He was allegedly drunk, and had at least two victims before SFO's crackerjack private aviation security outfit, Covenant, noticed (they're the same ones who smashed my brand new camera some years ago and refused to take responsibility for it). Read the rest

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Anomalocarids are the ancient ancestors of spiders. They look like menu items from H.P. Lovecraft's seafood restaurant.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0M6yKL63RX0/modern-spiders-related-to-500.html

"In a 1993 recall, consumers were cautioned that only children should use the slides"

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9tPZVi4jYJY/original-slip-n-slide-patent.html

On Monday, we posted a phone recording of an aggressive Comcast "Retention Specialist" arguing with a customer (Ryan Block) who wanted to cancel his service.

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"This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called 'Lebanon.'" Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s29pq4a_EvM/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds.html

To win a round of the "White Australia Game," players had to "Get the Coloured Men Out and the White Men In.” Read the rest

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From Bullseye with Jesse Thorn from NPR:

This week's recommendations come care of Boing Boing founder and Gweek host Mark Frauenfelder.

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With the completion of Season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Ivan and Red dig back into the Boars, Gore, And Swords book club, where they cover the chapters of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series that correspond to the previous television season. No book spoilers past the TV show! Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mVRF7y5B6MU/book-club-a-storm-of-swords-d.html

Arik Hesseldahl at Recode:

Apple and IBM today announced a broad partnership to help companies deploy wireless devices and business-specific applications to run on them. The combination brings together two historical competitors — who decades ago struggled to dominate the nascent market for personal computers — on the next wave of computing in business: Mobile devices with access to complex data running in the cloud.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/da-mDK8rmVI/apple-and-ibm-to-hook-up-for-e.html

Last year's Robot Film Festival, co-sponsored by Boing Boing!

My favorite San Francisco event of the year is coming up this weekend.

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After this audio recording of an infuriatingly aggressive Comcast representative arguing with a customer went mega-viral, Comcast, which instructs its employees not to take no for an answer, is now throwing its representative under the bus because he refused to take no for an answer.

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"An estimated 50,000 youngsters handled the Space Disintegrator Gun and Helmet. They just went crazy over them!"

(via Astro Devil)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s3Cm2SvgmFA/this-kid-looks-pleased-with-hi.html

I've owned almost all of these Frazetta books, at one time or another. My favorites are probably the hardback editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series that the Science Fiction Book club published in the mid-1970s.

(via Wonderful, Beautiful, and Strange Finds)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YL3-qPACpXE/40-frazetta-book-covers-at-onc.html

Here's Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and others raving about Business Adventures, by the late John Brooks. It was written in 1971, and consists of 12 stories from The New Yorker. The print edition has been out of print for a while, but it is now available as an e-book. It sounds great! Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/49Wbjz34cVE/bill-gates-favorite-business.html

Southern California-based photographer Gregg Segal's portraits of people lying around in a week's worth of their own trash. Read the rest

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With magnificent super deluxe reissues of Led Zeppelin I, II, and III now available, please enjoy this "fucking heavyweight" vintage Rolling Stone review of Led Zeppelin II upon its release in 1969: Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yiksjulgvHU/led-zeppelin-ii-the-1969-roll.html

Joris writes, "E-nable is a community of people working together to design and 3D print prosthetic hands." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mjtzxmpk_oM/interview-with-young-man-about.html

Scans of a wonderful old book about witches are making the internet rounds anew. Here they are in hi-rez glory. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LRArehVBYyU/the-witches-frolic.html

Ed writes, "You know how every now and then a design studio releases a proposal for a redesign of Wikipedia? (there's a Wikipedia page listing them, of course)" Read the rest

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It's simple, writes Andy Baio: "Delete Your Mistakes."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GDga6AqERSI/how-to-predict-news-events-wit.html