Is this real or a joke? I don't know, but it's the best parody yet I've seen of the Groupon editorial voice: "The bagel, like the circle from which it… Read the rest of the article: Groupon Editorial guidelines are funny

"The way you saw the earth shake, that's how our bodies are shaking now." A Mother Jones piece by Mac McClelland on the living hell faced by quake survivors in… Read the rest of the article: Haiti: "Dispatches from tent cities where rape gangs and disaster profiteers roam"

[Video Link, NSFW and not for children]. This is not an official Kanye video, nor is it an official Muppets video. Strictly fan-remix territory, by YouTuber Bobby Miller.

"The old-fashioned gas pump seems almost anachronistic in this otherwise strikingly modern-looking 1930's PSA against drunk driving," notes BB reader GIFtheory. From the Library of Congress archives. This work was… Read the rest of the article: Anti-drunk driving PSA from 1930s

Payback is a bitch. Bullfighter Pepe Manrique is tackled by a bull during a bullfighting festival at Canaveralejo bullring in Cali, Colombia, on December 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga.

"A Wee Drink," photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader Artful Magpie of Chicago. There are 53 Caturdays in this year! 2011 is awesome.

Photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Chris Nixon.

"I'm not sure what it does, but they said they sell a lot of them," explains our internet friend Monkey, who sends along this image. The label reads, "AMBUSHED: The… Read the rest of the article: George W. Bush New Year's fireworks on sale at Texas pyro store

[Video Link]. Hope they catch him. (thanks, Joe Sabia)

[Video Link] I joined CNN International's Anjali Rao for a look back at technology trends and news stories in 2010.

Raw footage from "Wired In," a never-completed series on the technological trends and innovations of the early 1980s. Here is unedited tape of Bill Murray doing takes for a promo,… Read the rest of the article: Bill Murray anti-tech rant: robots, digital watches, talking cars, 1982

Via the Submitterator, BB reader C. White says, Denis Dutton, who founded and edited the website aldaily.com, passed away on 28 December 2010. Dutton was born in 1944, and was… Read the rest of the article: Denis Dutton, founder of 'Arts & Letters Daily,' has died

Newsweek has published exclusive! photographs of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange enjoying Christmas in the Bail Mansion. Photos: Robert King / Polaris. (via Choire Sicha)

From National Geographic: The light beaming from above reveals a tower of calcite on the cave floor that is more than 200 feet tall, smothered by ferns, palms, and other… Read the rest of the article: A cave in Vietnam so tall, a skyscraper could fit inside

In this audio segment, I talk with NPR's Robert Siegel for a look back to the year 2000, and three of the big tech stories that year—and how they point… Read the rest of the article: A look back at a decade in tech: Xeni on NPR's "All Things Considered"

Felix Salmon has an opinion piece up at Reuters analyzing the interesting Twitter debate/catfight/whatever around l'affaire Wikileaks-Manning-Lamo-Wired.com-Greenwald-etc. The piece references Boing Boing posts by Rob Beschizza and guest blogger Sean… Read the rest of the article: Meta-meta on Greenwald v. Poulsen re: Manning/Lamo/Wikileaks: "The evanescence of Twitter debates"

From The Smoking Gun: "As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, the FBI has raided a Texas business… Read the rest of the article: FBI raids TX-based server hosting business in "Operation Payback" probe

Bianca Jagger vs. Nick Davies (Guardian) is the new Glenn Greenwald vs. Kevin Poulsen.

Wikileaks defector Daniel Domscheit-Berg, formerly aka Daniel Schmidt, gave a previously unannounced talk earlier today at the Chaos Communication Congress taking place in Germany. Daniel is a former spokesperson and… Read the rest of the article: Surprise presentation by Openleaks' Daniel Domscheit-Berg at 27c3

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