Boing Boing week in review: Aug 20-27, 2007

Karl Rove's dad's highly pierced wiener was a great excuse to learn more about the little-known early days of the contemporary body piercing movement in America: Link to essay by a friend of Rove on BMEzine, Link to Boing Boing's audio interview with "grandfather of body piercing," Jim Ward, and link to audio interview with "modern primitive" Fakir Musafar. Speaking of which here were profiles of some amazing bodymodded people: Link. Also, unicorns!

We heard William Gibson speak about his new novel: Link.

We read some Flowcharts!

We learned a new word: bacn. Wait, is it really new? Link.

We learned that the Secret of The Secret is that it's a big huge flaming crock of shit. Link.

We learned that Cruggs were fugly. Link.

We witnessed DRMshock. Link.

We discovered that yes, it is possible to create a version of "YMCA" even gayer than the original. Link.

We felt the sandy playa winds run through our hair, peeping at pix from Bonneville Speed Week: Link.

We felt bruised and abused at the hands of movie theater owners and the MPAA: Link. So did Wil Wheaton.

We fell in love with a cute yellow bobblehead-like 'bot: Link.

We looked through Google Earth, and for the first time, saw the stars: Link.

We watched a bunch of excellent sixties music videos: Link, Link.

Image above: We marveled, without shame, at yet another somethingawful photoshop contest: Link.

[#1 posted by gbv23 , August 28, 2007 3:42 PM]

Please B_B don't become a champion of the uber_sceptics. I've never seen or read The Secret and it seems very simple-minded, but I know that its closer to the truth than the extremes of either religious dogma or pure materialism.

Parfrey seems to be saying something similar in that he's claiming the LOA is one of the Seven Hermetic Truths (he just says that the secret grabs them in a selective and reductionist way)MOst would say he's attacking claptarp with more claptrap.

We're slowly learning how "the oberver" affects the outcome of the experiment (or how our own beliefs effect our experience)

I thought you guys liked Robert Anton Wilson and cryptromundo -- we don't need another mouthpiece for Randi and company ---its always seems so unbecoming when BB jumps on to the misguided bandwagon of prejudice.