Boing Boing week in review: Aug 20-27, 2007

  • Karl Rove's dad's highly pierced wiener was a great excuse to learn more about the little-known early days of the contemporary body piercing movement in America: Link to essay by a friend of Rove on BMEzine, Link to Boing Boing's audio interview with "grandfather of body piercing," Jim Ward, and link to audio interview with "modern primitive" Fakir Musafar. Speaking of which here were profiles of some amazing bodymodded people: Link. Also, unicorns!
  • We heard William Gibson speak about his new novel: Link.
  • We read some Flowcharts!
  • We learned a new word: bacn. Wait, is it really new? Link.
  • We learned that the Secret of The Secret is that it's a big huge flaming crock of shit. Link.
  • We learned that Cruggs were fugly. Link.
  • We witnessed DRMshock. Link.
  • We discovered that yes, it is possible to create a version of "YMCA" even gayer than the original. Link.
  • We felt the sandy playa winds run through our hair, peeping at pix from Bonneville Speed Week: Link.
  • We felt bruised and abused at the hands of movie theater owners and the MPAA: Link. So did Wil Wheaton.
  • We fell in love with a cute yellow bobblehead-like 'bot: Link.
  • We looked through Google Earth, and for the first time, saw the stars: Link.
  • We watched a bunch of excellent sixties music videos: Link, Link.
  • Image above: We marveled, without shame, at yet another somethingawful photoshop contest: Link.