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Provided by: boingboing.net1962012-05-16 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.net1971970-01-01 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.net1981970-01-01 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.net1992012-05-16 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.net2002012-05-16 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.net2012012-05-16 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.net2022012-05-16 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.net2032012-05-16 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.net2042012-05-16 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!)

Provided by: boingboing.net2062012-05-16 00:35:06blogs / boingboing.net /: An excellent long-read about Flickr and Yahoo by Mat Honan at Gizmodo today. Anyone who has loved and been let down by the once-great photo-sharing site now caught in the purple zombie's death spiral will nod in agreement throughout. The opening graf: Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net2072012-05-16 00:45:42blogs / boingboing.net /: REUTERS/Keith Bedford Tattoo artist Dave Hurban displays an iPod Nano which he has attached to his wrists through magnetic piercings in his wrist in New York, May 14, 2012.

Provided by: boingboing.net2082012-05-16 00:49:36blogs / boingboing.net /: Tomek 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!)

Provided by: boingboing.net2092012-05-16 00:00:57blogs / boingboing.net /: Gazillionaire financier Mitt Romney is the latest "CEO President" offered up by the GOP, on a platform of "job creation." When Romney oversaw Bain capital, he supervised the takeover of American Pad and Paper. When the deal was complete, the 258 employees were marched out of the Marion, Indiana factory, told they were fired, and [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net2102012-05-15 23:26:02blogs / boingboing.net /: From Boing Boing reader MewDeep's stupendous collection of scanned ads from the 1960s and 1970s, "Doc Sendof's Turn On Kit, 1969: "Eleven far-out symbols!" with which one could upgrade one's "Bug, board, or boudoir." We should be selling these in the Boing Boing Shop. This image shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Thanks, MewDeep!

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