[ 20080723100331810.jpg]Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we found the best places to buy the worst gadgets, reviewed D-Link's DSM 330 Medialounge, and wondered how someone can retrospectively patent something and then shake down an entire industry. Joel wants to know if miniature swamp coolers are any good; Brownlee spotted an Algebraic wall

I so like that underwear ad that’s over to the right right now that I think I might pay the advertiser to keep it. A reader complained that it is irrelevant advertising but I say: Isn’t underwear relevant to us all?

CNN reporter Drew Griffin reported on the TSA's 1,000,000+ name watchlist of "potential terrorists," and now his name seems to have been added to the list. The TSA denies it, but Griffin is held up every time he flies, and the airlines tell his that it's because he's on the list: "Coincidentally, this all began in May,

Warren Ellis's fantastic net-perv novel Crooked Little Vein's just come out in paperback -- here's the review I posted of the hardcover last year: Warren Ellis's first novel, "Crooked Little Vein" is about what you'd expect from the Internet's most gonzo celebrant of the kinky, deviant, gross, hard-boiled and manic

Dan "We the Media" Gillmor has a fascinating editorial up today, "Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism" about the "journalistic" work that organizations like the ACLU are doing in covering stories like the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and how they're filling a gap left by the traditional press, whose reportage has trailed ACLU's work

Philips has spun out a new company called Shapeways that does cheap remote 3D printing -- send them a design in 3D and they'll fabricate it out of a variety of materials and send it back to you. It's still in beta, but they've sent me 500 free signups for BB readers -- first come, first served: Beta users can sign up via http://www.shapeways

Photographer Phillip Todelano has put up "Days With My Father," a haunting and beautiful photo-essay about his relationship with his elderly father, who has no short-term memory. Link (Thanks, Andrew!)

Glyn sez, "The Open Rights Group's websites front page and the portions of the EFFs website (Deeplinks blog, Our work and Press room) are being blocked by Radialpoint Parental control software. We would be interested in knowing what other software out there also blocks the EFF and ORG." This is the software used by Virgin Media,

Siva sez, "For the book he is writing called The Googlization of Everything, Siva Vaidhyanathan wants to know:" Do you remember the first time you used Google? When was it? How did you hear about Google? What was you first impression? Please use the comments over on The Googlization of Everything to tell me stories. As Mudbone (