A Zumba aerobics dance instructor who ran a prostitution business on the side (while collecting welfare assistance) pleaded guilty in a Portland, ME court today. Alexis Wright's male business partner… Read the rest of the article: Maine Zumba instructor pleads guilty to prostitution charges
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Xeni Jardin Photo: AlexSutula, Shutterstock Jeff Simmermon, who writes funny essays and does funny standup, has a great new piece up on his blog. Five of my friends have had babies in… Read the rest of the article: A baby can be a funeral for a friendship
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Xeni Jardin Erin Siegal "Immigration enforcement and drug smuggling continue to be top priorities for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Border Patrol's budget has swelled accordingly, increasing from just $262,647… Read the rest of the article: US Border Patrol uses horses to secure Mexican border
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Xeni Jardin "Lindt Bunny Family," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by Paul J. "Leave them alone, and they multiply."
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Xeni Jardin My brother Carl Hamm (Twitter), who is a club and radio DJ and a collector of obscure but excellent global stuff, shares the images in this post and says:
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Xeni Jardin Andrew Leonard has a tick-tock in Salon explaining how and when Google lost its cool. "Google Reader is gone. Google is banning ad-blocking apps. Google Alert doesn't work. The Google… Read the rest of the article: Grouching about Google
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Xeni Jardin We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Frank Zappa reads the dirty… Read the rest of the article: Watch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archives
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Xeni Jardin De-mining workers from Laos are speaking in the US about the urgent need for funding of bomb clearance and survivor assistance efforts in Laos.
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Xeni Jardin A map of the USA's West Coast, with caption, "Plan to hit US mainland." Photos in North Korea's state-run newspaper, taken at an "emergency meeting" Friday morning with Kim Jong-Eun… Read the rest of the article: In photographs, North Korea "leaks" plan to attack US
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Xeni Jardin Wired's Danger Room blog points to this new report [PDF] by the NGO International Crisis Group, which details how Mexican drug cartels recruit and coerce kids as young as 11… Read the rest of the article: How children become "cannon fodder" for Mexican drug cartels
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Xeni Jardin In Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, a group of Buddhist monks led a crowd of hundreds in an attack on "Fashion Bug," a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse. "The attack comes as hard-line… Read the rest of the article: Sri Lanka: crowd led by Buddhist monks attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo
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Xeni Jardin From the Boing Boing Flickr pool: "Equality," a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from Rich Renomeron's photostream.
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Xeni Jardin The parliament's justice committee is concerned that inmates in Scotland's jails "have unlimited opportunity to watch television," and say "a reasonable amount of time to watch television is fair as… Read the rest of the article: Prisoners in Scotland are "watching too much TV"
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Xeni Jardin 8.5 million geolocated tweets. Above: a map created by James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and John Barratt, who collected 8.5 million geo-located tweets between January 2010 and February 2013. Fast Company… Read the rest of the article: Mapping Twitter tongues of New York City
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Xeni Jardin Lindsay Scallan of Newnan, Georgia took photos on her Canon PowerShot during a vacation on Maui in 2007, and lost her new camera (in its waterproof case) during a night… Read the rest of the article: Owner reunited with camera she lost in Hawaii after it washes up on Taiwan beach 6 years later
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Xeni Jardin University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill psych professor Barbara L. Fredrickson had an interesting recent piece in the New York Times on what she and research colleagues argues is a… Read the rest of the article: The science of screen time vs. face time, and human connectedness
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Xeni Jardin Whale-watching boat trip participants witnessed an emotionally moving form of dolphin behavior: a deceased dolphin calf carried on the back of an adult.
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Xeni Jardin At the New York Times, Mark Mazzetti reports on the promotion of a C.I.A. officer "directly involved in the 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videotapes and who once ran one… Read the rest of the article: Officer linked to torture tapes' destruction advances within C.I.A.
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Xeni Jardin Research In Motion today reported a surprise profit and "a comfortable cash pile for its fiscal fourth quarter," after strong first sales of its new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. Also: Co-CEO… Read the rest of the article: RIM sells a million Z10s, climbs out of red ink
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Xeni Jardin "Numerous Japanese teens, it seems, are uploading photos of themselves doing the Kamehameha attack from popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball," writes Kotaku's Japan-based correspondent Brian Ashcraft. There's a… Read the rest of the article: Japanese teen trend: "Dragon Ball attack" selfies