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Kevin Kelly enjoyed Douglas Coupland's Marshall McLuhan biography, You Know Nothing of My Work!. I have not yet read it, but I'm planning to. Here's an excerpt from the book, in which Coupland explains an incident that led him to … Continue reading →

NBC News' twitter feed was compromised today and fake reports of new terrorist attacks posted to it.

Presidential candidate Herman Cain offers a touching rendition of God Bless America, set to footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a backing track of human screams. [via @Mat]

As Mark posted yesterday, Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart, who invented ebooks when he keyed in the text of the Declaration of Independence in 1971, has died. He was 64. He was a copyfighter and a hero of the … Continue reading →

[video link] Friday Freak-Out: Ray Columbus & The Invaders play "She's A Mod" (1964), originally performed by The Senators. The track is available on the double CD set Ray Columbus & The Invaders: Definitive Collection. Some history of the band … Continue reading →

Miles O'Brien did a report for PBS NewsHour on how the technology and design of skyscrapers has changed since 9/11. Video here, transcript here. The World Trade Center collapse was a "stark and stunning" reminder to architects and engineers of … Continue reading →

Bill D. of the "Riding With Robots" blog shares this image with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says, Flame shooting hundreds of feet from NASA's new five-segment solid rocket motor during a ground test, Sept. 8, 2011 at ATK's … Continue reading →

Last week, Mark blogged about t-shirts that replace classic rock logos with the names of scientists and philosophers. I just spotted a similar line of film director t-shirts! Available from CineFile Video are Scorcese, Ozu, Fassbinder, De Palma, and others. … Continue reading →

[Video Link] If you fly Virgin America airlines sometime soon, and tune in to channel 10 on the in-flight entertainment TV dial, you'll have a chance to see some beautiful animations, short films, and music videos on the Boing Boing … Continue reading →

My old roommate worked in a mall photo lab (remember those?) and used to frequently see photos of young men posing with big spreads of contraband -- drugs, guns, piles of money, jewelry. I was reminded of that when I … Continue reading →

Over at the White House blog, Tom Kalil and Aneesh Chopra look at Obama's American Jobs Act in the context of innovation, entrepreneurship, and crowdfunding, including a link to the iPhone 4 Tripod Mount & Stand project on Kickstarter. That's … Continue reading →

About the OpenWatch Project from OpenWatch on Vimeo. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit wrote an essay for the Washington Examiner called "You have a right to record the police." In an era when government feels free to record citizens whenever they’re … Continue reading →

Smartphone apps that display certain colors in a way that supposedly eliminates acne don't work, says the FTC The makers of two mobile applications claiming to treat acne have settled FTC complaints that the developers sold the apps without proof … Continue reading →

Rush Limbaugh explains who our pal Doug Rushkoff is to his dittoheads: Okay, now, I found out who this Douglas Rushkoff guy is. He’s a “media theorist,” a media theorist, “the author of Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for … Continue reading →

Photo: Kleine Gelbe Ente This post is brought to you by Columbia Pictures "Moneyball" The novelty of disruputive technology soon becomes second nature. Social networking made the web intimate, a lingua franca to even the barely computer-literate, but its real … Continue reading →

A photo contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by JKG II.

The Nike Mag, based on the sneakers seen in the popular motion picture Back to the Future II, is finally in existence. The NIKE MAG is no longer the “greatest shoe never made.” The mythical shoe that originally captured the … Continue reading →

Over at Credit.com, I reviewed SmarterComics, a new line of well-written graphic novel adaptations of business and self-help books. When I was a kid my parents told me I read too many comic books. “You are wasting your time,” my … Continue reading →

[video link] I spent the day shooting (video) inside Folsom Prison. It was pretty intense in there. We listened to Johnny Cash's famous At Folsom Prison live album on the way to the site, and listened to this driving home. … Continue reading →

Kirk Demarais of the fantastic Secret Fun Blog came across a website of a Japanese collector who has an incredible collection of 1960s and 1970s novelties. The collector's site is difficult to navigate, especially if you don't understand Japanese. For … Continue reading →