(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post… Read the rest of the article: @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
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Xeni Jardin Over at Needles and Sins, Marisa Kakoulas DiMattia blogs: Yesterday was the US launch of the racing game Dirt 2, and what better way to promote virtual off-road rallies than,… Read the rest of the article: Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
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Xeni Jardin Earlier this year, NPR ran a neat narrated slideshow of astronomers discussing their favorite images of space taken through the Hubble Telescope. It's worth a second look, now that the… Read the rest of the article: Hubble's Greatest Hits: Astronomers discuss their favorite images
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Xeni Jardin Saigon Tilt-Shift Time Lapse: Link (via @GreatDismal, @fuldog)
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Xeni Jardin WALL OF FLUFF. Because dude, this was harsh. And this was cute but not sufficiently cute. It's okay, you guys, Xeni's here now. Boing Boing moderator Antinous points us to… Read the rest of the article: That is not a sufficiently potent botfly maggot unicorn chaser, Mark, this is the strength we require.
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Xeni Jardin Last week, I blogged about a federal appeals court decision which could make former Attorney General John Ashcroft personally liable for decisions leading to the detention of a US citizen… Read the rest of the article: More on court ruling against Ashcroft and "preventative detention" under Bush administration
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Xeni Jardin How did I not know about this film-themed online t-shirt shop before? Last Exit to Nowhere has several really nice Bladerunner-themed t-shirt designs. What set you from? Nexus 6. What's… Read the rest of the article: I love Bladerunner, therefore I require these t-shirts.
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Xeni Jardin I'm seeing a number of tweets from participants and organizers of the recent PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) which indicate at least one case of swine flu has been confirmed, and… Read the rest of the article: Swine flu fears from Penny Arcade Expo
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Xeni Jardin The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions: levels of digital activity, visualized. (by David McCandless, via Scott Beale)
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Xeni Jardin Remember the BB blog post last week about one of our commenters spotting Garrido's creepy molester van following the Google vehicle in Google Street View? NBC's Today Show stopped by… Read the rest of the article: Rapist/kidnapper Garrido's creepy van in Google Maps: Xeni on Today show
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Xeni Jardin Link Charo @ 09 Yerry Loois Teletón. Supertrainwreck. You watchin', Tim + Eric + @douggpound? (ht @jessebdylan)
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Xeni Jardin (Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post… Read the rest of the article: @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
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Xeni Jardin The "Los Alamos lifer" died at age 91 at his home in New Mexico. He was one of the last surviving links to the scientific giants who had created the… Read the rest of the article: Louis Rosen, physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb, dies.
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Xeni Jardin A lovely, noirish tat by the talented skin-n-ink artist David Allen (via Chuck Anderson)
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Xeni Jardin This is not the first web video of daily highlights from a NASA mission, but it just struck me now, watching today's silent vlog from STS-128, that this video really… Read the rest of the article: Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
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Xeni Jardin Porque esta noche la luna ya esta llena. Link
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Xeni Jardin Cab Calloway sings New Orleans jazz in this psychedelonecrophiliac Betty Boop cartoon. SNOW WHITE, 1933. Link
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Xeni Jardin Interactive Flood Maps show us how familiar land contours will change as the oceans rise. (via Tim O'Reilly)
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Xeni Jardin Over at Wired's Danger Room blog, news that an environmental nonprofit has obtained photos of the Department of Energy's "specially designed trucks" used to transport nuclear material around the United… Read the rest of the article: Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks