Ethan Persoff scanned a 1968 US Army rifle maintenance booklet from 1968 that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. Art by the incomparable WIll Eisner. Link
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Ethan Persoff scanned a 1968 US Army rifle maintenance booklet from 1968 that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. Art by the incomparable WIll Eisner. Link Discussion
Bibliodyssey posted a bunch of fantastic Will Eisner covers from The Preventative Maintenance Monthly, a magazine for US Army mechanics. Will Eisner is best known as the creat ... Discussion
Where the M16 rifle is assembled...?? Read more... Discussion
If anyone takes their R&D seriously, it's the US Army, who produces sweet combat tech on a consistent basis, from grenade bots to paralyzing searchlights. The Plasma Acoustic ... Discussion
Lost the maintenance booklet. How do you get the cover off the light bulb compartment to change it out? Discussion
With previous releases, such as an AK-47 under it's belt, Hello Kitty looks poised to roll out a full army. This time around, some gun-loving nut put together a Hello Kitty-th ... Discussion
THE CZECH DAILY WORD EXCLUSIVE / updated on July 22-23 Forty years ago, in August 1968, Warsaw Pact armies, ... Discussion
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has sent the following letter to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, urging that appropriate action be taken to halt the re- ... Discussion
Weve already told about the strange Soviet stamp issued for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Army at 1968.
And this is the stamping of approximately the the Civil War time. ... Discussion
Today on Boing Boing tv, we are proud to share the sneak-preview of a television pilot, the AQUABATS! SUPERSHOW!, a live-action and animation program featuring the popular sup ... Discussion
IO9's done a roundup of their favorite opening lines from science fiction. Some good reading here (and I'm flattered to have been included):
"The sky above the port was the ... Discussion
An 82-year-old woman in Southampton, UK was told she couldn't take photos of an empty wading pool because she might be a paedophile. Because, you know, anything that children ... Discussion
Here's some (way shakycam) video of Danny O'Brien's OpenTech presentation, "Living on the Edge," an extremely provocative and interesting talk about how we might restructure t ... Discussion
Matt sez, "When I was in fifth grade, Mississippi Public Broadcasting decided to introduce a series of short films to educate children on how to use the library. For some godf ... Discussion
The Camerahead Project is a Seattle protest group upset about the growing prevalence of CCTV cameras there -- they're staging a bit of theater tomorrow in Cal Anderson Park, w ... Discussion
Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover ... Discussion
Modofly -- who laser-etch designs into moleskine covers -- are hosting a contest for new designs for the next batch -- one of the themes is steampunk:
Get your steampens an ... Discussion
Tim sez, "Ruth Whiting show's 'Plug In' is a show oil paintings at the Wedge Gallery in Asheville, NC. Ruth Whiting's paintings create a luscious mythology surrounding the ord ... Discussion
Jake Bronstein says:
Wait, you ran some pictures of my Fun Idea machine the other day before I'd even posted it. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that that might happ ... Discussion



