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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

The $129 BioLite wood burning campstove converts heat to electricity, so you can charge your mobile phone while you boil up your freeze-dried beef stroganoff. BioLite

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Camp stove generates electricity to charge gadgets

Mike Kuniavsky of the electronic projects studio ThingM says: When we designed the BlinkM we took the old school Unix philosophy of making it simple and focused, a useful component in a larger system of interlocking pieces. blink(1) is our idea of what that same philosophy would be like, when mapped to a consumer electronics

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USB indicator light can be used to alert you to almost any online event

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

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

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?

In yesterday’s Gweek podcast, Clive Thompson and I talked to Ed Piskor about his great new graphic Novel Wizzywig, about a young “dark side” hacker. I mentioned that I liked the scene featuring Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who make an appearance as illegal blue box salesmen dressed in their Alice in Wonderland birthday party

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Wizzywig: an excerpt from Ed Piskor’s new graphic novel about a phone phreak hacker kid

Tony says: If you haven’t heard of the Trivia Championships of North America, well, that’s understandable. It’s only the second year for TCONA, but this year’s event, taking place from August 10-12 at Circus Circus in Las Vegas, will already be bigger, with more players, more pub quiz hosts from around the country, more medal

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America’s greatest trivia minds get their party on in Vegas next month

Funny videos by Jonathan “Chunkus O’Suck” Gran

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Cartoon of YouTube commenters

I’ve written about the great cartoonist Carl Barks before. If I were forced to get rid of all comic books and comic book anthologies except for the works of one artist, I would save Carl Barks and (tearfully) toss everything else. Ruben Bolling and I spend an inordinate amount of time on Gweek singing the

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Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: "Only a Poor Old Man"

Here’s the 11th episode of MAKE’s podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Yury Gitman. Yury’s a toy inventor and a product designer who teaches physical computing and toy design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. In

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Make: Talk 011 – Yury Gitman, Toy Inventor

Metafilter founder Matt Haughey gave an inspiring talk at Webstock about being a 40-year-old Web geek who came of age in the Bay Area in the 1990s dotcom boom. Matt talks about finding work-life balance, and how hard that is to do if you follow the grow-big-fast model of Internet startups. He describes another way:

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Matt Haughey on the joys of Internet "lifestyle business" vs the grind of fast startups

Artist Anna Schuleit was commissioned to produce an installation in the massive, ancient Massachusetts Mental Health Center before it was demolished. She filled it with 28,000 flowers. Here, Colossal talks with Schuleit about “BLOOM,” the resulting installation. The reactions to Bloom ranged from expressions of delight to raw and renewed sorrow.

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Mental institution filled with 28,000 flowers before it was demolished

I was not looking forward to moving two monstrously heavy pieces of furniture from my house to my sister-in-law’s house. They probably weighed about 200 lbs each, but we had to get them out to make room for some new heavy furniture we bought. So I used Taskrabbit to post a notice that I needed

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Taskrabbit delivered an awesome guy to help me move heavy crap

Republic Report has released figures documenting the fact that the average member of Congress gets a 1,452% salary hike when she or he leaves office and becomes a corporate lobbyist. They point out that politicians are allowed to negotiate these raises while they are in office, and don’t have to disclose this fact when they’re

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Average Congresscritter gets 1,452% raises when they turn corporate lobbyist

Here’s a POV video of a fourth grade girl psyching herself up for her first run down an intimidating ski-jump. The tension mounts as she narrates her anxieties and checks in with her instructor for comfort, and the payoff — a successful run and delighted cheering — is all the better for it. Girls first

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Helmetcam video of 9-year-old psyching herself up for a ski-jump

Newly released documents shed light on the San Francisco edition of the CIA’s notorious MK-ULTRA program (through which people were unwittingly given massive doses of LSD to see if the drug would be useful for brainwashing), which ran from 1953-1964. There’s lots of detail about MK-ULTRA’s work in NYC and Montreal, but the San Francisco

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Midnight Climax: CIA’s MK-ULTRA LSD experiments in San Francisco

From the newly released collection of Margaret Thatcher’s papers by the Cambridge University archive, “Doodles left by President Reagan on the table beside Margaret Thatcher at the G7 summit at Ottawa in 1981.” Doodles left by President Reagan on the table beside Margaret Thatcher at the G7 summit at Ottawa in 1981

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Reagan’s doodles

Sculptor Jud Turner writes, “I thought you might enjoy this full-sized goat, ‘Tanngrisnir’, named after one of the two goats in Norse mythology that pulled Thor’s chariot. He ate them for dinner every night, saved the bones, and by morning they had come back to life. Hopeful analogy for recycling, it’s made from 100% recycled

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Thor’s goat made out of scrap metal

Noah Scalin sez, “Just look at this awesome steampunky rocket ring created by Herbert Hoover (not the former president) for his Ring-A-Day project. He also has a laser-cut miniature wooden version for sale on his Etsy page as well.” I’m partial to Hoover’s espresso ring, too. Ring-A-Day: Rocket Ring

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Retro rocket ring

STNautilus created a detailed model-train replica of the long-gone, dearly missed Disneyland Mine Train through Nature’s Wonderland. Dan sez, “I nearly plotzed from this scene being so charming.” (Warning: contains animated varmints). Nature’s Wonderland Model: Very First POV

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POV ride-through: Model train replica of Disneyland’s Mine Train through Nature’s Wonderland

This may just be the best TED Talk video I’ve seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction author) Rob Reid examines the math behind the claims made by the copyright lobby and explains the mindbending awesomeness of the sums used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the like. Here’s Ars

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Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you’ll watch all year

Here’s the 7th episode of MAKE’s podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I’ll interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Charles Platt. He writes the Electronics Fun and Fundamentals column in every issue of MAKE. He’s also the author of the book, Make: Electronics which, in my admittedly

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Make: Talk 007 — Charles Platt, Electronics Fun & Fundamentals

[Video Link] Lucy McRae was trained as a classical ballerina and an architect, and her work as a “body architect” incorporates these interests and more. She is the recipient of a TED Fellowship. I interviewed her this morning at TED 2012. See all my TED2012 coverage

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TED2012: Lucy McRae, Body Architect