Link 17 Nov Match booze to your music»

Drinkify matches up the music you’re listening to with a suggested drink. According to the site, Daft Punk pairs best with 6 oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin served neat, Philip Glass should be accompanied…

Link 20 Oct Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket»

Lemony Snicket has contributed 13 sharp-eyed and well-worded observations to the Occupy Writers project — I think anyone standing in a glass tower watching the demonstrators down in Liberty Park…

Link 19 Oct The Sci-Fi City: What Dubai Looks Like in the Fog»

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United Arab Emirates advisor Noah Raford posted this amazing photograph on Twitter of what Dubai looks like as the fog rolls in. Wow. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a city look more…

Link 15 Oct Saddam Hussein "porn double" escapes violent gang of Egyptian porno kidnappers. For the second time.»

Photo: Ahram Online.

Mohamed Bishr was minding his own business last Sunday, walking to a local cafe in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, when three black-suited guys grabbed him and…

Link 14 Oct The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants»

Glen Whitman asks why there are fewer startlingly beautiful flight attendants any more:


For an economist, the most fascinating aspect of Pan Am is the highly attractive flight attendants — or…
Link 13 Oct Seattle superhero arrested»

On Sunday morning, Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones, whose secret identity has been revealed as 23-year-old Benjamin John Francis Fodor, was arrested for allegedly pepper spraying a group of…

Link 12 Oct Deviations from Benford’s Law over time, in U.S. accounting data»
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Jialan Wang writes:

So according to Benford’s law, accounting statements are getting less and less representative of what’s really going on inside of…

Link 12 Oct The Fog of Twitter: Watching Last Night's Protest Arrests Through #OccupyBoston»

As I was headed to bed last night, I put down the strange little book on the intellectual history of the automaton I’d been reading, and checked Twitter on my phone one last time. It must have been…

Link 11 Oct The Likeable Bible»

The Bible is an important text, but its social networking integration is somewhat lacking. The Likeable Bible puts a Like button next to every verse.

Made with Chris Baker, Jeff…

Link 10 Oct Occupy Wall Street Sign of the Day»

I feel like there are so many excellent signs at these Occupy Wall Street (and Everywhere) protests, we should just be featuring one a day on Boing Boing while the movement lasts. All…


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