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Provided by: boingboing.net1212012-05-17 18:02:23blogs / boingboing.net /: My pal Anthony Citrano points to this outrageous story, and says: "The State Department says their staff should blog about 'individual stories', but this bullshit about your new nipple is just too much." The tl;dr: Jennifer Dinoia, who is married to a foreign service agent, maintained a family blog that was promoted on the State [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1222012-05-17 17:42:30blogs / boingboing.net /: MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD and ORION BLASTAR Plaintiffs, v. GOOGLE, INC. Defendant. COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELEASE. Brain candy for Happy MutantsA styrofoam-and-acrylic model of Osama bin Laden's compound that was used to plan the May 2011 raid that killed the al Qaeda leader has been declassified by the Pentagon. CNN reports that the model of OBL's building and surrounding farmland in Abbotabad, Pakistan was built over a six-week period, and then was taken to the [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1232012-05-17 17:21:42blogs / boingboing.net /: I had no idea that neurons came in such a beautiful diversity of shapes. Each of these neurons has a different function, too: A. Purkinje cell B. Granule cell C. Motor neuron D. Tripolar neuron E. Pyramidal Cell F. Chandelier cell G. Spindle neuron H. Stellate cell. The image, drawn by science journalist Ferris Jabr, [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1242012-05-17 17:28:56blogs / boingboing.net /: Admittedly, I am biased, but New York state supreme court judge Gustin L. Reichbach speaks for me when he writes in a New York Times op-ed today that medical marijuana "is not a law-and-order issue; it is a medical and a human rights issue." Like me, justice Reichbach has cancer. He has pancreatic cancer, and [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com1251970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Eli Roth is set to direct his next horror thriller, The Green Inferno . Details on the film's plot have yet to be revealed. Best known for horror entries like Hostel and Cabin Fever , Roth co-wrote the screenplay with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo, from Roth's own original story. Worldview Entertainment, a New York City-based motion picture production and investment company, has signed on to finance and produce. "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [Subscribe to the gapingvoid newsletter here.] This made me very happy– Austin Ray from Mailchimp interviewed me about my “fantastic open rates”. Mailchimp, as you know, is what powers my daily cartoon newsletter. With email newsletters, at least with Mailchimp, the average “open rate” is around 6%-8% i.e. for every hundred people you send out [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1262012-05-17 16:29:50blogs / boingboing.net /: One of the greats is gone. Donna Summer died of cancer this morning in Florida, according to reports.

Provided by: boingboing.net1272012-05-17 16:00:09blogs / boingboing.net /: Answersquestions sez, "These shirts designed by an Architecture professor friend of mine at Carnegie Mellon depend on perspective and distance in order to be seen. Check out that SKULL!" Most tees are the same: splashy graphic or logo centered on a shirt for others to read. Vantage Tees are site-specific art pieces using optical illusions [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1282012-05-17 14:58:57blogs / boingboing.net /: Julian Cash's The People of Burning Man is a beautifully produced photo-portrait book shot over many consecutive years at Burning Man, the giant, weird, delightful art and culture festival that takes place every summer in Nevada's Black Rock desert. Cash -- who's quite an accomplished and experimental portraitist -- does a wonderful job of bringing [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1292012-05-17 15:00:03blogs / boingboing.net /: Tom Quinn sez, "A gecko struggles with the low van der Waals forces encountered when climbing a non-stick pan." Here's a Google Translate of the French description on the video: We conducted an experiment with a gecko on a Tefal frying pan, that is to say, a pan made of Teflon. The gecko, despite numerous [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1302012-05-17 15:11:00blogs / boingboing.net /: Last year, at the Twin Cities branch of the BoingBoing Meetup Day event, musician Jeremy Messersmith brought the lyrics to a song he was working on—a song intended to be as terrible a song as he could possibly write. Now, you can enjoy "It's the Heat" as an actual recorded song ... a song that [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1312012-05-17 14:21:50blogs / boingboing.net /: James Morrow writes, "As part of the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America will hold a mass autographing session at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia, on Friday May 18th from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. This event is free and open to the [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1322012-05-17 14:28:15blogs / boingboing.net /: Mariah Bear created an amusing infographic explaining the book proposal process. [via Mediabistro. Thanks, John Biggs]

Provided by: boingboing.net1332012-05-17 14:00:15blogs / boingboing.net /: [Video Link] Steve Haddock, a research scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (as well as a MAKE contributor, and co-author of a great book called Practical Computing for Biologists) just posted this video about a weird and wonderful jelly called the scyphomedusa Deepstaria. If you like what you see here, visit Jellywatch, Steve's [...]

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Provided by: gapingvoid.com1342012-05-09 15:40:53blogs / gapingvoid.com /

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Upcoming co-op shooter Borderlands 2 will launch with two special editions, publisher 2K Games has announced.

First off, the Deluxe Hunter's Collector's Edition. It costs $99 (about "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [Subscribe to the gapingvoid newsletter here.] This made me very happy– Austin Ray from Mailchimp interviewed me about my “fantastic open rates”. Mailchimp, as you know, is what powers my daily cartoon newsletter. With email newsletters, at least with Mailchimp, the average “open rate” is around 6%-8% i.e. for every hundred people you send out [...]

Provided by: boingboing.net1352012-05-17 13:12:00blogs / boingboing.net /: MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD and ORION BLASTAR Plaintiffs, v. GOOGLE, INC. Defendant. COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELEASE. Brain candy for Happy MutantsThe Met, London's police force, is buying "mobile device data extraction" devices that can suck all the data out of your phone "in minutes" -- that's where you've been, who you know, what you've said to them, what websites you visit, and, depending on your apps, what groceries you buy, when you've called for a [...]

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