Following up on a previous BoingBoing post about word of a forthcoming animated "Space Chimps" feature directed by Barry Sonnenfeld -- BB reader Scott Goldman says,
You can't ignore the end title sequence of the Kazakh documentary: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Which presents the glorious history of Kazakh space exploration (monkeys and babies.)
A 2003's "Soldier's Guide to the Republic of Iraq," issued by the Army on the eve of the U.S. invasion, tells troops that Arabs see "little virtue in a frank exchange" and are "by American standards... reluctant to accept responsibility."
Barry Sonnenfeld will produce animated laffer "Space Chimps" along with Vanguard Animation and Starz Media. Twentieth Century Fox will distribute. (...)
The link covers long forgotten ice cream patent wars in the 1920s and 1930s.
Your June 13 story on old comic book ads reminded me that a friend and I put together a screen saver of them.
"I demanded to speak to a TSA [Transportation Security Administration] supervisor who asked me if the water in the sippy cup was 'nursery water or other bottled water.' I explained that the sippy cup water was filtered tap water. The sippy cup was seized as my son was pointing and crying for his cup. I asked if I could drink the water to get the cup back, and was advised that I would have to leave security and come back through with an empty cup in order to retain the cup. As I was escorted out of security by TSA and a police officer, I unscrewed the cup to drink the water, which accidentally spilled because I was so upset with the situation.
Your article about this sippy cup airport hell reminded me of
something that happened to me recently.
Apparently, a truck carrying orange paint sprung a leak, and just kept going. The orange stripe starts around Highway 203 (near Gateway International Raceway) and goes to about 4th Street in East St. Louis, a distance of more than 3 miles.
Your story on the red paint spill is very similar to what happened in
Massachusetts a couple of months ago. A truck carrying red dye for coloring
bark mulch spilled it's load - cars spread the dye for nearly 3 miles! Check
out this picture from Autoblog.
The Russian computers that help keep the International Space Station in orbit were largely out of commission for a second day, a glitch that could imperil the $100 billion space laboratory.
Puma's new 8-speed Urban Mobility Bike is gorgeous. The bike is a collaboration between Japanese street artist 
Produced in East Germany under the directive of the Socialist government especially for the local market, the Trabant Sputnik was the epitome of Eastern bloc arrogance on four wheels. Steel was in extremely short supply in East Germany at the time (1957), forcing the Trabant’s engineers to search for a substitute. Working with the materials at hand, they came up with a miracle substance they called Duroplast—made from wood pulp, sheep’s wool, and tree sap—which was molded into cardboard panels to form the body of the car.
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