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I loved Jonny Quest when I was a kid, and I think my 10-year-old (and I) will love Rocket Robinson, a graphic novel by Sean O’Neill, which reminds me of the 1960s cartoon. Get a taste of it by reading the webcomic, and then chip in to Kickstarter if you dig it. Rocket Robinson and        

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Rocket Robinson, a graphic adventure novel for kids set in Egypt in the 1930s

Christian sez, 2012′s Free! Music! Contest has opened it’s gates at july first. It is the fourth time, that this event is being organized by Musikpiraten, a german society that promotes free art and espacially free music. Bands from all over the world participate in it to win a publication on CD, the so called

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Creative Commons music contest: Freedom & Free Beer

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

[Video Link] Here’s Savincubus playing the Talking Heads’ “(Nothing But) Flowers” on ukulele. U900 plays “Ben” on UkuleleZooey Deschanel plays “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?” on ukuleleSophie Madeleine performs “Oil & Gold” on ukulele — Boing Boing exclusiveLisa Hannigan performs “Knots” on the ukuleleSophie Madeleine plays 30 uke songs in 30 daysNew Order

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Savincubus plays "(Nothing But) Flowers" on ukulele

Good news: Fantagraphics, the world’s greatest comic book publisher, is going to start selling digital comic books. Fantagraphics Books and comiXology have immediately made available the first four issues of the Hernandez Brothers’ phenomenal Love and Rockets: New Stories. Groth also announced that following Comic-Con, comiXology will debut Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 on

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Fantagraphics will publish comics in digital format

Congratulations to Ernie Cline for winning the 2012 Prometheus Award for Best Novel! His book, Ready Player One, shared the prize with The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman. Both Cline and Sherman will receive one-ounce gold coins (what else would you expect from the Libertarian Futurist Society?). Delia Sherman’s young-adult fantasy novel focuses on an

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Ready Player One and The Freedom Maze win the Prometheus Award for best novel

Frederic Jacobs produced an iOS app called “Angry Syrians,” which was apparently blessed by Rovio. It was intended to raise awareness of the ongoing bloodbath in Syria. Apple rejected it because “We found your app contains defamatory or offensive content targeted at a specific group, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review

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Apple rejects "Angry Syrians"

A bit of pithy insight from the latest EDRIgram: “the intellectual property lobby employs too many lobbyists and too few strategists.” In other words, Big Content can get lawmakers to do their bidding, even when doing so discredits them and riles up the opposition. (via Beyond the Beyond)

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Too many lobbyists, not enough strategists

The special “Zine Issue” of Atom Magazine has an interview with me about the good old zine days of bOING bOING. The made their entire issue look like a late 80s zine — cool! Read it here.

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Atom magazine interviewed me about the zine days of bOING bOING

Too good not to share — Jacob Ewing commented in my post about SiriusXM telemarketing pests: “I use a VoIP system, and have been meaning to set it up to automatically play this [NSFW] when certain numbers call in. It’s a little acappella piece I and a friend recorded for just such a purpose.”

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Song for telemarketers and other f*cking jerks

A couple of years ago, the lease on my Ford Explorer hybrid ran out and I returned the car to the dealer. Ever since, Sirius XM Radio has called me on a weekly (and when they are on a roll, daily) basis to try to get me to reactivate their radio service on the car,

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It pleases me to see Sirius XM telemarketing calls in my spam folder

Via a comment in today’s earlier Breaking Bad meme roundup post, this DIY yarn project at Ravelry: Inspired by Breaking Bad, patterns to make little Walter and Jesse, everyone’s favorite meth cooks. Instructions include patterns for two dolls, two hats, glasses, jumpsuits, and tiny bags of crystal. Because of tiny parts, these patterns wouldn’t be

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Breaking Bad: Walt + Jesse amigurimi (the most adorable knitted meth cooks)

Via a comment in today’s earlier Breaking Bad meme roundup post, this DIY yarn project at Ravelry: Inspired by Breaking Bad, patterns to make little Walter and Jesse, everyone’s favorite meth cooks. Instructions include patterns for two dolls, two hats, glasses, jumpsuits, and tiny bags of crystal. Because of tiny parts, these patterns wouldn’t be

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Breaking Bad: Walt + Jesse amigurimi (the most adorable crocheted meth cooks)

AGS, in Manistee, MI, has something for everyone — whether you’re shopping for a bong, a dildo or a frisbee. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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One-stop shop

Fantastic news coming out of Comic Con: They are remaking What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?! It’s such fun news that there is no way to properly punctuate the end of the sentence! Walter Hill, who just finished directing Sylvester Stallone in the cop drama Bullet to the Head, will direct and write the screenplay,

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Let’s go ahead and cast the What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? remake

Uber, a spunky startup that’s made a name for itself by using mobile devices to hook up people with rolling stock — starting with an app that let idle limo drivers in San Francisco know about people who couldn’t get a cab due to the city’s notoriously dysfunctional taxi regulations — has a great new

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On-demand ice-cream trucks from Uber

Everyone’s seen the video of Mitt Romney being booed at an address to the NAACP where he promised to kill “Obamacare” (AKA Romneycare). But did he plan on being booed? “He’s not likely to receive many black votes in any case, and boos would allow him to look principled in the face of opposition and

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Romney, the NAACP, and tactical booing

Jason sez, BurningManRides.com is a carpool site that helps attendees share rides to the Burn. Created by the rideshare service Ridejoy, the site allows users to easily request or offer a ride and get matched up with other Burners going along their route on the same date and time frame. For those lucky enough to

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Rideshare service for Burning Man

The Boston Globe reported that presidential candidate Mitt Romney still controlled Bain Capital for years after he claimed to have left in 1999—a period marked by layoffs and bankruptcies. An Obama campaign official suggested that he committed a felony by claiming otherwise on official forms. The Globe’s Callum Borchers follows up: “Romney’s campaign asked for

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Romney demands apology over Bain claims

In his book, The Beginning of Infinity, Oxford physicist David Deutsch writes: If a one kilometer asteroid had approached the Earth on a collision course at any time in human history before the early twenty-first century, it would have killed at least a substantial proportion of all humans. In that respect, as in many others,

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Are you optimistic or pessimistic about humankind’s ability to prevent a killer asteroid from killing us all?

Laurie Penny has a spirited defense of Fifty Shades of Grey, a bestselling pornographic novel that started out as Twilight fanfic (“quite good, quite detailed descriptions of fucking written from the point of view of a woman who seemed to be really enjoying herself”) and looks at the gender issues and double standards lurking in

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What "Fifty Shades of Grey is badly written" is really code for

The latest installment in Bill Willingham’s astonishingly, consistently great, long-running graphic novel series Fables is volume 17: Inherit the Wind. The premise of Fables lets its creators use any mythos, any tradition, any narrative, and mix and match as necessary, and Willingham and his illustrators continue to show that these possibilities are indeed endless. While

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Fables 17: Inherit the Wind

From Kate Black: This is @666burger’s Doucheburger. It is gold leafed Kobe beef formed around foie gras, and topped with cave aged gruyere, truffle butter, lobster, caviar, and kopi luwak bbq sauce. It is fucking delicious. More photos by Kate here. Glukakke is the one doing the gold leafing there

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Behold the Doucheburger

What’s the use of running a basket-case, tin-pot totalitarian dictatorship if you can’t drill an elite honor guard to perform breathtaking feats of close-order drill? Case in point, the official honor guard of Belarus. Домино (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Belarusian honor guard struts its stuff

Tanner Stokes writes: “I loathe YouTube comments. Here’s a simple browser extension to convert them to ‘herp derp’. If you insist on reading the original (which is highly discouraged), click the comment.” Ladies and gentlemen, Herp Derp YouTube Comments. Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox all supported. THANK YOU, DEAR MAN.

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Browser extension converts all YouTube comments into HERP DERP