By Xeni Jardin at 8:55 pm Sunday, Dec 5
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Following up on
last week's post about an intiative to drop "paper bird peace bombs" in Thailand as a symbolic peace gesture:
Fresh violence flared in mainly Muslim southern Thailand on Monday, only hours after the Air Force dropped an estimated 100 million origami "peace birds" to quell unrest which has claimed nearly 500 lives. (...) The origami initiative, carried out to mark the birthday of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, had its critics among some Muslim leaders who said it did not gel with local culture and should not be a substitute for more traditional peace efforts.
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By Xeni Jardin at 8:50 pm Sunday, Dec 5
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Celebrigeek
Wil Wheaton tells BoingBoing,
Restaurant owners everywhere, tired of hearing people blather on their cellphones from their tables, have started building phoneless phonebooths for them to use.
So far, designs include plush, velvet-lined booths, and an English-style phonebooth.
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By Xeni Jardin at 8:50 pm Sunday, Dec 5
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BoingBoing reader
pmk says,
"I was walking in Harajuku when I spotted this poster, which is such a clear freaking bukkake reference it's frightening. It's the album cover for a the most recent album by J-Pop star Ai Otsuka.
The funniest thing is you only get the picture with her tongue hanging out if you buy the (more expensive) CD+DVD set. If you only shell out $30 for the CD (typical price in Japan -- owwweee!), you get the more prim version, with her mouth closed."
Link. Joel Johnson at Gizmodo adds, "There was a huge tower version in Shibuya when I was there a couple of weeks ago." Link to Joel's flickr snapshot. Here's a link to Ai's website, with Flash and album covers galore.
By Xeni Jardin at 8:41 pm Sunday, Dec 5
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BoingBoing reader
Mike Harris says,
Jerry Perenchio, now-CEO of Univision, was one of two bond-completion guarantors for the film when it was first shot. Because it went over budget when first filmed in 1982, the guarantors assumed ownership of the film by contract, and Perenchio refuses to authorize Warner Brothers to release what they and Ridley Scott want to release: a three-disc box set with "a new and polished director's cut with previously unseen footage and scads of bonus features."
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By David Pescovitz at 3:00 am Sunday, Dec 5
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The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, site of Robert Kennedy's murder, is slated for demolition so a school can be built on the site. Assassin Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer, Lawrence Teeter, is suing to keep the hotel standing, claiming there's evidence there proving his client wasn't a lone gunman. From a Reuters report:
The suit said that bullet holes in the walls and ceiling where Kennedy was killed on June 5, 1968, prove that more than one gun was used to shoot the New York senator.
Teeter wants the hotel to remain standing so that an acoustical reenactment of the crime can take place. He argues that modern technology can prove how many shots were fired.
"Mr Teeter is looking for us to allow him to go into the hotel and reenact the shooting so that new acoustical tests can be made to determine if more than one gun was fired. But this would be 35 years after the event and years after his client admitted his guilt in court," (the School Board's attorney Kevin) Reed said.
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By David Pescovitz at 2:51 am Sunday, Dec 5
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Jesus was spotted inside the mouth of a devout Christian in Phoenix, Arizona. Magically, Jesus's presence was only revealed by a dental x-ray. Perhaps the man has been eating too many
grilled cheese sandwiches.
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