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Xeni Jardin at 8:23 am Tue, Jul 31, 2007

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The Man Who Laughs: grotesque Victor Hugo potboiler was the basis for The Joker

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Eurovision 2013: An American in London

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The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

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  • Colette McNamara's photoshopped images of her teddy bear, Scribbles, floating in space and slumped on the Moon.
  • Flyer's Rights, created by a woman who was stuck on a grounded AA plane for nine hours.
  • Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun) says, "Madonna's not our saviour."
  • Reports of "sustained inflation" in China's illegally-exhumed corpse market.
  • New Zealand woman making breakfast cracks open egg, finds a smaller egg within it.
  • Support for childhood goat trauma victims.
  • Pieces of the hated Mickey wand from Spaceship Earth at Epcot appear on eBay.
  • Tuna shortage caused by overharvesting leads to horse sushi.
  • Science in the Simpsons Movie.
  • Podcast with Jimmy Carter about his 1969 UFO sighting.
  • 1982 video game: Communist Mutants from Space. More.
  • The American Direct Mail offices in Burbank have "No Solicitors" signs on their doors.

    (Thanks, Shane, Ingo, Wayne, Charles, M. Tai, Iain, Jeff Jones, vikingdiplomat, Nathan Torkington, Emeka Okafor, Sean Bonner)

    Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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