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Digital Fiction Show (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

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Buy Robert Anton Wilson's medical marijuana card

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The medical marijuana card belonging to bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson (RIP) is up for auction on eBay. It's one of many of RAW's personal items that his daugther, Christina, is auctioning to help pay off her father's large debts. From the medical marijuana card auction listing: As we all know (or should) RAW was a great champion of decriminalizing marijuana. In his late sixties, when...

Compuserve shuts down

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Compuserve shuts down - Boing Boing. Sad news. I was very active on Compuserve back in the mid 80's through to mid 90's. The forums such as DACCESS (Data Access, developers of DataFlex) were the best support mechanism of the...

Rachel, Sony-Ericsson’s first …

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fred-wilson: i love this table. not sure i would put Zeppelin...

Gadgets9.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

fred-wilson : i love this table. not sure i would put Zeppelin Four as the end though. it would be a hard choice and would include Exile, Velvets and Nico, Dark Side Of The Moon, and Who’s Next. But after thinking about it, I’d put London Calling on one side and Elvis Presley (1956) on the other. That would be cool. artistspaid : karenh : Side table made of old LP sleeves designed by Bughouse...

Drew Friedman: painting of The Monkey Girl

Web News Site (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Drew Friedman continues his new series of portraits depicting legendary circus and carnie sideshow freaks. The paintings are for a private collector, who I wish was me. Fortunately, Drew says they'll eventually be collected in a book. Seen here is Julia Pastrana aka "Percilla The Monkey Girl." Her story is strange, tragic, and also quite touching. From J. Tithonus Pednaud fantastic site,...

• Drew Friedman: painting of The Monkey Girl - Boing Boing
• Drew Friedman: painting of The Monkey Girl - Click World News

World’s oldest basketball shoes (hoax!)

Click World News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

SEE UPDATE BELOW These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra: "In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers...

World’s oldest basketball shoes (hoax!)

Web News Site (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

SEE UPDATE BELOW These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra: "In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers...

DJNoNo is the King of Muppet Mashups

Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

After the release of a certain Muppet Mashup album, just want to remind you like MJ, DJNoNo is the King of Muppet Mashups, unlike MJ, he is still alive and probably carousing somewhere in Essex atm. Don’t believe me? Then check out this muppetastic mix from 2006 which got mentioned on Boing Boing (Cory LOVES Muppets [...]

djBC’s Muppet mashups

Click World News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

djBC, consistently my favorite mashup producer/creator (he's the guy behind the Beasties/Beatles remix "The Beastles"), has released an entire album of remixes of Muppet music! He sez, "In honor of my daughter's first birthday- and one month late- I'm rolling out 'Muppet Mashup.' Ten mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. With the legendary McSleazy...

• djBC's Muppet mashups - Boing Boing
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Massive bank fraud in massively multiplayer game EVE

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

The chairman of the virtual bank in EVE Online, a space-trading/piracy game, absconded with billions of virtual credits, swapping them for $5,000 in cash to make a house payment. The embezzlement caused a run on the bank and has rocked the economy of EVE. The run on the bank has come to about 600 billion ISK, which has been withdrawn. However, we have a very big group of excellent supporters, who have...

Ript, Poked and Deflected

The Swelle Life (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Boing Boing has come up aces today with a trio of goodies that I must share. First off is the 'Hypolux Chandelier' made of plexiglass plates and commercial syringes (I'm not quite sure what a 'commercial' syringe is but it...

Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga

Click World News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985. Previously:Andy Warhol and the Commodore Amiga 1000 - Boing Boing Debbie Harry in the New York Times - Boing Boing Interview with...

• Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga - Boing Boing
• Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga - Web News Site

'Awful Library Books' Blog Showcases Absurd Texts

Switched (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

There are tons of one joke blogs out there, but most of them are a tad low brow . It's a relief, then, to see Awful Library Books marry our love for quick, cheap laughs with something a little more sophisticated than stripper moms . Awful Library Books was started by Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, a pair of Michigan public librarians who have taken it upon themselves to point out some of the outdated...

The World’s Oldest Basketball Shoes!

Manolo's Shoe Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Manolo says, from the Manolo’s friends at Boing Boing come news of the discovery of the world’s oldest kicks! Gary Pifer a vintage clothing dealer found the 116 year old sneakers while combing through picked over items, that were contained within a victorian era trunk. “As I arrived late, I was told that all the good [...]