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- BBtv - Pesco and "Eccentric Genius," Xeni zapped, ironic t-shirts: More Maker Faire 2008.
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- BBtv - Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
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- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
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the latest
- "How to Photoshop" book has incompetently-photoshopped cover
- From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "exergaming"
- JumpSnap: the ropeless jump rope revolution!
- Font Haiku
- DIY music controller uses water
- Aliph's updated Jawbone Bluetooth headset reviewed (Verdict: Smaller but just as quirky)
- Intel spokesman: no larger Atom iPhone
- CBS to buy CNET for $1.75bn
- Another day, another jet-powered backpack flight over the Alps
- MSI Wind review: Te enamorarás! Yes, it's an Eee-killer
latest episodes
- Pesco and the "Eccentric Genius," Xeni gets zapped, ironic t-shirts: More Maker Faire 2008.
- Google and China's "Great Firewall": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
- Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
- Kevin Kelly: "Asia Grace," and A Thousand True Fans.
- BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
- Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.
- Combat robots, warring battleships: Xeni at Maker Faire
- Star Simpson's fuzzy logic, MacGyver, MIT lasers, and trippy glasses: Maker Faire with Phil Torrone
- Joel Johnson Wilderness Internet Experience
- Animation: Syd Garon and DJ Qbert, and Jon Burgerman's "Magic Ink"
I'm still stuck on the phrase "nonrandom spontaneity." Is it just me or is that an oxymoron? If something is spontaneous then it is difficult or impossible to predict and that's random. If something is predictable, you could say that it was nonrandom, but then it wouldn't be spontaneous.