...and that's exactly what I wanted, because I'm not a big caller. But maybe it's time to switch to Android, because they already have stuff just like it, and with some meatier hardware to boot.

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"Icons," a 2011 series by Adriana Duque, a photographer from Colombia. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0QtQyJWwoBQ/icons-adriana-duques-17th-c.html

Musician Jonathan Mann sums up what happened at the big Apple iPhone 6/6+ and Apple Watch event as only Song A Day Man can: “Apple Watch: The Musical.” Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/a3j-rdY5qL8/apple-watch-the-musical.html

During the Apple launch event on Tuesday, September 9, this video on "seeing things differently" set the tone for Tim Cook's unveiling of the iPhone 6/6+, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay.

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This little gadget hones your razor after each use, and extends its usefulness by keeping it sharp longer. It’s a strip of silicone rubber in a plastic holder.

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Nothing screams DRUGS! as much as middle-aged dudes posing next to pop art paper collages.

From DRUGS, a volume in the Life Science Library. This version 1969, originally published 1967. Background artwork by Donald Miller and Yale Joel, collaged (ie photos added) by David Gordon and Nancy Genet.

(Via Found Objects)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5da4EySVTLg/fantastic-photos-from-1969-lif.html

Over at Medium's The List, Clive Thompson argues that a 1974 science fiction novel for teens called Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy "nailed everything we’re arguing today about personal drones, privacy, and the danger of government overreach." I can't wait to read the book!

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On This American Life, Jonathan Goldstein explores the shocking (and hilarious) reality behind a weird guidebook to 1970s paranormal and occult superpowers that utterly gripped him when he was 11 years old: Ultra-Psychonics: How to Work Miracles with the Limitless Power of Psycho-Atomic Energy. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M0H63zr7X8g/this-american-life-i-believ.html

The astonishingly prolific author/scientist Clifford Pickover (see the review of his Book of Black for a list of some of his other books) is a math enthusiast with a talent for ferreting out fascinating anecdotes about math, and writing them in a way that inspires wonder. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7_SD2QiZl50/the-math-book-from-pythagoras.html

For example, util the real Kramer consented to the use of his name on TV, Kramer was briefly named Kessler and Jerry called him that in the pilot that aired. (via Laughing Squid)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kWCB4qCSgpM/video-seven-seinfeld-bits-of.html

10Q is a fascinating effort from BB contributor Tanya Schevitz and my pals at Reboot where you sign up to receive one provocative "big" life question each day via email for ten days. The project was inspired by the Jewish High Holidays, a traditional period of personal reflection, but 10Q is not just for Jewish people and the questions aren't about religion. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1O5cCOxreRw/ask-yourself-this.html

Collectors Weekly looks at the birth of mountain biking and the legendary 1976 Repack race in Marin, California: Read the rest

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I replaced all the bulbs in my house with fluorescent bulbs a few years ago, and now I'm replacing the fluorescents with LED bulbs.

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The clock -- or should I say wrist-based digital life-enhancement technology, for Apple's product roll-out show is ticking and Yahoo Tech has a rumor scoreboard that offers up-to-the-second updates on products rumored to be announced tomorrow.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ghm0-8cMCbE/yahoos-apple-rumor-scoreboar.html

The great Charles Burns will exhibit his art this weekend at SPX in Maryland, and Pigeon Press will have a signed print for sale there. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zJTx_9m13ig/charles-burns-exhibition-at-sp.html

Video Link.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tAj6ybmKjq0/sleepy-cat-hugs-a-doll.html

A high school girl who recently moved from Seattle to Florida learned that the Sunshine State has a unique way of bringing up its young citizens.

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At the New York Times, Carl Zimmer examines new research on the genomics of the Coffea canephora plant and the evolution of caffeine: Read the rest

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I own about 250 photo books. Currently, Genesis is my favorite. It presents hundreds of stunning black and white photos of uninhabited or tribally inhabited regions of the planet made in the last decade by the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.

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