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. )