This itty bitty display kit (which includes a wood stand, felt pad, and bell jar) is a perfect way to show off your 1-inch-tall Woolly Mammoth, T-Rex, or Triceratops Tinysaur . But it could also be used to show other tiny artifacts: a ...

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I love magazines, and not just because I've spent about half of my career working for 'em. I love what magazines can do: the mix of text and graphics, the portability, the serendipity, the deep dives. I've worked mostly online since 1994 so I certainly ...

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I'm pleased to learn that journalist, photographer, and multi-time Boing Boing guestblogger Susannah Breslin is writing over at True Slant now. She is probably best known for unflinching, impressionistic reportage of life and work inside ...

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Mia Quagliarello of YouTube , who kindly invited me to guest-curate the YouTube home page last month , just sent along this odd find. "This made me think of Boing Boing," she says, "This guy, Christiaan Van Vuuren, has ...

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Bloomingdales carries these Giuseppe Zanotti "Bullet" Thong sandals . Yours for a mere $650. "I understand 'fierce," tweeted Boing Boing pal Kristie LuStout . "I don't understand $650 designer sandals with BULLETS all over them." Oh, ...

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The fine folks at Evolution Laser Works , most famous for their laser-etched Obama Toast , created this stately wood cut-out that will cast delightfully frightful zombie shadows on your walls. It's 4" x 4" x 1/8" mahogany ply, stained, and ...

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There are plenty of mysteries around The Band that even a first-rate novella can't unravel , but now here's one I'd like the Boing Boing community to help me figure out: How come Garth Hudson's expensive keyboards didn't fall down? ...

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Michael Geist sez, On the heels of the leak of various country positions on ACTA transparency, today an even bigger leak has hit the Internet. A new European Union document prepared several weeks ago canvasses the Internet and Civil Enforcement ...

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Over the weekend, I finally picked up and read Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions , an accessible intro to the subject of behavioral economics -- that is, the study of how people behave in the real ...

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Men's Health magazine has done a roundup of the worst -- that is, highest-calorie, highest-fat, highest-salt -- French fries in America. The champion is Chili's "Texas Cheese Fries with Jalapeno Ranch," clocking in at 1,920 calories, 147g of fat (of ...

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