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Canadians: write to your MPs about Canada's disastrous new copyright bill

June 13, 2008 6:40am

Is there a site that tracks the voting record of MPs on copyright-related issues?

Thanks!

Neurotech industry in Portfolio magazine

May 20, 2008 8:13pm

They seriously called it NERV?

Laika the space dog gets a statue

April 12, 2008 1:01am

...I may have made a terrible, terrible mistake.

Laika the space dog gets a statue

April 12, 2008 12:44am

Takuan@18: Literally, "curly one" or just plain "curly."

If anyone can find a better-quality photo, I'll translate the full text.

Bush wants to bring deadly livestock virus to heart of livestock country

April 11, 2008 11:47pm

I note no one mentioned that the actual mortality rate in animals from foot and mouth is somewhere around 2-5%. The main reason the herds in the UK were slaughtered?

Lowered milk production. They weren't going to be as profitable.

Hen lays green eggs (no ham)

January 31, 2008 8:03pm

Hodur@9: Thanks, I stand corrected.

TNH@13: I'm too late to answer the actual question, so for bonus points I'll ask: Do you know why bottom of the barrel supermarket cheese is orange?

Hen lays green eggs (no ham)

January 31, 2008 11:30am

I'm with Gerta. Where's the news story? Aracuna hens lay green or light-blue eggs all the time, and I can buy green eggs by the carton at the local health food store.

Aerogrow Aerogarden Reviewed (Verdict: Unnecessary)

December 20, 2007 7:50am

Actually, Farhad has it wrong; clearly he hasn't been to sufficiently dingy cities. Even the local Mall-Wart (which is a monstrosity of a SuperCenter, serving the nearest three counties or so) manages to bring in *either* parsley or cilantro, but never both, and you may as well sacrifice a goat or two to the herb gods if you're hoping for basil or rosemary.

Rogers ISP of Canada breaks into your browsing session to tell you off for using the net too much

December 11, 2007 5:56pm

In similar annoyance-related news, Embarq (previously Sprint) has enabled a typo correction and DNS error redirect "service." Your mistyped URLs are now an opportunity to make some money off of your eyeball bandwidth.

The service does give an opt-out option, which is cookie-based. If you happen to clean out your cookies on a regular basis, though... Tough luck.

Making chemical snakes

November 13, 2007 5:36am

Romwell, спасибо.

Making chemical snakes

November 12, 2007 8:31pm

Okay, here we go:

1. Pour a mound of sand through a sieve, make an indentation in the top, and pour alcohol into the indentation -- as much as possible without causing the mound to dissolve.

2. Prepare the reaction mass: Mix thoroughly 1 part baking soda to four parts confectioners' sugar.
Place the resulting mixture into the indentation in the sand mound. Ideally you should make the clump of reaction mass slightly smaller than the indentation, or the snake will turn out to be a mutant with horns and extra appendages.

Light the mixture, and watch. Soon, you'll see little black balls beginning to appear, and then, the snake!

Warning: Do not, under any circumstances, pour more alcohol in after the original dose burns through. The sand will at that point be hot enough to evaporate the first few drops of alcohol, which are liable to ignite, lighting the stream of alcohol and from there the container in your hands.

(This is just the first snake; if there's interest I can translate the rest. Also, how the devil does one translate "Раскален"?)

Serrano photos vandalized

October 11, 2007 5:44am

Electro@15, Knightx@16,

Would you be so kind as to define "art" for me? Separately or through a joint effort; I'm not picky.

Boing Boing tv: same old BB, but with talkies.

October 3, 2007 8:30am

So far, the space of a month, we've seen two major announcements, for a total of four new things (bb site redesign, the return of comments, and the bb Gadgets blog, and now bbTV).

Will the trend continue? Is bb poised to challenge Google in the latter's quest for world dominance?

Stay tuned for next week's episode of bbTV to find out :)

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