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Boing Boing - 17 min 48 sec ago

Yup.

Categories: Geek news

White trash video addiction: Bargain Barn

Boing Boing - 35 min ago

"You buy it, you like it!" Bargain Barn was a public access cable show in Shawnee, Oklahoma in the mid-1990s—a sort of QVC for hillbillies, a televised flea market where one might pick up stray drill bits, chickens, or stained and ripped pillows. As WFMU notes, it's a damn crime YouTube shows only one upload of this gem. The host/barker, whose face we seldom see, is selling nothing but absolute crap. He himself admits most of the junk is "broked," "tore up," or "needs to be warshed a few times." I think my favorite moment in the clip above is 8:35, when we get to the Style Studs ("It don't have no Style Studs in it! I'd call that a pig in a poke, m'self.") I could watch this for hours.

(Thanks, Mikael Jorgensen!)

Categories: Geek news

PC Weenies: Behind Door #1

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
Sometimes it makes sense to listen to your subordinates...
Categories: Humour

Daily Links - 3/10/10

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago

Browser Showdown - Tom's Hardware tests 5 major browsers.

Goodnight Forest Moon - The children's classic goes Star Wars.

Twitter the Criterion Collection - Live version of Tweets and nothing but the Tweets.

Popular Science - Popular Science has put their entire archives online just for you.

Gollum Cake - I don't find that cake too appetizing, but it is very cool looking.

Sony Lost Its Way - The decline of Sony.

Older Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs are older than we thought. Nearly 7000 years!

Categories: Humour

Daily Links - 3/10/10

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago

Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs - CONFIRMED!

All Apps are Apple's - The iPhone developer license agreement.

YouTube Closes Down - YouTube ends for the night.

Exit Sign War - The international war over the EXIT sign.

Geek Test - A rather extensive (and somewhat dated) geek test.

JMS Superman - Yes, that's true, J. Michael Straczynski is taking over writing duties for the Superman comic.

Pain Reducer - Ripping off a bandage fast has been scientifically proven to be less painful.

Categories: Humour

Chicken Soup for the Geek Soul: The Saviors

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
I struggled to breathe as the boulders that pinned me to the ground slowly crushed my chest. I told my friends that we shouldn't explore the cave. I said it looked too dangerous, that we should just cut through the woods, but I was outvoted.
Categories: Humour

Daily Links - 3/9/10

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago

Iron Man 2 Trailer - A new trailer for Iron Man 2. Looking forward to this one.

Sealed Game Collecting - Preserving our heritage.

The Modern Pocket - The history of the pocket from the BBC.

DRM FTW - Don't you just love DRM? Me neither.

Mr. Burns - Mr. Burns from The Simpsons brought to life. Creepy.

Fun with Math - .999... = 1

What Do You Suggest? - Type a word and see what Google suggests for you.

Categories: Humour

Top 11 Other Oscars Won by the Star Trek Movies

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
On Sunday night, Star Trek won an Oscar for Best Makeup. What you may not have known is the franchise has won 11 other Academy Awards. And the awards went to...
Categories: Humour

BBlooper: You Need Counseling

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
It's not real...
Categories: Humour

BBlooper: The Choice is Yours

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
Such good deals, how can I decide?
Categories: Humour

Most Exciting Upcoming Gadget

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago
Which gadget is warming up your wallet and getting your geek juices flowing?
Categories: Humour

Apple Files Lawsuit Against Estate of Alexander Graham Bell

BBspot - 1 hour 5 min ago

Cupertino, CA - Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the estate of famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell claiming the telephone "invented" by Bell violated several patents held by Apple. The company expects to recover all revenue generate by phone sales over the past 134 years.

An Apple lawyer, who wishes to keep his job, said that the lawsuit was filed at the "personal request of Steve Jobs" who felt aggrieved by the fact that Bell was given credit for inventing the telephone when obviously it was Jobs.

Categories: Humour

User Friendly the Comic Strip - The Daily Static

User Friendly - 1 hour 5 min ago
User Friendly the Comic Strip
Categories: Humour

More on Alexander McQueen's final collection (and tweets): Angels and Demons

Boing Boing - 1 hour 13 min ago

Snip from Wall Street Journal article on the last collection of Alexander McQueen. Twice in the weeks leading up to his Feb. 11 death, Mr. McQueen messaged on Twitter, 'Hells angels [sic] and prolific demons.' What seemed a non sequitur now appears to be a reference to the collection he was working on, imprinted with the angels of Sandro Botticelli and the demons of Hieronymus Bosch. He had finished some 16 looks, about half of what the collection would typically include, at the time of his death.

His Twitter account has been taken offline, but a Google Cache exists. The final tweet: "De sade, Marie A- god rest there souls." [sic]

(thanks, Kelly Sparks)

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Categories: Geek news

BristleBots and LED throwie art at Crash Space

Boing Boing - 1 hour 42 min ago


Look at Todbot's BristleBots go! He held a workshop at Crash Space in Culver City, CA last night and showed people how to make them. (I'm sorry I didn't announce it in advance!)

BristleBots and LED throwie art at Crash Space

Categories: Geek news

Enquête Villanueva - La mère de Fredy indignée

Radio-Canada - Montréal - 1 hour 47 min ago
Mme Villanueva a quitté le tribunal, bouleversée, après les propos de l'avocat de la Ville de Montréal, qui a soutenu que son fils Fredy a été victime de son frère, de son propre comportement et de celui de ses amis. Le témoignage de l'agent Lapointe a dû être interrompu.
Categories: Mainstream media

Labour MP facing expenses probe

BBC - Front page - 1 hour 50 min ago
Labour MP Harry Cohen is being investigated by the police over his expenses claims, the BBC understands.
Categories: Mainstream media

Cartoon For Mar 10, 2010

User Friendly - 1 hour 50 min ago
Cartoon for Today, Mar 10, 2010
Categories: Humour

Happy Birthday, Chuck Norris!

Boing Boing - 1 hour 55 min ago
"America is not a democracy. It's a Chuck-tatorship. (...) We'd go down the line and he'd say, 'He's honest. He's honest. He's corrupted.' And I'd walk up to him and I'd say, 'You're fired." If he didn't move immediately, I would choke him unconscious and lay him over to the side there."— Mr. Chuck Norris, who, as Rachel Maddow reminds us, turns 70 today.

Categories: Geek news

OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June

Slashdot - 1 hour 57 min ago
adeelarshad82 writes "After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17 for Windows and Mac. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will allow them access to the service. However, the company did not disclose the price to rent or purchase games. 'It is partnering in this launch with publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The games will also include new releases like Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassinrsquo;s Creed II, as well as a bunch of other titles. Perlman anticipates anywhere from a dozen to 25 titles to be available at launch time, and more after that, depending on how negotiations with other publishers proceed.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2239224/OnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/10/2239224"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F10%2F2239224%2FOnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=OnLive+Remote+Gaming+Service+Launches+In+June%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbqDkeM" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/2239224/OnLive-Remote-Gaming-Service-Launches-In-June?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Npgn1BScVunGfF54Sd4MewLyqc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/VpGjv6GZ-NM" height="1" width="1"/
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