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Xeni's movie reviews on Fancast: My Favorite Film About Giant Man-Eating Vermin 
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
The people at the online streaming video content site Fancast invited me to write some movie and tv reviews for Fancast.com, and I've been submitting them in recent weeks (disclaimer: I'm being paid to do so, but I actually do dig the content there --
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"Citizen videos" spread online showing BART police officer shooting unarmed man to death
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
(Warning, explicit content: the video below shows a man being shot to death).
In the early hours of New Year's Day, 27-year-old BART
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"Citizen videos" spread online showing BART police officer shooting unarmed man to death
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
(Warning, explicit content: the video below shows a man being shot to death).
In the early hours of New Year's Day, 27-year-old BART
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NYT Op-Eds: End of the Financial World As We Know It / How to Repair a Broken Financial World
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
Jesus, *everyone* is twittering/emailing/suggesting this 2800+ word monster op-ed in today's New York Times by Michael Lewis and David Einhorn. Here's a snip:
Americans enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our harshest critics have
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Waltz With Bashir
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
I went to see the Israeli animated documentary feature "Waltz With Bashir" (Val
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Israel Invades Gaza: Online coverage, "citizen reporter" resources.
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
Today, the Israeli government sent ground troops into Gaza, after an intense 8-day air offensive on Hamas. Two recent Boing Boing posts relate
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Warhol, Spielberg, Bianca Jagger on a hotel bed...
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
My friend Siege blogged this YouTube find and explained it like this:
On a hotel bed, Steven
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Danny Choo visits Afro Samurai Creator's Japanese Star Wars Art Collection
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Wed, 31 Dec. 2008
You may remember Danny Choo from an earlier Boing Boing tv episode this year -- the "prince of Akihabara" donned his Stormtrooper finery and led some of Silicon Valley's finest CEOS
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Battelle's '08 Predictions: How'd He Do?
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
Boing Boing partner and Federated Media founder John Battelle publishes a list of predictions every new year -- and at the end of that year (like, as in now) he revisits them, to see how he did. In short, he
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Group moves homeless people into foreclosed homes
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
Following up on our post yesterday about skaters transforming swimming pools at foreclosed homes into impromptu skate bowls, Boing Boing reader Dan Rosen points us to a related story. The short version: "underground housing activists" in one neighborhood are moving homeless folks into the homes of folks who've lost their h
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The Future of NASA
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
(Update: I accidentally posted this with comments turned off, slip o'the'blogger, not intentional. I've republished with comments turned on. Blame it on the leftover 'n
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Will Sleep for Food
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
Posted to Peter Nidzgorski's frequently beautiful "This isn't happiness" tumblog today, with the caption "This is our cat Bob. He died today. He was 20 years old." A
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Gaza Attacks: Two Related Reactions, in Second Life and Twitter
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Joshua Fouts, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, says,
Two very interesting things happened today that you might be interested in -- both unfolded/ing rapidly. Whi
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Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Well, this is one effect of the housing meltdown I didn't see coming -- a resurgence of hardcore sk8 culture. Skaters in Southern California are repurposing dried-out pools in the backyards of abandoned, foreclosed homes, cleaning them out and transforming them into illicit s
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Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Well, this is one effect of the housing meltdown I didn't see coming -- a resurgence of hardcore sk8 culture. Skaters in Southern California are repurposing dried-out pools in the backyards of abandoned, foreclosed homes, cleaning them out and transforming them into illicit s
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Global Voices' coverage of Gaza Strip Bombings (and how to keep the coverage alive)
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Global Voices Executive Director Ivan Sigal says,
We've been covering the latest Gaza crisis from the perspec
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Got a Christmas tree in the house? Don't forget to water it.
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sun, 28 Dec. 2008
Christmas Tree Fire Safety Video from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). (via
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