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HOWTO Screen-print a tee
April 21, 2008 4:31pm
Grilled Cheese Invitational (to do in L.A., April 19)
April 16, 2008 8:31pm
Hey! That's Passover!
Matzo grilled cheese for the lose...
Coachella by the numbers
April 16, 2008 8:29pm
I thought this guy was going to be at Coachella this year...
Wonderful DIY pipe organ
April 16, 2008 4:20pm
Do want!
I love old film transfers with voiceover narration.
Now I have to go to archive.org and watch Prelinger videos for the rest of the day while I pretend to work. Thanks...
Old comic book depicts US suicide bomber as hero
April 14, 2008 3:55pm
The most common examples in the last twenty years, by a wide margin, have been Palestinians targeting civilians in crowded areas seeking to maximize loss of life. Like it or not, that connotation is largely accurate.
I agree that connotation is largely accepted as accurate in the popular media. Do you have data to back it up? There have been many suicide bombings in both Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years which are largely against military targets. Many Palestinian suicide bombings have been against military checkpoints. Chechen insurgents used suicide bombing as a tactic largely against military targets. These are just a few examples. There are many others.
I think if you are going to make an assertion like you've made, you need to back it up with facts.
Old comic book depicts US suicide bomber as hero
April 14, 2008 1:29pm
The attacker is in uniform, and the target is military. That you can compare this to the vicious thugs targeting discos, coffee shops, trains, building, and school is evidence of moral blindness.
I don't think that there's any evidence of "moral blindness" here. What's interesting to me is that "suicide bombing" which is a tactic, has become culturally synonymous with "terrorist attack targeting civilians." This comic cover, and the attendant commentary by Jay Kinney just asks us to observe this. It's always a good idea for us to stand back and look a little more objectively at some of the terminology that we accept as status quo.
Citing "moral blindness" as you do, is a bit of a straw man, don't you think?
Iron man battles Linux and open source in new comic book
April 11, 2008 2:35pm
I guess I'm missing the bit where he's "explicitly anti-linux."
Camera glasses on sale -- goodbye, photography bans
April 8, 2008 8:43am
Cool. Maybe a copy of "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" by Salinger will mysteriously appear online after someone goes into the Princeton library with a pair of these...
LA Times on home of the French Dip sandwich
April 7, 2008 8:08am
Naysayers be damned! Phillipe is da bomb! That mustard will blow your brains out of your ears! And their baked apples and coconut cream pies rock the Casbah!
And those cringing at the "improper" use of imported foreign phrases such as "au jus" are just being whiny bitches! Come on! When a foreign phrase makes it into another language it does not need to retain it's original part of speech. An adjective can become a noun, a prepositional phrase can become an adjective, etc. Who cares? It's what people do. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who complains out loud about this is just trying to brag about their linguistic prowess. Get over yourselves!
And while you're in Los Angeles, don't forget to visit the "The Tar" tar pits.
Skullphone image inserted into ClearChannel digital billboard ads (Not a hack, but paid for?)
March 26, 2008 11:18am
This guy is a joke. He's been trying to insinuate this skullphone icon into an underground meme for years now. He's about as edgy as Angelyne.
Experimental Games being given away free with t-shirts at Target
March 21, 2008 4:45pm
Interesting. I haven't played these games in quite a while. Tower of Goo, Gravity Head and The Crowd are all pretty cool (though the Crowd doesn't really qualify as a game.) I definitely like the crowd shirt...
Haunted Mansion trufans party after hours in Disneyland
March 6, 2008 3:28pm
Thanks Teresa,
I think that's a widely acknowledged dichotomy that a lot of us Disney fans feel.
I would have loved to have gone to this. I just couldn't really justify the expense.
Random House Audio abandons audiobook DRM
February 21, 2008 4:20pm
emusic has 1 audiobook for $14.99 per month or two for $19.99. Or you can save more by paying annually. So they seem pretty comparable to audible price-wise. I'm not sure how the selection stacks up though. And they don't offer the bonus "free" content that Audible does.
Yoko Ono: No, I'm not suing Lennon Murphy over "Lennon."
February 14, 2008 12:52pm
I should also apologize for my earlier comment on the Yoko Ono post. I should have realized I was only getting one side of the story. I have to remember that teh Intarweps lie sometimes.
Sorry Yoko...
Yoko Ono: No, I'm not suing Lennon Murphy over "Lennon."
February 14, 2008 12:46pm
Kudos to Yoko for clarifying this and responding to it in a timely manner. If the situation is indeed as described in this letter, then it seems that she (Yoko) is doing the right thing.
Yoko sues seeks to block trademark of "Lennon" - **UPDATE**
February 13, 2008 8:49am
I don't care if she calls her band "John Lennon's Mummified Corpse" Yoko Ono is being a righteous bitch here. I like to think that John would be more of a copyleftist if his zombified remains could slither out of their grave to feed on the flesh of the living today.
Amazon buys Audible, promises to kill DRM if we complain
January 31, 2008 3:48pm
I get most of my audiobooks these days by downloading from my public library. They are wma drm'd, unfortunately, but the price is right...
Unfortunately, the two main (maybe the two ONLY) vendors for downloadable audiobooks for libraries: netlibrary and overdrive, both use wma drm, which is a pain in the arse.
I've been a long time emusic subscriber (*sigh* I miss the days of unlimited downloads...) and they've recently started a drm-free audiobook download subscription service. The books are available in mp3 format. I think this was posted on boingboing somewhere? Anyway, you can check them out at http://www.emusic.com if you're interested in drm-free downloadable audiobooks.
Record industry practices revisionism about music recording
January 1, 2008 4:48pm
It's still on their website if you know where to look:
11. How is downloading music different from copying a personal CD?
Record companies have never objected to someone making a copy of a CD for their own personal use. We want fans to enjoy the music they bought legally. But both copying CDs to give to friends and downloading music illegally rob the people who created that music of compensation for their work. When record companies are deprived of critical revenue, they are forced to lay off employees, drop artists from their rosters, and sign fewer bands. That’s bad news for the music industry, but ultimately bad news for fans as well. We all benefit from a vibrant music industry committed to nurturing the next generation of talent.
Burning Man Suicide: statement from camp in which it took place
September 7, 2007 5:19pm
It's a beautiful sentiment. Kudos to the Comfort & Joy camp for handling this delicate situation in a caring and sensitive manner.
I don't think that including the day's activities is any kind of "shameless plug" for the camp. Please. This statement was released after Burning Man was over and they don't stand to gain anything by it. At the worst, they are guilty of including some extraneous details. Personally, I think it just gives a little more information about the venue in which the man chose to end his life.
Thank you Comfort & Joy camp for handling this with dignity, respect and sympathy.
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I disagree with Johnny Cat. While there are a lot of finer points to screen printing professionally. This howto is adequate for the DIYer who wants to do a one-color print and who is willing to deal with an OCCASIONAL smudge or misaligned print.
I used to do silk screening on tie-dye shirts for Grateful Dead concerts back in the mid-80's (I know, I know.) and the results can be quite satistying.