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Giant Chunky Handmade Knitwear From A Funny Maker Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty rad gigantic chunky knitwear, but she also gives good funny in her little "featured seller" interview: Please describe your creative process how, when, materials, etc. Well, Im not going to lie to you. A healthy dose of plagiarism never hurt anybody. When that falls flat, I find that taking my consciousness off of the process altogether really allows th... |
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Icefields Parkway In Banff National Park Today, we travelled up the Icefields Parkway from Lake Louise. We didn't make it all the way to the Columbia Icefields but we saw lots of incredibly beautiful mountains and glaciers. I took this picture near Glacier Lake. The next photo, I believe, has a view of the Crowfoot Glacier. I've been reading How Old is that Mountain? by Chris Yorath. In answering the question in the book's title, Yorath ... |
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Obama's Cellphone Records Breached By Verizon Employees Billing data for a cellphone account belonging to Barack Obama was "improperly breached" by Verizon employees, according to the president-elect's transition team. Obama's spokesperson says the phone was old and no longer in use. There is no indication that email records were accessed or voicemails or call contents monitored. Snip: Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified Wednesday by Veri... |
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Warcraft Identity Of Obama's FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed, Analyzed Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to Wer... |
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WSJ: How Detroit Drove Into A Ditch Great article from the Wall Street Journal's Paul Ingrassia that summarizes how and why the US auto industry fell to pieces. My favorite part was this telling excerpt: In Detroit, amid worker alienation and the "blue-collar blues," Chevies, Fords and Plymouths rattled, rusted and rolled over -- and those were the good ones. The Ford Pinto's gas tank was prone to explode into flames when the car wa... |
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"Der Untergang" Clip Used As Real Estate Downfall Video Some joker used a clip of Der Untergang to portray Hitler as a real estate sucker.... ... |
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BBtv: Tibetan Sovereignty Supporters Hold Historic Meeting In India To Plan Future. In this special episode of Boing Boing tv (Direct MP4 link for download), Xeni interviews Tibetan sovereignty activists Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin "Tendor" Dorjee from Students for a Free Tibet, over a Skype video chat. They're in Dharamsala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government In Exile, and they're attending an historic week-long meeting taking place this week to determine... |
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NYT Writer Drinks NASA Water Distilled From The Finest Astronaut Pee And Sweat. Oh, what won't intrepid NYT reporter John Schwartz do for space journalism! Snip: There are many elements of [NASA's current Space Shuttle Endeavor] mission, which is devoted to further construction of the station and improvements that will allow the station to double its crew size from three to six next year. But the gizmo that is getting the most attention is the “water recovery system,” whi... |
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Bush Snubbed At G20 Summit Rick Sanchez on CNN showed this video of world leaders at the G20 Summit refusing to shake hands with President Bush. Sanchez says "It's almost sad." (Via The Fire Wire)... ... |
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Good Example Of Pareidolia Forgetomori came across this neat example of pareidolia. Have you seen Jesus today? The photo above may be a good chance. Sent by Jessica Lundgren from Sweden to paranormal.about.com, you can see the clear profile of a giant bearded man with closed eyes. It does resemble common representations of a fellow named Jesus. Even though that enormous Jesus head doesn’t quite fit into the rest of the im... |
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Zillionaire.com Infomercial Everything is Terrible found this funny infomercial from a long gone company Zillionaire.com, pushing a site called dotplanet.com ("the world's only lifestyle destination portal"). If George Bush would have ran an Internet business in the late 1990s, he would have had the same spiel and delivery style of Zillionaire.com CEO Hubert Humphrey (Not the politician): "I firmly believe that Dot Planet is... |
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Janet Napolitano As Homeland Security Chief? "We Could Do Worse" Reason's David Weigel thinks Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (rumored to be Obama's pick) wouldn't be a bad choice for Secretary of Homeland Security. My favorite part of Weigel's piece is his assessment of Rudy Giuliani: I think history has already forgotten Battlin' Bernie Kerik, the laughably corrupt and mobbed-up cop whom Rudy Giuliani commended to George W. Bush as a great replacement for R... |
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BBtv: Offworld Premiere. What's Offworld? Here's the debut episode of our regular video updates from OFFWORLD, Boing Boing's new gaming blog. Editor Brandon Boyer says: After an oxygen fire knocked our interstellar video link temporarily out of commission, we bring you our Boing Boing TV premiere via Azeroth, where my spiritual Death Knight equal gives you a little background on where we're is coming from and where I hope to steer the shi... |
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Avalanche! I heard the distant rumble and looked up from the trail. I quickly took this photo as fast as I could. It's a relatively small avalanche but I'd never seen one before. They are the stuff of legend, especially in the minds of those who don't live in snow country. I can't place a particular TV drama from the sixties but I know that where I first heard the shout "Avalanche!". We were out about two ho... |
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Illustrating Alan Kay's Role In Portable Computing It's usual practice for a magazine to run an excerpt of a book written by one of its editors. However, BusinessWeek went one step further and converted an excerpt from senior editor Steve Hamm's new book into a comic or manga. His book, The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer, is “a popular history of portable computing and also a narrative of a single, co... |
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Free To Be... You And Me: The 35 Anniversary Edition: The Book Every Kid Needs Free To Be... You and Me was one of my favorite movie/record/books when I was growing up. Marlo Thomas's 1972 project brought together an all-star cast to perform songs, poems and sketches that challenged gender stereotypes and delivered a fundamentally humane, loving message about being who you are and not being constrained by society's expectations. When I was a teenager, a couple of my friends,... |
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Digital Youth Project: If You Care About Kids And Want To Understand How They Use Technology And Why, This Is A Must-read The Digital Youth Project, a MacArthur-funded three year, 22 case study, $3.3 million ethnographic study of what kids are doing online, has wound up and published its results. The project was undertaken by the eminent sociologist Mimi Ito and her talented colleagues (including the incomparable danah boyd) and is the largest and most comprehensive study of young peoples' internet use ever undertake... |
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Buddha Machine 2: Revenge Of The Ambient Music Transistor Radio Gizmo I love the Buddha Machine, a little plastic ambient music generator that looks like a transitor radio -- put two or three in a room together and play them at the same time and you get something haunting, bent and hypnotic. Now there's a new version, with more loops, colors, and sound-tweaking options. The Buddha Box 2 features nine new ambient sound loops. The new selection is noticeably more dive... |
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Text-adventure Game Award-winners Of 2008: Everybody Dies Takes Bronze! Writer/game designer/film-maker Jim Munroe sez, IFComp 2008, The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners. Bronze went to my game, Everybody Dies, silver went to Eric Eve's Nightfall, and the gold went to Jeremy Freese's Violet. Everybody Dies puts you in the shoes of a chubby metalhead who has smoked his last smoke, wi... |
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Regulator To Hear Bell Canada Network Throttling Case Bell Canada, the giant Canadian telco, is before the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission over its throttling practices, whereby it secretly corrupted the download sessions of its customers. The company also interfered with the connections initiated by its wholesale customers -- ISPs that leased lines from the giant and re-sold them to end-users. Bell said that it had to cripple everyo... |
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Apple To Mac Owners: Throw Away Your Monitor If Hollywood Says So Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" tomorrow and stop working. Slashdot says that Apple's added "copyright prote... |
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Unicorn Chaser There were a lot of sad posts today on the blog related to 30 years since Jonestown this week, so as is the tradition, and as our commenters have requested: unicorn chaser. (thanks, Takuan)... ... |
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Jonestown, 30 Years Later: Inside People's Temple, The 1977 Exposé. In its special website section devoted to 30 years since Jonestown, the San Francisco Chronicle has republished a copy of a 1977 report on Jim Jones and People's Temple by Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy. The investigative report marked a turning point for People's Temple, an arc towards the catastrophic end that would come one year later. Before this exposé was published in New West magazine (be... |
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Imprisoned China Blogger, Human Rights Activist Hu Jia Receives Sakharov Prize The imprisoned Chinese blogger and human rights activist Hu Jia today received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize. Snip from NYT article: The award was a pointed rebuke of China’s ruling Communist Party that came as European leaders were arriving in Beijing for a weekend summit meeting. Mr. Hu, 35, was given the prize by the European Parliam... |
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China: Mummies And The Fight For Uighur Sovereignty A fascinating piece by Ed Wong in today's NYT on the role archaeology -- specifically, a set of mummified human remains -- plays in the conflict over independence for one of China's ethnic minorities. Snip: “Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,” says one prominent sign. But walk upstairs to the second floor, and the ancient corpses on display seem to tell a differen... |
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The Sound Of Two Smokestacks Falling The demolition of Long Mill Dye House in Roanoke, Virginia brought down two smokestacks but one didn't fall as planned. photo from WSLS.com Watch this AP video and listen for one of the operators warn: "Be advised: one stack apparently did not fall in the right direction." There were no reports of injury to persons or property. Long Mill demolition video A local TV station WSLS reporter wrote: Man... |
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Today On Offworld Today Offworld got an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomely retro-futurist super HYPERCUBE, a game by Montreal art collective Kokoromi and developer Polytron that uses both red/blue anaglyph glasses and Johnny Lee-style Wii-mote head-tracking to play a stylishly minimalist block game inspired by the famous "human Tetris" Japanese gameshow video. The game makes its debut tonight at Montreal's Socie... |
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Jonestown, 30 Years Later: Original Audio Recordings From People's Temple And Guyana. The single most comprehensive online public resource for original source material related to Jonestown is Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple, a website sponsored by San Diego State University's Department of Religious Studies. The site includes scanned documents, photographs, first-person testimonies and reflections, and a periodic email newsletter with updates on research,... |
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Blip Festival 2008 Blip Festival 2008, a celebration of low-res visuals and chipmusic, hits New York City on December 4. Brandon Boyer has the details and a promo video over at Boing Boing Offworld! Blip Festival 2008: The Promo... ... |
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Ala Ebtekar Drawings Ala Ebtekar is a Berkeley-based artist whose fantastic work juxtaposes "street" art and traditional Iranian culture. (Above, detail of this piece.) "In my own work, I'm trying to find a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology," Ebtekar says. Ala Ebtekar site, Video profile on public television's Spark (KQED.org) (Thanks, Heather Sparks!)... ... |
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