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Progressive activists tussle over Islam and homophobia
Earlier today, Xeni spotted an item by gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, encouraging black people to embrace the LGBT status of some of its heroes. Tatchell's been in the news of late for another reason, too: another tussle with fellow progressive ...
Tiny jack-o-lanterns carved in seed-pods
Master haunt modeller Ray Keim sez, "After a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, I figured out how to carve Putka Pods [ed: small, pumpkin-like dried seeds] into extremely tiny jack-o-lanterns!"
Putka Pod Possibilities!
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Nouveau Oldtime Jam: Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank ...
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A quick little goodie from Boing Boing Video. Last night, I sat in on a live recording session at Santa Monica's Village Studios with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, described as "African-American ...
Please release me: Left 4 an IGF onslaught
Though for die-hard RPG nuts it'll have been a red letter week with the release of Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, it hasn't been enough to wean me off my daily regimen of pushing further into the Borderlands and compulsively playing through the two ...
Copyright documentary from Australian radio
Oscar sez, "I just finished a 48- radio documentary for the Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, about remix culture, piracy and copyright.
It's got brain-melting copyright education programs aimed at kids, commentary from Lessig, and tomfoolery ...
Canada's top Internet regulator calls Canadians "Internet hogs," pretends not to know ...
On today's episode of the Search Engine podcast, Jesse Brown talks to Konrad von Finckenstein, Canada's chief telecoms regulator -- the man who brought down the recent ruling allowing Canadian ISPs to throttle their users. In the interview, Commissioner ...
Steering wheel tray
Boing Boing guestblogger Connie Choe is a health and culture writer by day and a professional kimchimonger by night.
Meet the AutoExec WM-01 Wheelmate Steering Wheel Desk Tray. This hunk o' plastic with a fancy name must be A) brilliant in its ...
Digital Open Winners: Australian Teen Crafts "Sneaky" Games
(Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube, or view with subtitles on Dotsub).
Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
We're ...
Digital Open Winners: Teen Designs Eco-Home of the Future
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Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the ...
Digital Open Winners: From pocket-sized Altoids tin hack, big dreams emerge
(Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube, or view with subtitles on Dotsub).
Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
In ...
Digital Open Winner: A Living Diorama, to Change the World.
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Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
In ...
Digital Open Winner: teen creates a robot shop
(Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube, or view with subtitles on Dotsub).
Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
In ...
Digital Open Winners: "Hybrid Airship," by teen robotic blimp builders.
(Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube, or view with subtitles on Dotsub).
Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
In ...
Digital Open Winners: Raymond Zhong and Aatash Parikh, "Centralized Student Website"
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Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world. Today, we're publishing the first of 8 ...
Beauty and Brazil
What do you think you know about Brazilian women?
When Racialicious blogger Wendi Muse lived in Brazil she found that the first question her American friends would ask was, "Are the girls hot?"
It turns out, the answer is a little more complicated than ...
Marc Laidlaw's "Sleepy Joe" -- sf story comic podcast about war, cable access and human ...
This week's story on the Escape Pod sf podcast is Marc Laidlaw's "Sleepy Joe," a grimly comic, apocalyptic story about paralegals with a secret cable-access show who find themselves caring for (and kidnapping) a brainwashed war-veteran who's been turned ...
Armed to the Teeth: The Fight Over Rural Dental Care
Photo: Jason Fraser/Muspilli.com.
Let's talk about teeth, baby. Slate is doing a series on the American Way of Dentistry. It's mostly good, but it gets one thing wrong. In a piece on the problems poor people face getting dental care, author June Thomas ...
Armed to the Teeth: The Fight Over Rural Dental Care
Photo: Jason Fraser/Muspilli.com.
Let's talk about teeth, baby. Slate is doing a series on the American Way of Dentistry. It's mostly good, but it gets one thing wrong. In a piece on the problems poor people face getting dental care, author June Thomas ...
How badly designed reputation systems create in-game mafias
Randy Farmer's short essay "The Dollhouse Mafia, or 'Don't Display Negative Karma'" explores the well-known problem in reputation systems in which users abandon accounts that get negative feedback, and shows just how bad the consequences of this design ...