2008

May

Seaweed Suggests First Humans in America Took...

“More than 140 million women in the world are...

What is Grey Literature?

“‘Grey literature’ is used to describe publications not published commercially or...

Fiddlehead quilt block

Supper. photo by topquark

Stalking the Wild Fiddlehead

“Depending on weather, the fronds begin to appear around late April and by early May they can...

Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch? (Oh Yeah!)

The Silent Scream of the Asparagus

Pictured: The moment award-winning garden is...

Cabdriver Thanked for Returning a...

Best of Craigslist: Mom, I know you're there

Summertime whites

Abondance Montréal

Young Anabaptist Radicals: Biblical Commands...

Food waste on 'staggering' scale

Canadian consumers rank second-last in green...

Ottawa high school student's flu glue wins...

Saturday Night! Wow indeed.

WNBA offers advice to rookies

Charde Houston of the Minnesota Lynx shows off her makeup to...

This week's horoscope

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you fully prepared for your showdown with The Machine? Are you as...

Books At Home: A Blog About Bookshelves

Slotted systems.

USA 2008: The Great Depression

Nervous System: Stainless steel is photochemically etched...

Nervous System: Silicone rubber is cut by waterjet into an...

“Obviously, Ray Kurzweil has no plan for retirement....

Anger in the Workplace

Bell Canada: Home Energy Conservation...

Smarter electric grid could be key to saving...

China farms the world to feed a ravenous...

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

Teeth (2007) - official trailer Watched this last night and it was pure horror-comedy genius. Moral...

[Video] [Lyrics] JB, if this doesn’t make you grin, nothing will. (Source)

[Video] 10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week: “On the train in the morning without an...

The Top 100 Public Intellectuals

Grand Theft Are You Fcking Kidding Me

On a Quebec reserve, they're wondering where...

Apr

Merging Galaxies (Hubble pics)

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102

Philishave Satinelle advert + commentary V. cool to see transgender folks on television in a...

Noble Eagles, Nasty Pigeons, Biased Humans

Oppose Bill C-484

The Cars - Moving in Stereo + All Mixed Up (Live 1979)

Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia

i miss you but i haven’t met you yet so special but it hasn’t happened yet you are...

PJ Harvey sings The Sky Lit Up. Sexy.

Dear Child,

Mummy has to go away on a boat that Daddy will be driving or floating or whatever one does with...

OMG. Baby sloths are super cute.

Charges dismissed against NY professor who...

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold...”
— Nietzsche, The Dawn, Section...

“Space debris comprise the ever-increasing amount of...

I don’t know why it’s never occurred to me that...

I don’t know if I could have made it through this...

Jill Bolte Taylor has a stroke. The degree of this woman’s self-awareness is astounding, and...

Sexism in the workplace

How to Develop a Friendly Tone of Voice

How to Be a Good Listener

Deaf Jam Poetry: Sista Queen “Try Being a Lady” “Try being a lady? Oh you mean you...

Deaf Jam Poetry: Thea Monyee “Woman to Woman” LOL. Burn.

Jill Scott and The Roots. Smokin’ hot. Further reason to be smitten with her: Def Jam Poetry:...

Riots, instability spread as food prices...

This week's horoscope

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a perfect time for you to write your ultimate personal...

Anthropologist creates oceanic manga fantasy

With Bells and Flashes, Work of a Japanese...

Montreal’s Bran Van 3000, featuring Momus. It was especially nice to put all their albums on...

A comic I made in Grade 12 about being Chinese - king trash...

The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead -...

This week's horoscope

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hesitate to be so blunt, but the fact of the matter is that right now God...

the following post is [about] anonymous

On the fate of the semi-colon

Museum of Broken Relationships

¡Ask a Mexican!®

“I am done with great things and big plans, great...”
— William James

If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave

I shop therefore I am

Interviewing Dylan

PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-‘n’-roll route?
BOB DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I’m in a card game. Then I’m in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a “before” in a Charles Atlas “before and after” ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain’t so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I’m in Omaha. It’s so cold there, by this time I’m robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain’t much to look at, but who’s built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything’s going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

The Clinton's tax returns 2000-2006

Looking Good for Jesus

City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging...

Students of Virginity

Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing

Miniature Worlds

“Without proper consideration and control it is possible that...”
— Being Human - Microsoft HCI...

Dith Pran, Rest in Peace

Today’s oh-so-folksy Garfield Minus Garfield.

Margaret Atwood - Variation on the Word...

Angel of Tarzana by Jaime Hernandez

Los Bros Hernandez duet, with kissing

Maxim, Entertainment Weekly Agree: Jews,...

Postcards From Yo Momma

Colin Ward, The Child in the City, 1978

Inside the Black Budget

The writer and the genetic anthropologist...

The curator and the mathematician discuss...

Terror U: What's behind the boom in...

“Between the law and the civil people…they’re going to get...”
— Traveller quoted in Sharon...

An Overview of Traveller Culture

Mar

Gala Ivanova - Trilobites in Love

Liz Phair Reissues 'Exile in Guyville'

stereogum presents 'enjoyed': a tribute to...

Botanical Illustrations

Polls opened Friday for Iran’s eighth parliamentary...

“Without accomplishments, we accomplish nothing.”
— Anonymous

George Washington (2000)

“The sensuous elements are not there as a multiplicity that...”
— Alphonso Lingis, The...

Mortal Thoughts

How to Talk Hip

because.muxtape.com

“You do not always know what I am feeling. Last night in the...”
— ‘For Grace, After a Party’, by...

Headbangers are some of the best people...

It’s super easy to diss metal. Hell, most of it’s shite as far as I’m concerned....

Def Leppard - Photograph (1983) Either this or Karma Chameleon was the first music video I saw, at...

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (1987) There’s no excuse for this. Or this.

Boing Boing's Moderation Policy

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a...”
— Robert Frost

"En las noches como ésta la tuve entre...

These lines come from Pablo Neruda’s Poema 20 (from Veinte poemas de amor y una canción...

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987) ‘Hell’ is the name...

Beware new front in culture wars

“Anthonephophobia: A fear of flowers falling from clouds.”

Technosexual: One Man's Tale of Robot Love

Limestone Beaver Stool by Castor Canadensis

Dolly Parton - Jolene

Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man

Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu...

Christian Domestic Discipline

The Wire (Season 2) - Omar gives evidence against Bird Hilton

Afroman - The American Dream - Lyrics

“The true hero of ‘The Wire’ is the stick-up boy...”
— Bronwyn Jones

OMG. Starship Troopers in Suburbia. Photo by Lawraa

Disease risk to mozzarella output

Women who live unconventional lives and the...

“Art for art’s sake” is overtly apolitical, and...”
— Aiden Enns

The atheist delusion

Productive Procrastination

Q&A with Women's World author Graham Rawle