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Liz Ohanesian of the LA Weekly says, Dennis Zine of LA City Council has proposed checking IDs, and keeping tabs on the info, for purchases of various art supplies that are considered "graffiti paraphernalia." He just introduced the motion, but, … Continue reading →

[Video Link] Eddie Codel sends word of the launch of MakerBot TV, a new online video series. "It's a new weekly series about all things MakerBot and 3D printing," says Eddie. "Entertaining and informative. And robots!"

[Video Link] Griffin of watkykjy.co.za says, In South Africa, the word “barbeque” translates to “braai” in Afrikaans but the word is used by all cultures in our country and people look at you funny when you use the word “barbeque”. … Continue reading →

Blake Eskin writes about the Blackwing 602 pencil for The New Yorker's News Desk blog: In June, I learned from the omnium-gatherum site Boing Boing that the Blackwing has been resurrected. I shared my excitement with our most experienced and … Continue reading →

Air & Space has a gallery of Zippo lighters sold during the Vietnam War at PX stores and customized for US soldiers by village artisans. From Air & Space: "Snoopy the Flying Ace replaced Bugs Bunny of World War II … Continue reading →

San Francisco photographer Shaun Roberts, who has taken a number of portraits of underground/street artists in their homes/studios, collaborated with bookstore Babylon Falling on multimedia studio visits with the likes of Black Panther "Minister of Culture" Emory Douglas (above), poster/toy … Continue reading →

Several years ago, Alan McConchie created the Pop Vs. Soda project that attempted "to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms "Pop" and "Soda" to describe carbonated soft drinks." I wonder if usage has shifted over time. … Continue reading →

Joy Tomkins, 81, had "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed on her chest. On her back, it says "P.T.O." (please turn over) with an arrow. From the BBC: The grandmother, who is diabetic but said she was not seriously ill, said she … Continue reading →

In 1979, machine artist Mark Pauline staged the first ever Survival Research Laboratories performance. Pictured above, the show, titled "Machine Sex," took place at a San Francisco Chevron station where dead pigeons dressed in Arab thawbs were gruesomely "processed" by … Continue reading →

Photo: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Outgoing Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, fired over the phone by board chairman Roy Bostock, is famous for using foul language. Following her departure, she did not disappoint. "These people fucked me over," she says, in her first … Continue reading →

Gumby attempted to rob a 7-11 store in San Diego on Monday but failed, in part because he couldn't get into his pockets to retrieve his weapon. Police are offering a $1,000 award leading to his arrest which could land … Continue reading →

Tim and Nina Zagat's eponymous review service has been acquired by Google. I give this news a 25-25-25.

This post is brought to you by Columbia Pictures "Moneyball" Human beings are supposed to avoid chili peppers. The fruit contains a fiery irritant, called capsaicin. It’s so strong that one milligram of the flavorless white crystalline stuff placed in … Continue reading →

Sad news: Michael Hart, who founded Project Gutenberg in 1971, died this week. Michael Stern Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 8, 1947. He died on September 6, 2011 in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age … Continue reading →

Bakingdom has a cute photo gallery and how-to on the occasion of Star Trek's 45th TV anniversary: Star Trek Sugar Cookies.

Boing Boing reader Porter Yates shares this photo, titled "The Earth is Flat," with the Boing Boing Flickr Pool—and explains: Looking onto Andean fields near Simiatug, Ecuador. My vantage point was from ~ 13,000 ft. The clouds filled the valley … Continue reading →

Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan shared candid thoughts on the Fukushima nuclear disaster in an interview this week. “Deserted scenes of Tokyo without a single man around came across my mind,” he told Asahi Shimbun, describing his state of … Continue reading →

[Video Link] "I'm a hardworking, tax-paying, kid-raising, church-going citizen of this country," say author and PBS travel host Rick Steves, "and if I work hard all day long and want to go home and relax with a joint, that is … Continue reading →

In the NYT, John Markoff tells a personal story of how GPS data helped him fill in details of a bike crash lost to memory: While I healed, I became obsessed with figuring out why I had crashed. Hitting a … Continue reading →