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Xeni Jardin is an American author, blogger and tech culture journalist, best known as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing, as a contributor to Wired magazine and Wired News, and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show Day to Day.

  • xenijardin: RT @2jase: .@xenijardin Most vehicles have the VIN in half a dozen spots including rear diff, engine, frame, etc.

    07:36:21 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @Admore: @xenijardin Looks like VINs can be in many places. http://www.kerrywilson.com/vin.htm

    07:30:59 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @joshuastecker: @xenijardin Nope, Google Earth comes in clear over Times Square on my desktop app. CNN needs a faster Internet connec ...

    07:30:11 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @Admore: @xenijardin The VIN number may be on a second location. Back in the day part or all of a VIN was on the engine block

    07:30:02 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Cool, sounds like a cable news host misstated or misunderstood. RT @tamouse "Theatre District - Times Square" not blurred out

    07:28:56 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Huh, Bloomberg says VIN# had been removed.

    07:27:05 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Is it true Google Earth currently blurs out "Theater District" search area for NYC? Am mobile can't verify. If so, Google's call? FBI? NYPD?

    07:20:38 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @jpdef Actually http://twitpic.com/1k74ml I think @seanbonner suspects Peter Falk.

    06:00:01 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @jonfingas: @xenijardin @geekinthebox @seanbonner May Day is both a communist and labor movement holiday. Unlikely it'd be domestic.

    05:47:31 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @DDysart: @xenijardin real story might be fact that cable news VERY slow to pick up the story. CNN showing Larry King w/ GW impersonator.

    05:36:17 am on May 2, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Are the ROFLcon talks posted anywhere in entirety later, text or otherwise? I'm seeing some tantalizing idea snippets in 140, want more. #fb

    07:03:37 pm on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @fauxbrizio: Help fund DJ Carlito's compilation of '60s and '70s Malaysian pop: http://bit.ly/9hpnTu

    06:43:41 pm on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @claytoncubitt: I bet if we started fining Big Oil 100% of its profits and jailing its CEOs for big spills things would clean up quick.

    05:55:28 am on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: |||| BIEB FLAG http://bit.ly/anowlf (via @fauxbrizio)

    03:00:21 am on May 1, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Inside the Death Star, watching a new film from Jeff Skoll & Lawrence Bender, both in room. It's about happy kittens. 23,000 happy kittens.

    11:42:05 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @nicopitney I missed that, and owe you an apology. Very sorry.

    06:13:11 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @sivavaid: Facebook now will scrub your profile of personal info if you decline to let it link items to pages.

    05:58:12 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: LA folk! Sat(tmrw) 4pm @amoebamusic, @richfulcher (Mighty Boosh/etc) charity auction/booksigning. Benefits Gulf relief http://bit.ly/caiHi7

    04:39:18 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Rebranding BP: RT @artologica: @xenijardin "Big-ass puddle" ?

    04:34:39 pm on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: .@maddow tore Dan Stein/FAIR (wrote AZ immgrtn law) new 1 on air, factchecked his ass on way out. http://j.mp/dizNWu "ethnic separatist"??

    05:01:09 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @maddow, go get 'em. God damn, that is what journalism is at its greatest. Uncloaking the bastards in white sheets.

    04:38:12 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @claytoncubitt: @xenijardin "Bilious Profiteers." #rebrandBP

    01:12:34 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Or "Blackened, Putrid." RT @claytoncubitt: I guess BP's "Beyond Petroleum" rebranding should now be changed to "Begreased Pelicans."

    12:45:26 am on April 30, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @BoingBoing: Hitler finds out how to challenge a wrongful YouTube DMCA takedown with Fair Use http://bit.ly/9U5Z4m

    11:43:46 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @kickstarter thanks for plug (http://bit.ly/c8Lw9h), but ROFL: Carl & I do not share the same last name! Families are sometimes complicated.

    11:43:04 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Here's Sabrina Boing Boing (NO RELATION) http://sabrinaboingboingtv.com/ (site is a flashblob; Mr. Jobs would not approve.)

    08:43:06 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: & Brazilian porn star "Sabrina Boing Boing," who STILL to THIS DAY, to my intense jealousy, dominates @YouTube searches for "boingboing."

    08:39:39 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Typically, most common uses of "boing" on Twitter unrelated to @boingboing involve people talking about erections, or misspelling "boring."

    08:38:41 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: .@JimCarrey's been tweeting the word "BOING" nonstop for weeks, kinda trendingtopic/prank/agitproppery. Wonder if he knows @boingboing yet.

    08:36:23 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @johncusack @misterjalopy think of it as a unique cryptographic fingerprint verifying that the tweets are his. A PGP of sorts!

    06:37:35 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @johncusack @misterjalopy other funny thing re "spelling cops": @ev & co struggled on system to verify celeb accounts. John's needs none!

    06:33:57 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: RT @misterjalopy: @johncusack http://ow.ly/1EMYL

    06:30:15 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @maggiekb1 may I suggest my kid brother's Malaysian pop music selections as a chaser? That first video before the jump has DUDES IN FEZZES.

    05:57:48 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @maggiekb1 i tried with the Nazi rapist pedophile torturer cult leader who gouged his own eye out, but some just don't think that's upbeat.

    05:56:51 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Was also huge in Singapore. They called it "Pop Yeh Yeh" after the Beatles lyric: "She loves you (yeah yeah yeah)"!

    05:33:24 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Re: supremely groovy '60s Malaysian pop: My brother compliled great @YouTube picks & scanned some of his vinyl covers! http://bit.ly/bd9Cqq

    05:31:16 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Yo, internet: Help my kid brother get to Malaysia to research and archive psychedelic '60s Malaysian pop music! http://bit.ly/bd9Cqq

    05:05:44 pm on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @calpernia either way, it is or would be a terribly sad story.

    06:43:38 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Well, shucks. RT @johncusack thank you XENI!!!! for @boingboing props. she & site are class curiosity and creative spirit made ether-real

    06:31:06 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @calpernia there are concerns about the story being a possible hoax, I am placing the post on hold while I look into it.

    06:26:25 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: OMG. Weather report you never want to see, via a pal in Palm Springs. (the line right beneath the temp) http://twitpic.com/1j9pzx #fb

    05:07:59 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @Beschizza @GlennF HUG IT OUT YOU GUYS

    04:38:50 am on April 29, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: @savagex DISAMBIGUATION

    11:02:15 pm on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Please provide punchline for this headline, as it would be inappropriate for me to do so (tho @beschizza surely could). http://bit.ly/dat1Q2

    10:59:06 pm on April 28, 2010 |

     

  • xenijardin: Jacques Valee is back on @BoingBoing with another great, provocative post. (Hark, ye mods, gird thy trollshields!) http://j.mp/9wJNfx

    08:35:36 pm on April 28, 2010 |

     
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