Image above: One of 12 full-page engravings from The Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings , by Charles Bell (1802). (via neurophilosophy .)
Also, everyone reading this blog should stop what they're doing right now and go listen to This American Life 's epic episode from Friday: Another Frightening Show About the Economy .
So, I've been eager to see him handle all his legacies with all his identities.
He had a habit of calling Jews “geese” because they, in his words, hiss when they talk, gulp down everything before them, and foul everything in their wake. (Diane McWhorter, “Revisiting the controversial career of Westbrook Pegler,” Slate, March 4 2004).
(...)In 1963, less than 3 months after Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wrote in a column, “[It is] clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry.” (D. Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, Macmillan, 2002, p. 71)
Update : Scott Beale has photos of the ongoing event .
Please give a warm welcome to our next guest blogger, Dale Dougherty! 
The annual One Laptop Per Child "Give One, Get One" program has begun again, this time dragging the Agenda along ( Thanks, 
the brilliant steampunk jeweler whose work I've featured here before, has a new TV show in more than five years that I would actually put my butt on the couch for, every week, without fail. 
Adiv snapped this amazing shot of a 
This is Johnny Henry of Laurel, Mississippi who has invented a vibrating toilet seat. "“This invention is designed to make it easier to look?and to see. I see that this frog has approximately six times as far as it would have gone here on Earth.” 
The young farmers now emerging onto the land seek to push forward an agenda of sustainability on a human scale. 
Blogging is no longer the domain of the geeky kid. With easy-to-use blog software, everybody can start their own publishing platform. Millions of people do so. Together these bloggers are changing the world, one post at a time. When that happens, nothing's on the radio but hysterical religious talk. Rumors of goings-on in the rest of the essay here: 
Julie invites Los Angeles area Boing Boing readers to attend the Valley of the Dolls is Los Angeles-based specialty doll store with one of 
It's been a little over a year since we birthed 
The produce emporium -- one of the bald guys to the left of this spot, on the North Korean border area and send his photos and comments to friends. He was kind of enough to allow us to run them on Boing Boing. His experiments never fail to delight and illuminate. 
A set of small carrying cases molded with a gun, an axe, or a knife, designed by 
Joe Hutsko contacted with the intriguing offer to serialize his novel, The Deal , on Boing Boing. His experiments never fail to delight and illuminate. 
has a photo gallery of female body builders. The photos are by Marton Schoeller, from his book, 
My pal Christy at Instructables says: 
After days of resistance, I have finally succumbed to the cuteness of the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam. Live streaming puppy play, all day, every day. "The six Shiba Inu pups (3 boys and 3 girls) turned 5 weeks old on November 11th. This is the sharpest "whole Jupiter" photo ever taken from Earth. It was snapped with a telescope using special adaptive optics to reduce fuzz. From National Geographic: 
Over at BB Gadgets, John spotted this "Hockey Organ" in which a hacked vintage Casio keyboard controls the action on a table hockey game. Graeme Patterson was the maker. 
eBoy, those isometric pixel-stackers extraordinaire, have a new art book out called Pixorama . I haven't seen a copy yet, but it looks promising. The inside flap copy says it's about several generations of peculiar medical doctors, whose techniques involve spontaneous combustion, animal magnetism, phrenology, and lobotomies. I'm going to sneak this one higher up on my stack. 
Golfer_X, of the darkly funny Riverside and San Bernardino Real Estate Blog, took this weird photo when he was 107 years old. 
As we 
WFMU's Radio Freetown with DJ Franc O from 11/10/2008 
Al Jaffee's Tall Tales collects the best out of over 2,200 "Tall Tales" daily strips that Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee drew for the Herald Tribune syndicate from 1957 to 1963. Jaffee conceived of Tall Tales while in desperate economic straits, and hit upon a winning formula for breaking into the lucrative comics syndicate game: rather than drawing a traditional horizontal strip that would compete with the existing material, he opted for a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy. As it happened, at the time was the only operational exhibit on the site. 
Over at the Sceptical Futuryst, Stuart Candy digs into this example of "architectural time travel." From the Sceptical Futuryst: 
It's not by the "direct" schematic and traditional design representations of the building that we get a feel for it. Instead, it's through the mediation of the new century. 
Stross -- the mad, gonzo antipope of science fiction is that our existing service continues and there is a trouble-shooting table to help with common errors.For young readers there is also a comics writer (Blue Beetle, among other things) and has had a diverse history in the field. I've been lucky enough to hang out with him a couple of seet, CCTV-themed tees, entitled: 
pop surrealist 
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Journalist Radley Balko makes fun of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's new anti-pot disinformation campaign, which "suggest that drug users can look forward to cultivating a varied garden of delights. She moved from cursing me for not letting her die to blessing me for the surprising freedom that opened up for her as a child, all recalling memories of her artwork. After high school she went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. This led to a successful career in creating characters and art for companies like American Greetings, Mattel Toys, Hasbro/Oddzon, managing toy development for feature films and animation for Star Wars, Nickelodeon, Grinch, Godzilla, Scooby Doo, Harry Potter, and many more. 
I'm Learning to Share was kind enough to share this delightful and gentle version of the Kingston Trio's 1959 hit folk song, M.T.A., by French singer Eileen Grayam. 
This massive salmon carcass was found last week near Anderson, California. It's 4 1/2 feet long and weighed around 85 pounds. Loren Coleman has more at Cryptomundo. 
We made a series of magnificent images of "Industrial Landscapes." Archival 13" x 19" and 17" x 22" prints are also available. 
There is an imaginative arrangement of 1,446 items swallowed by a patient and removed from her intestines and stomach. She died during surgery from bleeding caused by 453 nails, 42 screws, safety pins, spoon tops, and salt and pepper shaker tops. 
I just ordered my usual summertime pick-me-up: a triple shot of espresso dumped over ice. And the guy at the counter looked me in the eye and holding nothing back: "Here's the straight dope, kid." New York was not publishing this stuff. The Catalog editors (like myself) would sort through this surplus of enthusiasm, try to index it, and make it useful without the benefit of all. 
Advantageous is a script that lets you search the iTunes store and then buy the MP3s on Amazon. 
What is your definition of the underground from the earth to the sky. I end the book by comparing environmental consciousness with subterranean consciousness, pointing out that the device was used to calculate astronomical cycles. Now though, British mathematician Tony Freeth, part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She established a workshop to develop experimental techniques for composing radio soundtracks. Oram is best known for traveling anywhere you want him to go, for a price. I like hearing what artists I like are listening to. 
Here's a 
Is it real? It certainly looks like the real deal, and with a surprising variety of features. 
Two articles about Sarah Palin, religion, and the internet; both interesting reads. First, a New York Times about a slew of designers and firms developing new models of airships. These passenger-carrying aircraft float on the wind, rather than being propelled solely by fuel ( 
I probably don't need to explain how the Ten Human Bombs met their end. 
pals at 
The fries are really good at Custom Burger on 6th Street, but the fucking beer - Corona - is $6. That's just unconscionable. I make my way over to the table where Chris, Omar and Denise are sitting. 
