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Posted Phone texts in Nigeria urged mass murder to Boing Boing
"War, war, war. Stand up and defend yourselves. Kill before they kill you. Slaughter before they slaughter you. Dump them in a pit before they dump you." — One of many mass-text-messages sent last week in Nigeria, inciting people to murder. And they did: some 350 were killed in Christian/Muslim violence. (textually via Bruce Sterling)...
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Posted The Lost Lizard People of Los Angeles (1934) to Boing Boing
Snip from 1934 Los Angeles Times article about lizard people who lived in tunnels under the city 5,000 years ago. This legend is a long-lived chestnut. A hi-rez scan, more at Strange Maps, and: Reptoids! The Flickr uploader, vokoban, has lots of great stuff....
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Posted NASA JPL working on radar project to map earth movement in Haiti to Boing Boing
"We're hoping to get some idea of how the earth relaxes, or releases stress, after an earthquake. This is just one tool to improve our understanding of the mechanisms in earthquakes and volcanoes."— Dr. Scott Hensley, principal investigator for NASA JPL's aerial radar project to map movements in quake-devastated Haiti....
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Posted ACLU on Google + NSA to Boing Boing
"The news that the NSA and Google are working on a deal for the military agency to help protect the information giant's data networks comes at a time when the NSA is angling to get a major piece of cybersecurity action. The only problem is, despite what the agency would have us believe, the NSA is mainly a spy agency, not a cybersecurity agency."—Michael German, at the ACLU blog....
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Posted Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car to Boing Boing
News story, auto-translated to English in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. More on Google Maps. (thanks, BB reader Kjetil Rydland in Norway!)...
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Posted A tale of two Buzzes to Boing Boing
Google Buzz. Why does name that sound so familiar? Ah, of course, it's because Yahoo Buzz launched almost exactly two years ago....
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Posted Beaker (of the Muppets) performs "Dust in the Wind" for mean YouTube commenters to Boing Boing
The official Muppets Studio channel on YouTube just keeps getting better and better. First "Bohemian Rhapsody," now this: Beaker performing the Kansas prog-rock classic "Dust in the Wind," and being pelted by caustic overlay annotations from anonymous strangers. Video Link: Beaker's Ballad.(via Laughing Squid)...
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Posted Google launching "Google Buzz" to Boing Boing
I'm following a live stream of the Google press conference taking place in Mountain View this morning. They're launching a new product called "Google Buzz," a Twitter-like client that sort of acts like Friendfeed inside Gmail. Gizmodo has a blip, far more to follow....
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Posted The Garry Shandling Movie Poster Project to Boing Boing
Funnyperson Tim Heidecker has collected a bumper crop of photoshopped movie posters with Garry Shandling puns....
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Posted The 3D Chocolate Hills of Mars to Boing Boing
Above: 3D image of Martian rock formations, from Road to Endeavor blog. (via William Gibson, Paul McAuley)...
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Posted Neat mixtape of country music covers in foreign languages to Boing Boing
Eric Steuer, best known for his work with Creative Commons and for his music project Meanest Man Contest, made a guest mixtape for the awesome LA-based country music blog "When You Awake." The playlist is a blend of country and western classics covered in other languages. It is verifiably awesome. Guest Mixtape: Other Countries [When You Awake] Above, a YouTube smush-up of one of the tunes Eric selected: Inger Lise Rypdal belting out "Fru Johnsen" (1968), a Norwegian cover of "Harper Valley PTA." (Wikipedia, IMDB, DVD) YouTube uploader Anewargentina paired the song with film footage from the movie of the same name (which spawned a TV sitcom). How do you say yee-haw in Norwegian?...
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Posted Hipster puppies to Boing Boing
hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com (via @tokyomango)...
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Posted Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, March 12-14 in Emeryville, CA to Boing Boing
The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition takes place March 12-14 in Emeryville, CA. Organizers promise "the best elements of traditional science fiction and fantasy conventions, [combined] with the passion, ingenuity, and hands-on workshops of Maker events, in a steam-powered, neo-Victorian setting that spans the 1830s through the early 1910s, from the cultured salons of gaslit London to the rugged coast of San Francisco." Sure sounds fun. I'm delighted to see a number of folks we've covered on Boing Boing before, including Jon Sarriugarte, Kimric Smythe, and The Neverwas Haul Crew in the "kinetics" portion of the event. [ Image: Neverwas Haul, photo by Redteam. ] Previously: Previously:Test-driving the Electrobite, a trilobite-shaped DIY vehicle (BB ... Sarriugarte and Mate's trilobyte vehicle http://boingboing.net/2009/05/29/bb-video---boiler-ba.html Three story, mobile Victorian mansion for Burning Man Boing Boing "Steampunk" archives...
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Posted Ugly furniture to Boing Boing
Video Link. I sneer at your loveseat! (via Dangerous Minds, thanks, Tara McGinley)...
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Posted Battle of the Deathburgers: Heart Attack Grill sues Heart Stoppers Sports Grill to Boing Boing
The owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which offers a "quadruple bypass burger," is suing the owner of the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Florida. Both businesses are "heart-attack/medical-themed," with "sexy nurse waitresses." Both serve obscenely large stacked hamburgers, and side dishes of similar nutritional content. At the Heart Attack Grill, there's a scale over in the corner, and if you weigh more than 350 pounds you eat for free. More: Phoenix New Times, WSJ law blog, WSJ Health blog. The food and the concept may be repulsive to many (ok screw it, by "many" I mean "me"), but what gets me the most is the Sad Sexy Nurse waitress, at far right in the 'shopped image above, photo courtesy of the Florida ABC affiliate TV station WPBF. Sexy nurse, why you so sad? Incidentally, WPBF-TV (=stands for "West Palm Beach Florida") is pretty rockin'. As I publish this blog post, their top headline is "Elderly Man Accidentally Shoots Self Outside Gun Store: 80-Year-Old Airlifted To Hospital." (via Veggie Grill, which is totally awesome.)...
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Posted FBI wants ISPs to retain your web surfing records for 2 years to Boing Boing
The FBI wants ISPs to keep tabs on which websites users visit, and retain those logs for two years. FBI Director Robert Mueller wants providers to store customers' "origin and destination information" to help in child porn and other felony investigations, said a bureau attorney at a recent federal task force meeting....
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Posted 4chan says Verizon is blocking 4chan to Boing Boing
Verizon Wireless is said to be filtering HTTP traffic to/from boards.4chan.org (all image boards). From status.4chan.org: "After an hour and a half on the phone, we've received confirmation from Verizon's Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are 'explicitly blocked."...
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Posted Haiti: Red Cross blog post on why donating cash is better than donating "stuff" to Boing Boing
"First let me debunk a couple of myths, starting with the principle that 'anything is better than nothing'. Trust me, it's not. Relieving suffering should be guided solely by need and not what people have to donate." —Claire Durham at Red Cross Blog, on why cash is better than your janky, tattered old yoga mat....
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Posted Nuit Blanche to Boing Boing
Video above: Nuit Blanche, from Spy Films, directed by Arev Manoukian. There's a "making of" video here....
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Posted US soldier waterboards his 4-year-old daughter for not reciting alphabet to Boing Boing
Joshua Tabor, a 27-year-old Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months, was restricted to his Washington state military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs. (via Andrew Sullivan)...
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Posted Band Reunion at the Wedding to Boing Boing
Best SNL skit since Black Flag was still together. Dave Grohl? More like Dave LOL. Video at Hulu, and alternate link which may or may not work for non-USA viewers. Or maybe this one. Sorry, region-blocking sucks. Alternates welcome in comments. (thanks, Sean Bonner)...
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