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Ask the former head of the WTO anything

Boing Boing -- Andrew sez, "Reddit's been rocking the 'I am an X, ask me anything' bit for a while now, but logging on to find this one was a bit of a shock.Mike Moore, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand & Director-General of the WTO from 1999 to 2002, recorded a youtube video introducing himself to reddit. People are asking him all kinds of questions this week & he'll be recording a video response on the ...     08:38
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Freelancer vs cheap client: please design me a logo, with pie charts, for free

Boing Boing -- From the very, very funny 27b/6 blog, an imaginary (I hope) correspondence between a guy who wants a free logo designed and the designer he's hitting up. Warning, contains lots of f-words. From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo DesignHello David,I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo desig...     08:38
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Obey CDC, or Thomas R. Frieden Has a Posse

Boing Boing -- In the future, everything will be Shepard Fairey-fied.(Thanks, Jason DeFillippo!)     08:38
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The Matrix in LEGO

Boing Boing -- The Matrix is 10-years-old, and to celebrate Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett recreated the iconic "Bullet Time" sequence out of LEGO. Their short film, titled "Trinity Help," is a frame-accurate stop-motion animation of the scene. It took them 440 hours to recreate the 44 second clip entirely "in camera." LegoMatrix     08:38
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Mark Dery on the death and rebirth of malls

Boing Boing -- (left) Burdick Mall, Kalamazoo, MI, designed by Victor Gruen, 1959; (right) Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, IL, 2009, photo by Jon Revelle In anticipation of the consumerist high holy day of Black Friday, I was delighted to read former BB guestblogger Mark Dery's insightful essay in Change Observer about the birth, and death, and rebirth, of the shopping mall. Mark begins with the father of mall archit...     08:38
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Liveblogging the Mecca pilgrimage

Boing Boing -- Liveblogging Hajj. Al Jazeera has live coverage of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, including notes on how swine flu and the economy are affecting this year's observance.     08:38
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Fancy thermochromic swine flu masks

Boing Boing -- A Swedish textile design student has created this beautiful series of surgical masks for flu season. The patterns are printed with thermochromic ink, so the masks change color when the temperature of your breath changes. Some of them, like the one below, look more like neck warmers. Designer's profile via NotCot     08:38
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Paulina Sinaga plays "Don't Bogart Me" on Ukulele

Boing Boing -- Paulina Sinaga was born in Poland and lives in California. She has a ton of ukulele videos on her MySpace page. (Thanks, Richard!) Previously:Sophie Madeleine plays "The Beard Song" on ukulele - Boing Boing Ukulele version of "Walk, Dont Run" - Boing Boing Sarahsukulele plays "Object of the Game" on ukulele - Boing Boing Brittni Paiva plays "Glass Ball Slack Key&...     08:38
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Wikileaks publishes massive archive of private 9/11 pager messages

Boing Boing -- [Photo by BB reader Todd Warner. More about the image after the jump.] As promised, Wikileaks is releasing on to the 'netmore than half a million confidential pager messages sent around September 11, 2001. The data includes pager messages sent by officials from the NYPD and the Pentagon, as well as citizens who witnessed the collapse of the twin towers. As I scroll through the archives, though, wh...     08:38
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Life-sized walking Tauntaun costume

Boing Boing -- Scott Holden of Sacramento, CA made this incredible life-sized Tauntaun costume using a 3D Studio Max mesh model, wood, clay, plaster, metal, foam, silicone, homemade stilts, and lots of fur. Cockeyed.com had Holden document the whole process in words and pictures. Scott Holden's Tauntaun costume     08:38
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Old advertisement for Evel Knievel's popsicles

Boing Boing -- Martin Klasch calls this ad for Evel Knievel's popsicles "sort of disturbing."     02:08
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Pressure Printing: big sale on fine art editions

Boing Boing -- My friends at Pressure Printing are holding their Fall sale, offering 25% off all their exquisite editions through December 8. I have several of their pieces and can vouch for the quality, craftmanship, and fantastic taste of these artisans. On sale are signed, limited pieces by Travis Louie, Todd Schorr, Ron English, Femke Hiemstra, James Jean, Glenn Barr, and all your other favorite pop surreali...     02:08
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Boing Boing Gift Guide 2009: Kids! (part 1/6)

Boing Boing -- Mark and I have rounded up some of our favorite items from our 2009 Boing Boing reviews for the second-annual Boing Boing gift guide. We'll do one a day for the next six days, covering media (music/games/DVDs), gadgets and stuff, kids' books, novels, nonfiction, and comics/graphic novels/art books. Today, it's kids' books! The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Eleanor Davis): The Secr...     02:08
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Abstinence-only rappers sing about the "Christian Side Hug"

Boing Boing -- "Gimme Dat Christian Side Hug."Christian youth groups finally have an alternative to normal, aka "front," hugs. As we all know, face to face embraces run the horrific risk of a clothed crotch graze. The Christian Side-Hug (or the CSH, as the kids call it) rids us of sin, as the only below the belt contact will be some good old-fashioned hip on hip action. The Side-Hug: Youth Group Puts Down Sinful...     02:08
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Huglight

Boing Boing -- Of the many booklights I've tried, this one ($15 at Amazon) is the best. With four LED lights, two on the end of each flexible stalk, the clincher is that it's never clutter. It can be molded into a bedside lamp, hung around the neck for weightless book reading, wrapped around the wrist for plumbing jobs, and so on. Some suggested configurations: "The Charmed Snake", "The Helix," and "The Pistol."...     02:08
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Quote For The Day

Boing Boing -- "There is a reason you don't have Mexican beer cartels planting fields of hops in the California forests," - Bruce Merken, Marijuana Policy Project. (via Andrew Sullivan)     02:08
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Diamond optical illusion

Boing Boing -- Antonio at Fogonazos writes about this interesting optical illusion. The four rows of diamonds appear to be colored with different shades of gray, but all the diamonds are identical. In fact, the diamonds aren't solid gray, they are tinted with a gradient (lighter on the top, darker on the bottom).Diamond optical illusion     02:08
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HOWTO roll your own pumpkin pie spices

Boing Boing -- Boing Boing pal Blackhound believes that Thanksgiving pumpkin pie is serious business, and he offers a photo-tutorial on how to prepare spices for said pie for maximum deliciousness.Pie, like most of the food I make, I like to make from scratch. Call me a slow foodie, call me obsessive compulsive, just don't call me late for pie! So here, days before Thanksgiving, I start my meal preparations not ...     02:08
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Obama on Skynet

Boing Boing -- Quote of the day: "As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything." --Barack Obama, speaking to Washington D.C. schoolkids on Monday as part of his science education initiative. (Thanks, Aaron Ginoza!)     02:08
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What's Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the Development of the Human Brain?

Boing Boing -- It is safe to say that our primate ancestors and the early humans they begot never picked out sparkly snowflake paper, wrote up a missive about Og and Jane's many achievements in the last cycle and handed out copies to all their friends, relations and hunt/gather coworkers.But, according to anthropologist Robin Dunbar, Ph.D., the social relationships that were forged during the dawn of humanity st...     02:08
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