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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:15:22 -0800

Steampunk terrarrium
Professor Alexander's Botanical Vasculum - Steamed 300 watt Moss Terrarium from Etsy seller SteamedGlass is a beautiful...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:38:57 -0800

Charity auction for characters names in forthcoming sf novels by great writers
The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund is a venerable institution that sends sf fans from North America to Europe and vice-versa, to...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:16:23 -0800

Some whales double their weight when straining sea-water
How do giant whales get so big eating such little krill? By using their balleen like a parachute and sucking in their...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:09:41 -0800

Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
Dan sez, "Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com,...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:07:25 -0800

Fine art/graffiti photoshopping contest
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: "Graffiti Ren" -- scenes from fine art improved with graffiti. Graffiti Ren 2...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:07:00 -0800

Pub fined £8K after user infringes copyright with its WiFi
A British pub has been fined £8,000 because someone using the WiFi there allegedly committed a copyright infringement....
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:02:58 -0800

DRM versus innovation
Here's a superb essay on the other DRM problem -- DRM isn't only bad for fair use, it's also a disaster for innovation,...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:24:30 -0800

Boing Boing Gift Guide 2009: nonfiction! (part 4/6)
Mark and I have rounded up some of our favorite items from our 2009 Boing Boing reviews for the second-annual Boing Boing gift...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:46:22 -0800

Canadian border guards want to be sure that foreign journalists don't criticise Vancouver Olympics
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's As It Happens radio show covers the story of Amy Goodman's recent' border crossing...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:07:31 -0800

Tweets while in furlough land screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) back in regular old jail
The web has been buzzing with the odd discovery that Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary was apparently tweeting while...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:18:27 -0800

Cancer drug may treat diabetes
I've posted before about my brother Mark Pescovitz's fine art photography. In his spare time, Mark is a transplant surgeon...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:39:58 -0800

Stop, or I'll shout stop again!
British legislators have created new crimes at a rate of one a day since 1997....
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:16 -0800

A Mental_Floss Thanksgiving
Two bits of lighthearted holiday history from my old friends at mental_floss. About The Presidential Turkey Pardon The first...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:23:45 -0800

On the claimed prices of cellphones
Cellular carriers claim that their contracts offset heavy subsidies on handsets. They claim they'd love to sell phones...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:52:39 -0800

Thanksgiving Maskers
A photograph from the Library of Congress collection in the Flickr Commons. Thanksgiving Maskers, what the heck's that, you...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:15:18 -0800

William S. Burroughs: A Thanksgiving Prayer

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:36:50 -0800

Boing Boing Gift Guide 2009: media! (part 2/6)
Mark and I have rounded up some of our favorite items from our 2009 Boing Boing reviews for the second-annual Boing Boing gift...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:49:51 -0800

FedEx's cellular sensor-package for your important shipments
Senseaware is FedEx's cellular-connected sensor-package. Drop it in your super-important packages (they're targeting it at...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:03:25 -0800

Famous portraits as mice
Alan F Beck paints watercolors of mice posed and modelled on classic and famous portraits -- including wonderful versions of...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:01:40 -0800

Wooden orrery
I love this simple wooden orrery from Muji's gift lineup. Sadly, their ecommerce-fu is about as terrible as it gets, but if...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:26:14 -0800

Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free
From the very, very funny 27b/6 blog, an imaginary (I hope) correspondence between a guy who wants a free logo designed and the...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:54:02 -0800

Obey CDC, or Thomas R. Frieden Has a Posse
In the future, everything will be Shepard Fairey-fied. (Thanks, Jason DeFillippo!)...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:18:21 -0800

The Matrix in LEGO
The Matrix is 10-years-old, and to celebrate Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett recreated the iconic "Bullet Time" sequence out of...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:58:11 -0800

Liveblogging the Mecca pilgrimage
Liveblogging Hajj. Al Jazeera has live coverage of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, including notes on how swine flu and...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:04:42 -0800

Fancy thermochromic swine flu masks
A Swedish textile design student has created this beautiful series of surgical masks for flu season. The patterns are printed...
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