The FAA wants to find out whether a crew fell asleep on a short flight between Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii. Flight 1002 left Honolulu at about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday and was scheduled to land in Hilo at 10:05 a.m. A source close to the investigation said there was a 25-minute period where ground crews in Hilo could not get a hold of the flight crew; the flight landed safely. Link (Thanks, bigdatty!)...

Margaret says: Lots of amazing try-out photos for strippers from the 1960's-70's. Fascinating and lots of fun for those who love found art. All are safe for work, except one with a nipple malfunction. Link...

Boing Boing hero Paul Krassner (wiki) kindly gave us permission to run this essay he wrote titled: "My Brief Encounter With Fidel Castro" In 1960, the U.S. State Department was financing counterrevolutionary broadcasts to Cuba from a radio station on Swan Island in Honduras. Program content ranged from telling Cubans that their children would be taken away to warning them that a Russian drug was being added to their food and milk which would auto
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Today on Boing Boing tv: Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. We met Klaus in the previous BBtv episode "Point Break and Heartbreak," in which he revealed his devotion to the great Keanu Reeves; today, Klaus studies broadsword combat, in hopes of conquering the RenFaire circuit and moving every zig for great justice. But breaking through to true action hero stardom requires end
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Reuters - Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli said he was inspired by the late actress Natalie Wood for the embroidered loose cotton and chiffon shifts in his womenswear collection shown on Wednesday.

Reuters - The ricochet effect from the Hollywood writers strike might be more far-reaching and long-lasting than first thought. So says an influential Los Angeles economist in his annual "Economic Forecast Report" for Los Angeles County and its surrounding areas.

Reuters - Viacom Inc's BET Networks will launch in the United Kingdom next week as the Black entertainment network expands its global reach.

A free speech battle looms after a federal judge shuts down a U.S. website for posting documents showing that a Cayman Islands bank branch may be indulging in a little money laundering and tax evasion.

Michael Cook likes to play with wormspit. And to share his interest in sericulture he's created a site devoted to the raising of silkworms, including the Cecropia, North America's largest moth. Not to be confused with the Hawk Moth, another very large moth, Cecropias are members of the Saturniinae family. Saturniid adults have vestigial mouth parts and no digestive system so they usually live no more than a week. So perhaps it?s best to get down
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Reh Dogg is quite the man.

Move Over Alpha Geeks, Here Come the Fangrrls an article about thousands of women gathering for a sci-fi convention, and what it means in fandom circles. Interested in more essays on feminism, gender, and fandom? Start here.

What Europeans think of each other

I first caught wind of Blist during DEMO last month, and the still-in-private-beta site has raised $6.5 million in Series A investment just weeks after its debut. Led by Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures, the funding will go towards the further development and the marketing of its social database service. Frazier general [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fun Spreadsheet Maker Blist Gets $6.5M", url: "http://mashable.com/2008
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A few weeks back, Shutterfly acquired Nexo, the personal social networking-creation tool. I wrote quite a long post on the history of the photo-sharing concept and the opportunities for commerce that photo-sharing providers have taken advantage of thanks to the Internet. Now, we have the first official release from Shutterfly since the acquisition. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Shutterfly Gallery: First Major Release Since Acquiring Nexo",
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Happen to like the concept of the age-old Yellow Pages, but don?t like the way the directory has been implemented, online or off? Consider GenieTown an easier-to-use alternative. This startup, today launched as a public beta its local services marketplace, a so-called hybrid love-child of a trio of services: the Yellow Pages, Craigslist, and eBay. It [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Local Services Marketplace GenieTown Launches Public Beta", url
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Yes, most of us are used to using Notepad for text editing, but if you want to take your text online, you can find more robust and full featured (or even simpler) editors. We’ve gathered up eight that will let you code web pages, type in other languages, and even create PDFs. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forget Notepad: 8 Online Text Editors", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/20/text-editors-online/" });

Mike at Techdirt reports that the Australian government has officially declared their internet filtering program, which they started about a year ago as an attempt to protect kids from pornography, a complete failure. Only 144,000 copies of the software were downloaded or ordered on CD-ROM with only about 29,000 actually being used. On top of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Australian Government On Their Internet Filters: We Failed", url: "http
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A 31-year-old man was killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting as he stood holding a machete in front of a pay telephone in Montecito Heights , authorities said today.