I'll be in Portland on Monday for two weeks. How do you visit the museum? I'm having a hard time finding any information on how to actually get there.

dang, wrong link. Here are all the sources for the paper: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/rbrauneis/happybirthday.htm

I love this paper because of the incredible research he did -- he dug at every 'fact' he came across until he hit the bottom (often overturning things that have been taken at face value in other well-researched HBDTY histories). He even debunks Snopes in the footnotes!

The link isn't obvious in the linked document, but he provides all the sources (including mp3s of relivant scores) here:
http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=1741

I used to work for a political media firm in DC, and we worked with all sorts of organizations with names like 'Doctor's Association of Medicine' that were just one or two people with a box of letterhead.

It's not hard (or uncommon) for some nut with an opinion to found an authoritatively-named organization and try to be the voice of one side of an argument in the media.

I play ukulele, and fellow ukulele players are among the nicest people I've ever met.

Here's a youtube favorite of mine. Some sexy banjolele!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pwUmSNHUgY

I saw an interview with two artists (Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh) who did this for a year. By the end, they were about ready to kill each other.

For what it's worth, charismatic churches are just a subset of evangelical Christians. When you see people speaking in tongues, handling snakes, etc, a lot of Christians think these people are nuts, too.

I watched this in college, because my friends and I were all Lynch nerds. I vaguely remember that this was the only one where it looked like the director even tried to make a full film. If I remember right, Spike Lee just filmed a kid standing on some stairs or something.

Hm, Anne Geddes new stuff is getting a little strange.

I buying this book! It jives with the values I'm trying to impart to my son: Be curious and find truth.

Of course, he's 2, so it'll be a while before I give it to him.

There's an irregularly updated website I read (Matthias Wandel's Home page) where the guy talks about his tech/woodworking projects and other hobbies -- the most interesting section to me is where he explores modern ruins. It makes trespassing seem fun!

Here's an animation of it cycling through the hours.

This clock is a wonderful thing!

This will be a great way for people to rickroll the entire family.

From this angle, it looks like a piece of George Ohr pottery.

Reminds me of (the late) Larry Gianettino. Close up photos of toys can be surprisingly expressive.

yipe, there's one NSFW painting near the bottom of the page. Heads up.

Interesting link, otherwise.

Minor correction: it's doombuggies.com. The .org site is one of those lame google-ad sites.

The headline should be:
Pirated DVD Saves Man's Life

This reminds me of one of my favorite wikis -- is Bugguide.net. You post pictures like this of insects and insect behavior and the community comments on and sorts them.

From what I can piece together, this song is a tale of woe all around (It even involves Tim Allen).

- Smash Mouth recorded an album called Old Habits in 2005

- This song was recorded at that time, and didn't make the cut

- Sony had optioned the use of some 'exclusive' Smash Mouth songs (including this one) for a Tim Allen family-of-superheroes movie called Zoom

- The album Old Habits was deemed terrible, and was never released

- Zoom rated 2% fresh, and flopped at the box office

For what it's worth -- I almost never click on webads, but I was just talking about the Mobile Web during lunch, so the link turned out to be very useful!

I hope MS paid you enough for 100 more years of Boingboing ;)

Hey, I found a cool Wiki entry on this topic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_technique

One of my favorite pieces is a minor work from George Crumb called 'A Little Suite for Christmas'. For certain parts, the pianist reaches inside the piano to play the strings directly. It makes the music sound other-worldly.

In case there are other ukulele players out there saying to themselves, "I've never heard of this brand," here's the previous BB link:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/20/amy-crehores-tickler.html

Nice find, Coop. I hope I remember to check for photos of the finished product.

Oh wow. This is the most useful tattoo I've ever seen:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlzimmer/2125569263/in/set-72157601351535771/

But will it help you find your phone buried at the bottom of your bag before you miss the call?

I wasted some time with this last month as well ;-) Tips: Start as far away from the cat as possible, and create a wall leaving one opening until the cat is one dot away, then seal his fate. It's a win almost every time!

These are very excellent, and may very well inspire me to try something similar this Thursday. But ya, why choose the only one that doesn't look like a bird?

This is some mighty fine and thrilling investigative reporting! (seriously)

If only reporters could do something of this quality and depth for say, a certain military quagmire?

My dad was in the military, and it seemed like they created patches for most of the projects he worked on (he usually gave them to me). They were likely made to spend year-end dollars.

I think the patches are evidence less of a secret cabal, as they seem to portray here, and more of the frat-ish sense of humor that old army guys usually have.

I'll probably get the book. Sounds interesting.

Rush says something controversial: Outrage
Beck says something controversial: Crickets

I laugh at how irrelevant he is.

I think my mom had something similar (though it was made of plastic and probably bought in the mid 70s) for making pom-pons. You wrapped yarn around it somehow, closed it up, cut the yarn around the edge, opened it back up and poof.

I don't think this is exactly the same -- ie, I doubt it makes pom-pons, but I bet this is something similar for tatting or some other older form of lacemaking.

This happens frequently enough that this type of accident has made the 'no longer weird' list at NotW.

Presumably, the 'top secret' method would be setting Photoshop's twirl tool to a negative number.

(though it wouldn't work with the small/compressed version provided here)

Is there a link? I don't see it :-(

Waking-up scenes...

So, so true.
I think writers think 'hey, it's the beginning of my book, so let's start it at the beginning of something!'

This link is a shame. It's one thing to post Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers's pictures without credit, but to use them as an advertisement like they do here is sad...

In case people miss it, this is a PARODY.