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7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Hot Girls Eating Chipotle, Preschool Gems, Video, Blogspot, Boing Boing, Decoding Mitt Romney, 7 Sites, Comedy Slideshows, Single Topic Blogs, Celebrity Yearbook Quotes, Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now, Perfect Strangers, 7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time on Right Now, Slideexpand, Pop Culture Brain, Tumblr, Comedy News

If stealing credit and gearing up for Will Ferrell's "SNL" this weekend aren't keeping you occupied enough this Wednesday afternoon, have no fear. We'...

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We're Sorry, You're Not Allowed to Read This

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Sopa Pipa, Corporations, Greenpeace, Freedome of Information, Pipa, SOPA Bill, Reddit, Boing Boing, Electronic Frontier Foundation, US Government, Wikipedia, Censorship, Eef, Technology News

More than ever, the networked world is holding corporate interests accountable for their environmental and human rights abuses. Don't let people power be silenced. Stop corporate censorship of the internet.

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WATCH: 12,000 'New York Times' Homepages In 7 Minutes

Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: New York Times, Urlesque, Video, Media, Time-Lapse Video, Boing Boing, New York Times Time Lapse, The New York Times, Home News

Not even the gated digital community of the New York Times homepage can withstand the awesome power that is a great time lapse video. As noted on ...

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Cults Video Director Finds Muse In Jonestown Massacre

Turnstyle | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Aol Music, Boing Boing, Jonestown, Music Video, Cults, Jonestown Massacre, Director, Echo Park, Los Angeles, Music, Isaiah Seret, Jim Jones, Los Angeles News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Maternity Store's Lesbian Discount Provokes Ire

Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Lesbian Discount Harrassment, Boing Boing, Maternity Store Lesbian Discount, Boing Boing Maternity Store, Boing Boing Park Slope, Boing Boing Lesbian Discount, Ny News, Lesbian Discount, New York News

A store owner's decision to offer a price break to lesbians prompted vitriolic, threatening complaints from critics. It all started when Brokelyn p...

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Video: BoingBoing Slows Original Video Production, Focuses on Curation

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beet.TV, Boing Boing, Media News

David Pescovitz, co-editor of BoingBoing, says the site is finding traction with its evergreen videos and in new syndication outlets.

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'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterboarding, Boing Boing, Torture, Boingboing, Media Criticism, Media News, Eat the Press, Wikileaks, Media News

Over at Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza found himself paging through the New York Times' take on the WikiLeaks "Iraq War Logs," when he suddenly had a real...

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PHOTOS: 30 Days In Muslim America

Boing Boing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Muslims in America, park51, Boing Boing, u.s. Muslims, Religion News

Our Ramadan road trip this year drew much interest from big media, thanks to the "Ground Zero Mosque controversy" and Terry Jones' Quran-burning fiasc...

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The iPad: Your Shiny Consumer Straitjacket

Josh Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Apple, Ipad, Mark Fiore iPhone, Steve Jobs, Boing Boing, Fcc, Android, Flash, Pulitzer Prize, Technology News

Lately, this gatekeeping model has led to more than a few app casualties, suggesting that Apple's approval process motto is becoming "when in doubt, reject."

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South Park's 200th Episode: Matt Stone & Trey Parker Dish On The Celeb-Packed Hatefest (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Park 200th Episode, Boing Boing, Trey Parker, Video, South Park Video, Matt Stone, Xeni Jardin, South Park, Comedy News

Matt Stone and Trey Park unveil their 200th episode tomorrow in which they bring back and mock every celebrity they've taken a shot at in 14 seasons. ...

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Authors Ask: How Terrifying Will Our Future Be?

Alex Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rivka Galchen, Authors, Ben Greenman, Boing Boing, Brooklyn, Books, Gary Shteyngart, Cory Doctorow, Books News

The thrills and terrors of where our world is headed served as the subject matter for Thursday night's "Bleak Horizons: Dark Visions of the Future" panel discussion at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO.

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The Rise and Rise of the Editor

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mashable, Boing Boing, 1000 Days to Die, The Biggest Loser, Final Cut Pro, Non-Linear Editing, Huffington Post, Treehugger, Techcrunch, Television, Avid, Pop Culture, Editing, Media News

Can you feel the burn? It's not your fast-twitch muscle fibers that are on fire. It's the immolation of pop culture, consuming itself almost as fast as it can be produced.

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The Placebo Effect: It Works Because You Say So

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Boots Pharmacy, UK, Homeopathic Remedies, Boing Boing, Placebo Myth, Henry Beecher, Medicine, Homeopathy, Placebo, 10:23, Alternative Medicine, Health, Healthy Living News

If you believe in homeopathy, this information is unbearably exciting. If you don't, it sounds like superstition and "magik" from 1796, which is when homeopathy was invented.

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Boing Boing And Ralph Lauren Clash Over Image Of Emaciated Model

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ralph Lauren vs. Boing Boing, Boing Boing Ralph Lauren Advertisement, Boing Boing, Anorexia, Anorexic Models, Ralph Lauren Advertising, Ralph Lauren, Photoshopping, Airbrushing, Style News

UPDATE 10/14: The Photo-shopped model, Filippa Hamilton, is alleging that Ralph Lauren fired her for being too fat. UPDATE 10/9: Ralph Lauren h...

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Kids' Book About Parasites Full Of Gross-Out Fun

Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kids' Science Books, Boing Boing, Science Books, Kids' Books, New Books, Books, Children's Books, What's Eating You?, Parasites, Gross Out, Books News

The publishers of "What's Eating You?: Parasites -- The Inside Story" were kind enough to send me a copy of this science picture book for young reader...

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