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White House congratulates Carter

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:38:54 GMT

The White House. A Formal Statement Of Congratulations To James Earl Carter On The Occasion Of His Canonization By Liberal Norwegian Hippies [SatireSearch]

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:21:36 GMT

The White House. President Bush And Miss America Erika Harold Urge Todays Teens To Just Say "No" To Premarital Double Penetration [SatireSearch]

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:30:19 GMT

Illegal Art debuts in NYC, Chicago, and online. It comes to NYC Nov. 13 - Dec. 6, and Chicago Jan. 25 - Feb. 21. According to a description on www.illegal-art.org, the show "will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the 'degenerate art' of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court." Check the audio page for 21 full-length, shamelessly illegit MP3 downloads. While you can. [Boing Boing Blog]

Woman auctions her emotional baggage on eBay

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:42:50 GMT

A heartbroken woman is selling off the detritus of a disastrous relationship on eBay. She's looking for $4400 -- $1400 for the money he owes her and $3000 for the debt she incurred during the affair:

CDs given to me by him or those that that I can no longer listen to because of the painful memories associated with them
His mail that continues to be delivered to my house after my repeated requests for him to change his address
Photographs that break my heart to view
E-mail correspondence that fully captures how love can go bad … really bad
Dried flowers from the many he sent trying to assuage his guilt and seek my forgiveness
One hot pink Marilyn Monroe style dress given to me as a gift, but which holds too much meaning to continue to hang in my closet and depress my other clothes
Miscellaneous memorabilia which includes travel stubs, holiday lights, ungiven gifts, walkie talkies, etc.
NEW ADDITION: Personal testimony from friends and loved ones thanking you for your purchase. They too have grown weary from the weight of my emotional baggage and would like to relieve themselves of its burden as well.

[Boing Boing Blog]

Novels and poetry printed on toilet paper

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:04:02 GMT

Novels and poetry printed on toilet paper in Germany. Klo-Verlag [Toilet Publishers], a German company, has introduced toilet paper with novels and poems printed on the sheets. "We want our books to be used. That's our philosophy," said Georges Hemmerstoffer, head of the Klo-Verlag which publishes the toilet paper literature. [Exploding Cigar] • Toilet Publishers home page translated into English

GI Joe billets in Barbie's House

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:42:44 GMT

JC Penney is marketing a modified Barbie Dream House as a GI Joe "Forward Command Post." Little boys can play house, so long as the house in question is part of an overall street-by-street urban combat scenario. [Boing Boing Blog]

The Future is Wild

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:49:43 GMT

Documentary from the future. The Future is Wild is a fictional documentary website about life on the Earth in 5, 100 and 200 million years. This is pretty cool stuff -- lots of geographic surveys and ecological supposition, including invented far-future critters like this one:

4 meters (m) tall, weighing 8 metric tons, with tentacles that extend to 3m and rhino-like skin, the megasquid is a formidable creature. It roams the northern forests of the planet 200 million years hence. All eight of its arms have become legs and look like thick columns, each are a 1/3 of a meter in diameter.

[Boing Boing Blog]

Man kills self with home booby-traps

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 06:07:27 GMT

Man kills self with home booby-traps. Steve sez: "It's tragic when life imitates Wile E. Coyote cartoons. Guy boobytraps his house to get his family if they try to break in, and seemingly is killed himself by his own traps."[Boing Boing Blog]

Maurits Escher in LEGO

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 06:04:41 GMT

Lego enthusiasts have implemented three of Escher's optical illusion paintings (including "Ascending and Descending," pictured here), using Lego! [Boing Boing Blog]

Skin-based networks

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 05:59:29 GMT

New Scientist: Skin-based networks that run at 10 Mbs may revolutionize P2P. On a lighter note, imagine a party where people shared music and movies with physical contact. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Overlawyered!

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:11:40 GMT

What price justice? Let's say you have a debt-collection matter in which the "deadbeat" owes, in round numbers, about 18 cents. So you bring the action and you seek attorneys' fees and other charges. That figure comes out to $311.26. The court doesn't like this and awards sanctions against you. But now the defendant's lawyer claims to have put in about $7,600 defending the case. [via Overlawyered] [Ernie the Attorney]