Tin Foil Soldier

Welcome to the new Boing Boing! - Boing Boing
Today, Boing Boing is changing again, in three exciting new ways: a redesign, the return of user comments, and a blog about personal technology.
I missed the change over on the 28th.  I don’t really like the “exciting” changes, but eh.  Also now they have a gadget blog [...]

Features : Radar Online : Need a fake Rolex? Handbag? Ferrari? Read Radar’s guide to shopping for counterfeits
Unfortunately, since their goods are technically “illegal” due to certain mind-bogglingly arcane bureaucratic regulations, you won’t find them in most stores and catalogs.
Kind of interesting, except for the fact that they are also illegal because they aren’t safety [...]

offline - Google Search
It seems like all kinds of stuff happened while I was gone and I feel so behind on the news.

hooray for airport beer at airport bars, even if it is $6 + tip.
hooray for newstands that have magazines cause i forgot to bring one of the 5 thousand i subscribe to.
hooray for samgsung blackjacks with unlimited data plans to keep me entertained.

I’m flying out to Colorado to hang out with Jake and see the Grand Canyon today.
I will be back Wednesday evening.

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Aug 23 1305
Scottish patriot William Wallace (”Braveheart”) hanged, disemboweled, drawn, and quartered. His head was displayed on London Bridge.

Gogglemarks.net - Stir your tea with a wrench.
As a man, I have certain needs. Being that I’m 24, and it’s a Saturday night, some of those needs are understandably rheological
I remember oobleck from elementary school.  Oscillating the stress definitely gets some awesome reaction.

Is TV’s ‘Fat March’ out of step? - USATODAY.com
The participants, whose initial weight ranged from roughly 230 to 519 pounds, began by completing 65 miles in eight days of walking over a two-week period.
On the second episode, when contestants were walking about 10 miles a day, several complained about aching knees, feet and ankles.
Um, they [...]

pebkac thoughts :: useful flowchart (foul language)
just in case.
via BB
see also
Tactical Usage of the phrase “Oh Snap!”

Naturopathyworks - food cravings…
If you crave this… What you really need is… And here are healthy foods that have it:
Fun chart,
I would rather just have the chocolate and a multivitamin.

Have you been Needled?
I love tattooing and piercing, and I used to read Needled regularly.   She changed the site formate a while back and I just stopped reading.  I don’t want video blogs, or crazy multimedia flash website blogs.  Text, maybe some pictures, something I can READ.
Modblog (NSFW), while more pictures, less talk, is [...]

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
If you were driving cross-country, and were forced to bring a breakfast cereal mascot - who would it be?
Tony the Tiger - Bad idea. Irritatingly upbeat and loud.
Likely dialogue:
“This interstate is GRRREAT! Look at that corn field! It’s GREEAT! You have cupholders?? THEY’RE [...]

PostSecret
I tried to embed it, but it was all messed up
Video this week instead of pictures. Great choice of music, I first heard Breathe Me by Sia in the trailer for The Peaceful Warrier.

Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury.
see: The Internet is ****ing Busy - Worse Than Failure

‘I didn’t eat and I didn’t sleep’ / Coin dealer flies dime worth $1.9 million to NYC
John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class, with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocket.
Cause FedEx doesn’t insure for 1.9 million dollars, this [...]