April 2009
14 posts
Swine Flu Fun Facts →
Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps on Twitter, and writes quite often for mental_floss…
Apr 28th
Swine Influenza: Another Reasonable, Reasoned... →
Jim Macdonald is hosting a good, science-y, factually grounded thread about swine flu over at Making Light. Snip: You must know that proteins have shapes, and those shapes are how you can tell…
Apr 28th
A Monument of Post-Apocalyptic Instructions →
Shared by Sam Powers Customers who bought this item also bought: http://tinyurl.com/ce55ab In 1979, an anonymous group erected a massive stone structure in Elbert County, Georgia. This…
Apr 27th
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0 Beta (Codename:... →
Few things get our community excited like a major release version of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Today marks availability of the first GnR preview: ZCS 6.0 Beta 1 Open Source Edition. Admins and…
Apr 19th
Best Government Flak Quote of The Week →
Spokesperson for Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office on a proposal that would make San Francisco the first city in the nation to sell and distribute medical marijuana: “The mayor will have to hash this out…
Apr 17th
Diff'rent Strokes opening sequence, reconsidered →
“Disturbing Strokes” is a great example of the power of music to affect mood and give different meaning to familiar visuals. (Thanks, Tara McGinley!) Previously: The Shining, if…
Apr 16th
HOWTO make adorable, edible Totoro cream puffs →
Annathered has a wonderful, step-by-step HOWTO for creating delicious cream puffs in the shape of Totoro. The photoset is here, and the recipe and assembly instructions are here. (Thanks,…
Apr 16th
HOWTO Make a dogshit composter -- Boing Boing... →
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Lisa’s written a fabulous tutorial on building your own dogshit composter — something that’ll bring up the Easter daisies a treat. This is Ruby’s butt, a great…
Apr 11th
If the fad ever dies out. Which we all know will... →
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Apr 11th
Trippy high school yearbook cover →
While conducting research for his Dork Yearbook project, Joel did a Google image search for yearbook covers. I think this cover for Rochester, New York’s West High School 1968 annual…
Apr 8th
Trippy high school yearbook cover →
While conducting research for his Dork Yearbook project, Joel did a Google image search for yearbook covers. I think this cover for Rochester, New York’s West High School 1968 annual…
Apr 8th
hhgregg: DOA →
SR-2020 Mystery Receiver © mysteryreceiver / CC Jason Scott: Brick and Morte. But honestly, I don’t know how someone says “the best way for me to sell this stuff is to go into…
Apr 8th
Crocheted Mario blanket →
This stupendous crocheted Mario blanket comes from Craft Flickr-pool member Gege-Crochet, who’s posted some intriguing notes about the fabrication process on her blog: “There is no pattern that I…
Apr 6th
Crocheted Mario blanket →
This stupendous crocheted Mario blanket comes from Craft Flickr-pool member Gege-Crochet, who’s posted some intriguing notes about the fabrication process on her blog: “There is no pattern that I…
Apr 6th