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AirAsia: "We're rescuing passengers stranded in Bangkok."
Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport has been closed for the past week by antigovernment protesters (read this related NYT story). Many foreigners remain stranded in Thailand, as a result. Boing Boing reader Sarah Stabile, who works with AirAsia and other airlines, has word for any of our blog's readers w ...
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Odd ad for an outfit to be worn while eating a midnight snack
I like this odd print ad from the 1960s for a line of clothing called "living loungerie." Odd ad for midnight snack outfit
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1973 synthesizer music LP: BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension
TradeMark Gunderson kindly ripped an out-of-print LP from 1973 by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, called Fourth Dimension. It's awesome. If you know only one thing of their work, it would be the theme to Doctor Who, the venerable BBC sci-fi television series. They also did the sound effects. And in ...
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Video mashup screen demo
TradeMark Gunderson of the The Evolution Control Committee made this amazing rear-projected infra-red-activated faux-touchscreen mashup controller... hacked from Wiimotes. Video Mashup Screen Demo
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Interview with Harvard law prof who's challenging the constitutionality of the RIAA suits
David Weinberger sez, "Charlie Nesson (of the Berkman Center and Harvard Law) and Joel Tennenbaum discuss (it's a podcast) their countersuit against the RIAA on Constitutional grounds. Charlie argues that the RIAA is a private agency enforcing a criminal statute...using the federal court as a collec ...
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Bookcase that splits to reveal hidden compartment
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John waxes lyrical about this bad-ass zip-up bookcase with a hidden compartment. Drool. Although I have since fallen into the German bohemian style of book storage which involves rooms lined with teetering piles of cracked, used paperbacks upon which half-empty be ...
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BBC follows shipping container around the world
The BBC is following a shipping container around the world, and taking videos in an "experiment to lift the veil on the global economy and tell the stories behind the goods inside, those who make them, and how they travel to consumers." The Box is due to arrive during the broadcast in LA from Sha ...
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Winter wonderland was a dump
Hundreds of people are furious because the Lapland New Forest, a winter wonderland theme park near Dorset, England , wasn't what they were promised when they bought tickets. According to the BBC, the Lapland New Forest Web site (currently down) advertised the place as a "magical scene" featuring a s ...
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(BBtv) Boing Boing Gadgets: Freestyle Audio Soundwave Underwater MP3 Player (naked video review)
A career milestone for Joel Johnson on Boing Boing tv -- his very first shower scene. The naked gadget reviewer explains: What hath videoblogging wrought? It is my honor and personal shame to present my video review of the Freestyle Audio Soundwave underwater MP3 player. Using the miracle of not sho ...
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China: Rebecca McKinnon's Blog Censorship Research
Rebecca McKinnon has published an extensive and densely informative blog post in which she shares findings of her ongoing Chinese blog censorship research. She is developing a more in-depth academic paper for release in 2009, and welcomes feedback and reaction to what she's posted now, including the ...
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To Publish Without Perishing (Clay Shirky guestblog post)
Ed. Note: The following is Boing Boing guestblogger Clay Shirky's first post. Clay's traveling today, so I'm posting this one on his behalf. Image above: "Don't believe the Devil, don't beLIEve his book," a CC-licensed photo by Celeste, a Flickr user in Buenos Aires - Argentina. --XJ Every now and ...
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Here Comes Clay Shirky (The Changing of the Guestbloggers)
Many thanks to our outgoing guestblogger Dale Dougherty, who contributed a number of superb posts here over the past couple of weeks, and appeared in an episode of Boing Boing tv today. Thank you so much, Dale! We'd now like to give a big welcome today to our next guestblogger, Clay Shirky. I first ...
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The Cartoon Cabinet
DATELINE TOONTOWN. President-elect Bam Bam has announced a slate of Cabinet appointments, declaring that "this new generation of leadership" will mix a few popular characters from the past along with "many less familiar faces who are getting their first opportunity in a leading role." At a press ...
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Sesame Street international CD and DVD
My 2.5-year-old son, like so many toddlers before him, is enthralled by Sesame Street. In fact, I think he'd prefer we lived there. A few months ago, I received a copy of Putumayo's Sesame Street Playground CD/DVD. It's a fantastic collection of songs and videos from local versions of the show from ...
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Setting free the chickens
On Sunday, I let our chickens out of their coop to run around freely for the first time. I was surprised by how quickly they took to it. They started scratching around in the grass and dirt, grazing on different tree and bush leaves, weeds, blossoms, and blades of grass. They stretched out in the su ...
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Web comic strip by Barbara Rushkoff and Nathan Schreiber
My friend Barbara Rushkoff writes very witty and moving personal narratives. Her old print 'zine Plotz was a hysterically funny and honest take on Jewish identity. And her book Jewish Holiday Fun For You! is a must-have for irreverent Jews everywhere. Barbara has been away from the keyboard for a wh ...
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Imaginary Foundation's new dresses
Our friends at the surrealist clothier Imaginary Foundation have launched a new line of women's dresses and tops. The fabric comes from their men's t-shirts patterned using a dye sublimation process that allows for gorgeous graphics without the thick feeling of most screenprints. The dresses and top ...
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Arduino starter project video
Over at the Make blog, Marc de Vinck has a charming video that shows you how to do a simple Arduino project. Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple mic ...
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Principles for Open Government: a 3-point plan for an open Obama administration
Larry Lessig and friends have founded Open Government, a movement to pressure the Obama administration to dismantle the barriers to free and open access to government and its data. Boing Boing/Happy Mutants are proud signatories to the petition -- I hope you'll sign up, too. 2. No Technological ...
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Boing Boing tv Update: Econopocalypse, Julie Amero, Holiday Gifts, Mumbai.
Embedded above, and in glorious technicolor downloadable MP4 here: this week's Boing Boing update on Boing Boing tv. ♦ We begin with a video chat about O'Reilly Media cofounder DALE DOUGHERTY's guestblog post on why television networks, including CNN, seem to be struggling to cover "The Econ ...
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