A Bollywood comedy film featuring a Bin Laden lookalike has been banned in Pakistan by the government's film censor board, "on grounds that extremists could use it as a pretext… Read the rest of the article: Bollywood Bin Laden comedy nixed by Pakistan's film censor board

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Boing Boing reader John Napsterista says, Vaseline has introduced an app for Facebook India which allows users to lighten the skin color in their profile pictures. The app is intended… Read the rest of the article: Vaseline launches skin-whitening Facebook app in India

A Showstudio video about these impossibly baroque shoes, from his final collection. (thanks, Susannah Breslin). Below, a very different direction, from the same series. Domain vulture eBaying Alexander McQueen-related domain… Read the rest of the article: Alexander McQueen: Angel Shoes, Serpent Shoes

"This was the scene one Sunday Morning in June on Houston Street. What led up to this tragic end?" Boing Boing reader Jeff Simmermon has some theories. Cyndi Freeman, known… Read the rest of the article: Sad snapshot: Unicorn in a trash can, NYC

Stoner fantasies and 8-bit reveries. Music Video (via Dangerous Minds). Buy the new Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma, because it is fantastic. Directed by Special Problems (Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali,… Read the rest of the article: Flying Lotus feat. Thundercat: "MmmHmm" (dir: Special Problems)

Brace yourselves now, this one's gonna be a shocker: the Propaganda Ministry of China plans to use the internet for propaganda. I know, I know: I, too, was totally surprised… Read the rest of the article: China's plans to use internet for propaganda detailed in leaked report

In FOTO8, a photo gallery and essay by Katarzyna Mirczak about the tattoo collection at the Department of Forensic Medicine at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: 60 tattooed chunks of… Read the rest of the article: Cracking the code of prison tattoos: an archive of human flesh in Poland

Global Witness has issued a report with guidance for gadget makers on how to avoid supporting violence and human rights abuses when sourcing minerals from "conflict sources." Military forces and… Read the rest of the article: Gadgets and conflict minerals: tech companies can do more to avoid enabling human rights abuses in DRC

"The iPhone turns 'heard about garys internship at the whitehouse?' to 'Heard about farts internship at the whorehouse?" At Slate, Farhad Manjoo explores the technical underpinnings of cellphone autocorrect.

Our pals at the LA Weekly have another great photo gallery up with more Star Wars burlesque by Courtney Cruz and her burlesque troupe Devil's Playground (previous BB post here).… Read the rest of the article: The Fempire Strikes Back: More Star Wars Burlesque

Go have a listen. (NSFW, contains profanity, duh.) [MovieGodsLive / YouTube].

[ View large, view very large.] I presume this is the map they used to guide their steam-powered dirigible airships to Luna back in the late Georgian/early Victorian eras. Karte… Read the rest of the article: Moon Map, 1829

Dangerous Minds is my favorite blog in the world (okay, other than this one!). A recent Brad Laner post unearthing this radio documentary on the making of the moody Moog… Read the rest of the article: The Making of 10cc's melancholy '70s Moog hit, "I'm Not in Love"

This Mel Gibson wiretap mashup may be the most tragic and effective use of YTMND yet. (NSFW, strong language)

A new addition to Ethan Persoff's fantastic Comics with Problems collection: A U.S. Army comic book from 2001 explaining "Don't Ask Don't Tell," or what they call "Homosexual Conduct Policy".… Read the rest of the article: US Army "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" instructional comic on gays in military

France takes another step toward banning burqas. Ridiculous French haute couture that makes women look like they're wearing a box of crackers, a birdcage, or, oh, a really expensive burqa?… Read the rest of the article: French parliament says "oui" to burqa ban

"In his cubicle at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits, sipping." Only $13.99. From Warren Ellis.

57-year old David Berkowitz has undergone something of an image makeover in recent years, with help from new friends who see him as a voice of authority on moral and… Read the rest of the article: A kinder, gentler Son of Sam

Oh, this'll end well: Bankruptcy courts may force gay teen magazine and website XY.com to sell off its user list, and all personal data associated with its (mostly gay teen)… Read the rest of the article: Bankrupt site for gay teens may hand over personal data to new owner