Articles by BoingBoing from March 2013

From Wikipedia: "English: A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange fire. From the North-W...

A new piece from Ukrainian steampunk leather mask-maker Bob Basset. I like the angular forms here -- there's something a bit Roman in it, to my eye at least. DW new. Steampunk Art Leather Mask...

Internet-savvy indie musicians organize "house shows," which are pretty much what they sound like: a fan lets the band use her or his house for a performance, and other fans come by and hear it. The s...

The US-Korean Free Trade Agreement came with a raft of draconian enforcement rules that Korea -- then known as a world leader in network use and literacy -- would have to adopt. Korea has since become...

As Anthony DeRosa of Reuters points out, Li'l Kim appears to be using Apple computer products in the most recent round of state propaganda photo campaign....

"That's the stuff: Ralph The Cat," a photo by Darren Sethe of Portland, Oregon, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool....

Boing Boing reader @ayleph tweeted at us: "Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album cover, depicted in crayon. Found at Sonic Boom in Ballard." [that's Seattle, WA]. Click pic to grande-fy....

An unconfirmed report of a UFO over New Mexico is the most popular item in the FBI's online reading room, the agency reports. Russell Contreras with the AP: Vaguely written, the memo describes a story...

Mr Unpronounceable Adventures is a book of comics by Australian surrealist artist Tim Molloy in a Lovecraftian vein. But that only scratches the surface here. Molloy is incredibly fucking weird, and n...

Police in St Louis charged 34-year-old Sydney Levin with using an artificial penis, the Whizzinator, to complete a urine test. The Whizzinator's been helping idiots get busted—including its crea...

2010's KISS x Hello Kitty clothing line has spawned a TV show about a Hello Kitty rock band that dresses in KISS makeup: Yes, I'm serious: Kiss Hello Kitty (working title) is now in development, and i...

A Zumba aerobics dance instructor who ran a prostitution business on the side (while collecting welfare assistance) pleaded guilty in a Portland, ME court today. Her male business partner has been con...

Hot Topic seems to have borrowed a trick from Australian pop-culture leggings favorite Black Milk with a line of Disney-licensed Little Mermaid full-print tights. Hot Topic's version costs about 75 pe...

Benjamin Mako Hill writes, "Last year, I participated in a discussion on Wikipedia that led to the deletion of an article about the "Institute for Cultural Diplomacy." Because I edit Wikipedia using m...

ATM skimming isn't limited to ATMs! There are lots of terminals that ask you to swipe your card and/or enter a PIN, and many of them are less well-armored and -policed than actual cashpoints. Skimmers...

Critics of Rob Ford, Toronto's laughable bumblefuck of a mayor, will tell you that at least he's good at teaching high-school football (maybe the only thing he truly enjoys). So it's newsworthy that t...

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Photo: AlexSutula, Shutterstock Jeff Simmermon, who writes funny essays and does funny standup, has a great new piece up on his blog. Five of my friends have had babies in the last two weeks. The birt...

Erin Siegal "Immigration enforcement and drug smuggling continue to be top priorities for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Border Patrol's budget has swelled accordingly, increasing from j...

Hank was one of the recipients of the YouTube $300M "Original Channel" fund, and recounts some of his lessons learned: * Spending more money to produce the same number of minutes of content does not i...

Photo: AlexSutula, Shutterstock Jeff Simmermon, who writes funny essays and does funny standup, has a great new piece up on his blog. Five of my friends have had babies in the last two weeks. The birt...

"Lindt Bunny Family," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by Paul J. "Leave them alone, and they multiply."...

My brother Carl Hamm (Twitter), who is a club and radio DJ and a collector of obscure but excellent global stuff, shares the images in this post and says: There's a long tradition of Indian poster art...

LELO, a Swedish sex-toy company, has produced an IKEA-style, assemble-it-yourself vibrator called GSM (what else?) that comes with its own Allen key....

In 2010, scientists published a paper on conspiracist ideation as it applied to both climate change and the moon landing. This year, the published a second paper — about the conspiracy theories ...

Asteroids: Yet more evidence that (as a society) we aren't very good at prioritizing preventative measures against long-term risks....

More than 1000 letters written between Charles Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, including 300 never before published, are now available free online for your reading and research pleasure....

Today, on Twitter, I learned something new and interesting from environmental reporter Paul Voosen. Over the years, I've run into reports (like this one from the Union of Concerned Scientists) showing...

The Fuck Yeah Atheism blog responded to a campus fire-and-brimstone preacher by creating a Zealous Preacher Bingo card, turning Preacher Tom into fun for the whole school: "I created Zealous Preacher ...

Next week, I'll be speaking at the SkepTech Conference, a new gathering put together by University of Minnesota students. The lineup features some great folks from the science and skeptic communities,...

Here at BoingBoing, we've talked before about the fact that earthquakes can be triggered by things humans do — everything from building particularly large reservoir to, most likely, injecting wa...

From the Imperial War Museum in London, a couple of incredible photos of nurses testing out infant gas-masks: "Three nurses carry babies cocooned in baby gas respirators down the corridor of a London ...

Ouya, the ultra-moddable $100 game console, is already shipping to Kickstarter backers who helped the Android-based project get going last year. For the rest of us, there's an official retail release ...

At The Verge, Tim Carmody reports on Apple's seeming inability to get to grips with account security. "The conventional wisdom is that this was a run-of-the-mill software security issue. ... No. It is...

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A Florida polo tycoon named John Goodman has hit a hitch in his plan to adopt his 42-year-old girlfriend so that his kids and ex-wife won't be able to keep him from writing her into his will. The cour...

A Florida polo tycoon named John Goodman has hit a hitch in his plan to adopt his 42-year-old girlfriend so that his kids and ex-wife won't be able to keep him from writing her into his will. The cour...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that most childrens' meals offered in U.S. restaurant chains contain too many calories, salt and fat: "Most chains seem stuck in a time warp, serv...

Reuters: "Bhatta put together three models for what he called 'pay as you weigh airline pricing.' The first would charge passengers according to how much they and their baggage weighed. It would set a...

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is one of my favorite novels; now you can listen to it free online on BBC Radio 4 and enjoy it in person at Robert Kauzlarik's stage production, which opens next month in LA. ...

Andrew Leonard has a tick-tock in Salon explaining how and when Google lost its cool. "Google Reader is gone. Google is banning ad-blocking apps. Google Alert doesn't work. The Google backlash is on."...

US currency was beautiful, once upon a time, when it sported images of animals and symbolic statuary, rather than deifying its citizen-rulers by putitng presidents on the money as though they were kin...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Frank Zappa reads the dirty bits of Naked Lunch. •...

Boing Boing is a co-signatory to an open letter (PDF) to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, calling on them to fix the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's ban on jailbreaking and unlocking your...

De-mining activists from Laos are speaking in the US about the urgent need for funding of bomb clearance and survivor assistance efforts in Laos....

A map of the USA's West Coast, with caption, Plan to hit US mainland. Photos in North Korea's state-run newspaper, taken at an "emergency meeting" Friday morning with Kim Jong-Eun and military advisor...

Reading Frenzy, the astoundingly great zine store in Portland, OR, lost its lease. They need to raise $50K to reopen....

Wired's Danger Room blog points to this new report [PDF] by the NGO International Crisis Group, which details how Mexican drug cartels recruit and coerce kids as young as 11 years old to kill. Narcos ...

Its rare that any of us gets to start at the top: Brandon Crawfords first hit for the San Francisco Giants was a grand slam, Tatum ONeals first movie, Paper Moon, netted her an Oscar for best supporti...

In Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, a group of Buddhist monks led a crowd of hundreds in an attack on "Fashion Bug," a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse. "The attack comes as hard-line Buddhist groups step...

A survey by RealtyTrac reports that America is home to 301,874 zombie houses -- houses that have been abandoned by their owners, but not foreclosed upon by the banks. They effectively have no owners, ...

I'm really impressed with the cover of the UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds, the novel I wrote with Charlie Stross. But it turns out that producing that cover was quite a journey. Designer Martin St...

Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin and others) and pay $25...

Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin and others) and pay $25...

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Here's details of the public event I'm doing in Bradford while I'm in town for Eastercon: I'll be at the 1in12 Club, as part of an event called "Can Technology Save the City?" that runs from 12-6. I'l...

Disneyland fans have created many of their own theme days, some of which I've been lucky enough to happen upon or attend -- Bats Day (goths); Gay Days, and more. But I didn't know about Dapper Day, wh...

Sodajerker, a British podcast devoted to songwriting, produced a great one-hour episode with Disney songwriting legend Richard M Sherman, half of the Sherman Brothers team that gave us everything from...

Last week, I put up a post asking BB readers to tell us (and each other) about their projects. You-all upvoted your favorites, and herewith presented is a list of some of the coolest things you're up ...

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The entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned en masse. Board member Chris Bourg wrote publicly about the decision, and an open letter elaborates on it, stating that the...

From the Boing Boing Flickr pool: "Equality," a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from Rich Renomeron's photostream....

My latest Guardian column is "Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet" and it looks at what we really need from proposed solutions to the copyright wars: I've sat through more presentat...

A TSA screener at JFK pepper-sprayed five of his colleagues at Terminal 2 on Tuesday, according to the New York Post. The screener, Chris Yves Dabel, found a pepper-spray cannister on the floor and be...

The parliament's justice committee is concerned that inmates in Scotland's jails "have unlimited opportunity to watch television," and say "a reasonable amount of time to watch television is fair as p...

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8.5 million geolocated tweets. Above: a map created by James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and John Barratt, who collected 8.5 million geo-located tweets between January 2010 and February 2013. Fast Company De...

Lindsay Scallan of Newnan, Georgia took photos on her Canon PowerShot during a vacation on Maui in 2007, and lost her new camera (in its waterproof case) during a night scuba dive. "The seas were real...

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill psych professor Barbara L. Fredrickson had an interesting recent piece in the New York Times on what she and research colleagues argues is a concerning downsi...

Anil Dash has got ten dynamite top tips for people hoping to run a successful startup, based on his wide experience: 1. Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billio...

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Whale-watching boat trip participants witnessed an emotionally moving form of dolphin behavior: a deceased dolphin calf carried on the back of an adult....

Whale-watching boat trip participants witnessed an emotionally moving form of dolphin behavior: a deceased dolphin calf carried on the back of an adult....

At the New York Times, Mark Mazzetti reports on the promotion of a C.I.A. officer "directly involved in the 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videotapes and who once ran one of the agencys secret...

Research In Motion today reported a surprise profit and "a comfortable cash pile for its fiscal fourth quarter," after strong first sales of its new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. Also: Co-CEO Mike Lazard...

Bad girl group The Shangri-Las, best known for "Leader of the Pack," perform the far superior tune "Out in the Streets" on a 1965 episode of Shindig!...

Ruth from the UK Open Rights Group sez: ORGCon North is the first regional conference to build on the success of the national sell-out event, ORGCon, which takes place in London every year. On Saturda...

Several years ago, I found the Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen. It is a well-balanced and well-sealing writing instrument that has never let me down. A truly modern take on a the classic fountain d...

The Egyptian military claims it caught saboteurs in a small boat trying to sever one of the country's main undersea Internet cables. No word yet on who the guys were and what their motive might be: Co...

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"Police say they are trying to determine how a medical box containing a pair of eyeballs ended up in a trash bin at a gas station in Kansas City," reports the Associated Press....

From bodices made of green beetle wings to a skirt studded with embroidered-on bits of meteorite, the clothing of designer Mathieu Mirano draws inspiration from the natural world and the obsessions of...

In 1979, starving artist Jean-Michel Basquiat painted murals all over the walls of his biology student girlfriend Alexis Adler's apartment in New York City's East Village. The couple split up around 1...

Peter Stanford reviews Matt Kaplan's new book, an investigation into what's so intriguing about spooky, scary beasties of the night: Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: the Science of Monsters. What he ...

Reuters' Joe McDonald informs us of a new hands-free gaming technology: "Play doesn't need to stop for sports fans taking a bathroom break at a Pennsylvania minor-league baseball stadium that has inst...

Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez have an interesting piece at The New York Times about DNA evidence in murder trials, the mathematics of probability, and the highly publicized case of Amanda Knox. Wha...

In 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan had early brainstorming sessions around Lucas's outline for "Raiders of the Lost Ark." They recorded the conversations and had the tape tra...

This article at Lapham's Quarterly by Peter Foges has me rethinking my biases against rose champagne — a drink I tend to associate with undergrads and poorly conceived 7-Up cocktails. Turns out,...

Sam Biddle writes that this week's epic, internet-shaking DDOS was a lie. Spamhaus was indeed under a record-size denial-of-service attack, but the protection company it hired, Cloudfront, turns out t...

Last week, put up a post asking BB readers to tell us (and each other) about their projects. You-all upvoted your favorites, and herewith presented is a list of some of the coolest things you're up to...

"Numerous Japanese teens, it seems, are uploading photos of themselves doing the Kamehameha attack from popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball," writes Kotaku's Japan-based correspondent Brian Ash...

Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, a Nature Scientific Reports paper by MIT researchers and colleagues at Belgium's Universite Catholique de Louvain, documents that 95% of "ano...

Veniamin Balika, 34, of Plainfield, IL, was arrested in New Jersey after cops caught him driving a refrigerated truck carrying 42,000 pounds of stolen Muenster cheese. The cheesy hot goods valued at $...

Anita Isaacs, in a NYT op-ed: "I have spent the past 15 years researching and writing about postwar justice in Guatemala. I am encouraged that, a decade and a half after peace accords ended 36 years o...

A Virginia man was beaten on Saturday, March 23, for drawing a dick on his roommates face. Arlington County Police say 31-year-old James Watson passed out on his couch after a night of boozing. Around...

Paul Clipson's Super 8 short film for San Francisco droneography duo Barn Owl's new track "Void Redux."...

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Oh, those glorious gaming magazines! From Ares, to The General, to The Dragon, the original thrill and excitement of pen 'n' paper gaming is there to be experienced at the Internet Archive and other o...

Rome Kirby is an extreme sailor. When they tried putting him on a heart-rate monitor, they found he was burning 9,000 calories a day. (via Super Punch)...

I'm heading to Bradford tomorrow for Eight Squared Con, the 2013 Eastercon. I'm appearing on several programme items: * Friday, 17h: Reading, Hawthorn Room * Saturday, 12h: "On Twitter, Everyone Can H...

Tim Maughan and friends produced a short film based on his excellent story Paintwork, which is about graffiti and augmented reality....

Bruce Schneier presents a very cogent and convincing argument that "security awareness training" is a waste of money -- specifically, because the benefits of "security" are intangible, while the benef...

New Zealand artist Bruce Mahalski has put a new sculpture of an AK47 assembled from animal bones up for sale, with a starting bid of NZD3500. It's quite a beautiful piece of work. The latest bone gun ...

The band Ghost Beach won a promo deal with American Eagle, and spent the money on a prominent billboard in Times Square asking people to tweet their feelings about piracy. Piracy is winning: Piracy is...

Here's Death and Taxes's collection of 18 obsolete words that would be handy (or at least funny) to use today, compiled by Carmel Lobello from a book called The Word Museum and a blog called Obsolete ...

This undated bodybuilding ad is a spectacular example of the form -- the busy, unbridled, exuberant machismo, the fonts, the repetition. I think the world would be a better place if all printed litera...

Today, I was luck enough to get another one of rogue archivist Carl Malamud's boxes of awesome. It's a copy of the municipal codes of DC, which are laws that you're required to follow, but aren't allo...

Holy. Blistering. Crap. There was a dinner inside the Disneyland Haunted Mansion. And I didn't get to go. I literally squealed with delight. It was the most amazing table setting Ive ever seen. Fresh ...

Here's a bit of audio of Frank Zappa reading some of the dirty parts of William S Burroughs's Naked Lunch, taken from a rare double cassette called "The Nova Convention."...

Science Hack Day is a fantastically inspiring and creative 48-hour event where scientists, designers, artists, and developers get together to make and do science and science-related projects. You and ...

Im no neat freak, but nothing looks more disgusting than a stove caked with splattered grease, melted cheese and old marinara sauce. And while I dont think Im exactly sloppy, my wife would argue that ...

Marijke Visser from the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy writes with this provocative question: What could a library do with a gigabit broadband connection? What kinds of services could th...

A reader writes, "Noisebridge, San Francisco's Hackerspace, is having some hard times, so we're throwing an epic benefit and party this Saturday, to include eclectic performers, interactive art, a raf...

Some of America's worst copyright laws were passed through a profoundly undemocratic process called "policy laundering." This is what happens when an administration can't get Congress to pass a bad co...

Online, torrents of failed movies linger mysteriously, waiting to net downloaders in shakedown settlements which seem to have little to do with preventing piracy. John Biggs covers the details of a co...

Buzzfeed's David Peisner writes about the aftermath of a 1998 school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, that left five dead and ten more wounded. To this day, the small town feels the pain—a pain ...

Ken Layne, writes that the authorities have denied the rewards promised to those who helped them find cop-killer Christopher Dorner. [The Awl] Three brave heroes who survived their encounters with Dor...

The latest piece from mad assemblage sculptor Roger Wood is this delightful ray-gun: "Another mental health break from clocks with this Steampunk ray gun and charging stand."...

i09's Annalee Newitz is donating her body to science when she dies. In a moving and fascinating article, she tells the story of her mother's death, how it led her to make this choice for herself, and ...

The Pyramids of Giza close to tourists at 4:00 pm. Recently, a group of Russians managed to hide out at the site after closing time and scramble up the Great Pyramid of Cheops in the fading light. Nat...

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Gran Strand created this stunning time-lapse video made from photographs of the aurora borealis as seen from stersund, Sweden on March 17, 2013....

Castle View School in Canvey Island, Essex, England, briefly banned triangular flapjacks (not pancakes; the English call granola-bar-like food "flapjacks") after a student sustained an injury when ano...

On Thursday (3/28) at 3pm ET, Boing Boing pal and White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil is hosting a Google Hangout to talk about the maker movement! Tom has been instrumental in helping President ...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Your WiFi-enabled camera might be spying on you. •...

Less than 20% of drone victims have been named. UK-based NGO The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has a new project: Name the Dead. There's a fundraiser here. (HT: @ggreenwald)...

"K-State is one of the first two Universities in the U.S. to offer a Bachelor of Science in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Our program uses a hands-on approach for learning and attaining the skills ...

A Gulf of Mexico fisherman opened the uterus of an adult bull shark and found a two-headed shark pup inside....

Estonian punk/metal Winny Puhh have been around since 1993 or so, but online audiences around the world are discovering them by way of this video...

Earlier this week, Jason told you about a TEDx talk in which 19-year-old Boyan Slat presents a plan to remove plastic from the world's oceans. Lots of people are excited about this, which is reasonabl...

In a Nature paper called "Solid carbon, springy and light, scientists from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China introduce a record-breakingly light aerogel, lighter than helium, only twice as heavy ...

Jane Goodall's new book isn't just filled with plagiarism, writes Michael Moynihan at The Daily Beast, it also drastically misconstrues agricultural science and presents poor sources — for insta...

Do you understand the difference between a "hypothesis" and a "theory"? Physics professor Rhett Alain thinks you probably don't. But he says that's not your fault. The words just aren't terribly preci...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH you can learn How to Draw Doug, Woman-Man continues his/her thrilling adventures, Phil Collins has a close call, and MORE Super-Fun-Pak Comix!!...

Have you loved a computer so much as much as your first?...

Artist Jay Shells combines his love of hip hop music and his formidable sign-making skills in "Rap Quotes."...

How do you calculate the value of product placement in hip hop songs? With a $56 million dollar hip-hop shopping spree....

The National Security Agency has released an archive of back issues of Cryptolog, its secret, in-house magazine, in a repository spanning 1974 to 1997. The issues are heavily redacted in places, but s...

When British authorities began to suspect that a movie production was in fact a massive tax scam, the producers were forced to cover their tracks by actually making the movie. It even won an award fro...

Weeks after his remains were discovered under a car lot, Richard III's bones are yet to be put to rest. The University of Leicester, which led the exhumation project, plans to inter Richard at the loc...

The Ohio prosecutor who called for Punxsutawney Phil's indictment and execution has dropped the charges, saying that "I have really serious work to do." Previously....

Here's a great optical illusion (click above to see the animation) -- when you blink fast, beautiful mandalas emerge. Blink Fast (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

Ray Gascoigne is a former shipwright who now builds ships inside bottles....

Yep, that's Thom Yorke, Phil Selway, Ed O'Brien, and Colin Greenwood in the late 1980s. Back then Johnny Greenwood wasn't yet in the band who were still called On A Friday. This photo turned up during...

A few months ago I had a blast playing with Simon Monk's 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, and noticed that his 15 Dangerously Mad Projects included a coil gun. I've always wanted to make a coi...

The idea of forcing Congresscritters to wear NASCAR-style coveralls with the logos of their financial backers has been bandied about before, but here it is in official White House petition form. Since...

Sometimes, when confronted with woo, it is hard to know exactly what sort of woo you're dealing with. To simplify this challenge while sparing you the agony of enduring any more explanations of ear-ca...

Posted online is a preview of the first installment of Manga Taish and Mari Yamazaki's manga bio of Steve Jobs....

Carl Franzen, for The Verge: There's a dark cloud hanging over the science of climate change, quite literally. Scientists today have access to supercomputers capable of running advanced simulations of...

Canadian Space Agency astronaut and flight engineer Chris Hadfield watches a water bubble float freely between him and the camera in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Hadfield became ...

"Frankenbumper," a photo by Timothy Kraus shared in the BB Flickr Pool....

In the interest of time, here are all six Star Wars films at once....

Apparently, some segments of the media are just catching up to The Great Duck Penis Meme of 2007 and the video-enhanced version from 2009. If you've somehow managed to erase this from your memory (and...

The Antikythera shipwreck — source of the famous ancient clockwork Antikythera Mechanism — has remained shockingly unexplored in the 100 years or so that we've known about it. In fact, oth...

Billy McNeely of Canada's Northwest Territories was scratching his back when he noticed a pointy protrusion. Turned out to be the tip of a 7.5cm knife blade that was stuck in his back. For three years...

Photo: From the Facebook page for Pamela Yates' film "Granito," a snapshot of a female Ixil Maya witness giving testimony on the genocide trial's third day. The genocide trial of former Guatemalan dic...

The Harvard Business Review has an interesting look at what has happened as TED Talks has expanded to ever-wider audiences and (in doing so) has lost control of its own brand. It's also an excellent o...

Like the people cheering at about :25 into this video, I'm a sucker for dramatic explosions. This one comes from Texas, where the transportation department blew up an old bridge in the city of Marble ...

Coronavirus — characterized by the halo of protein spikes that surround each individual virus particle — is the family that gave birth to SARS. Today, there's a new coronavirus stalking hu...

"Veggietanic, a photo shared in the BB Flickr Pool by BB reader Domenic Bahmann (instagram, Twitter, Tumblr). Oh, hey, and he's selling an "Octopus Banana" print. Just look at it....

Luna Lee performs Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" on a gayageum....

New York Times media columnist David Carr has a piece out today about how reporters covering the pretrial hearings for Pfc. Bradley Manning over the past year have encountered roadblocks in accessing ...

Cakewrecks has a fun photo gallery of cakes inspired by Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80Days."...

At our sponsor Intel's LifeScoop site, I posted about "Music That Writes Itself": In ambient music pioneer Brian Enos 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices, the composer wrote, I really think it is...

The Lenape potato, developed in the 1960s for the snack business, made a damn fine potato chip. Unfortunately, it was also kind of toxic....

The top court in Hong Kong has ruled that domestic workers may not apply for permanent residency. The case has been fought for two years. The outcome affects some 300,000 domestic workers, mostly from...

Mother Jones has an item today on complaints by drivers for "hail a black car/taxi/SUV with your smartphone" company Uber: the company website claims your fare includes a 20% gratuity "for the driver,...

Joe Hagan's New York Magazine feature on the bitter internal conflict behind the smiles of NBC's long-running Today show is a wonderful read, whether or not you give a shit about Today, or network day...

Thanks to Soundcloud for hosting Boing Boing's podcasts! This is episode 4 of Boing Boing's newest podcast, Tell Me Something I Don't Know. It's an interview podcast featuring artists, writers, filmma...

A snowy morning snapshot....

There are apparently no insurers in the UK willing to extend cover to independent midwives, and so independent midwives and their clients operate in an insurance-free zone, which is risky, but it was ...

Arijit "Poop Strong" Guha (Twitter), a really sweet guy who took on a dirty rotten insurance company and stood up to TSA "Flying While Brown" bullying (while wearing a t-shirt designed by Boing Boing'...

Here's a fun set of instructions for baking anatomical heart-shaped bread that you rip apart and gorge upon: Nothing says romance like ritual cannibalism. Use this anatomical heart pull apart loaf to ...

DeviantArt's Jengabean made Tonya, this wonderful, toothy tongue sculpture. Jengabean's whole portfolio is rather wonderful, and worth a look. There's word of an upcoming Etsy store, too. Tonya (via J...

A wonderful site called "Grandma Got STEM" profiles grandmothers who have accomplished marvellous feats of technology, and aims to drive a stake through the heart of stupid, thoughtless phrases like "...

via the Boing Boing Facebook feed. Thanks Ian Cattell!...

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is one of the key figures in the political wrangle over whether undocumented immigrants in the USA will be legalized or deported. He's also the recipient of over $100,000 ...

CISPA is a bill before Congress that will radically increase the ease with which the government and police can spy on people without any particular suspicion. It is being rammed through by people like...

Seems in 2010 this training video got a green light. The Washington Times has the details....

Phil Windley, former CTO of Utah and now CTO of a startup called Kynetx, has an inspiring, brief piece on how technologists can help build a technological world where technology helps us live better l...

I made this film clip with a great photographer friend of mine and it took two takes. That means I had to eat TWO CAKES....

On the Guardian, Charles Arthur has totted up the lifespan of 39 products and services that Google has killed off in the past due to insufficient public interest. One interesting finding is that Googl...

Hey, Londoners! I'll be launching the UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds today at 1PM at Forbidden Planet. Although the book is available across the country at finer stores, this will be your only cha...

Artist Shanell Papp has a project called "Bawdy," which is about bodies and textiles. The centerpiece is "Lab," a yarn skeleton with a complete set of organs. Lab (skeleton) (via Making Light)...

It's been more than a year since the WSJ reported that Skype leaks its users' IP addresses and locations. Microsoft has done nothing to fix this since, and as Brian Krebs reports, the past year has se...

From the Neiman-Marcus gift catalog, a trailer that converts into an elaborate, beautiful bar, and comes with a year's supply of Bulleit bourbon and rye. There are two for sale at $150K each, with 10 ...

Mat Honan has a request: Please Stop Fighting About Your Smartphone. "The phone wars, the platform wars, should be left to people who work for Apple and Samsung and Google and Microsoft and Nokia and ...

"How Beer Saved The World," "Why I Tease Those Wine Guys," and "How Bird Poop Makes A More Aromatic Belgian Beer" are but a few tidbits....

Recent actions by Congress and the Obama administration to "protect networks of critical U.S. industries from hackers and cyberspies" have led to an explosive growth opportunity...for lobbyists. Bloom...

Shepard Fairey selects some of his favorite clips from YouTube, and talks about videos that have inspired him....

"How Beer Saved The World," "Why I Tease Those Wine Guys," and "How Bird Poop Makes A More Aromatic Belgian Beer" are but a few tidbits....

According to Niall Connolly at Dangerous Minds, "If you have not seen Paris Is Burning, youre just not doing it right. Im talking Life, honey." Ive written about Paris Is Burning before, and reference...

Josh Stearns writes, Denver is about to become the epicenter of awesome, when the National Conference for Media Reform comes to town bringing 2,500 coders, journalists, media makers, artists and comed...

What's of note in this media gossip item is that "15 have responded". If the reporter was filing for Boing Boing, one can assume he'd have a much higher total by now, as many of us have had romantic e...

A NY federal judge handed down a terrible ruling in AP vs Meltwater, which turned on whether providing a search-engine for newswire articles that showed the first sentence or two of the article was fa...

Hilary "chartgirl" Sargent has created another epic infographic, explaining something complicated and interesting: this time, it's the Gardner Museum Heist (background here). Here's the PDF in full-re...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Slow motion study reveals the shocking effects of gravit...

An outtake from "Granito:How to Nail a Dictator" which disproves claims by the defense for Guatemalan ex-dictator Rios Montt that he had no control over the Army....

An outtake from "Granito:How to Nail a Dictator" which disproves claims by the defense for Guatemalan ex-dictator Rios Montt that he had no control over the Army....

After an unexpectedly cold start to March, authorities in Ohio have called for the indictment and execution of the groundhog whose report promised an early end to winter. "Punxsutawney Phil did purpos...

I can't figure out if this Neil DeGrasse Tyson science-themed votive candle is an article of commerce or not, but man, it should be, oh yes, it should. I Heart Chaos Hail St. Neil. (via IO9)...

Vera Greentea and Laura Muller's "Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits" is an indie comic (funded by a very successful Kickstarter) that spans four issues. The first issue, just out ($6), is a nice, decept...

Adam Young sez, A developer made a game that's a spin on the old "waterworks"/"pipe mania" type game with an oil pipeline theme... complete with pixel-art anti-pipeline protesters. Like most indie dev...

Matt Novak (aka Paleofuture) is a historian and blogger who writes about the history of innovation and the history of the way we imagine the future. A couple of weeks ago, at South by Southwest, he ga...

Ronaldo Lemos sez, The Competition Authority in Brazil (CADE) convicted om March 20th the country's six major collecting societies and their central office (ECAD) - responsible for the collection of m...

This tribunal is the first and only genocide trial in history held in a domestic court against a former head of state, and is a huge historic moment for Guatemala. It's also an important moment for th...

This slow motion study reveals the shocking effects of gravity upon our body....

This five-minute video takes you on a tour of the astounding Beetlejuice roller-coaster created by Nuropsych1 and friends....

Lucy Meadows was a teacher. Born male, Lucy transitioned to female later in life, a process that was supported by her employers. Writing at the Daily Mail—one of Britain's largest-circulation ne...

Lucy Meadows was a teacher. Born male, Lucy transitioned to female later in life, a process that was supported by her employers. Writing at the Daily Mail—one of Britain's largest-circulation ne...

I've written here before that the impending UK press-regulation rules coming in as a result of the Leveson report will inadvertently end up treating bloggers and other everyday Internet users as thoug...

Peter Clines is the author of Ex-Heroes, a science fiction novel about super humans trying to save what remains of Los Angeles in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland. Above, the cover for the Clines' ...

(The cover; my feet, a KISS matrioshke, and spring-loaded gag eyeballs included for scale) IDW's Artist's Edition series is a line of enormous (15" x 22") hardcover art-books that reproduce the full-p...

Matthew Humphries: Sweatshop HD was created by BAFTA-winning creative studio Littleloud. It has tower defense gameplay mechanics, but tasks the player with running a sweatshop producing clothing and f...

The Vatican reassured the Catholic faithful that it hadn't been hacked Thursday after as unusual tweet--"Holy Switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter, more vengeful with the years"--appeared on a popular ...

A ban on booing has been lifted at Town Hall board meetings in Riverhead, N.Y., but officials warn that only polite booing will be permitted. [Newsday]...

Stephanie Farr, at Philly.com: A woman who had been banned from an Upper Darby dollar store doused store employees with pepper spray as they tried to escort her out on Monday, and when they tackled he...

In a daring, Hollywood-style bank heist, a crack team of thieves occupied offices above their target, covered its windows to make it look like they were working on renovations, cut through a concrete ...

The fight against ingrained sexism in tech culture is gruelling indeed; but what do you do when an off-color joke about "dongles" leads not only to internet drama, but everyone—including the cla...

Hey, Londoners! A reminder that I'll be signing the UK edition of Charlie Stross's and my novel Rapture of the Nerds, tomorrow at 1PM at Forbidden Planet. Charlie can't make it, so I have fashioned a ...

Kxra sez, "Defective by Design, the Free Software Foundation's campaign against DRM has just released a new graphic to mark DRM-free works on the web. The DRM-free label quickly communicates the DRM-f...

Baker Anna at Eat Your Heart Out Bakers made this astounding skull wedding-cake. Food artist Annabel de Vetten, also known as Conjurers Kitchen, created this incredible skull wedding cake for the Ecle...

Attention, users of "The Face Book": self-published indie comic ElfQuest (syndicated of late exclusively here at Boing Boing — see also TTDB, Brain Rot and Wilcock) is running neck and neck with...

Tim Wu's New Yorker piece on Aaron Swartz and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act explains how Obama could, with one speech, fix the worst problem with the worst law in technology. The CFAA makes it a fe...

GoPro, manufacturers of small digital video cameras, sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Notice to a site called DigitalRev, which had compared GoPro's latest camera to Sony's rival Action Video Camer...

The National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) awarded LA County Sheriff Lee Baca "Sheriff of the Year." What does it take to win Sheriff of the Year? 1,480 wrongful incarcerations? The LA Times repor...

Durrell Bishop's 1992 grad project for his design program at the Royal College of Art was a brilliantly conceived riff on the answering machine....

Here's the wonderful Dominique Pruitt performing "He's Got It Bad." Previously: Dominique Pruitt "To Win Your Love" music video...

Here's TammieRD's compilation of all the alternate endings to the Animaniacs theme song, each better than the last....

Timo Arnall from the design studio BERG has makes several great and provocative points in his essay "No to NoUI" -- a well-argued piece that opposes the idea of "interfaces that disappear" and "seamle...

The latest from The Slingshot Channel: an Oreo Separation Pump Gun. It's a basic human desire to destroy an OREO cookie with a pump action crossbow. Some men simply love neither cookie nor creme, so s...

We ♥ you, too, South London! (Not that we condone this sort of thing). (Image: I heart Boing Boing, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from delete08's photostream) (Thanks...

Len says: "A post from Xeni about disposable chopsticks and deforestation reminded me of this video. It's from Japan's version of 'How it's Made.' It is hard to believe how much hands-on work goes int...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has weighed in on the growing controversy over the proposal to build DRM into HTML5, the next version of the standard language for building Web pages and application...

It's not just that bad information on the "dangers" of vaccines is working to reduce the number of children getting vaccines — a fact that affects herd immunity. Now, there's evidence that the f...

Carla enjoyed Danny Hillis' presentation at TED2013. Here's how he began the talk: So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address in 1982. (Laughter) Actuall...

In a study of 6,455 semen samples (yup), scientists at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found that human sperm were most atheletic — and were found in the highest concentrations ̵...

After you've purchased 4 or 5 of these iPhone cases, why not buy a Toot Toot case from Twig? Amaze your friends and tantalize your neighbors with an incredible case for your iPhone that is over 7 feet...

This is not a Photoshop job. This is the very real toothy smile of sheepshead fish. It lives in North America, writes Becky Crew at the Running Ponies blog. And, like humans, it has both incisors and ...

If you think about lactation too hard, it starts to seem a little strange — like the biological equivalent of saying the word "that" over and over until it's just a weird sound you're making. Bu...

I interviewed Robert Arthur, author of a thought-provoking book about taboos, called You Will Die. (If his name sounds familiar, it could be because we've run a number of Rob's cartoons on Boing Boing...

It's a small squid world, after all. A recent study shows that giant squid from all around the globe have remarkably low levels of genetic diversity — essentially, writes Tina Hesman Saey, they'...

At Wired, Ed Yong has an incredible long-read story about the researchers who are figuring out how and why individual animals sometimes turn into groups operating on collective behavior. That research...

Canadian artist Bradley Hart makes pixelated paintings by filling the bubbles in large sheets of bubble-wrap with carefully chosen paints. Bradley Hart Portfolios (via Neatorama)...

The UK Bookseller WH Smith has been experiencing some kind of bug in its ebook store, whereby it adds DRM to all of the Kobo ebooks it sells, even the ones that are supposed to be DRM-free (like mine)...

"A new report documents the astonishing number of hours the New York Police Department has spent arresting and processing hundreds of thousands of people for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession...

Inspired by the Damsels in Distress episode of Tropes vs Women in Video Games, and by the Dad who genderswapped Donkey Kong for his daughter, Kenna swapped the Link and Zelda sprites on a Zelda ROM....

A company called Lumilor has announced a permanent electroluminscent paint that can be selectively illuminated by applying a charge to it....

The Wu-Tang Clan wears its Stax soul influences on its sleeves and in its samples. A few compilations of Wu-Tang sample source material have been floating about but now Soul Temple Music have done it ...

The Wu-Tang Clan wears its Stax soul influences on its sleeves and in its samples. A few compilations of Wu-Tang sample source material have been floating about but now Soul Temple Music have done it ...

Rios Montt. Photo: James Rodriguez. As noted in previous Boing Boing posts, former Guatemalan dictator Efran Rios Montt is on trial in Guatemala City this week, three decades after the army he preside...

Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is an ignoramus, as is demonstrated by his questioning during this hearing on reforms to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act....

A few years ago I was bored with digital photography and started shooting 35mm film again. The results were beautiful but I was still not having the fun I was looking for! I decided to try medium-form...

"I have already downloaded the Android version of Google's new app for collecting notes, photos, and info, called Google Keep," writes James Fallows in the Atlantic. "This early version has nothing li...

From JIMROMENESKO.COM, an excellent and long list of lazy phrases writers might avoid, courtesy of Washington Post "Outlook" section editor Carlos Lozada. At first glance, the list begs the question a...

In this new half-hour documentary, Fuse looks at J Dilla's life and digs into his record collection, currently in a Detroit storage locker....

"Get the Library of Congress out of the mobile business," writes the editorial board of USA Today. And more specifically, "take the Library of Congress out of the business of being the industry's cont...

Austin Whaley, 18, was arrested last month for yelling "bingo!" in a Covington, Ky bingo hall when he didn't really have bingo. The crowd of mostly elderly people grew angry and when Whaley refused to...

Firedoglake highlights the moment in Jack Dorsey's recent 60 Minutes profile at which the Twitter co-founder effectively copped to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to some in the ...

Firedoglake highlights the moment in Jack Dorsey's recent 60 Minutes profile at which the Twitter co-founder effectively copped to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to some in the ...

Jalopnik's Jason Torchinsky discovered an 1833 letter to Mechanic's Magazine in which one "Junius Redivivius" spends two highly entertaining pages debunking the elaborate claims made by Dr. Church's B...

Twisted Sifter has a great gallery of snowflake and ice crystal electron microscope photos. At this level of magnification, the ice looks like metal that has been machined by space aliens. 25 Microsco...

A weekly show hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John debunks 50 common misconceptions that most people have about topics such as viki...

In 2008 I mentioned that a one hundred billion dollar banknote was being auctioned on eBay with a high bid of AU$87. Today, you can buy a one hundred trillion dollar banknote on Amazon for US$0.90 (pl...

This wonderful Jawa birthday cake was made by adapting a teddy-bear cake mold, garnishing it with chocolate fondant and adding mini-party-light LEDs from a craft store. It was created by the wife of F...

Artist concept of NASA's Voyager spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Voyager 1 space craft, which was launched in 1977 to explore outer planets, has entered a new region on its way out of our sola...

In the NYT: A collective hunger strike by Gitmo detainees held for years without trial now involves at least 25 prisoners. That "includes eight who are being force-fed a nutritional supplement through...

Harry Reems, the male star of the influential 1972 porno film "Deep Throat," has died. He was 65. Jeanne Sterrett Reems, his wife, tells the BBC he died in a Salt Lake City Hospital Tuesday, and that ...

Blake E. Reid's "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Is Even Worse Than You Think" is a potted history of the ways that the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has confounded the efforts of di...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • A 1985 interview with dub reggae great Lee "Scratch" Per...

Bruce D. Mitchell is an amazing sculptor who works in the film industry; his "Conceptual Executioner" site showcases a series of gorgeous masks and helmets from 2010. He implies that they have been of...

In Bruce Sterling's barn-burning closing keynote for SXSW 2013, he confronts the realities of disruption -- that disruption leads to destruction. Our wonderful things destroy other wonderful things. T...

The wonderful folks at Bob Basset in Ukraine have a new piece up, the "Steampunk DJ Mask," of which I'm rather fond. New Steampunk DJ Mask...

This video is a bit gruesome, but it is demonstrating a remarkable substance that can stop bleeding almost instantaneously. Jack Millner of Humans Invent interviewed NYU student Joe Landolina, the cre...

Interview with Lee "Scratch" Perry from the 1985 documentary "Jools in Jamaica."...

You may have seen the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer, but have you seen it... IN LEGO?...

On TechDirt, Tim Cushing follows up on a WSJ story where filmmaker/indie distributor Kathy Wolfe says that half of her profits, about $30,000, are spent sending out DMCA takedown notices to fight pira...

Famed British horror/dystopian fiction author James Herbert has died at age 69. Herbert was the author of more than twenty scary, science fiction, and/or apocalyptic tales like the 1970s man-eating ro...

Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, wrote the script for The Owl #2 (1968). Be careful, Terror Twins -- the blades on your gyro-copters are too close! (Via Suddenly)...

Michael Weinberg from Public Knowledge sez, "We are bringing the 3D printing community back to Washington, DC for 3D/DC II. This time around, we are having a public reception in the Rayburn House Offi...

My friend Matt Richardson made a system for his bike that projects a spotlight with data onto the street. It's currently set up to display speed, but it can also be used to project other kinds of info...

Mr. Green had fun making a song for graffiti writer Rime at Art Basel. Back at it for December, 2012′s Art Basel, Rime and The Seventh Letter teamed up with Klughaus Gallery and Live From The St...

The Houston Press's 2011 coverage of Comicpalooza included this shot of a beautiful letter of appreciation from Ray Bradbury to Robert Heinlein, written in 1976. DEAR BOB: YOUR INFLUENCE ON US ALL, FR...

I have no idea whether the output of this "cook a perfect tubular egg-thing-on-a-stick" produces anything remotely edible, but the production company that made it is basically staffed with evil genius...

The ACLU of Northern California today filed suit against San Francisco and its Police Chief Gregory Suhr on behalf of civil rights activist Bob Offer-Westort, "whose cell phone was searched by the San...

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, which seeks to convert and preserve priceless lunar mission data from old analog media for future space nerds, has just a few hours left to reach its goal. Pr...

Aerospace contractor Bo Jiang, who is accused by U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) of being a spy, made a first appearance in federal court on Monday. The Chinese national worked on contract at NASA's Langl...

Famed grindcore band Napalm Death were slated to play a unique concert at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Friday night, but the museum cancelled the show fearing that "the high level of decibels gen...

What is a safe level of chromium-6 for humans to consume and why has the EPA stalled on setting a federal standard?...

Ian Hickson, the googler who is overseeing the HTML5 standard at the WC3, has written a surprisingly frank piece on the role of DRM. As he spells out in detail, the point of DRM isn't to stop illegal ...

Ian Hickson, the googler who is overseeing the HTML5 standard at the W3C, has written a surprisingly frank piece on the role of DRM. As he spells out in detail, the point of DRM isn't to stop illegal ...

A shape-shifting extraterrestrial was on President Obama's security detail during his APIAC speech on Sunday....

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has exciting news out today. Apollo mission F-1 enginges have been recovered from the bottom of the sea....

Experimental filmmaker Bob Jaroc's time-lapsed montage of CNN during the first month of the 2003 Iraq invasion....

My novel Pirate Cinema is the current TechDirt Book Club selection, and we're kicking it off today with a Google+ hangout in about five minutes. I've never done a Hangout before -- I don't have a...

Our pal Coop is interviewed in the latest edition of Reason TV. Reason's Brian Doherty sat down with internationally renowned underground artist Chris "Coop" Cooper in Reason's LA studios to discuss d...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Senator Portman (R, Oh.) experiences hunger for the first time, and reverses his position on social welfare spending....

Boing Boing is on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. Join us at the social network of your choice, or heck, all three of 'em....

Daniel Klaidman spoke to three senior Obama administration officials who say the US may soon shift the CIAs drone program to the Pentagon. [The Daily Beast]...

Here's Ryan Tate, the first writer to cover AT&T's massive iPad data leak, on the "hacking" conviction of Andrew Weev Auernheimer for exposing it in the first place: " The scapegoating of Auernhe...

Some interesting research based on the Arab Spring uprisings suggests that the best people to follow on Twitter during a crisis are often not particularly influential on Twitter outside the crisis. Li...

Efran Ros Montt. Photo: James Rodriguez. Jos Efran Ros Montt, a former de facto dictator of Guatemala who trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, is on trial for genocide. Photojournalist Jam...

Baker was a 23-kiloton nuclear weapon that was detonated underwater at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The goal was to see what would happen to Navy boats if they were in the region where a nuclear bomb went of...

Michael Geist sez, "The Canadian Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology released its report on the Intellectual Property Regime in Canada yesterday. While most the recommendations are ...

Technicians complete the primary mirror backplane support structure wing assemblies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at ATK's Space Components facility in Magna, Utah. ATK recently completed the ...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Improbable, destructive stunts recorded at 2500 fps. ...

When the feds start commissioning space decor from graffiti artists turned global fashion brands, you know that cyberpunk has arrived: Artist Shepard Fairey may be best known for Obey Giant and his Ba...

Time was, we used to recycle old cathode ray tubes from TVs and computer monitors into new ones. Obviously, though, there's no longer a demand for new CRTs — or the specialized leaded glass they...

In April 1988, the LA Times Magazine published a cover article predicting what the spring of 2013 would look like for the typical Angeleno family. In a story that is bound to give you disconcerting fl...

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the last 30 years, the number of cliff swallows killed by moving vehicles has drastically decreased. That change can't be accounted for by alterations in traffic patterns or s...

Here's a follow up to Dumt and Farligt's 2012 video in which Danish show (its name translates as "Stupid and Dangerous") enacts a series of improbable, destructive stunts while recording at 2500 fps....

Hey, Portlandians! Brian David Johnson and James H Carrott are doing a talk and signing for their new book, Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of T...

This was a fun episode! I spoke with John Glassie, author of A Man of Misconceptions, a non-fiction book about the unusual 17th-century polymath, Athanasius Kircher, and Joshua Foer, author of Moonwal...

Instructable user boston09 shows how to make a faucet night light....

Last week, Brian Krebs (a respected security researcher and journalist who often publishes details about high-tech crime) was SWATted -- that is, someone defrauded his local police department into sen...

Lululemon Athletica has recalled 17% of the women's yoga pants in its stores because the latest batch were apparently too sheer. The quality control problem forced the company to cut its revenue forec...

On Friday, SXSW saw the unexpected combination of Sinkane, Usher, and the Afghan Whigs....

People who explore the urban ruins of cities are terrorist dupes! Wired: “Urban Explorers (UE) — hobbyists who seek illicit access to transportation and industrial facilities in urban area...

This really deserves its own post. In the comments on the post on Kirtsaeng -- where the Supreme Court just upheld the right to sell used goods, even if they were made abroad -- Shrikant quotes from H...

Last year I ordered a few Lego limited-edition Moleskines. The "limit" must be very high, as they are still available on Amazon. I don't care, because I never intended to keep them as collector's item...

The good folks at the Mozilla Foundation have unveiled an amazing suite of Web-development tools. Wired's Webmonkey has a great summary...

Milo Danger made an AR-15 (without a 3D printer). He says it's legal make your own rifle, as long as you make it without the help of others. Previously: Gweek 079: Milo Danger, maker of the armed civi...

Last week, we brought you the wonderful news that a district court in San Francisco had struck down the law that allowed the FBI to issue its own "National Security Letters" (NSLs) -- secret search-wa...

Canada's Conservative government has issued new regulations to librarians and archvists governing their free speech in public forums and online media. According to the Harper government, public servan...

ast fall, while on the Pirate Cinema tour, I stopped in at the Library of Congress to give a talk called "A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond."...

The US Supreme Court has handed down a verdict in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, one of the most important copyright cases of the century. In it, the publisher John Wiley & Sons sought to b...

Here's Tavi Gevison, creator of the amazing Style Rookie site, the Rookie zine and the indispensable Rookie: Year One collection, doing a must-see TedXTeens talk....

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

Just look at it. Ella's Deli and Ice Cream Parlor (Thanks, Viktor!)...

Michael Pusateri recommended the comic book Resident Alien on an episode of Gweek last year. A few days ago I received a review copy of the paperback anthology that collects the first four issues and ...

Titan Books has released a brand-new edition of Kim Newsman's critically-acclaimed 1993 adult horror novel, Jago. Paul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world, and his girlfrie...

Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less is a just-published book by Asha Dornfest (of Parenthacks) and Christine Koh. It's a simple, short, entirely sensible guide to escapin...

Google this week unveiled the ability to virtually explore, via Google Maps, some of the most famous mountains on Earth, including Aconcagua (South America), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Elbrus (Europe...

Japan, India and Korea YouTube creators build a huge Rube Goldberg machine in YouTube Space Tokyo....

Three cable news networks, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, outed the underage victim in the Steubenville rape trial by name during reports about the case. The identification of the 16 year old rape victim oc...

Image: SXSW 2013, Friday March 8th, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from thelotuscarroll's photostream I must start with a tweet from my wise friend Xeni Jardin: ...

Further to yesterday's post about the way that the UK's new press regulation will affect bloggers, tweeters, tumblrers, facebookers, et al., Lisa O'Carroll at the Guardian points out that anyone who d...

Hey, Londoners! A quick reminder that I'll be signing the new UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds this Saturday at Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Ave at 13h. Come on down and say hi!...

A rich, high-stakes gambler was dragged out of his opulent comp suite at the Crown Towers casino in Melbourne, accused of participating in a $32M scam that made use of the casino's own CCTV cameras to...

Peter Murphy, singer of Bauhaus, was arrested this weekend in Los Angeles for an alleged DUI hit-and-run that reportedly injured the other driver. A witness followed Murphy and blocked him until cops ...

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I'm celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I'm going to read aloud the ...

iFixit's Kyle Wiens has a must-read op-ed in Wired on the insane way that copyright is being used to take away your property rights in tools as diverse as tractors and cars and cellphones and phone sw...

Useless machines are home-built devices that turn themselves off as soon as you turn them on — and that's it. That's all the they do. The more elaborate and gimmicky the method by which they acc...

Richard Nash's essay "On the business of literature" is one of the best, most thought-provoking, most beautifully argued articles about the business of publishing through history and in the Internet a...

Under the right conditions, veins of gold can form in just a few tenths of a second, writes Richard Lovett at Nature News. The key is the massive changes in below-ground pressure that can accompany an...

In 2011, Hugo Chavez alleged that he was the victim of an assassination plot ... that unnamed US agents had infected him with a transmissible cancer. Scientifically speaking, that's highly unlikely. B...

This amazing EVE Online Gallente Space Station cake was created by Duff Goldma of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, MD. It's unquestionably the greatest MMORPG space-station cake I've ever seen. Dock You...

Earlier today Rob mentioned Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, a TV pilot that airs tonight at 10:20/9:20c on BBC America. It stars our pals Joel Johnson and Veronica Belmont. I interviewed Veronica, Joel, ...

Dug North sez, "The book titled 'Two Odd Volumes on Magic & Automata; has been available in a printed version for a while, but is now available as a PDF. The book is offered for free from LEAFpdx, but...

Just look at it. fruit - Matt James Stone (Thanks, Marie!)...

When Veronique Greenwood went to college in 2004, she took a laptop with her ... and a videophone. In an engaging essay at Aeon Magazine, Greenwood writes about what it was like to grow up with a Futu...

A mesmerizing peek into the lives of daredevils drivers at a fair in Allahabad...

A company called "Powerful Yogurt" has shipped a line of "brogurt" -- single-serving bacteria cultures that are meant to appeal to manly men who are put off by the femininity of traditional yogurt pac...

Science Horrors is a tumblr blog that compiles stories about the discomfiting, disturbing, and just plain terrifying parts of science. From 13th-century bioterrorism to the killer carbon dioxide gas b...

Over at our sponsor Intel's My Life Scoop site, I wrote about the future of wearable computing: Electronic Cotton Several university laboratories are developing transistors the building blocks of all...

This review also appears on Download the Universe, a group blog reviewing the best (and worst, and just "meh") in science-related ebooks and apps. When I go to science museums, I like to press the but...

Harvard University researchers show how simple, brainless "bristle-bots" exhibit swarming behavior when contained in a small area....

Hey, yesterday was William Gibson's birthday. Happy birthday, Bill! Here's some sage advice I always try to keep in mind on my own birthdays....

Two new items in the Boing Boing Shop! Moleskine ruled Cahier journals: Beetle and Critter $5.95 each. Take a look at all the items in the Boing Boing Shop...

In 1971, the US government's Environmental Protection Agency sponsored a photography project called DOCUMERICA to capture on film the impact of pollution, waste, and environmental dangers on American ...

Ashley Rodriguez has tweaked a recipe for homemade "Cadbury's" Easter creme eggs from Instructables user Scoochmaroo and published it. The store-bought version of these glop-filled chocolate eggs alwa...

A variety of animals have been used to deliver mail over the years, from camels and dogs to horses and pigeons. But cats? According to a 19th century article in the New York Times, around 1877 the Bel...

Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for figuring out a security flaw in AT&T's website, writes Matt Brian. The "hack", which exposed iPad users' email addresses, ...

Penis thefts are on the rise again in West and Central Africa. UC Berkeley cultural anthropologist/geographer Louisa Lombard investigated while visiting the tiny village of Tiringoulou. According to t...

Here's a reminder that former Boing Boing gadget guv'nor Joel Johnson will have his own TV pilot, Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, tonight at 10:20/9:20c on BBC America, right after the season finale of T...

Thomas "Command Line" Gideon came out for the DC stop on my Homeland tour, at Busboys and Poets, and mic'ed me up for the event. He's mastered the audio and posted it. It's a 40 minute talk about the ...

Earl Norem, age 88, painted this stunning cover for the upcoming issue of Classics Obliterated. See more of Norem's work here. June 2013 Mars Attacks (Via Duane Swierczynski)...

Old-school bOING bOING pal Douglas Rushkoff has a new book out this week, Present Shock, and it received a rave review in the New York Times! Congrats, Doug! From Janet Maslin's NYT review: The ancien...

UK regulations may soon regulate all tweeters, bloggers, and other people who post on the Internet as part of a new system of press regulation. Today in London, Parliament is the in throes of a closed...

Nick Harkaway's essay "The Steampunk Movement is Good and Important" does a good job of answering charges that steampunk is cover for racism or colonialism, and does an even better job of explaining t...

In an op-ed for CNN.com, Hans Blix writes: "I headed the U.N. inspections in Iraq at the time of the war 10 years ago. Today, I look again at the reasons why this terrible mistake -- and violation of ...

A CIA counterterrorism analyst, in an essay for Wired's Danger Room: "Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Iraq, citing intelligence that turned out to be bogus. I had to work on some of it and ...

Seven tiny cute little baby komodo dragons have been born in a zoo in Indonesia's East Java Province. You'll want to watch the BBC News video....

Tim Pool is webcasting the sentencing hearing this morning for Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, whom a court has convicted of illegally gaining access to AT&T's servers and accessing more than 100,000 ...

Control-Alt-Hack is a tremendously fun, hacker-themed strategy card game that uses the mechanic of the classic Steve Jackson Ninja Burger game. It comes out of the University of Washington Computer Se...

"A cub in a Cub," says Miles....

An experimental film made in 2011 for LVMH, by Ugo Rondinone and Robin Kob....

Shannon Larratt, creator of body modification zine and early online community BMEzine, has died. The statement he left behind indicates that he committed suicide, after several years of a rare illness...

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, Trevor Timm factchecks an absurd column by Gordon Crovitz which praised the 'aiding the enemy' charge against Bradley Manning and insisted WikiLeaks be prosecuted u...

In what's becoming a regular St Paddy's tradition around here, here's the Muppet Danny Boy you know you want to hear but were afraid to ask for....

M. Otis Beard writes, "Gregg Fleishman, the architect whose team was awarded the honorarium grant to build the Temple for Burning Man 2013 today, makes insane sculpture, furniture, toy cars, etc. out ...

Brilliant, and well made parody of the 9/11 video 'Loose Change.' It points out all the 'coincidences' in the destruction of the Death Star. Was it an inside job?...

From the Mario Piano site, where you'll find "authentic, high-fidelity Mario sheet music that was entirely faithful to the original Mario themes and sound effects, and which could be trusted to be 100...

A conservative group looking to make inroads with African American Voters held a talk on Friday called 'Trump the Race Card'....

Poplocks are a very clever system for making movable papercraft fastenings with die-cutting and folding. The Paper Pose-Ables site has a bunch of downloadable papercraft toys you can print out and mak...

Wired Design has a great short video documentary on my friend Bruce Tomb, who has built an amazing art-car called Maria Del Camino that's part tank, part 59 El Camino, part flying car. I camp with Bru...

Please do not reboot. Internet will be deleted. (Via Andrew Roach BB G+)...

Further to Xeni's post from yesterday about the landmark ruling by a San Francisco district court judge that the FBI may not issue "national security letters" (NSLs), the Electronic Frontier Foundatio...

This reminds me of nothing so much as the DHS checkpoint officials who won't tell you if you're being detained, won't tell you if you're legally required to answer their questions about your citizensh...

Philip Sterns is an artist who commissions blankets and tapestries woven in the USA with glitch-art patterns he generates with broken digital cameras. They're for sale! $200+ Tapestries Blankets ...

Welp, there's something you don't see every day. Unless you work at an abattoir. Im Goin to Prom!...

Christian Rex van Minnen's grotesque portraits are spectacular. IO9's Lauren Davis called them "portraits of aristocrats from another dimension." I love the crammed-together, rammed-together higgeldy ...

Its easy to find alarming evidence that weve lost our way when it comes to civics in the US. But longtime global activist and MIT prof Ethan Zuckerman says theres a lot to get excited about too, if we...

The Conservative council in Mid-Devon, England has mooted a proposal to remove apostrophes from street signs, claiming they cause "potential confusion." I live on a street in East London with an on-ag...

From Loose Ends' 1985 LP A Little Spice, "Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)" was the first track by a British band to ever hit #1 on the US Billboard R&B Chart....

"Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday." Kim Zetter at Wired News has more...

Artist Drew Friedman has assembled a nice gallery of airbrush illustrator extraordinaire Robert Grossman's work. I became familiar with Grossman's illustrations by reading National Lampoon (Thank good...

On Wonderland, Alice has had a deep trawl through the world of Etsy Star Wars posters and rounded up a collection of top choices, including the Space Cowboy by CONCEPCIONSTUDIOS (top) and Vintage Pop ...

Just look at it. By Domenic Bahmann. Shared in the BB Flickr Pool....

Earlier this week, 26 year old Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was indicted on charges he handed Tribune Co. network passwords to Anonymous, which were then used to deface the LA Times...

Uh-oh. The NYT reports that the United States "will deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to increase the Pentagons ability to blunt a potential attack from North Ko...

A federal appeals court today ruled the CIA cannot continue to neither confirm nor deny the existence of the drone war, in a court case prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU. He...

From the Washington Post: "China uses 20 million trees each year to feed the countrys disposable chopstick habit... 4,000 chopsticks per tree, thats roughly 80 billion chopsticks per year." All those ...

Canada's National Post is trying to convince a court that article titles should be copyrightable, overturning centuries of law and practice. Well, that's dumb. (Thanks, Chris!)...

(Via Arbroath)...

Amazon offers this 55-gallon barrel of a "superb" water-based love lube formula. I wasn't quite sure what to say, myself, but reviewers dove right in. Carla was completely drenched, and her momentum s...

The legendary 55-gallon barrel of water-based love lube is now half-off at Amazon. I wasn't quite sure what to say about this slippery deal, myself, but reviewers there dove right in. Carla was comple...

NY state Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz has been charged with marijuana possession after a Thursday morning traffic stop. "Katz currently sits on the Assembly's Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee ...

Wellington, NZ's Daizy Design is a face-painting studio that does astounding work, as the images here can attest. They also paint pregnant bellies, do custom work for photo shoots, and so on. The rate...

Holy moly, Brian Krebs: Its not often that one has the opportunity to be the target of a cyber and kinetic attack at the same time. But that is exactly whats happened to me and my Web site over the pa...

Joshua Kopstein has a wonderful feature over at The Verge today about how archivists revived a bulletin board that was a central networking hub in NYC's art scene during the 1990s....

Makers of the filmHart Island: An American Cemetery, about a small potter's field island in New York City where prison laborers bury the region's unclaimed mass dead in mass graves, are suing The Asso...

Watch what happens when a jackass harasses a robot man street performer....

A limo driver who worked under contract for Uber has been accused of raping a 20-year-old customer. [Washington Post]...

On Monday I flew from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Before leaving, I went to the family room to select a book from the growing mountain of review copies I keep there. The previous book I pulled out, J...

Wikipedia, PDB rendering: "Complex Structure of the BRCA1 RING domain and BARD1 RING domain." Rebecca Skloot writes about an important legal case against Utah-based biotech firm Myriad Genetics, the c...

Gabriele Galimberti photographed children around the world posed with their favorite toys and possessions. At top, Pavel (Kiev, Ucraina). Above, Maudy (Kalulushi, Zambia) and Noel (Dallas, Texas). "To...

Inspired by John Scalzi's open promo thread, herewith is a place for you to plug your own personal projects, products, and proclivities. Be sure and upvote your faves and I'll come back to this over t...

Its easy to find alarming evidence that weve lost our way when it comes to civics in the US. But longtime global activist and MIT prof Ethan Zuckerman says theres a lot to get excited about too, if we...

It was fun to see the faces behind some of my favorite web comics in this brief PBS documentary. The internet has given birth to yet another new medium: web comics. Moving beyond the restrictions of p...

EDW Lynch from Laughing Squid reports: "While on an American tour last year, Australian DJ and video remix artist Nick Bertke (Pogo) ran afoul of US visa rules and was jailed and deported from the cou...

Next: a seat belt for drivers who don't like wearing shirts. (Via Neatorama)...

Hugh D'Andrade sez, "The Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair takes place this weekend in San Francisco! I'll will be one of the speakers -- I am giving a slideshow all about the series of posters I have creat...

Join Boing Boing and high-end headphone maker Audeze at the South by Southwest music fest for a night of dope-ass beats....

This excerpt from the new book,...

As Boing Boing has outgrown both our converted ICBM silo and air park and secret lair in the Alps we expect to purchase this stately castle in upstate New York, built in 1894 for the National Guard Am...

There are existing solutions to our the energy crises facing us today, but they all suffer from being frustratingly imperfect, complicated, and not particularly easy to implement (at least not quickly...

Len sez, "A few years ago, you posted about my Monster By Mail project. Since then I've drawn a lot of things including Cory for my Geek A Week project. Now I am doing something similar to Monster By ...

The Today Show presenter is taking no nonsense here....

The Today Show presenter is taking no nonsense here....

Everybody dies. But naturalists — the people who study animals and plants in those species' natural environments — well, they die interestingly. Some recent causes of death in this scienti...

Some people are naturally better than others at pulling off the elusive pull-up, writes Kyle Hill at Scientifica American. For them, it's all about mass-to-arm-length ratio — ideally, you want a...

On Alphamom, Lindsey "Filth Wizardry" Boardman shows how she and her kids made cookie-stamps out of salt-dough (they also make them out of polymer clay, but this is not recommended for use with things...

The replacement of the car is probably out there. We just dont fully recognize it yet. — a really interesting story on the historical patterns of technology adoption and decline, and how those p...

Good news: This is probably not something you have to worry too much about during your lifetime....

There are 44 prescription drugs on the market today that should never be combined with grapefruit. That's because the sour fruit (and some other, closely related, kinds of citrus) contain chemical com...

IP lawyer Stuart Langley wrote a fantastic analysis of the legal issues raised in my novel Pirate Cinema a guest-article for the wonderful Law and the Multiverse site. Langley does a very thorough job...

Space history buffs are racing against time to preserve historic lunar mission data stored on dusty old analog tapes. And they need your help....

The latest issue of Make: has a great profile of my wife, Alice Taylor, and the 3D printed toy-company she founded. They're going great guns, too -- just won one of the top prizes at the SXSW Accelera...

Michael de Podesta has been doing the math on "Grime Dice" -- six sided cubes whose sides average out to 3.5, but whose face values are all radically different....

British Minister of Parliament Eric Joyce was arrested after a late-night brawl at a bar in the House of Commons, reports The Guardian. Joyce had already resigned from the Labour party after earlier h...

According to Aaron Swartz's defense team, federal prosecutor Steve Heymann (star of Quinn Norton's extraordinary piece on the prosecution) illegally withheld evidence that would have exculpated Aaron:...

Spocko sez, "This piece of furniture looks like an alien made it after looking at a frozen frame on a VCR." In his second year working with Fratelli Boffi, Ferruccio Laviani has created yet another fa...

Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich are planning a special series of live DJ sets for the Atoms for Peace album launch....

In a closed door meeting, Democrats demanded that President Obama be more transparent about drones, secret legal memos, and "kill lists." He declined. In response to a critique by one lawmaker over th...

Matthew Keys, 26, a social media editor for Reuters, has been indicted on charges that he helped members of Anonymous hack the Tribune Co. network in order to deface the Los Angeles Times website. "Th...

My cousin, Greg Lanham, and I have many similarities. We're the same age (born four days apart), we grew up in Colorado, and we went to Colorado State University at the same time and got degrees in me...

The first episode of the 2013 season of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties is now up, online, for anyone to watch, completely free!...

You know those assholes who wake up their friends in painful and startling ways? They are coming to your office. Air horn office chair prank...

Wreck diver and videographer Adrian Smith has launched a Kickstarter project to fund an expedition to document the forgotten wrecks sunken by the Bikini Atoll atomic explosion in 1946....

From our friends at House Industries: an iPhone app that offers different House-designed fonts to add text to your photos. Based on House's terrific (and cheap!) Photo-Lettering service. Photoletterin...

Chris Chappell and Easton LaChappelle have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of a 3D printed robotics hand. The hand is currently aimed at makers and researchers, but the eventua...

One of my favorite illustrators, Adrian Tomine, has started offering prints of his work, including these two sublime New Yorker covers. They measure 18" x 24" and are gorgeous (I have "Missed Connecti...

Players is an Italian magazine about "the best of media, cinema, music, videogames, art, literature and 
technology." Sounds great, and I love this Chris Buzelli cover. (Via Cover Junkie)...

Over at Cool Tools, Bill Potter asks, "I came across this contraption in my dad’s tool collection after he passed away. He was an electrical engineer/computer science guy, so I’m pretty su...

Boing Boing reader tw1515tw mentioned this essay by mentalist Derren Brown on how to overcome awkward situations. Most of Brown's strategies involve behaving irrationally to disarm the other person. H...

Here's the design for Albert Einstein's ex-libris bookplate, which he apparently pasted into all his personal books. This is lovely. The Awesome Doodle That Lets You Know This Book Belonged to Einstei...

Damien Walter's written a very kind article about me and my work in the Guardian's books section, discussing the role of science fiction in social criticism and activism....

De rigueur paperback cover in 1968. NSFW blogpost in 2013! Wikipedia entry on Jerry Hopkins: He is best known as the co-author (with Danny Sugerman) of No One Here Gets Out Alive (1980), the definitiv...

The New Statesman has compiled a collection of reviews of classic books that were published in its pages contemporaneous with their publication. The review of Nineteen Eighty-Four by VS Pritchett is a...

I start the New York Times Crossword every day (I can't always finish) and have often fantasized about throwing down with the real puzzle masters at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Photograp...

My favorite contemporary sculptor, Ron Mueck, has a new show of his huge hyperreal sculptures opening at Paris's Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain on April 16. Before moving into fine art, Muec...

A mathematically bountiful Pi Day to you. Miles OBrien forwards this snapshot, taken just now in the PBS NewsHour kitchen by Colleen Shalby. Rebecca Jacobson baked them. I'm sure they're -licious....

This morning, I posted M Tang's funny experiment in feeding the Unix "yes" command to itself. Now, Seth David Schoen writes in to correct and expand upon the principles therein: M. Tang's business abo...

Richard Nixon and his pal RoboCop in 1987. Photo snapped by Chuck Pulin during a charity event promoting the movie's VHS release. (via Mental Floss)...

When I was a young naive engineer, I saw this tacked to the beige fabric cubicle wall of an old embittered engineer. It made me like him. Here's a history of this great cartoon. The tree swing or tire...

"Mother of Dragons" by Jason Edmiston Mondo Gallery in Austin, Texas, has an exhibition of art inspired by Game of Thrones. My Modern Met has more images. "Margaery" by Audrey Kawasaki...

Alex Cornell created an info graphic to help with choosing your seat at a restaurant dinner so you are least likely spend the whole time talking with someone who sucks. "Musical Chairs (Choosing the R...

Now people who think, "Oh shit, Frauenfelder is gonna be there," have this infographic to give them a fighting chance....

A Fort Worth, TX cop told a guy in a Statue of Liberty suit to move along from the road-median where he was advertising Liberty Tax Services. Lady Liberty did not immediately comply ("Get away from me...

"The Truth About Polar Bears" was inspired by ideas that bubbled up in Rock Band Land, a San Francisco DIY "creativity school" where kids aged 4-8 write song stories together,...

I've never heard of artist A. Paul Weber until I came across this feverish drawing today called "The Rumor." See it in Gigapan here. From the Weber Museum: Weber was born in Arnstadt, Thüringen. ...

No, that's not a euphemism for anything. Buffon's Needle is an 18th-century experiment in probability mathematics and geometry that can be used as a way to calculate pi through random sampling. This W...

Thank you to our sponsor ShanaLogic, sellers of handmade and independently-designed jewelry, apparel, gifts, and other curious creations! Now available are these stylish Thin Leather Cuffs made from s...

Later today, you can interact with some of the best science writers around — Carl Zimmer, Ed Yong, Virginia Hughes, and Brian Switek — in an epic science edition of "Ask Me Anything". They...

If you've been following the sad saga of the porno copyright trolls Prenda Law, you'll know that Alan Cooper is the former caretaker of John Steele, who is apparently the man behind a spiraling series...

Bryan Jones shot this lovely portrait of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. This companion site to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened in 2003, and is located...

Google has announced the imminent shutdown of Google Reader, effective July 1. I use Reader every day, often as the back-end for other RSS reader apps, like the excellent Newsrob for Android, and it's...

A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers is a beautiful art-book of spectacular illustrated maps: From the publisher's site (where you'll find lots more images): Drawin...

I want it all, and I want it now. [Video Link]...

The artist (one of the creators behind the wonderful I have your heart) talks about the growing political dimension of her work. A new exhibition of her latest series, Shell Game, opens April 14 in Ne...

PBS NewsHour's Miles O'Brien travels to Hinkley, CA, the town whose multi-million dollar settlement for groundwater contamination inspired the movie "Erin Brockovich."...

The WSJ reports that a 23-year-old man sought by police on charges he raped his 19-year-old girlfriend and subdued her with a powerful stun gun "made his way through a security checkpoint at John F. K...

There are a bunch of these. By Sean Tejaratchi....

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi "faced the wrath of hundreds of villagers on Thursday" in Myanmar, reports Reuters. They are angry over her defense of "an independent report that backed expansion of a...

Cory and I have each blogged about Arijit "Poop Strong" Guha, a 31 year-old sustainability PhD student in Arizona living with metastatic colon cancer. Arijit was an interesting guy before his diagnosi...

There's a GNU-coreutils program called yes whose function is to "output a string repeatedly until killed." M Tang tried piping the output of one yes command into another. It ended badly: Taking a look...

A Brazilian doctor was charged with fraud after using silicone fingers to sign absent colleagues into work. [BBC]...

Venezuelan'a acting President Nicolas Maduro: "We know that our commander ascended to the heights and is face-to-face with Christ. Something influenced the choice of a South American pope, someone new...

Designer Matthew Pauk's "Slot Sofa" is pure doctrovian catnip -- a marvel of kentucky. Basically, I want to live in a Pullman car. Slot is a dynamic furniture piece. The sofa system finds new value an...

"If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment. Anyone who holds freedom of...

"C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS and new moon," a photo by Rob Pfile shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. "Stack of 14 images, 1/10s @ ISO1600 and f/4. canon 200 f/2.8L and canon 60D," Rob explains. "Got lucky ...

Torontonians are actually pretty well-dressed, but not in winter. In winter, everyone wears awful, identical Canada Goose parkas....

"Oh, don't worry about those people who have found something better and who are dropping your service in six figure chunks each quarter. We'll just observe them and be ready to act later." -Mike Masni...

Another great ramble from the always-fascinating Venkatesh Rao entitled "The Dead-Curious Cat and the Joyless Immortal," considers several explanations for our species' curiosity, and asks whether our...

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (of which I'm a board member) this week released surreptitiously recorded audio leaked from the Bradley Manning military pre-court martial hearing at Fort Meade. Fo...

"Arming Sisters" is described as a "crowdfunded project on a mission to bring compact self-defense courses" to indigenous women, "arming them to fight back."...

Yesterday, I reviewed Daniel Kraus's spectacular and terrifying horror novel Scowler. It turns out that Random House Audio has produced an audiobook version read by Kirby Heyborne (who also reads the ...

Jason Leopold at Truthout: "A memo sent to more than a dozen government agencies by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says a question added to lie detector tests will help deter leaks to...

The Las Vegas all-you-can-eat buffet arms-race has gone thermonuclear: for $37.99, the Bellagio will give you access to its all-you-can-eat caviar buffet, offering "the worlds finest caviars Ikura and...

Here's a look at artist Ryan Heshka's latest exhibition, which opened in Milan on March 7. Teenage Machine Age, Ryan Heshkas second solo show at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), pick...

Not happy with the election of Pope Francis (who looks either like Grumpy Cat or a Muppet, depending on the photo)? Then, perhaps, you can throw in your lot with Pope Michael I, who has ruled an offsh...

The new pope has been chosen. Image above from Jonathan Koshi....

Brazilian doctor Thaune Nunes Ferreira, 29, was arrested for fraud for allegedly covering up her colleagues' absence from work by using prosthetic fingers to sign them in on a biometric time clock at ...

Brazilian doctor Thaune Nunes Ferreira, 29, was arrested for fraud for allegedly covering up her colleagues' absence from work by using prosthetic fingers to sign them in on a biometric time clock at ...

A Twitter troll called @jimmyob88 sent a series of vile, taunting messages to professional boxer @woodhousecurtis, calling him lots of rotten names. Woodhouse tweeted back that he'd found out the Inte...

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast that has one short review of an application that's fun for kids and parents. It's been on hiatus while my co-host finishes up with a series of grueling 4th grade...

Boy octopus meets girl octopus, and then they fall into one another's (many) arms....

Let's just play this safe and assume that, until more samples have been collected and detailed DNA analysis has been done, the real answer to the question, "Is bacteria found in Antarctica's Lake Vost...

Michael B. Morgan, CEO of Morgan & Claypool Publishers, writes: In 2009, we invited Aaron Swartz to contribute a short work to our series on Web Engineering (now The Semantic Web: Theory and Tech...

Sigh. "It might not be such a big deal except that these dolphins have been trained to 'attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads.'" (via SlashDot)...

Hip-hop, soul, and Morricone-inspired composer/producer Adrian Younge is back with two new albums, collaborations with Ghostface Killah and also The Delfonics, as seen above....

The Ephiphany One Puck looks like a hockey puck with a USB cable. It's got a Stirling Engine inside that operates on the temperature difference between a hot or cold drink placed on top of it and the ...

The Hand iPhone Case is totally impractical and not really a case. But it's absolutely fantastic! You can choose between an adult or child-sized hand. (via Gadget Lab)...

We've all played one of those arcade "claw" games where a mechanical lobster claw is rigged to let go of prizes. But have you ever played with the prizes being live lobsters? [The Atlantic]...

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has chosen Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson (of "in Africa homosexuality is not countenanced" fame) as the next pope, reports the AP. Previously....

John Robb wants us to stop landscaping our lawns, and start foodscaping them -- growing food for our families. And he thinks the way to jumpstart it is for farmers to make house-calls. I love this ide...

From the @boingboing Instagram feed, my snap of a Silver Star ORP-1803 organ, radio, phonograph (c.1976) at Groove Merchant, SF....

Jack, a 13-year-old Jack Russell, is recovering after an operation to remove the $1.11 in pennies that he had eaten. [NY Daily News]...

An advertisement for sleazy clothing retailer Asos showed a man, the "Asossin", crushing another with Christmas decorations, pushing a radio into an occupied bathtub, and trapping a woman in a chest f...

The idiots who run Atlantic Beach, Florida, banned the flying of non-US flags, and even cited a Greek restaurant for displaying one. They have been told. [Reuters]...

Clever TV commercial for Le Trfle toilet paper by the Leo Burnett ad agency....

At Rock Paper Shotgun, John Walker hears from a "Maxis insider" who claims that Electronic Arts lied about how SimCity works in order to avoid the obvious solution to its launch troubles: disabling th...

Wired's Pete Brook talks with Dutch photographer David Galjaard, author of the 2012 Aperture Foundation/Paris Photo First Photobook Award-winning book Concreso, a photo-essay on the insane "bunkerizat...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Judge Scalia searches the Legislative Soul and finds that it SUCKS!...

Science funding in the U.S. fluctuates with the whims of Congress, and losing research dollars can mean shuttering a lab for good. So clever ocean scientists have found ways to save money (and time) b...

Kent sez, "Here's a travel hack that came to me all at once in a flash at SxSW this year: how to make cold-brewed coffee out of the horrible filter pack and inadequate equipment you often find in hote...

Robbo sez, "The Independent Filmmaker Project has a great post examining the nonsense which continues to surround Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most loved character, Sherlock Holmes (now 125 years old) , a...

Ara did a beautiful job decorating redditor phrenetiKz's motorcycle helmet with a monochrome, line-art Zelda motif. There's a wallpaper of the whole thing, too. Local redditor finished her Zelda artwo...

Rabbits are terrible at masking their joy. Really, truly awful. The eyes, the ears, the body language -- all are dead giveaways, but the real giveaway is in the hop. When a rabbit is happy, like so pu...

Hannah sez, "I've just recently finished working on a series of pugs in costumes They all turned out to resemble somebody. One looks just like the Queen, one like Hercule Poirot and one very much like...

David sez, "A quiet genius, jeweler John Paul Miller, recently passed away and a memorial service was held this past weekend in Cleveland. His jewelery is beautifully detailed and I thought the Boing ...

"One step onto the pocked section [of the golf course] and the 43-year-old mortgage broker plunged into a sinkhole." He survived. (Thanks, Matthew!)...

https://youtu.be/isrHUfFiNT A nice video from PBS that explains why the sky has color. Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might ...

Rob Cockerham says: "Because I have pictures of every fast food franchise's Drive Thru menu from 2002, I was able to take new drive-thru menu photos and compare the prices and layout of the new with t...

Stendahl Syndrome alert! This trailer for a documentary about sign painters made me swoon. There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and ev...

From North Korea's nonstop hit-making music machine: Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - "Our Factory's Girls." (Is there some kind of rule that says all music made in dictatorships shall be played on Hamm...

Hot off the electron gun: England My England: Anglophilia Explained, a new ebook from our friend and frequent Boing Boing contributor, Mark Dery. It's published by Thought Catalog. Downton Abbey has b...

A Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that the producers of the musical "Jersey Boys" did not violate copyright law by using a clip from the Ed Sullivan Show in their production. They'd been sued by...

"I was reading this CNN article, and thought it needed some context." [IMGUR via @rob_sheridan]...

Mexican scientists involved in bio- and nanotechnology have become death threat targets over the past two years. It's not the narcos who want them dead, but "a group of bomb-building eco-terrorists wi...

Hiroko Tabuchi at the Times reports that Japan has successfully extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, also referred to as flammable ice. The breakthrough is hailed as a possible ste...

Guys, during the papal conclave in the Sistine Chapel, alternating puffs of black and white smoke emerge after the voting, "coming from a copper flue jutting from the chapel roof." But nobody outside ...

Mike Davis and Henry Lewis, two hyper-talented tattoo artists and painters from the Bay Area, are showing new works at San Francisco's Varnish Fine Art gallery. I've followed Mike's work since we knew...

Special effects artist Kevin McTurk has a fully subscribed kickstarter for The Mill at Calder's End, a Victorian ghost movie starring 30" puppets guided by pairs or trios of puppeteers all in black. T...

Sean and Steph Mayo created an exquisite series of LEGO bugs for the "Creepy Crawly" category in the 2013 MocAthalon building competition. See them all in this Flickr set. (Thanks, Jake Dunagan!)...

Clam Lynch is a wildly-creative artist and actor...and therefore terminally broke. Hes also a dad who is trying to raise enough cash to move from San Francisco to Utah to help his daughter Eloise get ...

WeedMaps (think Yelp for cannabis dispensaries) has been producing video reviews of cannabis and its derivatives. I enjoyed watching this video, in which a cannabis sommelier name Gil reviews "The Rap...

The Upsetters' Kung Fu Meets the Dragon is a sublime 1975 dub masterpiece laden with Lee "Scratch" Perry's studio magick and a martial arts movie mindset. And it's now available from Sunspot Records o...

A beautiful video of sound curiously affecting a stream of water....

Bus driver Alexei Volkov, aka "The Punisher," is famous in Russia for exacting revenge on the rude drivers in the city of Zelenograd by simply not slowing down when they cut him off. Volkov claims to ...

My latest Guardian column is "What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM," a response to the Web inventor's remarks about DRM during the Q&A at his SXSW talk last week. Additionally, all DR...

Hes right, Jack Nicholson chimed in. Groucho, that stuff is classic. Listen to your grandson. Let them send the reels to you....

These images compare rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars. On the left is " Wopmay" rock, in Endurance Crater, Meridiani Planum, as studied by the ...

Carolyn Porco, who is the Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of CICLOPS in Boulder, CO, writes: Cassini's very last targeted flyby of Saturn's moon, Rhea, occurred this past weekend, and images ...

"A KEY CHANGE: The best weapon to make any song that much more epic."...

Streaming video is one of the holy grails of torrent-style distribution systems, where everyone who requests a file from a server is directed to other downloaders who have already received pieces. Thi...

College student asks if he can play piano for Billy Joel and Joel says OK. The results are fabulous!...

Here's a 20-page preview of Other Stuff, a 144-page anthology of Peter Bagge's collaborative comics, in which Bagge wrote scripts illustrated by Daniel Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, Robert Crumb, Adrian ...

Popehat's Ken White attended a hearing in United States District Court Judge Otis D. Wright II's California courtroom. Judge Wright is the judge most likely to put a halt to the astounding shenanigans...

Ed Belbruno is a mathematician who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1980s. While he was there, he devised a way to use chaos theory to help change the course of spaceships and put sat...

"You can say anything you want in a press release". Sadly, that sentiment is too true. Turns out, recent reports of the discovery of previously unknown bacteria in samples hauled up from the waters of...

Using old Soviet Union techniques, Ukrainian scientists trained dolphins to attack and kill swimmers using knives and guns strapped to the heads of said dolphins. Like you do. Today, the dolphins esca...

Today, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that I co-founded and of which Im on the board, has published an audio recording of Bradley Mannings speech to a military court from two wee...

From the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Facebook page, here are two lobsters doing it — apparently in the missionary position. But looks can be misleading. What's actually going on here ...

In 2011, the Pagami Creek Fire burned through 92,000 acres of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. At Outside magazine, Frank Bures tells the story of two kayakers caught in the inferno. Includes s...

The New York Times has a story on problems with the treatment of ovarian cancer that holds lessons for many aspects of modern medicine. The big issue here: Local doctors, even local specialists, might...

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

We're going about this feud all wrong says Matt Novak, who blogs about techno-history at Paleofuture. "The question is not: Who was a better inventor, Edison or Tesla? The question is: Why do we still...

Last week, I wrote about Random House's new all-digital imprints, which offered terrible contractual terms. After a week of bad publicity, Random House has significantly improved its contract, as you ...

VIDEO: Leaked audio recording of Bradley Manning describing his response to the July 12, 2007 Baghdad Apache airstrike video that documented the killing of two Reuters journalists. By Laura Poitras an...

I discovered the work of Philip José Farmer when I was 12 or 13 years old. (I just reordered Image of the Beast to see if it's as bizarre and entertaining as I thought it was when I read it at ag...

Maryland State Senator J.B. Jennings (R) has introduced Senate Bill 1058, The Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013, which is aimed at ending the incredibly stupid "zero tolerance" policies that re...

Daniel Kraus's previous book, Rotters, was an outstandingly gross and delightful young adult novel about a kid who discovers that his dad is a grave-robber, and part of an ancient, mystic fraternity o...

(Thanks to SoundCloud for hosting Boing Boing's podcasts!) Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games...

Philippe Sands, a professor of international law and prominent practicing lawyer, has resigned from the UK Liberal Democrats party. He is the third well-known party member to leave the LibDems this mo...

Remember Katie Fisher? She was the 24 year old who was killed crossing the street by a driver who ran a red light, only to have Progressive Insurance -- her own insurance company -- pay to defend her ...

A list of principles for the 21st century, from Joi Ito, presently running the MIT Media Lab: Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this: 1. Resilience instead of strength, whic...

Bunnie Huang's seminal book "Hacking the Xbox" is now a free PDF, released thus by the author in honor of Aaron Swartz. "Hacking the Xbox" is the "Our Bodies, Our Selves" of reverse engineering -- a b...

Things Organized Neatly is a Tumblr devoted to excellent knolling photos in which things are, well, organized neatly. Zomg, but this tickles something vulnerable in my hindbrain. Show here: a RepRap (...

Several years ago I needed about half a dozen tools for a series of workshops I was hosting. I needed a hand tool that could safely and easily shape plastic and thin sheet metal, but not break the ban...

Ken Layne takes us on a tour of weird, possibly espionage-related Twitter accounts, from a "numbers station" that has tweeted 318,000 hexadecimal numbers since 2009 (possibly from Khabarovsk), to a "j...

Gawain Lavers shot this short video of El Pulpo Mecanico at Pier 15 in San Francisco. It was part of the festivities to celebrate the grand re-opening of The Exploratorium....

Gmoke sez, "Former Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva and recent Green Party Presidential candidate (she came in third to force a run-off election) launched the Sustainability Network in Bras...

BoomCase transforms classic old luggage (and lunch boxes) into one-of-a-kind, er, artisanal amps/speakers that run on batteries and accept any audio input. The BoomCase (Thanks, Patrick!)...

Photo: Ngauruhoe Rise, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from astronomr (aka Jason Brown)'s photostream, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Another beautiful shot, showing ...

Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, "no smelly hippie," according to Wired News, believes the consequences of a warming planet are likely to cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the ot...

Adweek reports that YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is working on some kind of collaborative video startup, possibly to rival YouTube, sort of. He left the company in 2010; since then, the company has ...

Two Bedouin women, Rafea Al Raja and her aunt Seiha Al Raja (Um Bader), returned from a six-month solar engineering training at the Barefoot College in India as 'solar engineers' to start a training c...

A state judge has blocked New York City's ban on large soft drinks in restaurants, movie theaters and other establishments. Calling New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban "arbitrary and capriciou...

David Carr invited some "media geeks" to tell jokes, for a video played during Carr's talk at SXSW yesterday. Xeni has a brief cameo....

The "Alien Egg Enclosure" is a huge, inflatable egg based on Giger's Alien, as featured in the Ridley Scott movies. It's billed as a "masterstroke of total Sensory Deprivation" intended for BDSM play:...

Mike Mika's five-year-old daughter wanted to play Donkey Kong as Princess Toadstool, so he hacked the ROM to effect the genderswap ....

On March 1, SpaceX ran a test launch of Dragon, the capsule in which it hopes to someday transport human beings into space. Dragon was due to connect with the International Space Station, but very qui...

My goodness, but the Ice Cream Colors in this 1949 Puritan Sportswear ad look sytlishly delicious. Not entirely puritanical, either. Dairy Contest...

Who is Harry Stamps? Excellent question. He was the dean of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, but, as his excellently written and tear-inducing obituary explains, he was also "a ladies man, fo...

Say you're a marine biologist and you want to study the little bitty creatures of the sea — shrimps and worms and things like that. How do you go about capturing them? Why, with an underwater va...

The 52 Hertz Whale is the cetacean equivalent of a pop-culture phenomenon — a strange creature, known only through recording of whale songs picked up in the Pacific Ocean, who seems to not be a ...

Atherosclerosis is what happens when your arteries fill up with layers of fat and white blood cells. It's a disease of chronic inflammation that increases your risk of stroke and heart attack. It's al...

Sixty feet under the Gulf of Mexico lie the remains of an 50,000-year-old forest. Diver and photographer Ben Raines took some amazing photos of the site and sent samples of the trees — which sti...

A neat project by David Hirmes: The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity. Sentences from Project Gutenberg and Twitter that start with two words: "I saw..." You can view only Gutenberg, or only Twit...

The Independent reports that the Vatican has purchased Europe's largest gay sauna. Best conclave ever....

The entirety of the wonderful 1972 Tales from Muppetland special Muppet Musicians of Bremen is on YouTube is six parts....

Two new videos to raise money and awareness for the ongoing plight of victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan....

Last week, I posted about a YouTuber who thinks his he might have tricked his cat with an optical illusion that's based on very human psychology. He asked other people to test the illusion on their ca...

How can you not love a book of projects with instructions that begin with lines like this: "Provide a bladder, into the orifice of which is inserted a metal tube?" Endless Amusement (Via Lawrence Wilk...

"Queen Bee" is a new painting by Mark Ryden that will be sold in a benefit auction for the World Wildlife Fund. Magnificent. (via Arrested Motion)...

The Society of Illustrators in New York is holding a panel discussion on 3/19/2013 about MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman, with Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth. It will be modera...

National Geographic's has launched an excellent Tumblr of archived photos, called National Geographic Found. No, this isn't last year's Folsom Street Fair but rather a shot of some gents in London fro...

Celebs unite with Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, calling for governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking for gas in New York....

I can't wait to show Ursus Wehrli's book, The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy, to Jane because her mind works this way. Here's a photo of her dinner place setting when she was five. Is there ...

Redditor Volpinazzurra made her own reversible hoodie inspired by the hero of the indie-game smash Journey. Alas, the labor that went into this makes it uneconomical for wider production and sale ("it...

Nate Anderson's long Ars Technica piece on RATters -- men who use "Remote Administration Tools" to spy on others, mostly women, via their laptop cameras, and to plunder their computers for files and p...

Various politicians -- MPs and former MPs from Iceland and Tunisia, two Pirate Party MEPs from Sweden -- have nominated Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Anyone can nominate anyone else for t...

A German startup called Nanoscribe says it will ship a nanoscale 3D printed in the second quarter of 2013, and that its device will run 100 times faster than similar devices currently in the market: T...

Just saw this at SxSW and it is AMAZING. Solid aluminum chassis, very precise, and the things it prints are awesome. Back it!...

Thanks to Soundcloud for hosting Boing Boing's podcasts! This is episode 3 of Boing Boing's newest podcast, Tell Me Something I Don't Know. It's an interview podcast featuring artists, writers, filmma...

Fond as I am of white chocolate, mochas and Ghirardelli's Double Chocolate Premium Beverage Mix, their White Mocha Premium Beverage Mix sounded promising. Drinking this stuff was a profoundly bad ide...

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In an ad for cold cream facial cleanser they use 'slightly' radioactive dirt on a young woman's face to test which cleanser works the best. Complete with geiger counter clicks. Gotta love the innocenc...

This blooper reel shows off the motion-capture fidelity used to make the Rockstar Games title L.A. Noire ....

AUSTIN—The knight who invented the World Wide Web came to SXSW to point out a few ways in which we're still doing it wrong. Tim Berners-Lee's "Open Web Platform: Hopes & Fears" keynote hopsc...

AUSTIN—The knight who invented the World Wide Web came to SXSW to point out a few ways in which we're still doing it wrong. Tim Berners-Lee's "Open Web Platform: Hopes & Fears" keynote hopsc...

German fashion brand URB sells a series of "melting" hosiery -- tights and socks -- that appear to be running down your legs. URB Home (via Kadrey)...

Carrianne Bullard made this teaset out of the wings and legs of cicadas. It's got a lovely Silence-of-the-Lambs meets Tinkerbell vibe. Carrianne Bullard (Object Cicada wings, legs) (via Bruce Sterling...

The environment ministry in China recently told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn't have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a "state secret." The incident amplified already...

The Boston Globe today broke the news that administrators at Harvard University secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, in an attempt to determine the source of "a leak t...

Elliot Noss sez, I thought you'd be interested in something we are helping with at SXSW this weekend. a group of folks are taking advantage of unlicensed radio spectrum to provide high-speed backhaul ...

In an article that reads an awful lot like an Onion parody, Politico reports that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) "is well known for pulling a flip phone out of his pocket and pretending to hold a conv...

In an article that reads an awful lot like an Onion parody, Politico reports that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) "is well known for pulling a flip phone out of his pocket and pretending to hold a conv...

"I'm a 31-year-old, fifth-generation Mormon (member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) from Salt Lake City, Utah and I love video games." Skip Cameron, in a guest post at Kotaku. He s...

Billionaire Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, bought most of the Hawaiian island of Lanai in 2012. So far this year, his luxury yacht and its attendant staff have spent most of their time at p...

Larry Ellison, billionaire and CEO of Oracle Corporation, bought 98% of the land on the Hawaiian island of Lnai last year. In 2013, his 288-foot, four floor luxury superyacht "Musashi" and its attenda...

In an article that reads an awful lot like an Onion parody, Politico reports that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) "is well known for pulling a flip phone out of his pocket and pretending to hold a conv...

Rose Fox sez, Daniel Jos Older and I are thrilled to be co-editing LONG HIDDEN, an anthology of speculative fiction from the margins of history. It's a crowdfunded project; we've already made our init...

A fanciful post to Thingiverse from 3DTOPO allows you to print out your own version of Arthur Ganson sculpture Machine with Concrete , a system of wormgears that produces a gear-ratio of 244.14 quinti...

I’ve been using this stylus like crazy and I am in love! It’s a touch sensitive stylus for drawing and painting on the iPad which works incredibly well. Because of its touch-sensitive capa...

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 is an ancient law that governs the privacy of the files you keep on servers, including your webmail and other private stuff. The 1986 law assum...

Swiss social psychologist Bertolt Mayer views 'Rex', a two metre tall artificial human, at the Science Museum in central London February 5, 2013. Mayer, a who uses a prosthetic hand himself, was used ...

Yuri Gagarin on BBC TV, July 11 1961....

An en banc (all the judges together) decision from the 9th Circuit has affirmed that you have the right to expect that your laptop and other devices will not be forensically examined without suspicion...

My new ambient-sound-while-working internet radio jam: Brazilian Birds. (Photo: Toucan eye, a Creative Commons image from doug88888's photostream)...

"He started off painting dogs. I think he said he painted 50 dogs," says painting teacher Bonnie Flood of her student, George W. Bush. "He pulled out this canvas and started painting dogs and I though...

Two cat portraits shared in the BB Flickr Pool by reader __AK__....

Photo: Tesla Concert 3, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from Tau Zero's photostream, shared in the BB Flickr Pool. "A concert on the engineering quad, University ...

Zack sez, "Brain Pickings has a selection of illustrations for Edward Gorey's little-seen take on H.G. Wells' classic tale of Martian invasion. It's every bit as creepy as you'd think." At the end of ...

Welcome to Your Awesome Robot is a fantastic book for maker-kids and their grownups. It consists of a charming series of instructional comics showing a little girl and her mom converting a cardboard b...

Dan sez, "The BBC have produced a radio play of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere with a host of great British actors. Sounds exactly like you want it to sound."...

FabCafe, a 3D printed confectioner in Shibuya, Tokyo, is offering nine lucky blokes the chance to have their bodies 3D scanned and rendered in gummi, the most wondrously magical of all the edible subs...

Jeff Simmermon tells Boing Boing, A few years ago, you guys blogged about my zombie robot Elvis bust - thought you guys would appreciate this poster I made out of it to promote 'And I Am Not Lying' (t...

For International Woman's Day, Africa-focused NGO Mama Hope has released a timely video PSA on the women's art of netball....

Happy Mutant (and EFF-Austin co-founder) Jon Lebkowsky has a great piece in the new Austin Chronicle about Aaron Swartz, privacy, copyright, and the future of computers: It's an odd predicament, seein...

Anita Sarkeesian has released the long-awaited first installment in her new, improved "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series. "Damsels in Distress," and is a smart, well-researched, wonderfully prese...

Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson wrote a terrible obit for Huge Chavez, writing Chavez invested Venezuelas oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benef...

Many years ago I watched a standup comic on television explain that the President of the United States has no more control over the country than the bulldog hood ornament on a Mack Truck has in contro...

Here's a slow, gentle, fascinating demonstration video for the Wedgetail slide-on camper, "built for rough Australian terrain." It's a pretty amazing feat of engineering....

Toronto's living shitshow of a mayor, Rob "Laughable Bumblefuck" Ford, is back in the headlines. Sarah Thomson, the publisher of The Women's Post, who ran against Ford in the last election, claims tha...

Jake Mohan's account of getting the plumbers in to repair a ghastly backed-up basement drain is a lovely, happy-ending tale of honest contractors, nice property developers, and the fascinating, invisi...

For the last two months, Viennese artist Andreas Franke has had a new show of photographs on exhibition near Barbados. Thing is, you needed to SCUBA dive to see them. The photos hung on the hull of th...

Every single thing on Sean Tejaratchi's blog is magnificent 'shoop genius. Twitter: @shittingtonuk....

Charlotte sez, It's International Women's Day today and the London Feminist Network (to whom I proudly belong) have organised the most awesome fundraising event for our conference later this year, a f...

Jill Filipovic wrote an opinion column for The Guardian yesterday, arguing against the practice of women taking their husbands' names when they get married. It ended up linked on Jezebel and found its...

Google's Tel Aviv office was designed by Camenzind Evolution with Setter Architects and Studio Yaron Tal. Office Snapshots has a bunch of Itay Sikolski's photos. Inside The New Google Tel Aviv Office ...

The latest episode by ASAP Science from biologists Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explains why we age....

This table, from Nick Dearden, does a sweet expanding trick....

This wonderful opener from a story in Weird Worlds #25 (1954) reminds me of the great 1988 scifi flick They Live. (Via X-Ray Delta One)...

I had a rough week, this week. I came back from a transformative, restorative trip to Hawaii, where I did lots of creative work for Boing Boing and for personal projects. The morning after my flight ...

NYC has a law prohibiting "loitering for the purposes of engaging in a prostitution offense" which lets cops arrest whomever they feel like, on the strength of their conviction that the person is prob...

This drug-abuse PSA from 1972 fascinated me as a kid. It's much better than any contemporary PSA about drug abuse. (Via World's Best Ever)...

The Pyrobar, a roving, flaming, booze-dispensing art-car that's a staple of Burning Man, is nearing the end of its Kickstarter, and needs to raise another $4,000 or so in maintenance funds to help ref...

Allison R. Dobson, Digital Publishing Director of Random House, has written an open letter to the Science Fiction Writers of America responding to the warning it published about Hydra, a new imprint w...

Glenn Fleishman, in his first cover story for The Economist, tracks how technology is making it easier to share everything from bicycles to basement bedrooms—for a price. Such peer-to-peer renta...

Jason Schrier at Kotaku reports EA's latest effort to get SimCity working involves removing "non-critical" features of the always-online game: "Hey, remember when video games came out and then you cou...

Big Data is a new book from Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, a respected Internet governance theorist; and Kenneth Cukier, a long-time technology journalist who's been on the Economist for many years. As the...

The UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds hits shelves on April 12, but we're having a sneaky early release at Forbidden Planet in London on Mar 23 at 1PM. Tell your friends! (I'm pretty sure that Forbid...

Michael Geist sez, "If someone wants to post a quote from Selley or anything else written by the National Post, they are now presented with pop-up box seeking a licence that starts at $150 for the Int...

Six police officers in Boston who were fired after testing positive for cocaine use will be reinstated, with back pay, now that a state board has struck down the science of hair testing for drugs as u...

DIY.org is a site and app that encourages kids to make things. It also lets them share their projects and earn achievement badges. They've just released a few new videos that show some of the kids who...

Dutch photographer Jan Banning's book "Bureaucratics" is a collection of amazing photos of bureaucrats on five continents, each posed at his or her desk, in her or his office, with notes about rank an...

Pretty sure nobody died, but not positive....

In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published today, George Lucas more or less spilled the beans: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will reprise their roles as Hans Solo, Luke Skywa...

Who designed the WikiLeaks logo? According to this Metahaven interview, a designer named Aka. She created the WikiLeaks hourglass in 2006, and her story is most interesting. MH: How did the idea for t...

PBS Digital Studios profiled Ralph Baer, the “Father of Video Games” Ralph Baer’s inventing career began following a two-year service in the military during World War II. Returning h...

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Beach House video for "Wishes" directed by Eric Wareheim...

LA architecture historian Chris Nichols says: "I am hosting an evening with Disney legend Bob Gurr next Wednesday at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. Bob designed the Monorail, Autopia, Flying Saucers, ...

"Our team has delivered the vibe of a coffee shop right to your desktop, which means when your workspace just isn't quite cutting it, we've got you covered." Coffitivity promises "Enough noise to work...

The new Beach House video for "Wishes" was directed by Eric Wareheim and features Ray Wise....

This ad was published in the year I was born, 1970. It's funny how unapologetically sexist so much marketing was, back then. These plastic plates "won't get tired or confused" like a dumb old woman al...

"A bit of gossip." Scanned and shared on Flickr by Alan Mays, whose photo stream is full of wonderful old ads and ephemera from the 20th and 19th century US....

You can help! Try tricking your cat with this same illusion for the edification of the Internet....

If you want to learn about your family tree, you're probably better off doing the work of compiling history than getting a $500 DNA test....

The Chinese Giant Salamander is mesmerizing....

Tired of measuring your relative pessimism/optimism by half-empty and half-full glassware? Try this new method, courtesy herpetologist Michael Dorcas. Read the following quote, then decide — is ...

Kenneth Cukier was on NPR this morning talking about the new book he wrote with Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think." It sounds fascinatin...

I've covered Prenda Law off and on here for quite some time; they're the sleazy "law firm"/copyright trolls who use the courts to get the names and addresses of people whom they allege have downloaded...

Googling what ails you sounds like a good and empowering idea — until you run into barren fields of Yahoo Answers, swamps of misinformation peddled by charlatans, and orchards of seemingly usefu...

Earlier today, in a feature on the science behind gun policies, I told you about how difficult it is to get reliable answers that pinpoint exactly what helps society and what hurts it. Models — ...

Over at The Verge, our pal RU Sirius writes about the history of "cypherpunk," a term coined in 1992 by legendary hacker St. Jude Milhon (RIP), and now used by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the ...

Opening tomorrow at Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery, a joint show of beautiful, weird, and dreamy/nightmarish oil paintings by Peter Ferguson and Seamus Conley. Above, Ferguson's "The Opening Salvo of th...

I like the Exergen TemporalScanner because with a gentle stroke of the forehead, I can get a person’s temperatureaccurately and almost instantly — without having to stick something in thei...

At $425 each, this set of 3 will run you 3 X $425. (I suspect Warhol wouldn't have created his boxes had he been exposed to this design travesty instead of James Harvey's masterpiece.)...

NJ’s finest Beatles imitators, The Knickerbockers do their “Lies” hit Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds has done a great service for fans of garage rock psychedelia. He says: The ot...

Field Trip is a free iPhone app was developed in conjunction with our friends at Altas Obscura. I'm using it on an upcoming road trip from LA to Phoenix. Field Trip, your guide to the cool, hidden, an...

The next installment in the smashing SF in SF free San Francisco reading series is an event with Seanan McGuire, Amber Benson, and Sarah Kuhn, this Saturday. Doors open at 6, and it's free, though a d...

"The Tribune followed up this story on the very next page with one on how the English aristocracy was turning into gorillas." Mars peopled by one vast thinking vegetable!...

Far Fuckin' Out. Above, one of the official movie posters for The Source Family documentary Pesco wrote about earlier. Here's a higher-rez version. I just got back from Hawaii, where I spent time with...

Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, this 1950s Arby's sign was an icon of suburban life (before suburbia meant the former farmlands 40 minutes out from downtown.) In fact, just seeing this photo makes me ...

Can the origin of the "Peeing Calvin" be traced to this gorgeous 1870 French propaganda map? Joshua Glenn thinks it's possible! What is spiky-haired Sardinia/Corsica doing, with that evil grimace on h...

The FDA has approved OsteoFab, "a cranial maxillo-facial (CMF) plate for skull reconstruction which can be used to replace up to 75% of the skull."...

This reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Memento. A couple years ago, Redditor JoDiegoJo was hospitalized for a variety of unexplained symptoms — headaches, fever, vomiting, dehydration, an...

With all the hubbub around the reuniting of The Postal Service, Sub Pop has released this delightful footage of the band auditions from March 2002. Weird Al! Duff McKagan! Moby! Ben Gibbard? (Yes, I k...

According to this 1959 US Embassy document, it costs Rs.500 for a Yeti search expedition permit. You are allowed to photograph or capture a Yeti, but you are not allowed to kill one or shoot it "excep...

From Aerogramme Writers’ Studio, via Adafruit. My favorite is #13: "Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yoursel...

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik creates exquisite paper cuts from recycled comic books. Much of his work incorporates Jewish mystical and cultural themes. Above, "Live Long and Prosper" (20" x 16", mixed medi...

Pastor Davis may know a lot about perverted, distorted sex, but he doesn't know that "it's" is a contraction for "it is" (or "it has"). (Via this isn't happiness)...

Yesterday, I blogged about the awful contracts on offer from Random House's new Hydra imprint, which runs like a scam vanity-press, paying no advances, seizing all rights and charging normal publisher...

An early opportunity in the 1950's to visit the New York Times' press bureau in Hong Kong sends John Wilcock on his first trip around the world....

Part 2 of Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak? The town of Macap is in the north of Brazil, on the coast, where the Amazon River flows into the Atlantic. On December 5th, 2001, Sir P...

Gregory sez, "Jonathan Cresswell delivers a perfect, succinct review of the new DRM crippled Sim City that will make you feel like you played the game." SimCity, of course, requires an always-on netwo...

Derek Khanna writes that a more permanent solution is needed to the underlying legal mess, "ensuring consumer rights, protecting small businesses, and fostering innovation." [The Atlantic]...

"The endless universe of spiders"...

Congrats to Sugru, the wonderful, maker-ish polymer fix-it clay, on the news that it's been picked up for distribution at 300 B&Q stores across the UK!...

The makers of Dove have taken their 'Real Beauty' campaign against P-shopped models into the realm of hacktivism....

Apparently DHS checkpoints nowhere near the border are a new thing. This guy has been videotaping his encounters and his polite refusal to answer questions....

Scientists tie vortex rings (smoke rings, basically) into knots using 3D printed wings. Includes high speed video, also in 3D....

Last month I had the great pleasure of singing "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" with Richard Sherman at his home....

Etsy seller GimmCat makes multihued wigs with integrated unicorn horns (tails and assorted ponyana as well): "This sale is for the mischievous Snips style My Little Pony costume wig for cosplay, fanta...

"Built of Books" is a series of sculptures from Dutch artist Frank Halmans -- houses carved out of blocks of stuck-together books. dutch artist frank halmans explores themes of domesticity and memory ...

Marc from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sez, "The Electronic Privacy Information Center has published a petition to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, demanding the suspen...

David Wondermark" Malki ! sez, "We've taken the Machine of Death concept [ed: a wildly successful independent anthology of stories about a world where a machine can accurately forecast your date of de...

This morning David and I spoke with with Carrie Brownstein: musician, writer, actor. She's a founding member of the bands Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag, and the co-creator, co-writer, and co-star of Po...

A few excerpts from Harry Stanley's 1945 book The Gag Bag, which features suggested patter for would-be magicians: Of course, I never dare let my people know I was a magician. It would shock them. The...

From the Mankato Free Press, of Minnesota. Oops. [Romenesko]...

My latest novel Homeland just hit the New York Times bestseller list for the fourth week running. That is all....

Attorney General Eric Holder won't rule out a scenario in which a drone strike could be ordered against American citizens on domestic soil, but says it has never been done previously and he could only...

Bad news for all inhabitants of the planet from which you're reading this blog post: data gathered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, show that the amount of ...

When Canadian Museum of Nature paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski dug up what turned out to be camel bones in a High Arctic ridge in Canada, she recalls thinking: This is something kind of off the char...

A major piece at the Guardian out today: recently-disgraced General David Petraeus and veterans of America's dirty wars in Central America are revealed to be behind Iraq commando units implicated in d...

Car maker Volvo will release a cyclist detection feature on new cars, to help prevent fatal accidents. Automobiles with the new system "will be able to detect threats including a cyclist suddenly swer...

Image: Goddess of phone calls, from x-ray_delta_one's photostream. Artist: Alonzo Earl Foringer (American, 1878-1948) an illustrator based in New Jersey. A quick Google reveals that this piece was kno...

Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is the a documentary about a teenage boy who finds himself through punk rock, zines, and comics and loses himself to schizophrenia....

All three of the new limited edition Lamborghini Venenos produced for sale have been pre-ordered, but I'm going to keep my eyes out at CarMax. (Motor Trend)...

Here's a quick fun video showing how to do the coin knuckle roll....

From our friends at surreal clothier Imaginary Foundation, Panel Tees with high-res sublimated graphics on the front and back!...

Writer beware. According to an email from the Science Fiction Writers of America, Random House has launched an imprint called "Hydra" with all the hallmarks of a sleazy, scammy vanity-press: no advanc...

This is alarming, if true: according to a group of German security researchers at the University of Erlangen, if you put a locked, encrypted Android phone in the freezer for an hour and then quickly r...

Available from curiosity collector and reseller Invisible Brooklyn, this hotter than hell antique tin of chili powder. It's full too....

Carrie Fisher interviewed in Palm Beach Illustrated: Disney is going to continue the Star Wars saga, producing movies set to hit theaters starting in 2015. Can you confirm whether youll reprise the ro...

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age." Dazed and Confused is 20 years old!...

Medieval Europe is generally known for its animosity toward actually testing things out, favoring tradition over experimentation and earning a reputation as being soundly anti-science. In particular, ...

There is no such thing as "left brained" or "right brained". You really and truly cannot break down rationality and creativity in that way. And that's not the only thing we all think we know about the...

If you were horrifically fascinated (horrafinated?) by the sinkhole that swallowed Floridian Jeff Bush and his entire bedroom a week ago, you might be interested in some sinkhole science. The US Geolo...

Incredible face-melting psychedelia of Khun Narin Phin Sing from the Phetchabun Province in Thailand....

Pando is 80,000 years old. Pando is grove of aspen trees in Utah. Tremble before Pando....

The Red Ferret tried out AnyGlove, a capacitive gel you can apply to your gloves or other clothing -- once coated, your cloth can be used to operate a touch-screen....

The Red Ferret tried out AnyGlove, a capacitive gel you can apply to your gloves or other clothing -- once coated, your cloth can be used to operate a touch-screen....

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Captain Obama must navigate tense budget battles and tricky science fiction references in an exciting episode of "STAR SE-TREK-STER."...

Just what the headline says. Watch it burn....

Mention the word "voguing" to people, and generally their first reaction will be "strike a pose, there's nothing to it". A dance fad made popular by Madonna in the early Nineties, voguing faded into o...

Recently, I linked you to a report on the World Health Organization's estimates of the long-term risk of cancer and cancer-related deaths among people who lived nearest to the Fukushima nuclear plant ...

The Van Allen Belts are donut-shaped rings of radioactive particles that encircle the Earth. They can damage satellites and pose a bit of a risk for human astronauts who venture outside our planet's p...

In a rare, welcome moment of sanity, the TSA has announced that it will allow small knives, golf clubs, hockey sticks, wiffle bats, and similar items on planes. Given that you are allowed to bring on ...

I was on CBC Radio 1's Day 6 last weekend, talking about some of the reasons why scientists can't answer key questions about guns — whether current gun policies do anything to reduce violent cri...

The Lost Lectures are fascinating presentations given in secret locations around London and Berlin. If you sign up, you can get tickets (and the hush hush info) necessary to see them live — or y...

There's a war on in America, pitting invasive ant against invasive ant in a fight to the finish. It's sort of like Alien vs. Predator, in a way, because whoever wins ... we lose. Argentine ants (the r...

Austin sez, Last year the Librarian of Congress made it illegal to unlock your cell phone by changing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This can lead to exorbitant costs to consumers traveli...

The author, with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Sunday marks the most important date for all Tibetans; those inside Tibet as well as those in diaspora across the globe. March 10 is Tibetan Uprising Day,...

There's a whole gallery of these eerie, psychedelic penguins at Wired, part of Nadia Drake's article about new research based on infrared thermal imaging. Strangely, researchers found that the exterio...

Minnesota Public Radio is hosting a live Science Night on May 21st in St. Paul, featuring John Grotzinger, the head of the NASA Curiosity mission. And I get to join him on stage to talk about outer sp...

Ken Macleod's amazing dystopian novel Intrusion is out in paperback today. Here's my review from last March: Ken MacLeod's new novel Intrusion is a new kind of dystopian novel: a vision of a near futu...

Amelia Andersdotter Pirate member of the European Parliament and members of European Digital Rights call for support and donation on the last day of the Parltrack fundraising campaign....

Austin sez, Last year the Librarian of Congress made it illegal to unlock your cell phone by changing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This can lead to exorbitant costs to consumers traveli...

Full circle, guys. Created by Olde Payphone, a sketch comedy group from Los Angeles....

"Aaron Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But the people who knew him best saw a darker side." A masterful profile of the late activist, through the testimony of many who loved him, written by Larissa ...

Dawn on Saturn is greeted across the vastness of interplanetary space by the morning star, Venus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and director ...

Adam sez, "The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online. We've been featured on Boing Boing bef...

Kaki King's new album is a masterpiece of layered, melodic guitar, with accompaniment by a string quartet. It's her best work ever....

MakieLab, the 3D-printed toy company my wife Alice founded, has just shipped its first tablet-based doll-builder: the Makies Doll Factory! We think designing Makies with fingers feels really cool, lik...

On Naked Capitalism, The Unknown Transcriber has transcribed the full text of Lawrence Lessig's Aaron's Law talk, which was one of Larry's finest moments. So Aaron was a hacker. But he was not just a ...

When I wrote my book Made by Hand, I interviewed Peter Gray about the way kids learn. He's a research professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston College, and I found his ideas on unstructured...

Tailly is a tail that monitors your heart rate and reacts accordingly....

Wow. Four days without internet. That's been interesting! We've had quite an adventure thus far. Saturday AM we met 9 other Vanagons and headed south. It is an amazing group of people and we've fallen...

One can only sit on the DRM Chair eight times before it collapses....

Snippet from a Connecticut State Appropriations Committee hearing about a program to help students overcome shyness: 17-year-old-girl: "I am usually a very shy person, and now I am more outgoing. I wa...

Students at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Massachusetts created their own school for a semester. "What did it look like? No quizzes. No tests. No grades. Students created their own learnin...

Kia concept car 'Provo' reminds Irish of terror: "Lawmakers from Northern Ireland formally appealed Tuesday for the South Korean carmaker to junk the name of its planned super-mini sports coupe becaus...

ComicsBeat: "Artist Chris Sprouse, who would have been drawing controversial writer Orson Scott Card’s contribution to the upcoming Superman anthology Adventures of Superman, has stepped down fr...

My friend, the technology journalist Andy Ihnatko, traded in his iPhone 4s for a Samsung Galaxy S III. Here's the first of his "three-part epic" for TechHive in which he explains why he did it. I find...

Sound it Out # 43:Junip- Line of Fire (MP3) Junipis a band from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising of members Elias Araya, Tobias Winterkorn, and Jos Gonzlez. Though their first EP came out way back in 20...

On PaidContent, a trio of consecutive, incoherent, suspiciously similar comments sticking up for the NBC's plan to declare itself Lord High Executioner for the Internet are all revealed to emanate fro...

On IO9, Vincze Miklos rounds up some of the finest sovkitsch futuristic imagery from three 1970s issues of the Soviet YA technology magazine Youth Technics (1, 2, 3) and other sources, presenting a ga...

U.S. Senator and septuagenarian Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was a much-loved presence on Twitter, thanks to offbeat musings left refreshingly unpasteurized by PR hacks, political whips and the responses o...

Buckner & Garcia perform "Pac-Man Fever," from the 1982 album of the same name, on The Dick Clark Show....

Carly Rae Jepsen x Trent Reznor = "Call Me A Hole," by pomDeterrific. (shoop by Rob Beschizza)...

The Inspiration Mars team planning to send a couple on a fly-by mission to Mars in 2018 have an idea of how to protect the astronauts from cosmic rays on the long journey: pack the walls of the spaces...

Supercute! is my favorite band since The Flying Lizards. Here's their new song, "Love Love Leave Love." Previously: Supercute! plays Misty Mountain Hop on ukulele Supercute! "Dumb Dumbs" Supercute! vi...

John Mark Ockerbloom's "From Wikipedia to our libraries" is a fabulous proposal for creating research synergies between libraries and Wikipedia, by adding templates to Wikipedia articles that direct r...

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

I somehow missed the fact that Charlie "Black Mirror" Brooker's brilliant, sweary, hilarious show Weekly Wipe had returned for a third season....

Bob Harris has written a number of excellent travel pieces for Boing Boing. He's also a Jeopardy champion (his book about his experience, Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! is fantastic). ...

A pair of nice interviews about my new novel Homeland hit the Web today: this fun chat with Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda on the Washington Post, and this one with David Klein at Las Vegas City Life: Its about...

This video features celebrated science fiction authors speaking about the role of women in their writing....

Eric sez, "The Library of Congress recently withdrew the cell phone unlocking exception to the DMCA. In response, a 'We the People' petition was created to ask the White House to weigh in and push to ...

Prenda Law is the notorious, scandal-haunted copyright trolling lawfirm that represents various pornography producers, sending extortionate letters to people allegedly detected illegally downloading v...

James Gurney's paintings, drawings, and incredible hand-made models from his Dinotopia books series are on exhibit this month at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. From the soothing, restorative envi...

Robert Kaye sez, "Among the many standout cocktail-pouring robots on display this weekend at BarBot in San Francisco was Bartendro, the latest creation by Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael of Party Robot...

Harlem Shake is a bit February 2013 and all, but here's one more snippet: a great YouTube easter-egg. Wait for it. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

Our friend Amy Crehore is ArtSlant's Armory Arts Week Edition Featured Artist! She says: Armory Week is important to me because it is the 100th Anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show in NYC. That particu...

Pixelated Cowboy says: "I’ve put together a simple random monster generator! Two actually. A single colour version here and a three colour mix version here. I thought it could be fun for people ...

Aaron sez, "SXSW Create is a free and open to the public event during SXSW Interactive that will showcase local and national hackers, makers, and creators. It is a hands-on, interactive, and exciting ...

Kevin sez, "Lots of folks know about Stack Exchange, progenitor of StackOverflow.com, right? Well, two weeks after Aaron Swartz died, Harvard Law School published on the web all resources for their co...

Nacho Rojo is is photographer in Madrid, Spain. In this series, Rojo photographed the same two models posing as nine different fashion-following couples. (Via 22 words)...

In the New York Times article about my research on psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, novelist Michael Chabon referred to the doctor as Ahab, obsessed with the white whale of comics. Well, if Wertham was A...

In two weeks, Gizmodo and Boing Boing Gadgets alumnus Joel Johnson is going to be on the telly with a new gadget show. But there's one area of media that gadgets haven't yet conquered from the inside ...

Amanda Palmer's talk about "the art of asking" was one of Carla's favorites at TED2013. The video is now up and has been watched 750,000 times since it was posted a couple of days ago. Amanda Palmer c...

Many of you were intrigued by the $50 Ion IT34 portable USB turntable/cassette deck that I posted about a couple weeks ago. If you don't care about USB and have $700 or so to spend on your mobile viny...

A clip from the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs program on tanneries demonstrates the workings of a calculus-performing mechanical calculator....

Found next to a xerox machine: a cruel scavenger hunt score list. Includes "Stealing a homeless man's shoe: 10 pts," and "Video of pledges piggy-back racing on fat girls: 10 pts."...

In 2011, photographer Mark Laita created Sea, a book of stunning portraits of strange ocean creatures. Now comes Serpentine, in which Laita points his lens at a stunning series of snakes. Above, Rowle...

"Notion Motion" is Olafur Elisasson's gorgeous 2005 art installation based on the interaction of water, light, and the viewer of the work. It's an amazing work, but how do you install something like t...

Q Pop is holding an online Star Trek art sale with more than 100 piece most of which are less than $100! Above, Doug Gauthier's "Mugato" plushie ($100) and Peter Paul's "Uhura" watercolor ($50). "Beam...

Last week, "Inspiration Mars" announced its search for a male and female couple to do a Mars flyby mission, requiring the pair to spend 501 days alone together. Sailors/adventurers Deborah Shapiro and...

Ravi Fernando solves a Rubik's Cube while juggling....

More "tiny people" installation photos by Slinkachu, whose work is compiled in several books including the recent Global Model Village. The pieces featured above and below were commissions for "20 Yea...

For a mere $500 (which is truly a bargain here), Etsy seller Ramonpiper will make you a custom top-hat with a zoetrope inside it, whose moving images can be viewed through a porthole in its high cylin...

Etsy seller Oonacat makes custom fetish boots with hooves -- demon hooves, unicorn hooves -- that go for $900 a pair. Great for playing naughty podiatrist and agonized fetishist. There are also horns....

Emily is six, and her dad wants her to be independent. The local law, not so much. When he let her cross the street on her own, a cop picked her up and detained her and her dad for half an hour, befor...

Stephen Gough, England's "Naked Rambler", is back in jail after failing to abide by a court order to "at least cover his genitalia and buttocks." Gough, famous for walking the length of Britain naked,...

Matthew Matagrano, 36, a former inmate, was charged saturday with impersonating a New York Department of Correction investigator. The convicted sex offender inveigled his way into Manhattan Detention ...

A toilet paper maker has apologized for Biblical quotes, including the words of Jesus, which it "inadvertently" included on novelty wipes marketed in Scandinavia. "Bible verses do not belong on a roll...

A suspected burglar in Bradford, England, was arrested last week by Batman and subsequently charged with handling stolen goods. [Reuters]...

Enjoy the latest page of Elfquest. First time reader? Read the entire saga, free online....

Quinn Norton -- who was romantically involved with Aaron Swartz for a long time, and was also his close friend -- has written a brutal, honest, infuriating, and brave account of her dealings with Stev...

Another awesome score from this trip is the Hello Kitty Reversible 8" Plush: Hamburger, a plush Hello Kitty toy that inverts and forms a Hello Kitty hamburger. It's a thing, then it's another thing!...

Chris sez, "The oft-touted promise of 3D printing is of personalisation and customisation. There is an alternative use though which is that of mini and micro-manufacture, where production runs of thin...

My latest column for Locus, "Ten Years On," looks back on my first decade as a novelist, and speculates about what a difficult utopia might be, and announces my next novel project: And then I realized...

Austin Wilson and Neil Underwood from the North Carolina makerspace Fablocker invented a great, simple process for smoothing out 3D prints using evaporated nail-polish remover in a large jar. The...

The world got a little less beautiful after 1963's Wunda Weave carpets went out of vogue. 1963 Wunda Weve Carpets...

From "North Korea Has a Friend in Dennis Rodman and VICE." Not 'shopped; you can tell by the pixels. Argo 2.0? Former NBA star and noted weirdo Dennis Rodman told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos today...

Toysmith's Blooming Flower an incredibly clever little papercraft toy. It consists of a complex of folded and cut tissue paper, sandwiched between two plastic rods. When you open out these rods, the t...

A great post on Metafilter turned me on to "Twenty Four Standard Causes of Human Misjudgement," a classic 1995 speech by Charlie Munger...

It's right there in the Expanded Universe book series, says Chris Peterson, a research assistant in MIT's Center for Civic Media. It's a form of group communication. What's more, Peterson writes, if y...

You may have heard that Amazon is selling a "KEEP CALM AND RAPE A LOT" t-shirt. How did such a thing some to pass? Well, as Pete Ashton explains, this is a weird outcome of an automated algorithm that...

A post on Slashdot by Dangerous_Minds links to a parade of horrors with the new "Copyright Alert System" -- the voluntary six-strikes-and-you're-out copyright enforcement system that America's major I...

Rachel Bublitz's four year old Audrey wrote her first play: Characters: Scare People, F, very tall, wears a mask, growls, 18 years old. She goes to scare people school. She is an octopus monster with ...

AGBeat: "Neal Kurk (R), member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 1986 has recently sponsored HB 619-FN to make aerial photography illegal in their state." The proposed bill states: A...

I got side tracked by Dinseyland. On Thursday AM my traveling companion Jenny landed at LAX. She'd never been to the Magic Kingdom and we had a day to kill before heading to San Diego. What else could...

The government of Malaysia hired a US PR firm to pay conservative journalists to write articles critical of a opposition leader running on a pro-democracy platform for The Huffington Post, The Guardia...

Do you remember ACTA? It was a broad, Internet-destroying copyright treaty, negotiated with unprecedented secrecy (even Congress and the European Parliament were not allowed to know what was going on ...

At Time, Bryan Walsh reports on two pieces of news coming out of the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. First, the World Health Organization has released estimates of the health effects on t...

Yesterday morning, I flew the final leg of my 23-city book-tour. I was supposed to fly Kansas City -> Chicago -> Toronto, but the Kansas/Chicago flight was delayed, because United had scheduled the cr...

Uh-oh, Disney is releasing a rather nice line of Haunted Mansion memoribilia. There goes my bank-balance. Some highlights: The Hourglass: Ive wanted to make an hourglass for years, said Cody, who is a...

Every talk this week had a message that could help us shape our personal lives as well as the bigger world around us. I want to conclude my TED coverage with four talks that resonated most with me. Th...

I always bring a dead tree book with me on flights, because I need something to do in the time during which passengers are forbidden from using electronic devices. (I can't bear to sit quietly with my...

Stumbled across this while poking around Disney's California Adventure. Woody does a nice job of describing how the zoetrope works. It is beautiful....

PBS OffBook made this excellent 7-minute introduction to 3D printing. Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that ...

Shake is a whimsical robot from Inertial Labs that can make any 3-ingredient cocktail. The LED ice cubes are a nice touch! It is entered in the upcoming BarBot competition this weekend in San Francisc...

New in the Boing Boing Shop -- messenger bags featuring some of our favorite artists' work, including Ape Lad's Unizilla illustration and Mark Pawson's Demolish Serious Culture logo (which always has ...

Finally, the truth revealed....

This photo of Ringo Starr reminded me of the above painting by Frank Frazetta, which appeared on the back cover of MAD #90 in October 1964. I remember seeing it when I was about 12 years old or so, an...

Imagine strolling through New York's Central Park with earbuds, listening to music that changes its melody and emotion as you pass each statue, monument, pond, and play area. For instance, if you are ...

SpaceX's Dragon space capsule launched into space today, March 1, 2013, toward the International Space Station on its second cargo mission for NASA. It launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ...

Matt sez, "Ernie Gygax, son of Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax recently had a fire which destroyed his home. While he, his roommate and dog are fine all of his possessions including some very ...

I've been working and adventuring in Hawaii over the past few weeks, and my Twitter friend Jose Gonzalez says I should try this restaurant in Honolulu. I am so very down. The restauranteur's motto is ...

A Florida man is presumed dead after a sinkhole 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep opened up beneath his bedroom, at 11:00pm local time last night. Video here....

Colorado College students who are members of the school's ultimate frisbee team convinced the crew of a Frontier Airlines fight to let them do the "Harlem Shake." The FAA, the same killjoys who think ...

Yochai Benkler, in The New Republic, on an exchange that took place in a military courtroom in January during pre-trial hearings in the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks case: The judge, Col. Denise Lind, ask...

President Obama tried to drop a gratuitous nerd culture reference in a press conference about serious business, and blew it. He said earlier today he couldn't perform a Jedi mind meld on the GOP, an a...

A vast haul of dried caterpillars seized at Gatwick is "among the largest finds of its kind at the airport," reports a UK Border Force spokesperson. Hey, at least you know what won't be in next month'...

John Brownlee has a solution to the "big cat" problem now faced by OS X's marketing team, which has run out of cool ones to use as version titles...

After a delay of too many years, Steven Gould has penned another Jumper novel. Impulse picks up where the excellent Reflex left off, with Davy and Millie -- a couple who possess the power to teleport ...

Alexa O'Brien transcribed the statement that Pvt. Bradley Manning read to the court yesterday. Manning pleaded guilty to exfiltrating classified documents, but not to a more serious charge of aiding t...

Gary Korpan, the former mayor of Nanaimo, British Columbia, has declared victory over scurrilous stickers displayed by local residents. "The third of three of the core group behind the spreading of th...

Retro City Rampage, an oldschool-inspired game full of 21st century swagger and depth, has nonetheless been ported back to the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Kyle Orland: The final ROM City Ramp...

So you've got a yearning to code games, you've got a killer idea, and you want to work for yourself. What next? [Derel Wu]...

British diners shocked to find mystery horsebeef in their meals can take heart: South Africans have learned that their own burgers contain donkey. And then there's the giraffe meat in the antelope sna...

Belinda Goldsmith at Reuters: "Britain's government is selling vintage French wine at around 5,000 pounds a bottle ($7,500) in a bid to make its wine cellar self-funding."...

Glenn Fleishman got into a debate with someone on the Internet who is opposed to gay rights, yet is obsessed with gay sex. Goalposts move, reason melts, arguments fall in on themselves, and even the w...

Hey, Toronto! This is the last night of my 23-city, 29-day book-tour for Homeland, and I'm finishing the odyssey at the Merril Collection at 7PM. Come on out and send me home, because I am touring com...

"BigDog handles heavy objects."...

From Avi: "Ted Chiang will read selections from his work at the University of California, Riverside on Monday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Department of English conference room, HMNSS 2212"...

Part of the plot in Homeland revolves around "hidden services" on the Tor network. Now, a fan of mine in Norway called Tor Inge Rttum has set up a hidden service and stashed copies of all my books the...

"Scientists have connected the brains of lab rats, allowing one to communicate directly to another via cables. The wired brain implants allowed sensory and motor signals to be sent from one rat to ano...

Cast your vote now on Threadless for these Spock socks (called, predictably enough, "Spocks"). Leonard Nimoy called them "fascinating". Need I say more? Score Spocks | Threadless (via IO9)...

Army private Bradley Manning pleaded guilty on Thursday to 10 of the 19 total charges made by the US that he leaked unprecedented amounts of classified material to Wikileaks, the anti-secrecy organiza...

A pediatrician on CNN who co-hosts the CBS show The Doctors said something stupid and trans-hatey on the February 27 edition of CNN Newsroom. During a panel discussion about Coy Mathis, a trans girl s...

Boing Boing pal Jesse Thorn points us to a fun-sounding comedy/alt-culture cruise: The Atlantic Ocean Comedy & Music Festival, presented by MaximumFun.org, Splitsider and KCRW. Best url ever: boa...

Truthout reports: "The US Secret Service has refused to release its records on Aaron Swartz to Truthout. The agency claimed in a letter, sent to Truthout and a researcher in response to two separate F...

A Hyphen magazine short doc on the life of an Asian immigrant farmer in Silicon Valley....

Army private Bradley Manning pleaded guilty on Thursday to 19 of the charges the government brough, that he leaked unprecedented amounts of classified material to Wikileaks, the anti-secrecy organizat...

Macworld UK: Apple's iCloud email service deletes all emails that contain the phrase "barely legal teen" it was revealed today. (Via D.S. in BB G+)...

Griffin Technology, makers of a slew of iPhone accessories and other gear, just announced the Mouthstick, a capacitive touchscreen stylus for people who can't use their hands. It's $29.99....

A zombie's dream - an entire head made of brains! A pricey delicacy, though: 200,00 Skull Brain Porcelain by Emilio Garcia (Via This Isn't Happiness)...

Reason's Nanny of the Month video producer Ted Balakar says: Imagine a city forbidding un-related people from sharing a home in a residential neighborhood. That's what happened in Watertown, New York....

Reason's Nanny of the Month video producer Ted Balakar says: Imagine a city forbidding un-related people from sharing a home in a residential neighborhood. That's what happened in Watertown, New York....

Count me among the members of the cult of Evernote, a web service (with 50,000,000 users) that stores digital documents and makes them easy to find. I use it with my Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner ...

The Evil Mad Scientist folks have compiled an annotated bestiary of junk-mail envelopes that are camouflaged to look like important correspondence. It's a fascinating study in meatspace spam. Often ti...

An opinion piece by Chris Arnade on the asymmetry in pay (money for profits, flat for losses), which he describes "the engine behind many of Wall Streets mistakes" That asymmetry "rewards short-term g...

I use soft pencils and I bear down hard when I write. As a result, I have to resharpen the pencils frequently. A few years ago I came across this pocket-size two-hole pencil sharpener and now swear by...

Boing Boing is on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. Join us at the social network of your choice, or heck, all three of 'em....

Evan Shinners demonstrates how to play Bach's double manual keyboard music....

MAKE created this fun video that shows how to make realistic scars. Special Effects Scar Makeup Tutorial...

At last night's NME Awards in London, The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood performed The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?"...

Canadian artist Ian Baxter's "Animal Preserve" series from 1999 featured hundreds of stuffed animals "preserved" in liquid-filled jars neatly organized on shelves. (via FP)...

Basic science — the kind of research done for curiosity's sake, in order to better understand how parts of our world work — is the foundation of applied science — research that's aim...

Even when your eyeballs look still, they aren't still. Every time your heart beats, it creates almost imperceptible changes in your skin tone as blood moves through your body. Tall buildings and const...

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets aren't just weirdly-shaped forms of "white boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning [autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (...

The Atlantic has a fascinating photo gallery about the DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels. Homebrew explosives are the norm, as are catapults (Reuters photo above) and tele-operated machine guns control...

On February 20th, 1943, Dionisio Pulido watched as a crack in his farm field collapsed in on itself and began to vomit out ash, rock, and fire. The birth of Mexico's Parcutin volcano is a story I've h...

Pioneering sound/video collage artist Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010) is a 24-hour montage of appropriated film clips related to time....

Watch out, white America! Dark people are buying houses again. [via Slate]...

This is a fascinating problem that affects a lot of scientific modeling (in fact, I'll be talking about this in the second part of my series on gun violence research) — the more specific and acc...

Officials from the Peanut Corporation of America are being indicted for their roles in a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed at least nine people. It's rare for this kind of prosecution to actually h...

This amazing eye-teeth makeup job comes from Swedish makeup artist PsychoSandra, who has an awful lot of equally astonishing samples on her site: "Haha I thought it was a long time since I did somethi...

A year ago I lost a friend. On March 1st, 2012 Andrew Breitbart died but every day, I still see both his personal and mobile IM accounts online. They serve as a sad reminder of the loss of a man I wil...

Maggie Kuo and Charlie Storrar: "Kim Jong-un's own 1990s grunge style is curiously not among them." [wantchinatimes.com]...

Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to "10 lesser charges", and will read out a 35-page statement on the leak of diplomatic cables to Wikileaks and the motivations behind it, according to The Guardian'...

Over at the Boing Boing G+ Community, JollyOrc posted this useful tool: a ring that conceals a saw and a handcuff shim A useful tool for covert and undercover operators, those that travel abroad ...

Hey, Lawrence, KS! I'm giving the Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture tonight at Alderson Auditorium, University of Kansas Student Union at 730PM. Tomorrow, I finish the Homeland tour in Toronto, with a ...

The first "Six Strikes" notifications were sent out this week by Verizon and Comcast, and Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar got a copy....

Guinness World Records has recognized a 114-year-old Japanese woman, Misao Ookawa, as the worlds oldest. Ookawa, who turns 115 next week (becoming age-mate to 115-year old Jireomon Kimura, the world's...

Enjoy the amazing images at Into The Continuum, created with Mathematica. [via Waxy]...

An inquest found mice responsible for burns found on a dead 55-year-old woman in England, but was unable to determine the exact cause of death. Though the rodents nibbled through cabling and started a...

Phytoplankton — the microscopic, plant-like organisms that make up the base layer of the oceanic food chain — might be in serious trouble. A 2010 paper suggested that their numbers have de...

Rob, the host of Podcast411, says: A patent troll is out to kill off podcasting, or at a minimum critically wound it. This troll does have a patent on the whole podcasting process, despite the fact th...

Rob, the host of Podcast411, says: A patent troll is out to kill off podcasting, or at a minimum critically wound it. This troll does have a patent on the whole podcasting process, despite the fact th...

I was seriously considering saving this one for Bastille Day, as by some strange coincidence, Ive round up with 75-percent French speakers here (and for all I know, the fourth, a midwesterner may also...

Hey, Europe! David Byrne and St Vincent are taking their Love This Giant tour (the best gig I've seen in years) on the road to .eu all summer long. Here's a video of the show....

Today's TED2013 line-up was once again filled with amazing people with super-charged ideas and skills. I really cant pick any bests out of the bunch, but here are three talks that stood out for me. Bl...

The latest episode of the Engadget Show is about space, and it's terrific. It's co-hosted by Brian Heater, senior editor at Engadget and our own Comics Rack reviewer! We kick things off with a profile...