XOXO: a Kickstartered "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland

Source: Boing Boing

Andy Baio and Andy McMillan have announced XOXO, a SXSW-like "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland. They're pre-selling the tickets on Kickstarter, and if they don't sell enough, they're not going to do it. They've made and shot th ...
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UK politician finances scandal of the day

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The baroness had declared the property on the register of ministerial interests, and it had been cleared by the Cabinet Office and HM Revenue and Customs. But she failed to inform the register of Lords' interes ...
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How Viral Tumblr Sausage Gets Made: Law & Order & Food

Source: Betabeat

Tumblr has occasionally been fruitful for writers looking to spin the germ of an idea into something viral, maybe even a book. However, the mercurial nature of the Web means few who go for it with their million-dollar Old People S ...
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Caturday

Source: Boing Boing

Today's Kitten of the Day is Helen, named for Helen Keller because she's had troubles with her eyes. Helen moved in last Sunday! Helen would rather that I not send email. Where not otherwise specified, this ...
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Gothurday

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Revellers attend the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig, on May 25, 2012. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen, features up to 150 bands and musicians playing Gothic rock and other styles of the "dark wave ...
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SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison)

Source: Boing Boing

Why did I see so many binders (presumably filled with paper) on the desks of the engineers at NASA's Mission control yesterday when they were docking SpaceX's Dragon module to the Space Station? In contrast, the SpaceX folks had ...
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Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week

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NTK was once the greatest weekly tech newsletter in the universe -- snarky and funny and informative and just great. It's been dead for a good long while now, and this being the fifteenth anniversary of i ...
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Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub

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Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding p ...
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Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton

Source: Boing Boing

Confectioner Alexandre Dubosc made this Tim Burton themed zoetrope cake, which animates to display iconic imagery from many of Burton's best-loved films. There's even a sneaky Jack Skellington up top. Wh ...
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