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Think that nothing is happening in August this summer? Hold onto your hat. For starters there is the Missouri State Fair, which opened in Sedalia expecting to attract 300,000 people, largely because of Jonny Rivers' Aquatic Mules. The act consists of a trio of mules that jump from a 30-ft. platform into a 6-ft. pool of water. "Believe it or not, it's a pretty good show," says Diane Larkin, the fair's publicity director...
...like the bit about the engineering student who cobbled together an air conditioner using a fan and a bucket of ice water, and the Florida couple who found the image of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip. Gadget news, kitsch, digital art and disturbing consumer trends are all fair game for the Boing Boing team, which solicits, and vets, suggestions from the audience...
...reformers on last week's ballot, supporters of the policies of outgoing President Mohammed Khatami, were badly trounced and now see in Ahmadinejad's smiling face a stealth campaign by Iran's conservative ruling ayatullahs to take the presidency, denying it even to Rafsanjani, who has his fair share of hard-line credentials but has been talking of accommodation with the West. Ahmadinejad's bona fides are clearer: he is a member of the basij, a paramilitary force of Islamic militants. A message on his website reads, "In the name of God, I am proud to have been a basij...
...else in the English language, and he just kept repeating that word followed by "off." [Much laughter.] I remember saying, "Look, Bob, if you don't want to do it, please, just don't tell anyone," because the mere threat of staging it at some point actually keeps a fair bit of pressure on certain politicians...
THERE'S BEEN A FAIR BIT OF CRITICISM ABOUT THE LACK OF AFRICAN MUSICIANS ON THE LIVE 8 BILL. YOU'VE ANNOUNCED A SEPARATE AFROCENTRIC SHOW IN CORNWALL, BUT WHY NOT INTEGRATE THE AFRICAN ACTS INTO THE OTHER LINE-UPS? ISN'T CULTURAL AWARENESS AS IMPORTANT AS ISSUE AWARENESS...