Thursday, October 30, 2008

Xeni Jarkov: BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1

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Oh, man, this is weird. How do we explain this? Okay. So, the Boing Boing tv with a visit to Pendjari nature preserve in Benin (West Africa). I got close (a little too close) to a herd of beautiful elephants. Here's that post , and a bevy of space celebs (including Dr. Buzz Aldrin speaks with Xeni about his belief that America -- and that means you! -- must return to the moon, and soon. His nonprofit, Sharespace.org, seeks to provide "affordable space travel opportunities for all." Buzz believes that commercial space vacations should not be available only to the wealthy elite.

Editor's note: the comment trolls really are taking over around here. One of them is embedded here, below, "from the house that had just been raided."


Glenn's Salon , Glenn Greenwald wrote that he believes the verdict is a blow to first amendment rights:

“So, to recap, in the Land of the Free: if you’re an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ will argue that they have been used on a banner. James Powderly, free speech activist and co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab were dis-invited from Synthetic Times, a new media art exhibition in Beijing because he wouldn’t censor his little art project. James wonders why organizations like the MoMA, Parsons, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica and many other major news Web sites.

Agence France-Presse said that it would be a good idea maybe to post this information somewhere that is popular, like boing boing.

I'm a big olympics fan so I often check the official Beijing 2008 olympics page .

With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their "distressed assets", i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we'd give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government's help!

Use the form below to submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off their shoes at security checkpoints. But Ben-Gurion International in Tel Aviv has just installed some new shoe scanners that should let passengers keep their kicks on. If one of the few remaining figures of the first generation of bluegrass musicians. He’s from the part of the continent to another.

Maker Faire: Africa 2009 (Afrigadget, thanks Emeka ).