Mad Magazine's War on Bush collection (9)
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Mad Magazine's "The Mad War on Bush" gathers a truly superlative collection of parodical and satirical material from eight years' worth of Mad lampoons between a single set of covers. As Jimmy Kimmel notes in his introduction to the book, there are many things to hate about the Bush regime, but it has been very, very kind to political satirists of all description. Mad Magazine has had a glorious eight years with this presidency -- ...
Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America" (13)
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The Yankees are serious about their bizarre prohibition on going to the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America" during the Seventh Inning Stretch: a man was dragged out of the stadium for daring to stand up and move around instead of singing a patriotic, religious song. I really like Tommy Smothers's formulation of the principle at work here: "America, where you're free to say anything you want, and you'd better not say what ...
Air Canada shaves fuel costs by eliminating life-jackets (8)
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Air Canada continues its race to the top of the list of the world's shittiest airlines by removing life-vests from its regional carrier Jazz, saving money on fuel in the process. In the event of a water crash, passengers can use their seat-cushions to float. Come to that, they can use their pillows: the last time I flew AC, you had to buy a "pillow" that consisted of a giant ziploc bag that you were ...
YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments (18)
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Here's an idea who's time has come: YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox plugin that nukes comments with too many spelling mistakes, weird capitalization or punctuation, and too much cussin'. It works pretty damned well, too. As XKCD has pointed out in the past, YouTube has the worst, just the worst comment-areas on the Internet. YouTube Comment Snob (via Making Light)
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Malcolm said:
awesome idea. Might use this
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Jason Matthews said:
yes please, more of this! needs to be brought to bear on digg and a certain local newspaper's comment section as well.
Papercraft CCTV (6)
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Nude Magazine's got a free, downloadable papercraft CCTV camera, for freaking out your neighbors. Put one in the bathroom. The dog house. Use it for a hood-ornament. Build Your Own Nude Magazine CCTV Camera (Thanks, Alice!)
Wolfenflickr: Wolfenstein in Flash, with your Flickr photos (16)
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Wolfenflickr is a Flash-based implementation of Castle Wolfenstein that decorates the castle's walls with random images pulled from any Flickr stream (or any Flickr tag). Shooting Nazis and looking at snapshots: two great tastes that taste great together. Wolfenflickr (via Wonderland)
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Jemimus said:
OMG I just had a Geek-Gamer-Gasm
Photoblog devoted to century-old piccies (5)
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Shorpy, a photo-blog devoted to super-high-rez images from a century (or so) ago, like this magnificent 1924 shot of "clerks calculating the 'soldiers' bonus' for the War Department." Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog (Thanks, Mitch!)
Stylish anatomical drawings (3)
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Tom Giesler's My Anatomy illustrations are stylized, stylish and scientific, bringing anatomy to life with a lot of wit and a good clean line. Tom Giesler My Anatomy (via Kottke)
Boy Proof, a compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl - Boing Boing (4)
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I've just read Cecil Castellucci's 2005 debut novel Boy Proof and it's delightful to discover that she's every bit as talented a novelist as she is a graphic novel writer (The Plain Janes, the first volume in the outstanding Minx graphic novel series) and a rock musician (Nerdy Girl/Bite). Boy Proof is the story of "Egg" (AKA Victoria), a self-made outcast in Melrose Prep, who is smart as anything about everything, except herself. She's an ...
TELUS Canada royally hoses its wireless broadband subscribers (5)
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TELUS, one of the large Canadian phone companies, is playing really scummy tricks on its wireless broadband subscribers. A Slashdot post has the dirt: "Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less valuable plans. TELUS is citing 'Violations,' but their Terms Of Service (see #5) are utterly vague and self-contradictory. The TELUS plans were marketed ...
What's worth more, a pound of grass or a pound of peacock feathers? Or a pound of human blood? (20)
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The Evil Mad Scientist Labs folks have conducted exhaustive investigation into the value of objects relative to their weight, starting with coins and bills and working through commodities like flour, and thence to exotics like human blood and antimatter. This is extremely useful information if you're ever trying to get a lot of valuta through a narrow aperture. People have been saying that the new industrial grade swimsuits like the LZR Racer are worth their ...
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Mike B said:
Gold is the only thing worth its weight in gold.
English is a user-modifiable technology (16)
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Here's a stirring Boston Globe op-ed from master lexicographer Erin McKean, presenting the humane case for a dynamic English language in which speakers are allowed to coin neologisms and new usages without grammar tightasses insisting that language is not a user-modifiable technology . Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I wonder why the writer felt the need to hang a big sign reading "I ...
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Michael said:
The points he makes will serve to embiggen us all.
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autodidactic said:
Misha says, "All language is."
DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property (35)
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Security guards contracted by the DHS threw a woman out of a Social Security office in Van Nuys for wearing a t-shirt that read "lesbian.com." He claimed that "The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property" gave him the right to throw her out for wearing a t-shirt with the word "lesbian" on it. As she headed for a line to pick up a Social Security card for her son, Gilbert was stopped by ...
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Eater said:
Huh? Wow.
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Maurice said:
wow, thank God the DHS is saving us from women wearing shirts with the word "lesbian" on it. I feel much safer!
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
This is a reminder to vote responsibly.
Chinese people discovering fortune cookies (47)
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Here's a funny short video of Chinese people being exposed to fortune cookies (an American invention) for the first time: Americans find high emotional attachment to the slips inside their cookies, looking to them for winning lottery numbers and becoming upset when the fortunes inside are unfortunate. The Chinese, on the other hand, would often tell me after trying the curved vanilla-flavored wafers, “Americans are so strange, why are they putting pieces of paper in ...
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Sam said:
Hilarious! I think we all know that fortune cookies were invented here, but we never really thought about this sort of interaction.
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Eebs said:
Sorry, not trying to share everything on BoingBoing... just loved this video.
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Adam said:
What is this??
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mcescobar1 said:
Thats awesome
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Vi said:
For Matt: What did I tell you?
Steroid abuser's horrific chest-acne (9)
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The photos of this steroid abuser's violent chest-acne (and the subsequent scarring) ought to be posted in the changing room at every gym in the world. Before you complain about how gross the photos on the click-through below are, just be thankful they didn't photograph his shrivelled, damaged testicles, too. He was a constant user of anabolic-androgenic steroids, of which acne is a side effect -- as is damaged sperm and shrunken testicles, both of ...
Teddy Bear USB drive is a headless horror (43)
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The Teddy Bear USB drive does a really nice job of switching from sickly sweet to just sickening -- just rip its head off and plug its neck into your computer and it looks like you've crushed a little anthropomorphic bear's noggin and forced it into a tiny, little USB port. Teddy Bear USB Drive (via Oh Gizmo)
Test-pattern cosy for flat-panel TV -- Boing Boing Gadgets (6)
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Rob's spotted this handy-dandy test-pattern flat-panel TV cosy: An anonymous commenter draws our attention to this beautiful television cosy, yours for $25 at Sally England Design. Test Card TV Cosy, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets)
