Amazon today released an announcement boasting that sales of the Kindle device have tripled since the unit price dropped from $259 to $189. And with that, a related piece of… Read the rest of the article: Amazon: We sell more books in Kindle format than hardcover.
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Xeni Jardin Why has this middle-aged gentleman ventured to Hedonism 2 in Negril, Jamaica more than 40 times, and what could possibly explain the fervent, amorous grind of his pastywhite sexytime speedo… Read the rest of the article: Web infomercial for Hedonism 2: Party on the beach will make you reach for eye-bleach
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Xeni Jardin Joules exists because designing and making things is fun. Joules came from a challenge to build an electric tandem bicycle powered by actually pushing the pedals like a person. Fun… Read the rest of the article: Joules the Robot: An electric tandem bicycle partner
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Xeni Jardin August 12-15, 2010. And here is the informercial. 2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009 Juggalo News, from the Insane Clown… Read the rest of the article: Gathering of the Juggalos is less than one month away!
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Xeni Jardin Announcers at The Next HOPE are introducing Julian Assange as the keynote speaker, as I type this blog post. Despite earlier reports of federal agents at the hacker con hoping… Read the rest of the article: HOPE: scheduled keynote by Julian Assange of Wikileaks
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Xeni Jardin "With catchy nicknames like Meow Meow, Spice and NRG-1, the drugs are often sold online as 'legal highs.' They typically come in powder form and can be snorted, licked or… Read the rest of the article: EU drug cops baffled by new wave of "designer narcotics" brewed in China, sold online
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Xeni Jardin You, your friends, and your johnson. (thanks, Matty Granger)
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Xeni Jardin Following in BoingBoing's noble tradition of bringing truth and justice to sloppy Photoshop jobs in fashion magazines, our reader Nicole posts this truthy exposé and says, The current issue of… Read the rest of the article: Alleged GQ Photoshop Disaster features Lindsay Lohan's Mighty Morphin' belly button
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Xeni Jardin Police in Juarez, Mexico were killed this week by a car bomb rigged up with an improvised explosive device. More video and photos in this Spanish language report. Decapitation, torture,… Read the rest of the article: New tactic for "narcoterrorists" in Juarez, MX: car bombs
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Xeni Jardin Weingarten, preach it: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of… Read the rest of the article: Most accurate analogy ever for The Great Internet Commenting Dilemma
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Xeni Jardin Over at Gizmodo there's a wonderful image gallery from the book Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection, by author Amanda Young and photographer Mark Avino. Incidentally, this… Read the rest of the article: Spacesuits of yesteryear, from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection
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Xeni Jardin Reporters who attended the "Antennagate" presser today in Cupertino were invited to tour the company's "$100 million antenna designing and test facilities." They're blinding us with science! Bonus: When I… Read the rest of the article: Best thing to come out of Antennagate? Apple's "antenna testing chamber" porn.
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Xeni Jardin Following up on news from earlier today: Ryan Singel of Wired News tweets, "Gizmodo outs its iPhone 4G source in return for getting editor's computers back from cops. That's fearless… Read the rest of the article: More on how Gizmodo got its gear back in the "iPhone Warrant" kerfuffle
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Xeni Jardin Andy McNeill of The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra shares the fantastic video above with Boing Boing, for the band's song "LookListenFeel." You can also watch it at 30,000 feet:… Read the rest of the article: Maple Mountain Sunburst: Isabella Rossellini reads prose by Aldous Huxley's wife (music video)
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Xeni Jardin EFF reports that the San Mateo county district attorney will withdraw the Gizmodo iPhone 4 warrant. Jason Chen gets his stuff back. But the ordeal may not be over: "The… Read the rest of the article: Gizmodo editor Jason Chen to finally get his stuff back: San Mateo D.A. withdraws iPhone warrant
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Xeni Jardin A prankster who goes by the pseudonym of "Laszlo Thoth," one of the "scientist haters" who participated in an educational prank on a horde of Juggalos in San Francisco recently,… Read the rest of the article: Cognitive Dissonance Theory for Juggalos
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Xeni Jardin Animator and filmmaker Joaquin Baldwin, whose work I've featured before on Boing Boing Video, has a lovely new short up: the tale of a farmer in danger of losing his… Read the rest of the article: The Windmill Farmer: animated short by Joaquin Baldwin
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Xeni Jardin Antennagate: the neologism Steve Jobs just used to describe media frenzy over allegations of design flaws in Apple's iPhone 4. Some live coverage from the press conference in Cupertino: Gdgt,… Read the rest of the article: Antennagate: the Apple press conference
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Xeni Jardin Update: video edited and re-uploaded to include *only* mad mustache dad's epic rant, without the 11 year old girl who is too young to know how unwise it is to… Read the rest of the article: 4chan "backtraced," reported to "cyberpolice" by mustachioed mad dad
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Xeni Jardin Glenn Fleishman shares a treat with us: I was lucky enough to attend the last scheduled table reading (where a script is read by the voice actors) for Futurama, the… Read the rest of the article: Brain Slug Cupcakes at Final Futurama Script Reading