and to all the others who toil in the server room coal mines. Without them, you would not be reading this blog post. Snip from sysadminday.com: A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 05:11 pm [Video Link] Andrew Hales of LAHWF ("Losing All Hope Was Freedom", a Fight Club reference) walks around in public trying to get strangers to hold his hand. Below, part two (via Joe Sabia).
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 27, 2012 04:30 pm And now, let us pay tribute to the 1992 winner of the Ig Nobel Award in the category of Art: Jim Knowlton's informative poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom". (Bonus: The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts shared the award with Mr. Knowlton, for suggesting that he continue his work in pop-up book form.) (Via ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 27, 2012 04:20 pm Earlier this week, I posted a couple batches of letters from grown-up Eagle Scouts who chose to resign their hard-earned, elite awards in protest of the Boy Scouts of America's policy banning gay and atheist scouts and troop leaders. I'm still getting letters in the mail. These things are coming in faster than I can ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 27, 2012 04:00 pm Scale worms are usually small, and there are many different species that fall under the common name. At least one, Arctonoe vittata, famously enjoys a complex relationship with starfish. The worm lives in the starfish's sucker feet. There's a possibility that this commensal arrangement—neither animal really gets any special benefit from having the other around, ...
Read in browser Amid PR crisis, top Chick-fil-A publicist dies
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 27, 2012 03:33 pm The Midland, GA-based fast food chain Chick-fil-A has been in the middle of a public relations firestorm over homophobic comments by its CEO. Today, the company's chief spokesman Don Perry died unexpectedly. Various news outlets are reporting the cause of death as a heart attack, citing Ross Cathy, owner of the fast food chain and ...
Read in browser Matthew Weiner on Elisabeth Moss leaving Mad Men: Why would that happen?
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 27, 2012 02:44 pm Apparently, leaving the company does not mean leaving the show. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner says that even though Elisabeth Moss's Peggy Olsen has found greener pastures at their competition, it doesn't mean we won't be seeing her again. Well, that's good news! Maybe she'll even stick around for the seventh season, by the end ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 27, 2012 02:29 pm "I was't wearing a red suit, a hat, or black boots," Tolbert told NBC News, "just khaki pants, red high-top sneakers with green laces and a billowy, specially-made shirt decorated with a collage of Santa Claus heads and sayings from 'The Night before Christmas'" Disney World Tells Santa Look-Alike To Tone It Down
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 27, 2012 02:22 pm Thomas Haller Buchanan says: "It's fun to see Charles Schulz delineate grown-ups and cars and such. It shows that the simplicity in Peanuts was a chosen exile."
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 27, 2012 02:03 pm "Ralphisms" by alasdairdavidstewart. (via Laughing Squid)
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By Jason Weisberger on Jul 27, 2012 01:47 pm My 8 year old niece, Salem, recently read Boing Boing for the first time. She appears to have liked it a lot and felt she had something to share. She'd like to tell you a bit about manga: Shiju Shojo Manga is a type of Japanese comic for tweenage girls (7-12 years old). I should ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 27, 2012 01:43 pm [Video Link] Dr. James Dobson has clearly done his research! (Via Christian Nightmares)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 27, 2012 01:20 pm Here is a teaser of what the Wachowskis are doing with Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's 2004 challenging and immersive novel of nested stories that span the world and several centuries back and forward in time. The movie Cloud Atlas will be in theaters October 26.
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 27, 2012 01:09 pm Emily Evans designed this gorgeous Día de los Muertos wallpaper for two Latin bars in London. It's hand-screened using metallic gold ink on peacock, charcoal, and raspberry paper. Anatomy Boutique (via Dangerous Minds)
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