Boing Boing Week in review: Sep. 3-9, 2007

Here is a roundup of the posts our readers found most interesting this week, selected by volume of comments and permalink traffic:

RFID implants linked to animal tumors (Cory)

Erik Davis on watermarked promotional CDs (Pesco)

IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 3: Great anti-piracy PSA sendup (Cory)

Naomi Klein's Disaster Capitalism video: exploiting disasters for globalism (Cory)

Ice-free arctic in 23 years, and polar bear extinction? (Xeni)

How right digits affect perception of discounts (Mark)

Rolling Stone on "The Great Iraq Swindle" (Mark)

Bush's alien overlord peeks through window during speech (Mark)

Gnome puzzle from MAKE 11, illustrated by Roy Doty (Mark)

RIP: author Madeleine L’Engle (Xeni)

NASA could use a better slogan. Got one? (Xeni)

Southwest airlines: fashion police of the skies

Mass. State Treasurer detained at airport for carrying peaches (Mark)

Grooveshark -- DRM-free P2P music -- pays uploaders (Cory)

DoJ slams net neutrality, says all packets not created equal (Xeni)

Extreme cuisine: So what does it feel like to eat live octopus? (Xeni)

Mark Dery on Taco Bell (Mark)

Psychological "torture bible" published in 1961 reappears online (Xeni)

Photos of "anti-socials" (Mark)

Ronald Jenkees; Hello YouTubes, have you heard my SICK beats? (Xeni)

Steve Fossett (Xeni)

Cory's Guardian column explaining DRM's impossibility to non-geeks (Cory)

IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 2 -- keyboard-destroying nerd sitcom (Cory)

Bottled water forbidden at Seattle festival (Mark)

(Image from ucumari's polar bear set on Flickr. This wonderful photographer's IRL-name is Valerie, and she is a volunteer at the North Carolina zoo. )

[#1 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2007 5:18 AM]

Thank your posting another best of! I don't get a chance to read BB as much as I used to, so these posts help a lot.