Colin Marshall 1 min ago
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Anyone who moves to Los Angeles starts hearing about Jonathan Gold right away. They'll soon learn that he writes food criticism for the Los Angeles Times, and did so previously for the Los Angeles Weekly (before which he did an earlier stint at the Times).
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Mark Frauenfelder 1 hour ago
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I haven't tried this fast eggshell-peeling method yet, but I hope it works as well as it does in the video.
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David Pescovitz 1 hour ago
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A+C Studios (quickly) reproduced the 2015 Super Bowl commercials in LEGO.
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Jason Weisberger 2 hours ago
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This performance is fantastic. I am in love.
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Colin Marshall 2 hours ago
- "Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese of all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family," writes Donald Richie in his definitive study Ozu: His Life and Films, "and but one major theme, its dissolution."
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Mark Frauenfelder 3 hours ago
- The New York State attorney general’s office investigated herbal supplements being sold at GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, and found that many don't contain the ingredients on the label.
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David Pescovitz 3 hours ago
- After a 50 year break, Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will publish her second book, titled Go Set A Watchman.
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Colin Marshall 3 hours ago
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Given his equally literary, visual, and technological interests, I'd imagine that Douglas Coupland appeals to a great many Boing Boing readers.
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Cory Doctorow 3 hours ago
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In 1966, Topps issued a series of "Frankenstein Valentine Stickers" that have only improved with age.
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Jason Weisberger 3 hours ago
- This book is as much an adventure as it is a collection of recipes.
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Colin Marshall 5 hours ago
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Whenever I meet someone Korean, I talk to them in Korean. Inevitably, they respond by asking how I could possibly have found interest enough in their country to study its language for seven years and counting.
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David Pescovitz 5 hours ago
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Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" meets A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," courtesy of Andy Rehfeldt. (via Laughing Squid)
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Colin Marshall 5 hours ago
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Not long ago, I interviewed renowned UCLA urban theorist Edward Soja on my podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture. In researching what he'd said before about this ever-fascinating, ever-confounding city, I came upon Los Angeles: City of the Future?
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David Pescovitz 5 hours ago
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Marcin Wichary, my colleague at Medium, tells tales of typography that amazing, confound, delight, and startle me, and I'm not a designer.
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David Pescovitz 6 hours ago
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Later this month, more than 1,000 pieces of Disneyland memorabilia will be auctioned off, including a doll from It's A Small World, a skeleton from Pirates of the Caribbean, original Tomorrowland art by Bruce Bushman, and a ton more.
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Red Scott 6 hours ago
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Grace Hopper intended the world's first compiler, and this wonderful video, directed by Community's Gillian Jacobs, is a brilliant introduction to her career and position in the history of computing. My only objection is that it's not a full-length documentary.
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Cory Doctorow 6 hours ago
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In the age of secret government snooping warrants -- which come with gag orders prohibiting their recipients from revealing their existence -- "warrant canaries" have emerged as the best way to keep an eye on out-of-control, unaccountable spying, and now they've gotten better.
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Red Scott 6 hours ago
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Tim Schafer and members of the Psychonauts development team sit down with speed-runner Stephen "SMK" Kiazyk to watch him do a run of the game and witness the different ways he's found around their painstakingly crafted work in order to complete it as fast as possible.
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Cory Doctorow 7 hours ago
- Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds.
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David Pescovitz 7 hours ago
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Avant-garde minimalist composer Philip Glass will compose the score for Josh Trank's forthcoming film The Fantastic Four (trailer below).
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Red Scott 7 hours ago
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Over the past decade I've been annoyed with traditional camera straps that go around your neck or diagonally across the body.
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Cory Doctorow 9 hours ago
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It must be Groundhog Day, because British politicians are making us debate their repeatedly-failed spying legislation -- how is it that some policy initiatives never die, while others can't get any traction at all?
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Joshua Glenn 10 hours ago
- The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature.
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Xeni Jardin 19 hours ago
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From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome.
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Mark Frauenfelder 20 hours ago
- I love my new Jackhammer Jill skateboard deck designed and made by Andreas Ekberg. Check out his website of beautiful creations.
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