Laughing Squid
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The 12th Annual How Berkeley Can You Be!? Celebration
Epic Arts presents the 12th Annual “How Berkeley Can You Be!?” Celebration this Sunday, October 1st, beginning with a bizarre parade (including art cars from…
Amazon Launches Massive DRM-Free MP3 Music Store
Today Amazon launched the public beta of Amazon MP3, their new DRM-Free MP3 music store, featuring “over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists…
Furries vs. Klingons at Midtown Bowl in Atlanta
Place your bets, the Furries take on the Klingons on September 29th at Midtown Bowl in Atlanta. Join the MurrFurs as we take on the…
Todd Blair Injured After SRL Robodock Show in Amsterdam
Our good friend Todd Blair, a long-time Survival Research Labs crew member, was seriously injured during the clean-up after Saturday’s SRL show at Robodock 2007…
SF Examiner Uses Photo Without Permission or Attribution
Another week and another one of my photos was used without permission or attribution. This time it is the The San Francisco Examiner with an…
WordPress 2.3 Released, Includes Support For Tagging
WordPress 2.3, the latest version of WordPress was released last night. New features include support for tagging, update notification, Canonical URLs, pending review for multi-author…
What Would Jesus Buy? Reverend Billy Film at SF Docfest
“What Would Jesus Buy?”, a documentary about Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, is featured at this year’s SF Docfest (see my previous…
VentureBeat on Chicken John & His Run For Mayor
Eric Eldon has great write-up about Chicken John and his run for Mayor of San Francisco on the venture capital blog VentureBeat, calling him “tech…
A Human Flipbook Made Using 150 T-Shirts & Stop-Motion
The Midwest chain of sandwich shops Erbert & Gerbert came up with a creative marking idea, the Human Flipbook. In two days they printed up…
Can Superman Save Burning Man?
Erik Chipchase has created a hilarious comic book cover remix featuring an “off the record” conversation between Larry Harvey and Superman this year at Burning…