Banana dalek, Sylvia Toth's box of custom bitmap shortbread cookies, Chapel Hill, NC, USA ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/16/just-look-at-this-awesome-bana.html/feed 20 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/gerrymandering-in-north-caroli.html http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/gerrymandering-in-north-caroli.html#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:50:27 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=194165 Mother Jones writes, "The Dems do this too, but these charts show how Republicans have become masters as gerrymandering their way to victory. In North Carolina, for instance, more than half of the electorate voted for Democratic representation, yet Republicans will fill about 70 percent of the state's House seats. Maybe that's not quite cheating--it is legal, after all--but it sure smells like it." ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/gerrymandering-in-north-caroli.html/feed 37 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/03/steampunk-addams-family-thing.html http://boingboing.net/2012/03/03/steampunk-addams-family-thing.html#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:12:30 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=146908
Doktor A, a sculptor and painter, produced this steampunked version of Thing from the Addams Family for an Addams-themed exhibition at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro, NC.

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