Discovery Channel premieres a documentary tonight with Ted Koppel about three Americans whose lives were profoundly affected by white supremacist terrorism. The most recent incident: a 1981 lynching in Mobile,… Read the rest of the article: The Last Lynching: Ted Koppel documentary on Discovery tonight
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Xeni Jardin Above, a roadside sign in West Plains, Missouri about the democratic presidential candidate. (Source: Caricature prompts racism allegations: News-Leader.com, via Racist Obama Billboard Causes Outrage: Current). See also: "Obama Bin… Read the rest of the article: About those lynch mobs on the campaign trail.
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Xeni Jardin Ethan Persoff, the comics archivist who collects weird and disturbing ephemera from all our yesteryears, says: In June we'd made the claim to displaying the oldest known piece of John… Read the rest of the article: Rediscovered John McCain songbook: "My Fellow Prisoners," 1929.
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Xeni Jardin I'm not sure what's going on over at Boing Boing Gadgets today, but you really ought to have a look. Snip from the "takeover" post: Welcome to Infomercia, a massive… Read the rest of the article: INFOMERCIA: hostile takeover of Boing Boing Gadgets
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Xeni Jardin The pioneering roboticists and punk-tinkerers of SRL are relocating after nearly three decades of machine mayhem in San Francisco. Scott Beale posted some photos of fun earlier times at the… Read the rest of the article: Survival Research Labs robot shop relocates after 25+ years
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Xeni Jardin Don't ask why. We'll post something about particle physics or neuroscience later today, as penance for this. (thanks, Andrea James!)
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Xeni Jardin Over at Wired Magazine, senior editor Nicholas Thompson tells Boing Boing: I've just published a scorecard for McCain and Obama, describing and grading the two men's positions on Wired business… Read the rest of the article: Scoring Obama and McCain on "wired" issues
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Xeni Jardin Over at Coolhunting, Tim Yu has a post up about this amazing video by Seth Brau: To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CH friend… Read the rest of the article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, animated
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Xeni Jardin A nice way to end the week. Congratulations to Boing Boing pals Sean Bonner and Tara Brown. (Some related tales of love and photons in this cute WIRED item.)
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Xeni Jardin (Image by Kate Black). In Alaska, a legislative panel investigating vice-presidential Sarah Palin has issued a report finding the governor unlawfully abused her authority by firing the state's public safety… Read the rest of the article: Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved
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Xeni Jardin Today on Boing Boing tv, we continue our SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE launches next… Read the rest of the article: John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."
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Xeni Jardin Video Link, via DLISTED. Previously on BB: the original, and another, and another, y la ultima. But a request: The world NEEDS a La Pequeña Sarah Palin. *Needs.* WHYYYYYY? WHYYYYY… Read the rest of the article: Thank God. La Pequeña is back, as LA PEQUEÃ'A HILARY HULK CLINTON
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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. From the 17th to 19th… Read the rest of the article: BBtv WORLD: Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah (Africa)
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Xeni Jardin Happy birthday, Mr. Lennon. Yoko Ono sends the Boing Boing community a video (link updated), embedded above, and explains a project launching this week in honor of John Lennon's birthday,… Read the rest of the article: Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace.
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Xeni Jardin Boing Boing tv's global coffee correspondent Kyle Glanville is looking for the perfect bean, and you're invited along for the ride. You may recall his earlier appearances on the show… Read the rest of the article: (BBtv) Looking for the Perfect Bean: Kyle Glanville's World Coffee Tour, part 1 – Brazil.
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Xeni Jardin The new season of South Park debuts tonight on Comedy Central, with a timely episode about America's fears that China will pwn us. A BB pal who's seen a few… Read the rest of the article: BB exclusive: sneak peek at South Park's sweet, yet-unreleased iPhone app
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Xeni Jardin Okay, all of you people who love to hate on steampunk, STFU. Because this is awesome, and I'd love to go myself. The band Abney Park, who you may have… Read the rest of the article: Historic Halloween Steampunk Airship Ride With Victorian Rockers Abney Park
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Xeni Jardin If YouTube had a Ten Commandments carved on stone tablets, well, this would be one of them. To wit: * Shrimp * Landmines * War of the Worlds * Lord… Read the rest of the article: Adding the Benny Hill Theme to Anything Makes it Funny
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Xeni Jardin An interesting development in the thrill-a-minute world of airport security, from Paul at Jaunted: Truthfully, I find the liquid ban to be more ridiculous, but a lot of people hate… Read the rest of the article: Airport shoe-scanner device could prevent stupid shoe-removal ritual
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Xeni Jardin Snip from Afrigadget: A couple weeks ago one of our inspirations for AfriGadget – Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles – put forward an idea on the Ned forums about a… Read the rest of the article: A DIY manufacturing event for Africa, "Maker-style," in 2009?