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Boing Boing Tom Gauld, author of the astounding The Gigantic Robot book, has a new print available at Buenvaventura Press, called "Characters for an Epic Tale." 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 2 colors [note the apparition, done in a gray spot-color -- Mark], letterpress printed on Hahnemühle Mould-made Ingres paper. Signed and numbered edition of (Read More)

2 hours ago

Boing Boing Mike sez, "Bob Altemeyer's excellent book 'The Authoritarians' is online in full pdf format. It's a result of 30+ years of research into what he calls 'right-wing authoritarianism'- right in the sense of 'might makes' rather than 'opposite of left'. It's a fascinating explanation of how the minds of this subset of the pop (Read More)

3 hours ago

Submitted by Ghosttie from Google Reader: OK, OK. You can have a show that runs for more than one season (Nathan Fillion) Picture by: dunno source Caption by: Jassen via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions . (Read More)

21 hours ago

Submitted by Coldacid from YouTube: Back to the Future Delorean Crysis Mod DL here: http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=4147&lim=0 *Not mine. (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Ghosttie from Google Reader: It's a complex thing to measure church attendance but here are a few pointers on arriving at an accurate number based on the attendance figures they give you.- 50% if its a Pentecostal worship service because they count the legs and forget to divide by two.- 30% if its a Baptist church because they count members on the roll (Read More)

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Submitted by Pink Lisa from Google Reader: Seven ways to kill an idea. By Scott Campbell… . (Read More)

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Submitted by Pink Lisa from Google Reader: via http://www.imperioli.lt/. (Read More)

2 days ago

Gizmodo The new terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world's largest earthquake-safe building. You're looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structure rests on over 300 isola (Read More)

3 days ago

Gizmodo Adidas Imperial Stormtropper sneakers. You know, so you can run faster when random people start chasing you down the street. To beat the crap out of you. Or ask where did you buy them. It can go either way. There are also Darth Vader shoes and hoodies, all part of next year's Adidas Star Wars Collection. Check out the rest (Read More)

3 days ago

Boing Boing Coming soon to a science fiction plot near you: with the right software, a plain-jane webcam can be a 3D scanner. It's a project from Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University Engineering Department. ProFORMA: Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition (via Futurismic)Previously:Homemade 3D printer g (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Ghosttie from Google Reader: I was trying to think of something coherent to say about the Digital Economy Bill published this week, but I'm too damned angry right now.I'm a self-employed media professional working in the entertainment industry, who earns his living by creating intellectual property and licensing it to publishers. You might think I'd be (Read More)

3 days ago

Boing Boing The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyo (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Pink Lisa from Google Reader: I think this summarizes everything. (Read More)

3 days ago

io9 Tired of the Hoth System and crappy family vacations to Tatooine? Go big, go extreme, go Dagobah — or go home. This travel ad is the funniest Star Wars fan-vid we've seen in ages. . (Read More)

4 days ago

io9 Tailor-made microbes could save thousands of lives a year in poor nations, but not in the way you would think. A new breed of bioengineered bacteria can spot buried explosives. A group of students at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a bacteria that glows bright green when it comes in contact with the chemicals th (Read More)

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