August 2008
38 posts
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July 2008
41 posts
Queen Victoria's underwear purchased by weird... →
Some of Queen Victoria’s giant and comical undergarments were up for auction, but we are not amused.
A pair of her bloomers, a chemise and a nightdress went under the hammer at Mackworth in…
Memory Hole obtains over 400 forms used by the NSA →
Russ Kick’s Memory Hole is back with a special treat for fans of government intelligence agency arcana:
Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting…
Cool animation of Wal-Mart's spread across US →
Wal-mart stores are depicted as disease-green blobs in this neat animation of the retail giant’s spread across the US.
Nathan says: “This is similar to the Walmart infection video you put…
People who have killed their lawns →
I went for a walk in Sebastopol CA this evening and took some photos (crappy photos with my iPhone, sorry) of front yards that have gardens instead of lawns. They look much more interesting…
Cautionary →
Great Batman panels →
BB pal Vann Hall suggests these two unrelated possibilities as the greatest Batman panels of all time. I like these, but I’m partial to “Batman does BDSM.” Click the…
Steve Kemp: I spent my life trying not to be... →
There should be a word for those silly little ways you can fool your body & brain. For example recently I’ve been having trouble with my boiler - so getting hot water is a challenge.
I find…
DS Print: 7/21/08 →
u unnerstand internetz nao? →
u unnerstand internetz nao? or need moar teechings?
note: dis nawt gud 4 ur internetz.
picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Rik
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Librarians want to turn us all into privacy fiends →
The American Library Association calls the right to read the “foundation of individual liberty,” and it isn’t keen on government attempts to erode library privacy. The ALA has launched a…
Identical Twins Begot Identical Twins! →
Shared by Sam Powers
re-shared due to symmetry
Talkin’ bout identical twins, how about this: two sets of identical twins went on a double date, fell in love, got engaged, get married (yes, a…
A helluva thing →
It’s a helluva thing, a trial by jury. It was a radical notion 200 years ago, and it’s still a radical notion today. I served on a jury once. Getting called for jury duty sucks, because most of the…
Fortune →
Seriously? That’s the weak-assed shit you bring to the fortune cookie game? Seriously?
HOWTO install your keys in a Leatherman handle →
Instructables user Pyro222 has a great HOWTO for installing your keys in the handle of an old Leatherman Micra tool. I love this idea — except the TSA would probably confiscate it, because…
Albany: Oregon's best-kept secret →
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Matthew Garrett: The fallacy of the completely... →
Emma Jane Hogbin gave a presentation on the gender gap in free software at Lugradio Live this weekend. One of the central messages was that a great deal of how to avoid putting women off…
Laptop lounge chair →
Robin Carpenter’s (concept?) design for a laptop chair really strikes a chord with me. My house and office always seem to be a minefield of laptops balanced on chair-arms or stood on edge on the…
Obligatory cute animal video to close out the week →
FSM knows this isn’t new, but for some who stop by Boing Boing, it may be yet-unseen. Dramatic Lemur [actually Tarsier, but whatever, the Chipmunk upon which it’s based was a hamster or…
Merlin Mann reviews It's All Too Much, a book on... →
On Cool Tools, Merlin Mann reviews It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life With Less Stuff. It’s All Too Much is a terrific book that inverts the typical approach to…
To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question →
theodp writes “The NY Times’ Virginia Heffernan confesses to being stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. For example, Heffernan notes she could quote kavya on Yahoo…
Pocket watch gun →
Over at BB Gadgets, John posts about this antique pocket watch with a secret gun inside. Amazing. Pocket watch gun (BB Gadgets)
Previously on BB:
• Pistol ring and other unusual…
Devo says it's not too late to brush teeth (audio... →
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A Softer World: 330 →
HOWTO make 36-hour perfect cookies in 3 hours →
Inflamed by the New York Times’s article on perfect chocolate cookies (in which it is revealed that the two secrets are: one, a little salt prior to baking; two, aging the dough for 36 hours in the…
Time machine needed to get iPhone? →
Eric Mueller took this photo of an AT&T store on lower Broadway in downtown Manhattan (near Park Place / City Hall) today. Seems the iPhone is “temporally out stock.” Perhaps it’ll be…
White worm-eating slug discovered in Wales →
Shared by Sam Powers
Selenochlamys ysbryda: The Welsh Ghost Slug. Found in Cardiff. Someone call Torchwood!
In keeping with the creepy crawly theme started by David today, here’s a BBC…
WTF!!! PowerSchool "upgrade" to 5.2 and... →
WTF!!! PowerSchool “upgrade” to 5.2 and now cannot enroll kids into classes. Prob escalated to “engineering.”
In Videos: 'I Eat Beats' Skittles... →
From Required Eating Kyle McDonald’s sequencer named I Eat Beats features a “tangible and edible music interface” controlled by Skittles. I assume M&Ms and other similarly shaped…
In Videos: 'I Eat Beats' Skittles... →
From Required Eating Kyle McDonald’s sequencer named I Eat Beats features a “tangible and edible music interface” controlled by Skittles. I assume M&Ms and other similarly shaped…
John Goerzen: My DNS happiness is complete →
Shared by Sam Powers gandi.net ftw!
I have been using Gandi as my preferred register for some years now. They have probably the most customer-friendly AUP out there, are reliable, and good…
Movie Fail 2 →
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First-ever Web server →
Wikipedia’s image repository includes a photo of the NeXTCube that Tim Berners-Lee ran the first-ever Web server on, at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland:
This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube)…
but the lease said no pets →
Washington Times - Politics, Breaking News, US and... →
Lawn zombie sculpture →
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John’s dug up this magnificent zombie lawn-sculpture by Alan Dickenson, available for a mere $90 — think of the savings you’ll realize by no longer having to pay…
Marketing Fail →
Thx loudribs
Honesty WIN
Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subway →
The wonderful Improv Everywhere’s latest prank involved a bunch of identical twins riding the same subway in New York City. Human Mirror (Laughing Squid), Human Mirror project page
Comic for July 7, 2008 →
Tardis sheds by the shedload →
Uncle Wilco sez, “We have some wonderful sheds on readersheds.co.uk, but the most quirky ones are the Tardis sheds, full size replicas of the Doctor Who’s famous time machine, but most are used…