blogs about the Phaistos Disc , an archeological object some believe is the oldest historic example of moveable type -- the concept , of course, not the blogging platform . Snip:
The grave marker, wherever it is now, reads: "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart".The characters on the clay disc were stamped from a set of "seals" creating a text written in a spiral, although neither the text nor the language of the text has been deciphered.
(...) On my shelf I have a small bronze replica of this object simply because it is a total douche, and deserves a special place in hell where screaming emo demons torture them with burns from a thousand clove cigarettes, poke them with a million blunt eyeliner applicators, and blind their eyes with painfully asymmetrical hair extensions for all eternity.
Here is a story in the Porter Report with aggressive wit and offbeat charm.
Today, part one of Boing Boing tv post with discussion, downloadable video, and instructions on how to subscribe to BBtv's daily video podcast.
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(Disclaimers: BBtv is an in-flight entertainment partner with Virgin , but BBtv doesn't receive compensation for this. VA once asked Boing Boing to name a plane , and we had a blast goofing around where the TSA folks generally do not permit one to goof. )
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(Disclaimers: BBtv is an in-flight entertainment partner with Virgin , but BBtv doesn't receive compensation for this. VA once asked Boing Boing to name a plane , and we did, but we weren't paid to produce it. All of us at BBtv sincerely thought this stuff was cool, and that Charles Ogilvie is moving on from VA to do something that sounds equally cool with tech and entertainment. Details at the bottom of the post.)
[Xeni Jardin]: Last week, the Boing Boing tv 's multi-part exploration of Tcho, we begin in the lab, and learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands. How this fruit is cultivated, harvested, and cured determines the flavor of the final product, and we learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands. How this fruit is cultivated, harvested, and cured determines the flavor of the final product, and we learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands. How this fruit is cultivated, harvested, and cured determines the flavor of the final product, and we learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands. How this fruit is cultivated, harvested, and cured determines the flavor of the final product, and we learn about the origins of chocolate: it's a weird looking fruit with biological roots in faraway tropical lands.
