January 2009
Top 10 Cryptozoology Stories of 2008 →
Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman ends 2008 with his annual Top 10 list of the biggest cryptozoology stories of the year. Topping the list, of course, was the Georgia Bigfoot…
Boing Boing tv faves from 2008: Mark's Tour of... →
December 2008
Photo Reenactments of The Far Side →
There’s a really great Flickr group that features photo reenactments of “The Far Side”, the hilariously bizarre single panel comic series by Gary Larson.
via Drawn!
photo by …
iWork to Become a Web Application at Macworld? →
9to5Mac claims that Apple will be announcing at Macworld that the next version of iWork will be composed of web-based applications. According to the rumor site, that means the future versions of…
Top 10 Cryptozoology Stories of 2008 →
Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman ends 2008 with his annual Top 10 list of the biggest cryptozoology stories of the year. Topping the list, of course, was the Georgia Bigfoot…
30GB Zunes Killing Themselves In Droves →
The internet is awash with reports that the 30GB Zune is committing suicide across the planet. Not just one of them, either. It seems that some weird bug is simultaneously killing the music players,…
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide! →
jddeluxe writes “There are multiple reports springing up all over the internet of a mass suicide of Microsoft 30Gb Zune players globally. Check Zune forums, Gizmodo, or other such sites; the reports…
Boing Boing tv faves from 2008: Mark's Tour of... →
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the... →
Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than…
The Apocalyse is Coming: What You Need to Pack →
Crisis schmisis. It’s nothing more than a crisis of consumer confidence. But what happens in a real crisis, the kind where the world stops working, the electricity stops working and (gasp) the…
Terry Pratchett Knighted →
ackthpt writes “Headlines have been popping up on Google News: ‘Terry Pratchett declared himself “flabbergasted” to receive a knighthood as he led a group of writers, actors and performers honoured…
Books: Still Paging Mr. Salinger →
Revered for “The Catcher in the Rye” and the Glass family, J. D. Salinger remains elusive on his 90th birthday.
Public Safety: Poway man arrested after infant son... →
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Fuck him.
POWAY: A 29-year-old Marine was arrested yesterday on suspicion of dropping and shaking his 3-month-old baby so hard it caused brain injuries, a sheriff’s official…
Tiny microhabitat to study marine organisms →
MIT researchers have built a tiny microhabitat to study the food chain of marine microbes. The microbial ecosystem is about the size of a piece of chewing gum, or microscope slide. From…
Man dies from chain saw wounds →
A 64-year-old man who had been trimming a tree with a chain saw at his home in unincorporated El Cajon was killed Monday afternoon.
Tiny microhabitat to study marine organisms →
MIT researchers have built a tiny microhabitat to study the food chain of marine microbes. The microbial ecosystem is about the size of a piece of chewing gum, or microscope slide. From…
Freddie Hubbard, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 70 →
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Man. What a legend. Who is left?
Mr. Hubbard dazzled audiences and critics alike with his virtuosity, his melodicism and his infectious energy.
Do Try This At Home: Amateurs Tinker With Genetic... →
The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself. Using homemade lab equipment and the…
Old Town concession to change hands →
For hospitality company Delaware North, it’s a case of winning the battle but losing the war. After three lackluster years at the helm of Old Town State Park’s largest concession, the New York-based…
Adoptive dads win birth-certificate case →
A same-sex couple in San Diego have won a federal court ruling in New Orleans that their adopted son’s Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so clear…
Slapchop Informercial - "You're gonna love my... →
My wife and I were laughing at this last night when the commercial came on. There are a number of double entendres here. Watch out @_BILLYMAYS_ (via drew)
“After a long, long wait we’re incredibly happy to tell you that the first public...”
– Another reason to not buy the bloated Dreamweaver: Espresso is Vaporware No More
WatchGreat white shark circles kayakers and fishermen in Sydney
“Researchers found that steeping the meat in alcohol for several hours cut the...”
– Marinating steak in beer or wine ‘reduces cancer chemicals’
Episcopal Priest Makes A Name For Himself In NYC... →
He shows up at the hottest clubs in the wee hours and spends thousands on top-shelf liquors, doling out five-figure tips like silver dollars. He’ll send bottles of Dom Perignon to tables around him…
“If you enjoyed visiting DMFail, which surfaced Twitter messages intended as...”
– F*MyLife Offers A Glimpse Of Others’ Screwed-Up Lives
Apartment Name Fail →
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Second case maker points to 'iPhone nano' →
With just days to go before the annual Macworld trade show, a second case maker has added references to an iPhone nano to its website.
The Times of Harvey Milk Documentary Now on Hulu →
“The Times of Harvey Milk”, the Oscar winning 1984 documentary by Rob Epstein that tells story of San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk who was tragically…
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge →
coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the…
Real life superheroes in the news →
Articles in Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times this month introduce us to real life superheroes, basically vigilantes in spandex with names like Terrifica, Mr. Invisible, Master Legend, and The Ace….
Ray Bradbury on Mars →
Science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles, wrote the foreword to the recent special “space” issue of National Geographic. Bradbury wrote about Mars (‘natch)….
Timothy Leary videos at Archive.org →
Lisa Rein twittered about Archive.org’s new Timothy Leary video archive. It currently has over 80 videos.
The above screenshot is from a documentary called Growing Up In America:…
Susie Bright: If you want to live in a van or be a... →
Tara the Hobo Stripper is a van-living, traveling striptease dancer and self-taught herbal medicine guru who’s recently settled into a remote cabin in her native home of Alaska.
Even…
“Think design but never decorate.”
– The opposite of the Zen aesthetic? - Garr’s posterous
Real life superheroes in the news →
Articles in Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times this month introduce us to real life superheroes, basically vigilantes in spandex with names like Terrifica, Mr. Invisible, Master Legend, and The Ace….
Ray Bradbury on Mars →
Science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles, wrote the foreword to the recent special “space” issue of National Geographic. Bradbury wrote about Mars (‘natch)….
Motherlode: A Child Alone on a Train →
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As has been previously established, this is not Bullshit! “&”
How old is old enough for a child to ride alone on a train? And what if a police officer disagrees?.
Apple Developing a Home Media Server? →
9to5Mac reports that Apple has been working on a home media server to access your iTunes and other files anywhere you have internet access. The site compares it to HP’s Media Smart Server which…
Susie Bright: If you want to live in a van or be a... →
Tara the Hobo Stripper is a van-living, traveling striptease dancer and self-taught herbal medicine guru who’s recently settled into a remote cabin in her native home of Alaska.
Even…
Toto's Intelligence Toilet II Smartly Measures The... →
It’s a weigh-scale, a BMI, blood sugar and blood pressure monitor, is networked to your PC and yes, features “urine temperature measurement and analysis”—ladies and gentlemen, I give you the…
DM Fail, Direct Messages That Are Accidentally... →
DM Fail is a website that lists Twitter direct messages that were accidentally posted to Twitter. Some of these are quite funny and many very embarassing.
I agree with Mike that it’s …
Timothy Leary videos at Archive.org →
Lisa Rein twittered about Archive.org’s new Timothy Leary video archive. It currently has over 80 videos.
The above screenshot is from a documentary called Growing Up In America:…
Apartment Name Fail →
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Tool Lending Libraries: A Product Service System... →
Photo credit: geishaboy500 @ Flickr Here’s a nice story, in the spirit of Christmas and the goodwill of man. TechShop, in Menlo Park, Calif., is “a 15,000 square-foot membership-based…
Meta journalism →
Ketzel Levine is a NPR senior correspondent who came up with the idea of doing a series about how Americans are handling the economic downturn…and then got laid off by NPR in the middle of her…
“For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram...”
– Four Decades After Milgram, We’re Still Willing to Inflict Pain
Vaporware 2008: Crushing Disappointments, False... →
This year, handset makers were exhaling more vapor than anyone - eager to compete with the iPhone and to cash in on the excitement around Android and GPS-enabled services, the mobile sector was ripe…
New Weapon Against Hippies: Wi-Fi [Wi-Fi] →
The town of Glastonbury is overrun with hippies, drawn there by the healing energies in the area. Which have been destroyed by the town’s new Wi-Fi network, apparently making them all sick. …