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Sign advertising rabbit meat

April 25, 2008 2:10pm

Could you also say La Coneja? (feminine)

You know, like when bugs dresses up as a girl?

How HAARP works

April 25, 2008 2:05pm

Angels Don't Play This HAARP

Hippie cult extravaganza this week

April 7, 2008 11:52am

The book is quite good, its not all that culty or scary.

I believe Skyy Saxxon from The Seeds played with those cats.

HOWTO make a row-counter "abacus" bracelet

March 27, 2008 10:58am

Can I get a hex version?

Vegan strippers

March 27, 2008 10:53am

The business is up for sale if anyone wants to take it over --at least according to our local weekly

Close-up toy photography by Sonic Youth's Richard Edson

March 14, 2008 8:48am

@RossGrady ---agreed, we love Cory though he could have at least said "ex-sonic youth"

but DevoPhil is also correct that the hoi polloi would most likely recognize him as the garage attendant from Ferris Bueller ---pretty sure he's done a lot of TV shows too. Mostly portraying a petty criminal. DNRTFA

Harry Smith's Old Weird America: Anthology of American Folk

March 10, 2008 11:55am

I've caught this film 1.5 times now and its a treat. Thank you Ovation for presenting this on your channel.

The guy is amazing and the performers and commentators are excellent (and it includes some great bits with folks who are no longer around including Harry Smith, Alan Ginsburg and Percy Heath) A treat on many levels and not just for folkies by any means. Bravo (oh wait thats a different channel)

Rudy Rucker versus the Singularity

March 4, 2008 10:09am

All the cool people say we're learning just how it is that we create the dream of matter.

Enough with the Cartesian dualism ---we're barely working with 4.1 dimensions while the "good ETs" are working in 5 & 6---we're still pretty slow in "manifesting" yet, but the astute know that the clockwork god is dead.

I agree with the Ktdaan guy above

Lawrence Welk stars sing "One Toke Over The Line"

February 6, 2008 11:21am

That is surreal, yet it works.

Synchronicity-----

I was all set to sing this song with a gal at a kind of talent show at the Unitarian church this Saturday night---unfortunately she called in sick, so I did something else. I'm sending this to her though---I'm sure we woulda sounded much the same

Virgin Mary on living room wall

January 3, 2008 11:54am

Perhaps not the most impressive of Marian apparitions but the Christmas eve element would lend a gravity to it.

I've got a book of Messages From Mary which says that Mary is simply a manifestation of the divine feminine.

Note that the quotation above only says "Its LIKE a miracle"

Interview with the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor

December 11, 2007 10:20am

I love The Daily Grail site.

So, any skull n' bones candidates this time 'round?

I'd vote for an O.T.O guy
(I've heard their initiations are quasi-masonic)

The Truth About Female Desire online

December 10, 2007 3:31pm

yes, but how do you find the "hot-bone?

MAME oscilloscope plays Star Wars arcade game

December 6, 2007 10:41am

If its not tektronix, its crap

/ just teasing

//oregonian

Video: Philip Glass's Sesame Street pieces

December 6, 2007 10:36am

Sweeet.......and in other news, there's a muppet wiki

;-)

John Scalzi's snarky science fiction tour of the Creation Museum

November 13, 2007 3:07pm

teapunk wrote:

"But you might need a strong religious-right foundation for something like this, so it can grow and I don't see this happening here, in Germany, religion is between you and your god and more of a private thing."

Isn't the 2nd biggest party in Germany called "the Christian democratic union?"

John Scalzi's snarky science fiction tour of the Creation Museum

November 13, 2007 3:00pm

teapunk wrote:

"But you might need a strong religious-right foundation for something like this, so it can grow and I don't see this happening here, in Germany, religion is between you and your god and more of a private thing."

Isn't the 2nd biggest party in Germany called "the Christian democratic union?"

God's Mechanics: Vatican Astronomer reconciles religion and science

October 19, 2007 9:53am

I feel we need to hear more about those scientists who are acknowledging the subjective in their work and beginning to recognize the role of the observer in determining the outcome of the experiment.

Such thinkers might include: Fred Alan Wolf, David Bohm, Stan Graf, Gary Zukav, IONS, etc. and they are all challenging both the Newtonian universe and even the "clockwork" God.

They're generally not about "god" or "religion" or even "faith" (a misunderstood concept) Rather they are dealing with beliefs, thoughts, expectations and consciousness and they ways in which these affect our experience (and generally the inter-connectedness of all things)
The polarizing reductionism of "science vs. the bible" is not interesting to me at all. Give me The Seth Books by Jane Roberts any time.

Hunt for the twirly-faced pedophile

October 16, 2007 12:41pm

I think Merc clarified what I was trying to say.

Not defending this guy at all, just pointing-out a distinction that is frequently ignored.

For every molester there's a whole lotta pedophiles

Hunt for the twirly-faced pedophile

October 16, 2007 11:14am

He's not merely a pedophile, but an actual child-molester

Harvard lawyers shred Harvard Coop's claim that book prices are "property"

September 26, 2007 4:21pm

At one point he says its the book lists from the profs that is the "IP"

There was another thread where someone cited a supreme court case wherein a list of books was upheld as "IP"

A year of following all the rules in the Bible

September 26, 2007 1:58pm

I'm glad that one of the results was a sense of reverence. The reverence concept is explored by Gary Zukav in his book The Seat of The Soul.

I am also glad that this does not appear to be just another tome along the lines of "religion is for dumbasses" as I have little time for that type of polemic.

Nike's American Indian sneaker

September 26, 2007 1:54pm

I'm guessing you won't see commercials for this one if its only available at the tribal thing.

Lotsa products are made overseas by cheap labor.

Corporations are in the business of making money.
This is America dude, learn the rules.

Teacher resigns after giving 13-yr-old student copy of Eightball

September 24, 2007 12:59pm

Not sure if he should be forced to resign but that was not good judgment (male teacher, young female student, graphic material ---> don't do it)

Agreed that it is no worse than much of TV and movies, but teachers probably should not be recommending any media that is even remotely "adult" --to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

Stoner pisses on dying woman, shouting "This is YouTube material!"

September 20, 2007 8:51am

I don't see why BB chose to use "stoner" in both the headline and the story----almost seems like you're trying to demonize users of cannabis.

Nobody thinks this kind of behaviour is typical of said users.

Homebrew "lockpick" slides under door and turns handle

September 20, 2007 8:44am

Why would he need a door-locking tool?

The headline says its a "lockpick."

Article is not well-written

Panflute Flowchart

September 10, 2007 11:21am

I like the panflute as used in Andean music (from Peru and elsewhere)

I also like the music that Zamfir did for "once upon a time in America"

I don't need one myself however, as that "side-blown" thing throws me off ---still its a standard "patch" in the general midi spec.

Charles Fort's famous Book of the Damned as free ebook

September 4, 2007 12:33pm

Good points by Darrell above but I also agree with those who would say that there seems to be a kind of "gate-keeping" by the committee as to what subjects can be even approached by "legitimate" science (or risk losing funding)

The work of Dr.Gary Schwartz comes to mind.

I'd also point-out that Boing Boing has started giving more time to folks like Randi and debunkers of various kinds lately

Tube Map for Miss SC: The Iraqs and Everywhere, Like, Such As.

August 29, 2007 8:24am

Yes, yes, we all know pageant entrants are air-heads ha ha-----

I found this whole video/meme to be mean-spirited and not especially funny

Boing Boing week in review: Aug 20-27, 2007

August 28, 2007 3:42pm

Please B_B don't become a champion of the uber_sceptics. I've never seen or read The Secret and it seems very simple-minded, but I know that its closer to the truth than the extremes of either religious dogma or pure materialism.

Parfrey seems to be saying something similar in that he's claiming the LOA is one of the Seven Hermetic Truths (he just says that the secret grabs them in a selective and reductionist way)MOst would say he's attacking claptarp with more claptrap.

We're slowly learning how "the oberver" affects the outcome of the experiment (or how our own beliefs effect our experience)

I thought you guys liked Robert Anton Wilson and cryptromundo -- we don't need another mouthpiece for Randi and company ---its always seems so unbecoming when BB jumps on to the misguided bandwagon of prejudice.

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