Posts Tagged ‘license’

I’ve always admired Steve Martin. He’s smart, funny, and avoids engaging in the kind of behavior that ends up in celebrity tabloids. (He’s also a terrific banjo player.) I recently read his autobiography, Born Standing Up, and now I admire him even more. This short book is about Steve Martin’s career as a stand-up comic,

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Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin

Gwendal Uguen has created this terrific mindmap about Discordianism, and has kindly given us permission to run it on Boing Boing. Click it for full-size. Discordianism is a religion founded in the late 20th Century by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, and it featured prominently in RAW’s books.

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RAW Week: Giant mind-map of Discordianism, by Gwendal Uguen

“We look for the Secret — the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, ‘God’ or whatever… and all the time it is carrying us about… It is the human nervous system itself.” ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Fnord

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RAW quote: we look for the secret

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A New Driving Perspective

New York Times reports that rich New Yorkers are buying cargo vans that look plain on the outside but are lavishly furnished pleasure palaces on the inside. Some cost $500,000. As the economy limps along and more attention is paid to the so-called 1 percent, some of the richest New Yorkers have taken to driving

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Rich New Yorkers buy plain black vans with plush interiors

In today’s CRAFT, I explained how to make a salt cellar and tiny spoon out of wood. A couple of years ago I whittled a wooden spoon as a thank-you gift for our family friend Valerie, who was my daughter’s elementary school art teacher. Valerie appreciated it so much that my wife asked me to

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How to make a wooden salt cellar

Illustrator Robert Ullman wrote a nice eulogy for Bil Keane, creator of Family Circus: The funnies lost another grand old man today with the passing of Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus. Family Circus, along with Peanuts, was one of the very first comic strips I remember ever reading…but though my fondness for Schulz’s

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Bil Keane 1922-2011

Mister Jalopy says, “Coco’s sells beechwood, made in Germany Kum pencil sharpeners for $1 each [left]. I knew Kum had been around for about 100 years, but I did not know they made the most awesome pencil sharpener in the entire world [right].” Kum pencil sharpeners

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Kum pencil sharpeners