Jan
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Stephen Worth says:
Today, we posted more amazing “Cappiana” from the collection of cartoonist,
Mike Fontanelli at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, including…
• Al Capp’s infamous “Jack Jawbreaker” story — a devastating satire of the
notorious exploitation of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
by DC Comics.
• More than a dozen rare Wildroot Cream-Oil strips, as well as original [...]
Jan
1
Designing for Space: Core77 visits NASA’s Industrial Design Team
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Glen Jackson Taylor of Core77 visted NASA to profile the designers of the next manned lunar rover.
Evan Twyford and Carl Conlee are two of three industrial designers working in NASA’s Habitability Design Center (HDC), and in just over 2 years they have transitioned the department from one that dealt only with small isolated ergonomic projects [...]
Jan
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A couple weeks ago, my colleagues at Institute for the Future launched Superstruct, an alternate reality game set in the year 2019. In the game world, 2019 is a pretty intense time to be a human. Our species could be wiped out in just 23 years by a variety of superthreats, like disease, food shortages, [...]
Jan
1
La Peque??a Sarah Palin (Thank you Jesus)
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As previously prayed for. Video Link. (via dlisted, which has more on this piece; thanks Susannah Breslin!)
Jan
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I love the illustration for Christopher Hitchens’ Vanity Fair story, “America the Banana Republic.” It’s based, of course on the beautiful Jack Davis poster for Woody Allen’s Bananas from 1971.
Hitchens’ piece is well worth reading, too.
I was very struck, as the liquefaction of a fantasy-based system proceeded, to read an observation by Professor Jeffrey A. [...]
Jan
1
Ben Greenman of the New Yorker presents his list of the five scariest movies of all time. They are:
1. ???Texas Chainsaw Massacre,??? Tobe Hooper (1974)
2. ???The Silence of the Lambs,??? Jonathan Demme (1991)
3. ???The Body Snatcher,??? Robert Wise (1945)
4. ???Night of the Hunter,??? Charles Laughton (1955)
5. ???Mulholland Drive,??? David Lynch (2001)
David Lynch is the master [...]
Jan
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Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses
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The International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian national anthem, “with glowing hearts,” and is threatening to sue anyone who uses the line in Canada, as part of the Vancouver Games.
This is par for the course. The IOC is a corrupt, bullying, greedy, hypocritical organization that uses trademark laws to limit [...]
Jan
1
Kyle sez, “Y’all kindly blogged the launch of Bumperactive’s ‘50 Ways To Vote Obama Project’, where we created an Obama sticker for every state. We completed 52 designs (including DC and PR) at the end of August.”
There Must Be….
50 Fifty-Two Ways to Vote Obama!
(Thanks, Kyle!)
See also: Obama bumper stickers for every state
Jan
1
Ontario bus-companies trying to shut down competition from ride-sharing groups
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Jason sez, “Government subsidized private bus companies in Ontario are feeling threatened by ride-sharing services like Ridester.com and PickupPal.com, so they’re getting the government to shut them down under some strange loophole. The former Environment Canada minister is asking for people to [...]
Jan
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Free Pirate Fic!
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Mary sez,
In 2007, Dred Pirate John Joseph Adams, of the MS Fantasy and Science Fiction, commandeered the MS Shimmer for one special issue: the Pirate issue, released November 2007.
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a holiday dear to our [...]
Jan
1
Art sez,
My partner and I were plaintiffs in the lawsuit suing the State of California for the right of same-sex couples to be married. We won that battle but now we have a new one: California Prop 8, if it passes, would [...]
Jan
1
For Love of Water documentary opens tonight in DC, California
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For Love of Water, the amazing documentary about water-rights and bottled water companies, is opening tonight in DC and up and down California. Here’s some of my review from last April:
Global water profiteering is at the center of a global healthcare crisis that kills more people than AIDS or malaria. The film shows the grim [...]
Jan
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Wank your way to nasal clarity
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A paper in the Journal of Medical Hypotheses, “Ejaculation as a potential treatment of nasal congestion in mature males” (Zarrintan, S) proposes a good hard wank to relieve nasal congestion in men:
So the author proposes a more…natural method of decongestion. “It is known [...]
Jan
1
Inuvikphil sez, “‘In the future, man will travel in pneumatic tubes Also, apparently, eat prunes!’
So nice to see authors in commercials. Ray Bradbury comes across as really personable here.”
Ray Bradbury Prunes Commercial
(Thanks, Inuvikphil!)
Jan
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Today on BBtv, part 2 of Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson’s interview with his hero, futurist and artist Syd Mead, on the evolution of conceptual design.
In this installment, we go inside Syd’s studio in Pasadena, CA, and learn more about the creative process behind his work for movies, television, and automobile design — [...]