I just got my copy of Yokai Attack: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide (Kodansha International), and it is essential reading for anyone who would prefer not be eaten alive by… Read the rest of the article: Japanese monsters, and how to survive their wrath: YOKAI ATTACK
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Xeni Jardin It's a 'shop job, but it's still funny. (thanks, r stevens, via)
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Xeni Jardin Today on Boing Boing tv: Toots and the Maytals are true reggae legends (more: Wikipedia, MySpace). Founder Toots Hibbert is credited with coining the word "reggae" in the band's 1968… Read the rest of the article: BBtv: Roots Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (music)
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Xeni Jardin (Video: an intro that precedes the movies of Max Hardcore; no nudity or sexual acts in this embedded video above). A US District Court in Florida has sentenced "extreme shock… Read the rest of the article: Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
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Xeni Jardin Just in time for the presidential debates tonight, from Lessig blog: Barack Obama has reaffirmed the position he took in the primaries and asked the Debate Commission to support "open… Read the rest of the article: Obama and McCain support "open debates": remix, reuse, comment, re-distribute.
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Xeni Jardin Last week on Boing Boing tv, we released a BBtv WORLD episode with a visit to Pendjari nature preserve in Benin (West Africa). I got close (a little too close)… Read the rest of the article: More Elephantblogging: Michael Nichols on photographing complex creatures.
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Xeni Jardin Our WIRED friend Melanie Cornwell gives us a heads up on the final two special events at the ongoing WIRED NextFest in Chicago this week. If you're in town, you… Read the rest of the article: To do in Chicago: Inside the Gamer's Studio with Chris Hardwick at WIRED NextFest
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Xeni Jardin In this very cool science video series on YouTube, NASA astronauts on the International Space Station answer questions from on board the space station via YouTube. Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, who… Read the rest of the article: NASA astronauts answer questions from on board the Space Station via YouTube
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Xeni Jardin Floyd Norris, liveblogging the panic today at the NYT — The Great Crash of 2008: 2:45 p.m. ET: If the S.&P. 500 closes where it is now, (1009.07, down 8%… Read the rest of the article: Brown Monday: open thread on today's economic panic.
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Xeni Jardin Hey, speaking of bluegrass… when Led Zeppelin founder Robert Plant teamed up with Nashville mama Allison Krauss, critics compared the musical collaboration to a hookup between King Kong and Bambi.… Read the rest of the article: BBtv: Robert Plant and Allison Krauss interview (music)
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Xeni Jardin NYT writer and Texas son John Schwartz wrote this very funny piece about the family in Texas who bear the name being co-opted by John McCain's presidential campaign. [T]o those… Read the rest of the article: The Maverick Family in Texas Asks: "Who You Callin' a Maverick?"
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Xeni Jardin In this YouTube clip, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) says some congresspeople were told in private briefings that if they did not pass the bailout bill, circumstances would soon force the… Read the rest of the article: US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass
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Xeni Jardin The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia. That's about 900 kinds of… Read the rest of the article: Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack Obama
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Xeni Jardin Jean Jean french beatboxer guimbarde UP YOUR SOUND !, YouTube (Thanks, Brendan via "friends list")
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Xeni Jardin Clayton Cubitt blogs: "Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin quoted an unidentified "writer" who extolled the virtues of small-town America: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and… Read the rest of the article: American Fascist Writer Westbrook Pegler
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Xeni Jardin by Aden Renkai, via Political Wire (thanks Teresa Nielsen Hayden!).
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Xeni Jardin Boing Boing tv is wrapping up the work week with a music feature on Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie rock music collective with about 20 members. Like a giant… Read the rest of the article: BBtv: Broken Social Scene interview and live performance (music)
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Xeni Jardin Larry Flynt's at it again: According to HUSTLER, "Nailin' Paylin" is a "naughty adventure to the wild side of that sexy Alaska governor," featuring "girl-on-girl lovin'," "nailing the Russians, who… Read the rest of the article: Hustler producing Sarah Palin adult film spoof: "NAILIN' PAYLIN"
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Xeni Jardin An update on the item blogged here earlier today on Boing Boing: Skype, the online text messaging and voice service, said Thursday it was "extremely concerned" by monitoring of Internet… Read the rest of the article: China surveilling Skype, UPDATE: Skype admits breach, apologizes
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Xeni Jardin Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. Today: an ambient exploration of… Read the rest of the article: BBtv WORLD: Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (Africa)