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A network of plastic tubes, with blown air assisting cyclists in their direction of travel. That sounds like a whole lot of fun, in a Futurama kind of way. I’d be there, for sure. Tom Turner says a similar idea has been proposed for Toronto. Wonderful notion, crap web site. But then, they probably have [...]

Whoa. Surfer Dude does History of Science. On TedTalks, like, seven years ago. Cosmic. And hey, the planet isn’t getting warmer, y’know. I knew him when …

In celebration of World Food Day, I share with you Joi Ito (No, I didn’t know) showing Boing Boing TV how to prepare bamboo shoots, from scratch. More evidence for the Smart Aliens Must Have Taught Us How To Do Stuff theory of human evolution.

Someone has adopted this little bottle of orange detergent and is trying to hide it from everyone else! This is just the most seductive tale of office life I have read in a long time. (I know, I don’t get out much.) A friend marveled to me today how the Europeans pride themselves on choosing [...]

How have we created a food system that requires irradiation in order to eat salad? Dave Freeman, co-author of “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47. That’s really [...]

Hello, Sigma? 1998 called. It wants its camera back. Right there, obediently and immediately, the dog relaxed all four legs and dropped flat, belly and genito-excretory organs in the pizza. Is this a great country or what? Poor people in other countries starve, but ours get to have heart attacks and diabetes. Let’s toast our [...]

I’ve kept out of the atheism evolution silliness recently because I just don’t get any reward from it. But that doesn’t mean I think that the film Expelled should get any more exposure than it already has. So when PZ issues a call to arms, my arms are his arms, yea, unto the eighth. And [...]

“He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink.” Who did? You’ll never guess. (Thanks, Luigi.) Oh, and another thing. I’ll be seeking a new life any day now, thanks to that saucy Bramble Rainbowfly, aka Queen of the Shagbuns. Your fairy is called Tangle Elfglitter She is a cheerful sprite. She lives at the bottom [...]