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Provided by: boingboing.net1512012-05-16 13:20:20blogs / boingboing.net /: The United States Geological Survey is having a great big spring sale, with lots of maps, charts, and publications—some of them mid-century vintage—discounted to $1. Yes, $1. At that price, you can't afford to not own entirely too many USGS maps. (Via Travis Weller)

Provided by: boingboing.net1522012-05-16 13:36:40blogs / boingboing.net /: In professor T. Mills Kelly's class, students act out clever public hoaxes. But while Wikipedians are easily fooled, Redditors exposed the latest jape—Do you think my 'Uncle' Joe was just weird or possibly a serial killer?— instantly. Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic unravels what happened. Although most communities treat their members with gentle regard, Reddit [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1532012-05-16 13:00:46blogs / boingboing.net /: John Scalzi attempts to explain privilege using a video-game metaphor in "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is." It's a good metaphor in that is illuminates more than it obscures (the litmus test for metaphors). Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1542012-05-16 13:08:59blogs / boingboing.net /: At Wired, Brandon Keim reports on how subway systems are converging on an ideal form long-reflected in the most successful examples: London, Toyko and New York.

Provided by: boingboing.net1552012-05-16 11:00:42blogs / boingboing.net /: After twenty-five years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion: Ethan, the son of his former partner, has an ingenious plan and he wants Foley in. The harder Foley tries to escape his past, the tighter he is ensnared in EthanBrain candy for Happy MutantsStereotypes abound of the political cartoonists found in so-called alternative papers: the weeklies full of escort ads in the back and snarky commentary in the front. Matt Bors, on the surface, seems to embody the characteristics. He's scruffy, doesn't own a suit, and lives in Portland. He expresses withering contempt at politicians, mainstream media, and [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1562012-05-16 11:00:42blogs / boingboing.net /: Stereotypes abound of the political cartoonists found in so-called alternative papers: the weeklies full of escort ads in the back and snarky commentary in the front. Matt Bors, on the surface, seems to embody the characteristics. He's scruffy, doesn't own a suit, and lives in Portland. He expresses withering contempt at politicians, mainstream media, and [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1571970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / boingboing.net /: 04qxVNDao4c Tex Murphy: Project Fedora (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora) has begun its Kickstarter drive. So far they've made $108,000 of their $450,000 goal. ---Quote--- An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: The server did not return XML. The content type returned was text/html Brain candy for Happy MutantsUh-oh. A tweet from Toronto notes that weirdly, there are 4 cop cars outside #hacklabto as they are having a party for #freebyron. HackLabTo is the Kensington Market hackerspace that Byron Sonne (who was acquitted yesterday on all counts related to his emperor-wears-no-clothesery of the Toronto G20 summit in 2010) is affiliated with. Update: they're [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1581970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / boingboing.net /: 04qxVNDao4c Tex Murphy: Project Fedora (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora) has begun its Kickstarter drive. So far they've made $108,000 of their $450,000 goal. ---Quote--- Brain candy for Happy MutantsUh-oh. A tweet from Toronto notes that weirdly, there are 4 cop cars outside #hacklabto as they are having a party for #freebyron. HackLabTo is the Kensington Market hackerspace that Byron Sonne (who was acquitted yesterday on all counts related to his emperor-wears-no-clothesery of the Toronto G20 summit in 2010) is affiliated with. Update: they're [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1592012-05-16 06:10:44blogs / boingboing.net /: Uh-oh. A tweet from Toronto notes that weirdly, there are 4 cop cars outside #hacklabto as they are having a party for #freebyron. HackLabTo is the Kensington Market hackerspace that Byron Sonne (who was acquitted yesterday on all counts related to his emperor-wears-no-clothesery of the Toronto G20 summit in 2010) is affiliated with.

Provided by: boingboing.net1602012-05-16 04:43:55blogs / boingboing.net /: I really liked Clay Shirky's essay on the relationship between physical space and creativity. It's one of those classic, Shirkian riffs that includes a bunch of seemingly glib and merely clever ideas and culminates with a thing that ties it all together and makes you realize that a bunch of stuff you've been taking for [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1612012-05-16 03:50:54blogs / boingboing.net /: On Sociological Images, David Pickett is tracing the history of gendering in Lego toys, from the early efforts to produce girl-sets and boy-sets before 1988, to the full-blown gendering watershed attending the release of the Pirates minifigs, which had definite "girl" and "boy" characters. It all went downhill from there, too. He's got two parts [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1622012-05-16 03:08:57blogs / boingboing.net /: Artist Carrin Welch's first foray into sculpture is a marvellous set of "Four Rocking Horses of the Apocalypse," made from wood. They're nearly finished, and eminently ridable. My interpretation of these horsemen from Revelations in the Bible is very loose, it's an artistic idea based mostly on how I want them to look, and less [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1632012-05-16 01:52:22blogs / boingboing.net /: The out-of-this-world Space Shuttle Cafe can be yours for $150,000. It sure would make a far out food truck. (Sweet old car not included.) From the eBay listing: This kitchen is built inside the only road worthy DC3 Airplane licensed for street use in the world that we know of, painted in the theme of [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1642012-05-16 01:53:21blogs / boingboing.net /: Tor.com has just posted an excerpt from Ian Tregillis's The Coldest War, a sequel to his smashing debut Nazi X-men vs English warlocks alternate history, Bitter Seeds. I've got a review queued up for Coldest War (which is a captured-Nazi-Soviet-Xmen-Ninjas v English warlocks novel), and I just loved it. Tregillis is one of the most [...]

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Def Jam Rapstar studio 4mm Games "on hold" Failed to Get RSS Data Boing BoingBoing BoingParanoid, claustrophobic short film: The View From the Closet

The future of Def Jam Rapstar developer 4mm Games is effectively "on hold" due to deep financial troubles, its founder has revealed.

4mm Games is currently out of funds to work on new projects and faces an impending $8 million (almost An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: The server did not return XML. The content type returned was text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Brain candy for Happy MutantsTomek sends us his claustrophobic short film "The View From the Closet" ("A disturbed, paranoid individual enters his apartment to find himself being watched by something hiding in the closet"), which is an official selection at Los Angeles Short Film Festival. View From The Closet is now online (Thanks, Tomek!)

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