February 2008
165 posts
The Noble Sloth →
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OMG BABY SLOTH!
Two-toed sloths are amazing animals. They might be the cutest creatures on the planet. Brightly bug-eyed, slow, deliberate and good-natured, these gentle, furry, enormously-clawed animals are pretty much content to roll around in a box, hugging blankets. All. Day. Long. They eat leaves and other vegetable matter. Their metabolisms are so slow that they...
Sexual fantasies | Secret cinema | Economist.com →
ASKING strangers to recount their most private thoughts about sex is unlikely to make a dull book, and Brett Kahr’s compendious research into the psychology of sexual fantasy is gripping. It is also somewhat alarming.
January 2008
97 posts
Isabella Rossellini's bug porn →
Todd says: “Isabella Rossellini has made a series of short films in which she dresses up like insects (always the males, for some reason) and acts out bug sex. You’ll find a quartet of stills at the link.” Link
They Stopped Reading after "Do Unto Others" →
20-ish Yankees fan #1: … And I told him, ‘Dude, you have a penis — use it.’ 20-ish Yankees fan #2: That’s kinda like rape. 20-ish Yankees fan #3: Remember when there were all those pictures of the American soldiers torturing Iraqis? 20-ish Yankees fan #2: Yeah, that was awesome. —42nd St Overheard by: GoRedSox Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email ·...
Falco finally honored in San Francisco with... →
Following up on a pair (1, 2) of Boing Boing tv episodes in which monochrom explores the posthumous legacy of ’80s pop icon Falco, who is memorialized in Austria with honorific stairs, Jacob Appelbaum says:
Some anonymous fans of both Vienna, San Francisco and Falco appear to have taken their love to the stairs. Specifically the Coit Tower stairs! Snip:
“The original Falco...
Look!: AT Europe London - Painting the House Black →
Lillie Road for a little antique-shopping with a friend, we passed by rows and rows of Victorians in southwest London. But one house was not like the others… The owners of one house had decided to take the Victorian fancy for black and apply it to the exterior, painting the whole house in a matte shade of black. With glossy bright white trim to set it off and a shocking pink door to add a...
Debora Spar Named Barnard President | Columbia... →
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School Debora Spar will take over as Barnard’s next president at the end of the academic year, the Spectator learned Tuesday morning.
Bacon Bloody Mary Photo Roundup [Cocktails] →
Yesterday the Chicago Menupages blog published this incredible gallery of bacon Bloody Marys from across the country. I first heard of the brunch concoction when researching the much buzzed-about Chicago restaurant Sepia, and it’s one of their most popular creations. However, this photos prove that great minds think alike, or at least that restaurateurs know a good idea when they see one,...
Midori, Diva's Debauchery, secrets of tentacle... →
M+B Gallery Los Angeles →
Foggy Bottom Apostate - WSJ.com →
Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush’s special envoy for human rights in North Korea, has recently pointed out that our current approach to Pyongyang is failing. Lord help a diplomat who tells the truth.
Octopus →
I’m back from gorgeous, warm Costa Rica this week, experiencing constant shock at the horrible dark frozen waste that is New York. I’m working on a giant batch of travel photos, sloth and bird photos, and self portraits for my 365 project (that were all taken on the right days, just not uploaded yet!). I learned something tonight, though, that bears immediate sharing.
I was on the phone tonight,...
Boing Boing tv: Steampunk Tree House →
Xeni visits the Steampunk Tree House, a 30-foot-tall interactive sculpture created by a group of artists in Oakland, CA, and assembled for the first time at Burning Man. More than 60 people helped to create it, and in today’s episode, you’ll hear from Alan Rorie, Nathaniel Taylor, and David Shulman.
Link full post with video, Discuss on tv.boingboing.net.
(Special thanks to...
Seattle police receive spanking for taking... →
Thomas Hawk says:
Apparently the City of Seattle settled with amateur photographer Bogdan Mohora after the ACLU helped him file a claim over a false arrest when Seattle cops James Pitts and David Toner arrested Mohara for taking their photograph during the arrest. Bogdan was awarded $8,000 and the officers were disciplined. Just another friendly reminder that photography is not a crime, even if...
Radio show on surveillance in America →
So-called “Austin Mayor” sez,
Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program dedicated a full hour to the US’s slide towards Orwellian “Total Surveillance.”
Host Jerome McDonnell interviewed Lawrence Wright — Author, The Looming Tower and Staff Writer for ‘The New Yorker’ — about the Director of National Intelligence’s proposal to...
Homemade circuit-board straight-razor →
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: a beautiful straight-razor that Jack brought to my talk at UC Irvine last year. Jack used an antique cut-throat razor then made his own handle using circuit boards. Link
Torture Couture →
Designer John Galliano is to runways as trolls are to message boards, but I don’t recall ever having seen a more willfully provocative (and surely, to some, offensive) collection from the dude as his Fall 2008 Men’s series, shown here. Sure to be a hit at Gitmo, X-Ray and other black sites with names we’ll never know. No, Dorothy: those are not nightclubs. Link. Photos...
Goth who walks fiancée on a leash is banned by bus... →
“I got a bit angry and called him a fascist pig.”
Meltdown rope chair →
Lots of great DIY/artsy chairs today! Here’s Tom Price’s “Meltdown Chair” he writes -
This chair is created by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a ball of polypropylene rope. The rope begins to liquify as it comes into contact with the heated former and, as it cools, it sets in the shape of a seat creating a contrast in form and texture to the remaining...
DisceMori | Julia deVille | Jewellery | Taxidermy →
HOWTO: 70 gory photoshopping HOWTOs →
Here’s a gallery of seventy horror and gore-effect Photoshop HOWTOs for bubbly burns, twisted scars, scary demons, zombies, vampires, and other spooks and scares. Just the thing for the run-up to Valentine’s Day. Link (Thanks, Enrique)
Men Are the New Women →
Foxit Software →
Free PDF software. But is it any good?
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Deliberately / slowly, with grace. These are the / teachings of the sloth.
AFK →
I´m in Costa Rica at an internet cafe in a shack on the Eastern coast. I may have forgotten to mention I was vanishing; I do that. On a Costa Rican keyboard, you get an Ñ in place of the ; — very confusing. Dozens of photos of sloths upon my glorious return.
Politics | Hillary hatred finds its misogynistic... →
“It’s a discussion we are going to have if Hillary Clinton is nominated,” said Jamieson, who originally went searching the Web for racist invective aimed at Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, only to find the raw sexism being directed at Clinton far more common
Revolutionary People's Fonts →
Virginia Postrel on the typefont revolution: Beginning in the mid-’80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face. Old business models and intermediaries disappeared seemingly overnight. Software replaced industrial processes. Tangible...
Murdering Hookers A-OK with the Daily Mail →
This is a bit old but I just saw it and thought I would share it. Richard Littlejohn at the DailyMail reports on a recent string of murders.
We do not share in the responsibility for either their grubby little existences or their murders. Society isn’t to blame.
It might not be fashionable, or even acceptable in some quarters, to say so, but in their chosen field of “work”, death by...
TYPO prints →
I just uploaded a nice handful of prints of images from my book, TYPO, to my etsy store. Check back often, because I’ll be offering more soon, including some one of a kind new artwork. If you’d like to take a look, you can see them at irenekaoru.etsy.com.
Muslim American women confront domestic abuse -... →