Articles by BoingBoing from November 2012

An animated collaboration between Greenpeace and Free Range studios (creators of such activist classics as Meatrix and Story of Stuff) exposes the trail of hazardous chemicals from factories in the de...

Some Staples stores in Belgium and the Netherlands will have MCOR color 3D printers that will print out model-files uploaded to a store website for in-person pickup. MCOR printers use plain pulp paper...

This adorable Makie doll went to MineCon, a Minecraft convention in Paris, with its owner MoggyMoo and her son, a Minecraft enthusiast. In honour of the occasion, Moggymoo knit a tiny custom Minecraft...

This attractively-designed iOS app lets you roll virtual dice that have a number of different symbols on their faces....

A fantastically-psychotronic and insane video for "Hashshashin Chant" by Demdike Stare, available on their out-of-print Voices of Dust LP or the Triptych box set compiling all three of their essential...

Neulant van Exel's Floppy Table is made from rolled steel, and its dust-guard slides aside to reveal a cavity for storing your TV remote. No pricing info, so I assume this is one of those, "If you hav...

Researchers from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University have built a 3D printer that can use sorted (simulated) Lunar regolith (moon dust) to print out "crud...

Greg sez, "This project is using a number of computational photography techniques to document Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine No 2' for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. There are int...

That Shakespeare movie that Joss Whedon shot in 12 days (during some spare time while shooting The Avengers) has gotten an official theatrical release date: June 7, 2013. Filmed in glorious black and ...

A gaggle of devastatingly handsome cartoonists pose for a group portrait in a Toronto restaurant. Left to right: Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Seth, Chester Brown, Anouk Ricard, Peter Birkemoe, Adrian To...

Join the editors and contributors of MAKE in a Google Hangout right now. We'll be talking about 3D printers and content in the latest issue....

Brian Krebs has published an ad from "Foreign Agents," a notorious Russian crime service. They're advertising the availability of foot soldiers in the USA who can help cash out hacked bank accounts an...

Guys, it's really going to be ending soon. Alec Baldwin sent this profoundly monumental message (at least for 30 Rock fans) this afternoon, reminding everyone that there is, indeed, a limited amount o...

How to make pretty "Surprise Balls," which are balls of crepe paper that contain multiple goodies in the layers of wrapping....

At his Psychology Today blog, Michael Chorost delves into a question about exoplanets that I've not really thought much about before — how easy they would be to leave. Many of the potentially ha...

Remember the Bad Jack Beard from Lost? The one on Matthew Fox's face that kept insisting that everyone had to go back to the island? If the show's creators had gone with their original plan, that bear...

A beginner's guide to electronic circuits....

Christopher Lee narrates Tim Burton's 1982 poem in this 11-minute animated video. ...

At least 24 ethnic Tibetans have burned themselves alive this month alone, in "a dramatic acceleration of the protests against authoritarian Chinese rule," and "a new phase in the Tibetan protests," a...

It's hard to imagine a remix improving this instant classic of the "suck it, haters" Youtube genre, but Joe Sabia's remix of the hiccup video has accomplished just that....

Members of the Sixth International are wearing black armbands today to memorialize the passing of the great cartoonist Spain Rodriguez....

Just a few minutes ago, researchers with NASA's MESSENGER mission announced the publication of data that strongly suggests the poles of Mercury contain significant quantities of frozen water. On the o...

Musical hijinks with Peter the Elephant on a green piano....

A documentary about Occupy Sandy was screened at a secret location in NYC last night; it made the connection between Sandy and climate change. People wanting to see the movie were directed to a buildi...

This January sees the first cohorts of books whose authors can terminate their contracts with their publishers under a 1978 law that lets authors kill their old deals after 35 years. Given all the int...

Here's a 1973 orientation video from Bell Labs' Holmdel Computer Center, to get new, budding Unix hackers acquainted with all the different apparatus available to them....

Kate is inspired by retro-design, as you can see in her 8-bit popup cards....

Watch as computer scientist Timothy Weninger goes through 463 drafts of a scientific research paper. ...

New York's Museum of Modern Art has acquired 14 videogames that will be playable in a gallery there beginning in March 2013. According to Paola Antonelli, the MoMA's senior curator of architecture and...

"Duck tape is cooler, see?"...

Ryan Calo sends his call for papers for a Stanford Law School conference on robotics and the law. "This is our second year---the first conference took place in Miami. This year's focus is on legal and...

IEEE Spectrum just released a fun iPad app that's all about real robots! ...

MarketWatch wanted to know how many 1,000+lb items in Amazon's database qualified for free Prime shipping. A lot, it turns out, including a 1,672 lb gun-safe (via Consumerist)...

Sixty years ago this week, JR Eyerman snapped the iconic photo above during the Hollywood premiere of Bwana Devil, the first full-length 3D movie. "A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!" This is t...

Legendary guitarist and songwriter Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar has launched a Kickstarter. The project is a film documenting "See A Little Light," last year's epic Los Angeles concert that celebrat...

Sound engineer John Stewart has never fallen out of love with DJ Danger Mouse's genius 2004 Grey Album, a mashup of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album (and neither have I). He's got a go...

I can haz transformational grammar? Via Justin Bernacki and Trust me, I'm a linguist....

Well, I'm glad I was wrong! The decision by a handful of local affiliates of Gilda's Club to change their name to Cancer Support Community is not an organization-wide change. The original article repo...

The American Six-Strikes regime -- through which ISPs voluntarily agree to punish their customers if the entertainment industry accuses them of piracy -- has been delayed, again, to "early 2013." The ...

These little karts are rip roaring fun, especially when you have a couple of rambunctious kittens dead set on upending them....

Bangalore's inaugural Comic-Con, back in September, looks like a whale of a time. The cosplay on display is truly delightful, and lovingly documented in several places online. Mustache Man and his sid...

If yesterday's BoingBoing Gift Guide didn't give you enough holiday ideas, Popular Science has a collection of gifts for aspiring rocket scientists. Includes meteorite jewelry, a scarf printed with a ...

We all know that people do sometimes die while attempting to climb Mt. Everest. But it's easy to overlook what happens to those people after they've died. You can't bring a body down from the mountain...

Learn how badass Catwoman was in this Boing Boing exclusive video!...

Xact is a digitally targetted rifle: using a heads-up scope, the user tells the rifle what she wants to shoot....

We should all be so lucky as to have a Cindy to support our internet arguments. #Hometown....

Vintage ad scanned and Flickr'd by James Vaughan. Wouldn't it be nifty if the newest iteration of iTunes, which in my opinion is one of a great company's poorest products, looked like this? The Ping-l...

My, but Boing Boing readers are a talented lot. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool today, this stunning photograph by Carlos26 of mountains in Hawaii, some 10K ft. above sea level. Notice the cloud...

Takashi Murai, via New York TimesNathaniel Rich on the so-called "immortal jellyfish," Turritopsis dohrnii: "[It] seems able to survive, and proliferate, in every ocean in the world. It is possible to...

Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, and Andy Paley, a veteran music producer, have collaborated on a 12 track SpongeBob christmas album! Its A SpongeBob Christmas! Album debuts seven brand-new original...

US district judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the world's largest tobacco companies to pay for a two-year, national US advertising campaign to apologize for lying about smoking's health risks, and for ...

Image: Cadillac Ranch, via Wikipedia Police in Texas today issued an arrest warrant for Stanley Marsh 3, the artist behind the 1970s public art installation known as Cadillac Ranch. The Amarillo-based...

Guido sez, "The microbiome is the genome sequence of all the different bacteria that dwell on and in us, and it is very important, since there are 10 times as many bacteria cells as there are human ce...

Parents of a Georgia college freshman first learned from Facebook that their daughter was found dead in a a dorm room just before Thanksgiving. They are now seeking social media assistance in solving ...

The mysterious California fellow behind that "Innocence of Muslims" film linked to violence in the mideast was today sentenced to death in absentia in an Egyptian court. He was among the 7 Egyptian Co...

The Wall Street Journal reports that online legal documents company LegalZoom.com Inc. is suing rival online legal documents firm Rocket Lawyer Inc., alleging violations of FTC guidelines and unfair b...

A self-described daily Bill O'Reilly watcher, who used to tell people to get out of her house if they said global warming was anything other than 'bullshit', saw it -- and started crying. ...

A self-described daily Bill O'Reilly watcher, who used to tell people to get out of her house if they said global warming was anything other than 'bullshit', saw it -- and started crying. ...

Michael Geist sez, "Over the past couple of days, there have been multiple reports about the return of file sharing lawsuits to Canada, with fears that thousands of Canadians could be targeted. While ...

Rob sez, "Hugo award winner Seanan McGuire (author of the Toby Daye, Newsflesh, and Incryptid series) is trying something new: her latest book Velveteen vs the Junior Super Patriots started life seria...

Richard O'Dwyer, the young British man who ran the TVShack linksite (which allowed users to post links to legal and illegal places to watch TV online) will not be extradited to the USA after all. He's...

I learned about Josh Goshfield a few years ago when I stumbled across his cool art project that consisted of spot-on ephemera about a fictional French ye ye girl, Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower. Now Jo...

The Hunting of the Snark is a student short film narrated by Sir Christopher Lee and based on the Lewis Carroll poem of the same name. ...

Mr_raccoon sez, "Remember Lamar Smith (the guy who tried to pass off SOPA as being good for the internet)? Well there is a lot of talk about his chairing the House Committee on Science, Space and Tech...

In case you've missed any of this season's episodes of The Walking Dead, AMC will be running a marathon leading up to its mid-season finale this Sunday, December 2. I highly recommend watching as much...

We've recently launched Boing Boing's all-new Video page, where all of the videos we blog on Boing Boing are viewable in one big-ass awesome grid of video-licious awesome awesomeness. Some recent pick...

The vacuum cleaner man is one lucky fellow....

In Limerick, Ireland, the Limerick City Gallery of Art is hosting an exhibition of artist Enda O'Donoghue, whose work focuses on "forensic interest in the medium and process of painting and an ongoing...

The "Urban Punk" card-deck's up on Kickstarter, starting at $10. I especially like the face-cards -- the gas-mask kills me. We viewed both the physical cards and traditional designs as a washed out co...

"I didn't even know my account was shut down. The way I tweet is I write stuff on the wall with my feces and my manager types it into Twitter."...

Tomohiro Kinoshita with 3D model of 9-month fetusin acrylic resin, and small phone charm. Photo: AFP. A firm in Japan is offering expectant moms and dads the ability to purchase a 3D-printed model of ...

Yep, this list rings true. (via @sfslim)...

A week ago, we found out that Disney-Lucasfilm had chosen screenwriters Simon Kinberg and Lawrence Kasdan -- who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi -- to write the final two installm...

Instructables user Randofo has created a tutorial for his ingeniously perverse candle-powered electric candle. As the name implies, it's an electric candle whose power comes from the heat given off by...

Oddly, we don't seem to have even received the original commercial, which is suddenly very interesting. I wonder: what's in it that is so terrible that "legal reasons" need be hamfistedly waved around...

The daily PRI radio news program The World is airing a week-long series about cancer's global reach....

Watch as National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo capture beautiful footage of cheetahs in action. ...

This is a sentence I never expected to read and it makes me insanely excited: "GZA had just finished an extraordinary round of meetings with physicists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Te...

An adorable exploration of the things the Curiosity rover might find on Mars. Both the likely ... and the less-than-likely. ...

The Howard the Duck theme in a form I'd never seen before. Oh! Lea Thompson's hair!...

Maily is a fun way for kids of 4 and up to stay in touch with their relatives by email. It's a free iPad app that allows parents to set up a list of email recipients, in the form of headshots. Your ki...

Tom Megginson posted this 1930s Labatt Employee Drinking Songs book to Retronaut. It looks like it'd improve drunkenness immensely. I found this artifact at an antiques sale in Kingston, Ontario. I es...

The Virts, a trio of skilled cardistes from Singapore, up the ante of ECM (Extreme Card Manipulation)....

Image: RSNA. The bright yellow and lime green in the left superior medial frontal gyrus sharply contrast the cool blue hues in the same region on the right. The brain uses glucose for energy; bright c...

Pete sez, "Hacker Highschool, Security Awareness for Teens is releasing version 2 of its popular Hacking Lessons to teach teens how to be more resourceful, creative, and in control of the things they ...

Claudia, a Dublin-based reader of Sociological Images, clipped this image of a flier for an Irish shop that sells crappy fake toy laptops in gendered versions, with the blue male version getting twice...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the memetic evolutionary leap from domestic cats to lolcats is revealed...

Chore Monster is a website and iPhone app that encourages your kid to do chores around the house. ...

Until her death last year, the lead singer of deathgrind metal band Caninus was a dog....

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw When we started Boing Boing, our mission was to make a zine and a blog that we wanted to read ourselve...

Thierry sez, "Hey, remember the scandal last week about the girl whose laptop was confiscated for downloading a album from Chisu? Well, here's another shocking story about the same company, with a sta...

Kate of Minieco made this cute key holder from Legos that she raided from her son's Lego box. It would be fun to make a set for the entire family. DIY Lego Key Holder (Via Nerdstink)...

Sadly, Slayer's holiday jumper has sold out. This is the perfect evolution of the black heavy-metal t-shirt, something for an aging headbanger cohort. I hope they do pajamas and hot water bottle cozie...

Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA) has pretty good credentials as a friend of the Internet, being one of the early Congresscritters to stand up to SOPA and PIPA (though there's the little matter of sponsoring a ...

Craig Mod on the rise of small, tailored publishers unencumbered by mainstream media's addiction to bloat: "You shouldnt have to hire a famous actor to show readers how to use the app with his nose. M...

Welcome to this year's Boing Boing Gift Guide, a piling-high of our most loved stuff from 2012 and beyond. There are books, comics, games, gadgets and much else besides: click the categories at the to...

Weev. Photo: Gawker Adrian Chen at Gawker has a must-read profile on Weev: so-called "iPad hacker," founder of the anti-blogging Internet-trolling organization "Gay Nigger Association of America," and...

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Constructable is an experimental laser-cutter from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. It uses a light-pen to direct the cutting beam, so that you can draw the cuts freehand, in realtime, rather ...

"Numb," from haunted house/dub producer Andy Stott's glorious new record Luxury Problems....

Here's Shorra's "Death of a Cyborg," and it's lovely. (via Kadrey)...

Sara sez, "Found this in an old Judge Dredd comic (scan attached). In the 22nd century, when Boinging is outlawed, only outlaws will Boing. Includes great snippets such as: "Give me a hundred credits ...

Tony Moore sez, "My name's Tony Moore. I'm a comic book illustrator known for my recent years at Marvel doing wacky runs on Punisher, Venom, and Deadpool, and also for my early work on The Walking Dea...

Four affiliates of the cancer support community Gilda's Club, formed and named in honor of the legendary Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner (who died of ovarian cancer in 1989), have decided to...

Earlier this week, MAKE published its Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing, which explains what 3D printing is and what you can do with a 3D printer. The heart of this special issue is a side-by-side review ...

Ray sez, "I was looking for teat cups to build a simple hand vacuum pump milking machine for our new pet goat. And I found this website for milking machine teat cup liners, with the associated disco d...

Shocking! A.V. Club shares that the SyFy channel may make a TV series out of Costner's terrible flop. "Syfy's reasoning is that Waterworld continues to be a decent performer every time they air itand ...

Shocking! A.V. Club shares that the SyFy channel may make a TV series out of Costner's terrible flop. "Syfy's reasoning is that Waterworld continues to be a decent performer every time they air itand ...

Dave Ng writes, "Tomorrow, the Government of Canada will go through the second reading of Bill C-398. This is essentially important discussion over the fate of a law that would allow a measured approa...

Zombie Flamingos are just the perfect accessory for the home that has everything! Zombie Flamingo (via Geekologie)...

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If you dream in puppets like Neil Patrick Harris does, it might be time to drink more chamomile tea at night. ...

In a 2001 piece on Salon (unearthed by the one and only Frances Martel, formerly of Mediaite), Gary Kamiya puts his weight behind Pottersville, the so-called filthy, dirty slum of George Bailey's alte...

From Public Radio International's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder joins us this week to share some all-time favorites: a great dungeon crawler for iOS called Sword of Fargoa...

Lorem Ipsum books, a bookstore in Cambridge, Mass, is up for sale. Cambridge is one of the great bookselling towns of the world, and Lorem Ipsum was founded as a project by an MIT Media Lab grad named...

Artist Amy Crehore has two prints for sale. Check them both out on her website. Above: Krampus Silk Screen (3-color silk screen, only 18 prints in edition)....

After you drink some Scotch, there's usually a thin film of the liquor left clinging to the bottom and sides of the glass. If you leave it out overnight, it'll dry and be a pain to wash off in the mor...

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It wouldn't be a Boy Meets World sequel series without the titular "boy," so it was reassuring news to hear that said boy, Ben Savage, would be reprising his role as Cory Matthews in the Disney Channe...

ABC News reports that a Northern California teen and his parents both drowned after a 'sneaker' wave swept their dog into the sea. The teen attempted to help and got into trouble, his parents went in ...

Here's footage of a vicious and terrifying prank from a Brazilian candid-camera show....

A study presented this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) offers new evidence that chemotherapy can create changes in the brain that affect cognitive functi...

CNN reports on the arsenal discovered on the North Korean assassin arrested in Seoul last year: a poison-dart pen, a pen-pistol, a flashlight-gun, and more....

In the New Yorker, an essay by Gary Marcus on the ethical and legal implications of Google's driver-less cars which argues that these automated vehicles "usher in the era in which it will no longer be...

Julian Assange today accused "hard-right" American lawmakers of pressuring credit card companies to block more than $50 million of donations to Wikileaks, which published thousands of secret U.S. dipl...

If you like to laugh at other people's textual foibles, @StealthMountain on Twitter is for you. (via Jon Tennant)...

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Ned Sublette's ongoing series about the rich musical and cultural heritage of Angola. Listen and learn about "the simbi, the spirits that Martnez Ruiz describes as the multiple power of god; hear Anto...

Charlie Morgan, a 47-year-old career soldier in the late stages of metastatic breast cancer, says she hopes to live long enough to see the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) overturned, so that he...

We talk a lot about chain stores and the way their proliferation takes away the individual character of American cities, replacing it with a homogenized urban landscape of Wal-Marts, malls, and Appleb...

Pioneering video artist Valie Export's "Space Seeing/Space Hearing" (1973-1974) was about "creating melody from spatial relationships."...

Photo: International Labor Rights Forum At The Nation, Josh Eidelson writes about the Walmart apparel found in the ashes after a garment shop fire that killed at least 112 workers in Bangladesh. Walma...

This succinct note from Bill Baxley, Attorney General of Alabama in 1970, to the Grand Dragon of the KKK, is admirable in its brevity, forcefulness, and clarity. Letters of Note tells the story: In 19...

Shinichi Maruyama, whose magical "Water Sculpture Movie" I posted about last year, created a stunning photo series of human bodies in motion. (via PetaPixel)...

Lenny Kravitz is getting ready for what could be the biggest role of his life as an actor: late R&B singer Marvin Gaye. Rumors popped up last week that he might be taking on the role for director...

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 starts tomorrow in Singapore. The above video teases some of the astounding graphics accomplishments that will be presented at the conference....

Will Elder is one of the greatest cartoonists of all time. He and Harvey Kurtzman were responsible for the early MAD (when it was a comic book) and he went on to illustrate for other humor magazines (...

Why are women first to pay for every crisis? In every society, capitalist, socialist, or transition? It's because the bodies of women are expendable. I always noticed how women over eighty in Turin lo...

Oncologist and cancer-woo-debunker Orac has more on the legal details that allow this man to keep practicing medicine in Texas: "the dubious doctor known as Stanislaw Burzynski, who charges desperate ...

Dread Spawn (Head Wrong) asks "how would the fantastical storyline of the Red Dawn remake function if the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army were to invade NYC's Chinatown instead and was met by multicul...

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At GigaOm, a well-argued rant by Matthew Ingram responding to a recent Columbia Journalism Review post which said, pretty much, that the only way to solve the Washington Posts financial problems is to...

At Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger celebrates a moment of "God rubbing Mitt Romney's nose in karmic dogshit." New election data expands Obama's portion of the popular vote to 50.8%, and drops Romney'...

This will likely come as a shock, but the newest guy to accuse Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of underage sex—and sue him for $5M—is a frequent "casual encounters" poster on Craigslist. In oth...

This will likely come as a shock, but the newest guy to accuse Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of underage sex—and sue him for $5M—is a frequent "casual encounters" poster on Craigslist. In oth...

Here's an excerpt from Spanish author Rosa Montero's "techno-human nail-biter" Tears in Rain, which is set in a post Blade Runner world. Death is inevitable. Especially when you have an expiration dat...

Longtime Boing Boing reader Jethro Stamps, a freelance photographer based in the middle east, shares a wonderful set of photographs he shot in Qatar at Film City, an old abandoned film set in the hear...

As a compulsive photographer of odd signs, I have to say that "Brid" (origin unknown) has it all. It's the implied story I love: Bob: Aw, jeez, you're kidding. "Brid?" Who made these things? Fine. I'l...

Now that Toronto's scumbag mayor Rob Ford is out on his ass, the city is celebrating. Here's a countdown calculator that tells you how many more seconds the deplorable oaf has in office before he's ba...

The remains of Yasser Arafat have been exhumed so that scientists could gather samples to ship overseas to test for the presence of radioactive polonium. Some charge that the late Palestinian leader w...

A ticket to the annual TED conference, which features astounding 18-minute talks by scientists, artists, entertainers, activists, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs, is very expensive and limited...

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Alain sez, "Artist Jeffrey Beebe's website dedicated to his autobiographical/imaginary world called Refractoria; the website features dozens hand-drawn geopolitical maps, city maps, celestial charts, ...

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For many years, I've marvelled at Bill Willingham's ability to plumb the world of fairy-tales to produce his Fables series, the spin-out novel, and various other media. Few other creators combine such...

KaomojiApp adds a menu item to your Mac with a huge collection of Unicode emoticons that you can easily select and insert in any text area. The free version has a few basic samples in each emotion cat...

It wasn't even clear from the spam where you might buy one. Just in case you were wondering....

Back in August, I blogged about a presentation at Black Hat, where a security researcher named Cody Brocious presented a paper on a vulnerability in hotel-door locks made by Onity, showing a method fo...

Cover scan link. John Elmslie of Toronto shares this in the Boing Boing Flickr pool and writes, Vintage paperback. "A Harlequin Book", Toronto, 1951. So Harlequin was publishing more than romances in ...

In the NYT, a piece by Sophia Kishkovsky on Svetlana Kuritsyna, "the very antithesis" of the imprisoned protest-art group Pussy Riot. Sveta is described as "a disarmingly direct, red-cheeked, 20-year-...

Ian MacKaye, co-founder of Dischord Records, on why he decided to offer the Fugazi show archives as pay-what-you-want, but not for free....

Nick sez, Remember those BASIC programs you typed into your C64? Now there's a book written about one. And the program is only 1 line. And 10 people wrote this book. As one. And they're not lunatics b...

Runa from the TOR project sez, "We are hiring support assistants and translators who can help us handle support requests via our ticketing system and our new Q&A website, as well as make sure tra...

In 1970, 300 hippies founded a commune in the backwoods of Tennessee and set out to change the world....

"A Soviet sensation upon its heavily publicized release in 1924, Aelita, the Queen of Mars is now a curiosity of post-revolutionary Russian silent cinema." ...

Lavie Tidhar writes, "Adolf Hitler's I Dream of Ants is World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar's graphic novel collaboration with British artist Neil Struthers. Originally serialised in the pages of ...

Few things are as fun as attaching a toy to a string and dragging it behind a jeep at 60 mph to videotape a cheetah chase it....

Few things are as fun as attaching a toy to a string and dragging it behind a jeep at 60 mph to videotape a cheetah chase it....

Enjoy these 14 depressing slides from a Business Insider article about investor Jeremy Grantham's report on exploding commodity prices. "The ever-increasing-yield per acre, by the way, is the result o...

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Russians are pissed off at Kremlin bureaucrats who stop traffic with frequent "blue bucket" motorcades. From the Financial Times: “When you have to close down half the city so that some official...

The 1979 Irish Popemobile, an armoured car designed to exhibit the Pope on his visit, has been through a €60,000 makeover, and is now available for private hire: According to a promotional pack,...

Here's a seven-minute teaser for "Wyrmwood," an indie zombie movie from Australia that merges zombies with Mad Max....

Expect America's malls to soon become orange-scented. A new study by Washington State University researchers suggests that "simple scents" -- they tested orange -- can stimulate a bump in retail sales...

Back in 2010, Carl Pyrdum posted this medieval manuscript marginalia, founded on a text in the British Museum. It depicts a kind of Sergio Argones story about rabbits chasing down a hunting hound, try...

We're getting closer and closer to a very merry Dixon reunion, but first, there is some business to attend to -- checking in on Glen and Maggie, seeing if Rick let Michonne into the prison, and eventu...

Who's a chubby little water bear? Yes you are. Ooh, yes you are. This moment of straight-up cuteness is brought to you by Bob Goldstein, who researches tardigrades at the University of North Carolina ...

On DeviantArt, Genesischant has a great "Jazz Age Justice League" poster complete with back-stories for all the reimagined, Gatsby-era vigilantes. I especially love Wonder Woman as a flapper, and the ...

Surveillance Camera Man sees all...

The Telegraph visits Japan's Choko Group mascot school....

Here's a 15-minute industrial film promoting the Monsanto House of Tomorrow, an all-plastic house shaped like a wheel of gouda, which guarded Disneyland's Tomorrowland for many years, starting in 1957...

A zero-g flight presents a unique set of perils for a goldfish....

Just before Thanksgiving, the lead mission scientist for the Curiosity rover told NPR that his team had found something that would "be one for the history books." Naturally, we all began speculating a...

Lex sez, "I've just posted an interview with Indie Hannah of the Cai Rollers, Cairo (and Egypt's) first roller derby league. They're a mixture of local women and international residents, and are final...

Titan books has just released the fourth book in mid-century illustrator Andrew Loomis' multi volume instructional art library, Creative Illustration. Here's what I've previously written about Loomis:...

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A beatboxing flute? Sure. That's the magic of the subcontrabass flute. ...

As regular readers of this blog know, cancer quackery is a topic relevant to my interests as a cancer patient. Robert Blaskiewicz has written extensively about the epic quackery of one of the most wel...

Some excellent vintage rockabilly, courtesy of Bedazzled....

In the New York Times, a piece by Susan Dominus on two twins joined at the head ("craniopagus") who are "beyond rare" because of the way their brains fused inside their skulls. "Their neural anatomy i...

Tonger makes you stronger...

NYC's Dr Jack Berdy offers a botox treatment called "pokertox," which freezes parts of the face implicated in poker "tells" -- nonvolitional expression-changes that signal your opinion of your cards t...

Photo link. "The grooviest buy of the year." Only $1 more than some Sea Monkeys. From the 1967 Monkee Spectacular magazine from Tiger Beat. Scanned and shared on Flickr by Facing West. Related, and al...

Now we what know what people looked like in the Bronze Age! It's obvious that he wove his outfit from his own hair, but what did she use to make hers? (Via Suddenly)...

Jose Barrientos, an Army vet and internet funny-guy based in Southern California, pulled a prank on his Speech 101 classmates. For one astute student, the David Hasselhof puppy poster was the tell. Vi...

Jose Barrientos, an Army vet and internet funny-guy based in Southern California, pulled a prank on his Speech 101 classmates. ...

Things magazine has a nice gallery of 1960s Pelican paperback covers. The art is superb, and the books themselves sound interesting. I would like to own all of them!...

While you were eating Thanksgiving turkey, surrounded by loving family and friends, one whale was all alone, swimming through the Pacific Ocean with no one to talk to and no one to care. Since 1989, r...

In The Stranger, an excellent feature by Cienna Madrid on people who fake cancer and other serious illnesses online, for the purpose of receiving sympathy and attention from strangers. Munchausen synd...

Avi Solomon writes, With the Jewish Diwali aka Hanukkah well nigh upon us, I was looking to provide my 7 year old son Uriel with a maker angle on the central artifact of the holiday, the Menorah. The ...

Here's page 12 of The Final Quest: Prologue, published online here at Boing Boing. First time reader? You've got some catching up to do....

YIPPEE! Rob Ford, the hateful, horrible Mayor of Toronto, has lost his conflict of interest case, and he is now out of a job. In 14 days, he will no longer be mayor of Toronto, and will have to go bac...

My latest Locus magazine column is "The Internet of the Dead," which discusses the collision course the Internet is on with death. It was inspired by my work to preserve the personal data of my old fr...

Paul Perkovic, featured in this beautiful BBC radio spot I blogged on Boing Boing about living with advanced, end-stage cancer, has died. Here's an alternate link to the radio documentary. (thanks, Pa...

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Students from Tufts University who attended this year's Macy's Parade were showered with confetti made from shredded, confidential Nassau County police files. The shreds revealed the identities of und...

This coming Saturday and Sunday, December 1st and 2nd, at the Muir Beach Community Center, the annual Muir Beach Quilters Holiday Arts Fair will be held. Largely comprised of artists who live and work...

Complex.com gathers "either the best of the best or the worst of the worst" of Donald Trump's tweets. (via Foster Kamer)...

Hemant sez, "I am the blogger at FriendlyAtheist.com. I'm also a high school math teacher. I just wrote a new book called The Young Atheist's Survival Guide: Helping Secular Students Thriveabout high ...

Black Friday shopping weekend took a dark turn Sunday morning in Georgia: a man accused of shoplifting died after being tackled by a Walmart employee and a contract security officer. Police say the co...

Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site....

A group of English-speaking gamers have compiled a phrasebook for chatting online with Chinese gold farmers, including phrases like "Would you like to join my group?" and "please do not steal my mobs....

Avi sez, "I came across this Turneresque painting of Mumbai Local Trains by Bhuwan Silhare. Not much info about the artist online." Bhuwan Silhare Mumbai Local Trains 2010...

Jenn Frank of Infinite Lives reports that Enfour, the company that publishes the $55 Oxford English Dictionary mobile phone app, accused her of pirating the app and that the app hijacked her Twitter a...

Exclusive mix of "Desertshores" in memory of Throbbing Gristle's Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson....

On Saturday, the UK Open Rights Group held a London training session for activists who want to fight the "Snoopers' Charter."...

Katherine sez, "Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will be performing a GALA PARTY on Friday, December 21st, 2012 (aka MAYAN DOOMSDAY) to benefit the restoration of Torrent Engine 18, a Boston firehouse tu...

Street artist KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, 38, reached a milestone this year: his "Companion" character was a float in the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade....

Scanned and Flickr'd by Captain Geoffrey Spaulding, an ad for Ohio Electric Works, 1897....

Shape Shifting Lizard Skin Cream, by Darren Cullen & Mark Tolson. Shapeshifting from lizard to human form is great for controlling Earth so you can mine gold to save your dying homeworld, but its...

A wonderful night-sky photo shared in the BB Flickr Pool by Dave Hensley: "Unadjusted jpg made from 16bit/channel tiff created by a linux stacking script I wrote; operating on a series of images I cap...

Biella Coleman is a geek anthropologist, in both senses of the epithet: an anthropologist who studies geeks, and a geek who is an anthropologist. Though she's best known today for her excellent and in...

Scanlime's Beth modded a remote control vibrator, replacing the interface with an Arduino-based sonar controller that she can activate with any part of her body....

While traveling in Mumbai, my IFTF colleague Jason Tester visited Boing Boing's flagship marijuana dispensary....

Hot on the heels of our NPR interview, My daughter Jane and I were interviewed on CNN about Apps for Kids...

Hot on the heels of our NPR interview, My daughter Jane and I were interviewed on CNN about Apps for Kids...

Theodore Gray sends news of this beautiful three-dimensional papercraft Periodic Table of Elements. The Alexander Arrangement is a three-dimensional paper sculpture of the periodic table designed by R...

Kiera Butler at Mother Jones wrote a fantastic piece on the radioactive components of your phone and what it took to source them. You may not be surprised by what she uncovers but you certainly will n...

The San Antonio Express-News reports that a mall shopper who brandished a handgun on a dude trying to cut in line was within his rights, according to police, because he had a permit for the weapon and...

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, FoxxFur continues her unbroken record for highlighting insightful, deep design truths by examining the minutae of the design and evolution of the Disney theme parks....

Margaret Killjoy sez, "We just got A Steampunk's Guide to Sex back from the printer! With contributions by Alan Moore, Molly Crabapple, and Professor Calamity, the book covers all kinds of crazy Victo...

A Slashdot post from Samzenpus rounds up links to a series of projects to make self-filling water-bottles inspired by the hydrophilic nodules on the Namib Desert Beetle. After a successful prototype, ...

Tsarina's tshark shocks resemble sharks that are gnawing off the wearer's feet. They come with knit, velcro-attachable remoras! The comments are full of people begging to buy a pair of these, but ther...

Brian Krebs has located and published a sales pitch from a hacker who has found a zero-day exploit allowing him to steal cookies from Yahoo webmail users, granting access to their accounts. Im selling...

Jack sez, "The Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma has been operating since 1923. Unfortunately, in order to continue operating they need to buy a digital projector. They've started a Kickstarter campaign in...

YouTube teen singing sensations Lexy & Stephany's uplifting videos "This feels like love" and "Come Sail Away."...

Dan Goldstein has been working on a cardboard chair prototype for six years, and he has come up with something he liked enough to launch a (successful) Kickstarter campaign to put it into production. ...

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Saudi authorities have rolled out an electronic surveillance system for women, which tracks their movements and alerts their husbands by SMS when they attempt to leave the country. The husband, who wa...

The combined worth of the 6 Walmart heirs and heiresses is greater than that of the bottom 41% of American families (48.8 million households). How do the grinning kids of Sam Walton stay so rich? By p...

I reviewed The Last Policeman a few weeks ago. I just found out that it's on sale in the Kindle store for $2.99. It's a terrific novel so this is a bargain....

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Three years ago, MAKE published Charles Platt's book Make: Electronics, which I consider the best book on learning electronics I've ever come across. As Gareth Branwyn, the editor of the book said, "w...

Noah Shachtman's long Wired feature "They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside," tells the intriguing story of the cracking of the "Copiale" cipher, a strange text left be...

Wired's Daniela Hernandez has an in-depth history of the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, a minicomputer that could track recipes and offer meal plans, which was listed in the 1969 Neiman-Marcus Christmas ...

A harmonica that works like a player piano....

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On TechDirt, Canadian Leigh Beadon helps Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with a roundup of all the weird patents the USPTO has granted for preparing turkey. Be thankful that deboning poultry is paten...

A real estate agent in Trumbull, Conn., was charged Wednesday with third-degree larceny after a competitor's "for sale" signs disappeared from area lawns. [Connecticut Post]...

A postcard, mailed in 1943, arrived at its New York destination this week. [Elmira Star Gazette] The postcard, sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., was intended for Pauline and Theresa Leisenring, ...

A postcard, mailed in 1943, arrived at its New York destination this week. [Elmira Star Gazette] The postcard, sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., was intended for Pauline and Theresa Leisenring, ...

"A hatch on a Swedish church tower inadvertently left open for some three decades resulted in 2 tons of pigeon droppings amassing in the tower." [Yahoo News]...

Two local ABC news anchors, Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio, "shocked viewers and colleagues" by quitting on-air Tuesday. No reasons were given for their sudden departure beyond Consiglio saying "so...

CBS: "Kariem McFarlin, a California man accused of breaking into Steve Jobs' house and stealing computers and the Apple Inc. co-founder's wallet, has pleaded no contest to burglarizing homes across th...

"A World War Two code found strapped to the leg of a dead pigeon stuck in a chimney for the last 70 years may never be broken, a British intelligence agency said on Friday."...

Linda McMahon (a wrestling magnate who built up the WWE with her husband Vince McMahon) is a failed Republican Senate candidate in Connecticut with a reported net worth of $500M, who has spent a repor...

Caviar vending machines have been installed in three upscale malls in LA. In addition to $500/oz caviar, they also dispense blinis, mother of pearl spoons, and other caviar essentials. The vending mac...

Linda McMahon (a wrestling magnate who built up the WWE with her husband Vince McMahon) is a failed Republican Senate candidate in Connecticut with a reported net worth of $500M, who has spent a repor...

We now bow our heads as Uncle Bill leads us in A Thanksgiving Prayer. ...

A student in San Antonio, TX, has been suspended from school for refusing wear a RFID tracking device on privacy and religious grounds (she believes the tracker is somehow related to the "Mark of the ...

Spacehawk is Fantagraphics' recently published complete collection of Basil Wolverton's long-lost space-hero comics, published for a two-year run starting in 1940. In his introduction, Monte Wolverton...

Sandy Island, a 20-mile strip of land in the Pacific between Australia and New Caledonia, easily found on Google Maps and many other charts, does not exist. The ocean at that point is in fact 4,620ft ...

A woman was charged Wednesday with disturbing the peace of the dead after authorities found a full skeleton, a skull and a CD-ROM titled "My necrophilia" in a box in her home. [Reuters]...

Wooden keyboards are usually too showy and incongruous for me, but Lazerwood's adhesive wooden key covers are a subtler option than, say, this. At $40 a set, they're not too pricey, either. They come ...

"Social media eliminates the need to provide value to your clients."...

Not long after Russia's new kiddie porn internet blacklist went live, YouTube was added to it and blocked. Gabriela Baczynska writes, "Russian officials offered assurances they were not seeking to blo...

A nine-year-old Finnish girl's computer was confiscated by the police after she downloaded a track from the Pirate Bay. She was trying to preview the new album by Chisu (she later bought the album and...

The Indie Games Weblog offers 5 tips for using procedurally-generated content--think fractals and L-systems--in game development....

Reuters: The tree-like ornament is made of 88 pounds of pure gold, standing about 7.9 ft high ... It is decorated with pure gold plate silhouette cutouts of 50 popular Disney characters and draped wit...

Remember the deep-sea "bloop" noise that some people thought might be coming from a giant squid? Turns out it's an icequake. (Here's a WAV of it) The broad spectrum sounds recorded in the summer of 19...

Photo by Jenn Shreve snapped at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation. (Thanks Koshi for the headline!)...

The Chinese launch of Barbie has crashed and burned, after the multi-million-dollar Barbie flagship store in Shanghai's most fashionable district had to close its doors for lack of business after just...

From MakerBot co-founder Zach Hoeken Smith's photos from Shenzhen, China, a counterfeit Mickey Mouse hat with a prominent anti-counterfeiting notice. (Thanks, Jeffrey!)...

While reports say that the decision was mutual, Chevy Chase has made a deal with NBC to leave Community and never come back. Chase had filmed the majority of the fourth season's episodes, but there is...

MakerBot has just opened its first retail store on Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan -- a great neighborhood, by the way, and a perfect place for a 3D printing store. The store includes many wonderme...

This sounds amazing. But expensive! -- the box set costs $300, and the digital set of interviews cost $80. Between 1969–1972, Howard Smith recorded interviews with scores of rock stars and cultu...

Expereal is a free iPhone app developed to help people better understand themselves, to feel even more connected to the world, and to, hopefully, make more informed decisions about their lives. The ma...

Discussion and reviews of comic books, science fiction novels, games, and apps...

A Greek hacker stole the personal data of about 9,000,000 Greek residents, which is approximately the same as the population of Greece itself. As Kevin at Lowering the Bar points out, this means that ...

My nine-year-old daughter Jane and I were interviewed about Apps for Kids on NPR's morning edition, which aired this morning. Thanksgiving is Thursday, and that means more than 43 million Americans wi...

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Safecast is a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements to empower people with data about their environments...

This week, David Kappos, head of the US Patent and Trademark Office, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress where he dismissed critics of the patent system, telling them to "give it a rest ...

Dogster has the full text of Fiona Apple's beautiful letter to her fans regarding her dog's illness and her inability to travel for the time being. "She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter,...

Amanda Visell's new Muppet Show Wood Idols drive me wild!...

Here's Dmitry Golubovskiy, CEO of Esquire Russia, reading the longest word in Englis. It's the chemical name for titin....

Prena Law, a notorious porno copyright troll sent out a blackmail letter to victims that included the URL of a TorrentFreak article describing one of the rare cases in which someone stood up to a trol...

We review DIY.org, an app and site for kids who want to make stuff and earn skills....

In case you happen to be in the New York City area this coming Monday evening (November 26), I will be reading an original piece of work (in every sense of the phrase) for Monday Night Fan Fiction at ...

The situation has escalated...

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Texas judge is asking questions about whether investigators are providing courts with sufficient detail details on technlogies that allow them to grab data on al...

3D Systems, one of the big, incumbent 3D printer makers, is suing Formlabs, an innovative new 3D printer company that prints in resin (see previous mentions), for patent infringement. They've also nam...

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You know what your bike needs? Laser-cut, geared coconut clompers that make it sound like you're riding a bike. ...

What's the difference between millimeter wave scanners and backscatter machines? Only one of these TSA devices emits ionizing radiation....

Jamie Love from KEI sez, "During the WIPO negotiations on disabilities, the White House has told U.S. Blind groups it will kill a WIPO treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have ...

Jamie Love from KEI sez, "During the WIPO negotiations on disabilities, the White House has told U.S. Blind groups it will kill a WIPO treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have ...

A chef and a journalist meet up at Hardwicks Highfields Center for Composting in Vermont, where rotting scraps of food and plant matter generate heat as they decompose. "In the process, the bacteria g...

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Marilyn sez, "Chris Elliott gives 5 good reasons to participate in the Opt Out protest against the TSA's full-body scanners over this Thanksgiving weekend and so far, 65 percent of the people reading ...

This is the Harwell Dekatron, aka Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation (WITCH), a 61-year-old machine that was rebooted yesterday to become "the world's oldest original working digital co...

Author John Hodgman describes his Complete World Knowledge Boxed Set, which will be available until the world ends on December 21, 2012....

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the 26-year-old "iPad hacker" charged with federal crimes for obtaining personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&Ts website was found guilty on Tuesday in...

The long-running NPR program Science Friday recently filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court against a Creationist, Christian, anti-science radio show called "Real Science Friday." The New...

That didn't take long: within one month, we got all of our screenwriters lined up for the new Disney-Lucasfilm Star Wars trilogy, and one of them is a pretty reliable man for the job. As we reported e...

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14-year-old New York student Deepika Kurup was named 'America's Top Young Scientist' for inventing a solar-powered water purification system ....

According to the Science Museum, London, this item from Henry Wellcome's curiosity collection is a "man catcher used in Europe in the late 1700s during times of war. The terrifying collar pulled rider...

Full view in larger size here. If by "glamorous" you mean "explosive diarrhea," then, sure. A vintage ad nightmare scanned and Flickr'd by bluwmongoose. As a photo commenter says: Holiday", "vegetable...

This fantastic record player exploded view t-shirt is available for $22.50 from ShanaLogic, who of course is also a beloved sponsor of the site you are currently reading. (But this post isn't at her u...

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Somebody named a dinosaur after the Eye of Sauron. Sauroniops pachytholus got its moniker because (so far) only one specimen of this species has been found — the upper part of a skull, eye socke...

Artist/dancer/choreographer William Forsythe's "Scattered Crowd" installation consisted of thousands of white balloons floating in a sea of sound. It's next appearance will be in 2013 at Frankfurt's B...

Above is Liu Xianping, 72, who models clothes for Yuekou, a fashion retailer owned by his granddaughter Lv Ting. He picked up one piece and tried to give some advice on how to mix and match. We though...

On Buzzfeed, Andrew Kaczynski reproduces pages from About Science 5, a fifth grade science textbook used in some Louisiana public schools, which teaches Biblical creationism alongside of evolution as ...

King Arthur Flour offers a great recipe for making bread with your Thanksgiving leftovers. "Matt, the fellow who heads up our King Arthur customer service team, sidled up to me a few weeks ago and ask...

For over 3500 years, hunter-gatherer human ancestors etched petroglyphs on cliffs in California's Eastern Sierra. They "withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes," but were recently destroyed and/...

In 1975, photographer/filmmaker Bruce Jackson, who has spent decades documenting prison life, was visiting Arkansas' Cummins Unit, a state prison farm. While there, he stumbled upon a drawer filled wi...

The Kevin Clash/Elmo scandal, and its many furry tentacles, all broken down in one handy flowchart by Hilary Sargent. Click here for the full chart: JPEG, PDF....

This short documentary about a teenager from Sierra Leone who taught himself electronics and got a residence at MIT is inspiring and humbling -- what a kid!...

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This is possibly one of the weirdest things I have read this year. You (yes, you) are more likely to die around 11:00 am than any other time. That is, provided your death is the sort that happens in o...

Britain's Lord McAlpine was recently the un-named subject of a BBC documentary alleging child sexual abuse. On Twitter, journalists, celebrities and clued-in everyday citizens subsequently published c...

Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead is not messing around, as I learned during New York Comic Con this fall and as you may have learned when you saw the teaser trailer. But one look at the new poster (released v...

Toronto mayor Rob Ford is a dick. He rips out bike lanes. Violates municipal conflict of interest rules by participating in votes to censure him for unethical fundraising. Closes libraries. Skips coun...

Analogies are tricky things. One minute, you're trying to find a clever and memorable way to illustrate molecular bonding of hydrocarbons ... the next you're suddenly Napoleon Dynamite and all your zo...

If you're traveling (or just hanging out and bored) today, here's a delightful collection of kick-ass science journalism to fill your hours. The American Association for the Advancement of Science rec...

Jane from Sugru sez, "We've been working on The Fixer's Manifesto. for ages, and we're pumped about it!" Fixing is the unsung hero of creativity. And it really shouldn't be. It's the most common, humb...

Francisco Dao's unusual flash fic about the last minutes of a failed startup. [Pando Daily] He opened his wallet and took out his business card. It said CEO. He realized that was another lie, that he ...

You know how some media love "he said, she said" journalism? The kind in which any issue, no matter the facts or relative degrees of extremism, is narrated in perfect equilibrium between two opposed, ...

When John Hilgenberg got a nutcracker for Christmas, he decided to make it the centerpiece of a huge, delightful rubegoldbergian clock that strikes every four hours, using a combination of eight bells...

Vi Hart is Khan Academy's professional mathemusician. (Yeah, I KNOW, right?) And, this year, she's making the most delightfully nerdy Thanksgiving dinner ever. It begins with green bean matherole, top...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH President Obama is determined to destroy Bill O'Reilly's "traditional America" of Ward, June, Wally and the Beave. ...

Wired UK is running a Christmas Pop-Up shop in London's Regent Street from Nov 29-Dec 5, in the Quadrant Arcade by Picadilly. I'm delighted to note that MakieLab, the 3D printed toy company my wife co...

I've read and enjoyed innumerable Steven Johnson books; he's one of those great science writers who can gather together disparate phenomena from the technological world and tease out of them a coheren...

Oh, there's more where that came from. Yes, indeed. Via Brian Mossop...

Darren Barefoot sez, '1000 Internet years ago, I started something called 'The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness'. It compiled 'wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of techni...

The "Mine Kafon" is Massoud Hassani's artificial tumbleweed, made from lightweight materials like bamboo. It is designed to be blown across uncleared minefields, detonating forgotten mines....

Bob Coulston, a woodworker and contractor, has a wildly oversubscribed Kickstarter for a laser-cut plywood "shotgun" rubber-band gun that fires tons of rubber bands at once....

This beautiful image comes from Caleb Charland, who creates all his images in-camera. Recently one Sunday I spent the day at the kitchen table playing with oranges, copper wires and galvanized nails. ...

After futzing around with various streaming radio apps and bluetooth speakers, my wife told me she wanted a real tabletop radio for the kitchen. Here were her requirements: 1. No buttons - knobs only....

An increasingly frustrated native Japanese speaker discovers Siri can't parse the spoken word "work" when voiced with a Japanese accent...

Matthew says: "Geoff McGann tells his story about the watch, the TSA, and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. Surprisingly, he blames the ACSO for their actions, not the TSA." McGann said that he har...

Killjoy attorneys for the New York Times who are most likely paid many times more per hour than New York Times reporters asked Twitter to nix the Times Is On It Twitter account, which parodies NYT sto...

Get a load of this print ad from the Master Photo Finishers of America, 1926. Text: "Save the day with snap shots. Thanksgiving, the day of the year which brings most families together, is a splendid ...

A vintage ad for Camel brand cancer-sticks, scanned and Flickr'd by SA_Steve. Remember, folks, "Camel Cigarettes aid with your Thanksgiving Digestion!"...

Former MySpace pinup Tila Tequila posts videos to YouTube in which she exposes the secret machinations of the all-powerful Illuminati....

Radi-Aid has Africans singing and working together to send radiators to our cold brethren in Norway in this their time of Christmas need....

Four musical experiments inspired spontaneously by circumstances and surroundings in four cities: Paris, Berlin, Salzburg, and Prague....

Three live cams captured this polar bear family behavior rarely caught on camera. ...

The Velveteen Rabbi wrote a beautiful piece, in the form of a psalm, for The Children of Abraham / Ibrahim—" For every toddler in his mother's arms / behind rubble of concrete and rebar / For ev...

(Via Lawrence Wilkinson)...

I have the Dremel tool drum sander mandrel on the left. I don't think the design has changed since 1962, and it sucks mightily. Sanding drums get stuck on it and new ones don't fit on it (at least not...

How do they capture slow-motion footage of beer as it sensually swirls in a glass? Where do videos of liquid chocolate splashing in dark ripples come from? Smithsonian has an answer, with a long video...

Exciting news for Walking Dead fans who have been crossing their fingers for characters from the comics to show up, because that is exactly what is going to happen. I'll keep the name of said characte...

Imagine an apatosaurus with a long, elephant-like snout. Plenty of people have. That's because the nostril placement on sauropod dinosaurs is, in some ways, remarkably similar to that of trunked anima...

Our maker this week is Isaiah Saxon (@isaiah_saxon_). He's the co-founder of DIY.org, an organization that encourages kids to make stuff and is a film director at Encyclopedia Pictura, which has made ...

LA Game Space is a new nonprofit center for video game art, design and research taking up occupancy in a downtown warehouse space. Their first objective is to finance 30 games in one fell kickstarter,...

Aaron Alexovich sez, "I was a character designer on Invader Zim many years ago, and recently I drew all 999 ghosts in Disney's Haunted Mansion." Holy crap, did he EVER! This is amazing. And putting th...

In 1990, researchers investigated the stories of 58 people who had had a near-death experience during surgery. Turns out, 30 of those people were never actually near-death, at all. They just thought t...

A three-dimensional, modular origami fractal has taken form for the first time in the history of the worldand perhaps the universeat the USC Libraries in Los Angeles....

Russell Brand is polite to these awful people....

The Combat Kitchenware Kickstarter has set out to create sword-handled skillets. At $27 you get a handle you can stick on your own pans, $45 gets you a sword-handled teflon skillet. It's from James Br...

Artist Jason Freeny designed this anatomical Gummi Bear for Fame Master Toys. See many more examples of his cool sculptures on his DeviantArt page. (Photo by Sherri Damlo)...

The Curiosity rover comes complete with a mini chemistry lab. It's designed to analyze the composition of Martian soils and Martian air. And, right now, that particular piece of equipment is at the ce...

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said today that some facilities used for storing evidence in criminal cases flooded during Hurricane Sandy. In some of our storage locations we have evidenc...

About this spectacular wearable steampunk Dalek, BB reader Mark Dumont writes: Electronics are contained in box at back waist containing arduino uno, 2 nine volt batteries, and small amp. Speakers are...

Somewhere around the late 1990s, blaming tryptophan consumption for post-Thanksgiving lethargy became as much of a holiday tradition as the food itself....

"Orionid Meteors over Aspen Highlands and Pyramid Peak," by Thomas O'Brien, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. About the photo, Thomas explains: 12 shots stacked into one frame. I shot 750 images ...

It's no secret how I feel about the upcoming Michael Bay-produced Ninja Turtles movie. And despite the involvement of one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creators, Kevin Eastman (a creative con...

The International Business Times reports that a 22 year old Idaho man has been arrested in suspicion of breaking into the zoo and murdering a monkey. "I speak for many of us in the police department a...

"Lunchtime at Rosa House, a woman-run shelter in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo by Center for Women War Victims. From "The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia." A couple of days ago, the two form...

Miles Davis vs. LCD Soundsystem. Uploader Alessandro Grespan says, "No editing or other tricks, just 2 youtube videos played at the same time."...

Bring back memories of torn blister packs, fortunes lost, and legendary rocket-firing Boba Fetts with the new "Star Wars The Ultimate Action Figure Collection."...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Carolina Rossini is at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, where American-led copyright industry trade groups are prepared, once again, to sabo...

You can now stream Alfred Hitchcock's "The White Shadow" (1924), the earliest surviving feature by the director. As I posted in 2011, the "lost" movie turned up in a New Zealand film vault. The film s...

Following last week's underage sex scandal, Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has decided to step down from his 28-year position at Sesame Street. A statement was released by Sesame Workshop on Clash's behal...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!...

Paul Otellini, "a generally well-liked San Francisco native with an M.B.A. from Berkeley", is to retire after 40 years at chipmaker Intel. [NYT]...

Anti-evolutionist and unilateral correspondent Dennis Markuze, harasser of scientists and journalists, has failed to resist the call of the pen despite his recent conviction. John Timmer writes: Withi...

Tarzan Centennial, by Scott Tracy Griffin, is a lavishly illustrated collection celebrating one hundred years of Tarzan. Exploring the 24 original novels and the many varied appearances on stage, scre...

The best international airlines are Singapore, Emirates, Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic. The best domestic airlines are Virgin America, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Alaska and Southwest. CNTraveler has the...

Chimpanzees and orangutans experience mid-life crises, suggesting that the causes are "inherent in primate biology and not specific to human society." [Reuters]...

Two weeks ago, Jon Fingas wrote an interesting opinion piece for Engadget about how Amazon and Google selling hardware at a loss--a classic anticompetitive strategy--reduces choice and hurts consumers...

My latest Guardian column is "Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access," and it makes the wider case for open access, beyond the obvious truth that publicly funded work should be ava...

A gentleman in England "mistakenly handed out his cocaine stash to children" instead of Halloween candy, earning him 130 hours of community service and a fine. [Reuters]...

Alex Balk spotted the best Daily Mail headline in recent memory: "Love-rat dad of nine children to eight women who headbutted ex-girlfriend in row over cheese toastie jailed for just 20 days."...

Why is a boutique web browser so popular in Europe's last dictactorship? Opera's maximalist, ultra-fast caching keeps bandwidth use down when using crappy, metered internet. [The Atlantic]...

The Cedar Rapids Gazette: "A doe and her two fawns tried to get a jump on the Black Friday sales in Coralville on Monday morning when they surprised the staff at Kohls by entering through the automati...

Jane Hu offers a stunningly exhaustive report on the urban legend of gerbiling and its connection to AIDS-era homophobia: "Gay sexuality as a realm plagued with abnormality, shame-inducing behaviors, ...

On Ars Technica, Kyle Orland writes about his experiences trying to migrate his downloaded games from his old Wii to his new Wii U. This could be as straightforward as doing a local network transfer, ...

Bad Apple is a sculpture and print by Goin and Mighty Jaxx, depicting Snow White cradling a hand-grenade, with a kerchief covering her face, bandit style. The trademark Disney signature logo appears a...

Ben Marks of Collector's Weekly says: In our latest interview, British author Simon Reynolds (“Retromania”) bemoans our culture's fixation on all things vintage and retro, particularly whe...

Doktor A's beautiful immortality helmet was produced on commission and looks like a spectacular way to extend your lifespan: 1. Remove strap and leads from the storage drawer. 2. Place electrodes agai...

On DeviantArt, Mayekoposted an indispensable and profane guide to digital inking called "Lie, cheat, steal your way to better art." The tl;dr is: work at very high rez (then shrink), and use texture b...

Yesterday Cory wrote that "Geoffrey McGann, a southern California artist, was arrested at Oakland airport for wearing an assemblage sculpture/watch he'd made." [UPDATE: I think this is the watch McGan...

Privacy International's 16-minute mini-documentary from DEFCON about privacy is a great, compact answer to the question, "Why does privacy matter?"...

BB pal Greg Long spotted this magnificent graffiti near the GAMA-GO world headquarters in San Francisco's SOMA. If you know the artist, please help me credit him/her!...

October 2012 was the 332nd month in a row with a global average temperature that is higher than the 20th-century average. Put it another way: If you are younger than 28, then you have never experience...

Accusations are flying that 27 animals died of mistreatment on the set of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, causing PETA to get up in arms and protest the movie. PETA will protest just about anything, but i...

This entire universe is nearing the point where it's time to throw it a party full of black balloons and cheap Grim Reaper decorations, according to recent research by an international team of astrono...

Glorantha is one of the oldest role-playing worlds in the history of the genre. Unfortunately, due to many reasons, the world never really found traction after D&D conquered RPGs back in the earl...

Yes, it's $72. But this 3-D printed metal sculpture/bottle opener is fantastic. And so is its marketing copy. The problem of beer That it is within a 'bottle', i.e. a boundaryless compact 2-manifold h...

Beautiful footage of Weddell seals in Antarctica — on the ice and under the water....

Man, do I love this season of The Walking Dead. Stuff happens in every episode! And this week's episode, "Hounded," brought us closer to the reunion of Merle and the survivors who ditched him -- plus ...

Dee sez, "Keneth Cerws' published studies take copyfight to libraries and museums where restrictive - often absurd - copyright claims and licensing terms are forced on those requesting images of art w...

Furry, shelled mammals the size of VW Beetles once roamed the Americas. ...

Michael from Public Knowledge sez, "Members of Congress need to know that their constituents support the sensible-yet-extraordinary copyright reform memo put out by the Republican Study Committee Frid...

David told me about Joshua Davis' profile of software millionaire John McAfee, who lives in Belize and is wanted for questioning in a murder there. I paid $0.99 for the article on Amazon and it was $0...

Alejandro Guijarro's "Momentum" photography series depicts chalkboards at quantum mechanics research institutions. I've noticed several mathematical errors but I'm sure the physicists will catch them ...

Dan Mountford, a design student in Brighton, England, creates stunning photo illustrations and also motion graphics. See more at Juxtapoz and Mountford's Flickr stream....

At least we can always have "Hostess Cupcake" pancakes. (Duhlicious, via Neatorama)...

Evan Roth, of Graffiti Research Lab (whose work we've featured many times in the past) has created a 500-piece limited-edition deck of cards based on the Solitaire game that came with Windows 98. They...

Very cute. (CNN)...

Ron English's wonderful "Temper Tot" will be born as an 8" vinyl toy early next year. (Popaganda)...

Wired's James Verini, on just how real Japan's real-life Rei Toei is: Miku was born, as Itoh puts it, on August 31, 2007, with the launch of her software. The program would soon become popular, but fr...

Wired's James Verini, on just how real Japan's real-life Rei Toei is: Miku was born, as Itoh puts it, on August 31, 2007, with the launch of her software. The program would soon become popular, but fr...

In 1999, a reader of the venerable Fortean Times contacted the editors to report that she had spotted a man with the head of a dog. He was kind of like a basset hound with long floppy ears," she wrote...

"36. Failure to understand nuances of newly installed alien government." [The Awl]...

Pete Namlook, founder of the pioneering ambient label FAX +49-69/450464 died last week....

As I said to cancer pals on Twitter earlier today, if my loved ones arrange a funeral for me where everyone is dressed like this, I will come back from the dead and stab everyone in the face....

Samuel sez, "ACMEScience.com is the home of many math and science podcasts, including the mathematical story series Relatively Prime. It has been run for the past four years in the spare time between ...

We're proud to present the short animation, I Have Your Heart, a collaboration between New York illustrator Molly Crabapple, international rockstar Kim Boekbinder, and Melbourne animator Jim Batt....

Former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine was accused of pedophilia in a now-famous Newsnight broadcast that led to the ouster of the head of the BBC. McAlpine now says he plans to sue Sally B...

Busted Bricks is selling a laser-cut Marble Machine kit for £12.95....

After a 125-day stay at the International Space Station, NASA's Sunita Williams, Russian astronaut Yury Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA space agency landed in their Soyuz capsule at 07:56 ...

ProPublica's Justin Elliott reports that a series of opinion columns praising Russia's ambitious modernization strategy and enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruptio...

The Petraeus/Broadwell email dragnet, which hasn't yielded evidence of any crime, has brought our attention to the FBI's sweeping powers to surveil email. But as ProPublica's Peter Maas writes, "It's ...

Page 11 of The Final Quest: Prologue is published online-first for the first time here at Boing Boing. First time reader? You're a few issues behind....

From MIT Technology Review: "Googles effort to install a blazingly fast, gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service in the two-state metropolis of Kansas Citya speed 100 times faster than the national ...

The FBI's dumpster-dive into Paula Broadwell's email archive has not yet revealed evidence of any crime, but it has revealed to America the extent to which our government is capable of collecting and ...

The cheaperChromebooks that Google introduced last month don't deserve credit for being a cheap way to read e-mail and surf the web: any smartphone meets that specification. But the $249 Samsung model...

Fables creator Bill Willingham continues his impossible run of prolific, high-quality, highly varied stories based on the idea that all the fables, myths and stories of the world are secretly true, an...

Jim from the UK Open Rights Group sez, Last year, the porn company Golden Eye asked for 9,000 O2/Telefonica customer details in the UK, in order to send them letters demanding payments for alleged cop...

Craig sez, "Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick have a new Christmas album out entitled 'One Christmas at a Time.' One of the songs, called '2600,' is a tribute to the classic 80's video game console. ...

I am scanning some old invoices and I came across one for a termite exterminator. I thought the drawing of the 4-legged bug on its back was sketched just for me before they faxed the invoice over, but...

Geoffrey McGann, a southern California artist, was arrested at Oakland airport for wearing an assemblage sculpture/watch he'd made. The TSA were also worried because he had a lot of insoles in his sho...

The Biblio-Mat is a random book dispenser built by Craig Small for The Monkey's Paw....

Photo: IMMS Someone is killing and mutilating dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, and no one can figure out who is doing this, or why. This Friday, a team from the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMM...

Meet Dan Menendez, a juggler who does amazing things with his piano....

Meet Dan Menendez, a juggler who does amazing things with his piano....

November Eclipse, a false color image of the moon shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Jason Brown in New Zealand....

It took less than 24 hours for the entertainment industry's lobbyists to bully the House Republican Study Committee into retracting its eminently sensible copyright position paper. They did it with a ...

The Machinima Expo is a 3-day, virtual film festival devoted to screening and celebrating machinima, a form of 3D animation that grew out of the video game and hacking community back in the late 1990'...

JM Gershenson-Gates, a sculptor who makes watch-part jewelry, has produced a few watch-part/light-bulb spiders and other crawlies that are nothing short of amazing. He's sold out, but he says he's mak...

DOC OF THE DEAD will delve deep into the myriad crevasses of zombie culture to deliver the first-ever in-depth look at a contemporary social pandemic of global proportions....

OpenSSL maintainer and Google cryptographer Ben Laurie and I collaborated on an article for Nature magazine on technical systems for finding untrustworthy Certificate Authorities. We focused on Certif...

Martin sez, "Neil Clarke over at Clarkesworld SF blog/magazine is ill and just lost his job. John Scalzi has called for uniform support by subscribing to Clarkesworld magazine. It's a highly regarded ...

A Taliban spokesperson sent out a press-release and used CC instead of BCC, exposing a long list of Taliban press-contacts, as well as several parties friendly to Taliban communiques. The list, made u...

A Taliban spokesperson sent out a press-release and used CC instead of BCC, exposing a long list of Taliban press-contacts, as well as several parties friendly to Taliban communiques. The list, made u...

Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it (PDF) is a position paper just released by House Republicans, advocating for a raft of eminently sensible reforms to copyright law, includi...

Jeffrey 'Toast' McGrew sez, "The ever-amazing Long Now Foundation hired us to help them transform their somewhat-boring bookstore / gallery into an amazing library / event space / coffee & cockta...

Letterbox Library and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers announce the Little Rebels Children's Book Award, given for "children's fiction for readers aged 12 and under which promotes social justice." ...

I've just wrapped up a couple of days at the Fliporto literary festival in Olinda, Brazil, and was delighted to get a copy of the newly published Cinema Pirata, the Brazilian edition of Pirate Cinema,...

The American Psychiatric Association is set to add "disruptive mood dysregulation disorder" to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM), the bible of psychiatric disorders. A kid has "DMDD" if she or h...

A man has been arrested for repeatedly sneaking onto a farm in Cornwall, England, covering himself in cow-shit and masturbating. This is the third time he was caught at it. It sounds like he really ma...

Here's an exclusive excerpt from Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel. Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction fi...

ThinkGeek's done a Tenth Doctor "costume tee" that's pretty great. I'm assuming that all that detail is silk-screened with fool-the-eye shadows, and not actual additional material sewn onto the shirt'...

"Projecteo" is Benjamin Redford's fully funded Kickstarter project to produce simple, tiny, hackable slide projectors for your digital photos. You pay to have slide-wheels with your digital photos on ...

Melissa McCarthy. Sandra Bullock. THEY'RE COPS. ...

When does an animal count as a person? At io9, George Dvorsky reviews recent moves to secure legal protections for "highly sapient" animals such as great apes, elephants and cetaceans....

Officials in Guayaquil, Ecuador, have denied Mr. Burro, a donkey, the right to run for office. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]...

An Italian court determined Wednesday that it is not legal to have sex outdoors, even if everyone else is inside watching football. [Philip Pullella, Reuters]...

Normally, I would never post about a nebulous movie rumor, but the potential for discussion and mystery is so cool that I couldn't resist. It concerns the possible cinematic introduction of one of the...

The Oatmeal's "Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web" really captures a lot of the joys and sorrows of working in a creative field in the age of the Internet, especially the toxici...

Over on his Google+ account, Kevin Kelly says: The major impact of the Petraeus affair has nothing to do with the military, sex, or celebrity -- it is that there is no such thing as anonymous, an...

Thank you to our kind and creative sponsor ShanaLogic, sellers of handmade and independently-designed jewelry, apparel, gifts, and other curious creations. Need a geek gift idea? Try the Cat Meme Coas...

While the video is, sadly, unembeddable, it is worth the extra click if you are in serious need of depressing yourself into oblivion. The Movie Miscellany has compiled a tear-soaked supercut of 100 of...

Photographer Jessica Hilltout travelled Africa documenting homemade footballs/soccer balls improvised across the continent. Shown above, a ball from Mozambique, made by Domingo. Left, a Ghanian ball f...

Jeff Jarvis, the director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, and others discuss the impact of Twitter on journalism....

Medbox (MDBX), a firm that makes medical marijuana dispensing machines, says its stock "is getting way too high." Shares spiked 3,000% this week (from about $4 Monday to $215 Thursday), "prompting exe...

Geoffrey Fowler and Evan Perez in the Wall Street Journal write about one practical (and, yes, obvious) takeaway from the Petraeus scandal: "Privacy protections for even the most sophisticated users o...

Heritage Auctions has over 1000 fabulous movie posters on the block. This 1933 King Kong poster is the star of the show and is valued at $80,000+. The auction has rarities from every genre includ...

Hostess Brands Inc, the bankrupt baker of Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ho-Hos, and Raspberry Zingers, "has sought a U.S. court's permission to go out of business."...

Rapiscan, makers of the naked-scanner technology used in many US airports, are in a lot of trouble. The TSA has accused them of falsifying their tests results on the software that supposedly protects ...

Using brain scans, scientists are trying to find how great freestyle rappers drop dope lines. Discovery News reports on a study conducted by researchers the voice, speech and language branch of the Na...

While looking for some way to add an interesting touch of forgotten tech to my living room, I remembered Rabbit Ears. Just a simple dipole antenna, rabbit ears could be beautiful! I'm looking to add s...

"The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetabl...

Miles O'Brien's report for PBS NewsHour this week about the neuroscience of sleep (and other forms of brain-rest, including meditation.) ...

Photo: Jordy Theiller The mysterious abandoned island featured as Silva's lair in Skyfall is a real place, Hashima. Once the world's most densely-populated company town, it's been in ruins for a gener...

It's time to make the (reverse) donuts. ...

Defeat hurts....

"The moms navel ring got entangled on a drain in the zero-depth swimming pool, filled with just six inches of water. 'I laid down to stay warm in the water, on my belly, I couldnt get back up because ...

"No matter how complex, no matter how unique, your passwords can no longer protect you," writes Mat Honan in Wired magazine this month. And he should know....

The cast and crew of Big Bang Theory staged a surprise flash-mob choreographed dance production to "Call Me Maybe."...

First published by the Seattle Times. You're welcome. David Heath at CPI met him some years back, and has a blog post about him here....

A robber seized a man's wallet in Kansas, then realized his victim was a friend of his and gave him his stuff back. Adds reporter Kevin Murphy: "Although the victim went to police ... he did not think...

The Awl founder muses on his idea for the ultimate pomo literary novel: "the book would be told solely through reviews written by its protagonist. There would never be a line of dialogue". But he forg...

Time to trot out a turkey classic....

A man in Rhode Island was either too dumb or too cheeky for his own good: the counterfeit bills he tried to pass at a local Target had Abraham Lincoln on the $100, popularly known as a Benjamin. [Sun ...

Samuel Coniglio says, It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Airship Ventures has stopped operations. I got to fly on it with my wife, and it was an amazing experience. It is one of only three ...

Police in Saarland, Germany, pulled over a man for speeding. In his car, they discovered an unusually extensive mobile workplace: a computer set up for use from the driver's seat, a printer, a router,...

Artist Jason Mecier's Honey Boo Boo portrait is made from "25 lbs. of trash, recycling and found objects," and took over 50 hours to create....

After years of waiting and several false starts, the fourth game in the legendary Elite series of space-exploration games is underway. Elite: Dangerous, currently being kickstartered by David Braben, ...

Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is one of those instant geek classics that gets right into the romance and magic of high-tech, a book akin to Cryptonomicon or Microserfs. It's the story...

If I am to trust Dennis Wilen's translation, these are inbound Hamas rockets intercepted outside of Beersheva by Israel's 'Iron Dome' rocket defense system....

The Herald-Tribune reports on the latest in Sarasota's long running war on the homeless, arresting a man for using a public charging station to charge a phone. "In 2006, Sarasota was called the meanes...

Here are a few brief excerpts from A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, by John Glassie, published by Riverhead Books. Reprinted with permission. This is the vivid, u...

Richard Nikoley of Free the Animal started eating fried potatoes earlier this week and has lost five pounds so far. This is the "magic" of potatoes. You can literally live off them, and some people ha...

What's your favorite part? (Via Laughing Squid)...

Smizing with Tyra Banks...

"Incredibly, the young France Gall never suspected the sordid pun lurking behind her lolly."...

An amazing and award-winning photo essay by Marie Hald of the Danish School of Journalism on Bonnie, a sex worker in Denmark. Bonnie Cleo Andersen has been a prostitute since the age of 18. Her first ...

Aaron Sorkin, who is one of the only qualified people (in my opinion) for the job of writing about the late Steve Jobs, has told The Daily Beast at their Hero Summit today that his screenplay will hav...

British oil company BP today announced it will pay $4.5 billion "in fines and other payments to the government," and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges resulting from the giant oil spill in the Gulf ...

ADVERTISEMENT This post sponsored by Outlook.com: By now you may have heard that Microsoft is retiring it's Hotmail service and replacing it with the new Outlook.com. If you're in the market for a new...

A Dutch artist called Caspar Berger is producing a "self-portrait" by 3D printing a replica of his own skull, then layering "flesh" atop it. In this project, Self-portrait 21, the 3D copy of the skull...

Our friends in the Tea Party have revealed President Obama's sinister plan for a "United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities." On October 11, ...

Science and technology writer Steve Silberman asked ten of his favorite writers (science authors, poets, bloggers, NYT reporters) to share "their playlists of music that evokes the elusive Muse." ...

From a Washington Post article with more details on the Paula Broadwell cyberstalking: "A person close to Kelley said that investigators have found Broadwell had at least four e-mail accounts under al...

WHYY's Fresh Air radio program did a recent special on Legalizing And Regulating Pot.The hour-long special is really worth a listen. Of particular note, the piece profiles Colorado's tightly-regulated...

Michael Geist sez, The NPD Group response contains math errors for both non-P2P users (the total should be $192 not $191) and P2P users (the total should be $268 not $267), though perhaps this is due ...

Evan from Fight for the Future, "The open internet is in danger. In just a few weeks, governments from around the world are getting together, and they could decide the future of our internet. Watch th...

When I myself was a protesting student, I remember vividly remembered the cold warning in the text by Pier Paolo Pasolini. He reminded us youngsters that the police we faced in the streets were also s...

An interesting map of the US comparing blue states with "highest number of coffee shops per capita" states at I Love Coffee. (HT: @treesbarc)...

Earlier this year, construction workers discovered what is now the world's oldest known bra. It dates to the 15th century and was found with a bunch of other clothing, stuffed between the floors of an...

BetaBeat lists the most interesting folks in 2012's tech scene. Here's Nitasha Tiku on Anil Dash, whose "amiable agitation" is also one of my own inspirations atop the web's sea of snark and negativit...

Megan Garber of The Atlantic: "While doing repair work on the Shchyolkovsky Highway outside of Moscow, a construction team severed a cable. And it turned out, unfortunately, to be the cable -- the one...

One of my favorite things about YouTube is being able to listen to almost any old song I can think of....

For the record, squid come in shoals. Not quite as good as a squad. But still nicely alliterative. Via Craig McClain...

I agree with Shane Glines. Debbie Harry wore the greatest T-shirts the world has ever known....

On Retronaut, David Orman has gathered up a magnificent collection of digital watches from the 1980s, which was truly the last spasm of the heroic age of digital horology. 1980s: Watches...

Drew Friedman says: This is the latest in my ongoing series of "portraits of the legends of comic books", the late artist John Severin (1921-2012), one of the original MAD/EC comics artists. I portray...

Over the past few years, multiple people have died in Thailand from what appears to be exposure to some kind of poison. Most of these people have been tourists. And most of them have been young women....

Because sometimes nature just likes to mess with you, here's CFBDSIR2149. It's an object in space — a relatively nearby object in space, as evidenced by the fact that this is an actual picture o...

Anthony from OpenDemocracy sez, "OurBeeb, hosted by openDemocracy, have launched a petition calling for all candidates to be head of the BBC to publish their vision and principles for taking it forwar...

When The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters on December 14, moviegoers will be treated to an unexpected preview. (Well, I guess it's not unexpected anymore, what with it being...announced.) P...

I had dinner with my old friend Dan Kimball last night. In the 80s we lived together in London and played in a rockabilly/punk band. He now lives in Santa Cruz, and he told me about a fellow he's gott...

I love to hang out with online pal Cabel Sasser, founder of Portland software company Panic, whenever our paths cross in real life. But I only just realized that he was an early 90s tracker musician w...

ADVERTISEMENT This post sponsored by Outlook.com: By now you may have heard that Microsoft is retiring it's Hotmail service and replacing it with the new Outlook.com. If you're in the market for a new...

Javier sez, "This is a Chilean comic strip. On this strip the character tries to legally purchase some content and can't due to several explained reasons. Then on the last square some distributors com...

Juidth Davidoff: "On the heels of a presidential election in which hundreds of preachers publicly promised to flout Internal Revenue Service rules by endorsing candidates from the pulpit, the Madison-...

David Pogue reviews two fitness armbands, the Nike Fuel Band and the Jawbone Up. He prefers the former, but appears impressed by neither. The Nike band is polished and professional, it has that awesom...

Is coffee bad for you or good for you? Does acupuncture actually work, or does it produce a placebo effect? Do kids with autism have different microbes living in their intestines, or are their gut flo...

The Oxford English Dictionary has determined that "omnishambles", referring to situations shambolic in all possible respects, is word of the year. Coined by Armando Iannucci for BBC political comedy T...

Tim Rogers offers 10 games Pong is better than, including Angry Birds, Street Fighter, Madden, and, of course, Farmville....

Reuters: "Two dozen pro-nudity activists wearing little but their righteous indignation assembled on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday to protest a proposed municipal ban on public nak...

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Hey, Londoners! I'm speaking at one of the Open Rights Group's meetings on the Snooper's Charter (the proposed new mass-scale network spying bill) in London on Nov 24. It's free, but they'd like you t...

Here's some very sad news: Glitch, the innovative and playful virtual world from Stewart Butterfield and his friends at Tiny Speck, is shuttering. The letter from Tiny Speck is very bittersweet. This ...

Coming soon from Sparrows Lock Picks: a $59 pair of cufflinks that integrate a set of handcuff keys. Yet another reason to regret the fact that none of my shirts have French cuffs. Upon first glance, ...

Hilary Sargent Ramadei, investigator and chart-maker, is trying to make sense of the Petraeus scandal. So are we. So it was with great delight that we encountered her explanatory flowchart. LARGE: Dow...

Brian Fung at the Atlantic writes: "Over the past six hours, Israel's military has been hammering Gaza with a barrage of missiles. The IDF's public relations team, meanwhile, has just as steadily been...

In The Economist, an essay on the challenges for larger passengers who often face humiliating and stress-causing treatment on commercial air travel. Air Canada has an interesting policy about heavier ...

Reuters reports that a computer used by Paula Broadwell, whose affair with CIA chief David Petraeus led to his resignation, "contained substantial classified information that should have been stored u...

Jeffrey sez, "Perhaps not quite surpassing his panorama inside a mouth at the dentist, 360Cities member and Impossible Panorama master Nico Roig created this panorama inside a washing machine." Inside...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Frederick Humphries. I am glad I haven't encountered the actual shirtless sexted photos, and hope to avoid such an occurrence. (NYT)...

Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord take you behind the scenes of the making of "Fatty Boom Boom."...

All the industrial machines you need to create a fully autonomous community....

Listen to Howard Shore's complete score for The Hobbit....

When you like Iron Man 3, but have no budget and lots of carboard, you swede the trailer!...

Lisa Rein from the Timothy Leary Foundation writes, Fifty years after being cut loose by Harvard for being too enthusiastic regarding the successful results of his experiments with psilocybin and LSD,...

Here's an exclusive excerpt from The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury, which is the sequel to The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. The zombie plague unleashes...

Shardcore sez, "I've built some generative politicians, they're nearly as hateful as the real thing... Their faces, and the words they speak are a blend of David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband. T...

Bob Knetzger is a toy and game designer and the Toy Inventor's Notebook columnist for MAKE. He says: Saw your cool post on clunky 80's Apple ][ software interfaces -- wow, that really takes me back. T...

I met Daniel Hirschmann and Bethany Koby last year in Brussels. They run a electronics haberdashery and kit development company in London called Technology Will Save Us. They are great people. They ha...

What has a shiny exterior, is three feet tall, devoid of human emotions... and also edible? That would be this Cyberman cake, designed and available to buy (in the UK) from Truly Scrumptious Designer ...

Artist Barnaby Ward, who designed the Boing Boing Beetle T-shirt, donated one of his prints to this year's Christmas charity auction organized by The Rainforest Foundation UK. He says, "The print is a...

Dave sez, "The National Opt Out and Film Week, a new campaign designed to expose the abusive policies of the TSA, is set to launch during Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel times of the year -- a...

Ben Winters, author of The Last Policeman (which I reviewed here), sent me a link to a website called Impact Earth! It was developed by Gareth Collins, HJ Melosh, and Robert Marcus at Purdue Universit...

DevianART users Curtana and Kaleadora have both collaborated on an adorably violent mashup of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (which inspired HBO's Game of Thrones) and Edward Gore...

Hurricane Sandy devastated some sections of New York City and did massive damage to numerous libraries in Queens. Undaunted, the amazing Queens Library sent a mobile book bus with a rapid response tea...

I received an advance copy of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's book Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors, and it's just as funny as the terrific TV series on IFC. Above, a trailer for the book. The bo...

Bobbie Johnson writes, New crowdfunded science and tech publisher MATTER launches today Earlier this year Boing Boing wrote about a Kickstarter project to produce serious, in-depth, long-form online j...

Mike from Mother Jones writes, "The Dems do this too, but these charts show how Republicans have become masters as gerrymandering their way to victory. In North Carolina, for instance, more than half ...

While it's probably a long shot, a four-minute Simpsons short is currently included on the list of ten (narrowed down from 56) animated shorts that are eligible for an Oscar this year. Maggie Simpson ...

"In 1964, a geologist in the Nevada wilderness discovered the oldest living thing on earth, after he killed it." A terrific opening sentence to Hunter Oatman-Stanford's story in Collector's Weekly abo...

On the 31st of November, the world ends....

University of Kentucky chemistry professors John P. Selegue and F. James Holler are collecting comic book references to chemical elements. On their Periodic Table of Comic Books site, you can click th...

Perfect, little bat skeletons don't grow on trees, you know. ...

Only 24,979 signatures and President Obama will either have to do the hokey pokey, or explain to the American people why he refuses to put his left foot out. (This is probably the best response to all...

The massive, all-in-one, ten-volume slipcased Sandman box-set I mentioned last May is out and shipping! $125 cheap! w00t! Sandman Slipcase Set...

Radley Balko says: "In a new piece for Huffington Post, I look at a number of criminal justice related issues on this year's ballot, including marijuana, Three Strikes, and the recent defeats of sever...

Etsy seller LoveandKnit (AKA Mine Kurtulmus) makes lovely alpaca wool accessories to order, including this great muffler, which looks like something that you'd see on in an anime adaptation of Fat Alb...

Tom the Dancing Bug, featuring a decapitation, a time-murder, an elephant not speaking Korean, a gambling debt unpaid and MUCH MORE....

Addicting Info shares that Fordham University's college republicans cancelled Ms. Coulter's speaking engagement after a passionate letter from their University president. "There are many people who ca...

Brett Gaylor from Mozilla sez, Sunday at the Mozilla Festival in London, Mozilla launched the 1.0 version of their new Popcorn Maker tool, a free web app that makes video pop with interactivity, conte...

Pete Wells' review of Guy Fieri's new restaurant is worth reading even if you would never dream of eating out in Manhattan or, indeed, have never eaten food at all. [New York Times]...

John Aravosis quotes a very apologetic spokesperson from ABC Denver, where a staffer's search for a picture of Paula Broadwell's All In ended in failure: "When the 7NEWS reporter went on the Internet ...

I did an interview with The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, which they've published in both text and MP3 form. We talked about Pirate Cinema, Rapture of the Nerds, the Humble Ebook Bundle, the future of p...

Wired's Ryan Rigney on the double-edged sword that online worlds present for austists: "You might think you know World of Warcraft, but you dont know it the way Ian Bates does."...

Pundit Shaming collects some of the most spectacularly wrong election calls uttered in recent weeks by political pundits. But the most entertaining fall-out will be the recriminations of pollsters and...

Internet users in Kansas City will never again need to leave the house. [Ars]...

The unexpected departure of Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, previously tipped as an eventual replacement for Steven Ballmer, has ignited even more tech-biz kremlinology than Scott Forstall's exit...

Steven Levy's Wired magazine feature on the cancerous multiplication of patents has all the hallmarks of Levy's work: excellent, eminently readable, human-scale tech reporting that makes important iss...

Live from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm, these earthworms are just $29.95 for 2lb. And that's only the beginning: there are crickets sold by the thousand, highly expensive snails, delicious gutloaded mealworm...

I'm calling it already: Windows 95 Tips is Blog of the Year....

Perpetual Kid sells a $4.50 cartoon vampire ketchup-bottle lid called "Count Ketchup Spread." Affix it and squeeze the bottle, and the ketchup drips out of his fangs. There's also a mustard version: i...

Elizabeth Bear writes, Shadow Unit is an ongoing, now five-year-old science fiction web serial about a mysterious "anomaly" that causes affected human beings to simultaneously develop superpowers and ...

Here's Slo-As-a-Mofo-Sho's two-minute long video of the super-slo-mo smashing of eggs, in a variety of improbable ways....

Metro Uk reports on a Russian grandmother's act of bravery while tending her flock of sheep. "Speaking from hospital with her hand bandaged, Mrs Maksudova said she was 'not even frightened' during the...

This is a tumblog of greatness. "Everything you need to know about the CIA Director David Petraeus sex scandal. All photos and headlines are real." (HT: @itsmikerock)...

2600's Emmanuel Goldstein writes, In the midst of the biggest natural disaster to hit the New York metropolitan area in modern times, most of the staff of community radio station WBAI was prevented fr...

Tampa military socialite and Petraeus scandal figure Jill Kelley ran the "Doctor Kelley Cancer Foundation," which claimed on its tax forms that it "shall be operated exclusively to conduct cancer rese...

Science fiction writer Kevin O'Donnell, Jr died last week; the Science Fiction Writers of America has a sweet, sad obit for him, written by John Barnes and John E. Johnston III. Our condolences to his...

Adam McKay is talking about the upcoming sequel to Anchorman, and if he's not using generous amounts of hyperbole, this movie might be as epic as Cloud Atlas, which I heard was pretty epic. But here's...

(Thanks, Bryan William Jones)...

Gen. John Allen, L, who is being investigated for "inappropriate communications" with unpaid military socialite Jill Kelley, R. (ABC NEWS) It's bad enough to learn that Marine General John Allen and C...

A paper in a 1909 edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London described the dissection of Charles Babbage's brain. The whole article is on the Internet Archive, from which...

From Patrick Radden Keefe, in the New Yorker: "The serialized revelations that have unfolded since Fridaywhen Petraeus, who left the military as a four-star general, resigned from the C.I.A. because o...

Mother Jones has a very good summary/explainer/de-WTFer up today. I've given up on trying to keep up with the story right now, it's too weird and too sprawling and there are too many sets of penises a...

Friends and mutants! Some of you may not know that we recently launched a "Video" page, where all of our posts about/including video are archived in one handy place. Cool stuff we find around the web,...

The man who accused the puppeteer behind of Sesame Street's Elmo of child sexual abuse has recanted his story. Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, is an out gay man, and was the star of a biographical doc...

I was the "culture critic" again this week on Jesse Thorn's excellent Bullseye radio show and podcast. It's always a joy to speak with Jesse. Boing Boing.net and the Gweek podcast's Mark Frauenfelder ...

L-R: Yo-Landi Vi$$er, Xeni, Ninja (iPhone 5 snap: Ninja) I'll be hosting an event with our friends at Meltdown Comics tonight, Tuesday November 13, 2012: a video marathon and poster-signing with Ninja...

Peter Bebergal, author of Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, interviewed comic book artist Jim Woodring about psychedelics, hallucinations, hippies, and underground comics. What do you...

United Parcel Service has joined Intel in telling the Boy Scouts of America that it will no longer be eligible for corporate donations unless it ends its anti-gay policies. UPS gives $150,000 a year t...

The History Channel is premiering its new TV series, Mankind The Story of All of Us, tonight. The producers interviewed me for the show. It looks like its going to be a good series....

This authentic, certified, window frame from a 747 immediately caught my eye. Then I had to ask: "What the heck do you do with it?" I've installed portholes from an old ship in my home, but this? How ...

Claire Danes cry-face is stuff of legend. It might even make legends cry. ...

They Might Be Giants have released a holiday bundle with lots of cool junk, but the best of the lot is this $15 cryptozoology playing-card deck. They Might Be Giants Paranormal, Cryptid, Myths and Hoa...

Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" experiments are infamous classics of psychology and social behavior. Back in the 1960s, Milgram set up a series of tests that showed seemingly normal people ...

Rabies isn't funny. But, somehow, Heather Swain makes her story about her brush with rabies absolutely hilarious. Now Swain didn't have rabies, but she did have a lot of the symptoms that go along wit...

From the Today Show, 1984: The devil in June O'Brien's toaster....

My latest Guardian column is "There's no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks," a postmortem analysis of the terrible debate in the Lords last week over a proposed mandatory opt-out pornogra...

Rebecca Onion is the curator at a new Slate blog that showcases nifty finds from America's historical archives. So far, she's got a photo of the be-loinclothed winner of a eugenics-inspired Better Bab...

I've posted several times about the entrancing landscape dioramas and sculptural paintings of Gregory Euclide who is perhaps best known for creating the cover art of Bon Iver's eponymous album. Euclid...

The BBC's Keith Moore tells the tragic story of Joe Pasquini, an RAF navigator who was ordered to fly a jet through the mushroom cloud rising from the 1958 Grapple Y nuclear test, the largest nuclear ...

An indoor cannabis farmer invited a television reporter to visit his growing operation. He said he has 40 employees, seven indoor gardens, and earns $420,000 a year. Mike admits his landlord doesnR...

Meet Me, Jesus is a very strange 1966 experimental film by Walter Ungerer....

While 85% of Billboard Top 100 songs of the 1960s were written in a major key, that preference no longer holds true today. Minor key songs have become the majority, representing about 60% of modern hi...

My friends over at my old stomping ground, The Mary Sue, are currently running a contest that will award two lucky winners the very fancy-looking 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray of Ridley...

Comparing the trailing shin angle between the biped in the Patterson Bigfoot film (73%) and humans (52%)...

Comparing the trailing shin angle between the biped in the Patterson Bigfoot film (73%) and humans (52%)...

For the first time ever, the winner of the 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year is not powered by an internal combustion engine; it is the all-electric Tesla S. Not surprisingly, Motor Trend is also spinn...

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, the chief creative officer at the Serious Eats Blog, is a mad kitchen-science genius. Here at BoingBoing, we've posted about his past experiments demonstrating that there's no reas...

I hope this is a hoax. (Via Bits and Pieces)...

Behold! A brand new, independently funded and produced 8-bit movie! ...

"timeRemapExportHD" by Adrien M / Claire B....

Arizona republican Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested Monday after running over her husband, Daniel Solomon, following his failure to vote in last week's presidential election. Solomon remains in critica...

An Auckland resident was ordered Tuesday to stay away from Prince Charles and wife Camilla during their stay in New Zealand, thereby thwarting his plans to throw horseshit at the royal couple. Sam Bra...

Teller had a great piece in last March's Smithsonian magazine, explaining the overarching principles behind all magic tricks. It's a great look at the way that our brains can be enticed to fool themse...

Stella Forstner grew up in the Church of Scientology, and wants you to understand what Scientologists actually believe. [The Hairpin] Growing up surrounded by the language and ideas of Scientology, I ...

Dream of Pixels reverses time on the best game of Tetris you ever had: a grid of blocks lies already complete, and you have to unpack the tetrominoes that fell to create it. The iOS version is coming ...

Liammmin, a redditor, caught this incidental eyeball in a swirling drain. The origin story has a good moral: "My friend said something around the lines of 'Liam, you take too many photos.' So I ran ar...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!...

Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain is a fascinating and occasionally hilarious guide written American GIs headed to Britain—then half-ruined by war—in 1942. Subjects range fro...

Locks had to be changed at London's 930-year old fortress—and home of the crown jewels—after a man was found trespassing within the walls, keys in hand. [Reuters]...

As fond as I am of Omar Rayyan's marriage of Renaissance portraiture and weird fantasy (such as Contessa with Squid, above), I think I prefer the lighter derangements found in his childrens book-style...

Brian sez, "Talk about unfortunate timing: David Petraeus is the new Secretary of Defense in the brand new Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The new first-person shooter features the former ge...

Who do your politicians represent? Wired's embeddable widget made it easy to find out that my senators are Rob Casey (Comcast-PA) and David Christian (National Identity Solutions-PA)....

Who do your politicians represent? Wired's embeddable widget made it easy to find out that my senators are Rob Casey (Comcast-PA) and David Christian (National Identity Solutions-PA)....

Mark Pesce writes, "What happens when an LED makes sweet love to a smartphone? You get the Light by MooresCloud, 52 full-color LEDs controlled by an embedded computer running Linux and connected to yo...

Today, Derek Kirk Kim's online science fictional rom-com comic Tune has been collected in the first of (I hope) many volumes, with Tune: Vanishing Point. ...

Dr. Sacks books are fascinating explorations into the way the human mind works, usually through studying abnormal minds and surprising ways in which they give us clues about perception, consciousness,...

Chad Orzel's post, "Financiers Still Arent Rocket Scientists" is a timely reminder that Mitt Romney and other Wall Street Types are not, by and large, superhero math geniuses with their fingers on the...

Silk is a website that lets you draw smokey shapes (with or without symmetry) by clicking and dragging....

Last week I was at the Albuquerque Academy and I spent some time with the smart and friendly high school members of the rocketry club there. They had a lot of great stuff in their on-campus hackerspac...

The Mary Sue tracked down a new career for Barbie -- Weeping Angel. The DIY guide, originally found on Wich Crafting, shows how a simple Barbie (or a less expensive impostor) can become the fearsome D...

Next time my kid asks for a pet fish, I'll get her one of these instead. It's a million times better than the real thing....

Here is a detailed analysis of the amount of time it would take to ride a hypothetical elevator down through the Earth's core and back out the other side of the planet. Apparently, this has something ...

In July, Salon's Matthew Yglesias wrote an article about the price of legal marijuana, which is even more interesting now that Colorado and Washington have legalized cannabis for recreational use. How...

The more accurate version of this question would really be something like, "Why do some trees fall over in a storm while others stay standing?" The answer is more complex than a simple distinction bet...

In an update to the Gizmodo story Xeni pointed to last week, Salon reports that "eccentric anti-virus pioneer John McAfee is wanted by Belize police for murder." See also: Lawsuit-plagued McAfee found...

Doomsday Preppers challenges you to prepare for a new (and even more fabulous) life below the ground....

You can learn a lot about this bird's biology by listening as it saws some logs....

Would Jason Schwartzman be a bad guy or a guy, or would that be the journey?...

The first issue of the 'zine High Frontiers (1984), founded by BB pal and co-conspirator RU Sirius, is now online at the Internet Archive. High Frontiers begat Reality Hackers which begat Mondo 2000 w...

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I love these dreamlike N.C. Wyeth illustrations from The Anthology of Children's Literature (1940). Golden Age Comic Book Stories has a bunch more in high-res. Amazon has a few used copies available....

After last week's tragedy parade, "Say the Word" takes some time to show us the survivors dealing with the aftermath as well as catch up to the weirdness taking place in Woodbury. Up until now, aside ...

Patrick sez, "Sci Fi writer Ken MacLeod discusses the possibility of gaining a sense of global purpose through technology, framing it against the last attempt to create a unifying ideology, Communism....

What Broadwell doing, apparently leaking CIA operational secrets at a public appearance she gave at an October 26 alumni symposium at the University of Denver?...

In the wake of Puerto Rico's overwhelming vote in favor of U.S. statehood, what would a 51-star flag look like? There are many possibilities. Picture above is the likely answer, but the top one here i...

Lianne Parker at Billfold: 'Growing up, it was common to see my mother go on shopping sprees, and then hide the bags in her closet before my dad got home. The closest we ever came to discussing the ev...

Art by Dave Kloc for Meltdown Comics I'll be hosting an event with our friends at Meltdown Comics tomorrow night, Tuesday November 13, 2012: an evening with Ninja and Yo-Landi of the South African ban...

Beautiful hand-cut paper silhouettes in the Etsy shop of Ukrainian artists Dmytro and Iuliia. DreamPapercut (via Neatorama)...

The Attleborough Sun-Chronicle reports that a spider got inside a voting machine on election day, thereby preventing the scanner inside from correctly counting ballots. Poll workers stayed up all nigh...

A man taking a nap in a Billings, MT, cornfield was run over by a combine harvester without serious injury, reports Carmen Irish of the Billings Gazette. At about 1:15 p.m., the landowner drove a comb...

A man, crushed by the 600-lb marble crucifix he was cleaning, is suing the Hudson Valley church which gave him permission to do so: "Jimenez was standing on the crucifix's base, using rags and soapy w...

Paige and Dexter are so smart, they can even explain chemical bonds....

Forty thousand pounds of chicken meat were engulfed in flames last week after a tractor trailor's fuel tank ruptured. The chicken-filled 18-wheeler, which originated in Mississippi, ignited and was en...

In Italy, openly gay and devoutly Catholic anti-corruption politician Rosario Crocetta was recently elected to govern conservative Sicily: "I will demonstrate that this region can be the most liberal ...

Smithsonian posted a guide to "5 Essential James Bond Accessories." ...

After losing a patent lawsuit with Samsung in the UK, Apple was required to post information about the ruling on its website and in media advertising. After seeing Apple interweave the details into an...

Tomorrow night, I'll be joining University of Minnesota physics professor Jim Kakalios for Beaker & Brush — a series of discussions between scientists and artists/writers sponsored by The S...

MIT researchers developed a game that simulates the weird relativistic effects of slowing down the speed of light....

Young Chilean protesters cosplaying superheroes and video-game characters in front of the Chilean government in an all-singing, all-dancing, choreographed amazeballs of a demonstration....

The Atlantic profiles George Lucas. In 1979. The idea of Star Wars was simply to make a "real gee-whiz movie." It would be a high adventure film for children, a pleasure film which would be a logical ...

Winds from approaching Hurricane Sandy turned the Freedom Tower into an olian harp. (via Doubtful News)...

Winds from approaching Hurricane Sandy turned the Freedom Tower into an olian harp....

YouTube makes available a set of different-sized thumbnails for every video through its API, but sometimes you just need to grab 'em and go. So I made a plain-jane widget to grab what's available, at-...

Page 10 of The Final Quest: Prologue is published online-first for the first time here at Boing Boing. First time reader? You're a few issues behind....

Gareth Branwyn says: What: International Maker Meetup Where: Your Community! When: November 15, 2012 Learn more at https://www.meetup.com/makermeetup/ Next Thursday, the first of our new International...

Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is No Starch Press's excellent adventure to Scratch, the extremely popular (and absolutely wonderful) kids' programming environment from the MIT Media Lab's Lifelo...

Legally-prescribed drugs kill more people than heroin and cocaine? It's hardly a surprise. But the War on Drugs' absurd outcomes hide darker truths: the L.A. Times found, in a review of coroners recor...

AdTrap is a planned $150 firewall box for consumers. Plugged in between your internet connection and router, it strips the web of advertising without requiring a moment's configuration. Unlike browser...

After years of research, "perfect" invisibility cloaks are finally a reality— at least so long as you are a tiny cylinder. In 2006, the development of metamaterials resulted in a working example...

"Possession of a terrible haircut is the Hollywood litmus test for evil" [The Awl]...

No wonder Ann Coulter wants women's voting rights taken away. What The 2012 Election Would Have Looked Like Without Universal Suffrage (Via Sociological Images)...

My first engineering job was with Burroughs in the 1980s. We were making 100MB disk drives that weighed 70 lbs. A few years later I worked for Fujitsu on a 100MB 2.5-inch drive that weighed about 6 ou...

Australo-Prussian tugs in LEO scuttled to avoid capture by Hardee's exoatmospheric weapons & chicken division. Zrcher calfskin watchbands?— Authentic Wm. Gibson (@AuthenticWmGibs) November 3...

David Petraeus, L, used a pseudonymous Gmail account to sext biographer and lover Paula Broadwell, R. Both were out outed by Gmail location data. Well, that didn't take long. On Friday, CIA chief and ...

David Petraeus, L, used a pseudonymous Gmail account to sext biographer/lover Paula Broadwell, R. They were outed in part by Gmail metadata. Well, that didn't take long. On Friday, CIA chief and retir...

The San Jose Mercury News reported on a "fairy" who participated in a marijuana related robbery. "Police said at about 2 a.m. on Halloween, a woman in a fairy costume was let into the victim's house i...

"Now the Global Left/Soros/Cloward-Piven/Eric Holder/Mau Mau endgame approaches. Get ready for CIA Director Dennis Kucinich." From BB commenter SedanChair comes this gem of analytical bravado, a summa...

An excellent long read on the growing phenomenon of prescription drug overdoses in Southern California, which a Los Angeles Times investigative team reports "now claim more lives than heroin and cocai...

At the Wired News defense blog Danger Room, a mea culpa of sorts by Spencer Ackerman, who realizes in hindsight that he helped perpetuate a myth of sorts about the recently-disgraced retired general a...

Intel has informed the Boy Scouts of America that they will no longer be eligible for donations through Intel's charitable donation matching program, unless the BSA abandons its policy of discriminati...

"Be positive. Everyone likes to be around people who exude energy. Find a way to give energy and encouragement. It is amazing how the right attitude and the ability to make others feel good about them...

How to brew your own Sriracha, the spicy red nectar of the gods that makes everything taste better....

At Disinfo.com, guest contributor and cancer-scam-debunker Bob Blaskiewicz has written a piece about Houston-based Stanislaw Burzynski (photo at left). Burzynski's advocates would like you to believe ...

TSA "officers" have a new deal: awesome new clothes to wear while they touch your genitals. Under their new collective bargaining agreement, Transportation Security Administration officers get to spen...

TSA "officers" have a new deal: awesome new clothes to wear while they touch your genitals. Under their new collective bargaining agreement, Transportation Security Administration officers get to spen...

Dan sez, "Two LA-based photographers shot photos of voters 'to document and celebrate the diversity of the Los Angeles electorate. All photographs were taken outside of polling locations across the ci...

Last year I read Bedbugs, Ben Winters' psychological thriller/horror novel about a woman who was certain that her apartment was filled with bedbugs, while her husband was telling her that she was imag...

George Entwistle, BBC director general, has resigned after a Newsnight report wrongly implicated a former lawmaker in a child sexual abuse case. From the Telegraph's coverage: Mr Entwistle said quitti...

This webcast is an incredible thing to witness. @OccupySandy teaming up with a biker club to clean up homes in New York's Staten Island ravaged by the hurricane. Doing what FEMA can't/won't. The Occup...

The Washington Post reports that the investigation into CIA chief David Petraeus began "when a woman whom he was having an affair with sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him," citing "...

The Washington Post reports that the investigation into CIA chief David Petraeus began "when a woman whom he was having an affair with sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him," citing "...

The Washington Post reports that the investigation into CIA chief David Petraeus began "when a woman whom he was having an affair with sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him," citing "...

Louis Vuitton currently has an awesomely weird "Tentacles and Tongues" display in its stores, so Heather and I made an "Occupy Deluxe Tentacles" mask, then set off on a cheeky jape. The folks at the m...

Louis Vuitton currently has an awesomely weird Yayoi Kusama "Tentacles and Tongues" display its stores, so Heather and I made an "Occupy Deluxe Tentacles" mask, then set off on a cheeky jape. The folk...

When I first moved to the UK, I thought I understood why people hated the Daily Mail: it's a shitty, sensationalist tabloid, right? What I failed to understand, in my naive, transatlantic way, was jus...

CakeWrecks reports that a local Safeway bakery has banned all photography in its bakery department, in a desperate, misguided bid to prevent its horrific creations from appearing on CakeWrecks. Safewa...

A letter from an anonymous NYT reader to ethicist Chuck Klosterman, titled "MY WIFES LOVER"— My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progre...

A letter from an anonymous NYT reader to "Ethicist" writer Chuck Klosterman, titled "MY WIFES LOVER"— My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project who...

As reported earlier today, CIA chief David Petraeus has resigned after an FBI probe into whether someone else was using his email led to the discovery he was having an extramarital affair. The Wall St...

In an update to yesterday's post about Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3, Little Miss Sunshine) writing the next installment of the Star Wars saga, Lucasfilm confirmed on StarWars.com that it's official: Arn...

Josh from Reading With Pictures sez, "A Kickstarter campaign (now in its final days!) to revive the award-winning graphic novel series and nationally syndicated comic 'Mail Order Ninja!' Originally pu...

Seven members of the US Navy's highly secretive SEAL Team 6, one of whom was part of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information to game maker Electro...

David H. Petraeus, the head of America's Central Intelligence Agency, resigned just days after the election after issuing a statement saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair. "By acknowleding ...

Short version: yes, but it's not easy. "To win, New York ratepayers have to show that their power company was not just slow or inefficient. Instead, Kreppein said, under a 1985 New York Court of Appea...

Two grainy photos of cats led federal investigators to a Tennessee man suspected of stealing former presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns to blackmail him for $1 million. "They said they're...

ToyTalk, a "family entertainment" startup that makes a "smart," internet-connected, artificially-intelligent teddy bear, has secured $11.5 million in its first round of institutional funding. The comp...

Former Pixar CTO's "family entertainment" startup makes a "smart," internet-connected, artificially-intelligent teddy bear, raises $16M....

Gentle Giant's accepting pre-orders for Walking Dead "Green Army Men," available in green or tan, in sets of $10 for $14. Its a trip down memory lane but with zombies! No longer constrained to the tra...

Well, this is exciting! The UFC, the owner of which said less than two years ago that it would never include women, now does! Ronda Rousey will be taking her vicious armbar to the UFC in 2013. But she...

As you can imagine, the situation here in New York is dire, what with the still-large amount of people who have yet to even get their power back. But Staten Island (and the Rockaways, and Long Beach, ...

Superstorm Sandy brought fossils up from the ocean depths. ...

Sometimes, it's hard to find people interested in playing the role of guinea pig for the sake of science. And, sometimes, that job is not so hard. Like when what you want the guinea pigs to do is get ...

Colin sez, I'm going to Disney next month and (as is my way) have become obsessed with diving back into Disney World nostalgia. My plan for this trip is to buy vintage postcards for attractions that n...

The Georgia congressman who called evolution "lies straight from the pit of hell" won reelection Tuesday in an uncontested race. But 4000 of his constituents managed to find a write-in candidate they ...

Here's a headline for you — Worse than sex parasite: Sex parasite with virus. Yes, trichomoniasis (a sexually transmitted parasite that you've probably never been tested for), can actually harbo...

Some pseudoscience is pretty obvious. I think most of us are comfortable saying that the world will probably not end this December, in accordance with any ancient prophecy. But distinguishing fact fro...

David "How to Sharpen Pencils" Rees describes the Rolling Jubilee, a project from Occupy Wall Street to buy up, and zero out, other peoples' debts: Now OWS is launching the ROLLING JUBILEE, a program ...

Did you know that there was a major American election on Tuesday? Great. Let us all never speak of it again. At least for the next 3.5 years. But before we send the parts of our brains that care about...

Since my Audeze LCD-3 planar magnetic headphones arrived around a year ago, I have not listened to any others (except for brief comparisons and travel.) I have been a fan of the Sennheiser HD580/600/6...

Erik Davis says: I recently published my first column for Aeon Magazine's online site, a "post-secular" take on the current wave of psychedelic research. Without plunging into woo, the article attempt...

Leo Kent says: "Humans Invent has done an in-depth feature on Vinyl, examining why it sounds so much better than CDs or MP3s." The integral difference between vinyl and CD or MP3 is that a vinyl recor...

Ben Marks of Collector's Weekly says: We just published an article about orchestrions, which were like player pianos on steroids. Popular in the early 1900s, electric-powered orchestrions were built a...

Secret Headquarters, my favorite comic store in LA (a very competitive field!), has opened a sister-store called Thank You Comics and Books, in Highland Park.. It's bound to be one of the great awesom...

Everyone, just shut up and give them all your money: Louis C.K., who hosted Saturday Night Live in New York City in the midst of Sandy's chaos, and Long Island native Jerry Seinfeld are both planning ...

Souris sez ,"'Spirit Animal Collective' is now available at our shop. The print is based on Kozy's 2009 drawing 'Spirit Animal Collective'. The drawing was the culmination of Kozy's 4 year-long 'Unkno...

Michael Geist sez, The Supreme Court of Canada this morning shocked the pharmaceutical industry by voiding Pfizer's patent in Canada for Viagra. The unanimous decision provides a strong reaffirmation ...

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes was the last great American newspaper comic strip, and opportunities to acquire original art are as rare as bug's teeth. Heritage Auctions is rightfully giddy to be ...

That story about a wife's tie-breaking vote? The plot of a Popeye cartoon from 1956....

Jared Loughner, the 24 year old man who shot former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has been given seven life prison sentences without parole plus 140 years for his crime. Giffords this week...

Joly from the Internet Society writes, As Boing Boing readers will know, the Copyright Alert System, the result of a deal between big content and big ISPs, is a graduated response program - popularly ...

Sattar Beheshti, 35, was an Iranian blogger and Facebook activist who died in police custody after being arrested and tortured. Reports this week say he has been buried in his hometown of Rabat Karim,...

"Do you have any idea how it feels to be a 26 years-old in Palo Alto with less than $10 million in liquid assets? Its, like, depressing. Oh, The Shame of a Seven-figure Net Worth. (banneradconfidentia...

A Swiss study has found that "pre-drinking," "pre-funking," "pre-gaming"—basically, the ritual among college-age young adults of drinking before you go out to drink, leads to "excessive consumpt...

Racially-fueled anti-Obama demonstrations broke out at various colleges and universities in the American South on election night, after the president's reelection was called. Counter-demonstrations by...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission employees did not encrypt some computers that contained "highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable to cyber attacks, accord...

I've just finished Unnatural Habitats, the fifth collection of Jeff Lemire's apocalyptic Sweet Tooth comics, and I continue to be absolutely taken by it, on the grimmest of tenterhooks for the next vo...

At least 68 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011 in protest against Chinese rule over Tibetan regions; 56 have died. Despite this, Reuters reports that a government official said toda...

The "candid" video of President Obama tearing up as he thanks his staff and tells them "I'm Really Proud of All of You" is interesting. ...

At Acculturated blog, Abby W. Schachter writes about "bobos," short for bourgeois bohemians, and evidence that big consumer brands are now marketing to them with highly mockable DIY gear that re-creat...

Space.com spoke to space policy expert John Logsdon, a professor emeritus at George Washington University, about rumors that NASA may soon unveil new manned moon missions. "Plans have probably already...

Douglas sez, 18 months ago Boing Boing posted about EFF's effort to get Ubuntu to make full disk encryption (FDE) easy upon install. EFF has delivered. I'm sure many of us have had and continue to hav...

Multiple takes of stuntman Ross Kanaga's epic crocodile jumps, in the shooting of the 1973 James Bond flick, "Live and Let Die."...

Kotaku's Luke Plunkett delves into a newly disclosed Microsoft patent that covers spying on people in their homes using cameras attached to their TVs, in order to levy fines against them for allowing ...

Felix Salmon at Reuters: "If you think that the value of Nate Silver is in the model, youre missing the most important part: there are lots of people with models, and most of those models are pretty s...

At WNYC's Data News, MTA subway-recovery maps compiled into one handy animated GIF....

Great piece over at The Verge on why AT&T reversed its effective ban on the use of FaceTime over cellular networks. Why are they unlocking it, finally? They faced FCC complaints....

Francesco sez, "In my blog on Wired.it I posted a new series of wonderful 'manga inspired' plates created by the Japanese designer Mika Tsutai. Positioning the food in the right way Geek Chefs can tel...

Ethan Persoff has remixed the "Drunk Lady on YouTube upset about Obama's reelection;" now she has an orchestra to match the tinkling ice cubes in her shot glass....

"Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) mothers sing to their unhatched eggs to teach the embryo inside a 'password' a single unique note which the nestlings must later incorporate into their begging c...

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David Kravets at Wired News writes about the 2-year-old federal grand jury probe into WikiLeaks, which is still ongoing, according to a brief ruling by a federal judge in Virginia this week. The state...

At Gizmodo, Jeff Wise writes about antivirus firm MacAfee founder John McAfees bizarre life in Belize, holed up with heavily-armed gang members, "garbage bags full of Viagra," 17 year old local girls,...

At the NYT, a video "opinion documentary," The Fight Over Medical Marijuana, by Rebecca Richman Cohen. "Our federal marijuana policy is increasingly out of step with both the values of American citize...

Writing at the Washington Post, Max Fisher explains a creepy photo making the foreign correspondent rounds: "This weeks very public display of firefighters in Tiananmen noticed by McClatchys Tom Lass...

"Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood do...

Nothing is official yet, but Vulture is reporting that a possible candidate to write the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII is Michael Arndt, an Oscar winner for writing Little Miss Sunshine and a ...

The science behind the story of how Reddit saved yet another life. ...

Every once in awhile, though, an indie artist is brave enough to put their music up against the 4th quarter sludge heap. Lord Hurons record came out about a month ago and its all I want to listen to....

IFC's wonderful sketch show Portlandia, created by and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, is returning for its third season in January, but they have provided a new clip to tide us over. If ...

These toothy ladies' shoes (origin unknown) are a nice complement for the tooth-soled Apex Predator shoes we wrote about last month. teethwh!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 (via Kadrey)...

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Boing Boing reader Ken Faeger of Whitewater, Wisconsin shares this photo in the BB Flickr pool and says, "Kaela finally made me a cupcake I can actually eat."...

"I Still Love NY" shirt by Sebastian Errazuriz. Available at Grey Area. 100% of proceeds go to Sandy Relief. Photo by Clayton Cubitt....

CBS Outdoor via Rolling Stone Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon launched "Artists Against Fracking" earlier this year, and have received no response from NY gov. Andrew Cuomo to their request to meet and t...

Tim O'Reilly tweeted about this proposal to deflect pesky asteroids on a collision course with earth. I'm reading The Last Policeman so this is even more interesting to me than usual. In the event tha...

Belle Harbor, Rockaway, November 6th, 2012. Kate Black. Kate Black has been volunteering in post-Sandy recovery efforts in the Rockaways and other areas surrounding NYC where people lost power, homes,...

Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann discusses the legalization of marijuana with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."...

What's one of the most fun benefits of taking a show about local politics national? Cameos! Parks and Recreation has taken such a turn this season, with Adam Scott's character, Ben, taking a job on Ca...

Frances Hashimoto, an influential business leader in LA's Little Tokyo neighborhood, who "fought to preserve the neighborhood's Japanese cultural traditions and who invented the popular fusion dessert...

In the spring of 2011, my wife and I were invited to attend a fundraiser for a well-known European castle. We hadnt donated any money to the group ourselveswe didnt even know that castles had fundrais...

An update on the Twitter Status blog explains that the service unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those... believed to have been compromised. Twitter wasnt hacked, ...

A wonderful old ad for Bendix corporation, lovingly scanned and Flickr'd by Paul Malon. You really gotta see a larger size to read the copy in glorious detail....

Adherents' Alien Rival Darn All Her Naiveties I Ate Venal Hardliners Handles Narrative Lie Vanilla Disheartener Ha, Irrelevant Denials Annihilated Reversal Air Leaves Hinterland Alien Narratives Held ...

Richard Symons, an artist based in London, makes elaborate, gadget-encrusted sculptures, and sells them on Etsy. The teapot above sells for USD130.00. The mask on the right sells for USD60.00. Richard...

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Is it too early to talk about how much I like these? I hope not. Please note these are not actual bacteria, but watercolor paintings sealed in resin inside real petri dishes. Check out the full collec...

An interview with the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. ...

"On the eve of China's leadership transition, amid the wave of Tibetan self-immolations, we needed to inject humor and hope into an otherwise terrifying situation."...

An interview with the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. ...

Peter Serafinowicz, funnyman of Internet, television, film, and paper, has a new book collection out....

Remember Colleen Lachowicz, the Democratic candidate for the Maine senate whose GOP opponent attacked her for playing World of Warcraft? She won. Here's Robert Long on the Bangor Daily News: Gamers fr...

Philip Pullman -- best know for his Dark Materials series -- has written a new edition of the Brothers Grimm stories, called Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version. It's the 200th...

"The Democrats tried to make this election about a single issue: The right to slut. Or more precisely, the right to slut without the responsibility of consequences." Apparently, this is not a satire: ...

Hominid is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by Brian Andrews....

Boing Boing reader John K. Goodman shares a series of photographs with us that tell a magical story about a sea lion and his son, Sean. Every time John and his son visit the Long Beach aquarium, she l...

Our friends at Last Gasp just published Amigos de los Muertos, a hardcover collection of contemporary Day of the Dead artwork by Jeral Tidwell, Angryblue, Roberto Jaras Lira, and David Lozeau. Lira's ...

"All Hail Megatron!," a photograph by Justin Rampage shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. He explains: Goofy Photoshop that I made based off of this original reddit post by BergerKing80. You can als...

Here's Roxy Rot cosplaying the alligator tightrope-walker that appears in the Haunted Mansion's stretch-gallery, one of the iconic comic-horror images of the 20th century. She's perfectly awesome in t...

In news that writes its own jokes, Grammy-winning country duo The Civil Wars have announced that they are canceling all upcoming tour dates due to "internal discord and irreconcilable differences of a...

Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds: "As a connoisseur of Republican schadenfreude, it was pretty obvious that Fox was the place to be on this election night."...

"15 fucking posts on Facebook and NONE OF YOU SHARED IT."...

Artist Casey Weldon has cast Wes Anderson favorite Bill Murray as almost every character in Wes Anderson's movies. No, really, this is just as great as you're thinking it is. More images after the jum...

So-called "rogue surgeon" Ian Paterson has been suspended by Britain's General Medical Council after accusations he performed "unnecessary or inappropriate" breast operations on over a thousand women ...

A strong earthquake struck the southwestern coast of Guatemala this morning, causing widespread damage and a yet-undetermined number of deaths....

A strong earthquake struck the southwestern coast of Guatemala this morning, causing widespread damage and a yet-undetermined number of deaths....

Channelx99, a poster on the overclock.net forums, says that the Razer Naga gaming mouse comes with special drivers that require your computer to be connected to the Internet at all times in order to p...

Short film for the reunited Afghan Whigs' Miles Iz Ded, the hidden track on their 1992 LP Congregation....

We learned a while back that author Neil Gaiman would be returning to Doctor Who to write a follow-up to his Hugo Award-winning episode, "The Doctor's Wife." And now we know a little bit more about wh...

Today at Institute for the Future's conference about "Re-Aligning Human Organization," my colleague Jason Tester showed the image above in his presentation. It's from video game developer Valve Corpor...

Moritz Simon Geist recreated the iconic 808 drum-machine using analog parts and robotic controllers....

Over at our sponsor Intel's My Life Scoop site, I wrote a short piece about my favorite men's style sites: Since I was 14, Ive dressed like, well, Im 14. My daily attire has always been t-shirt, hoodi...

Amidst all the other election craziness last night, Puerto Ricans voted in favor of becoming the 51st U.S. state. Currently, Puerto Rico is a territory — they've got a non-voting rep in Congress...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound weighs important scientific climate information -- the fate of the world in the balance!...

Michael Geist sez, This morning, the majority of Bill C-11, the Canadian copyright reform bill, took effect, marking the most significant changes to Canadian copyright law in decades. While there are ...

Grime Writer is a detergent-filled graffiti marker that cleans away street-filth to leave your message behind. There's a good chance that the graffiti you create with these is no more legal than any o...

"I've been a Holocaust child all my life. I'm now 80 and I'm still a Holocaust child, but I'm finally able to better cope." A Buchenwald survivor who uses cannabis for PTSD in a nursing home in Israel...

Stocks fell sharply this morning in early Wall Street trading, indicating that investors are unhappy with Obama's reelection. "The Dow Jones industrial average fell 197 points, or 1.5%, to 13,048 shor...

The New York Times is killing it with election-related infographics, and they're not even Flash-based! This one sort of combines wind and voting. Readers in WA or CO may want to toke up before clickin...

Fox News analyst and GOP rainmaker Karl Rove went to war on election night against his own network's arithmetic....

Sure, there's a 99.2% probability that he will win, but that is several standard deviations away from the 99.99995% confidence that the particle physicists would need to declare the election won. (Thi...

Voters in Washington and Colorado chose to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, in addition to medicinal use, making them the first U.S. states to decriminalize the practice. Massachussetts vot...

Voters in Washington and Colorado chose to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, in addition to medicinal use, making them the first U.S. states to decriminalize the practice. Massachussetts vot...

YouTuber SkullGizzy "discovered" this "banned" mid-90s video ad for Lunchables. (via Sean Bonner)...

Celebrate marriage equality with the Swedish Chef. ...

Election night's over, and in the Vintage Ads group, spuzzlightyear's closed it off with ten magnificent political ads from times gone by. Here are a couple of my favourites. various political ads.......

He deleted it, but Wil Wheaton saved it for posterity....

It appears we are moving toward the ultra-cult era in which media consumers discover extremely unexpected and obscure media texts to cultivate uniqueness and distinctiveness for their mediated identit...

Limor and Phil at Adafruit are still baling out their lower Manhattan factory and living space after Sandy, but they're also using the Adafruit site to pass on information about relief efforts to publ...

Stanford's Dan Boneh is offering a free Cryptography course through Coursera....

While she isn't the only cast member of The Walking Dead to have an artsy side job (Norman Reedus is a filmmaker when he's not killing zombies), Danai Gurira seems like one of those spectacularly well...

Jim Leftwich says: I'd seen one of these that had been done for Hurricane Irene going around, that a lot of people probably thought was Hurricane Sandy. I created this one from a NASA satellite image ...

Duriavenator is a dinosaur — a kind of T.Rex-ish, pointy toothed dinosaur that lived in what is now England. But I think it sounds like the name of a 1950s vacuum cleaner company, don't you?...

It's time for some American Democracy 101. Every election cycle, it frustrates me to no end that most news outlets spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the latest polls without explaining ...

Tagg Romney doesn't own Ohio's voting machines. And Joseph Lorenzo Hall, senior staff technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology in D.C., says that a lot of the fears the public has about...

In celebration of the Halo 4 release today, my nephew Andy Pescovitz completed his Spartan Warrior-4 custom LEGO minifig. See more of Andy's insanely-intricate custom LEGO characters from Gears of War...

Max Landis, who wrote the screenplay for Chronicle, will get his chance to direct with the quarter life-crisis comedy, Me Him Her. Landis, who is the son of director John Landis (Animal House, Blues B...

Mary Robinette Kowal sez, At the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto this weekend, as much as we were talking about fantasy, we were talking about our friends and colleagues who had been hit by the st...

After it looked like all hopes for a feature based on Richard and Wendy Pini's beloved graphic novel series Elfquest were gone, news has broken that producers Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes have ac...

I know I just posted about Star Wars, but I really can't help myself after reading this story. Former Gallifreyan Doctor David Tennant lent his voice to a droid character named Huyang for Star Wars: T...

Stocking stuffers? We thought about it, but in spite of what laundromat radio stations might lead you to believe, it IS too early to start thinking about the holidays. And besides, Chris Ware, for one...

Stephen sez, "Masterful gadget-maker Roger Wood poses alongside some of his whimsical clock creations at his Hamilton-based workshop and steampunk emporium, Klockwerks. When he came out in his goggles...

Indigenous writer Lisa Charleyboy has an opinion piece up at the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section about No Doubt's awful new video (screengrab at left). "Exploiting 'hot' Native American stereotyp...

"History of Misheard Lyrics," with 70 years of botched words from popular music....

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Is it legal to photograph and share a copy of your voting ballot online? The answer depends on a bunch of things, including what state you're in, whether you've completed the ballot, and whether you a...

Christopher sez, "MediaGoblin, a decentralized free and open source software media publishing system for audio, video, images and more, has landed a new media type: 3D! This expands MediaGoblin's role...

The Minnesotasan says: The law (or convention?) in the United States mandates that when images of postage stamps are printed, a line is drawn through the denomination. I believe it's also required tha...

Firefox cosplay by EnjiNight. See full-res at her Deviant Art site....

We live in a digital world that gives us all the media we couldpossibly dream of at the click of a mouse, yet many people miss theold school physical formats from our past....

We collected as many of Roy's t-shirts as possible and made a graphic.b...

It's a familiar story line in America: the type of medical care people receive suffers because doctors are pressured to put profit before patients. In this Businessweek article, a closer look at how m...

Tim Ferriss's new book The 4-Hour Chef is a howto guide to learning anything....

Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has asked voting machine giant ES&S to install last-minute, unverified, custom firmware updates on the state's voting machines. This is highly irregu...

Last week's biggest entertainment news, Disney acquiring Lucasfilm for just over four billion dollars, was almost immediately followed by the news that Star Wars: Episode VII might now be in the works...

Lymphedema occurs in about 7% of breast cancer patients who have undergone sentinel lymph node biopsy (to see if disease has spread to these lymph nodes), and in greater percentage of patients whose n...

I'd buy that for a dollar...but you can just watch for free! ...

Ethan Persoff put together a funny/scary set of Election Day Comics from 1960. Make sure the "dumb blonde" in the office doesn't take your vote today!...

Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 is a new book that features never-before-seen concept art, sketches, and character designs from the upcoming game. Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 is a very special collectio...

A Boing Boing exclusive: authors Stephanie Chong and Marjorie M. Liu interview each other! Stephanie Chong (left) is author of the paranormal romance series The Company of Angels. Marjorie M. Liu (rig...

Here's a 1957 political ad for Canada's Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the forerunner to the modern left-leaning New Democratic Party (now the official opposition). The CCF are responsible for C...

The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen describes the seven-hour early voter lines at polling stations in Democratic strongholds like Miami, where Republican officials like Governor Rick Scott has reduced the num...

I mentioned in September that Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre had a new book out, Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. I was sure at the time that this would be the usual excel...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!...

It's almost 10 PM in London and William Shatner is on the phone, sing-speaking the word "algorithm" to me, trying out various cadences. It feels a bit surreal....

Man is illegally detained at an internal border patrol checkpoint in New Mexico for nearly a half hour....

In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He's an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designe...

On Saturday night my 15-year-old daughter texted me that her iPhone was broken. Her friend had spilled salad dressing on it while they were at dinner. The speakers and microphone no longer worked. No ...

Robert Burley captured the death of analog photography: the demolition of Kodak plants....

The other day in Brooklyn, BioLite set up a mobile phone charging station using their wood stoves that double as thermoelectric generators. John Del Signore snapped this photo for Gothamist. "Oh, Just...

People are wearing the scarlet A, standing up for reproductive rights, and telling the world what their A stands for....

It's been so long since Transmetropolitan ended that I sometimes forget how totally incandescent Warren Ellis is when he's talking politics. His latest Vice column, "My Last Column About the President...

Quarterly Co. is a "subscription service for wonderful things." They "send people physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice." Quarterly kindly chose me as an "influentia...

Quarterly Co. is a "subscription service for wonderful things." They "send people physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice." Quarterly kindly chose me as an "influentia...

Maybe you were unhappy about a favorite character's departure from The Walking Dead. Maybe you're annoyed about how much the show differs from the comics. But maybe you'd just like to see some old-sch...

This post is sponsored by Disney's Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two the video game: People who know me know enough to run away when I start stalking about Carl Barks, the late great Disney comic book a...

Jimmy's End is a 30-minute short film by Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins....

A new biopic about [insert politically biased job description here] Rush Limbaugh was recently announced, and while the rumored directing choice makes perfect sense -- Betty Thomas, who directed the H...

Illustration by Mister Reusch The following project is excerpted from Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, by Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen, designed by Tony Leone, published in ...

Last year, I posted about BB pal Jonathan Koshi's brilliantly-reimagined pop culture calaveras, the decorated skulls associated with the Dia de los Muertos. Now, Koshi has released a new limited print...

Last year, I posted about BB pal Jonathan Koshi's brilliantly-reimagined pop culture calaveras, the decorated skulls associated with the Dia de los Muertos. Now, Koshi has released a new limited print...

Bob Knetzger alerted me to a Comics Journal interview with Joost Swarte, who I mentioned last week because he has a new book called, Is That All There Is? Bob says: "Very interesting interview with Jo...

The Ganzfeld effect is a kind of sensory deprivation caused not by cutting off stimulation like in an isolation tank by rather delivering unstructured stimulation like a total wash of unchanging color...

Fair warning, fair readers: There is no way to discuss this episode of The Walking Dead without major spoilers, because this one was probably one of the most emotionally impactful episodes of the seas...

Infinite bacon is now possible direct from Shapeways 3D printers....

One of the great mythologies of any kind of religious fundamentalist movement is that the beliefs of that movement, and the way they choose to interpret their scripture, represent some kind of true re...

Christopher Ketcham's beautifully written Harper's feature on the history of Monopoly, "Monopoly Is Theft," traces the idealistic socialist land-reformers who created the game and modified it over dec...

Kim Dotcom is going to sue the US entertainment industry and the US government over the illegal raid on him and Megaupload, and has promised to use his winnings to pay for free Internet access across ...

In Foreign Policy magazine Eveline Chao writes a fascinating, insider account of working with Chinese censors and trying to do the job of a journalist in a place where your entire staff can be fired f...

A cool opportunity to set science to sound. ...

Page 9 of The Final Quest: Prologue is published online-first for the first time here at Boing Boing. First time reader? You're a few issues behind....

A Q&A piece on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration begins with this incredibly disconcerting sentence: "During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one shou...

Marc Hagan-Guirey creates magnificent paper craft models of famed horror film houses....

This post is sponsored by Disney's Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two the video game: People who know me know enough to run away when I start stalking about Carl Barks, the late great Disney comic book a...

Between 1983 and 2000, more than 95% of people involved in plane crashes survived. ...

Ruth from the UK Open Rights Group sez, "Open Rights Group have launched a campaign to fund a legal officer position and intervene in the courts. The link is a page which gives more details about the ...

31-year-old amputee Zac Vawter made medical history Sunday, climbing 103 stories of the Willis Tower with a state-of-the-art bionic leg controlled by electrical impulses from the muscles in his upper ...

Stphane Missier, aka Charles le Brigand, has been photographing people and scenes in and around New York City in the week following Hurricane Sandy....

Two parents from a rural village in the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir have been arrested for killing their daughter by beating her, then dousing her with acid. Her crime: looking at a boy who...

Three million iPads have been sold in the the three days since Apple launched a new iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad....

"If group prayer can heal people, it can change an election," reads this website urging you to join a mass prayer that will elect Mitt Romney to office. Oh, fine; it's a parody site. (via @joeljohnson...

On the BBC, Ruth Evans describes a widespread Japanese superstition about the relationship between blood-types and personality. Apparently, the modern junk-science belief originates with a crank calle...

A two-year-old child died after falling into a pit of wild African dogs sunday at the Pittsburgh zoo....

So, people like @comfortablysmug lie on Twitter, even about important things during a public emergency like Hurricane Sandy. Is this a cause for worry, asks Nick Bilton? "I don't think so. Twitter, in...

Scientists and engineers were saying years before Katrina happened, Hey, its going to happen, folks. Stop putting your head in the sand. —Malcolm Bowman, professor of oceanography at the State U...

In an Army Corps of Engineers press release, details on the astounding rate at which workers are draining water from New York's subway and transit tunnels: "To date, the USACE has used about 50 pumps ...

"A former brothel manager who helped the FBI bust a national prostitution ring. A retired sheriff who inadvertently helped a money launderer buy land. A young woman who mailed ecstasy tablets for a dr...

At CNET, Declan McCullagh reports on a federal judge's rejection of the FBI's attempts to withhold information about its efforts to make backdoors for government surveillance mandatory for internet fi...

Dan from the Journal of Ride Theory sez, "I hope someday your travels bring you to the Pacific Northwest around Halloween time, because you will absolutely LOVE the Davis Graveyard. It's an amateur ya...

Matthew sez, "I just finished making this bento box featuring laser cut nori and thought you might care for it. The bento box features a scene from Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime) as well as some good...

Apple was recently ordered by a UK court to publicly display a notice that Samsung did not copy the iPad with their Galaxy tablet to undo the damage they've done by making that accusation. And like a ...

Today's the day when Americans, Canadians, and others across the pond turn their clocks back (we in the UK beat you to it by a week). In honor of that momentous occasion, the Vintage Ads LJ group has ...

Aisen Caro Chacin released this "Play-A-Grill," a homemade hip-hop grill with a built-in MP3 player that conveys sound via bone conduction....

After consultingo con el Runner de Calle club, los advisoros, y Captain Obviouso, yo decidero to que cancelo elmarathoo— Miguel Bloombito (@ElBloombito) November 2, 2012 The @ElBloombito Twitter...

Writing in The Spectator, Kirsty Walker describes the chilling effect the UK's Leveson Inquiry (which is investigating illegal phone/email interception and systematic harassment by UK papers, especial...

Yesterday, I got to have a great conversation on Minnesota Public Radio's The Daily Circuit. Host Tom Webber and I spent a good 45 minutes talking about Hurricane Sandy, climate change, and why it's s...

David and I spoke with Jon Ronson about his new book, Lost at Sea. Jon is the author of several first-person narrative books that David and I love: Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Psychopath Tes...

Everything About Secret Bookcase Doors is a Tumblr that does exactly what it says on the tin. This is pure awesome. Image here from Stashvault Everything About Secret Bookcase Doors (via Bookshelf)...

Josh Wood put together this delightful Shaggy DA Disney/Star Wars mashup in honor of the companies' merger. He notes: "Also on the docket: maybe a Pete's Dragon poster with Yoda as the Dragon? R2D2 as...

On Retronaut, Arthur Pollock's 1984 photo, "Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science." Pollock has a book, too. Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science...

Jonathan Keogh's "IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes" is a masterful mix, and a lovely tribute to popular film....

The German pharmaceuticals maker Merck will no longer deliver the cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, according to a statement from the company today. The drug also known as cetuximab is often use...

Katrina survivors talk to New York....

The Million Puppet March (formerly Million Muppet March, renamed because PBS can't afford to be perceived as political) is on for today in DC. Everyone met at at Lincoln Park (East of the Capitol), an...

A puppet march to support public broadcasting has its own theme song....

A man dressed in a festive Halloween costume performs a fantastical feat of acrobatic skill and injury-defying bravado...

Here's a miraculous Radio Police Automaton from the May, 1924 issue of Hugo Gernsback's Science and Invention. It will be useful for dispersing mobs, and for war. Note the built-in tear-gas tank. Also...

Great news, you guys! Soon, you'll be able to tweet iPhone or Android snapshots of your sandwich in sepia, without even having to download Instagram. Nick Bilton at the NYT got the scoop....

Gas supplies remain extremely limited in New York and New Jersey, nearly a week after hurricane Sandy, and the power's still out for many in those states and others, such as nearby Connecticut. New Je...

Two brothers, ages 2 and 4, were swept away Monday night when waves of water crashed into an SUV driven by their mom in Staten Island. They were later found dead. A story now emerging: their mother, w...

Four cats, four mushrooms....

Man, come on, who hacks cancer.gov? Well, they did. And then a few days later, the National Institutes of Health Website was compromised. 5,000 user records were leaked. What's next, kittens.org? Cudd...

BURN: An Energy Journal, the radio documentary series hosted by former NPR journalist Alex Chadwick, has a 2-hour election special out. It's the most powerful piece of radio journalism I've listened t...

Yishay sez, "A new game which looks at how much personal information people are willing to reveal freely online and its cost to them, has been launched by The Open University Business School. This gam...

Jason sez, "Available for THREE DAYS ONLY, Cryptocurium is proud to offer two hand cast solid resin Lovecraftian relics, 'The Nyarlathotep Artifact' and 'The Dunwich Cthulhu Idol.' 'The Nyarlathotep A...

This is the wacky story of how I biked across the country on my exercise bike and lost a lot of extra pounds in the process....

Mexican drug cartels, notably the Zetas, kidnap skilled radio engineers and force them to build out elaborate communications networks....

In a 2010 Smithsonian magazine article, Marian Smith Holmes tells the story of Ellen and William Craft, two married enslaved African-Americans who fled Georgia and made their way to Philadelphia in 18...

Bishop David Ricken of the Catholic Diocese in Green Bay, WI went for the hard sell in a letter to his Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Here's an excerpt: I would like to review some of the principles ...

The Mary Sue's Becky Chambers rounds up the coverage and analysis of an anti-trolling/griefing experiment in League of Legends, a massively multiplayer online RPG. League's management hired a team of ...

These interviews were conducted with Ohio voters at a recent Romney rally in Defiance, OH....

When scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany sequenced the genome of barley, they were thinking primarily about the impact on food. Understanding the...

It's normal for backup generators to fail. If we want a more reliable system, we'll have to change the way the grid works....

Old wig ads have some inherent comedy, sitting at the intersection of fashion, human tissue trafficking, and so forth. But when you throw in enthusiastic descriptions of the "head turning, naturally b...

Why do we love Noah Shachtman and Wired's Danger Room blog? Because they break very important stories like this: On Monday night, Hurricane Sandy hit the armory of the New York Army National Guards 69...

On NPR's Talk of the Nation today, a segment about the particularly damaging impact Sandy has had this week on elderly and disabled populations in the storm's path. Many remain isolated "in cold, dark...

A fine puzzle from Mycoted. Shown above are four men buried up to their necks in the ground. They cannot move, so they can only look forward. Between A and B is a brick wall which cannot be seen throu...

I try not to let myself become overly attached to material things, but this Jimbo book by Gary Panter is something I've treasured for 30 years. I bought it in 1982 from a headshop in Boulder, Colorado...

On The Toolchest Site, an astounding miniature replica of the 18th century Hewitt chest at Colonial Williamsburg, created by miniaturist William Robertson. Robertson's work is mind-boggling in its det...

Ben Lowy got the cover of TIME Magazine this week with an iPhone and the photo-filtering app Hipstamatic. Not even for, say, a special tech issue or anything like that! Can't say I'm surprised—I...

Here's an hour-plus video of jam-band Phish performing a rather good rendition of Talking Heads' 1980 Brian-Eno-produced album Remain in Light....

John 117. He's more than a hero, he is the Master Chief....

"Droid Story," "Darth White and the Seven Sandpeople," "Finding Yoda," and more. HowToBeaDad (via @laughingsquid)...

So cute, you'll ERMAHGERD all over the place. ...

Image: Chris Anderson, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from joi's photostream Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson is leaving the magazine after 11 years to lead the robotics company he fou...

Snip from a New York Times update on the Sandy recovery in New York and New Jersey, and the impact of limited gas supplies on rescue and emergency services: The effort to secure enough gas for the reg...

Montreal artist Shelley Miller creates "sugar murals" -- elaborate icing-sugar illustrations on tile that grace the sides of buildings. These often resemble stained glass or painted tile murals. Here'...

Between 2002 and 2010, 142,144 adults went to the emergency room with "genitourinary" injuries. Sporting equipment (bikes, bats, various balls) were the products most likely to be involved in such an ...

VUPEN is an anti-security company that roots out vulnerabilities in common operating systems and programs and sells these vulnerabilities to governments, police forces and others who want to use them ...

International Games Day @ your library is an annual initiative of the American Library Association to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational and social valu...

"Surveillance Camera Man" is an anonymous fellow who wanders the streets and malls of Seattle with a handheld camcorder, walking up to people and recording them....

Friday Freak-Out: Moby Grape performs "Omaha" on the Mike Douglas Show, January 10, 1968....

I got a kick out of Snoop, er, Lion's new video "La La La" from his new album Reincarnated. To me, the beginning with the kids shows me that he has a sense of humor about how ridiculous it all is. Als...

Trevor sez, "Friday and Saturday night, design collective The Mission Business transforms Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works into an end of the world evacuation facility run by the (fictional) leader in ...

A new episode from Internets Celebrities, a favorite web series out of NYC....

Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet writes about a new project of interests to all fans of Fugazi, DC hardcore, and cultural mashups: ...

These two house-topped silver skulls are 2011 pieces by Danish sculptor Frodo Mikkelsen, whose online galleries have many more fine examples of this sort of work, going all the way back to 2007. Each ...

photo: Cpt. Robin Walbridge, 63. Photo: Jaye Bell and Jerry Parisi. The US Coast Guard announced Thursday that it has suspended a search for the missing captain of the HMS Bounty some 200 miles southe...

Burnt houses next to others that survived in Breezy Point, Queens, after Hurricane Sandy, on October 31. (Reuters/Adrees Latif) At The Atlantic, a big-picture gallery of photos from AP and Reuters pho...

Writing in a special Wired series on patent reform, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman proposes to limit the harms that patents do to computers, their users, and free/open development b...

My family have been using the Google Nexus 7 Tablets since they shipped in July. We've carried them on several trips, dropped them dozens of times, used them at home, work, and on holiday, and the una...

Rob writes, My childhood friend and dedicated humanitarian, Crystal, is helping coordinate an effort to source deep cycle batteries, chargers, inverters, and other supplies to meet the urgent needs of...

When I saw this book On My Vintage Book Collection, I wasn't sure it was real. But it is. Amazon has used copies but they are very expensive. ($25 - $100) The Churkendoose: Part Chicken, Turkey, Duck ...

Stephanie sez, "Somtow Sucharitkul, a notable director, was informed that posting footage of himself, conducting Strauss' Radetzky March was a violation of Harry Fox's supposed copyright on that piece...

There've been plenty of Disney/Star Wars mashups since the merger announcement, but this one wins for simplicity and execution. You, are just, a toy. (i.imgur.com) (via The Mary Sue)...

Jason and his wife made this totally kick-ass Pythor costume for their wee lad. It's beyond awesome. Also makes me feel like a bit of a bad parent for merely helping to assemble a(n admitted smashing)...

Here's a Venom body-paint job that ups the ante on the two earlier versions posted here. This one was posted by a Redditor called Tapout189, who says it was found on Twitter. Anyone know who the origi...

Carole McNutt caught this fantastic film of sea lions having an absolute BALL....

James from Retrothing sez, "Tom Kipgen makes radios using vintage parts and hand-wound coils. Absolutely stunning stuff." Tom Kipgen's Designer Radios Site...

Tim Biskup has launched his first Kickstarter project: a double vinyl LP re-issue of a 1989 cassette by his band, Big Butter....

Here's the audio from Disney's classic "Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion," narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft, starring a young -- Andy Griffith show era -- Ronnie Howard. I had this in the original...

The macabre but ultimately touching and lovely clip offers a twist on typical Halloween and Day of the Dead fare....

Laina Walker, better known as "Overly Attached Girlfriend," has treated her legion of fans to a zombified version of her face for the season. Let the memes begin! Overly Attached Zombie? (imgur.com)...

I'm beside myself with excitement about Jim Woodring's upcoming 300-page collection of sketchbook drawings, Problematic....

The time-lapse covers two days of the hurricane's assault on New York, from the early morning of October 29 through Oct. 30....

"We sampled it from them but it's not the same bassline."...

Jeff Simmermon at Time Warner Cable's HQ in NYC writes: "To help New Yorkers in hard-hit areas like Lower Manhattan and Staten Island who are without power, we are deploying multiple vehicles with mob...

I lived in Birmingham, Ala., for two years right out of college. While I was there, I became convinced that y'all is a reasonable and necessary word — a simple form of the plural "you" for a lan...

Witch makeup for 11-year old sculpted in Monster Clay and cast with gelatin....

Two gigantic truck-loads of walnuts totally 40,000 lbs have been stolen recently in Tehama County, California, apparently by the same extremely tall Russian-accented fellow. The total value of the wal...

Come on. It's for science. In fact, it's meant to help people. Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, put a dead pig in a shark-proof (and octopus-proof, as you'l...

Animated GIFs from moments-of-disaster in "As Seen on TV" commercials....

Proteins are made up of chains of amino acids, folded and twisted in on themselves to make incredibly complex shapes. The human brain, it has been said, is kind of a pattern-finding machine — pr...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, If you want access to all the tax filings of US nonprofit corporations, the IRS will sell you sets of DVDs for $2580 per year of data. We acquired all of these filing...

Do not taunt the happy fun police....

I can't sleep for more than 30 minutes or so on a plane. After that, I'm awake for the duration of the flight, no matter how long it is. I wonder if this neck-propper-upper would help? Enter the UpRig...

Salt water is still winning. Unfortunately. Remember back during the Fukushima crisis, when you heard a lot of talk about why the people trying to save the plant didn't want to use sea water to cool t...

Plasma Orb looks like a fun marble maze game for iOS. But beware -- it has "Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling." (Via App Spy)...

Andrew Hearst says: I’ve been flying more than usual the last couple of years, partly thanks to my job, and my iPad has made these travel experiences so much more enjoyable. I just load up my iP...

"Hands Fixing Hands" is Shane Willis's clever and well-executed transhumanist take on Escher's "Hands Drawing Hands," with lots of crunchy little details to dote upon, including the underlying work-su...

The Vintage Ads LJ group's challenge this week is to find great fake ads. As always, Man Writing Slash comes through with a great compilation post, this one featuring some classics from MAD Magazine. ...

Mother Jones reporters visit one historic high-rise apartment in NYC where residents were running perilously low on water, food, and patience, after Hurricane Sandy....

In case you missed it, a reminder about our awesome new Video page, where all of the videos we blog about are viewable in one handy place! The new Boing Boing Video section also includes classic BBTV ...

On Monday, Oct. 29, Sandy headed for the East Coast, looking to make landfall in my home state of New Jersey. Days before, my local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) group staffed a Red Cross s...

Earlier this week, we considered the fate of NYC's street rats after Sandy. In the New York Times today, Benedict Carey writes about "smaller but still important casualties" of the extreme storm this ...

The ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST is excited to announce a new 2-CD set: UNDERSTANDING AMERICA....

The guys at Gizmodo did a side-by-side comparison of voice search on iPhone, using Siri vs. using Google Voice Search for iOS....

In "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer," Businessweek's Devin Leonard chronicles the rapacious AB InBev, a multinational, publicly traded giant corporation that is buying up American (and European, So...

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"Rot" is Erica Luke's stop-motion makeup animation showing a corpse's decay in a dark, enclosed space....

For 70 years George Barris has been "taking ordinary vehicles and mutating them into hell-for-leather roadsters. many of which are now part of automotive history. "Others have been immortalized on tel...

For 70 years George Barris has been "taking ordinary vehicles and mutating them into hell-for-leather roadsters," many of which are now part of automotive history. "Others have been immortalized on te...

In an LA Times story about the ongoing trial of a child who shot and killed his neo-Nazi activist father Jeffrey Hall, regional director of the National Socialist Movement: "According to the Press-Ent...

In an LA Times story about the ongoing trial of a child who shot and killed his neo-Nazi activist father Jeffrey Hall, regional director of the National Socialist Movement: "According to the Press-Ent...

The Verge: "Post-hurricane, New York's internet industry runs ondiesel." Sandy knocked out power to key data centers on which publishers like HuffPo, Gawker, and Buzzfeed relied....

Many New York residents will beforeced to cover the cost of their their losses themselves: most households in NYC rent -- nearly 70 percent of them -- and fewer than a third of renters have renter's i...

Jim Roberts at the NYT tweets: "3-days of storm & aftermath compressed into 4:35-minute video, from rooftop camera." Video Link....

"Alien" meets eggs. ...

John Whalen says, "My brother, Dan, cooked up this little quasi-historical tableau for his wife, Rose, in San Francisco."...

Designboom profiles Victorine Mller's beautiful, gigantic inflatable animals, including 'Ballon Stratosphrique' (a giant PVC squid). one example of her compositions is 'timeline', a performance in luc...

Ot sez, "Bits of Freedom is organizing its annual donation campaign today. Why? Because privacy and freedom on the internet are under threat and we need to defend our rights online. We can only do so ...

Hilda and the Bird Parade is every bit the triumph that the earlier volumes were, full of adventure and mystery....

Red Ferret reviewed Liquid Armor, a "nanotech" spray that you apply to your mobile device screen in order to prevent it from scratching....

This is a Russian beard tax token from the reign of Peter the Great, who set out to modernize Russia by getting everyone to shave. Anyone who wanted to keep a beard had to buy one of these tokens (whi...

U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady in Virginia has scheduled a hearing to adjudicate a claim from Kyle Goodwin, a sports videographer in Ohio whose videos have been lost since the illegal raids in May o...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Laz Burke shares this awesome photo of a zombie baby breaking out of the womb....

Theoretical physicist and mathematician Benjamin K. Tippett has posted a paper called "Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific," which analyzes the account of Gustaf Johansen, the...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Celeste says, We've made masks again this year. My husband Jacob is a plague doctor. I'm a spider (ironically, my least favourite animal bu...

Bassel Khartabil, a Palestinian free/open source developer and Creative Commons activist, has been in prison in Syria since June, and his colleagues around the world have been agitating for his releas...

Walking 3 miles from Mulberry Street to Grand Central on the night after Hurricane Sandy. Everything south of 38th street was dark....

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Shannon Stewart says, "My husband and I went as Mars and the Curiosity Rover. Had a ton of fun making these babies and the costumes were a ...

With "Infinite Gangnam Style," Paul Lamere provides an infinite, intelligent remix of Psy's viral classic....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is stepping up its open wireless campaign, which encourages people and businesses to leave their Internet connections open to the public, and offers advice on doing ...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Chris Spurgeon says, "My daughter rolled her own Tardis dress!"...

"Members of a band that staged an impromptu concert in the middle of the 101 Freeway in Hollywood will not get jail time for their publicity stunt that caused massive gridlock."...

There is currently a problem with our Disqus commenting system preventing images from being seen in the threads. We have alerted Disqus of this issue. Until this is fixed, please link to any images yo...

The new Dutch government has scrapped plans to issue "weed passes" to permanent Dutch residents, and require these passes in order to purchase cannabis products in Amsterdam's famed marijuana "coffee ...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Becca Tarvin shares this photo of a gang of revelers dressed as Russian art-provocateur-heroes Pussy Riot....

The Village Voice received an improbable trademark over the use of "BEST OF" in connection with lists of the best things on offer in various cities, and now they're suing Yelp for creating their own "...

NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by photographer Randy Scott Slavin documenting the darkness in New York City after Hurricane Sandy caused widespread power outages: New York City is always bright. Street light...

The election is next week. And, with that in mind, Salon's Paul Campos has posted a helpful reminder explaining what the statistics at the fivethirtyeight blog actually mean (and what they don't). In ...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Jean Dunk shares this wonderful photo and says, "Here is my 9 month old as a mermaid." Here's a larger size....

As I post this, the National Unwatering Swat Team should be reaching New York City, where it will do what the National Unwatering Swat Team does best — remove water from places it shouldn't ever...

Australian geeky women's clothing maker Black Milk (previously featured many times on Boing Boing) has rolled out a new line of Star Wars clothes, including a lovely pair of Star Wars Montage leggings...

It can be a nice breeze, or a destructive storm, but either way wind is just moving air. And moving air is just moving molecules. In an explainer for kids that's actually pretty helpful for grown-ups,...

"Today I released a highly political video directed towards President Obama, from the standpoint of the American people." - Prince Ea...

"Today I released a highly political video directed towards President Obama, from the standpoint of the American people." - Prince Ea...

Just in time for Halloween, Sci Curious blogs about a case report, published in a peer-reviewed research journal, covering the strange story of a patient with lycanthropy — which is, to say, a b...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Sarah Prez shares these images and says, This year I have become Fish-Man! The idea was inspired by the fish-man character, Toby, in the sh...

I'm sure you've all been very concerned, worrying about the impact Hurricane Sandy had on New York City's rat population. The good news: Rats can swim and, while many rats likely died during the storm...

Wow 'em at your next Portal-themed cocktail party with ThinkGeek's Companion Cube ice-cube molds, at $12.99 per. Portal 2 Companion Cube Ice Tray (via Geekologie)...

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child presentation at the MIT Tech Review EmTech conference recounted an inspiring experiment in which illiterate Ethiopian village-kids were given solar-charging ...

This book walks through the Steampunk movement and what their alternative history says about our own world and its technological future....

"This is my four year old daughter, Abigael, after hearing one too many mentions of the election."...

Bauhaus perform "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in 1982 at London's Old Vic Theatre....

A strange story from Frontline and ProPublica: "Found in a meth house in Colorado, they were somewhat of a mystery, holding files on 23 conservative candidates in state races in Montana. They were fil...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Christopher Ing says, "Went as a multicultural mummy (a.k.a. the birthday mummy)."...

Cocoon Tree is a 60kg hanging tree-fort. You can gang up multiple, special-purpose cocoons (bathroom, bedroom, dining room) to build a little treetop house, with a safety net beneath. Each cocoon is s...

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Shashank Tripathi, a hedge fund analyst and a campaign manager for a Republican congressional candidate, tweeted a bunch of phony warnings about the city losing power due to the storm. Classic sociopa...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader slippy0 shares these snapshots and says, "Mine really isn't that fancy, but the stars aligned and gave me a week of time to work on props. ...

"The videos of these crashes document the severity of the impact, and they show how frequently these crashes produce a real hazard for pedestrians and other vehicles."...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader eyesfingerstoes says, "Me and about 30 of my cronies are hitting the Portsmouth (NH) Halloween Parade this year as the Gotham City Rockers ...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Christine Cobos shares snapshots of the "Weeping Angel" she made for her daughter, and the Dalek she made for her son, an obvious Doctor Wh...

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Charles Pieper (tumblr, Twitter) says, "This year I am going as Seymour from 'Little Shop of Horrors' and yes indeed I made Audrey II as we...

Lisa Wade says: " Here is our annual post featuring sexy costumes that we think are just… bizarre. When sexy “overtakes all reason,” you can sexualize just about anything."...

Betcha didn't know that the Daleks featured in a series of TV and print ads that appeared in the likes of Children's Dalek Annual 1978. ...

BB reader Gina Menduni made this genius Roy Lichtenstein costume for Halloween 2012. We are gobsmacked, Gina! Thanks for sharing it in the epic DIY Halloween costume thread!...

Yesterday a homeless woman at New Haven Green park in Connecticut noticed something odd tangled in the roots of a huge oak tree torn from the ground by Superstorm Sandy: a human skeleton. Apparently, ...

The "Superstorm" that wallopped the Northeast US this week serves as another reminder of how easily overwhelmed New York Citys 911 phone system is. So much so that Mayor Mike Bloomberg again and again...

Brian Lam at Wirecutter has a timely post up about gadgets and tools one might find useful in an emergency like Hurricane Sandy. Device chargers, generators, two-way radios, but also "hey why didn't I...

Sarah Dickins, a designer from Loughborough university, tackles beginner frustations with sewing machines....

Wow, it feels like a Kindle, and Ew, the screen is terrible, were Mrs. Daring Fireballs initial reactions when Gruber handed her the iPad Mini to see what she, "an avid daily user of an iPad 3," thoug...

A Weibo user identified the U.S. hurricane as the source of the "shark swimming in New Jersey streets" photo, which has been proven to be fake (we could totally tell by the pixels). He added of the sh...

Two cases on the Supreme Court docket "present an aggressive challenge to the notion that a dogs 'alert' to the presence of drugs is enough to legally justify a search of someones home or vehicle. Rob...

In the NYT's live-blog of Hurricane Sandy's impact on NYC today, a riveting account of the NYU hospital evacuation as told through the case of Christine Chin, who has had a series of operations after ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1981 performing "Halloween," from their essential album Juju....

Boing Boing reader BrotherPower shares this work-in-progress shot of the Animal costume he's making for his 8-year-old. "I just finished the oversized drumsticks and the spiky wristbands today." Below...

Tom the Dancing Bug: Another thrilling episode of The Republican Rapid Rape Response Squad!!...

David W. Chen and Mireya Navarro write in The New York Times about warnings that weren't heeded: "For nearly a decade, scientists have told city and state officials that New York faces certain peril: ...

22 deaths reported in NYC alone. 7 million still without power. Traffic and transit are a mess. Airports slowly re-opening. Damage estimates range as high as $15 billion in insured property losses, an...

Grand Guignol was a Parisian theater that between 1897 and 1962 staged macabre plays known for their cartoon horror and violence. LIFE shares with us vintage photos of this splatterpunk paradise. Abov...

Of all the stupid clauses in the license "agreements" that the Internet crams down your throat, the cake-taker is "this agreement subject to change without notice." In other words, you're "agreeing" t...

Ministry's "(Every Day Is) Halloween" from 1984, back when Al Jourgensen still cultivated an English accent. ...

That Superstorm Sandy Google crisis map we blogged about earlier this week has been updated with tons of videos and webcam spots. Fascinating way to get a sense of which areas and populations are impa...

…from the video rental section behind the curtain. Artist and ephemera craphound Mitch O'Connell dug deep in his archives to find these cinematic gems....

Salon: "According to the complaint, [New Mexico police officer Chris] Webb shot his Taser at the child after he said he did not want to join fellow classmates in cleaning the officer's patrol car. Cou...

Paul Addis, the man who set fire to the "Man" at Burning Man ahead of schedule in an act of arson, has died in an apparent suicide. (SFGAte via Disinfo)...

Christ, what an asshole. Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Iowa (a state that has long benefited from a shit-ton of federal funds and tax breaks) said Tuesday federal aid for people whose home...

Noah Shachtman at Wired Danger Room: "Hours after being contacted by Danger Room, the New York Army National Guard on Tuesday night abruptly reversed a decision to send hundreds of soldiers out-of-sta...

Gary Taubes ("Good Calories, Bad Calories") on how the sugar industry works to fight research that links sugar consumption with chronic diseases....

Brava, Sarah! "Sorry to be a party pooper but it should probably be attached closer to your mouth since it's actually a tooth," wrote one commenter. "Yes, but it would have interfered with my beer dri...

Chris Woods sez, "In light of today's STAR WARS news please check out my STAR WARS-inspired museum-show of paintings. SANDSTORM will show at The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, BC in the summer of...

Jamin Hoyle sez, "Castle Magpie is a self-contained, wearable ghost story that takes place in a haunted Scottish castle. It took six months to plan and six months to build. I was inspired by all sorts...

Darren sez, "Rising up in time for Halloween and el Dia de los Muertos, Pstumo is a deck of zombie playing cards by Colombian artist Obsidian Abnormal and American scallywag Darren J. Gendron. The dec...

Rookie: Yearbook One is the first book-length anthology of Rookie magazine, spun out of Style Rookie....

HuffPo posts "Pickpockets at Work," an essay from Melville House's reprint of Harry Houdini's wonderful collection, The Right Way to Do Wrong: A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Esca...

Oakland police chief told a court that he never saw emails from city officials and a federal court monitor who emailed him about police brutality and other illegal actions by his force in its response...

A fantastic vintage ad set from the ever-reliable Man Writing Slash: this one, a collection of old ads for fright masks and associated novelties. Halloween Masks - SIX Different Ads!...

Epcot renovation now underway. (via FP)...

No Pattern Required tells us about the KUBA Komet, a 5'7" tall, 7' wide, 300lb TV that could swivel all the way around: Wow! What can I say about this TV, but Wow! Is this not the most retro, kitschy,...