Wired's Ryan Singel quotes Yahoo! Chief Scientist Prabhakar Raghavan:

But there's a misconception, according to Raghavan, that the world is divided into BoingBoing viewers — the freaks — and Justin Bieber fans — the normals.

The data say otherwise.

"The truth is everyone is partially weird," Raghavan said.

Rich Roat says:

House Industries is descending on Reserve Gallery with a batch of freshly printed wood serigraphs. Macro and micro letter-based elements, furniture-grade plywood, David Dodde's steady squeegee hand and screen printing inks create a typographic terrine drawn from House Industries' vast warehouse of alphabetic anomalies.

Micki Krimmel of NeighborGoods will give a presentation at the next Mindshare LA.

The next Mindshare LA is August 19.

Once a month LA's intellectually and culturally curious gather for an evening of "Enlightened Debauchery" in one of LA's downtown venues for a night of mind-opening speakers, elbow-rubbing with a diverse and colorful crowd, food trucks, cocktails and an eclectic mix of music.

Joshua Glenn says, "I've been scanning and posting the covers of my "File X" collection – i.e., paperback novels from the 1940s-70s the titles of which include a freestanding letter "X." Interesting to note that three or four of the SF novels in my collection were retitled at some point to get that sexy "X" in there…

HiLowbrow: File X

If Stanley Kubrick had directed Double Rainbow, in outer space: 2001, a Double Rainbow Odyssey. [Thanks, Tara McGinley]

What I learned from watching the film Rocky Balboa on TV a few nights ago: In the late 1960s, the fighting styles, punching patterns, and other data about famous boxers like Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Rocky Marciano, and Muhammad Ali were entered into a computer to produce simulated "fights" between individuals who were never in the ring together. — Read the rest

David Greenwald, blog editor for the L.A. Times' Brand X reviewed Shuffler.fm, a way to listen to songs by visiting the blogs they appear on.

The landing page presents a list of genres. Once a user chooses his or her own adventure (at present, anything from hip-hop to lo-fi to singer-songwriter), the site shifts to an appropriate blog post, with Shuffler.fm

Photo: Shannon Cottrell/LA Weekly from "An Evening with the Unfamiliar"

You've probably seen The League of S.T.E.A.M. on Boing Boing before, as both Cory and Xeni have posted their videos. In addition to videos, they do interactive live performances at parties across L.A. — Read the rest

As we learned earlier today, Justin Bieber's "U Smile," when slowed down 8x, becomes a numinous ambient epic similar to the work of Sigur Ros. I regret to inform you that speeding up Sigur Ros does not result in Biebage. — Read the rest

In 1983, a dozen couples traveled to a Burbank soundstage to be married in a group wedding themed around the science fiction/fantasy film Krull. They had won a national essay contest by revealing "why their 'Fantasy Come True' would be to have a 'Krull' wedding in Hollywood." — Read the rest

I've expressed my admiration for Tom Gauld before (The Gigantic Robot, Characters for an Epic Tale). He is one of the best cartoonists around! Read Tom's comics here.

His name is Jim Steager and he has a website, but sadly, I couldn't find more videos of him in animal makeup. (Via Cynical-C) — Read the rest

This incredible critter is Callicebus caquetensis, a species of titi monkey newly discovered in the Colombian Amazon. Humans have destroyed their natural habitat, leaving less than 250 in the wild. No wonder he looks freaked out in the photo. From New Scientist:

The monkey was found in a region called Caquetá, in the south of Colombia, which had been inaccessible for many years due to a violent insurgence.

Boing Boing readers had a lot to say regarding yesterday's post about Kelly Sutton, the fellow who has gotten rid of almost everything he owns apart from his digital / Internet technology. I asked him to write about his lifestyle and here's what he wrote. — Read the rest

Frank Jacobs' great Strange Maps blog turns up a real treasure this week: "A Night-Club Map of Harlem," drawn ca. 1932 by cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell. The map hits all the high spots, metaphorically (The Cotton Club, Small's Paradise, The Savoy) and literally (131st and Lenox, where a figure helpfully identifies himself as "th' Reefer man"). — Read the rest

Harm Goslink Kuiper's homemade guitars, banjos, diddley bows, and other stringed instruments are delightful and inspiring. He plays them on his new album, Stil Leven.

Harm Goslink Kuiper – 'Stil Leven' — Read the rest

Over at Romenesko/Poynter, Bill Brazell (who used to work with Boing Boing via Federated Media) writes: "It's been disturbing to read the Wall Street Journal's ongoing "What They Know" privacy series without finding a disclosure notifying readers of the Journal's grave conflict of interest. — Read the rest

Wired uses this graph to illustrate Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff's claim that the world wide web is "dead."

Their feature, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, is live at Wired's own website.

Without commenting on the article's argument, I nonetheless found this graph immediately suspect, because it doesn't account for the increase in internet traffic over the same period. — Read the rest

An assortment of panels (I've selected a few doozies, out of order) from the James Bond comic books Death of a Spy,
Chinese Riddle and Super Duper, published in India by SP Ramanathan. I imagine them being read aloud by a cabbie in Delhi for maximum enjoyment. — Read the rest

Before I learned about The Chris Valentine Show from Gabe Delahaye's videogum post here, I was unaware that:

•Many of the elves in North Carolina are actually indigenous to Florida and California
•Elves like to be near water where the oceans meet the mountains (?)