Anthony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance says: "We are taking ads out for marijuana legalization on the Colbert and Daily show leading up to the November 2, vote in California."
Text of ad: "They're hoping we don't vote this year.
My friend and Make contributor Tramaine De Senna made a video of her cool caulk frosting painting process. She also provided the vocals for the soundtrack. I posted her Double Dub video on Boing Boing last year.
Teal Triggs has nice things to say about bOING bOING (the zine that predates the blog) in this fun BBC audio slide show.
It is a literary subculture that dates back to science fiction publications in the 1930s but it was the niche music scenes of the 1960s and 70s that really helped the fanzine genre flourish.
Look at this 4 year old's adorable Jawa costume her grandmother made her. This is way better than my juvenile attempt of wrapping myself in an old blanket and stumbling around on my knees.
Last year her brother went as a Tusken raider. — Read the rest
Over on O'Reilly Radar, Jim Stogdill has a fabulous piece on the economic theory of rents as they apply to technology businesses, open source, cloud computing, spectrum auctions, and other chewy, boingy subjects. This is exactly the kind of economist talk I love: the stuff that makes you slap your forehead and say of course, that's how it works:
Obviously digital distribution has also damaged the traditional channel model of the music, film, and photography markets.
Scott Rosenberg and company's Media Bugs has expanded its correction-accepting Web site from San Francisco newspapers and publications to the whole United States. The site functions as a public and accountable way to call media to task for errors of fact that aren't always retracted, corrected, or apologized for on the site or in print where they occurred. — Read the rest
JT has had enough with fear-driven election ads, so here's "a little 30 second blipvert lifting heavily from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the RGA's own 'Remember November' campaign."
What is the lethal level of caffeine consumption? Apparently, it's somewhere below "spoonfuls" of a caffeine supplement that a British man purchased over the Internet. Papers around the world are abuzz (sorry) about the death-by-stimulant of Michael Lee Bedford. The recommended dose on the packet is 1/16th of a teaspoon–I know I have my 1/16th teaspoon measure handy at all times–and he took substantially more. — Read the rest
Favorite Halloween costume a couple of years ago for my son was Ghost Rider Johnny Angel. My son wanted to give each house a present, so the night before we spent making paper flowers on pipe cleaners.
Apple embraced its inner Martha Stewart by adding a letterpress option for ordering photo cards from its iPhoto '11 software. The cards are printed in bulk by letterpress with one of a handful of standard designs, and then surprinted on a high-end electrographic system (cough, fancy laser printing) with text and photos. — Read the rest
Yesterday I posted that awful Boo Berry illustration with the weird lip skin flap. As John Park said: It probably "started as a Fred Flintstone-style pushed upper lip that someone had no clue about as they did the pseudo 3D version." — Read the rest
Last summer the immortal Michael Swanwick offered to write a story a day for the 42 days of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop . If you donated $10 to Clarion West, you could get your name (or your cat's) in a story written especially for you by Mr.
Writing in about the campaign to get the Machine of Death anthology to #1 on Amazon on its launch day, editor David "Wondermark" Malki writes, "It worked! Machine of Death went to #1 in books for over 24 hours on Tuesday, and was even at #1 in all media back and forth for a while (the John Grisham Kindle edition proved a tough opponent). — Read the rest
Quantum Mechanix has released a nerdtastic Hallowe'en video: John De Lancie (Star Trek's Q) reading Poe's The Raven. I still prefer Lord Buckley's 1950s hipster argot version, but this is damned cool nevertheless.
Julia found a 1931 Practical Standard Funk and Wagnall dictionary at a used book store and exacto knives to carve it into a remarkable piece of 3D art.
