prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Boing Boing’s Richard Metzger has a column up about those surround sound copies of albums available at record stores (you know, the $24 version of an album that you can ...
core77.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
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The Happy Hospitalist (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I bet you can't guess what this one's about. There's a blog for everything out there. via Boing Boing
Mia Culpa (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Via Boing Boing: "The things that has always alarmed me most about the right wing Republican/conservative/FOX News-watching types is how they wear their own IGNORANCE as a badge of honor! I can't get my head around the notion of how unashamed they are of their own ignorance. It used to be that abject stupidity was something to be embarrassed about. Is it somehow now HIP these days to be a total
Apple Gazette (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
BB Gadgets has taken a closer look at the teaser image Apple released yesterday - and it looks like it could be one of the most revealing teaser images Apple has ever given us. If you take a look at the image above you can see what Rob at Boing Boing did. He took the [...]
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The iPhone as the ultimate portable gaming platform - discuss. There have been a few minor gems since the iPhone 3G arrived and Steve Jobs made his bold claim, but the Boing Boing Gadgets crew seem...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Today on Boing Boing tv, we continue our SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE launches next week. Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails,...
Geoff Arnold (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Via Boing Boing: Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John notes that watching Sleeping Beauty on Blu-Ray requires that you accede to over 120 pages of legal garbage in various EULAs before you can start the movie. {{Retrieved from geoffarnold.com via RSS/ATOM.}} Things that cause your head to explode, part 258
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating profile of Andrew Schneider, a tech artist from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. [via Boing Boing ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold into slavery, transported on ships to the Americas. With them came spiritual traditions including Voudun, which we now know as “voodoo.” Its roots are in the Dahomey kingdom on the West...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Happy birthday, Mr. Lennon. Yoko Ono sends the Boing Boing community a video, embedded above, and explains a project launching this week in honor of John Lennon's birthday, the "Imagine Peace Tower" in Iceland -- a country that could use a little extra compassion this week, for sure, given the harsh effects of the economic collapse there. More on the project: On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday,...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you want to understand why we're so troubled by the ACTA treaty that many nations are working on in secret , we just need to look at a story highlighted recently at Boing Boing about an American woman who was detained for a while at the US-Canadian border because she had a drawing of an SUV. The customs officials accused her of being an industrial spy and copyright infringer. In actuality, she's...
TinyScreenfuls.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eye-Fi SD cards add Twitter, Flickr, RSS support - Boing Boing Gadgets. These just keep getting more and more appealing. An SD card with built in wifi, geolocation tagging capability, and now the ability to post straight to Flickr (it didn’t have this before?), Twitter, and RSS feeds. They’re still kind of spendy, though. $99 for 2GB, [...]
Hedge Fund Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trading Floor Shots Trading Floor Shots - Top 25 Pictures There has been some posts on The Big Picture Tumblr and Boing Boing lately posting recent pictures of traders on the job during these rough times. Here's a collection of some of the top pictures with a few comments below a few: Top 10 Trading Floor Pictures I can’t add a caption to this that could possibly make it any more hilarious. The Horror!...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's found these superb recycling egg multi-trash-cans: The Ovetto Recycling Egg is an expensive, dual-slot trash can that, for $250, allows for the separation of plastic and aluminum in one receptacle... a goal which can just as easily be accomplished for the price of a couple $5 trash buckets. But you aren't paying for the function, you're paying for the design,...
