Meet the North Pond hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years | Boing Boing | April 2017 Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from local cabins. In this week’s
Meet the North Pond hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years | Boing Boing | April 2017 Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from local cabins. In this week’s
What is neoliberalism? | Boing Boing | April 2016 Neoliberalism is the ideology of Hayek, Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher, Pinochet, Mulroney and the other business-lionizing, union-bashing, greed-is-good politicians who effectively took over the world in the early 1980s, when Thatcher famously declared “There is no alternative.” Though the early adherents of neoliberalism used the term proudly to describe themselves, as neoliberalism
New edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Dali artwork! | BoingBoing | August 2015 In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Princeton University Press just published a special edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, illustrated with Salvador Dalí’s incredible 1969 artwork for the story.
People pay $20 to enter Rage Room and destroy things with a bat | BoingBoing | August 2015 In 2013 the Break Club opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, “where members (predominately women) go to break shit with a stick, shatter bottles against the wall, kick stuff, and all around have the best fifteen minutes of their day.”