From Boing Boing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/21/mcdonalds_take_mcjob.html

Here's a link to the most recent story on Boing Boing involving the Boston ATHF story---the story that refuses to die and becomes more absurb with each new development: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/02/state_of_massachuset.html  These are attorneys who work for the state of Massachusetts, and they have no apparent idea what a "hoax" is, which ( Read more... )

Having been otherwise engaged all weekend, I completely missed the terrible news of Alice Coltrane's death.  Here is the link for the boing boing story (including comments from my friend
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I never saw anyone discuss this, and I apparently missed it, but it is too beautifully psychotic---or psychotically beautiful---not to post here:


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Knicked from Boing Boing (of course), this site looks very cool---or, rather, I should say it sounds cool: I was not actually able to open the site.  Anyway, it sounds like something I could really get into.

LibraryThing: cool social library catalog

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Acquired from boing-boing:

Woohoo, Futurama will return to Comedy Central!

BoingBoing reader Chris Wells was among many who wrote in to say...
As if Futurama fans haven't been through enough with Billy West's announcing this and later retracting it a few months ago -- it has been confirmed that Futurama really will be returning with new episodes ( Read more... )

Yeah, that sounds like the process.  Knicked from http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/15/mister_jalopy_on_the.html

"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate."


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This is very cool!

50,000 angels will fund £1 million film: A Swarm of Angels

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Boing Boing has a whole slew of interesting links today ( Read more... )

Yeah, this is good land-use planning!  This needs to be resisted, but there is so little time to organize anything to help these people.  This is what government does best, evict people from their land---from an organic farm, no less---for the purpose of building a fucking WalMart warehouse aiding private developers.

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