BoingBoing week in review: Feb 12-19, 2007

By at 10:05 pm Monday, Feb 19


Above: movie poster for the mid-'60s bedroom farce "Boeing Boeing," starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis (Thanks, Andrew Tonkin).

Here are a bunch of recent Boeing Boeing posts we think are worth a second peep, in case you missed 'em.

  • Schneier on Vista (in)security (Cory)
  • China: new censorship protests against Google and Sina.com (Xeni)
  • Osama Team Hunger Force: ATHF terror freakout parody video (Xeni)
  • American Dime Museum closes, auctions oddities (Pesco)
  • Maltese Falcon swiped (Pesco)
  • Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken - processing keys extracted (Cory)
  • Songs of the Pogo (Cory)
  • Prosthetic mask makers of World War I (Pesco)
  • Parrot uses 950 words to converse with people (Mark)
  • Vintage tech devices that never existed (Mark)
  • Dating advice for men explained in electrical diagrams (Xeni)
  • Supremely excellent cat-playing-piano video (Xeni)
  • Gizmodo emeritus rips all gadget-sites a new one (Cory)
  • Mexican drug cartels taunt each other with YouTube videos (Xeni)
  • Anti-evolution, anti-semitic memo under legislator's name (Pesco)
  • Virtual drug gets you and your Second Life avatar high (Cory)
  • Maker Faire "auditions" in the SF Bay Area Saturday Feb 24 (Mark)

    Reader comment: Brendan says,

    Following today's link to the movie poster of the old 60s film version of 'Boeing Boeing', a stage revival of the original play has recently started in London. I'm quite sure it's a wonderful thing. Link

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