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Galileo, a robotic 360deg panhead for bluetooth iPhones This Galileo robotic 360 deg panhead is clearly a powerful tool that will help artists, with iPhones, create many beautiful images. Read the rest... A history of anti-game moral panics and crusades Jesse Walker of Reason presents highlights from the history of game-driven moral panics - from pinball to porn to poker. Read the rest... Boars, Gore & Swords: Game of Thrones S4E5 Brought to you by Pro Flowers. Get a beautiful 100 Blooms bouquet plus a free glass vase in time for Mother's Day. Go to proflowers.com, click the blue mic, and use code "GoT" Read the rest... Pesco on the "World Wide Weird" Just like Boing Boing, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. To celebrate, I wrote an essay titled "World Wide Weird." It's part of the "The Webby 25 for 25," a series pieces presented by The Webby Awards, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the World Wide Web Foundation. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: Onion v Syrian hackers; Klingon language; Abu Ghraib torturers' screensaver One year ago today Onion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article: The Onion responded by putting up a post called Syrian Electronic Army Has A Little Fun Before Inevitable Upcoming Deaths At Hands Of Rebels, which matches the Assadists' bluster and is much funnier. Read the rest... How to Lick Pimples (Via Mostly Forbidden Zone) Read the rest... Kickstarting a game about cops, terrorism and cognitive bias Guy Galer sez, "I created a game that was inspired by many of the stories found on Boing Boing. You play a FBI agent that is reassigned to the field because of the Snowden brouhaha. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Tale of Ye Olde Inter-Nets Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Kingdom creates an Inter-Nets… What mischief doth the Troll plan? Read the rest... Boing Boing: zine, blog, and back again Here's to another twenty-five years of the world's greatest neurozine! Read the rest... The revenge of the lawn Author Mark Dery charts America's ecocidal obsession with nice grass Read the rest... It came from the faucet There's something nasty in the water, but Maggie Koerth-Baker has you covered. Read the rest... How to make a simple electronic musical instrument The Friendstrument is an electronic musical instrument that you play by touching your friend. Mark Frauenfelder describes an easy creative project that anyone can complete in a few hours. Read the rest... The Return of Sailor Moon The fans are grown up, but the spirit only grows. Liz Ohanesian on the imminent reboot of America's gateway drug to anime. Read the rest... This One Summer [excerpt] An excerpt from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's brilliant graphic novel. Read the rest... King of the Weeds: the final Mike Hammer novel In what Mickey Spillane had planned to be the final Mike Hammer novel – begun in the late 1990s and completed recently by Max Allan Collins – the iconic tough guy has not dimmed with age. He is just as sharp, and deadly, as ever. Read this exclusive excerpt from King of the Weeds. Read the rest... Going broke in LA Anonymous in LA comes to terms with the disappearance of his profession. Read the rest... App lets you auction your San Francisco parking spot A new mobile app called Monkeyparking allows people in San Francisco with good parking spots to auction them off when they're ready to leave, permitting circling rich people to engage in excitingly dangerous class warfare by bidding on spaces with their phones while they drive. Read the rest... Kids are mostly sexually solicited online by classmates, peers, teens The respected Crimes Against Children Research Center reports that one in seven children is sexually exploited online. This figure is both credible and alarming. Read the rest... Beautiful movie palaces of California French photographer Franck Bohbot's portfolio is filled with gorgeous, heartbreaking shots of ambitious movie palaces of yesteryear, as well as huge, vaulted swimming pools and other architectural marvels. Read the rest... Rocket ship toothbrush holders I like Glen Mullaly's photo of these 1950s-era rocket ship toothbrush holders. Read the rest... Florida nixes concealed carry for the zombpocalypse Florida state senator Dwight Bullard thought that a proposed bill to legalize carrying concealed firearms during disaster evacuations was an incredibly stupid idea. Read the rest... Further thoughts on my Bell Bullitt TT Back in March, I reviewed my Bell Bullitt TT. This incredible looking helmet is a lot of fun and now I have a couple hundred miles wearing it. Read the rest... What are the stupid vanity-plate rules in your state? Michael from Muckrock writes, "STFU: That's one of the license plates Virginia won't let its citizens register. In fact, Read the rest... Obama administration proves why we need someone to leak CIA Torture Report It's now been over a month since the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to force the Obama administration to declassify parts of the Committee's landmark report on CIA torture, and the public still has not seen a word of the 6,000 page investigation. Read the rest... Software to trick your boss so you can take a break Jon says: "Corporate Avoidance is a free program we designed to unshackle you by taking advantage of the necessary evils of life as an editor. Read the rest... Glorious sf movie posters of the heroic age Obviously, many things are better now than they were in the 50s and 60s, but clearly science fiction movie posters have fallen from glory. Read the rest... Celebrate the Day Against DRM with 50% off O'Reilly ebooks and videos Sara from O'Reilly writes, "Can we stop DRM here, 'fight tooth and nail to keep DRM out of web browsers '[as] a quarantine measure?' as Jeremy Keith suggests? Read the rest... Mark's online Arduino and intro to making classes Skillshare is a online learning community that costs $10 a month. Subscribers get access to hundreds of video classes on a wide variety of topics. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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