I can't begin to imagine how much practice he put in to nail this.

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Whenever I travel to a new city, I immediately get to work on a mental map of its coffee shops. I do this in part because they provide the points of a basic geographical framework, in part because they offer a window onto the life of their neighborhoods, in part because I can get work done in them (in my line, you don't really take vacations; you just set up laptop camp in other caf'es), and in part because I wither away if I don't get a cappuccino on the daily.

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Cloudrise is about the tragic gravity of both love and airships: what goes up must come down. Read the rest

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The smart one of the family shares his wisdom.

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This new edition of the ill-fated paperback is fitting tribute to a talented, unlucky creative genius Read the rest

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From following their grandchildren around at kindergarten to hanging slanderous banners outside their homes to hacking their email to sending funeral wreaths to their doors, the leaders of Hong Kong's anticorruption Occupy Central movement face persistent, ongoing reprisals for their political activity. Read the rest

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Winter is drawing to a close in California, and that means shedding time. I use a combination of brushes to keep my home, and my Great Pyrenees, manageable.

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Peter Osborne was the head political writer at the Telegraph, a rock-ribbed conservative paper owned by the shadowy Barclay brothers; he quit after seeing the paper soft-pedal and downplay scandals involving its major advertisers, and broke his silence once he learned that the paper had squashed stories of illegal tax-avoidance schemes run by HSBC. Read the rest

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The epic 1983 crime drama “Scarface” retold as an 8-bit videogame by CineFix, as part of their 8-Bit Cinema series.

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Riveting raw footage of a car catastrophe at the local Piggly Wiggly, from the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. Read the rest

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“An old white lab thinks it's his responsibility to walk the dachshund.” (more…)

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“You are one of the select few, less than 9 percent of the more than 1,200 applicants, that we are inviting," read the first email. “Welcome to Carnegie Mellon!” Oops. Read the rest

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This video of some very unscientific remarks recently made by Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, a Muslim cleric from Saudi Arabia, has gone viral. In it, the sheikh rejects the relatively well-established scientific fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He believes the opposite is true. The internet disagrees. Read the rest

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Straight chillin. Or, warmin'.

From Japanese internet cat kings shironekoshiro. (more…)

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Good times. (more…)

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These 7-inch bendy micro-USB charging cables come in handy for travel and desktop use. Amazon sells them for $8, but you can get 3 for $14 from StackSocial.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0cMovdzRHac/short-micro-usb-bendy-charging.html

If you want to show your fake nipple in Montana, do it before HB 365 gets passed, or you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the county jail. Read the rest

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A fast-driving moron fleeing from the police slammed into a minivan stopped at an intersection in Texas. The woman driving the minivan jumped out and beat him up. She was soon joined by the passenger of the minivan, who threw the driver on the ground just as the police arrived. [via]

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A bike-icicle shot by Boing Boing reader Martin Reis, and shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

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Boing Boing reader and photographer John K. Goodman shot “Way of the Foot” this weekend in Venice Beach, LA, CA, and shared it in our Boing Boing Flickr pool.

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