Exclusive Interview: Pirate on When to Negotiate, Kill Hostages | Danger Room | Wired.com
This one's probably gonna go down big with the internet: an interview with a real live pirate.
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MadMenYourself.com – MadMen Premieres August 16 only on AMC
The ever-excellent Dyna Moe creates an official Mad Men avatar generator.
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The 2009 LOST Panel – DocArzt’s LOST Blog
I actually did just watch all 40 minutes of this, the entirety of the Comic-Con panel, and I'm going to admit there was one or two times I got faux-participatory goosebumps. I wish every conference had videos like this up on YouTube the same day-of.
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Wire Illustrations on the Behance Network
These are *amazing*.
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What In the Loop director Armando Iannucci taught Sacha Baron Cohen. And Ricky Gervais. And Stephen Colbert. – By Jessica Winter – Slate Magazine
Again I say: if you don't see this movie, you are part of the problem. Best factoid within: "the BBC's sign-language service has had to create five new signs to accommodate The [...]

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New Plan: Yoni Wolf's moving sale!
Want to own a piece of Why? history? 'Yone-dawg' says: "I'm gonna have a moving sale this coming saturday, the 25th of July this year 2009 at a yet to be disclosed location in Oakland. I am selling some large items, including: the spinet piano used on elephant [...]

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Welcome to the Highball!
Of Austin-ite interest only: updates on the Alamo's newly purchased space (where you might've seen that SXSW chiptunes show a few months back): 60s bowling, 50s dining, karaoke, skee-ball, and a new stage.
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Voucher Ankles
Of interest to about like 5 of you out there maybe, James 'Henry Fool' Urbaniak (now a Venture Bro) has a blog. A livejournal even.
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:: The Playlist ::: Exclusive Details: 'Paper Heart' Soundtrack Hits On August 4
Soundtrack details, some deleted scene videos, and what seems like a slight reversal on the last [...]

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com
Vanity Fair ed. copy-edits (and corrects glaring historical errors) from Palin's resignation speech.
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Shirt.Woot : Rampaging Ape Lad Takes Over Shirt.Woot! Guest Editor Week, July 20 – 23
'Ape Lad Koford' guest editing a week of Woot T-shirts that'll include local fave Spacesick and Boing Boing's own Mark.
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I Spit on Your Rave
"Film4 and Warp Films bring you I Spit On Your Rave, a mockumentary by director Chris Boyle about the first post-apocalypse zombie music festival" — with Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding as the king zombie, and the opportunity (if you're in the area, which fuck it all I am not) to be [...]

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