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January 22, 2008 11:26pm
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Don't Miss
- Barlow's Forth of July message
- Jesse Helms leaves the planet.
- Tattooed living zombie
- YouTube user data must be turned over to Viacom, judge rules
- BBtv: Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
- BBtv: Monochrom's Nazi Petting Zoo
- That Violet Blue thing
- Save the International Cryptozoology Museum
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
Recent Comments
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the latest
- Haters of cellular lock-in: Has AT&T seen you coming?
- Mossberg's guide to switching from Windows to Mac
- Acer subnote hits Europe
- History of water pistols soaked with innovation
- Openmoko open-source cell phone beats Android to the punch
- Gatling Gun was inspired by seed-spreading machine and used mainly for domestic intimidation
- The tiny creatures of the gadget bag
- Should Apple redesign its high-end notebooks?
- Star Trike at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con
- Apple files patent for multi-gesture language
latest episodes
- Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
- Monochrom: Nazi Petting Zoo
- Cory Doctorow: a "Little Brother" reading (3rd in a series)
- Russell Porter and Cadence Weapon, pt. 2.
- Klaus Pierre: The Beach
- Cory Doctorow: a "Little Brother" reading (second in a series)
- Russell Porter with Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon
- Animation: "Placenta" and "Papiroflexia," by Joaquin Baldwin
- Boing Boing tv now has a Twitter feed
- Heavy Load: UK punk band with learning-disabled members.
I first read about the "Puzzle Women" in Ana Funder's Stasiland a few years ago. The book is well worth grabbing if you found this story interesting.