By Mark Frauenfelder at 9:54 pm Sunday, Dec 31
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The Website at the End of the Universe is offering its yearly PDF calendar featuring vintage science fiction magazine covers of women in bikini spacesuits and other practical garments.
Decades before Princess Leia ever wore her metal bikini in Return of the Jedi, women frequently modeled fine metallic swimwear on the covers of pulp science fiction magazines to excite the imaginations of impressionable, young readers.
Relive those days by downloading the Website at the End of the Universe’s free 2007 calendar. Each month features a different bathing beauty from the future as illustrated on a vintage science fiction magazine cover.
No religious or secular holidays are indicated on the calendar, but the birthdays of different science fiction authors, editors and artists are there for you to start new holidays. Tell your boss that you’re taking January 2nd off because it’s Isaac Asimov’s birthday.
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By Xeni Jardin at 10:28 am Sunday, Dec 31
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By Kate Kretz. Link, and here's a larger size: JPEG Link.
"Blessed Art Thou", 2006, 88' x 60", oil & acrylic on linen.
By Xeni Jardin at 9:38 am Sunday, Dec 31
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BoingBoing reader Lulu J. says,
Seven grenade/bombs (accounts differ) exploded almost simultaneously a little while ago... No one is sure who is responsible, whether the insurgency in the South has come to the nations capital, or if it is supporters of the recently ousted PM (Shinawatra)or those against the military government that quietly installed itself more permanently than what they implied they would do when the tanks rolled in a few months ago.
So far I think at least 2 are dead and 30 injured, also, my ears are ringing.
Link. More "citizen journalist" photos here:
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Link. More at Bangkok metblogs:
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thanks, Sean).
By Mark Frauenfelder at 9:01 am Sunday, Dec 31
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My book,
World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places and things on Earth, is on sale at Barnes and Noble's online star for $2. At this bargain price, it's jumped to
15 position 1 on the sales charts at bn.com. (Update: bn.com ran out of stock, but it is on sale at Amazon.com for $4.95)
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Previously on Boing Boing:
• World's Worst Excerpt -- The Maddest Mad Scientist: The CIA’s Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
• World's Worst Excerpt -- The Least Adorable Pet: Miracle Mike The Headless Chicken
• World's Worst Excerpt -- The Least Healthy Diet: Breatharianism
