Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
No, not really. But when I was a freshman in college in 1975,... More.
Predict what excuse Sean Hannity will use to explain why he misused old video to back up his claim that a large crowd came to Washington to protest the health care bill. (One rule: his excuse must somehow blame the liberals). ... More.
We've covered Theodore Gray on Boing Boing a lot, and for good reason -- he's amazing. His Mad Science book was filled with spectacularly fun science experiments, he built a Periodic Table table with little compartments to hold samples of elements, and now he has a new coffee table photo book cal... More.
A reader writes, "The Catena wall clock harkens back to traditional mechanical clocks. Copper digits mounted onto a bicycle chain place emphasis on the cyclical nature of time. This clock is a striking clock, literally and figuratively."
Well, not literally. But figuratively. And man, was this t... More.
To commemorate Veterans Day, Mental Floss collected videos of very happy dogs greeting returning soldiers.... More.
Presumably you have been introduced to the gut-splitting wonder of http://www.regretsy.com
it's all the same cute girl
You've got to haggle!!
Love it!
I have to say I do not get it. But that's ok. I don't have to. Obviously some one does.
http://boingboing.net/2008/12/17/handmade-beards.html
At least it's not a merkin.
Reminds me of the SNL 'Long White Beard' commercial parody for use when people are very late for an appointment.
I made one similar a few weeks ago to keep my face warm while bike-riding: http://www.twitpic.com/mgsyd
I was quite proud of it- effective, practical, detachable, confusing to passers-by, in general awesome! Then I wore it out to a Hallowe'en party, got really drunk, and lost it. I still have the hat part, but somewhere out there in Berlin is my lost, roaming beard, and possibly a very confused person who has found it.
Um, I can't remember the moral of this story. Don't get drunk and lose your detachable beard, because then your chin will get cold? Yes, that must be it.
Here in San Francisco having "a beard" means something entirely different
Haha she lives in Portland and she makes the beards+ herself. She's also pretty good at karaoke!
also handy for attending men-only public stonings...
Maggie, somehow I feel you will enjoy Poets Ranked By Beard Weight:
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/05/poets-ranked-by-beard-weight.html
I'm going to special order a Dutch Elongated or maybe even a Full Velutinous.
@3: Just don't say Jehovah.