<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:04:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Boingkov - A hash of generated things</title><description>Unedited 3rd order markov chain generated entries,&lt;br&gt; based on &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/"&gt;BoingBoing&lt;/a&gt; posts broken out by author.</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>553</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-7524802791755380472</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:10:16.312-08:00</atom:updated><title>Xeni Jarkov:　A Smorgasbord of Hand-drawn Monsters from Asia</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456140432/japanese-monsters-dr.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://okab.web.infoseek.co.jp/monst/3.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/japanesekapakid.jpg" width="428" align="left" border="0" height="310" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt; &lt;p&gt; Image above: One of 12 full-page engravings from &lt;em&gt; The Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings &lt;/em&gt; , by &lt;a href="http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2103.html"&gt; Charles Bell &lt;/a&gt; (1802). &lt;em&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/engraving-of-the-brain-by-charles-bell/"&gt; neurophilosophy &lt;/a&gt; .) &lt;/em&gt; &lt;p&gt; Also, everyone reading this blog should stop what they're doing right now and go listen to &lt;strong&gt; This American Life &lt;/strong&gt; 's epic episode from Friday: &lt;a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365"&gt; &lt;strong&gt; Another Frightening Show About the Economy &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; . &lt;p&gt; So, I've been eager to see him handle all his legacies with all his identities. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; 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). &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; (...)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) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;strong&gt; Update &lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;a href="http://laughingsquid.com/arse-elektronika-2008-photos/"&gt; Scott Beale has photos of the ongoing event &lt;/a&gt; . &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-7524802791755380472?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/xeni-jarkova-smorgasbord-of-hand-drawn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3937611465227141281</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:09:58.591-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Guest blogger: Dale Dougherty</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456140431/guest-blogger-dale-d.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/dale.jpg" height="312" width="287" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Dale" /&gt; Please give a warm welcome to our next guest blogger, Dale Dougherty! &lt;p&gt; Dale is General Manager of the &lt;a href="http://makermedia.com/"&gt; Maker Media &lt;/a&gt; , a wondrous creature which has survived for 500 million years." &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pfs1Iqggms"&gt; Peter Ward dives to meet a wild Nautilus &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3937611465227141281?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovguest-blogger-dale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-7890630046816120157</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:09:49.906-08:00</atom:updated><title>Cory Doctokov:　One Laptop Per Child's annual "Give One, Get One" program is on!</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456166330/one-laptop-per-child-3.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://craphound.com/images/olpc-give-one-get-one-live.jpg"&gt; The annual One Laptop Per Child "Give One, Get One" program has begun again, this time dragging the Agenda along ( &lt;i&gt; Thanks, &lt;a href="http://sherryart.typepad.com/"&gt; Sherry &lt;/a&gt; ! &lt;/i&gt; ) &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-7890630046816120157?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/cory-doctokovone-laptop-per-child.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-924827168815185714</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:08:52.254-08:00</atom:updated><title>Cory Doctokov:　Ban on phone hacking means that cops don't know what bad guys can do</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456171724/ban-on-phone-hacking.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;India's prohibition on researching phone-hacking means that only terrorists and crooks get to know how this stuff works, while the cops sit around scratching their asses, muttering, "How'd they  researching phone-hacking means that only terrorists and crooks get to know how this stuff works, while the cops sit around scratching their asses, muttering, "How'd they &lt;em&gt; do that &lt;/em&gt; ?" &lt;blockquote&gt; Police had no idea that one SIM card could be used as hand bags. But what about the inverse-- a bag that looks like one of these moon-cake-shaped USB sticks -- 4GB for $28. &lt;a href="http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00629"&gt; USB Mooncake Flash Drive &lt;/a&gt; ( &lt;i&gt; Thanks, &lt;a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/"&gt; Becky &lt;/a&gt; ! &lt;/i&gt; )&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-924827168815185714?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/cory-doctokovban-on-phone-hacking-means.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-8586731523693645464</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:08:22.355-08:00</atom:updated><title>Cory Doctokov:　Drop-dead kick-ass steampunk jewelry</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456205078/dropdead-kickass-ste.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://craphound.com/images/5546-3.jpg"&gt; 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. &lt;p&gt; Leverage is an hour-long tensely plotted, technologically literate heist/caper show whose likable, flawed, comedic foursome of infiltration specialists are well-cast, funny, and given some damned good lines. The direction and camerawork is distinctive and fearsomely great: this show &lt;em&gt; feels &lt;/em&gt; like a graphic novel (in a good way) -- that fast-moving, highly visual, stylized thing that the Wachowskis got so right in the first place). &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;img src="http://craphound.com/images/wowdevcraft.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; Continuing survival of the sub-sector also relies on overcoming some severeinformation failures ? absence, uncertainty, asymmetry, and communicationproblems. These have produced many examples of both opportunism and adverseselection, with trading bringing uncertainty, risk and negative consequences. Asexpected, these seem likely to have suppressed real-money trading well below its"natural" level, and to have induced sellers into (potentially-hollow) assertions abouttheir trustworthiness. Because of its virtuality, though, real-money trading has seenonly a little of the localisation and intermediation one might otherwise expect in thepresence of such information failures.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-8586731523693645464?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/cory-doctokovdrop-dead-kick-ass.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3857644053872773458</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:03:08.820-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　Vincent Price's Shrunken Heads</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456335347/vincent-prices-shrun.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/photo-8.jpg" height="400" width="300" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Photo-8" /&gt; Adiv snapped this amazing shot of a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_shark"&gt; spinner shark &lt;/a&gt; jumping out of the bus, she bumped into Wasiu. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; “Then,” he said, “Wasiu Karimu felt something happen in his body. Something not right. And he checked and his thing was gone.” &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; “Was it gone,” I asked, “or was it shrinking?” &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; “Shrinking! Shrinking! It was getting smaller.” &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; And therein lies the mystery that keeps headphones on hundreds of numbers listeners around the world. &lt;a href="http://www.motherjones.com/military-maps/"&gt; Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide &lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt; (Mother Jones) &lt;/em&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3857644053872773458?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovvincent-price-shrunken.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-7769804583450093235</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:02:46.138-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　Photo of vibrating toilet seat inventor</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456352251/photo-of-vibrating-t.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/xltoilettt.jpg" height="280" width="300" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Xltoilettt" /&gt; 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.” &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; So inmates stash macks in lockers provided by the prison and use them to buy goods, including illicit ones such as stolen food and home-brewed "prison hooch," as well as student groups. It's for creative, resourceful folks who like to tinker and love to make things. Maker Faire is a newfangled fair that brings together science, art, craft and engineering plus green, food and music in a fun, energized, and exciting public forum. The aim is to encourage "thousands of new growers of fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, dairy, and livestock to transform the landscape of sprawling development and corporate control into a dignified, livable, and culturally rich mosaic of ecological farming." It makes me want to start a vegetable garden. Seriously. From Serve Your Country Food: &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images_GH.FarmTools.b:w.art.brk.jpg" height="240" width="230" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Images Gh.Farmtools.B:W.Art.Brk" /&gt; The young farmers now emerging onto the land seek to push forward an agenda of sustainability on a human scale. &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.serveyourcountryfood.net"&gt; Serve Your Country&lt;/a&gt; Food: &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images_GH.FarmTools.b:w.art.brk.jpg" height="240" width="230" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Images Gh.Farmtools.B:W.Art.Brk" /&gt; The young farmers now emerging onto the land seek to reclaim, restore, and resettle the deserted rural towns of America.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-7769804583450093235?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovphoto-of-vibrating.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3103941255953604151</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:02:12.774-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Charles Platt takes a Zero-G flight</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456352250/charles-platt-takes.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/zero-g%203.jpg" height="383" width="510" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Zero-G 3" /&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;em&gt; In September, Charles Platt wrote a piece for Boing Boing readers. He says: &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/blog08rrgv.jpg" width="200" height="76" alt="blog08rrgv.jpg" style="float:left;" /&gt; 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: &lt;a href="http://www.sex-kitten.net/articles/2454700024643/Good_Girl%27s_Don%27t.html"&gt; Good Girls Don't hit the airwaves, well, things changed. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; Here's an excerpt from the always-surprising Harper's Weekly email newsletter. &lt;blockquote&gt; A United Nations investigation of last week's coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan found that the United States (and most likely, the world) has been decimated by an energy shortage, starvation, plagues, terrorism, and global warming. The story takes place in an unspecified time in the printing press bed, a workman examining the printed sheets, another worker inserting the sheets into a folding machine, another man to check the folder to make sure the pages are folded in the right order, a room filled with "girls" in the gathering room stacking the folders in piles and sorting them in bins, another group of girls taking the assembled folders to a machine that sews them together with thread, other workers trimming the sewed folders with sharp knives, An operator over seeing a machine making covers from paperboard, a machine that sews them together with thread, other workers trimming the sewed folders with sharp knives, An operator over seeing a machine making covers from paperboard, a machine stamping the title of what we're about to present without laughing a bit. But that's what Hafer fans lovingly refer to as "the ol' dick magic". Dick Hafer really was that sort of an asshole. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ep.tc/problems/28/index.html"&gt; Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative, Deathstyle &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; . &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811863387/boingboing"&gt; Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration &lt;/a&gt; , and it makes heavy use of his favorite photo technique: Iong-exposure nighttime shots that uses only natural moonlight and simple flashlights to capture ruined night scenes in spooky detail. &lt;blockquote&gt; The pictures in &lt;em&gt; Night Visions &lt;/em&gt; look great, and this Friday, August 1, Chronicle Books is throwing a party to celebrate the its release in San Francisco at the 111 Minna Gallery from 7 to 9 pm. &lt;p&gt; Here's a &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/sets/72157602339461189/"&gt; gallery of images &lt;/a&gt; from the book. Here's what I made (click image for full size) &lt;p&gt; The preview images for the new Blab! show at Copro-Nason in Los Angeles that's enjoying a small resurgence. &lt;blockquote&gt; The simplicity of the typewriter is alluring to writers who may be as eccentric as I am. &lt;P&gt; &lt;B&gt; The Humiliation Ritual &lt;/B&gt; &lt;P&gt; Some forms of misery, however, have minimal entertainment value at any time, as I am reminded when I leave the conference room and find myself confronted with the ritual known as a &amp;#8220;TSA screening.&amp;#8221; Yes, two employees from the Transportation Security Administration have somehow installed themselves in the hallway of this nice hotel, like rodents invading the basement of a mansion, and they are selling fast. The event takes place October 3-5, 2008 at Southern California's architectural masterpiece The Mission Inn Hotel &amp;#38; Spa. This year's Featured Artists are Ana Bagayan, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Bob Dob, Joe Ledbetter, Brandi Milne, Daniel Peacock, Shag, Any Sol and Michael Whelan. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.babytattooville.com"&gt; Baby Tattooville artist and collectors retreat, Oct. 3-5, 2008 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3103941255953604151?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovcharles-platt-takes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-7641159995813354089</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T21:00:02.585-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Valley of the Dolls Lolita Tea Party: November 23, 2008, Los Angeles</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456384157/valley-of-the-dolls.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/_fs060_1102045931896_img_39.jpg" height="740" width="490" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Fs060 1102045931896 Img 39" /&gt; 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 &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/18/unfortunate-funnel-c.html"&gt; these Austin funnel cakes &lt;/a&gt; . &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Mad Cow Morning news has been covering &lt;a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/"&gt; stories about the CIA and drug smuggling &lt;/a&gt; . The plane was owned by &lt;a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/donnablue.htm"&gt; Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc &lt;/a&gt; . &lt;/p&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-7641159995813354089?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovvalley-of-dolls-lolita.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3343110539125240490</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T20:59:34.849-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　Boing Boing Offworld launches!</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456384156/boing-boing-offworld.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/bboffffworld.jpg" height="137" width="497" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Bboffffworld" /&gt; It's been a little over a year since we birthed &lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/"&gt; Boing Boing Gadgets &lt;/a&gt; , Joel spotted this delightfully odd collection of various medical training manikins. Each photo is unusual on its own (see above) but the whole lot of them together is wonderfully strange. &lt;a href="http://www.oobject.com/category/medical-manikins/"&gt; Medical manikins &lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt; (Oobject) &lt;/em&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3343110539125240490?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovboing-boing-offworld.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-2366055915369007277</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T23:50:22.712-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Improv Everywhere welcomes strangers arriving at JFK airport</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456460123/improve-everywhere-w.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="377"&gt; &lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2268595&amp;#38;server=vimeo.com&amp;#38;show_title=1&amp;#38;show_byline=0&amp;#38;show_portrait=0&amp;#38;color=00adef&amp;#38;fullscreen=1" /&gt; &lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2268595&amp;#38;server=vimeo.com&amp;#38;show_title=1&amp;#38;show_byline=0&amp;#38;show_portrait=0&amp;#38;color=00adef&amp;#38;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="500" height="377"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;br /&gt; File under I love the illustration for Christopher Hitchens' &lt;em&gt; Vanity Fair &lt;/em&gt; story, "America the Banana Republic." It's based, of course, on the beautiful &lt;a href="http://www.impawards.com/1971/bananas.html"&gt; Jack Davis poster &lt;/a&gt; for Woody Allen's &lt;em&gt; Bananas &lt;/em&gt; from 1971. &lt;P&gt; Hitchens' piece is well worth reading, too. &lt;blockquote&gt; I was very struck, as the liquefaction of a fantasy-based system proceeded, to read an observation by Professor Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, of the Yale School of Management. Referring to those who sign up early. Two classes, 10 people each, buy a starter kit at the Felt Club info table. Get there early, suckers!&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5ojja0vI/AAAAAAAADjg/rjlPWIOc8M0/s1600-h/Pillowcase.jpg"&gt; &lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5ojja0vI/AAAAAAAADjg/rjlPWIOc8M0/s400/Pillowcase.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268360139250520818" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Pillowcase project for my mom from &lt;a href="http://www.sublimestitching.com/vitalorgans.html"&gt; Vital Organs pattern &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-2366055915369007277?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovimprov-everywhere.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5ojja0vI/AAAAAAAADjg/rjlPWIOc8M0/s72-c/Pillowcase.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-5627612171505021573</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T23:50:01.702-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Vicious circle of China's economic slowdown</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/456460119/vicious-circle-of-ch.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;Julian Darley of the Post Carbon Institute writes about the effect of the economic slowdown in China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; the Post Carbon Institute writes about the Berkeley Bowl supermarket. It's famous for three things: its varied and high quality produce section, the oddball customers it attracts, and its one-strike-and-you're-out-for-life policy against people who sample without buying. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/200809221057.jpg" width="300" height="188" alt="200809221057.jpg" style="float:left;" /&gt; 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. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; Recently Rob found $60 in parking lot and when he came to Maker Faire Austin this weekend, please come by the Maker Shed to visit the Make editorial staff. You can also take workshops there. On Saturday at 11:30, and Sunday at 2:30, my friend &lt;a href="http://www.jennyhart.net/"&gt; Jenny Hart &lt;/a&gt; will be teaching embroidery. &lt;a href="http://makerfaire.com/"&gt; Maker Faire &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-5627612171505021573?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovvicious-circle-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-5975488744539922457</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T00:59:09.163-08:00</atom:updated><title>Susannah Breskov:　The TSA Does Not Like Your Luggage</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/455307279/the-tsa-does-not-lik.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="valises-seules-copie3.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/valises-seules-copie3.jpg" width="500" height="175" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;"/&gt; A set of small carrying cases molded with a gun, an axe, or a knife, designed by &lt;a href="http://www.pinkwolf.fr/?page_id=59"&gt; PinkWolf &lt;/a&gt; , and I can't read French well enough to figure out what turned him into the king of Mauschwitz. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Early works that paved the way to &lt;i&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus"&gt; Maus &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt; are here, too -- a "Maus" strip and the searing "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" --, but in the book's opening meta-autobiographical artwork, the artist exposes how all the pieces fit together in his personal history and explores the wrenching process beneath the panels. One of the most transparent, regularly exposing his works-in-progress on the SHOWstudio &lt;a href="http://showstudio.com/blog"&gt; blog &lt;/a&gt; . This time he's shooting model &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Donaldson"&gt; Lily Donaldson &lt;/a&gt; for &lt;i&gt; &lt;a href="http://vmagazine.com/"&gt; V Magazine &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt; , and &lt;a href="http://www.showstudio.com/project/lettherebelight/"&gt; livestreaming &lt;/a&gt; the machinations behind the machine. (They're also &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/showstudio"&gt; tweeting &lt;/a&gt; .) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-5975488744539922457?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/susannah-breskovthe-tsa-does-not-like.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3336850903882483738</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T00:58:59.292-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Serialization of The Deal, Chapter 24</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/14/serialization-of-the-20.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/deal-cover.jpg" width="200" height="305" alt="deal-cover.jpg" style="float:left;" /&gt; Joe Hutsko contacted with the intriguing offer to serialize his novel, &lt;em&gt; The Deal &lt;/em&gt; , on Boing Boing. His experiments never fail to delight and illuminate. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Recently Rob found $60 in parking lot and when he reported it on Craigslist he received three replies. Intrigued, he posted another (this time, ersatz) announcement that he'd found money and wanted to return an item to a vendor, you've probably encountered stubborn customer service agents -- people who seem nice at the outset but change their tune when they realize complying with your request will cause additional work on their part. It's from Noah Goldestein, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416570969/boingboing"&gt; Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive &lt;/a&gt; (co-authored by by Robert B. Cialdini, who wrote the wonderfully entertaining books &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307339564/boingboing"&gt; Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307394360/boingboing"&gt; Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide &lt;/a&gt; took a trip to the North as most South Koreans have ever been. Beyond here, foreigners need to jump through a few minor hoops to continue; locals are generally forbidden. &lt;p&gt; As a result, numerous shrines and monuments have been built here dealing with the country's separation and the permanent ripping-in-half of families on both sides. This site and a corresponding one on the other side of the bridge. &lt;br clear="all"&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/DMZNKoreaBorderPostThruTelescope.jpg" height="337" width="450" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Dmznkoreaborderpostthrutelescope" /&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; &lt;P&gt; &lt;p&gt; The northern half of this small building is on North Korean soil. &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3336850903882483738?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovserialization-of-deal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-4956655592731423534</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T23:09:23.462-08:00</atom:updated><title>Susannah Breskov:　When a Fire Hits the Taxidermist</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/15/when-a-fire-hits-the.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="taxi.lrg.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/taxi.lrg.jpg" width="382" height="500" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;"/&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; What happens when a legendary French taxidermy shop catches fire? " &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15taxi.html"&gt; From Ashes, Reviving a Place of Wild Dreams &lt;/a&gt; " is the story of &lt;a href="http://www.deyrolle.com/magazine/"&gt; Deyrolle &lt;/a&gt; , a blogger and ex-courtesan, for her thoughts on the news. She writes: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; Along the edges of the packed street, young men took quick snorts of glue and sometimes wept. A thin tattooed and pierced man with terrible skin was the only one of the most striking pages features a messy collage of early drafts of "Hell Planet," wherein he recounts his mother's suicide. Looking over the page of his old pages, you see the story come to life. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; For something of a sneak peek, Slate has an insightful &lt;i&gt; Breakdowns &lt;/i&gt; slideshow: " &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2202974/"&gt; Making Comics After Mauschwitz &lt;/a&gt; ." &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-4956655592731423534?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/susannah-breskovwhen-fire-hits.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-4311166860990123450</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T23:09:01.802-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　After Shock: earthquake alternate reality game</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/452621706/after-shock-earthqua.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today,  announced that they've found water molecules in moon matter retrieved by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1920s or so, and eventually came to light again. From ZEITmagazin (poster image from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Metropolisposter.jpg"&gt; Wikipedia &lt;/a&gt; ): &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Metropolisposter.jpg"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_wikipedia_en_0_06_Metropolisposter.jpg" height="450" width="203" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Wikipedia En 0 06 Metropolisposter" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; Among the footage that has now been discovered, according to the group invite: behavior monitoring, location tracking, digitizing body info and non-invasive probes.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; "Don't you think it's kind of obvious that if you step on a scale, there should be something that sends the information to your computer?" asks Gary Wolf, a contributing editor at Wired magazine and one of the reasons that it seems so frightening and solitary. But what makes it even more solitary for its victims is the idea, secretly comforting to others, that cancer is never contagious. That idea is axiomatic, at least in the popular consciousness. Cancer is not an infectious disease. And the axiom is (usually) correct. But there are plenty of challenges to overcome first. To camp on the moon, astronauts need to be able to scale it up," says Anthony Colozza, a researcher with government contractor Analex Corporation who is stationed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and helped Roy draw up the original plans for powering the saucer. The choice of a power source that is powerful, yet lightweight is "probably going to be the art director. Seen above, Big Bang Vroom (acrylic on PVC cm, 243.8 x 304.8 cm). &lt;a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/kristin_baker.htm"&gt; Kristin Baker &lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt; (Thanks, Gary Chong via Richard Metzger!) &lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;font color="red"&gt; UPDATE: &lt;/font&gt; Commenter DIEGOV &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/lost-condom-mobile.html#comment-298915"&gt; notes &lt;/a&gt; that the G.I. Joe Adventure Team has the exact same logo as the &lt;a href="http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=appalachian+trail+logo&amp;btnG=Search+Images"&gt; Appalachian Trail &lt;/a&gt; . How odd.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-4311166860990123450?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovafter-shock-earthquake.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-5491975956230716899</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T23:08:30.493-08:00</atom:updated><title>Xeni Jarkov:　Caption this. No, seriously.</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/452683026/caption-this-no-seri.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/images/20081112_d-0077-5-515h.jpg"&gt; this url, which originates at whitehouse.gov &lt;/a&gt; , and once released the hip-hop compendium "Communist Rap Classics: License to Kim-Jong." &lt;em&gt; (Thanks &lt;a href="http://dieselsweeties.com"&gt; R Stevens &lt;/a&gt; ) &lt;/em&gt; . &lt;p&gt; Above: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t849CYRd2Ak"&gt; Air Force Cyber Command Recruiting Video &lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt; (the Frisky, thanks &lt;a href="http://reversecowgirl.blogspot.com"&gt; Susannah Breslin &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt; ] &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-5491975956230716899?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/xeni-jarkovcaption-this-no-seriously.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-6483843863240335465</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T23:08:18.949-08:00</atom:updated><title>Xeni Jarkov:　Boing Boing tv (and Xeni) at NewTeeVee Live: video</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453068233/boing-boing-tv-and-x.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object id="otv_o_294603" height="320" width="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt; &lt;param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess" /&gt; &lt;param value="transparent" name="wmode" /&gt; &lt;param value="autoplay=false" name="flashvars" /&gt; &lt;embed name="otv_e_297102" id="otv_e_75802" flashvars="autoplay=false" height="320" width="400" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/862651" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" &gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt; &lt;p&gt; Snip from Afrigadget: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; A Tibetan nun named Sonam Yungzom is reported to have been kicked out of the city for the summer to get a search warrant. More than a dozen police are wielding firearms, including one St. Paul officer with a long curly cable and three very long XLR to XLR mic cables. Here's a more specific list of the microphones : &lt;br /&gt; 2 x SM91 &lt;br /&gt; 5 x SM98 &lt;br /&gt; 2 x B52 &lt;br /&gt; 3 x SM57 &lt;br /&gt; 8 x SM58 &lt;br /&gt; 1 x Wheeled Black Pelican case (50cm x 28cm x 20cm) containing : &lt;br /&gt; A selection of microphones and microphone accessories, most of which are in separately labeled black pouches. All of the microphones are of Shure manufacture, also a BSS DI box. Inside the Pelican case there is also a big pair of Sony headphones (model MDR7506) with a long white beard, long white hair, a black priest's robe and a big Orthodox cross. Everybody was pointing at this strange character and grinning. Single-handedly, Dragan Dabic has been preparing the defense for Radovan Karadzic: but his laptop is in the hands of the police. For a humble healer, Dr. Dabic seems to have stuck to his guns as far as pulling the troops out of Iraq. He’s a very intelligent man, an excellent speaker and has charisma. John McCain offers none of that. Perhaps the best thing for the white race is to have a surprising number of documents concerning the war in Bosnia. He was also in touch with the lawyers for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show placed LED signs around the city. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-6483843863240335465?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/xeni-jarkovboing-boing-tv-and-xeni-at.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-503452426903950616</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:38:49.852-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Photo gallery of female body builders</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453195863/photo-gallery-of-fem.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/200811141004.jpg" height="252" width="200" border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="200811141004" /&gt; has a photo gallery of female body builders. The photos are by Marton Schoeller, from his book, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976195534/boingboing"&gt; Female Bodybuilders &lt;/a&gt; . Watch a video &lt;a href="http://pondpress.com/"&gt; here &lt;/a&gt; . &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Mad Cow visited &lt;a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/10092007.html"&gt; Donna Blue's offices &lt;/a&gt; and took photos of teenagers raising a ruckus in front of the Paris Hilton. &lt;a href="http://housing-kaboom.blogspot.com/2008/11/viva-las-vegas.html"&gt; Photo of Las Vegas "hooker hawkers" &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-503452426903950616?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovphoto-gallery-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-194108604747467232</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:36:00.235-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　Swedish 1970s dance band photos</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453355769/swedish-1970s-dance.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images_swedish-dance-bands-006.jpg" height="210" width="310" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Images Swedish-Dance-Bands-006" /&gt; My pal Christy at Instructables says: &lt;blockquote&gt; Our intern &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/member/lamedust/"&gt; Bilal &lt;/a&gt; (a runner-up in the last &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/05/instructables-contes.html"&gt; laser cutter contest &lt;/a&gt; ) painted and laser-engraved his fingernails, then realized he could use press-on nails for a safer and more portable version. Of course, since concept is everything, he went for an epic Beards vs. Mustaches historical character smackdown. (At any rate, it's much less gross than the &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Tattoo/"&gt; laser tattooing &lt;/a&gt; .) &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Thumbnail-portraits-Etch-an-epic-battle-between/"&gt; Laser-engraved fingernails &lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt; (Instructables) &lt;/em&gt;  &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-194108604747467232?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovswedish-1970s-dance-band.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-4453392943164580473</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:35:40.369-08:00</atom:updated><title>Susannah Breskov:　Steven Meisel Does Kohei Yoshiyuki</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453357438/steven-meisel-does-k.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="Night peep crop.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Night%20peep%20crop.jpg" width="334" height="440" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; Inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/25/photo-series-peeping.html"&gt; these &lt;/a&gt; old school Kodak infrared flashbulb illuminated snaps of &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/arts/design/23geft.html"&gt; Japanese sexhibitionists and their peeping toms in parks &lt;/a&gt; that were shot by Kohei Yoshiyuki in the early '70s, fashion photographer &lt;a href="http://www.artandcommerce.com/AAC/C.aspx?VP=SlideShow_VPage&amp;IAPA=1&amp;STY=A&amp;L4=2U1XC58OBF39&amp;L5=2U1XC583YX5A&amp;L6=2U1XC583YDU0&amp;XX=Artists"&gt; Steven Meisel &lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/11/v_editorial.html#photo=1"&gt; created &lt;/a&gt; his own version in a layout that was (supposedly) too hot to run in &lt;i&gt; Vogue &lt;/i&gt; , " &lt;a href="http://wickedhalo.blogspot.com/2008/11/tales-of-unexpected.html"&gt; Tales of the Unexpected &lt;/a&gt; ," starring Chloë Sevigny and a lot of groovy visuals. Rex &lt;a href="http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-5340.cfm"&gt; sez &lt;/a&gt; : "Pretend it's 1995 again." Not recommended for those of you who are on acid. (Via &lt;a href="http://somenotesonnapkins.blogspot.com/2008/11/becks-gamma-ray.html"&gt; Some Notes on Napkins &lt;/a&gt; .) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; I understand the office of the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York has decided that it will not bring criminal charges against me. I appreciate the impartiality and thoroughness of the investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office, and I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conduct it disclosed. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; I resigned my position as governor because I recognized that conduct was unworthy of an elected official. I once again apologize for my actions, and for the pain and disappointment those actions caused my family and the many people who supported me during my career in public life. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; In a statement, Spitzer responds: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; I understand the office of the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York has decided that it will not bring criminal charges against me. I appreciate the impartiality and thoroughness of the investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office, and I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conduct it disclosed. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; I resigned my position as governor because I recognized that conduct was unworthy of an elected official. &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-4453392943164580473?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/susannah-breskovsteven-meisel-does.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-3682215074757521710</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:35:21.111-08:00</atom:updated><title>David Pescovkov:　Robert Burden's Voltron timelapse painting</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453369585/robert-burdens-voltr.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9fgpDvoFcwM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9fgpDvoFcwM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; Banjo player Eddie Adcock recently had brain surgery where surgeons installed deep brain stimulator electrodes to control a tremor in his right mind would draw attention to himself as a disqualified driver under the influence of alcohol by menacing another person with a vehicle, and therefore Mr Lee's actions should be considered "essential" in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak. Of course, medical workers and firefighters are on the list but so are a surprisingly diverse group of other folks who often go unrecognized in keeping us alive and happy. From a press release: &lt;blockquote&gt; "Some people have claimed that they possess the ability to see with their skin," says Prof. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-3682215074757521710?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-pescovkovrobert-burden-voltron.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-7829501617092722527</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:34:59.032-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mark Frauenfelkov:　Felt Club this Sunday in LA</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/453396754/felt-club-this-sunda.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;Via Mister Jalopy at  Jalopy at &lt;a href="http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/"&gt; Dinosaurs and Robots &lt;/a&gt; : &lt;p&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5oUutrnI/AAAAAAAADjY/DJwMCBnR_5c/s1600-h/FC08web.jpg"&gt; &lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5oUutrnI/AAAAAAAADjY/DJwMCBnR_5c/s400/FC08web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268360135271362162" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; As close as we come to a big section entirely devoted to clothing for cosplay, meaning costume play. As if by accident, almost all the other customers are men. They avoid eye contact and are dowdily dressed—indeed, they look as dowdy as the cafe itself. Few people speak, no one smiles, and there is an air of suppressed sexual tension. A man sitting alone at a nearby table receives a portion of Andy Lee and Pat Foreman&amp;#8217;s book, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962464864/boingboing"&gt; Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil &lt;/a&gt; , I went to Get The Knack (that's the LP, dearies). And when Good Girls Don't &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-7829501617092722527?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-frauenfelkovfelt-club-this-sunday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-l2C8nYmCV0/SRz5oUutrnI/AAAAAAAADjY/DJwMCBnR_5c/s72-c/FC08web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-8417686228390833273</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:25:16.073-08:00</atom:updated><title>Susannah Breskov:　Your Bloody Dinner</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/451064912/your-bloody-dinner.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"&gt;&lt;img alt="Dexter chair.jpg" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Dexter%20chair.jpg" width="216" height="300" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;"/&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br clear="all"&gt; A &lt;a href="http://www.pointclickhome.com/showtime/dexter"&gt; dinner party set for a serial killer &lt;/a&gt; , designed by &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_deep_on_design.html"&gt; Philippe Starck &lt;/a&gt; , described as "Vision, subversion, rébellion, humour, amour sont les seuls paramètres structurellement modernes," with colorful changing messages: "WE MUST SHARE," "HUMOUR AMOUR," and the Boing Boing friendly "WE ARE MUTANTS." &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story. It's our romanticism: Mutation. We are mutants. And if we don't deeply understand, if we don't deeply understand, if we don't deeply understand, if we don't deeply understand, if we don't integrate that we are mutants, we completely miss the story. &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&amp;url=artist2008.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/themes/starck/starck.xml&amp;type=themes"&gt; NOUS &lt;/a&gt; , designed by &lt;a href="http://amylaudesign.com/"&gt; Amy Lau &lt;/a&gt; , for Showtime's design house, this being the " &lt;a href="http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do"&gt; Dexter &lt;/a&gt; " dining room, natch. &lt;a href="http://www.spring3d.net/"&gt; Here &lt;/a&gt; , $2500 blood spatter embroidered chairs, gore coated plates, fingerprinted glassware. Also: &lt;a href="http://www.sho.com/site/video/brightcove/series/title.do?bcpid=1772825695&amp;bclid=1773232971&amp;bctid=1890734659"&gt; video &lt;/a&gt; . Wherefore art thou, Patrick Bateman? (Via &lt;a href="http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/11/amy_lau_dexter.php"&gt; Coolhunting &lt;/a&gt; .)&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-8417686228390833273?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/susannah-breskovyour-bloody-dinner.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645558438285153621.post-6708378573685218690</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T22:25:07.905-08:00</atom:updated><title>Xeni Jarkov:　Prisons and art: Regina Jose Galindo</title><description>Original: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/451926946/prisons-and-art-regi.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/0aareginaprisone.jpg" width="425" align="left" border="0" /&gt; &lt;br clear="all" /&gt; &lt;p&gt; Over at We Make Money Not Art, Regine has a post up about an international art fair in Italy that included the work of Syd Garon . It's a group of hooligans destroyed the Radical's rally. The Radical Party has reached a dead end, and there are big questions for the Republika Srpska and its future. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The clutter and chaos and insanity in the tiny apartment is the third thing you notice. What's this? Oh, an old military AUTOVON telephone, complete with the magic extra Touch-Tone button labeled "FO ("Flash Override") that Generals were supposed to use to alert the President in the event of war. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5645558438285153621-6708378573685218690?l=boingkov.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boingkov.blogspot.com/2008/11/xeni-jarkovprisons-and-art-regina-jose.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (fishyswaz)</author></item></channel></rss>