This October, 1967 Playboy article on computers and their limitations features an all-hands computer debugging session in which the machine’s minders grab their “trembling screwdrivers” and leap into the “machine’s intestines.” …
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Computers' limitations, as seen in 1967 – Boing Boing
The current ish of Entertainment Weekly has a tiny video screen embedded in a two-page CBS ad that auto-plays when you turn the page. The screen is controlled by a slim PCB sandwiched between the pages.
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Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages …
Subculture photographer Kyle Cassidy has a great new project: “Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers in Their Creative Spaces.” I love the shots of Michael Swanwick, but the killer one for me is Samuel R “Chip” Delaney …
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Photos of science fiction writers' nests – Boing Boing
My friend Jim Leftwich and I love the music of the Japanese surf band The Royalfingers. Here’s a video with scenes from Japanese monster movies set to the music of The Royalfingers’ “Black Sand Beach” from their 2002 (and only) album …
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Music video: "Black Sand Beach" by The Royalfingers – Boing Boing
Fresh Greens: Cars on shopping carts, 12-hour coffee and rat-eating plants. Posted by JaymiHeimbuch, August 12, 2009 3:00 AM | permalink.
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Fresh Greens: Cars on shopping carts, 12-hour coffee and rat …
Joining me each week are a variety of guests from science fiction literature, SF blogs and publishing to bring you the latest news and gossip from the world of SF. Guests have ranged from science fiction writers, including Jeff …
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Sofanauts: new science fiction chat podcast – Boing Boing
And this newfound interest in downloading “Forever” goes beyond the viral video itself: “JK Wedding Entrance” also appears to have influenced the official “Forever” music video, which saw its Click-to-Buy CTR increase by 2.5x in the …
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Record company embraces use of its music in YouTube wedding video …
… urban hipsters think of songs like “The Lackeys of Capitalism Will Be Crushed Beneath Our Boots” and “American President Carter Is the Slave of Satan and Israel” more or less the way people here think of the music of Lawrence Welk
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Music downloads offered on Chinese military's new website – Boing …
Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (to be held in Montreal this year) is almost upon us, and the programming committee has put together a kick-ass program, and they’ve put it online. Here’s my program items — hope …
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Montreal World Science Fiction Convention program is live – Boing …
Timed with the phenomenal Todd Schorr “American Surreal” retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art, the fine artisans at Pressure Printing have issued this mind-blowing hand-stained intaglio print . Funnily enough, this particular …