Don't Miss
- BBtv: Russell Porter interviews The Rumble Strips (music)
- Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC
- Carney at Outside Lands - a "Boing Boing tv Bus Session."
- Video footage of Sarah Palin's church
- Rage Against the Machine go a capella at RNC protest after cops shut down PA
- Best of BBtv - David Byrne "Playing the Building."
- Best of Boing Boing tv: we love monochrom.
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
Recent Comments
- Unseelie23 said: "The reason why the iPhone lacks copy past has nothing to do with the details of how it would work... ..."
- luckyduck said: "i actually bought one of these recently at a place in portland and i love it! i'm a big baker and th ..."
- bjoern said: "As any small independent publisher can attest to, early reviews on Amazon are hugely important for r ..."
- ZippySpincycle said: "Fred H, on the off chance that you didn't see the link in the original article: <a href="http://patr ..."
- Phikus said: "JIMH@22: Punk rock bears. ..."
- Kat Johnston said: "I've just started using twitter... and so far, I'm not entirely sold on it all... I don't know, perh ..."
- Mackenzie said: "Chinese is good. Better with chilli sauce. ..."
- Kat Johnston said: "#3 - I seem to make a habit of getting such interesting out of the ordinary books myself... I just c ..."
- Belac said: "Takuan #22, "Pre-prison facilities" Like public schools? ..."
- Kat Johnston said: "I have had a great love of the art of Japanese bento for quite a while. Some of the artfulness that ..."
the latest
- iPod-like gadget from 1979 gets new life battling patent trolls
- I, too, dream of the Raon Everun Note running OSX
- British testing "directed energy weapons" for crowd control
- Scientists Sick of People Claiming Large Hadron Collider Will Destroy World
- Power On Self Test: Sheep
- Scammers pretending to be bloggers to get free gear
- GPS locator beacon saves woman on remote Russian expedition
- Incredible Pong Watch tells time through a lopsided score
- Rumor says new iTunes visualizer will be gorgeous Magnetosphere
- Beautifully hand painted retro gamer belt buckles
latest episodes
- Russell Porter interviews The Rumble Strips (music)
- Carney at Outside Lands - a "Boing Boing tv Bus Session."
- Best of BBtv - David Byrne "Playing the Building."
- Best of Boing Boing tv: we love monochrom.
- Best of BBtv: Hot 8 Brass Band of New Orleans (music)
- Best of BBtv - Bill Barminski (animation and short films)
- Best of BBtv: Leslie Hall is gem-tastic
- Best of BBtv - Omega Recoil: Electricity as Art
- Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
- Steel Pulse founder David Hinds at Outside Lands (music)
*sigh*
This story is all too familiar to me...
When I was a student at Ohio University in 2006, several campus buildings were shut down because of a "bomb threat."
What was it, you ask? It was a bike bearing a sticker for the punk band This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb. For real.
A faux-cop campus security dude saw the bike, freaked out, and called in the bomb squad. They took apart the bike and concluded that it wasn't a pipe bomb after all.
The bike's owner was initially charged with "inciting panic", but after the story leaked to national media and the OU police department was sufficiently shamed, the charges were dropped and he got $1,000 for a new bike.
Swear to god, it's true.