Articles by BoingBoing from April 2012

Ned Berke, editor of the Sheepshead Bites site -- which provides comprehensive local news for the town of Sheepshead Bay -- has a great manifesto about the delights and rewards of making hyperlocal ne...

Emily sez, Just Do It - a tale of modern-day outlaws is an exciting new documentary which takes you behind the scenes of the secret world of environmental direct action in the UK. Granted unprecedente...

My friend Dan Hon was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The news shook him. He resolved to do something about it. Being a geek, he decided to measure and quantify the health factors (weight, body fat, a...

[Video Link] Stay with it. "Rasta the Vizsla slowly stalks down a wolf on a golf course. This is real time, not slowed down." From YouTuber LifeIsQuick. (thanks, Joe Sabia!)...

These women are fans of the Japanese television series "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt" (which, by the way, is coming soon to the US on DVD). Photographed at the Vancouver Fan Expo #7, April 20...

Image Link. From the excellent Flickr collection of MewDeep (lots of '60s-'70s ad scans), via BB Flickr Pool....

Artist Stanley Donwood, whose work you may know through the many Radiohead album covers and inserts he's done in collaboration with the band, has an exhibition at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects ...

[Video Link] Stay with it. "Rasta the Vizsla slowly stalks down a wolf on a golf course. This is real time, not slowed down." From YouTuber LifeIsQuick. (thanks, Joe Sabia!)...

Residents of a gated community in east London got Ministry of Defence leaflets through their doors advising them that their roofs might be commandeers for surface-to-air missiles during the London Oly...

What's worse than making 75p/h working on a cruise ship owned by Carnival? Having your employers withhold your tips unless you hit performance targets. "Yes, the minimum wage is more than we pay, but ...

Neil Gaiman has published the unabridged text of an interview he did with Stephen King for the Sunday Times (an abridged copy is also available somewhere behind the Times's paywall). Gaiman really get...

A 1953 Centron Corporation educational film explains how poor posture is the root of all social misery, poor health, and general malaise. And that's one to grow on. Here is what youll learn today, fel...

Ronaldo sez, "I am writing because something relevant happened in Brazil two days ago regarding the local copyright collecting societies (analagous to Ascap and BMI in the US). After more than 6 month...

Rick Munarriz's 2007 Why the Kindle will Fail is now free of charge to Prime members. [Amazon via John Moltz]...

"Reports that a woman in northern Mexico is pregnant with nine babies are a hoax, health authorities said on Friday." [Reuters]...

A man who kept fifty dogs and who refused human company was found dead recently at his home near Ironton, Ohio. "He just wanted to be by himself all the time, just be with his dogs," said a neighbor. ...

Aestetix sez, "For the past month, the Hackers On Planet Earth conference by 2600 Magazine has been raising money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The internet would be a scary place without th...

Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 49 are Michael Pusateri, a ...

The Port Authority Police and/or the TSA (they blame each other) at Newark Airport evacuated Terminal C on Friday because a tiny, little, itty-bitty baby didn't get screened (Mom passed the kid to Dad...

Make's Meg Allan Cole recorded her first attempt at assembling a papercraft mechanical automaton, choosing a handsome Mario Bros number. The short video gives you a flavor for what's involved. Here's ...

A Portland City attorney argued in court that a Portland police officer was justified in brutally tasing a non-violent man with no criminal record because it was later discovered that the man owned a ...

€279 for a "Sheep Invader" sweater is more than I'd pay, but the design brought a smile to my phizz. The Sheep Invader Sweater from Monsieur Lacenaire is an incredibly comfortable garment. The s...

Generique is a redditor with a BSc in forensic science, no job, and an unlimited US air-travel pass for the summer (he has a family member who works for an airline). He's volunteered to go anywhere an...

Sarah Goodyear relates the events that gave rise to the concept of "jaywalking," and describes what American life was like before the assumption that roads were primarily for cars became the norm, and...

Zak sez, "Here's some artistic renditions of many of the wonderful, creepy and sometimes rubbery creatures of the Outer Limits, along with the cards' backs! The page links to another site about 1950s/...

PlanetInfinitesimal knows the way. The music is Michael Nyman's "A Wild and Distant Shore. [via Waxy] Previously: Game Deaths....

This beautiful plywood cable organizer is available at Copious. The DIY AT-AT is constructed in likeness of the Star Wars AT-AT, It's a geeks solution to keeping cables and wires organized at home or ...

Two gorgeous photographs shot by C.S. Muncy of the retired NASA space shuttle Enterprise landing at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport earlier today. The original test shuttle piggybacked on a Bo...

Electropop artist Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) has teamed up with Montreal-based jeweller and sculptor Morgan Black to sell these rings. Clear polymer clay? Maybe!...

photo: Reuters/Lee Jae-Won Christians attend a prayer meeting being held as they pray to stop the concert of Lady Gaga, at a church in Seoul April 22, 2012. The Christians blame Lady Gaga for promotin...

[Video Link] Here's an amazing feel-good video with which to end your week, via the National Science Foundation. The really awesome footage starts around a minute and a half in. "James C. (Cole) Gallo...

[Video Link] Here's an amazing feel-good video with which to end your week, via the National Science Foundation. The really awesome footage starts around a minute and a half in. "James C. (Cole) Gallo...

Justin Vincent chose a moving company based on positive Yelp reviews. Things did not work out well. "I spent 40 days without any furniture and quite a few of my belongings have been misplaced forever...

Dylan Tweney has a good read over at VentureBeat on a trend of sorts among the ultra-rich: investing in space exploration startups. "The wonder isnt that billionaires are doing this, the wonder is tha...

photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times The New York Times has a profile of Long Island resident Hyman Strachman, "a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of hi...

Flavorwire has published an image gallery of 10 buildings constructed entirely of books. Above: Home, a self-sustained book igloo designed by Colombian artist Miler Lagos. Dig the rest here....

If you like space and/or rockets and/or awesome flames, you'll want to tune in to spacex.com on Monday, April 30 to watch "a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rockets nine powerful Merlin engines in pr...

@jimmy_pirat (a Twitter account with only one post) snapped a blurrycam picture of a campus employment ad that sought students to pretend to be pro-ACTA and hold up photogenic signs, paying €100...

Photographer Steven Hirsch attended the International UFO Conference to take portraits of abductees. He also transcribed their stories and asked for illustrations of their experiences. Above: left, Cy...

The Space Shuttle Enterprise has landed in New York and look who was on board! Ok, they weren't. But this magnificent 1976 photo, previously seen on BB, turned up today in a CNN.com article pegged on ...

Phillip Cioppa was a Roman Catholic priest for 18 years. His starting salary was $8,400/year and when he left in 2001 he was earning $18,000 (after taxes, Social Security and Medicare). To make ends m...

In the new Journal of Neuroscience, Barrow Neurological Institute researchers present their study exploring why Akiyoshi Kitaoka's "Rotating Snakes" optical illusion is so effective. In fact, it's the...

Seth Schoen snapped this Vatican City ATM that displays instructions in Latin. Latin ATM (via Kottke)...

My daughter signed up for this new app and website called DIY, which was made for kids to share photos of their projects. The design and interface is beautiful. (Here's her portfolio.) Our ambition is...

Fifty-nine years ago this week, James Watson and Frances Crick published their first description of the structure of DNA. You can read the full, historic paper online. Note that the "unpublished exper...

In an attempt to satisfy hunters left wanting due to hunting bans in parts of England, UK Paintball is now offering a "fox hunt" where participants target a human dressed in a fox suit. (I just hope t...

Uninhabited Market Island in the Baltic Sea is home to an international border between Sweden and Finland that is shaped, convolutedly, like the number 2. The New York Times explains the history behin...

Back in 2002, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the economics Nobel Prize for showing that human beings don't have a really good intuitive grasp of risk. Basically, the decisions we make when faced wit...

William Lawlis Pace, 103, died on Monday. He held a Guinness World Record for living 94 years with a bullet lodged in his head, behind his ear. From the Modesto Bee: Born Feb. 27, 1909, in Wheeler, Te...

[Video Link] See more videos of Ethan playing piano here. (Via Biotv)...

Kevin Kidney says: "Our brilliant friends at Schoolhouse Electric in Portland have partnered with IBM to reproduce their iconic 1960s standard issue wall clock. It takes me back to childhood, and late...

It looks like she is mounting jewels in her toes. (Via Phil Are Go)...

Vice's Motherboard has a good interview with our friend Douglas Rushkoff. Understanding how things work In order to make them work better is the basic hacker ethos, but Rushkoff has applied it to his ...

From Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, by Ken Segall Steve's idea was to do a Willy Wonka with it. Just as Wonka did in the movie, Steve wanted to put a golden certificate re...

From top left: Mark Twain, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Keira Knightley, Stephen Hawking, Bill Maher, John Lennon, Ricky Gervais, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, Bill Shatner, Johnny Depp, Janeane Garofa...

From top left: Mark Twain, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Keira Knightley, Stephen Hawking, Bill Maher, John Lennon, Ricky Gervais, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, Bill Shatner, Johnny Depp, Janeane Garofa...

Image: The Baraboo Range, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from crisp_air's photostream On Wednesday, I traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, to give a talk based on my book, Before th...

From David Mellis at MIT's High-Low Tech, a $150 DIY Cellphone kit prototype. The idea is to let you bash together your own mobile phone and modify/customize it to your heart's content. An exploration...

I've just finished Rebecca MacKinnon's Consent of the Networked, and now I'm kicking myself for letting it languish in my review pile for as long as I did. It is an absolutely indispensable account of...

These photos look like lost stills from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but they are actually newly digitized images from NASA's Project Gemini program of 1965 and 1966. The Gemini mission was to develop and t...

ADVERTISEMENT Be sure to watch as Planet Earth, the landmark natural history series, comes home to BBC America starting this Sunday at 8pm/7c. See the groundbreaking series the way it was meant to be ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched its Coders' Rights List, a new mailing list for hackery subjects: Sign up today to get the latest news on computer security law, upcoming events with EF...

Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin spaces out at a Moscow planetarium; April marks the 51st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first human space flight. Photo: Alexsey Druginyn...

The Kindle Fire by far outsells tablets running more standard cuts of Android. Adds MG Siegler: "Google planned to take 33% of the total tablet market in 2011. Yet they barely have 33% of the Android ...

The Kindle Fire by far outsells tablets running more standard cuts of Android. Adds MG Siegler: "Google planned to take 33% of the total tablet market in 2011. Yet they barely have 33% of the Android ...

Will iBooks become the iTunes of self-publishing? David Girard offers a howto on Apple's ebook authoring app. [Ars Technica]...

A woman in Coahuila, Mexico, is pregnant with nine babies, according to Televisa. Six girls and three boys!...

Reuters: "with [the] Wii boom waning, the successor being prepared by the creator of Super Mario looks like a losing proposition, as makers of smartphones and computer tablets take digital games to th...

Here's a quick clip of me talking to the CBC's As It Happens about my publisher's decision to drop DRM....

Here's a tasty audio clip of a Canadian Member of Parliament banging his fellow MPs' heads together (metaphorically) over their petty procedural squabbling. Thanks to the CBC's As It Happens for provi...

My daughters and I have been playing around with polymer clay lately. It's wonderful stuff. You can mold it like regular oil based clay, but when you bake it in the oven it gets hard. I've been lookin...

An anonymous publishing exec explains to PaidContent how he started to break DRM on the ebooks he bought (they wouldn't open on all his devices unless he did) and how, having broken DRM, he realized t...

The Miami-Dade County government purchased about 300 Toyota Prius hybrids in 2006 and 2007, but misplaced them without ever having used them. The taxpayers are out $4 million. The county "discovered" ...

Fairmariner from the band Matteo writes, "Our band has been invited to go to China for 6 weeks as musicians-in-residence at Sichuan University! We still can't quite believe this is happening to us. We...

The glass floor in the bathroom of this house in Mexico looks down an unused 15-floor elevator shaft. Pent-house PPDG by Hernandez Silva...

Forensic human rights statistician Patrick Ball sez, "More than 10 million images from the Historical Archive of the Guatemalan National Police (AHPN in the Spanish acronym) are now online at the Univ...

My parents have been seeing a lot of bears recently near their house in Boulder, Colorado. The detail shown here is from a larger photo of a doped-up bear falling from a tree onto a mattress. He was d...

In a sneak attack, the vote on CISPA (America's far-reaching, invasive Internet surveillance bill) was pushed up by a day. The bill was hastily amended, making it much worse, then passed on a rushed v...

Hugh sez, "Check out Eric Drooker's latest May Day poster -- he has a bunch that can be downloaded here as well. I've got one as well on my Flickr page. (Thanks, Hugh!)...

"The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow citizens to sue police officers who arrest them for recording in public, apparently the first of its kind in the nation."...

Anna and a friend undertake a breathtaking longboard freeride down a winding mountain road (possibly in Maryhill, Washington, home to a full-size Stonehenge replica). It's really something to watch, t...

David Eckenrode made this short film for the BBC about Daniel Suelo, a man who stopped using money in 2000. I wrote a bit about Daniel in 2009, and had a brief email exchange with him (he uses a compu...

Q: If a baseball and bat cost $110, and the bat costs $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost? If you answered $10 you are inclined to believe in religion. If you answered $5 you are incl...

From Cult of Mac, this news about a 99-cent iOS app that uses the Tor network to offer encrypted web browsing. The Onion Browser will tunnel your connection through the Tor network, concealing your IP...

[Video Link] He had to make his garage smoky to see the beam, but this DIY Star Trek phaser is impressive. (Via Unique Daily)...

Earlier this month I received an email from Shawn Patrick Doyle, a teacher and writer living in Iowa, who blogs about issues of education and learning to write at Good writer, bad writer. His email co...

Dr Petra Boynton has a very good critical essay examining the media coverage of a study that "proves" the anatomical existence of a G-spot. The take home message is - there are numerous conflicting me...

We've all seen smileys and "WASH ME!" on the dusty windows of cars that need a good cleaning. Artist Scott Wade takes that a step further, and draws beautiful, intricate art on dirty rear windows, inc...

NASA just announced that on Friday, April 27, space shuttle Enterprise will be "piggybacked" on a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from Washington Dulles International Airport to New York's JFK. The duo "...

D. Scott Williamson is a former Atari employee with a decades-long obsession with the game Star Castle, once a popular stand-up arcade game. In 1981, Howard Scott Warshaw, a well-regarded Atari progra...

[Video Link] MAKE Volume 30 is on newsstands now. Here's a video preview of the cool projects we've got this time. If you want to get your hands on Volume 30 and the three issues after that, you can s...

In Mother Jones, an article exploring some of the sexist excesses of Silicon Valley's male-dominant programmer culture. None of this is news to those of us (and by us, I mean women) who've worked ther...

[Video Link] Here's Chapter 8 of Chad Orzel's funny book science book, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts...

Now that you know my thoughts on medical cannabis for cancer patients, you'll understand why I think this is a noble cause. Patients gathering in Sacramento, May 19-22. On Monday May 21, public demons...

[video link] As featured previously....

Incase's new iPhone protectors have square (if not quite cigarette box-pointy) corners. Must be a trend! They're $30 and have "flex-fit construction", which I understand to mean "rubbery". Shame about...

Could anyone other than LA's Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold explain the 1992 Los Angeles riots through the food culture of the neighborhood where it all went down? Nope. (LAT via @shelbygr...

If you don't want to rely on an obscene/racist mnemonic to help you figure out the value of resistors based on their colored bands, you can make this nifty papercraft resistor decoder from Adafruit. I...

I'm going to be joining a Google+ hangout tonight with the nice folks from Scilingual. We'll be talking about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy—as well as my new book, B...

Electrical engineer Gary Galka is proprietor of D.A.S. Distribution Inc, a company that makes and sells a variety of industrial sensors for medical, aerospace, and factory automation applications. Aft...

"The sound of running water is not something you used to hear on an ice cap." Arctic explorer Will Steger said this last weekend, during a presentation at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Steger was s...

Sometimes, I get so jealous of British television. Apparently, there's a whole series over there called Inside Nature's Giants. It's basically a zoology dissection show, where scientists break down la...

During a photo shoot, photographers working with Art+Auction magazine picked up an irreplaceable 2600-year-old terra cotta statue from Nigeria's Nok culture so they could move it into a better li...

When Howard Carter opened the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen in 1922 he found a series of chambers piled high with wonderful things. For nerds of a certain age, this is a story weve heard many ti...

Dan sez, "Macaroni and cheese seems like a pretty docile product -- I mean, it's just pasta and orange powder in a box. But Kraft and others use the fun macaroni shapes to help market the products, an...

This photo is part of a small set of behind-the-scenes photos found in Harald Haefker's flickr photostream. I do not know the backstory but they are wonderful....

Matt Scone and sculptor Sanden Henning offer this splendid Forever Alone sculpture, based on the massive one featured at last year's ROFLCON summit in Portland. Despite there being only 30 in the limi...

Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. After years of research and development, the world's first Swiss mechanical automatic digita...

Paul Radu is building a platform for the hacker community to collaborate with investigative journalists to expose the most vile, dangerous, and bizarre global corruption you never knew existed. Paul i...

Sound it Out # 26: The Dandy Warhols - "The Autumn Carnival" The Dandy Warhols have been a band since 1994. Theyve released 8 widely-different studio albums in these 18 years - their sound has fluctua...

ADVERTISEMENT This post is sponsored by Chevrolet Volt. Electric when you want it, gas when you need it. Note: The 2012 Chevy Volt offers an EPA-estimated 35 miles on a full charge based on 94 MPGe [e...

Peng Peng (below), a cloned sheep, is seen on a video display at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, southern China April 23, 2012. Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep ...

Brian Christian's long Wired feature on A/B testing does a good job of explaining the quiet revolution in product design we've experienced this century, the modes of thought that habitual A/B testing ...

Materials scientist Debbie Chacra writes about "peak plastic" -- the moment at which our ability to make plastic (which is made from oil) begins to decline. As Debbie points out, our material world is...

CISPA, the sweeping cyber-surveillance bill that is gallumphing through Congress despite its constitutional deficiencies, has hit a snag. The Office of Management and Budget has recommended that Obama...

Edan Kwan's 3Dit bookmarklet turns any page into a weird kind of 3D display, by turning CSS levels into a Z-axis. Difficult to explain, easy to see -- click through to try it. Using CSS 3d to make eve...

Domino's Japan is giving away this nifty lightsaber cutlery with its otherwise undistinguished and unworthy pizzas. Star Wars Special Set | TOPICS | Domino's Pizza (Thanks, Francesco!)...

A lawyer (or person claiming to be a lawyer) sent threatening letters to people who criticized a featured Etsy seller who they said was actually importing cheap furniture from Bali and passing it off ...

David Stutz has posted a small collection of obituaries for Alan Turing after he was hounded to suicide as a punishment for being gay. Here's my favorite: For those who knew him here [at Sherborne] th...

The Transportation Security Administration launched the TSA Cares program to assist disabled fliers just four months ago, but a story making the rounds today proves that the TSA definitely does not. T...

The Transportation Security Administration launched the TSA Cares program to assist disabled fliers just four months ago, but a story making the rounds today proves that the TSA definitely does not. T...

Photo: Reuters. A man is screened with a backscatter x-ray machine at a TSA security checkpoint iat Los Angeles International Airport Four present and past security screeners at LAX took 22 payments o...

Redditor BillyAppletini surprised a friend with an "Imperial CAT-AT (All-Terrain Armored-Transport)" -- a cat-condo/AT-AT walker. His Imgur gallery , which documents the build, has some rudimentary pl...

PHOTO: Snapshot by Lori Croft of her 4-year-old granddaughter Isabella Brademeyer, in Wichita, Kan., where she was a flower girl at her uncles wedding. The child was harassed by TSA goons on the way b...

Space suits of U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba (L) and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (C) and Sergei Revin are ready for a crew's training session at the Star City space center outside Moscow April 24...

Cookies filled with candies, shaped like burro piñatas. The creator of this chimera is the Louis Pasteur of compulsive eating. SUGAR COOKIES WITH A SURPRISE INSIDE (via Reddit)...

Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. I...

The Mary Sue's Jamie Frevele nails the awesomeness underpinning The Cabin in the Woods. Spolers ahoy....

Penny Arcade TV's "Harassment" episode looks at the phenomenon of in-game trolling, with its disproportionate emphasis on racism, homophobia and sexism, and suggests a solution: identify players who a...

Philip Glass and the English National Opera will stage "The Perfect American," adapted from Peter Stephan Jungk's fictionalized account of Walt Disney's last months. Glass described by the ENO as one...

"Contraception isn't enough -- some people want their education paid for by other people too," says Rush Limbaugh, whose bizarre obsession with the sex life of law school student Sandra Fluke made him...

The Belbury Tales is the latest hauntological manifestation of Ghost Box co-founder Jim Jupp's personal project Belbury Poly. Jupp's freshly nostalgic forays into library music of yore filtered throug...

German federal commission on media, ZAK, has declared Kermit the Frog guilty of criminal wrong-doing. Evidently Kermit engaged in illegal product placement during an appearance on commercial TV channe...

Further to yesterday's announcement that Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, would no longer use DRM on its ebooks as of this summer: now Tor UK, a sister company to Tor Boo...

MAKE has a monthly newsletter (subscribe here) and this month's issue has a host of handy tips. Keep track of your car keys by attaching them to a binder clip: Squeeze the metal handles to remove them...

Here's the 14th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! Our maker this week is Mike Riley. He's the author of a new book called Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer....

The AP's Eduardo Verdugo captured a remarkable image from Mexico's drug war: a bristling rack of seized guns with their muzzles face on to the camera. Just looking at it makes me want to duck. Shown h...

Erik says: "A friend of mine is trying to offload a floating pentagon art project in DC. Free, I think, to anyone who wants it. Complete with speakers and sound system." The Polygonal Address System i...

Belgium's Maarten De Ceulaer displayed his knobbly chairs and sofas at Milan's Spazio Rossana Orlandi. The series is called "Mutation." Each piece in the Mutation series is made from foam spheres, cut...

[Video Link] Bibliog says: "My friend Dan made this kick ass animation for TEDEd, explaining how small an atom actually is!"...

The great cruise ship Leviathan launched from England in 1928. The mile-long luxury liner is a floating city, complete with tall concrete buildings (in the Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building), pa...

Doorman turned the headboard of his bed into the gang from Mystery Science Theater 3000, ready to critique and ridicule whatever goes on in that bed. MST3K headboard (via Making Light)...

A great XKCD today: "Approximations: A Slightly Wrong Table of Equations and Identities Useful for Approximations and/or Trolling Teachers." Approximations...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Cordy Sky,...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Cordy Sky,...

[Video Link] A new video for Mama Hope, by Joe Sabia and crew. Wouldn't it be better if African men weren't always depicted as warlords or victims? Written by Benard, Brian, Derrick, Gabriel and the M...

In 1977, NASA mounted copies of the above record album on the Voyager I and Voyager II space probes and launched them into the depths of space. Each album contained recordings of Earth, greetings in 5...

Forest sez, "The Creators of 'The Day the LOLcats Died' bring you a new video in protest of CISPA: We appointed a Congressional committee to create a video opposing CISPA, a new bill being voted on la...

Danah boyd's "The Power of Fear in Networked Publics" is a speech delivered at SXSW and Webstock New Zealand (that's where this video comes from). Danah first defines a culture of fear ("the ways in w...

[Video Link] A kindly hack came to her aid....

[Video Link] "Excuse me, give me some space to drive my ball....

All right, you mugs. If you don't want some chin music, give TOM THE DANCING BUG WEBSITE the buzz, and tail RUBEN BOLLING on TWITTER....

"The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle."...

On Neatorama, Miss Cellania rounds up images from various international versions of Married... With Children from around the world (extracted from this Reddit thread. I featured the Bulgarian version ...

My old Boulder High School friend Rick Rosner is deeply weird and very funny. I also knew he was smart -- he liked to talk about quantum physics during lunch in the school cafeteria-- but I had no ide...

A wonderful thing, made by Heather Beschizza (web, Twitter, happens to be married to this guy). I've been keeping this on my desk for some time, but wanted to share it with the rest of the world, too....

Choire Sicha: "I GIVE TSA PRECHECK AN A+++ IN AWESOMENESS. Though I also give it a D- in 'Constitutional and Human Fairness Issues.'"...

In the NYT, Jessica Silver-Greenberg writes about hospitals who "embed" debt-collectors in their emergency rooms and patient care. These debt collectors are indistinguishable from other hospital emplo...

Juggler, impresario, and happy mutant Mat Ricardo sez, "We're halfway through the 2012 season of my monthly London variety show, and it's going better than I could have dreamt. Sell-out audiences (tha...

Somevelvetmorning made a beautiful Dalek dress and uploaded her work-in-progress photos to Imgur. Perhaps they can serve as a guide to your own dalekwear efforts. Also: matching hat! Dalek Dress (via ...

If the previous ATM skimmer posts didn't scare the pants off you, this one from San Fernando Valley, which Brian Krebs reports on, might. It has a near-undetectable pinhole camera for recording timest...

Just look at it. By Shay Aaron, 26, a miniaturist based in Tel Aviv. Many more photos of his work in his Flickr stream. I could squeeeeee at them all day! (booooooom + flavorwire + thisiscol...

If you take it as seriously as some of the people in this news article, I believe that it means "you are an asshole." I loathe Klout. (via @pareene)...

On EnglishRussia (and apparently ganked from a possibly defunct LiveJournal), a wonderful detailed HOWTO for making the tiniest, most adorable kitchen knife you ever did see. A kitchen knife may becom...

Maura, a Missouri high-school student, has a long history of making awesome prom-dresses (there was the goth one, the one made out of Doritos bags, and the one made of pull-tabs). This year, she toppe...

House-Arrest Amber, Featured Dancer at Whispers. Photo: Mark Ebner. Veteran muckraker Mark Ebner of "Hollywood, Interrupted" has a knack for producing beautiful writing from ugly subjects. Scientology...

Earlier today, David posted that "Urban Outfitters is under fire from the Anti-Defamation League for selling a t-shirt with a patch the ADL says is similar to the "yellow badge" that Jews were ordered...

Charlie Stross has posted a long essay making the case for ebook publishers going DRM-free. It's a good, comprehensive look. I'll be writing something more on this subject later this week, too. 1. The...

Check out this fantastic infographic detailing the history, majesty and power of beards. [geekosystem]...

Johan Peitz's "Super Mario Summary" re-creates all the levels of the original game, condensing each level to its essence with a single screen: A Super Mario Summary is my entry to the 23rd Ludum Dare ...

40 students. 6 weeks. 5500 dominos. One awesome mural of Cesar Chavez. NBC San Diego reports: Students and staff from O'Farrell Community School started this mural using blueprints, and then they glue...

David Weinberger writes, "Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about virtually all the 12M works in its 73 libraries. This is (I believe) the la...

Pizza Hut Middle East is pushing the envelope of edibility with their "royal" Crown Crust Pizza, which is a kind of hub-and-spoke bread-thing with cheeseburgers or chicken-cheeseburgers studded around...

At today's Institute for the Future conference, Code for America's Jen Pahlka reminded me that I may have let my Internet Membership lapse. Fortunately, there is a mint-in-box Internet Membership Kit ...

The New Yorker's Paul Simms rounds up a collectoin "Restaurant Mental-Health-Code Violations" that fly like an arrow straight into the heart of the dining experience. Server lies in wait to ask for or...

Here's a lovely gallery of old space-themed Rediplete "pediatric syrup" box-art. It's very Mary Blair-esque. Present and Correct notes that it is "via Flickr" but I can't locate a link on the site to ...

Michael Geist sez, Car rental companies are infamous for encouraging customers to sign up for expensive liability insurance policies. Since many renters already have coverage from their own automotive...

Photo: Xeni Jardin The view from an ocean-facing window at the home of Boing Boing publisher-at-large Jason Weisberger, improved by his 5-year-old daughter with stickers. We had a Boing Boing meeting ...

Chinese company Xiamen Jinzhi has released a line of "Hellen Keller" sunglasses. According to the Wall Street Journal, company spokesman Xiamen Jinzhi said "that they were aware Helen Keller was blind...

A British game-show called "Golden Balls" concludes each installment with a single-shot version of the Prisoner's Dilemma in which the two players' choices can result in a large cash prize being award...

Youtube: Star Wars Kinect Official Duel Trailer...

These images depict what is reportedly an apartment belonging to a Russian man who, when he became mentally ill, covered every surface in his apartment with a form of graffiti. The Accidental Mysterie...

Atlanta Magazine has an interview with Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., and an excerpt from his new book "How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America." The excerpt tells the story of 53-...

Over the weekend, at the Earth Day tweetup at the Science Museum of Minnesota, I heard an interesting fact: Human beings are now the dominant agent of landscape change on this planet, more than any na...

Sourcemap shows supply-chain maps that reveal all the places in the world that feed into the common goods we consume in our lives. The service's about page implies that the supply-chain data comes fro...

Illustration: Dead Zebra, Inc. [via the Boing Boing Flickr Pool]...

theCHIVE posted "A few rare photos on the set of the only Star Wars movies that matter" (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)...

Dolphin carcasses are displayed by conservationists and environmental police officers at San Jose beach, 40kms north of Chiclayo, Peru, on April 6, 2012. The cause of death of over 800 dolphins in the...

A cyberdelic blast from the past. MTV News reports on San Francisco's emergent technopagan culture, circa 1991, featuring Anarchic Adjustment (the precursor to Imaginary Foundation), Genesis P-Orridge...

I've got four events in the Bay Area on May 2nd and 3rd. On May 2 at noon, I'll be speaking to the San Francisco chapter of the AIA about electricity, infrastructure and the future of energy. May 2 at...

Several weeks ago, I posted about the magical low-fi lullabies of Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a collaboration between Alicia Merz (Birds of Passage) and Gareth Munday (Roof Light.) As Human Pattern crea...

The California Location Privacy Bill (SB 1434) proposes to require cellular phone companies to stop their practice of giving your location data to the police without a warrant. Phone companies would s...

I missed this great read published a few months back by photojournalist Connor Boals in Columbia Journalism Review, but it's worth revisiting now: a story about the indigenous pirate radio stations th...

In the left-hand corner of this photo, towards the back of the shot, you can see what researchers at Colorado State University jokingly call "the dirtiest wind power in America." In reality, it's a di...

The story of Ronald Opus started out life as a hypothetical problem raised in a dinner speech at a meeting the American Academy of Forensic Sciences by its then-president President Don Harper Mills. H...

Alain Sherter of CBS MoneyWatch and the AP report on the disturbing resurgence of debtor's prisons in America. Though it is technically no longer legal to jail people for failure to pay their debts, t...

Today, Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, announced that henceforth all of its ebooks would be completely DRM-free. This comes six weeks after an antitrust action against T...

"I came to the conclusion that this is not science fiction; this is not fantasy, it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism" [Philipkdick.com via Frankie Boyle]...

The Guardian picks its "Open 20" fighters for internet freedom. Included are Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jacob Appelbaum, and anonymous....

Readers of England's The Chap magazine staged an incredibly well-dressed protest outside Number 3 Savile Row, the former Apple Records headquarters, which is to become an Abercrombie and Fitch. Chaps ...

"Klimeck was re-enacting the scene in which Judas commits suicide in repentance for his betrayal of Jesus Christ. Police are investigating the apparatus that was meant to support Klimeck. It appears t...

"Klimeck was re-enacting the scene in which Judas commits suicide in repentance for his betrayal of Jesus Christ. Police are investigating the apparatus that was meant to support Klimeck. It appears t...

A driver tried to drive into the Chaussee d'Antin La Fayette Metro station in Paris on Tuesday, reportedly having mistaken it for a subterranean parking garage. The driver, who gave his name as Johan,...

TheWorldGeography has a list of six places whose names are a single character: seven villages in Norway called and another in Sweden called , a river in Oregon called D and another in Scotland called...

The most highlighted passage on Kindle is "because sometimes things happen to people and theyre not equipped to deal with them," from Susanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Following is Jane Austen: "It i...

Whileseated posted this supercut of breaths, umms and ahhs from Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons and more. [via Animal New York]...

Australian Nerf fans were outraged to learn how Martyn Yang, a Nerf-gun blogger writing for Urban Taggers, was tricked by Hasbro into revealing his home address with an offer of a giveaway for his rea...

Daniel Pinkwater, a much-loved living treasure of children's literature, has a new book out today. It's called Mrs Noodlekugel and it is a simple, silly pleasure that feels like the end-product of a l...

172 Hours on the Moon is a young adult novel about three teenagers who go to the moon as winners of a global lottery, only to discover a terrible secret about why they were sent. Below, the prologue t...

Omer Petti is a 95-year-old USAF veteran with artificial knees and a heart condition. Madge Woodward, his partner, has an artificial hip. They recently flew home to Detroit from San Diego, and were hu...

Foto Marvellini, a Milanese art workshop, posted a set of vintage portraits remade as contemporary superheroes called "Le Biciclette." Le Biciclette - Milano (via The Mary Sue)...

Wide angle lenses are some of my favorite. Imaging resource has identified the widest of wide angle lenses for sale at a bargain price: $160,000. According to Amateur Photographer, the jumbo fisheye l...

A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports on an experiment to test how pay-what-you-like pricing performs when compared with merchant-driven "discount" pricing, and sugges...

The PayPal Product Name Generator automates PayPal's nasty habit of giving stupid product names to the companies they acquire. I got "PayPal Website Advanced Checkout Online," "PayPal Online Pro Advan...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! If you're in the Pittsburgh area April 27, 2012, I'm going to be giving a presentation at Carnegie Mellon University at Baker Hall, 4:30pm-5:30pm. Clic...

In The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies (PDF), by Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor, the authors calculate that the average Internet user would have to spend one full working month per year ...

Henry sez, "Harvard Library's Faculty Advisory Council is telling faculty that it's financially 'untenable' for the university to keep on paying extortionate access fees for academic journals. It's su...

If you're in the Twin Cities area on Saturday, April 28th, I recommend going to check out artist and science geek Lynn Fellman talk about the Neanderthal contribution to the modern human genome, and h...

Over the weekend, I stumbled over a great Damn Interesting post about the history and future of the banana. Some of you already know the basic story here: Bananas, as we know them, cannot reproduce. T...

A printable logical fallacy poster. (via @mrbadexample)...

On Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of watching Perhaps Contraption ("a twisted brass, art punk marching band") at Saturday night's White Mischief steampunk night in London. They've got a shitloa...

On Saturday, I spoke at an Earth Day Tweetup at the Science Museum of Minnesota. As part of the event, the museum took tweeters on a behind-the-scenes tour, including the exhibit workshop. (The Scienc...

Tomorrow at 7:00 pm, you can get inside the Minnesota Public Radio headquarters in downtown St. Paul, Minn., for a live taping of the interview show "Bright Ideas". I'll be the guest, talking with hos...

I can't figure out if this pizza sweatshirt is a shoop or an article of commerce. If you must wear a pizza garment, Pizza Shirt sells shirts that look like pizza. Veggie, pepperoni, long sleeved, shor...

A little bit of Star Wars-meets-Occupy street art, snapped near my flat in Hackney, London. Occupy Wall St The 99% We Are, Yoda stencil, Great Eastern Street, Hackney, London.jpg...

How to be a horrible boss. [Diego Basch via Hacker News]...

Marilyn sez, "With all this brouhaha about Secret Service agents misbehaving in Cartagena, I remembered this story in Smithsonian magazine two years ago about the unreliable presidential bodyguard who...

Sinclair's ZX Spectrum, the astoundingly successful sub-100 personal computer, is 30 years old today. [BBC. Photo: Iaki Quenerap]...

Last wednesday, beekeeper She Ping covered himself with 331,000 bees to claim the world record from Ruan Luangming. As 33.1kg of insects crowded around his body and face, She Ping's eyes and mouth wer...

"A soccer ball that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner" [Reuters]...

Jon Chad's Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth is a kids' comic story that blends science and fancy to tell the story of a scientist who goes all the way through the Ear...

Adobe's Creative Suite is to become an $80-a-month subscription service, with discounts for people who accept annual contracts: just like cellphones! Thankfully, you can still buy the retail version o...

Photo: Xeni Jardin I went to a "cannabis dinner" in a loft in downtown Los Angeles on a day of great significance for potheads: 4/20. I first heard about these speakeasy gatherings from an LA Times ar...

A few of the 10,000 G4S private security guards hired to police the London Olympics have been videoed while illegally harassing photographers who were taking pictures of the Olympic site from public l...

Above, a trailer for a comedy film project for which there's now a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. I LOL'd; I'll be kicking in a few bucks. Description: A group of Muslim-American standup comedians ...

~AfterlightRob's Frankenthulu mask makes me yearn for a whole series of Famous Monsters of Filmland/Cthulhu mask-mashups -- the mummy, Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon... The same artist ha...

Valve's employee manual may just be the single best workplace manifesto I've ever read. Seriously: it describes a utopian Shangri-La of a workplace that makes me with -- for the first time in my life ...

"Avaritia" is a new mixed-media assemblage from Jud Turner: "The name is taken from the Latin term for 'greed' and the bait this mechanized angler fish is using is a coin from 1799. Heightening my enj...

Paul Di Filippo caught Archie cussin': This is not an artifact of me fooling around with Photoshop. Nor can I imagine some Google drone did this during the newspaper-scanning process. You're welcome t...

In 2010, Vice Magazine commemorated the publication of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes' "Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police" with a set of photos taken by the Soviet-era ...

Discovered yesterday at the London Comica Comiket show at the Bishopsgate Institute, Isabel Greenberg's marvellous austerity-ready posh bookshelves, kitchen shelves and mantelpieces, these being long ...

As the Forest Service makes ready to explode a cabinfull of frozen cows, we could all benefit from refreshing our frozen livestock explosion know-how with this official USDA Forest Service memo, "Obli...

The Economist has a great piece out today on the life and legacy of Lender's Bagels founder Murray Lender, who died one month ago at age 81. He is credited with making the bagel a mainstream breakfast...

When USA Today began investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors, a bizarre harassment campaign commenced against reporter Tom Vanden Brooke and his editor. Websites and user accounts were registere...

Read the charming story of Alan Z. Feuer, who had a secret double life that was wonderful rather than merely sordid. [NYT]...

Paul Di Filippo says: This is not an artifact of me fooling around with Photoshop. Nor can I imagine some Google drone did this during the newspaper-scanning process. You're welcome to look at the ori...

In the Observer, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the "academic publishing racket" in which giant multinational publishers get free, state-subsidized research to publish, use free, state-subsidiz...

The Orange Bird, mascot of the Florida Citrus Growers and one-time Adventureland icon from the opening days of the park, has been relaunched at Walt Disney World after a campaign by Disney parks fans ...

Tal sez, "Tal Avitzur has updated his website with new robot-related night lights made from scrap metal and other urban salvage: Barbiebot, Snork, Work in progress. Tal has been invited to show his wo...

Above, your moment of science zen for the weekend. Using an innovative application of stem cells, researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have regenerated hair on a bald mouse. Their accomplish...

Joaquin Baldwin, whose wonderful creative work we've featured on Boing Boing before, shares these photos of a lovely 3d-printed sculpture he's just created. You can purchase your very own, right here....

[Video Link] But neither the lamb nor the young woman are buttheads. More at Camels and Friends, and here's their YouTube channel. I liked this video a lot, too. (via Clayton Cubitt)...

Mark sez, "Canada's official, federal IP Office website offers a quiz to help the public learn about copyright - but the "correct" answer to one important question is in fact wrong, suggesting that so...

Robogames, an annual robot hoedown, takes place this weekend in San Mateo. $25 for adults, $0-$20 for kids depending on age, free for active duty military. Bring hearing protection and a love of machi...

[Video Link] Maybe. It's a good contender for the next "Pardon Me." Mined from the internet by the honorable funnyhunter Robert Popper, of Friday Night Dinner and Look Around You: Season One and The T...

A Washington Post blogger resigned after two separate posts plagiarized others' work. The copypasta, however, was done under working conditions that make the newspaper look worse. WaPo ombudsman Patri...

Though slightly less extreme than the ad that suggested letting your kids play with your guns in bed, this 1913 Colt ad that advertisement makes hay out of the fact that they make the kind of piece yo...

A pair of posts on the Vintage Ads LJ group by Man Writing Slash collect a series of ads from the golden age of men's sleepwear, when pajamas were glorious, stylish, and the kind of thing you'd hang o...

On Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews, a smart, to-the-point commentary on legalizing sex-work: And, of course, Im open to the question of whether legalization results in more trafficking (it seems to v...

Remember earlier this year when the New Zealand government and the US government conspired to send a SWAT team to arrest Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, shut down the service, make 220 people unemp...

Absurdist kids' literature hero Daniel Pinkwater is at the center of an appropriately absurd kerfuffle. An eighth-grade New York reading test published by Pearson republishes an edited (and much less ...

Zakkai from Fight for the Future (the folks who brought you the war on SOPA) sez, "Want to fight for Internet privacy with cute cat photos? CISPAcat is a new advice animal that wants nothing more than...

CNet's Seth Rosenblatt interviews Al Jaffee, the MAD Magazine legend who created "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" and the back-page Fold-In, and mentions the mouth-watering Fold-In complete boxed ...

Neelie Kroes is Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, and recently gave a speech to the World Wide Web Conference 2012 in Lyon, France. It was a hell of a good ...

Bruce Schneier commented this morning on the General Accounting Office's assessment of the TSA's "behavior detection" program, which is like the pick-up artist movement for creepy security agencies. B...

Runa from The Onion Router -- a privacy and anti-censorship tool used around the world -- writes, "We are looking for another dedicated core developer to join our team. Your job would be to work on al...

Proyecto Bibliomulas is a Venezuelan initiative to improve literacy in remote and rural areas, by turning mules into travelling bookmobiles. Srsly. And how awesome is that? Anyone who was not out work...

The Guardian's Esther Addley reports on the trial of Kelley Lynch, his former business-manager and lover who was convicted of stealing from him and leaving him penniless, who was ordered to pay $9.5M ...

The delightful Kirk Demarais (interviewed here on Gweek) was interviewed at Collectors Weekly about his terrific book, Mail Order Mysteries. "The ad says, “U-Control 7-foot life-size ghost. It o...

Here's a lovely set of Barbapapa matrioshkes, which is a rather fitting depiction of the family -- though $46 is on the steep side. Barbapapa Nesting Dolls (via Super Punch)...

Jeroen Vader, the owner of PasteBin (a service that provides a simple way to share blobs of text, originally popular for sharing code-fragments and error messages, now also very popular as an anonymou...

On How to Be a Retronaut, a well-selected slice through the Library of Congress's 2,114 performing arts posters collection, with an emphasis on acrobatics. Posters for Acrobatics shows, 1892-1903...

GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has published a set of code-breaking papers written by Alan Turing during WWII. The papers had been held in secret since they were written. The p...

A finance technology manager named Khosrow Zarefarid discovered a critical flaw in Iran's online banking systems. He extracted 1,000 account details (including card numbers and PINs) and emailed them ...

This Nation investigation into health problems caused by the BP oil disaster two years ago is a must-read. Reporter Antonia Juhasz chronicles the personal stories of families affected by lingering tox...

Something weird happened on Twitter yesterday. It was annoying and upsetting at the time, but now it's meaty fodder for behavioral analysis discussions. Ethan Zuckerman wrote a blog post about it that...

I'm glad Ze Frank is doing videos again!...

[Video Link] This cavalcade of Freudian slips made me chuckle. (Via biota)...

Artist Barnaby Ward (who designed the Boing Boing Beetle T-shirt) has a new print for sale, called Time Traveler....

An AP story describes a plan to explode a group of frozen cow-carcasses in a remote mountain cabin in Colorado. The cows, which were roaming free in Gunnison National Forest, were caught in a cold sna...

Inevitable, but very well executed, the "hologram" of Tupac (not an actual hologram, really a kind of Pepper's Ghost), matted into the "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" sequences from Star...

Buckwheat Groats' Million Dollar Menu is even better than Shira Miss Muffin's classic Pound On My Muffin. [Hat tip to John Biggs, who has also been having fun with telemarketers lately]...

Brian Lam usually tells you what to buy; today, however, he's telling you what not to buy. [Wirecutter]...

On Rock, Paper, Shotgun, John Walker tears into the mainstream press's treatment of mass-murderer Anders Breivik's video-game habits. Breivik's gaming has been prominently mentioned in press accounts,...

From Futility Closet: "Given a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle, how can you fix the candle to the wall so that its wax won’t drip onto the table below?" Solution...

"Things Don’t Seem Wonderful If You’ve Seen Them All Your Life" is a cartoon from 1912 by John T. McCutcheon. (Via Laughing Squid)...

Nothing to Celebrate is a music video from The Zax, directed by Ben & Julia. [Submitted by Rion]...

Bruce Sterling responds to Marius Watz's take on Sterling's manifesto about the "New Aesthetic" movement. Sterling is enthusiastic about Watz's views, and begins to move the discussion of "New Aesthet...

When the Tokyo Burger King stores announced a "15 strips of bacon on your burger for 100 (~$1.25)" promotion, Mr Sato, a reporter for Rocket News 24 ordered 105 slices of bacon on his burger. Apparent...

Zakkai sez, "We have the feeling that even CISPA's sponsors don't understand how ridiculous their bill is. Do government agencies and corporations really need to be able to spy on us all the time for ...

Even a hard-hearted, card-carrying Republic member like me can't help but smile at Ma'amite, a Jubilee-commemorating rebranding for the tarry brown semi-edible (entirely delicious) substance Marmite. ...

Tomorrow is Record Store Day! Visit your local independent record shop and buy some new music! Lots of shops are having in-store performances, and a slew of labels and artists are releasing special ed...

London's Metropolitan police are at the centre of another set of awful racism allegations, the tenth in three weeks. Edric Kennedy-Macfoy is a black London fireman who trained as a police constable. W...

Here's a fine NPR interview with Byrds guitarist, copyfighter, and folkie legend Roger McGuinn. The interview covers a lot of ground, but is centered on his folk-preservation site the Folk Den, a repo...

I would totally buy this right now. "Includes one pickle and one tomato (pillowcases)." A vintage ad from 1970, in MewDeep's excellent Flickr stream. (via the Boing Boing Flickr Pool)...

Witness more of this at Sad And Useless. (via @apelad)...

If you are in New York on Friday, April 20, you'll want to attend this special event, offered as part of the Whitney Biennial: Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, an...

[Video Link] cr8zyfamily says: "Asked to clear off the table, my without-a-nap, three-year-old daughter complains that her bowl is "too heavy" to carry to the sink."...

Photo : an iPhone snap I took of Sawyer (L) with space journalist Miles O'Brien (center) and astronaut Leroy Chiao (R) during the STS-135 SpaceFlightNow live launch webcast. This shot was taken minute...

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, on copyright legislation and the Internet: "Record labels have a very strong voice when it comes to arguing for their particular business model, which is in fact out of d...

Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 48 are Michael Pusateri, a ...

[Video link] Director Joe Sabia, who co-curates the Boing Boing in-flight television channel with me on Virgin America Airlines, has created this adorable spot for BBC America's natural history series...

This morning's soundtrack is Metric's "Gold Guns Girls," whose video I stumbled on at JWZ's blog. I know nothing about Metric (some copypasta from their YouTube channel bio is below) though it looks l...

[Video Link] Zach Weissmueller says: " I wanted to pass along Reason.tv's latest to you because I think it would be of interest, especially considering how outspoken Boing Boing was during the SOPA fi...

This impressive slow-motion video was submitted to the Danish TV show "Dumt & Farligt." The video was captured with a 2500fps Phantom Flex camera, and the filmmakers really racked their brains fo...

The always-interesting Venkatesh Rao turns his attention to the shopworn phrase "hacking" (as in "body-hacking," "college-hacking" and so forth), and concludes that it is actually underused. Hacking, ...

Sound it Out # 25: Miniature Tigers - "Female Doctor" I almost didnt want to single out one song from Miniature Tigers new album Mia Pharoah because the whole thing works so nicely as a collection of ...

I read a galley of Bruce Perry's new book, Fitness for Geeks, and found the advice and explanations about diet and fitness to be fascinating. His program of self-tracking, ancestral diet, and high-int...

ChinaSmack has published a translation of "Hierarchies of Snobbery and Contempt by Chinese Netizens" from Southern Metropolis Dailys City Weekly which describe "the multi-layered prejudices amongst Ch...

I love this video of an iceberg collapsing in on itself in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica. (Word of warning, the people filming this loved the experience even more than I loved watching it, so much so tha...

Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Barcelona'a XXLED Oversize Digital Box Watch Collection have some the largest digits ever on...

Dave sez, "Want to watch your HBO subscription on DirecTV over HDMI? Good luck with that. Without any proactive customer outreach, DirecTV rolled out a misguided anti-piracy update last week that now ...

Last week, lost in a haze of book tour, I found myself at brunch with several friends who were talking about a YouTube meme I'd entirely missed—people attempting to eat whole spoonfuls of cinnam...

I was looking into wire services today and found what appears to be the AP's main wire services site. All but vestigial, every link at it is broken, redirecting to the group's more modern homepage. An...

The Oregon Ducks won the Rose Bowl. This article says about half the team was smoking marijuana. From ESPN: The Ducks are savoring their win over Wisconsin, Oregon's first victory in a Rose Bowl since...

I'll be in Madison, Wisconsin on April 25th, talking about the history of electricity, our current electric infrastructure, and the future of energy. Come check it out!...

Another great game review from Greg Costikyan and his Play This Thing! blog: this time, it's the 2010 IGF China Best Game winner Sugar Cube, a platformer with a novel and ingenious (and addictive!) me...

A 17 year-old soccer fan in Britain faces criminal investigation after finding unannounced PR images at his favorite team's public website. When he shared his findings with other fans—thereby "l...

All seven authors of the first novel of The Mongoliad have signed a galley copy to be given to one lucky Boing Boing reader! The trailer above stars Neal "Mr. Excitement" Stephenson describing the boo...

This post presented by PLANET EARTH Uncut. All Earth Day Weekend, April 21-22nd. On BBC America. There are lots of places, all around the world, where oil and natural gas seep up out of the ground on ...

[Video link: Natural Disastronauts via Metafilter] Previously, at The Onion....

Ess G writes, "Much as I don't want to encourage anyone to laugh at us here in Toronto, this is really just too ridiculous to share. Our Mayor has just launched his $1.99 app that makes it easy for pe...

My daughter and I share a trick memory for lyrics. Part of our bed-time ritual is singing three songs -- two "new" songs (that she hasn't heard before) and one "old" one (from a previous night). It's ...

Amy Crehore says: "There's a great new interview with R. Crumb by Paul Gravett. Crumb with be the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France opening April 13, 2012." You have bee...

Mark sez, "Charity Engine has a new twist on volunteer computing: using surplus, wasted PC resources to raise money for major charities including Oxfam, Amnesty, MSF and CARE - and also for huge prize...

Kate Milford, author of the wonderful YA novel Boneshaker, sez, "This is the link to my Kickstarter campaign, in which I'm raising funds to self-publish a novella companion to my second traditionally-...

Science fiction writer John L. Beiswenger is suing Ubisoft for copyright infringement, claiming that its Assassin's Creed game series is lifted from his self-published work. In Ubisoft's saga, the con...

Photographer Shane Murphy has published a helpful step-by-step tutorial on how to best capture ISS flyover shots like the fantastic one he took, above. Snip: First things first, the most important thi...

At Outside magazine, a beautifully-written and skillfully-reported story on the search for Micah True, aka "Caballo Blanco." The long-distance runner who became famous by way of the book "Born to Run"...

You don't need to get carried away by vinyl culture to appreciate a good turntable, writes Roy Furchgott in the New York Times: Getting the most from a turntable requires careful setup, although maybe...

A bearded gentleman in Portland, Oregon who was upset about being "harassed by airport security" took off all of his clothes while in the TSA screening lane Tuesday evening. He was arrested, taken to ...

As the final volume of Brian Wood's brilliant anti-war graphic novel DMZ nears publication, Dominic Umile looks back on the series' 72 issue run of political allegory and all the ways that it used the...

The Los Angeles Times this week published photographs of US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with the mangled bodies of Afghan men believed to be suicide bombers. Government officials were quick to cond...

If we made a Boing Boing T-shirt with this image, would you buy it?...

In Wales, 77 year old Reginald Gill has been sent to prison for 8 years after falsely "diagnosing" cancer for women who sought health aid. Gill, who is not a doctor, gave the women phony homeopathic t...

[Video Link] Mostly harmless. (Via biotv)...

From the Dec 1941 ish of Mechanix Illustrated, a jim-dandy shop project to make Junior his own dowel-firing machine-gun! ANY small boy will want, and be delighted with this toy submachine gun, which h...

I like the crunchy sounds. (Via Arbroath)...

Reading With Pictures is a great textbook in graphic novel form, which contains several short stories in comic form, each of which teaches elements of the US grades 3-6 core curriculum. I got a previe...

The UK television teletext service known as Ceefax ("See Facts") has been terminated. So sad! It began in 1972. I remember staring at the chunky pixelly pages for hours in my hotel room, on my first v...

An FBI Phoenix memo (PDF) published on Public Intelligence documents a trademark indicator added by Vagos Motocrycle Club, an outlaw biker gang, to its jacket patch, to help them detect undercover law...

On Freedom to Tinker, Andrew Appel has been expertly analyzing the copyright policies of several technical academic journals published by the likes of ACM and the IEEE. The scholars who contribute to ...

The fabulousEmmy Cicieregapoints out this cautionary tale about wandering in Shia LaBeouf's woods at night. One part comedy, two parts spooky: look out, it might happen to you! Shia LaBeouf on SoundCl...

Using Storify (hey, for the first time!) I rounded up a Twitter conversation with followers about the financial devastation that can follows a cancer diagnosis in the US, where treatment is expensive....

A coalition of US civil liberties organizations have declared this to be Stop Cyber Spying Week, with the goal of scuttling CISPA, the Internet spying bill that promotes web-censorship, bulk surveilla...

Jordan Mechner, creator of the classic bestselling video-game Prince of Persia recently discovered the floppies with the game's original sourcecode in a closet, where they'd sat for more than 20 years...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeated her view that the world's governments should respect Internet freedom, telling the Brasilia Open Government Summit that the world is dividing into "o...

Milo Danger has posted the first two episodes of his video show, Dangerous Information. Above, the series teaser. Here's the episode on lockpicking and here's the episode on growing medical marijuana....

While reading the first few chapters of The Conundrum —David Owen's book about energy, resource consumption, and conflicting values in American life—I kept running into moments where I wan...

DemandProgress, the activist organization that was one of the main movers in the history-making fight against SOPA, is looking to hire a "Lead writer," who lives in NYC (or can relocate). Co-founder A...

An escort involved in the Secret Service scandal explains the difference between herself and a streetwalker: Its like when you buy a fine rum or a BlackBerry or an iPhone. They have a different price....

Love and Lots of Sugar has documented some of the creation of a remarkable Captain America fourth birthday cake that, in cross section, displayed the stars-n-stripes. It's a really sweet bit of topolo...

Astronaut Don Pettit is a national treasure—a skilled explainer of science who has taken time out of his many trips into space to make engaging, educational videos for a general audience. In thi...

In Before the Lights Go Out, my new book about the future of energy, I made a joke about the formation of fossil fuels that I would like to rescind. "All three fossil fuels come from the same place...

Laurence Lewis's Daily Kos editorial, "The cruel stupidity that is economic austerity," is a blazing indictment of austerity as a means of recovering from recession, and it cites experts and statistic...

"Moderate alcohol consumption"—which I'm sure we can all agree to define as "not quite two drinks"—was shown to enhance performance on tests of creative thinking in a recent University of ...

A story making the rounds this week: Drew Cox, a 6 year old boy on Texas, "decided to sell lemonade to help his father with medical bills." His dad, Randy Cox, has a rare form of metastatic cancer, di...

In 1982, at the urging of his parents, Ensign Eldridge Hord sat for a formal photograph commemorating his graduation from the Naval Academy. It was the sort of portrait that looks a bit silly as you g...

Last one to follow RUBEN BOLLING on TWITTER is a rotten egg. No except-me's. No bounce-backs. No opposites. Starting now. For full rules, visit the TOM THE DANCING BUG WEBSITE....

(Via Subtropic Bob) Previously: Mean Monkey Mondays...

Last night's Jane Goodall Daily Show appearance started with a warm, chimp-style greeting. Jane Goodall made her second appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, and the first order of...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, testifying in the Java-Android copyright case, sounds like a gift to Google's lawyers. Do you understand that no one owns the Java programming language? lead counsel Robert V...

The completion of Britain's move to digital television means the end of its earliest distinctively digital TV service. Ceefax, the teletext service launched in 1974, vanishes with the analog TV signal...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Got Cow?, ...

Iran's governing elite have been making noises for years now about the construction of a "Halal Internet," a kind of national intranet with its own email service, microblogging, search tools, etc. Now...

Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut into an unusual cake at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm this Saturday, and found herself at the center of a controversy some might say could ...

Brian Fung on our obsession with fresh breath: "while alcohol-based rinses have been tentatively linked to higher rates of oral cancer, manufacturers aren't making it up when they say their products h...

"You know, my face and body kind of look like a monkey, so from a young age everybody used to tease me, saying 'monkey, monkey'. But I wasn't really bothered because I really liked them, and somewhere...

In The Atlantic, Alexander Furnas debunks the DHS's proposal for a "precrime" screening system that will attempt to predict which passengers are likely to commit crimes, and single those people out fo...

Eyeless shrimp. Fish afflicted by sores. Crabs without claws or hard shells. Bizarre deformities are becoming common in seafood from the Gulf, according to Louisiana State University's Department of O...

Do you miss The Puppy Channel? Your wait for 24/7 canine-related programming may soon be at an end, thanks to DogTV. After its debut two months ago in San Diego, the channel is available via the Inter...

Via ShutterstockBritish advertising regulators have dismissed a complaint against Amazon UK, which advertises release-day delivery for video games, but occasionally—as forum rage attests—f...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Got Cow?, ...

Allison sez, "Michael Geist provides some commentary on yesterday's announcement by Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and Access Copyright. His conclusion: 'For those that sign the mo...

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, has publicly decried the UK government's plan to introduce an Internet spying bill that allows for warrantless, real-time surveillance of the nation's clicks, emai...

After 50 years of secrecy, the British archive of papers related to colonial handovers have been made public. The trove of papers document (among other things), the brutal torture of Kenyans who parti...

After 50 years of secrecy, the British archive of papers related to colonial handovers have been made public. The trove of papers document (among other things), the brutal torture of Kenyans who parti...

A Nature Chemistry paper by researchers from the University of Glasgow describes a process for "printing" pharmaceutical compounds from various feedstocks, and supposes a future in which we have diagn...

My latest Guardian column is "Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?" which digs into the backstory on the appointment of former MPAA CTO Paul Brigner as North American director of the c...

On the Vintage Ads LJ group, a widescreen, two-page Mary Blair ad for AT&T and Disneyland's Tomorrowland. It's everything I love about Blair's illustration in an x-wide package. There's a 1600px&...

The talented illustrator Jason Edmiston has a show at Phone Booth Gallery in Long Beach. One fun thing about his gorgeous "Monsters of Rock" portraits is how easily recognizable the musicians are....

From John W Campbell Award-nominee Mur Lafferty, an open letter to her (delightful) daughter, decrying all the ways in which the deck is stacked against girls and women in our world. It's a pretty muc...

"Make the process as annoying, as painful and as difficult as possible for them." [TED via Waxy]...

Torrenfreak covers The Pirate Bay's new "Promo Bay" service, which has been flooded by 5,000+ submissions from artists who want to have their work promoted on The Pirate Bay -- mostly musicians, ...

This "designer nori" laser-cut seaweed was created by the Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO for a client whose sushi-wrapper business flagged in the post-tsunami economic trough. Jeannie Huang writes, E...

On Tor.com, author and reviewer Jo Walton has an insightful look at why so many science fiction readers and writers are discussing David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years, a book that is already a...

This bookmobile for the sick was wheeled around Los Angeles hospitals in 1928, a service of the LA public library. Bookmobile...

We've talked about arXiv here before. It's a pre-print server for scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer sciences. Basically, what that means is that scientists can post...

A followup to the wonderful Caine's arcade story Mark blogged two weeks back: the Internet's many users were so impressed by Caine's ingenuity that they raised $164,000 for his college fund. The funds...

Weather predictions are one of those things that we see every day, but don't often think about how they're created. The video explains how the process works in the United States, where the National Oc...

A fantastic preview for this summer's Alien somethingquel, Prometheus, which stars Michael Fassbender. Previously....

A fantastic preview for this summer's Alien somethingquel, Prometheus, which stars Michael Fassbender. Previously....

Here's a diagram that shows the relative size of a great grey owl's body to its feathers. It's hosted on Wikimedia commons, labelled "Cross sectioned taxidermied Great Grey Owl, Strix nebulosa, showin...

NetGeo has a photo of the Space Shuttle's interior that you can pan and zoom way into. Space Shuttle in Extreme Detail: Exclusive New Pictures (Thanks, Rachel!)...

Science is about facts. But how you convey those facts matters almost as much as the facts themselves. After all, if people can't understand what you're talking about enough to apply the information, ...

Fantasy writers Steven Boyett and Bruce McAllister will read from their contributions to the new Peter Beagle-edited The Urban Fantasy Anthology at this weekend's free SF in SF reading series, at San ...

As Rob noted earlier today, Space Shuttle Discovery piggybacked in flight this morning to its final resting place, at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center. Here is video of the shuttl...

"With its complicated reproductive set-up, a female kangaroo can be perpetually pregnant. While one joey is developing inside the pouch, another embryo is held in reserve in a uterus, waiting for its ...

Here we see the traditional dance of the Missouri riot police, performed for three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and her friends as they gathered at the Whiteman Air Force Base to protest...

Today, most of our electricity is made by facilities that can power millions of homes at a time, and which are located a long way away from the people who use that power. For instance, the Kansas is c...

Pentametron: "With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet." (via Glinner)...

Florida students and their teachers are held to account based the scores on the high-stakes FCAT tests. School funding is partially contingent on test performance. Robert Krampf, a Florida science edu...

[Video Link] Actor Sean Young used a super-8 camera to shoot a 6-minute video about the making of Dune, the movie, which was a box office and critical flop. David Lynch looks 19 years old. (Via Super ...

Roberto Baldwin offers Insanely Expensive Gadgets for the Elite. Vertu's cellphones are at the cheap end of the ticket. [Wired]...

Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters Thousands gathered today to watch space shuttle Discovery take its last flight, lifted by Boeing 747 to a permanent resting place at Dulles International Airport. There,...

Rob sez, "Elephants Dream, the original open movie directed by Bassam Kurdali, proved that it is possible to make high quality 3D animated films using free tools in a studio setting. The Tube Open Mov...

[Video Link] This cat knows how to wake up its human companions. (Via Bits & Pieces)...

After I read Gonzo: the Life of Hunter S. Thompson a few years ago I figured I knew everything I wanted to know about the famous journalist. But then I received a review copy of Gonzo: A Graphic Biogr...

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, "Despite significant strides towards improving public access to legislative proceedings, nearly a quarter of House hearings cannot be watched online despite rec...

Smita sez, While there are many resources out there to help citizens learn more about how much money gov't officials are accepting from special interest groups, I wanted to call out SopaTrack as it is...

Wired's Adam Mann and Nurie Mohamed have a good roundup of a dozen-plus ferrofluid videos, showing off the remarkable aesthetics created at the intersection of magnets, liquid, and metal filings. Not ...

A visitor looks at a work by South Korean artist Hyung Koo Kang at China International Gallery Exposition 2012 in Beijing, April 13, 2012. [Photo: Jason Lee / Reuters]...

The part of Microsoft tasked with marketing good products badly has gotten its clutches on Windows 8, whose ARM tablet incarnation will henceforth be known as "Windows RT". Just sit there and think ho...

My four-year-old daughter and I love to read comics together. Having thoroughly enjoyed the Hilda comics and gone absolutely bananas over Giants Beware, I stopped in at London's wonderful GOSH! Comics...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! If you're in the Pittsburgh area April 27, 2012, I'm going to be giving a presentation at Carnegie Mellon University at Baker Hall, 4:30pm-5:30pm. Clic...

A toilet exploded and injured two government workers in Washington, D.C., and it took a Freedom of Information Act request from Jason Smathers to find out what actually happened: a problem with an air...

Lucy Wallis tells the story of a man whose personality changed after a stroke: "Chris Birch struggles to remember or identify with his old self. He used to be a 19-stone, beer-swilling, party-loving r...

Swans do not mess around: "A man has drowned after being attacked by a swan, which knocked him out of his kayak and stopped him swimming to shore." [BBC]...

Courtesy of Richard Thompson Cartoonist Richard Thompson's voice was quiet and reedy when we spoke, although the traces of his Virginia upbringing are clear. His voice sometimes gives out on him, he s...

ACTA is the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an extreme, far-reaching copyright treaty drafted in secret by industry and government trade reps, under a seal of confidentiality that e...

Laurie Penny, corporate-crime-fighting superhero journo, has a corker of an essay on Warren Ellis's website, about the uneasy role of muckraking journalism in the late days of crony-capitalism: I thou...

DF McCourt sez, "Just thought that you might be interesting in knowing that Canadian Creative Commons magazine AE has been added to the list of qualified professional markets by the Science Fiction Wr...

This is a letter, written by Albert Einstein, in which he explains the details of a now-famous test of the theory of relativity—an experiment that involves measuring how the Sun's gravity alters...

I'll bet people who go on this diet gain their weight back shortly after they pull the tube out of their nose. The K-E diet, which boasts promises of shedding 20 pounds in 10 days, is an increasingly ...

I'll bet people who go on this diet gain their weight back shortly after they pull the tube out of their nose. The K-E diet, which boasts promises of shedding 20 pounds in 10 days, is an increasingly ...

Science in fiction affects our ability to understand science in real life. For instance, you might already be familiar with the idea that detective shows on TV, particularly forensics shows like CSI, ...

Jane and I frequently get sent applications that are a bit too young for her (she's 9) but are still really good. Alphabeast for iPhone is one of them. It's a simple ABC teaching program that goes thr...

mama_faelynn writes, "My husband and I made an Epic Minecraft CaseMod for our 8 year old. 1200 1/2" blocks, weeks of time, flashing harddrive creeper eyes, our kid is over the MOON!" Minecraft casemod...

When I was little, I read a Reader's Digest book of great disasters, which included a segment on the Black Death. One of the things the book tried to do was explain, on a child's level, why it wasn't ...

Bill Shunn sez, The Chicago Writers Conference is Chicago's only homegrown mainstream literary conference focusing on practical business advice for fiction and non-fiction writers alike. The brainchil...

The fine folks at The Garage Punk Hangout (Motto: "Kicks just got easier to find") has just released Vol. 7 of The Best of the GaragePunk Hideout. Its called We Love Trash. Enjoy the stream, or buy it...

This 1949 Winchester Batteries ad was posted to the Vintage Ads LiveJournal group by noluck_boston, depicting a mother-daughter pair whose wise choice of reliable Winchester Batteries have rescued the...

Sauna in Queen Charlotte Islands by Colin Doane. Lashed to front rafters are green whale jawbones. (From p. 133 of Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn) Here's a preview of our friend Lloyd Kahn's beautiful book,...

Faith Landsman, director of the UCLA/CFAR HIV Research Study Volunteer Project (RSVP) says: UCLA was the site of the first reported cases of AIDS in June 1981, and currently has some of the most cutti...

Etsy seller NickelandDimeStore produces "concept art" in the form of junky-looking toys packaged with frank labels ("choking hazard," "boring game," etc). The seller says, "Handmade toy from an altern...

This is not your grandma's canning book. Preserving is not really cheaper, nor is it a survival or disaster remedy. Canning these days makes sense as a culinary endeavor -- because you can make preser...

The incomparable Rudy Rucker's just posted an ebook collecting his essays called (what else), Collected Essays. There's a Kindle edition, or you can buy directly from him without DRM. What a table of ...

Richard Florida on this fascinating map, produced by the Centers for Disease Control: There is good news: teen births are at their lowest level in more than 60 years (10 percent lower than 2009, 43 pe...

Richard Florida on this fascinating map, produced by the Centers for Disease Control: There is good news: teen births are at their lowest level in more than 60 years (10 percent lower than 2009, 43 pe...

Sixteen passengers and crew were injured when an airline pilot took evasive action to avoid Venus. [Reuters]...

Photographer Nadine Boughton has a series of collages called "True Adventures in Better Homes" that combine the muscular he-man (and sultry seductress) cover illustrations from 1950s and early 1960s m...

Directed by BB pal David Israel and scored by Wilidacious, Hongbing offers a hypothesis concerning office email power dynamics. From David: If you enjoyed Office Space, you're going to get a kick out ...

Artist Jim Gurney was interested in Cory's post about the woman who applied makeup to half of her face, and he did a split-and-flip on both sides of her face. A few years ago in MAKE, Charles Platt wr...

One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally fine magazine about comics called Ink, which is produced by students at New York's School of Visual Arts Ink: Eventua...

AJ's ToyBoarders are a line of toy soldier-style toy snowboarders, in classic green injection-molded plastic. Our roots are skate, surf, & snow so when we design each rider we use real moves that...

In Chapter 3 of this online episodic crowdfunded documentary, we see how a hodge podge crew of volunteers has rallied to build a beer garden in a town devastated by the Japanese tsunami. We Are All Ra...

Zachary Pollock is looking to raise $26,400 on Kickstarter to buy "a lot of [Lego] bricks" for use in a 780,000-piece re-creation of the entire first level of Super Mario Bros. Once completed, it will...

If you live in the UK or Ireland, write about science, and have not been paid for that work, then you are eligible to apply for the Wellcome Trust's Science Writing Prize. The Prize is aimed at foster...

This photo, taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a pair of shoes resting on the sea floor amidst the wreck of the Titanic. It's a powerful image, on its own. But with th...

Forty percent of the Earth's surface is devoted to agriculture. The Colorado River, tapped for irrigation, no longer flows into the ocean. Agriculture also makes up 30% of all human-created greenhouse...

The Republica Times is a game in the darkly humorous tradition of Floor 13. But whereas Floor 13 cast you as a secret government chief out to influence the media through cover-up and intimidation, Tim...

The Republia Times is a game in the darkly humorous tradition of Floor 13. But whereas Floor 13 cast you as a secret government chief out to influence the media through cover-up and intimidation, Time...

Organizers of a 5km race in the Philippines added unusual obstacles for the entrants: "Two hundred actors dressed as post-apocalyptic zombies hid behind trees, bushes and rocky uphill climbs along the...

Holo-Tupac performed last night at Coachella; here is a YouTube of very uncertain life expectancy. NSFW language! Oddly, he lacks a shimmering H badge on this forehead, as required by the Jupiter Mini...

On this morning's Today Show segment on leakers, NBC's media analysts decided that people who anonymously leak evidence of criminal or ethical wrongdoing are attention-seeking narcissists. Don't be ou...

Etsy, via @dogboner. Please commence analysis....

Google co-founder Sergey Brin gave an interview to The Guardian in which he expressed his fear that the rise of walled gardens like Apple's iOS ecosystem and Facebook, combined with increased state ac...

Tim Powers's latest novel is Hide Me Among the Graves, and it is a fine example of the work of a much-beloved author, and a spooky ride through Victorian London to boot. In Hide Me, Powers retells the...

Here's an unsourced bit of netstuff (the shortened URL resolves to Weibo, the Chinese Twitter analog) showing an Asian woman with half her face made up, to startling effect (though perhaps her unmade-...

Brent Thome, a computer scientist in San Francisco, is building a mechanical computer out of beautiful, laser-cut gears that will compute and draw fractals. He's documenting as he goes in a fascinatin...

In Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate, recently published in Complex Systems, a Japanese-UK computer science team describe how they made functional logic gates by constructing a maze of narrow tunnels and ...

Michael Zoellner took the iconic Recursive Wil Wheaton t-shirt photo and turned it into an Augmented Reality Wil Wheaton Particle Emitter. When the photo is viewed through an AR app, it begins to fire...

Tennessee and Arizona have been locked in a race to see which state can past the worst, most invasive, least constitutional anti-woman and racist legislation. In case you've lost track of which state ...

From the Make Flickr pool, linux-works shares his secret for making dull instrumentation knobs shiny. I bought a very old (1960's or 70's, roughly) power supply from eBay, in need of rejuvination. Loo...

GoogleBBS is a functional BBS-style text interface to Google implemented in JavaScript. The creator, Austria's Masswerk, gave it this one-line description: "Google BBS Terminal What Google would have...

Denise Balkissoon reports on a new twist in the trial of Byron Sonne, the Toronto security researcher who's been trapped in a kakfaesque nightmare ever since he was arrested on a raft of stupid "terro...

This gives new meaning to "Dust Buster"....

"Everything is coming up roses" is an electrical sculpture by Robert Weschler: it's a clothes-iron that's been modified to scorch images of the Virgin of Guadalupe into any garment upon which it is re...

On eBay - this cute wooden model from 1963 that shows you how to lift things without hurting your back. Current high bid is $83. I wish the seller had a video of Oscar in action. His name is Oscar, an...

This R2D2 DJ turntable is a nice piece of work. I found it on Nerd Approved, to which it had been submitted by a reader named Jessica, who noted, 'Tech, lights and all mechanics are by Tex Nasty at Re...

Snowball is Pixeljam's Flash take on a computer pinball game, and it's an incredibly fun table. I intended to play for a few minutes to try it out and got sucked in for an hour. Snowball is simultaneo...

In this quiz, you must decide whether 15 apps are for real, or completely made-up. From scatological humor to ethnic insensitivity and tasteless decor, the mobile marketplaces have ... some of it....

In 2010, the Snowbird, a human-powered ornithopter created by a University of Toronto team, became the first HPO to sustain flight. The HPO project at U of T has a great YouTube feed of its various fl...

As London ramps up for the 2012 Olympics, a dystopian regime of policing and censorship on behalf of the games' sponsors is coming online. A special squad of "brand police" will have the power to forc...

Bibliodyssey has curated a beautiful collection of letterheads from 19th century and early 20th century architectural and industrial firms, doing a lot of cleanup and posting the hi-rez images to Flic...

Laptop isolated on a white background, Shutterstock I was invited to give a talk at Washington & Jefferson College about careers in blogging. Clearly, this would entail explaining why everything t...

Michael Geist sez, Canada Post has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Geolytica, which operates GeoCoder.ca, a website that provides several geocoding services including free access to a c...

Here's the 13th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! Our makers this week are Kate Mayfield and Gordon Bowen, owners of the biodiesel-fueled Arts Refoundry in Los Angeles. A couple of weeks ago my 9...

In this short video, Richard from ABEbooks describes the distinctive smell of old books ("a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla, with an underlying mustiness") cause...

Our close personal friend at the TSA, Blogger Bob, gave a rundown of prohibited items confiscated by his fellow officers on the front lines of the War on Terror. Concealed Knife – A knife was fo...

[Video Link, and here's the original for comparison. Thanks, Joe Sabia.]...

Paul Di Filippo says: Thought you might like the video that we posted to the AT&T Tech Channel today. It's a 1977 film that highlights a new Bell Labs-developed system for building advertisements ...

That's the headline in the New York Times. Really, what more do I need to say?...

Earlier this week at The Conference on World Affairs, I watched a panel about science in the movies. During the panel, physicist and science writer Sidney Perkowitz said that, out of all the people wr...

Long before there was a "tiger in your tank," Ethyl wanted to assure you that this delightful simian would speed your jalopy along. Knock! Knock! Who's there?...

John Cleese's 35-minute lecture on creativity is warm and funny and humane. I find myself disagreeing rather strongly with his central premise, though: Cleese advises giving yourself 30 minutes to sit...

John Scalzi collected links to online copies of this year's Hugo-nominated short stories. [Whatever]...

Minneapolis' Catholic DeLaSalle High School had a mandatory assembly recently for its senior class, to educate the students on what marriage is and what a family ought to look like. As you might guess...

In the course of preparing for a panel here at the Conference on World Affairs, I ran across a 2009 editorial by environmental journalist Fred Pearce, in which he explains why current global populatio...

LA's Museum of Contemporary Art invited the city to the opening party for Cai Guo-Qiang's "Sky Ladder" exhibition, the highlight of which was a massive explosion of rockets and other fireworks, titled...

I'll be talking about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy at three different events next week in the Twin Cities. On Tuesday, join me at Minnesota Public Radio headquarters in St. Pa...

If you only have the vaguest notion of what a "smart grid" actually is, don't feel bad. This is one of those energy buzzwords that confuses a lot of people. Part of the problem is that utility compani...

When I was at TED in February, I told Joshua Foer, (author of Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything) about the Chislehurst Canes near London, suggesting that it woul...

On the Vintage Ads LJ group, Uptown Girl has assembled a collection of AT&T ads spanning 80 years, including this wonderful, boasting 2-page spread from 1971 that's all about how bad-ass the new ...

[Video Link] Eileen Yaghoobian says: In the Spring of 2010, after showing my documentary about underground Indie-Rock Posters in Berlin, I was trapped under Iceland's clouds of volcanic ash, surrounde...

Here's a gallery of photos from David Sutton's new book: Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution. (David kindly invited me to write the fo...

Fire up your Javascript engines: we've just added infinite scrolling to Boing Boing. Now when you scroll to the bottom of any index page more posts will automatically load in so you can continue your ...

Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, went to Mumbai and revealed that a "miraculous" weeping cross was really just a bit of statuary located near a leaky drain whose liquid reached it by way of capilla...

No doubt you've seen the studies that show how social networking sites hurt productivity, and I am pretty sure you've read, heard or watched countless stories about how companies have tried to solve t...

Designer Mike Monteiro on why it's important not to work free of charge: "Even in cases where I might do discounted work for a charity, I always send them an invoice showing the standard rate with the...

The Brothers Leung are a creative family in Toronto, who've just launched a kids' picture book called The Pirate Girl's Treasure, which combines storytelling and origami: In this spectacularly origina...

On the surface, David Rees's How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths,...

CISPA, the pending US cybersecurity bill, is a terrible law, with many of the worst features of SOPA -- surveillance and domain seizures and censorship and so on. What's more, it is being supported by...

Phillip Pullella writes: "Roman centurions, complete with red skirts, tunics, armor, swords and feathered helmets, fought in front of the Colosseum. But this time it was with a modern enemy - Rome's c...

"For the lucky Brits," as Fox News put it, are 14" pizzas with sausage-stuffed crusts. The Pi of this pie makes for 44" of hot dog....

BB pal Tom Kalil of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy gave a presentation today about Grand Challenges, "ambitious yet achievable goals that capture the publics imagination and...

Ted Cassidy and friends do The Lurch on the TV variety show Shivaree, October 30, 1965. (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)...

I have not read many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. This comic anthology of his work looks like a fun way to get acquainted with the Great Old Ones. A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master...

Jorg Sprave of the Slingshot Channel demonstrates for Businessweek how to make a pencil shooter from commonplace items sitting around your office. Bloomberg Businessweek today released its second annu...

Yes, it really did happen. On June 8, 1986 at Coney Island's historic Sideshows by the Seashore. And man, what a freak-out that must have been. Audio embed above via YouTube....

In this outtake from Alive Inside, we meet an elderly man who's been in a nursing home for 10 years, and who is disengaged, listless and unresponsive to his environment. Then he is exposed to music fr...

US antitrust regulators have never really been able to find the right place to stick their lever and pry when it comes to the Internet (witness their failure to understand Microsoft's platform dominan...

I really enjoyed Paul Ford's New York Magazine story on the Facebook/Instagram acquisition. By building his analysis on the way that the "user experience" focus is different in different parts of Face...

Here is a random cute cat video. I pass it on because it's adorable. Video link...

Tim Hornyak writes about the new oversized Canadian commemorative quarters, which will feature glowing dinosaur skeletons, which is exactly what I've always wanted on all my money. Made of cupronickel...

Here's a gallery of Soviet-era anti-drunkenness posters. Some of the illustrations are really fabulous, almost Boschean in their depiction of besotted debasement (via How to Be a Retronaut)...

For the answer—and damn you if you don't already know it—check out The Oatmeal's fantastic strip explaining it. [via Waxy]...

In this photo from Highwaywilding.org, a lynx is captured by a motion-sensitive camera overlooking a highway overpass. The overpass was built to give wildlife a safe method to cross the Trans-Canada H...

Mark sez, "My amazing and beautiful wife arranged had an R2D2 cake made for my 40th birthday. It was made by Stacked Cakes which is located in a small country town 20 kilometres outside Canberra in Au...

Rob sez, "Do you like classic game graphics? Do you support free culture and free software? Can you see where this is going? Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and OpenGameArt have launch...

[Video Link] Shira Lazar of What's Trending visited 9-year-old Caine Monroy and his father to interview them about Caine's now-famous cardboard arcade. [Caine] became an online sensation this week for...

Instapaper creator Marco Arment used Zazzle to sell a mug. The mug was emblazoned with a fictional Amazon/Appstore-style review lampooning foolish, entitled users. Zazzle removed it because the "desig...

Join me Saturday at 7:00 Mountain time for a special edition of the Skeptically Speaking podcast. I'll be talking with host Desiree Schell about my new book Before the Lights Go Out. Tune into the liv...

Chirality is an interesting concept. The best way to explain it quickly is an analogy to being left-handed or right-handed. Molecules don't have hands, but they do have an inherent orientation that ca...

A while back I wrote about game developers who are recoding terrible 8-bit versions of arcade games, to take full advantage of the era's home computer technology. Given that the games and hardware are...

Tuesday night's As It Happens program on CBC radio featured a segment on the terrible human rights situation in Bahrain, opening with an archive interview with Zainab Al-Khawaja, daughter of the dissi...

From the "Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries" to the "Aphrodites of the Operating Theater," cultural critic Mark Dery is never one to turn a blind eye at our own gross anatomy. In 2006 though, Mar...

"From the "Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries" to the "Aphrodites of the Operating Theater," cultural critic Mark Dery is never one to turn a blind eye at our own gross anatomy. In 2006 though, Ma...

Jon sez, "Nicholas Merrill, who previously first challenged the expansion of the National Secret Letter in the Patriot Act, is working on building a ISP infrastructure based on privacy. Help him raise...

Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Gutted of clutter and completely exposed, the limited edition & numbered mechanical Sto...

Robo Pastierovic has created Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF), a free/open format for online comic books. ACBF has a lot of cool features: support for creator metadata; per-panel/page definitions; mu...

Nokia's in dire straits despite launching the well-liked Lumia smartphone, writes Charles Arthur: "the rise first of Apple and more recently of cheap handsets running Google's free Android software ha...

Sound it Out # 24: Soft Swells - "Put It On the Line" Soft Swells debut album sounds exactly like what it is: a duo of New York musicians transplanted to LA. Its a collection of sunny songs that sound...

The CIA fears high-tech customs checks, writes Jeff Stein: "The increasing deployment of iris scanners and biometric passports at worldwide airports, hotels and business headquarters, designed to catc...

"Stories live on the landscape like geologic strata," — Krissy Clark, public radio journalist on California's KQED, talking about the realizations that originally drew her into journalism. Clark...

Yesterday, at the Conference on World Affairs, I went to a panel about science and the movies. I'll have more on that later, but I wanted to share this short video recommended by Sidney Perkowitz as a...

Nilay Patel breaks down the Department of Justice's price-fixing case against book publishers and Apple. It appears that the government has quite a case, as Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Harper...

Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre's Giants Beware is an absolutely delightful kids' graphic novel about a brave young girl who dragoons her friends into going off in search of giants to hunt. Claudette ...

ADVERTISEMENT The following post is sponsored by Chevy Volt: Note: The 2012 Chevy Volt offers an EPA-estimated 35 miles on a single charge based on 94 MPGe [electric] and 35 city, 40 MPG highway [gas]...

Jared Keller on the new science of forestry robotics: "The vast majority of forests are destroyed by wild forest fires, and current methods of sylvan vigilance -- mainly those involved individual pers...

Andy Baio breaks down Facebook's $1bn buyout of tiny image-sharing competitor Instagram. It reveals much about the rationale behind what appears to be an inflated price: while the cost per employee ac...

On Tor.com, Mordicai Knode asks Wizards of the Coast to consider a more diverse set of portrayals of fantastic personages in the next edition of Dungeons and Dragons. That being said, I think it is us...

"Home," an installation at NYC's MagnanMetz Gallery by Colombian artist Miler Lagos is a stable igloo made of carefully stacked books. HOME. 2011. . New York - EE.UU (via Colossal)...

Bruce sez, "How Stella made her own Doctor Who themed TARDIS cake at home on her own with no previous experience. Includes pictures throughout the process." I wanted a TARDIS cake that actually had th...

Gawker has launched a new column written by an anonymous Fox News employee who posts under "The Fox Mole." S/he claims to have been with Fox for "years," and claims that s/he can't find work elsewhere...

The paperback for Welcome to Bordertown is out, this being the most excellent, long-awaited volume of short stories set in the Bordertown shared world, where Faerie has returned to Earth, and the Bord...

"We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one by one those clusters fade and disappear."...

President Nixon wanted to halve funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Here is one Fred McFeely Rogers, making a better case. [CBP] Previously: Mister Rogers -- Podcast appreciat...

Includes newly-discovered stable transuranics Ytterby, Actinny and Rubiddy. [Matt Gallant via Gizmodo]...

George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, was charged today with second-degree murder. [Wapo] Previously....

A Toledo man abandoned six English bulldog puppies in a suitcase, say Ohio prosecutors, only two blocks from his home. Howard Davis, identified by a nametag on the suitcase, faces a $750 fine and 90 d...

Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, posts a personal essay called "Reading the dictionary," which describes the traditional school curriculum as equivalent to asking students to read the dictionar...

When the Qaddafi regime fell in Libya, the headquarters of the secret police were occupied by the rebel forces, who retrieved a large quantity of memos and documents detailing the cooperation between ...

I'm not entirely clear on how Studio Intussen's "PixelTable" works -- the outer layer of square bamboo pieces appears to be permanently affixed, while the interior rows simply rest on one another. Whe...

Spotted in Valencia, Spain by La Petite Nympha: this beautiful teacup chandelier. Designer unknown, but it begs for a remake. La Petite Nympha: UN DA EN VALENCIA III - DE PASEO I...

It all started when artist Nina Katchadourian went into an airplane bathroom and spontaneously improvised a 15th century Flemish costume from a toilet-seat cover and shot a suitably posed self-portrai...

Photographer Nina Katchadourian says that in 2010 she was in an airplane bathroom when she "spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror." Thi...

Charles Manson has again been denied parole. Manson, 77, will be eligible again in 2027. "Charles Manson shows no signs of rehabilitation, parole board says" (LA Times)...

Neatorama is offering two signed copies of my new book, Before the Lights Go Out, as part of a contest drawing. To enter: Go read the interview Neatorama did with me about energy, infrastructure, and ...

In the new issue of Smithsonian, Matt Groening reveals that the Simpsons' home of Springfield was named for the town in Oregon: OK, why do the Simpsons live in a town called Springfield? Isnt that a l...

"I'm 7 foot. For Halloween I went as a normal guy on stilts." (imgur)...

Related to my earlier post about prepper condos, The Guardian's Alice Bell riffs on "doomsday dating" services like Survivalist Singles and Amazon's curious book category Books Fiction Erotica "Glo...

An infographic from Online Criminal Justice Degree does a great job of laying out the incredible waste, incompetence and invasiveness of the TSA. Click through below for the whole thing. TSA Waste
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Nat sez, "You're on a racing yacht, 650 miles from the finish line of the fifth leg of an around-the-world race. Your mast breaks, you send a team member up to cut free the sail. He slashes at the rig...

Real estate developer Larry Hall is converting Cold War missile silos in Kansas into condos for "preppers" who are getting ready for total and complete societal breakdown due to natural disaster, terr...

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Aurovrata Venet's Only in India blog is a bit like a subcontinental version of There I Fixed It, a catalog of improvised (and sometimes absurd) bodges and fixits, salted with funny malapropisms on sig...

Kiran says: "I make a range of stuff from tables to lamps and beyond. I recently started my first retro range, and have just completed an 80s gaming table, based on an old electronic game that we all ...

Etsy seller TheBohemianWorkbench combines fine joinery with fine nerdery and comes up with a beautiful, handmade wooden coffee table that resembles a giant NES controller, and which functions as a NES...

Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. In this episode, I interviewed author A.J. Jacobs. ...

Adam sez, "The first Open-data Cities Conference takes place in Brighton, England next week. It's aimed at local councils and government agencies who want to open up more of their datasets, and giving...

Back in 2010, I reviewed Mary Robinette Kowal's extraordinary debut novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, a Regency drawing-room novel reimagined as a fantasy novel, where "glamour" -- the ability to weave...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Where's My...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder. In this week's episode Jane and I talk about Where's My...

A sex camp known as "Woodstocks" has entered the imagination of locals in rural Washington Township in Pennsylvania. Said to host BDSM sex parties in a large building knows as "The Dungeon", its websi...

Foster Wattles' The Woods sinks into a perfect atmosphere—dark, haunted woods with weird technological things going on—but I can't get past the snowstorm! Last year, Wattles, a student at ...

Timothy B. Lee at Ars: "the MPAA ... urged the Seventh Circuit not to draw a legal distinction between hosting content and embedding it. In the MPAA's view, both actions should carry the risk of liabi...

Timothy B. Lee at Ars: "the MPAA ... urged the Seventh Circuit not to draw a legal distinction between hosting content and embedding it. In the MPAA's view, both actions should carry the risk of liabi...

Keio University's robotics group have demonstrated a set of remotely-controlled facial elements designed to be worn as rings. These could be directly controlled by the wearer, or could be remotely con...

Brandon Boyer gives this the lofty designation of "the funniest 20 seconds of video". Even after repeated viewings, I can't stop laughing. [Video Link]...

"We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes" — Jack Tramiel [Mercury News]...

Seoul's Leeum Samsung Museum of Art is exhibiting Do Ho Suh remarkable "Home Within Home" until June 3. Suh's piece consists of several large-scale hanging fabric recreations of the houses he's inhabi...

Rule #6: Master Your Technology. [Steve Silverman at Gizmodo]...

Charles Manson is up for parole again. At his hearing tomorrow, state-appointed attorney Dejon R. Lewis will argue that Manson should be moved from Corcoran State Prison to a psychiatric hospital. Man...

60 Minutes - Amazing videos are here Just imagine if Mike Daisey had connected with Harry Shearerinstead of Ira Glass. He might have gotten his story on Saturday Night Live and reached an even bigger ...

Purdue's Society of Professional Engineers set a new record for rubegoldbergery with a 300-step balloon-inflater/popper. As magnificent as the machine itself is, the best part of this video is unquest...

CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year. EF...

A nice piece of frightening securityspeak to conjure with: forever-day bugs, which are known bugs that the vendor has no intention of patching. These are often found in control systems, and are the so...

I think one of them freaked and set the rest of them off, like a field of shrieking land mines. The howling combined with poor old Mr. McFeely trying to console the kids is haunting. Speedy Delivery! ...

PHOTO: Technicians monitor data flow in the control room of an internet service provider in Tehran February 15, 2011. REUTERS/Caren Firouz There's an AFP item today on Iran's denial of online reports ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during a teaching session on the first day of the Kalachakra festival in the eastern Indian city of Bodhgaya January 1, 2012. The Kalachakra is a 10-day ...

TheRealDuckie (and friends) is working on a complete, functional replica of Walt Disney World in Minecraft, and has posted an update to Reddit. The Magic Kingdom is largely down, with the rides all ri...

Billboards for weight loss surgery provider "1-800-GET THIN" were ubiquitous around LA freeways until recently; the company has since come under scrutiny by the FDA, consumer affairs watchdogs and Con...

As regular Boing Boing readers know, we produce an in-flight television channel which you can watch on board Virgin America planes. The airline today announced the imminent launch of another cool chan...

Microsoft has (kind of) acquired Netscape, buying many of its key patents and assets from erstwhile owner AOL. Early Netscape employee JWZ calls it "brand necrophilia" and adds, "I assume that this me...

[Video Link] SNACKMAN! (thanks, Sean Bonner)...

Jim Woodring is one of my favorite living artists. His comic books and graphic novels (usually wordless) are funny, powerful, and awe-inspiring. I'm so excited he is about to embark on a new graphic n...

One of my favorite TED talks this year was PostSecret's Frank Warren. Over 500,000 people have sent him postcards with their secrets. I also interviewed Frank on video when I was at TED. Frank Warren ...

Gerri Detweiler is the host of Talk Credit Radio. She interviewed me about MAKE magazine and my book Made by Hand. Gerri: Tell me a little bit about what you learned from your DIY journey? Mark: I thi...

Jesse Thorn says: The Judge John Hodgman podcast is looking for disputants! You could join the Judge in his internationally-beloved court of Pod-law, and have your dispute BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. All you ...

Tastemaker X is a new mobile social game that creator Marc Ruxin says lies somewhere between "Hollywood Stock Exchange for music and fantasy sports for music." Marc is a veteran media industry future-...

TastemakerX is a new mobile social game that creator Marc Ruxin says lies somewhere between "Hollywood Stock Exchange for music and fantasy sports for music." Marc is a veteran media industry future-t...

Gawker's Adrian Chen delves deep into the history of Goatse, the greatest and most enduring of internet shock images. Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a...

Mirage Men is my pal Mark Pilkington's terrific book published last year about the story behind the UFO story -- a history of disinformation, paranoia, hoaxers, espionage, and weird psy-ops. While res...

Mary Robinette Kowal sez, Imagine what would happen if the unthinkable occurred. What if the first line were accidentally omitted by the typesetter? Would Moby Dick have been the same if it started, '...

The journal Nature spoke to SpaceX founder Elon Musk about the privatization of space flight. On April 30, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space...

From Russian TV news, evidence of a flying girl! " ."...

You know what these titanic, $260 map-of-the-continental-USA sunglasses need? An Alaska barrette and a Hawai'i epaulet. Seriously. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

[Video Link] So, this happened in Los Angeles this morning. KTLA choppers filmed a huge black bear on the streets of La Crescenta, and the hilarious (because he didn't die) reaction of a man who stumb...

Panos Ipeirotis, who writes the aptly named "A Computer Scientist in a Business School" blog, describes how he made national news by unraveling a multimillion-dollar "clickfraud" enterprise that used ...

Some computers are hard to patch, and so-called "forever day" hacks and bugs are theirs to suffer. The Millenium Bug gave us a false sense of security: this technology runs the country, and it might g...

Etsy's BabyPuppyDesigns makes hand-stamped cutlery with simple, all-caps sans-serif mottoes, such as this "Cereal Killer" spoon (sold out). Hand Stamped Spoon Cereal Killer (via Geisha Asobi)...

This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Libraries aren't just the mark of a civilized society -- assembling, curating and disseminating knowledge to all comers! -- they're also...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! As an aside, I recently got the printers proofs for my graphic novel, Wizzywig. It's starting to feel real! ...

The brilliant popular engineering Sustainable Materials - with Both Eyes Open: Future Buildings, Vehicles, Products and Equipment - Made Efficiently and Made with Less New Material has just been relea...

[Video Link] If you weren't able to make it to...

Nirvan says: "I just finished this short film about a 9-year-old boy's elaborate DIY cardboard arcade. Caine made his arcade using boxes from his dad's used auto parts store. He hadn't had many custom...

Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas. Goddard successfully bid to build the attraction as part of the 1992 competitio...

Legoist Peter sez, "My most popular model, the Exo Suit, has been submitted to the LEGO CUUSOO website. I need 10,000 supporters for the chance to have it released as an official LEGO set. If you'd li...

The United Nations recently-released World Happiness Report (PDF) listed China as the 112thhappiestcountry out of 156 countries. A number of China-based news websites re-posted the report, the first o...

Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg) has a new book out and it's printed on rolling papers. Each page is printed with lyrics and perforated for easy use. Designed by the Pereira & O'Dell agency...

The K & M Telephone Co. is seeking state permission to remove the sole remaining pay telephone in Chambers, Nebraska. The phone raked in $3.35 last year in change. K & M claims service and m...

These people in San Francisco probably had more fun than you on Passover/Easter weekend. BB reader Bhautik Joshi shares his photographs from "Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2012" in the Boing Boing Flickr P...

A plant known as "birthwort," popular in Asian and European herbal medicine for hundreds of years, causes kidney failure and cancer. Dan Vergano at USA Today digs into the fascinating medical detectiv...

Randall Munroe's produced another in his series of his spectacular, gigantic charts of unimaginably large and complex things compared and rendered tractable by the human imagination. "Lakes and Oceans...

The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was used on board the Space Shutttle Columbia in 1990. And now you can have it in your living room! A surplus dealer is selling the BBXRT on eBay for $7 million....

Sucks to be you. David Benoit at the WSJ: "The social networking giant has reached an agreement to buy Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock."...

In a piece for AP, Romina Ruiz-Goiriena reports from Guatemala City on signs that two of the most powerful and brutal organized crime groups in Latin America, the Maras and the Zetas, may be joining f...

Custom Boba Fett and C-3P0 Duunys by Sekure D. (via Super Punch)...

A few days ago, Heather and I jumped out of a cab on Madison avenue and walked right into what looked like a cute caf. Big mistake: it was Nello. Known to locals for its outrageous hidden charges, we ...

One String Sam says, "I Need A Hundred Dollars." Sam's instrument is called a diddley bow, based on a single-string instrument from West Africa.   Cotton Exchange: Mississippi Hill Country Blues ...

A delightful post on Phil Are Go! looks at the postwar Calvert Reserve ads, boozy portraits of suburban life populated by a surprising number of expressive little people doing surprising things. Calve...

My friend John Schwartz, an author and a reporter with the New York Times, has a fun essay out that explores how best to make lots of money: through inspiring fear, anger, or love/happiness/kittens? T...

In the latest New Yorker, Patricia Marx uses couchsurfing.org to sleep over at people's houses in San Francisco, Iowa City, Palo Alto, and Bermuda. Among those to whom I did not write couch requests w...

Sony is to axe another 10,000 jobs as part of its restructuring efforts. Weighed down by massive losses in its television department, Sony expects to lose $2.7bn this year. [Nikkei/Reuters]...

Boris Petrovsky writes: "The Maneki Neko (jap., literally Beckoning Cat; aka Lucky Cat, Money Cat) is a common Japanese figurine which is believed to bring luck, attract customers and bring prosperity...

Mae Anderson, on trademarks lost when products become so successful they overwhelm generic English terms: It doesn't happen often. In fact, it's estimated that fewer than 5 percent of U.S. brand names...

At a beauty salon in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, an employee performs a "medical-cosmetic" massage on a client using African snails. The salon is the only one in the region using the "snails method", which ...

Barbara Goldberg writes: "A New Jersey man who survived accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10-cm) nail into his heart while trying to clear a jammed nail gun said on Friday he feels like he won the lotte...

Brian X. Chen for the New York Times: "The hotels Internet service was secretly injecting lines of code into every page he visited, code that could allow it to insert ads into any Web page without the...

"AOL has not said exactly what the patents cover," writes Dominic Rushe in The Guardian. "Under the terms of the transaction it will retain a licence for them."...

Back in the early 1990s, I wrote an article for our old-school bOING bOING Web site about trepanation -- the ancient practice of drilling holes in your skull -- and its modern practitioners. Here's th...

The Doubleback Van is a converted Volkswagen Transporter that not only pops up like a traditional campervan, it expands out the back too. Here is video of the electrical mechanism in action. The Doubl...

ADVERTISEMENT The following is a paid post from Microsoft: Crafting your own Stormtrooper uniform from recycled bicycle tires takes time. As does constructing a TARDIS replica from discarded hubcaps. ...

The Flickr stream of Jason Liebig -- previously featured for his sticker and packaging photos -- is a good place to go for some bloated, semi-sickened post-Easter-sweets perusal. His "Easter"-tagged c...

Parents in America are taking out loans at interest rates of up to 20% in order to pay for their children's private K-12 education. The average loan from one provider, Your Tuition Solution, is $14,00...

My sister made a giant peep cake. It looks just like the recipe photo, don't you think?...

Raganwald describes a Facebook privacy-leak that's creepy even by Facebook standards. When you sign up for apps, the app-maker has the power to extract all your friends' personal info, assuming they'v...

In this video, Videocrab demonstrates a very odd typographical Easter-egg embedded in Google Chat. I have no idea if this is real or shooped, but it's cute nevertheless. 2012-04-06_21-10-36_872 (Thank...

Knob Creek Metal Arts makes clever sight-gag book-ends and sells them on Etsy in a variety of finishes. The seller adds, "Keep in mind that I can customize anything seen here and am always open to cre...

The upcoming Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, which will be attended by many latinamerican heads of state as well as Barack Obama, is set to be an historic debate over the legalization of drugs an...

This is how it's done. A ring-tailed coati mauls and slurps Easter eggs in Zagreb Zoo April 8, 2012. (REUTERS/Antonio Bronic)...

Craig sez, "This is a music video I've edited for the song 'Down Today' by Jonathan Coulton (from his 2011 album, 'Artificial Heart,' produced by John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants) using footage...

Ashwin Parameswaran's "People Make Poor Monitors for Computers" is a fascinating look at (and indictment of) the way we design automation systems with human fallbacks. Our highly automated, highly rel...

Mark Stafford's "Steam-Dinos" is a Lego fantasy with its own backstory: A spiffing way to go to war I decided as we powered through the veldt. Mr. Robersons patented Triterrortops steam powered terrib...

Last night saw the announcement of the 2012 nominees for science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award. It's a particularly fine ballot, reflecting a record number of nominating ballots (wisdom of the crow...

Here's the iPhone upgrade "choose model" page AT&T just gave me. Oh, carriers!...

Parents in America are taking out loans at interest rates of up to 20% in order to pay for their children's private K-12 education. The average loan from one provider, Your Tuition Solution, is $14,00...

There's not much detail in the description for this video, but the performance speaks for itself. The Professional Tea Boy (Thanks, myiosprinter!)...

Kyle Orland traces the long, slow decline of the American arcade, from cultural phenomenon to background noise at pizza parlors and movie theater lobbies—a fate that may be compared to the thriv...

Photo: "Family Dinner," a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from reway2007's photostream, shared in the BB Flickr Pool....

"murlin, buttercup," shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by beckitten. Says the photographer, "My mother is documenting her pup at murlin.net if you're interested in more photos and videos of murlin...

"Martini," by photographer JKG III (web), shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool....

"Martini," by photographer JKG III (web), shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool....

Link. (thanks, Tara McGinley!)...

Kyle sez, "My friend Jordan Stratford has launched his first Kickstarter (currently funded, yay!) but the idea is simply too lovely not to share. From Kickstarter:" This is a pro-math, pro-science, pr...

Here's the original, extremely bonkers pitch-reel produced for The Muppet Show, which appears on the DVD set The Muppet Show: Season One. Not shown in this clip is the finale, which the Wikia Muppet w...

Orbital talks vintage synths and its new album with Wired's Geeta Dayal....

Mike Stoor of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, weighs a gnome in the Control Room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on April 5, 2012. A German precision scale maker ...

Thomas Kinkade is dead at 54. He died unexpectedly of natural causes at home, reports his family. [AP]...

The hot new bestselling product in Moscow's stationers is a notebook emblazoned with a completely non-ironic portrait of Josef Stalin, looming large in his uniform and bristling medals. In his general...

Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 46 are Dean Putney, Boing B...

On TechDirt, Glyn Moody covers the highlights of a new report by Carrie Ellen Sager of infojustice.org that compares the provisions in ACTA, the secretly negotiated copyright treaty currently up for a...

A trusted insider source writes, "A real blockbuster of bizarre at WIPO [ed: The World Intellectual Trade Organization, the UN body responsible for copyright and patent treaties]. It seems that [WIPO ...

We grow a lot of corn in the United States, much of which never sees the inside of a human stomach. In fact, in 2010, something like a quarter of all the corn grown in this country went to ethanol pro...

At the Criminal Crafts blog, a fun tutorial on "pairing zombies with a fuzzy pastel holiday," through delicious zombie bunny rabbits and haunted eggs. There's a photo gallery here. (via Boing Boing Fl...

Why "Good Jobs" Are Good for Retailers, a Harvard Business Review study by MIT's Zeynep Ton, argues that the success of retailers like Uniqlo and Trader Joe's can be attributed, in part, to maintainin...

Kaely says: Alex Pasternack has a terrific interview with the legendary William Gibson in Motherboard. This isn't another re-hash of what's in his latest book, Distrust that Particular Flavor. Bearing...

Artist Randy Regier and Bill North took a road trip from Kansas to Oregon, snapping photos along the way. They have a good eye for funny things. Are we there yet? One van, two friends, and the road....

[video link] This month's Harpers Magazine includes a feature by Charles Glass about the growth of private security firms since 9/11: The Warrior Class. The conclusion to the piece describes a series ...

[video link] This month's Harpers Magazine includes a feature by Charles Glass about the growth of private security firms since 9/11, The Warrior Class: A golden age for the freelance soldier. The con...

Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic tells Boing Boing, My pal Andrew Evans who blogs for National Geographic Traveler just happened to be in the capital of Malawi yesterday when the president was r...

Mitch O'Connell digs into his old-timey ephemera cornucopia to assemble a gallery of women depicted as slabs of beef ready to be butchered. The Most Sexist Images EVER!...

In 1938 Detective Comics purchased the rights to Superman from his creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster for $130 (click image above). This check is now on the auction block and the current high bid ...

A monkey sculpture is pictured on a pick-up truck before it is placed in an exhibition at Hiriya recycling park, built on the site of a former garbage dump near Tel Aviv. The Coca-Cola Recycled Safari...

London's Overthrow is an expanded, illustrated version of Oh, London, You Drama Queen, China Miville's editorial in the New York Times. Part warning, part love-poem, a must-read. 30 November. Above th...

Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, a storyteller and video director who collaborates with us to produce Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America, sends this snapshot from Istanbul. He's in Turkey ...

You can tell by the pixels: The Russian Orthodox Church is accused of Photoshopping a photo on their website of Patriarch Kirill I to "disappear" a $30,000 watch. The church leader has previously said...

Songwriter Allee Willis installed this fab brass porthole cover on her laundry chute. I am tempted to install a laundry chute just so I can follow suit. As much as I love these theyre not my favorite ...

Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold, who recently departed the L.A. Weekly to join the Los Angeles Times, writes about his experience attending a nine-course "Marijuana and Chinese Herbs" dinne...

This is not a joke. Ethan Persoff, archivist of weirdo ephemera and "comics with problems," tells Boing Boing: In 2011 Rick Santorum insulted the planet by comparing traditional marriage to a napkin. ...

In 2009, graphic designer Peter Buchanan-Smith designed a classic, high-quality ax. That product led to "Best Made," Buchanan-Smith's online catalog of vintage-inspired, "authentic"-feeling products l...

Here's Jon Stewart at his acerbic best, commenting on the Supreme Court's decision to allow strip searches for any arrest. Contains this pearl of wisdom: "[The conservatives on the court are] the 'def...

Musician Arthur Russell was a mainstay of the New York City downtown avant-garde who in the 1970s and 1980s experimented with underground disco, post-punk pop, no-wave, folk, minimalist classical and ...

Last month, I posted that the town of Buford, Wyoming was up for auction. It sold yesterday for $900,000 to two men from Vietnam whose identities and rationale have not been revealed as of yet. "Bufor...

Bureau Of Trade is a new site that shares interesting finds on eBay and Craigslist in categories like vintage watches, clothing, classic cars, furniture, books, and music. My pal David Katznelson, DIY...

You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability, is a clever study of "memorable phrases" from movies and advertisements from Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Lill...

Brand New reports that the nonprofit literacy organization Reading is Fundamental (RIF) has replaced its 44-year-old logo. Usually I think logos from the 1960s are better than modern redesigns, but in...

Last year, Apostolos Polyzonis, 55, out of work and out of money, set himself on fire outside a bank in Thessaloniki, Greece. He survived. From CNN: Until now, Polyzonis's self-immolation was the most...

Charles Fort (1874 - 1932) was a writer and researcher who "collected" anomalous phenomena. Mostly, he'd sit in the New York Public Library combing through newspapers, magazines, and scientific journa...

Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Watchismo is proud to be the first watch retailer offering SISU Watches, some of the boldest...

One ATM in the town of Timisoara, Romania is six-feet above street level. If you want to use it, you need to bring a ladder with you. A nearby ATM down the street is so low you have to get on your kne...

The Weinstein Company has caved to the MPAA and edited down the documentary Bully in order to get a PG-13 rating. Unrated, uncut versions of the movie will still be shown in some theaters -- a concess...

[Video Link] Insert statistic here about how hippos kill more people every year than the distance from earth to sun if stacked end-to-end and reduced to a single day. (Via 22 Words)...

Former Senator Chris Dodd, head of the MPAA, has hinted to the Hollywood Reporter that he's already greasing the wheels for a new version of SOPA, though he's shy about revealing details because of th...

11,541 red chairs are pictured along Titova street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war, April 6, 2012. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still dee...

PCVS is a venerable high school in Peterborough, Ontario (northeast of Toronto). It's older than Canada, and boasts a roster of eminent alumni. It is fully enrolled, gay-friendly, and a success story ...

Democracy Now has a big update in the homicide of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, a black Marine vet shot dead at his home by police in White Plains, New York, last November after he accidentally set...

A 29-year-old woman in Torrance, CA, has been arrested for driving on the 405 freeway while texting on her cellphone, with a kid in the back seat without a seatbelt, another kid in the back seat in an...

A Minnesota waitress had to hire a lawyer to force police to return a $12,000 tip she gave to them as lost property. From Reuters: "Knutson, a mother of five, called local police and turned in the cas...

Here's the 12th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! Our maker interview this week is with Ayah Bdeir, the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that ...

Classic computer RPG Fallout is free of charge today. [GoG]...

Muji sells high quality generic products at inexpensive prices; think Ikea with better taste and a Japanese flavor of minimalism. This is its background music. Bruce Sterling: "More starkly minimal th...

An unnamed brand of smoke grenade includes "Don't be a dick with our products" in its instructions. Apparently this is Canadian (judging from the bilingual instructions). Smoke grenade instructions.. ...

In the wake of Mike Daisey's exposure as a fabulist, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human arrives at the perfect moment. The Atlantic's Maura Kelly examines Jonathan Gottschall's argumen...

The final item from today's Shapeways rummage is Artfulshrapnel's "GOATSEarring," a goatse.cx tribute ear-plug: "The worst ear plug the internet has to offer." GOATSEarring Standard Gauges...

Writer and comics creator Brian Michael Bendis (Twitter) is in Tokyo, and tweeted a series of infringment-spotting snapshots today. The Stormtrooper/Star Wars shirt he found and photographed, above, m...

Wow, wow, wow, wow. If you'd like to read the court documents, here's a 43-page PDF....

Izismile has collected 19 unsourced photos of extremely well-dressed children. Does anyone know where young Joker here comes from? TinEye search came up blank. So Young, Yet So Hip (19 pics) (via Geis...

Antonio A. Casilli at BodySpaceSociety, a "blog for recovering social scientists," has an interesting post on understanding "pro-ana"/"pro-mia" on social media sites like Pinterest and Tumblr. Snip: O...

Twitter, on its blog, declares legal war on companies providing tools to spammers. This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of the most aggressive tool providers and ...

If you would like to see my interview with Daniel Clowes, along with the Enid Coleslaw cosplay contest and other festivities that are being held to tonight to celebrate the release of Daniel's monogra...

Writer and illustrator Lisa Hanawalt snuck into the New York Toy Fair and wrote/illustrated a very funny, very snarky account of it for The Hairpin. My wife used to go to Toy Fair every year for work,...

[Video Link] Jack Streat, the 17-year-old boy who made the AK-47 out of Lego pieces in the video above, has landed a book deal. LEGO Heavy Weapons will be released in May by No Starch Press. From LEGO...

Starship Sofa has just podcasted Neil Gaiman's novelette "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains," which won this year's Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. Here's the text of the story, and abov...

You're probably familiar with Dave Pell's excellent Tweetage Wasteland essays about online culture that appear with some frequency at Gizmodo, NPR, and his own site. Dave recently started a terrific d...

The second item of note from my rummage on Shapeways this morning is Wahtah's Sierpinski tetrahedron, a fractal pyramid with 499,994 faces. Sierpinski tetrahedron...

What books do you cringe at having loved? Nadia Chaudhury collects the teen-age literary crushes of 30 popular writers. The feelings are so strong and obsessive. The books seem smart, sophisticated, c...

Kaiser21 and child show off this flaming tailfined auto-stroller at the 2010 June 5 Monthly Muscle Car Show in Plano, TX. Papa Kaiser notes, "This little stroller won first place in the Open Car class...

Dropbox just made it so that  I  you can get up to 16GB of storage by referring new users to the awesome, life-changing free-of-charge cloud service. Noobs also get the same bonus for being ...

When Kim Thompson was diagnosed with a tumor that resulted in "the removal of most of her small intestine, a pulmonary embolism, and 12-hour-a-day IV feeding sessions" she had to quit her job and go o...

A trojan horse has emerged to take control half a million Macs, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. Exploiting a vulnerability in Java, the naughty software connects to a remote host and m...

S/T by Brother Sun, Sister Moon Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a hazy, droney, dreamy collaboration between New Zealand vocalist Alizia Merz (Birds of Passage) and instrumentalist/beat maestro Gareth Mun...

Don't start a band. Make video games. [The Verge]...

A fake PDF purporting to contain information on "the formation of the leadership council of the Syrian revolution" is circulating. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Eva Galperin and Morgan Marqu...

University of Oxford neuroscientist Charles Spence: "Weve shown that if you take something with competing flavors, something like bacon-and-egg ice cream, we were able to change peoples perception of ...

Lawrence Cobbold, 38, collects bird tchotchkes -- bird ornaments, bird thimbles, bird refrigerator magnets, bird mugs, bird pictures, bird jigsaw puzzles. He really really digs birds. His collection o...

I had a bit of a rummage on the Shapeways marketplace today and came up with some 3D printed gubbins that I'm intrigued by. First up is Stop4Stuff's "Twin Rail Mobius," a set of nested Mbius strips th...

Boing Boing contributor Mark Dery has just published "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams," a long-awaited compendium of his oft-brutal, usually funny, an...

See the box in this photo? It's more interesting than it looks. This is a box that went to the Moon. Astronauts used the boxes to collect and bring back to Earth nearly 50 pounds of moon rocks and soi...

Snapped yesterday near my flat in east London, this Irish shredding company's logo on the back of their truck. Talk about "does what it says on the tin!" Awesome logo on hard-drive-shredding service's...

Hashi, a 17-year-old sex worker, embraces "husband" (known as a "Babu") inside her small room at the Kandapara brothel in Tangail, a northeastern city of Bangladesh. Many young and inexperienced prost...

Next week is one of my favorite times of the year, when I get inundated with smart people and interesting ideas, like some kind of geeky Christmas. For the second time, I'll be a speaker at the Univer...

[Video Link] Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann talks about the raid at Oaksterdam University in the San Francisco Bay area. He speaks with Trish Regan and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "...

Twelve issues of electronic music magazine Synapse, covering fall 1976 to summer 1979, are scanned and ready for your perusal at Cyndustries. Reviews, interviews, fascinating ads and technical discuss...

I recently had what I am pretty sure was foodborne illness. It arrived in the middle of a friend's birthday party, a sudden onslaught of misery that lasted for the next 8 hours, reminding me, horribly...

Buttons glow in the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva on April 5, 2012. At 0:38 CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew...

Charles Manson is up for his 12th parole hearing. In response to a CNN request, the California Department of Corrections has posted a fresh mugshot [Via LA Times]...

This customized 1957 Pontiac was used by the Erie Mining Company to transport supervisors up and down the company's 74-mile-long Mainline railroad, which shipped taconite from mines in northern Minnes...

The fighting game community has another image problem to deal with: the prospect of sponsorship from porn giant Brazzers. At Ars Technica, Kyle Orland tracks the community's internal debate. Associati...

I'm having flashbacks to childhood visits to Showbiz Pizza, but this robot band, put together by researchers at Drexel University for an Engineering Week exhibition, is a bit more impressive than the ...

Last Monday, I spoke to the Boston Skeptics about energy, infrastructure, and my new book, Before the Lights Go Out. After that talk, I met Erik "Skippy" Sund, a guy who is about to embark on an amazi...

Inspired by impossible objects a la Reutersvrd, Escher and Penrose, designer Martzi Hegedus created Frustro, a mind-bending typeface. [via Illusion 360]...

Free States Rising is the 11th (and penultimate) collection of Brian Wood's masterful (anti-)war comic, DMZ. Wood has spent the past half-decade spinning this tightly plotted, gripping, and sardonic a...

Lunduke has created Linux Tycoon, a $4 sim-game that simulates making your own GNU/Linux distribution. It looks like rather a lot of fun, actually: So what exactly do you do in a Linux Distro Building...

A one night only event honoring the release of the First Monograph of Clowes’s work. Hosted by Blair Butler (of G4’s Fresh Ink), this night will include a discussion with Clowes and Mark F...

Homeland Security Equipment is one of those blandly-named and blandly-designed sites that contains unexpected delights, such as the wicked Yes Tool, a demolition axe made entirely of copper. It even h...

Homeland Security Equipment is one of those blandly-named and blandly-designed sites that contains unexpected delights, such as the wicked Yes Tool, a demolition axe made entirely of copper. It even h...

On IO9, Esther Inglis-Arkell does a great job of describing the molecular gastronomy practice of "spherification," whereby food is liquefied and then coaxed into forming gelatinous spheres. It has its...

Zartan sez, "This might be the single stupidest thing I've read all year. Richard Clark advocates that the president take action to 'increase cyber security' in the absence of congressional action, in...

A piece of research by Consumer Reports finds that Americans care about their online privacy. Many people look at the wholesale privacy disclosures taking place on social networks and conclude that th...

Google just announced their augmented reality project. It's called Project Glass. From the announcement on Google+: We think technology should work for youto be there when you need it and get out...

Michael Geist writes in with news of Canada's bill C-30, the insane, overreaching warrantless spying bill that collapsed earlier this year on a wave of public disapprobation. As you might have suspect...

Plan on being in Florida on April 29/30? Then you should register to watch the launch of SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket as part of a NASA Social. There are only 50 spots available, randomly selected from the...

Reviews of Nokia's Lumia 900 are in: Ars Technica, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget and Wired each have in-depth coverage of the new flagship Windows Phone. The good points include nice hardware, an inexp...

These nursing uniforms come from the Philippines, Denmark, British Honduras; Hong Kong, Madeira, Kenya; Nepal, Dominican Republic, and Colombia. The nurses, one suspects, do not. The photo, though, is...

This is an awkward sort of "How To" post because nobody really knows the answer. Here's the rather bleak reality: Rabies is not, typically, something you live through. If you think you've been exposed...

Test PAC, the Reddit-based PAC founded to raise money to support opponents of Lamar Smith, the author of SOPA, has placed its first billboard and is set to run its first advertisements. The materials ...

Twitterer @petermolydeux posts funny concepts for ambitious video games — "You have to secretly make people fight each other and then afterwards use their bodies to make artwork that enriches th...

It's a little late in the week, but I think you should really read this paper published on arXiv—a open-access website where physicists and mathematicians can post their research before it's gon...

Two years ago, if you'd asked me what I thought about something like cap and trade, or a carbon tax, I would have said that they were interesting ideas, but probably not worth the trouble of fighting ...

Bruce Wilson has been looking deeper into ties between Invisible Children, the group behind "Kony 2012," and a secretive fundamentalist Christian organization known variously as The Family and The Fel...

Marcus "Notch" Persson, of Minecraft fame, has outlined 0x10c, a spiritual successor to space-exploration classic Elite: "It's going to be a space game, and it's quite ambitious!" While you're waiting...

On Friday, Erica Scheldt, 24, noticed Jesus in a dead stingray on the beach of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. From the Charleston Post And Courier: "I just kind of thought it looked like a bearded...

An interesting new iOS app launched today called Whale Alert. Though it's available for anyone, the iPhone/iPad app is intended primarily for use by workers in the shipping and maritime industry. It "...

Kevin Weir's Flux Machine project creates surprising, Python-esque animations out of public domain photos of the olde worlde. The effects are horror-comedy at its finest. flux machine (via Neatorama)...

Leaked police training materials suggested that Apple can provide authorities with backdoor access to your iPhone. At Ars Technica, Jacqui Cheng investigated whether it was true or not, and found that...

A gentleman in Salford, UK was banned from carrying scissors in public as punishment for sneaking up on two women and cutting off locks of their hair. The "haircut assault man," Darren Dixon, 48, also...

Adventure Game Studio, with more than a decade of development behind it, is among the most successful game creation apps of all time. Countless excellent adventures emerge from its development communi...

Designer JC Rivera and sculptor Scott Wetterschneider created a vinyl toy version of Instagram's Polaroid-tastic mascot; unfortunately, it's just a one off, and not to be found soon in a trade show sw...

Sean Hartter has designed this notional Joker-brand cereal box. He notes that his FB friends quipped, "Why So Cereal", "You wanna see a Trix?" and "Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you eat more ...

Volcano Tungurahua in Ecuador erupts about every 90 years—it's a schedule the mountain has kept for 1300 years. This photo was taken by Patrick Taschler in 2006. (Via Astronomy Photo of the Day ...

That does it! You are NOT ALLOWED to visit the Tom the Dancing Bug website! What's that? Okay, young man/woman! You're ALSO not allowed to follow Ruben Bolling on TWITTER! Any more back-talk? I didn't...

Anechoic chambers are pretty damn awesome. Basically, they're rooms designed to be sound-proofed against outside noise, while, inside, sound is prevented from bouncing off the walls. There's no echo. ...

(video: Jenna Chandler, Santa Monica Patch) Last night at Santa Monica College (about 20 blocks from the beach here in Los Angeles, CA), police pepper-sprayed some thirty students in a crowd of about ...

A TSA screener threw hot coffee over an airline pilot who asked her to stop using foul language in uniform. He was uninjured; the screener was charged with assault. [Daily Mail]...

Hanan sez, "'A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits' by Claude Shannon can be viewed but cannot be printed. It's behind an MIT paywall. This thesis from 1937 predicted moderns digital cir...

Hanan sez, "'A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits' by Claude Shannon can be viewed but cannot be printed. It's behind an MIT paywall. This thesis from 1937 predicted moderns digital cir...

Plug and the Paddywhacks. We also mentioned that we reviewed Toca Kitchen in Apps for Kids 004. Don't forget to be part of our "Listener Email" segment. If you would like to have us read your favorite...

Plug and the Paddywhacks. We also mentioned that we reviewed Toca Kitchen in Apps for Kids 004. Don't forget to be part of our "Listener Email" segment. If you would like to have us read your favorite...

Step Gently Out is children's picture book in which poet Helen Frost's verse accompanies the incredible garden insect photographs of artist/photographer Rick Lieder. I've written here many times about...

Apropos yesterday's post about 1970s science fiction convention costumes, Strephon Taylor sez, "I just saw your post on the 1970's science fiction costumes. I made a documentary on the early northern ...

I've got chills. Listen to it on SoundCloud. Update: W.T. Snacks pointed me to their cover of the Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, which he used for a spaztastic birthday party invite last year. There's...

On IO9, Ron Miller has published a selection from his collection of photos of 1970s cosplayers, dating from a costuming epoch where nudity was a lot more common than it is today. Among the clothed pic...

Rusty Blazenhoff spotted a fashionable carport in Arizona. Today's ironic kitch is tomorrow's deranged legal threat from Mot Hennessy • Louis Vuitton! [Laughing Squid]...

Nate Anderson on the dilemma faced by Carpathia Hosting, in whose possession are a large number of expensive servers that cannot be released to new customers, but which no-one is paying for. [Ars Tech...

In 2010, Andy Fields bought a $5 stash of paintings at a garage sale. When he later took one of the frames apart, he found the above sketch. Turns out, it's likely an Andy Warhol original that the Pop...

Mike Lin of Fenix International, developers of cheap electricity solutions for off-grid use, just returned from Uganda where he picked up these excellent items at local markets. Kids make the toy truc...

Here's a 2005 video of Rob Paulsen, who was the voice of Yakko Warner on the amazing Animaniacs cartoon, performing "Yakko's World," a fiendishly difficult and delightful Gilbert & Sullivanesque ...

Oaksterdam University, Americas "first cannabis college" was raided by the DEA yesterday, as well as the apartment of its founder Richard Lee. While the government has been fairly quiet about the reas...

Oaksterdam University, America's "first cannabis college" was raided by the DEA yesterday, as well as the apartment of its founder Richard Lee. While the government has been fairly quiet about the rea...

Freelance journalist Jessica Grose has a fascinating "long read" in Slate this week (and I'm not kidding about the long part, 8,000 words!) about Bear True Crimes: wild bears in and around Yellowstone...

At the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, India-based journalist Adam Matthews writes about the rising labor movement in China. Below, a snip from his most recent piece on the phenomenon of "bloody ...

Lunduke has created Linux Tycoon, a $4 sim-game that simulates making your own GNU/Linux distribution. It looks like rather a lot of fun, actually: So what exactly do you do in a Linux Distro Building...

Nicola sez, "I made this for my husband last weekend and he mentioned in passing that he thought I should send it in to you. I created it using a CraftRobo Pro cutter/ plotter, a stencil I made in ill...

Douglas Edric Stanley on death in games: "The 'game over' screen provides some sort of closure to the game and proposes albeit post facto a redefinition of the initiating act of the game: 'I want to...

The Trayvon Martin story remains in national headlines this week, but little media attention has been paid to a similarly troubling case: that of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old Marine vet kil...

Al Lowe is kickstarting a new Leisure Suit Larry adventure game. Your fond memories of the 80s originals were recently ruined by awful 3D sequels which didn't involve him—or the original Sierra ...

Sword & Sworcery, the beautiful hit adventure game for iPad, is coming to Windows PCs. Previously: the soundtrack; Less Talk, More Rock....

From "the chirurgeon's apprentice," a fascinating and squick-inducing blog/website devoted to chronicling "the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery," an entry about the history of books bound in tanned ...

Dirty Pictures is a documentary about maverick chemist Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin and his wife Ann Shulgin, heroes of psychedelic culture who for more than forty years have independently synthesized an...

Paper replicas of iPads and iPhones with other gadgets for sale for the Chinese Qingming festival at a prayer supplies shop near Kuala Lumpur. Chinese people go to cemeteries during the festival to ho...

This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. Here's a roundup of some of my favorite money-saving apps for iOS: SmartyPig. My favorite money saving app is SmartyPig. It's designed t...

Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in "Jobs," an indie film that starts shooting next month. From CNN: The timing of the story, which was published Sunday on Variety's website, combined with Kutcher'...

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, aka "Curveball", an Iraqi defector who falsified testimony about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, confirms that he made the whole thing up in an interview airing this ...

Tom says: Blood on the Mink is Robert Silverbergs long lost crime novel, which tells the story of a government agent going undercover to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring. Acclaimed science-fiction and...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! Hey dudes, I just recently finished designing the book cover for my soon to be released graphic novel and it's finally up on Amazon at almost %50 off c...

R. Scott Taylor, a senior editor at Blackgate Magazine, is running a Kickstarter project to raise money for a Mayan-themed fantasy shared-world series. The stories are already written, with contributi...

I've used this tool, for about 6 months on a long-haired Chow/Labrador mix and on a Corgi. They both shed like crazy and the undercoat is a serious challenge with the Chow. This grooming tool takes ca...

On Instructables, Natalina explains how she turned her motorcycle helmet into a disco ball: "This disco ball helmet uses real glass, as it is intended as a costume piece (to be paired with a disco bac...

After criticizing the new iPad for its heat output, Consumer Reports nonetheless places it at the top of its latest list of tablets....

Bruce Sterling's "An Essay on the New Aesthetic," is a dense, difficult, exciting critical look at the New Aesthetic, a kind of art movement centered in my neighbourhood in east London ("If you wanted...

David Javerbaum in the New York Times Sunday Review: "Mitt Romney is but one of countless Mitt Romneys, each occupying his own cosmos, each supporting a different platform ... all of them running for ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that anyone arrested in the U.S. may be strip-searched. [NYT]...

It's clearly a bit of April foolery, but Donald Melanson's review of the PalmPilot Personal on Engadget does a nice job of capturing the excitement of those early PDAs. I owned every model of Palm and...

Bastian sez, "Tinkerforge offers open source electronic building blocks. There are sensing-, motor controlling- and wireless building blocks. You can select the modules you need for your project, plug...

Time columnist Joel Stein writes that adults should read only adult books. The only thing more embarrassing than catching a guy on the plane looking at pornography on his computer is seeing a guy on t...

Marit Almendingen of the Helgeland Arbeiderblad writes that the truck driver survived this terrifying drop in Norway. [via Hooniverse]...

Last month, I wrote about Wil Wheaton and Felecia Day's announcement of their joint project, Tabletop, a net-show that records rollicking tabletop gaming sessions. The first episode, covering the game...

Last month, I wrote about Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day's announcement of their joint project, Tabletop, a net-show that records rollicking tabletop gaming sessions. The first episode, covering the game...

[Video Link] Created by Peter Serafinowicz....

The legendary singer/songwriter Patti Smith, one of my personal heroes, sat down with CBS News host Anthony Mason to discuss her career and her forthcoming album in this hour-long video. She performs ...

This electron microscope photograph, published by the Vienna University of Technology, shows a nano-scale model of a Formula One racing car, created using a 3D printing technique being developed there...

Whether you're in London, Ontario; London, England; or London, Kentucky, a penny is now all but worthless. Canada is the first to stop minting new ones; with the evidence suggesting that resulting inf...

Over at the Wirecutter, Brian Lam has an exhaustive, intensively-researched, budget-minded examination on what gadgets to buy (or not!) if one wants to drink nice fresh vegetable juices every day. Do ...

Here's the new self-directed video for "Crazy Clown Time," the new single from director (and songwriter)David Lynch. His new album is also called Crazy Clown Time. Mr. Lynch continues to make very dis...

In this short video, Kirsti show us how she uses a shotgun and some standing water to make a beautiful rainbow that carries the delicate scent of gunpowder and magic. KIRSTI'S SHOTGUN RAINBOW (via Nea...

The Daily Telegraph has determined the world's ugliest buildings. Some of them are hideous indeed, but the collection is perhaps more interesting as an illustration of what the fancier echelons of Bri...

ACLU affiliates across America requested information on local law enforcement's use of cell-phone tracking, and received a wealth of disturbing information about the extent of wireless tracking. They ...

ACLU affiliates across America requested information on local law enforcement's use of cell-phone tracking, and received a wealth of disturbing information about the extent of wireless tracking. They ...

Should the same crime deserve greater punishment if motivated by racial hatred or bigotry? At The New York Times, former editor Bill Keller says no, with the murder of Treyvon Martin as his entry poin...

@OzzyDweller has 5,000 3.5" Amiga floppy disks that he needs to archive, so he built a glorious rube-goldbergian floppy-disk bulk-importing device. It has a magazine filled with floppies that are auto...

A Reddit user called capt_wink_martindale wrote a piece last month describing what he claims happened to him as a student film-maker who'd licensed the rights to an Isaac Asimov story for his thesis p...

YodaFan has recut Yoda's scenes from the Star Wars movies to correct his grammar. I've always summarized Yoda's speech patterns with this: "Bad grammar have I you think? When 900 years old you are, ta...

Science writer Steve Silberman does an amazing job covering neurodiversity and the Autism community, so I've been waiting to get his take on the recent Centers for Disease Control data that found the ...

Grist's article on local, artisan connective tissue and beef paste is possibly my favorite April Fools story of 2012....

Minneapolites and St.Paulians: Join me April 19th for a launch party celebrating my book Before the Lights Go Out. It'll be at The Bakken Museum—an excellently geeky temple to the history and in...

A Tibetan exile in Dharamsala, India, weeps as the body of Jamphel Yeshi is carried for cremation inside the Tsuglagkhang temple, in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala on March 30, 2012. Yesh...

Last week, Catholic priest Martin McVeigh inadvertently shared a collection of "16 indecent images of men" with a group of parents. Naturally, the priest claims he has no knowledge of the "offending i...

Lynne Olver's Food Timeline tracks food trends through the ages. The Twentieth Century timeline is a decade-by-decade treasurehouse of food fads and fashions, working from primary sources like cookboo...

At Cult of Mac, John Brownlee writes about Girls Around Me, a creepy app that exploited geolocation APIs to make it easy to stalk women. These are all girls with publicly visible Facebook profiles who...

Charley Miller is a game designer and producer based in New York City. Avi Solomon: Tell us a bit about yourself. Charley Miller: My name is Charley, I'm from Kentucky and I'm a game designer based in...

In The Guardian, Alexis Petridis penned a fantastic reflection on the UK's scary public information films of the 1960s to 1980s. For more than 60 years, the government's Central Office of Information ...

Here is a horrifying concept few of us want to contemplate: Peak chocolate. (Via Steve Portigal)...

This is a very cool, behind-the-scenes peek at how researchers at the Smithsonian deal with the problem of studying meteorites without contaminating said meteorites. This is a big issue. We study mete...

Paul Douglas is a Minneapolis/St.Paul meteorologist. Meteorologists don't study the same things as climate scientists—remember, weather and climate are different things—but Douglas is a me...

A gentleman in Grand Junction, Colorado was put on probation after shooting a woman in the head. Apparently, he thought the woman was a red bird but really she just had a red mohawk. The woman, who di...

Just as one seed can produce many seeds, one idea can change many lives. Free public libraries were revolutionary in their time because they provided access to books and knowledge that had not previou...

Above is an example a "smart pebble," outfitted with a microprocessor and magnets, that MIT researchers are using to prototype algorithms for "smart sand" that could form into any shape. Sure, it's ea...

Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "The coordinators of this year's Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York have joined forces with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and have designated April as the m...

This is what the wind over the United States looked like on March 27th, 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. It's beautiful. And it's even better if you go to the project page, where you can watch real-time...

In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut learned that Charles McCarthy, head of the school board that governed Drake High School in North Dakota, had burned 32 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in the school furnace, offen...

The student of history who devotes his attention only to the most notable events and personae of the Hellenic tradition would imperfectly comprehend its true character. Though its Di Majores offers th...

My latest Publishers Weekly column is "A Whip to Beat Us With," which describes how publishers who allow retailers to add DRM to their products hand those retailers a commercial advantage to exercise ...

Today marks the publication of Fantagraphics' magnificent archaeological comicsology, The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics. This volume collects the rare, nearly ...

Etsy seller GoChaseRabbits make this fabulous custom R2D2 skirt. She's sold it, but she's taking pre-orders for more. For Sale is a UNIQUE R2D2 Star Wars Inspired skirt! This is one of my original des...

FoodJunk, whose blog details the flavors and sensations to be had from junk food, bought a 22-year-old unopened package of Batman cereal on eBay and tried it. The results weren't good. Bad news for an...

Hurray! Drew Friedman has an art show coming up later this month. I asked him to tell me a bit about the exhibition, and he kindly obliged: "Drew Friedman MY WAY," opening April 27th, marks my first "...

This was posted to Twitter by Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPop, in response to someone who did not wish to stay on there after the company was bought by Mark "Just copy what they do" Pincus's Zynga. There ar...

This was posted to Twitter by Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPop, in response to an employee who did not wish to stay on after the company was bought by Mark "Just copy what they do" Pincus's Zynga. There are ...

Hurray! Drew Friedman has an art show coming up later this month. I asked him to tell me a bit about the exhibition, and he kindly obliged: "Drew Friedman MY WAY," opening April 27th, marks my first "...

Denise Balkissoon writes, "This is the last week of the trial of Byron Sonne, computer security consultant charged with explosives after the G20. This week, his defence called Fryderyk Supinski, who w...

The official release date for The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is today. So go buy the book already! Or enter todays contest for your last opportunity to win an autographed copy (details af...

and our countdown continues with more Clowes oddities that couldnt be included in the book. Museum Bound The exhibition Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes displays original drawings in an ins...

and our countdown continues with more Clowes oddities that couldnt be included in the book. Museum Bound The exhibition Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes displays original drawings in an ins...

This photo comes from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It show a school (?) of nautiluses devouring some chicken. Allen owns a large yacht called the Octopus, which has a couple of ROVs on board. This...

Marilyn sez, "Nelson Dellis began training his memory after his grandmother died of Alzheimer's, and last week the 28-year-old won the U.S. Memory Championship for the second year in a row." The techn...

The Independent's Simon Calder reports that the US Department of Homeland Security has ordered air carriers to hand over the personal information of British people travelling to the Caribbean, Mexico ...

Tomi Ahonen has a really interesting post on how it is that major, top-selling phone companies -- Siemens, Motorola, Palm, Nokia, Windows Mobile, RIM -- can see their sales fall off a cliff as the who...

Three times a week I get up early to go lift weights with a colleague. One of the main motivations for getting out of bed is the knowledge that I'll have ample coffee throughout the day to keep me goi...

A group of researchers at Drexel University have demonstrated a method of recovering credit card details and other sensitive information from used Xbox 360s, even after they have been "reset to factor...

Designer Christian Annas has assembled a gallery of "100 logos from American and Canadian railroad companies," dating from 1845 to 2000. They show a microcosm of a century and a half's worth of evolut...

Deborah sez, "This landlord of an abortion clinic has turned the tables on anti-abortion protesters. His army of volunteers calls the anti-abortion protesters at home and say thanks for your concern b...

BB pal Gareth Branwyn sez, "Just wanted to alert you, in case you were unaware, that my old cyberpal John Shirley's seminal series A Song Called Youth just came out in a new omnibus edition with a new...

Here's Kevin Smith discussing his success as an independent, and rebutting critics who say that his go-it-alone strategy for his Red State (which is, by the way, excellent) was only possible because h...

In this 1945 Mechanix Illustrated article, Harold S. Kahm sets out the facts for any would-be ride-designers looking to hit the jackpot with a new high-speed thrill. Starting with the origin story of ...

Superman can be a real jerk! "Comics Showing Superman Crazy Sociopath WTF Funny" (Happy Place)...