Articles by BoingBoing from October 2013

The German Pirate Party received whistleblower leaks showing that the German authorities were infecting peoples' computers with a virus tailored to allow wiretapping of Skype connections.  &...

David Hast sez, "Karger Publishing has released an important new translation of a foundational book in the history of science, the 16th century 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem' by Andreas Ves...

Some of the proposed enhancements to USB 3 would allow it to deliver a whopping 100W of power. There are some pretty great implications for this, including the ability to safely wire and re-wire room ...

James sez, "This is video of the first in a series of four talks Eben Moglen is doing on 'Snowden and the Future'.    ...

Dale Sproule writes, "My new book, Psychedelia Gothique, collects 16 horror/cross-genre stories that endeavor to re-envision the familiar from perception-bending new perspectives.   &nb...

Chris Lindland (who founded the awesome Betabrand writes, "I went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with my partner in kudzu crime, Anthony Jaffe, who now lives in Atlanta....

Well, that happened. via    ...

A new Snowden leak, detailed in the Washington Post, reveals that the NSA and the UK spy agency GCHQ placed taps between data-centers owned by Yahoo and Google, intercepting the entire data-flow betwe...

Whtbout2ndbrkfst's comparison of the covers of Girl's Life and Boy's Life magazines is awfully trenchant and sad. It'd be interesting to do this as a monthly series, and gauge how recurrant this pheno...

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The Simpsons is arguably the most successful television show in history. Inevitably, its global appeal and enduring popularity have prompted academics (who tend to overanalyze everything) to identify ...

LindseyB's starwars-dot-gif project accepts any line of dialog from Star Wars, locates the correct frames in the movie, and generates an animated GIF of that scenes, with subtitles.   ...

Emmanuel from 2600 Magazine sez, "HOPE X (the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference) is set for July 18-20, 2014 at the not-to-be-torn-down Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.   &nb...

"Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption.    ...

Our pal Syd Garon recommends Stephen Brophy's 82-page novel, The Villain's Sidekick. Here's how he describes it: "Sidekick has shitty supervillain boss and other real world problems.   ...

Earthman, your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope! Earlier in the week there was some discussion of Enemy Mine, another old favorite, in our forums.    ...

Earthman, your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope! Earlier in the week there was some discussion of Enemy Mine, another old favorite, in our forums.    ...

Just look at it. banana MRI for scale    ...

Just look at it. banana MRI for scale (via Inside Insides)    ...

Eric writes, "I am Eric Millikin and I am an experimental artist from Detroit who has created a series of portraits of monsters, each built out of Halloween candy.    ...

In the video above, Rafiq ur Rahman, a drone strike survivor from Pakistan, speaks at a congressional briefing in Washington, DC convened by Rep.    ...

Mr. Five Omar Mualimm-ak, writing a Guardian commentary about his experience in isolation, which should be considered a form of torture: After only a short time in solitary, I felt all of my senses be...

David Denby, in the New Yorker: "When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a drawbridge on his fore...

Jamie from Vodo sez, "VODO has a new 'Big Brother Bundle' coming out today. It's a crossmedia, themed bundle on the crucial topic of surveillance - curated by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, co-founder of Wiki...

Jamie from Vodo sez, "VODO has a new 'Big Brother Bundle' coming out today. It's a crossmedia, themed bundle on the crucial topic of surveillance - curated by Daniel Domscheit-Berg.   &...

And here's the press release. You can play clich bingo with it, as it includes phrases like "entrepreneurship is part of their DNA." [WSJ.com]    ...

ADVERTISEMENT Last week I took my wife, daughter (10), and niece (10) to the Katy Perry concert at The Hollywood Bowl.    ...

Cold brewing has recently become my preferred method for brewing my morning cup. I love my coffee iced, but I never loved my typical approach: brew hot coffee, cool it, store it until I’m ready ...

One year ago today Heckuva Job Brownie criticizes Obama for responding to Hurricane Sandy so quickly.: Former FEMA Director Michael Can I come home? Brown is upset with President Obama for responding ...

World of Subways is a real video game, offering you the chance to experience the world's major subway systems from a driver's seat perspective.    ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Smythes of Chagrin Falls, USA, find out who the government enlisted to fix the Obamacare website.    ...

Fiber Fix is a repair-tape impregnated with fast-curing, moisture-activated resin; the manufacturer claims it hardens to a strength 100 times that of duct-tape, comparable to steel.   &...

This year, my husband, Chris, and I made a baby and a costume to put her in. Here, Althea Koerth Baker, 4 days old, shows off her Halloween costume and her ability to tolerate parental shenanigans.&n...

Buyers of Dell's Latitude 6430u, an $850 Ultrabook, report an unusual feature: the overwhelming odor of cat piss. "The machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcats litter box...

Alex Reinhart's Statistics Done Wrong: The woefully complete guide is an important reference guide, right up there with classics like How to Lie With Statistics.    ...

Abstract The Candy Hierarchy represents a thoroughly authoritative attempt to scientifically measure and classify Halloween Candy by assessing joy induction. More or less.    ...

I absolutely adored Ben Hatke's bestselling, science-fictional kid-comic Zita the Space Girl, and the sequel, Legends of Zita the Space Girl, was the perfect followup.    ...

A seemingly rational Dutch businessman has transformed his fantasy of a two-person submarine into reality, Elisabeth Eaves writes from Malta.    ...

George Pfau sends us his new Zombiescapes site, "These impressionist/pointillist oil paintings portray figures on the verge of recognition. Each painting is based on a scene in a zombie film in which ...

For the first-ever time, the Navajo dub of Star Wars will be given a public, off-nation screening. The event is at the National Museum of the American Indian in DC on November 1 (and it's a costume ev...

Consider: an article written by Evgeny Morozov, published by Slate, with the title "Buzzfeed: The Virality of Evil".    ...

Consider: an article written by Suzanne Somers, published by The Wall Street Journal, with the title "The Affordable Care Act Is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme".    ...

UK prime minister David Cameron has threatened to get a court order against the Guardian if it continues to publish the Snowden leaks.    ...

Boing Boing reader Ahmed Zulkamal shot this wonderful photograph, above and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

Kristen's figured something important out: "the addition of 'Harry' to almost any Plato quote makes it seem legitimately like a nugget of wisdom out of the mouth of Albus Dumbledore." "Death is not ...

Boing Boing reader Ahmed Zulkamal shot this wonderful photograph and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. It's part of an eagle festival in Mongolia.    ...

Legendary coder and blogger Dave Winer is frustrated with the New York Times because it doesn't cover technology as "seriously" as it covers other things.    ...

Lung X Lung printed out a Makerlele form Thingiverse, and in this video, demonstrates the beauty of a 3D printed uke!    ...

[I really want Save the Adventure to be a success! For just $25, you'll get a year-long (12-book) subscription -- Mark] Only 10 days left, before it's too late!    ...

For a mere $27,811.00 the EOD 9 can be yours. The EOD 9 bomb suit and helmet ensemble has been designed with direct input from bomb disposal technicians to provide the highest degree of modular prote...

Fred in Rennes, France demonstrates his simple, effective Ikea mod to convert a trio of Ulsberg tables into a mid-century modern side-table: "You take 3 Ulsberg table and you cut the table leg. &...

Here it is on google maps. The congregation is in Dixon, Illinois, and its slogan is "Rising Up"surely this is some kind of incredible hoax!    ...

Are old iPhones' batteries "bust" by Apple on a schedule that goes beyond mere planned obsolescence? Mark pointed out that battery life just sucks from beginning to end.    ...

"At first, I thought it was my imagination. Around the time the iPhone 5S and 5C were released, in September, I noticed that my sad old iPhone 4 was becoming a lot more sluggish," writes Catherine Ram...

Classic 1990s villain-sim Dungeon Keeper is being remade by longtime fans, who pulled in 211k via Kickstarter to get their project going.    ...

Becky Stern writes, "Last year Hurricane Sandy knocked out a large portion of the power grid in New York City, and I was able to stay online thanks to this rig my friend Hackett made-- it's a deep cy...

On last week's episode of Gweek, I interviewed Kevin Kelly about his upcoming Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities, an oversized book that reviews over 1,500 different tools.    ...

House of Mirth asked collectors of vernacular photos/snapshots to share their favorite specimens in the "silhouette" category. The subject of Joel Rotenberg's contribution above left reminds me of Wil...

"Ghost Algebra (bird in tree)" (2009) is Janie Geiser's beautiful, weird, dreamlike 16mm film/animation created from found objects, vintage book illustrations, toys, and collaged ephemera.  ...

Video Link. [Alain Leroux, via Joe Sabia]    ...

Electronics fixer and modder Picotek melded a vintage Millennium Falcon toy with a Technics 1200 turntable. I hope the first vinyl he spun was some of Meco's Galactic Fun like the fine track below!&nb...

On Neatorama, Jill Harness rounds up her favorite pieces of Haunted Mansion fan art, and she's got some spectacular picks. I couldn't resist Icaron's MLP/stretching portrait mashup!   &...

There's a mysterious barge docked at Treasure Island, the former Navy base in the San Francisco Bay. The barge contains a structure built from shipping containers.    ...

Boing Boing reader Chris Wilson shot this cute photo (Rico the Chihuahua in his Alligator costume) and the one below (Lola the Chihuahua in her T-Rex costume), and shared them in the Boing Boing Flick...

Danny Choo visited the Ikaho Hot Springs in Japan and took lots of photos (as he always does whenever he posts something to his entertaining website).    ...

One year ago today NYC Mayor Bloomberg's ASL interpreter Lydia Callis has her own fan-tumblr: Lydia Callis, the ASL interpreter at New York mayor Mike Bloomberg's side during tonight's Sandy update, w...

BB colleague Ariel Waldman, creator of Spacehack and global instigator of Science Hack Day says: I'm an appointed National Academy of Sciences committee member of a congressionally-requested study on...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud has been fighting to publish the building and safety codes that have been incorporated into the law, but which you have to pay to see.    ...

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Ellie Zolfagharifard, for the Daily Mail: "An expert from Oxford University has reconstructed the music, and rediscovered some of the instruments that played them - and he claims the recordings are 10...

Just in time for Hallowe'en, Richard "Sandman Slim" Kadrey's publishers have released Dead Set, a young adult novel about a San Francisco teenager who ventures into the Egyptian underworld to rescue h...

From the Geeks Are Sexy gallery of photos from London's MCM Comic Expo: a clever fellow in his Left 4 Dead Tank costume, snapped by Nick Acott.    ...

Jim from the Open Rights Group sez, "The UK's Parliament hasn't debated the consequences of the Edward Snowden revelations once: except to listen to pland reassurances right at the start, and to compl...

Jim from the Open Rights Group sez, "The UK's Parliament hasn't debated the consequences of the Edward Snowden revelations once: except to listen to pland reassurances right at the start, and to compl...

YouTube has been an existence-proof of forms of video that were lurking in potentia, unable to come into existence due to limitations of the distribution channel.    ...

Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shot this wonderful photo and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. I love how both the human and the canine are squinting back at the camera's gaze.  ...

XKCD's Headlines presents a timeline of the 20th century with the major milestones summarized in A/B tested, linkbaity, listicle headlines. Headlines    ...

Mozilla has shipped the 1.0 of its Web Literacy Standard: "a map of the territory for the skills and competencies Mozilla and community think are important to get better at to more effectively read, w...

Ricky sez, "In a follow-up to last year's 'Missing in the Mansion' short shot at Disneyland, the Daws brothers have just released 'Followed from the Mansion' - another Haunted Mansion-inspired short,...

Longtime Boing Boing friend Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds turned me on to Jonathan Wilson a couple years ago, and I became an instant fan.    ...

A California lawsuit brought by elections watchdog the Fair Political Practices Commission has unraveled a network of nonprofits that the Koch Brothers used to launder millions in illegal campaign con...

Boing Boing reader Hubertus shot these lovely shots of very neatly organized and labeled heirloom apple varieties at the Cambridge Botanical Garden in the UK, and shared them in the Boing Boing Flickr...

David from Berlin's Atheist Shoe Company sends us, "a Kickstarter for Atheist Baby Shoes - super snuggly handmade shoes, the soles of which are screenprinted with homages to the only higher powers bab...

I love California, but according to the personality test I took, I belong in Montana! Which US state matches your personality?    ...

Even if you aren't a designer, it's easy to emphasize with the designers here who share their stories of evil clients.    ...

Artist Onishi Yasuaki creates strange, forest-like installations from branches, hot glue, and crystallized urea. The piece seen above, titled "Vertical Emptiness," was installed at the Kyoto Art Cent...

The Economist details outcomes from Give Directly, an organization that analyzes satellite photos to identify the poorest places in the world and then hands over no-strings-attached cash grants to the...

Educadorian artistic director and illustrator Javier Perez shares a whole series of whimsical drawings on instagram. Mixing objects and sketches, Perez offers cute in a way that just makes me want to...

Boing Boing reader Pascal Sprri shot this beautiful photograph in the Alps, in Switzerland, and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

From National Geographic: "After quitting a comfortable day job, photographer Shane Black spent two months on the road shooting time-lapses of some of America's most beautiful spots.   ...

Someone finally gets the sexy costume thing right. via Reddit    ...

Someone finally gets the sexy costume thing right. via Reddit    ...

The one-shot prologue to Elfquest's forthcoming Final Quest, premiered here at Boing Boing earlier this year, is now available in print at comic stores and online through publisher Dark Horse's offici...

From 1992, Neil Gaiman's smart, revealing interview with Lou Reed for Reflex Magazine, featuring things like, "I thought I'd earned the right; that I knew enough about Life at this point, and had gone...

In 1970, famed Danish designer Verner Panton transformed a Bayer-sponsored exhibition boat at the Cologne furniture fair into the "Visona 2 Fantasy Landscape." Below, a video tour of the scene. &...

One year ago today Pioneers at the ready, Leningrad: Viktor Bulla's "Pioneers defense drill, Leningrad." It dates from 1937, four years before the Siege of Leningrad, and that makes the weirdness vivi...

Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur, and the Ko-dan armada. The Last Starfighter is an all-time favorite.    ...

Back in 2011, I posted about the planned Center for PostNatural History, the Pittsburgh, PA wunderkammer of organisms altered by humans, from GloFish to GMO corn to a genetically engineered goat.&nb...

Rashid Rana's "Red Carpet 1" is a 2007 piece that appears to be a beautiful, intricate woven rug, but which actually consists of thousands of graphic images from Pakistan's slaughterhouse.  ...

Though LG's latest smartphone is called the "G Flex", I wouldn't try that if I were you. That said, like Samsung's new Galaxy Round, it is curved.    ...

As I've posted before, Ghost Box is the wonderful UK record label where such artists as Pye Corner Audio, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Belbury Poly, and other fine musicians sound out the hauntological hist...

Last year, Parisian street artist Invader, famed for his ubiquitous 8-bit video game mosaics, launched one of his invaders into the stratosphere on a weather balloon.    ...

Ethan Gilsdorf reviews Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews darkly comic fable of nerdliness, rivalry and belonging.    ...

Unexpectedly hilarious! Sound kicks in at 0:45s. [Video link]    ...

Hyperbole and a Half, a webcomic that is so funny, panic, and (at times) emotionally wrenching that it deserves its own entire category, has finally spawned a book!    ...

MimiBoutique's Divine Matrix is made of tightly-rolled up magazine pages glued to canvas. It's $475 on Etsy, but I think a better idea here is to make your own and have your friends "guess the magazi...

Jeremy Jarnell Anderson, 22, was taken to jail and charged with arson Thursday after "going ballistic" in his Oklahoma City apartment, reportedly kicking doors off hinges, pouring salt and soap over h...

A crisis here in Pittsburgh, home of Heinz: McDonalds is ditching the brand after it hired Burger King's former CEO: "As a result of recent management changes at Heinz, we have decided to transition o...

Today in Betteridge's Law of Headlines, Scots are angered by an effort to slow traffic in their village by painting irregular road markings.    ...

The US ambassador to Spain has been summoned by Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy to explain a Snowden leak that shows the NSA is engaged in bulk surveillance of ordinary Spaniards, intercepting some 3.5M call...

David Bowie. John Cale. Salman Rushdie. Samuel L. Jackson. The BBC has more; here's Lou's final Facebook post.    ...

Jeff Frost: Time-lapse photography, abandoned places, and a talent for exposing the unseen world in unexpected ways: "Physical art, one frame at a time." [Wired]    ...

Nazi salute, too. Coordinates. [Bubblews via Fortean Times]    ...

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future.    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Boing Boing 25th Anniversary interview at XOXO Festival • An African concept car made from scraps •...

One of the greats is gone. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, and artist Lou Reed has died. Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.    ...

Photo: Heather Beschizza Today, a wrinkly as-seen-on-TV impulse buy. Tomorrow, a nightmare creature from The Abyss.    ...

One year ago today Fibonacci: Guangzhou's Utopia Design created this Fibonacci Cabinet, whose drawers are scaled according to ratios from the Fibonacci sequence.    ...

One of the greats is gone. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, and artist Lou Reed has died. Noe cause of death has been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.   &nbs...

An anonymous "US intelligence source" told a German newspaper that Obama had been briefed on the fact that the NSA had tapped German chancellor Angela Merkel's phone in 2010, and that he'd personally ...

Uh-oh: airlines ordering new Dreamliner 787s and Airbus A330s are asking to have them fitted with 16.7"-wide coach seats, a new low for long-haul travel.    ...

One year ago today Knuckles that promote literacy: Spotted today at a Toronto restaurant: a great, pro-literacy set of knuckle-tatts. Five years ago today Bruce Schneier's election night analysis: Dis...

Newly published Snowden leaks show that the UK spy agency GCHQ took extraordinary measures to hide the eager cooperativeness of the country's phone companies, who were apparently delighted to help it ...

Here's a sad profile of William Footman, an inmate at Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward who is believed to be behind at least 37 robberies in which the doormats were stolen from banks.   &n...

The Smati Turtle 1 is an "African concept car" created by Dutch artist/researcher team Melle Smets and Joost van Onna, who worked with the artisinal car-makers of Suame Magazine, Ghana, to create a ki...

When Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway bought Heinz last June, they made Bernardo Hees CEO; previously, Hees had served as CEO of Burger King.    ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Danny O'Brien has ten important suggestions for things you can do right now to minimize the extent to which you are surveilled on the Internet.   &n...

Miss Cakehead writes, "Feed The Beast, the world's most extreme cake sho,p is open. Guests coming along will be able to see, and feast on the 'flesh' of, this showstopper cake by The Tattooed Bakers -...

Gygax Magazine has posted my article about playng D&D with your toddlers on their site; it describes how I came up with a stripped-down set of D&D-like rules for gaming with my then-four-yea...

This 9 lb, 1-foot-diameter "multi tool" was designed as a calling card by the F.W. Holler Company of Solingen, Germany, who were seeking to make a name for German knife manufacturers in Solingen (who ...

Shawn from Muckrock sez, "MuckRock and MIT asked more than 1,200 libraries across Massachusetts for records of book challenges. We didn't find much, because it's Massachusetts in 2013, but the few we ...

Charlie Stross, who's written a rather wonderful series of spy novels disguised as fat fantasy novels, has a fabulous riff on the surrealism of spies, who are often incompetent, paranoid nutcases, ves...

@badmocap's latest, via Max Read at Gawker, who writes, "No Headline Will Do This Video Justice". I could swear we posted about the earlier entry in the series, but the search query site:boingboing.n...

Absolutely beautiful dance of a liquid droplet. In scientific terms, an ultrasonic field is used to levitate a drop of liquid.    ...

IgnacioEspejo's "Join Me In Death" is a makeup/costume piece on DeviantArt, photographed by lamuchan; it's spectacular design, and beautifully shot.    ...

The Circus Book: 1870-1950 is a big, bold, beautiful Taschen hardcover in a slipcase that features nearly 1,000 photos, illustrations, poster art, and other ephemera from the heyday of the big top.&nb...

Casey Quinlan on the improving portrayal in TV drama of people who are neither straight nor gay: "The quantity isnt there, to be sure.    ...

Ex-NSA chief and current dumbass Michael Hayden gave "off the record" interviews, trashing the current administration, on a public train. His remarks were, accordingly, reported live on Twitter by a f...

Prince Charles is doing the "taken out of context" dance after an anonymous aide compared his becoming King to "the prison shades" closing on his life.    ...

Ellen Page recently starred in Sony's video game Beyond: Two Souls, her likeness and performance captured and used for the CGI epic's protagonist, Jodie Holmes.    ...

Third generation Texas judge Elizabeth E. Coker has resigned just ahead of being investigated for misconduct; she admits that she texted instructions to prosecutors in order to help them convict the d...

Police in Manchester, UK made a huge show out of having seized a "3D printed gun." Then, it turned out that they'd just seized parts for a 3D printer.    ...

Cheapass Games is one of my favorite games publishers -- they stripped games down to their smallest, indivisible units (rules) and assume that you had enough dice and pawns and stuff to play. &nb...

Esquire Kazakhstan features photos of the country's decaying Soviet space murals, which do not have protected status, and are coming to bits.    ...

Lavie Tidhar writes, "My new novel, The Violent Century, is out today - billed as 'Watchmen meets Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,' it's a cold war noir thriller complete with bermenschen, Nazi war crimi...

The Hauntbox is an open-source hardware controller for all the sensors and controllers necessary to build sophisticated, automated electronic haunting projects.    ...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just published an exclusive interview with MAD magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, who spoke to us about his Tales From the Crypt years in the early 1950s. &n...

Alan sez, "Using a simple (if wordy) graphic, Common Cause has teamed up with Symbolia to produce a Creative Commons-licensed description of how Verizon's lawsuits and lobbying threaten net neutrality...

San Fermin is the musical project of young Brooklyn composer (and Yale music graduate) Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who wrote and arranged an entire epic album of indie chamber pop performed by an ensemble of...

A leaked 2006 memo from the NSA to staffers in the White House, State and the Pentagon asked them to search their rolodexes for the personal numbers of world leaders so the Agency could spy on them.&n...

Hours of aural enjoyment await you in the form of Boing Boing podcasts! Here are the latest episodes. GWEEK 117: Kevin Kelly unveils his "Whole Earth Catalog for this century" and Joshua Glenn launche...

Mitt Romney is building a new family manse in Salt Lake City, and it includes a hidden room that you access via a swinging bookcase.    ...

Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-GONE and co-founder of San Francisco's Noisebridge hacker space, is a master maker and educator who finds great joy in teaching people of all ages how to get creative wi...

This fall, I am living out my boyhood dream, working as a contractor for Disney Imagineering on all sorts of secret things I can't mention here.    ...

This fall, I am living out my boyhood dream, working as a contractor for Disney Imagineering on all sorts of secret things I can't mention here.    ...

I just received the delightful news that my novel, Little Brother made it to the CBC's "Canada Reads" list of top 40 Canadian books, and it is in some spectacular company.    ...

Scratch, an excellent and free drag-and-drop programming language for kids developed at MIT, has a new web-based interface. My 10-year-old daughter Jane uses it to create puzzles, games, and interacti...

In this episode of the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast, there's an absolutely delightful history of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion (MP3).    ...

The SBUV3 is a self-balancing, motorized electric unicyle that you steer by shifting your center of gravity. They cost about $1800, feature regenerative braking, and have a top speed of 12.5mph. ...

On Monday night I had dinner with Jesse Genet, the founder of Lumi, a company that makes photographic fabric dye called Inkodye.    ...

The likely source of a strange hum that has been disturbing residents of Hythe, near Southampton, England, has been identified: horny fish.    ...

The Sugar Skull Spoon finally provides a good reason to dip your wet spoon into the sugar-bowl (yuck). Their kickstarter is fully funded, but there's still time to get one for £8.  &nbs...

Nando Costa's "The New America" is a fantastic animation made from 800+ laser engraved blocks of maple. He had me at the opening shot of an eye in the triangle.    ...

The Moon is about 400,000 kilometers from Earth. The International Space Station is 1000 times closer to Earth. What would the Moon look like at 420 kilometers from Earth?    ...

One year ago today Game writer out of a job after libel complaint: A game writer who criticized his beatmates' journalistic shortcomings no longer has his job.    ...

Tom Simonite on "the decline of Wikipedia": The volunteer workforce that built the projects flagship, the English-language Wikipediaand must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulationhas sh...

Pierre Chevalier's "EMMA" is a curious online art/code project that grabs random images from Google Street View and juxtaposes them with random text snippets from the DreamBank database of dream repor...

Royce Hutain made a wonderful "stick person" costume for his toddler from LED lights and a body suit.    ...

BB contributor Mitch Horowitz, author of the excellent Occult America, has a new book due out shortly that traces the fascinating cultural history of the New Age and self-help movement, titled One Si...

Part one of a two-episode story, starring a young, psychoanalyzed Woody Allen.    ...

Mark wrote in July that Lt John Pike, the UC Davis cop who attained notoriety after he sadistically hosed down seated, peaceful protesters with pepper spray, jetting it directly down their throats and...

John B Emerson, the US ambassador to Germany, has been summoned to a meeting with Guido Westerwelle, the country's foreign minister, over revelations that the NSA bugged chancellor Angela Merkel's pho...

I've always been a sucker for MAD Magazine's anthologies; those fat, floppy-covered book that collected together thematically linked comics from the magazine's history.    ...

Zack writes, "In 1947, Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner and other beloved cartoon characters had his own radio show spinning out of his appearances on Jack Benny's program, where he...

"If you want to make your own necropants (literally; nbrk) you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death.    ...

NSA boss James Clapper has officially responded to the allegations that the agency intercepted 70,000,000 French phone calls with a narrowly worded, misleading denial.    ...

A spectacular PSA from the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls on Americans to join in a rally against mass surveillance on Oct 26, featuring everyone from Phil Donahue and John Cusak to Molly Craba...

Tom sez, "This clip takes aim at the NSA and their spying, snooping ways - it's made by somegreybloke, and features Jeremiah McDonald (who clocked up 11 million views on YouTube with conversation wit...

In an excellent Torrentfreak feature, representatives from several prominent privacy-oriented VPN provider explain whether, and to what extent, their services are safe from NSA spying.  &nbs...

The New Disruptors is a podcast about people who make art, things, or connections finding new ways to reach an audience and build a community.    ...

This Zippomobile was created by Joe Griffin of Custom Upholstery in Memphis. He was commissioned by Zippo to reproduce the original 1947 Zippomobile, which toured all 48 states to promote the lighter ...

Welcome Lea Hernandez, whose new webcomic, Bani Garu, begins today here at Boing Boing. It's the story of her time in Japan...    ...

There were itsy-hugey problems with Gainax from the start. Thanks to David Seidman for the editing assist.    ...

The illegality of marijuana has enriched, empowered, and corrupted prison systems, police departments, local and national governments, militaries, liquor manufacturers, and intelligence agencies (not ...

What do Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Julia Roberts, Benicio del Toro, Viggo Mortensen, and Michael Richards have in common?    ...

In this video from Low Pay is Not OK, we hear some of a recorded conversation between a ten-year McDonald's employee and the company's "McResources" helpline for employees in financial trouble. ...

"X-Ray Film" (c.1968) by Chris Munger. According to the Creative Film Society 1972 catalog, it's a UCLA student film that "makes a cynical comment on our romantic naiveties of our bodies, particularl...

Thieves in Cookhill, Worcestershire, sliced through the side of a truck and made off with more than 6,000 tins of beans and sausages.    ...

Saturday morning cartoon pioneer Lou Scheimer, whose Filmation company created Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Groovie Goolies, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, a...

Gweek is sponsored by Fracture. They print your digital photos, directly on glass. Upload your own picture at FractureMe.com, use coupon code GWEEK at checkout, and get 15% off.   &...

Over at Thought Catalog, Mark Dery ponders the darker side of Darin's "Beautiful Things." Touchpoints in the riff include Cupid and Psyche, Roland Barthess concept of the punctum, and Yeats. &n...

Here’s a great “off label” use of an old product for a completely different application that a guitar player turned me on to years ago.    ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH various Characters do Certain Things in a feature called Super-Fun-Pak Comix. (Does Phil Collins appear? Yes.)    ...

Renegade BB cartoonist Ed Piskor points us to this documentary about manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), the creator of Astro Boy, Black Jack, and Kimba the White Lion.    ...

"I find myself using a large Rowney sketchbook to carve my way through the evening crowds around Piccadilly Circus, following Eros' arrow up to the narrow streets of Soho, London's notorious sleaze qu...

Erik Maza, at Women's Wear Daily, reports that magazine publisher Cond Nast is to end unpaid internships. The end of the program comes after the publisher was sued this summer by two former interns wh...

I blogged the site Unfuck Your Habitat, which offers timely, humane, simple advice for people who struggle with mess and disorganization .    ...

Last night, the PBS show Frontline aired a new documentary about antibiotic resistance and the growing risks we all face from the increasingly untreatable bacteria that live in both hospitals and our...

YouTube As regular BB readers know, I'm a big fan of Seattle indie folk group The Head & The Heart. Their gorgeous new album, Let's Be Still, is out this week on Sub Pop Records.   ...

Photo: Thierry Ehrmann After once again permitting decapitation videos--despite prohibiting nudity--Facebook has once again dispermitted all of it. Even if we credit fast footwork from the mainstream-...

Later today, I'll be moderating a live web chat about antibiotic resistance with an infectious disease expert and the producers of PBS Frontline's new documentary "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria".&nbs...

The extraordinary website Style Rookie, started by then-12-year-old Tavi Gevinson begat the Style Rookie magazine, and then the annual Rookie Yearbooks.    ...

Who ya gonna call? Anniston Police Department! [Daily Mirror]    ...

Dr Bjoern von Reumont: "This is the first time we have seen venom being used in crustaceans and the study adds a new major animal group to the roster of known venomous animals.    ...

Nicolas Lefaucheux, on the scent of a flower you have not found. There are as many nostalgias as there are times, countries, nationalities, traditions, beings.    ...

Slate's Joseph Lapin suggests a way of making the Simpsons "relevant" again: The Characters Should Start Getting Older [Killing off a character is] just a temporary fix: It will not restore the shows ...

Phil Torrone from Adafruit sez, "Here's a project from one of our team members at Adafruit. These cool Chucks are the work of Angel Rodriguez, one of our shippers.    ...

There's a whole bunch of things you're allowed to do with books that you own: sell them, give them away, lend them out -- stuff you can't do with your ebooks, by and large.    ...

Matthew says: "The TSA is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases, including records such as car registrat...

Fred writes, "Over the course of nearly two decades (1961-'79), the artist Tony Smith made forty-seven monumental public sculptures using an iterative process for arranging monochrome, modular triangu...

On Instructables, Yoshinok explains a clever, simple method for building a digital microscope stand that uses your phonecam, focused by a laser-pointer lens.    ...

I have a first-generation iPad that works well as a Netflix streamer, game platform, writing tool, and web and email machine.    ...

In "Fixing Breaking Bad," a disgruntled visual effects artist on the series shows how he could have improved Breaking Bad, if only that meddlesome Vince Gilligan had stayed out of his way.  ...

Tonight at 10:00 Eastern/9:00 Central, PBS Frontline will air a documentary about the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I got a chance to see a preview of the show, and it's definitel...

The new Mac Pro will start at $2,999. A retina-display iPad Mini will be out November for $399. The 9.7" iPad Air, at $499, replaces its larger sibling.    ...

Cryptoseal has shut down Cryptoseal Privacy, a VPN product advertised as a privacy tool, citing the action against Lavabit, the privacy-oriented email provider used by Edward Snowden.   ...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link to a research paper on crocodile genitalia, which included a really helpful diagram showing how the male crocs' penis works as part of an all-purpose mating/eli...

Noah Scalin says: "I created a new Skeletube for the Think Small exhibition opening this week at Artspace in Richmond, VA.    ...

Dan sez, "Hi, I'm one of the organizers for Restore the Fourth (Utah) and we've successfully adopted the highway in front of the NSA spy factory in Bluffdale, Utah.    ...

On Boing Boing's G+ community, I asked "What is your favorite smartphone game? I have two: Kingdom Rush and Sword of Fargoal." Take a look at the recommendations here.    ...

Out of the more than 500 pages that make up the published version of On the Order of the Species, only 28 pages of Charles Darwin's original manuscript survive today.    ...

Over at The Atlantic, Alan Taylor's "On Focus" presents a photographic glimpse of today's robotics state-of-the-art. Two of DARPA's Legged Squad Support System (LS3) robots out for a run.  &...

Researchers at Finland's Tampere University have identified a set of viruses they believe to be responsible for Type 1 diabetes, and they have formulated a vaccine for it that has had promising result...

Mark Johnson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has put together an amazing four-part story about medical students entering a human dissection lab for the first time.    ...

SHAKE is a new photo book by Carli Davidson collecting her photographs of dogs mid-shake. The photos (here) are fun but I really appreciate the full-motion silliness of the slow-mo video above. ...

When I saw The Talented Mr. Ripley movie in 1999, I had no idea it was based on a novel by the same author of the famous Hitchcock movie, Strangers on a Train.    ...

When I saw The Talented Mr. Ripley movie in 1999, I had no idea it was based on a novel by the same author of the famous Hitchcock movie, Strangers on a Train.    ...

Pap smears — the pre-cancer-screening that most women get annually when they visit a gynecologist — should only cost about $20 or $30, writes Dr.    ...

In web hosting, service and product quality are sliced so thin that much of the business is built around $5 deals and the low standards that come with them.    ...

Kyle VanHemert, at Wired, wonders if Ed Mitchell's designs for new state flags could help Americans appreciate the union.    ...

Developed before Microsoft's takeover of the Finland-based cellphone company, Nokia's first Windows tablet now goes head to head with its new owner's own models.    ...

Tor.com has published an excerpt from The Land Across, a new novel from the incomparable, astounding Gene Wolfe, which comes out on Nov 26.    ...

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It's easy to make a mountain out of Facebook's explicit OK to posting videos of people being beheaded. Tabloids see such lowest-common-denominator topical material as a threat to their own product, an...

The NYT's Sarah Lyall interviews Deadspin's Tim Burke, who uses animated GIF clips to excellent effect in posts. Burke, 35, is known among sports journalists for his ability to capture the moment whe...

This Day in Blogging History: Rollaboard luggage/chair/wardrobe; Chihuahua embroidery; Blogging for Jesus One year ago today Zuca: rollaboard luggage with drawers doubles as a chair: The Zuca Pro, an ...

One year ago today Zuca: rollaboard luggage with drawers doubles as a chair: The Zuca Pro, an overhead-legal rollaboard bag that you can sit on, and that organizes its contents into drawers. &nbs...

From We Can Re-Do It: a nifty, simple HOWTO for making eyeball patches for your favorite sweaters: Being a fan of pretty much all prints and designs, I couldn't be more psyched that "eyes" are havin...

The UK's Internet censorship rules allow big rightsholders to provide the country's major ISPs with lists of IP addresses that must be blocked, no questions asked -- an no penalties if the wrong site ...

In his new book Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, NPR's David Folkenflik details how Fox News employees maintain dozens (and, in at least one case, over 100) different message-board...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "Here's a science experiment that would catch the attention of high schoolers: Testing cash for cocaine traces in seven easy steps, courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Agency."...

Huawei, the Chinese electronics giant that was accused of being "a security risk" in a paper by the House Intelligence Committee (its chair, Mike Rogers [R-MI], said "find another vendor if you care a...

David Cain's 2010 essay "Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed" -- occasioned by his return to full-time employment -- has a sharp-edged rumination on the modern, 40-hour work-week and what it does...

If you like what you read, hear, and watch here on Boing Boing the blog, you'll love us on your favorite social media services, too.    ...

This animated gif of a chain-making machine is mesmerizing. (Via Rafael R.)    ...

The story of a woman who spilled coffee on her lap and ended up being awarded $2.9 million in a lawsuit against McDonald's is often cited as THE example of frivolous lawsuits and out-of-control juries...

My friend, former NPR colleague, and longtime journalism mentor Alex Chadwick has an incredible new radio documenting hitting the public radio airwaves this week.    ...

Today, Coca-Cola Japan puts a new kind of hot Canada Dry ginger-ale for sale in its vending machines. The drink is meant to appeal to people who enjoy traditional Japanese hot ginger drinks, and is mi...

"Bollywood Steampunk" -- created by DeviantArt's MakeupSiren and photographed by Andrew Williams . There's loads more, all great. Bollywood Steampunk : Salkcity Photo Shoot (via Pipedream Dragon)&nb...

It reached the tills and stopped. The eyes of Cthulhu showed us the horrors of the universe, the untold potential of pain.    ...

As you may have heard, in addition to my duties manning the engine room here at Boing Boing, I've recently begun a stint as Wikimedia's Director of Tech Ops.    ...

Apps for Kids is sponsored by HuluPlus. HuluPlus lets you binge on thousands of hit shows – anytime, anywhere on your TV, PC, smart phone or tablet.    ...

Experian, the massive data-broker with far-reaching influence over your ability to get a mortgage, credit-card, or job, sold extensive consumer records to an identity thieves' service called Superget....

After tweeting pictures of herself trying to look serious and respectful inside a mosque, pop star Rihanna was told to leave it.    ...

The Pumpkin Tap turns pumpkins and watermelons into drink dispensers! I think most any beer faucet and shank would work but this is a fun idea.    ...

I hate football but I love marching bands. Here's the Ohio State Marching Band doing a terrific Michael Jackson tribute during a game on Saturday.    ...

As regular BB readers know, the original That's Incredible! television show had a big impact on me, with its coverage of curiosities, strange phenomena, stunts, and amazing and unusual people. &...

This 2012 video from Politizane does an excellent job of illustrating the massive, well-documented gap between the wealth-distribution that Americans believe they have, the distribution they would fa...

Balthazar is my favorite restaurant in New York City. Sometimes when I visit, I eat both lunch and dinner at the SoHo brasserie.    ...

Balthazar is my favorite restaurant in New York City. Sometimes when I visit, I eat both lunch and dinner at the SoHo brasserie.    ...

An epic, two-year thread on the Home Model Engine Machinist boards documents Keith5700's astounding journey to scratch-build a working, 1/4 scale V8 engine.    ...

Technoise duo Emptyset's terrific new video for "Fragment" from their forthcoming full-length album Recur. According to the band, the clip "continues from our previous moving image work exploring asp...

Boing Boing reader Molly Block shot a wonderful set of photos documenting The Beer Can House in Houston, Texas. She shared them in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

One year ago today Sugar pills: Popping Candy Placebos for sale: clear pill gels filled with little candy beads Five years ago today True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through p...

So adorable, it almost makes me forget that I'm still pregnant over a week past my due date. More on-topic, if you're like me, your first thought watching this was probably something like, "Wait!&nbs...

We meet the Burn Collector author at a cafe in Berlin to discuss teaching comics, the legacy of World War II, surviving as a writer and cold war era punk rock.    ...

I've spent too much time thinking about Morrissey's autobiography, and I haven't even read it, either! Beyond the man, however, beyond what he does and says, beyond how unpleasant or worthwhile it may...

Last month, Turkey repealed its 1928 Alphabet Law, and legalized the letter Q. In a short, illuminating piece in the London Review of Books, Yasmine Searle describes the history of Romanicization of T...

Roberto A. Feldman interviews David Tran, the CEO of Huy Fong Foods. You might not have heard of them, but they're the people behind the hugely-successful brand of Sriracha sauce found across the U.S....

Yishan Wong, via Kottke. ...you think you are too close, or have too much of an angle, and you lose your nerve and you stop following the directions and you turn your wheel not enough or too early or ...

"My friends shower me with compliments," he says. "They even call me Toby Bieber." [Gawker]    ...

Kirby sez, "Rob Cockerham built himself a working, wearable Disneyland costume for Halloween this year. Yes. Working!" And his own mouth forms both the gates of the castle and the mouth of Monstro t...

Jeff Atwood loves everything about his Surface Pro 2 except for its terrible battery life. The Windows light usage battery life situation has not improved at all since 2009.    ...

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future.    ...

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future.    ...

Paolo Bacigalupi has a lot of range. His debut novel, The Windup Girl was a lush ecological dystopia that plumbed odd depths of gender politics and colonialism.    ...

Alternatives to the Singularity is a funny, crowdsourced, extended piss-take on the idea of the Singularity, created through futurists' challenge.    ...

The joke about a rational horror movie where the characters behave intelligently is an old one, but Joe Nicolosi's "HELL NO" is a very well-made example of the species.    ...

ShapeShifterZ makes printed workout gear that makes you look like a totally buff superhero (or stone gargoyle, or voodoo doll, or whatever).    ...

Marcella sez, "I'm a female middle-school English teacher. For Teen Read Week last week, I braided my long hair into an epic Gimli dwarf beard.    ...

In this incredible video from Taiwan, you can see a very large rock break off the top of a mountain. A few seconds later it crashes into the road right in front of the car that was videoing it (using...

Michael sez, "The American Psychiatric Association recently released a new version of its Diagnostic & Statistical Manual - basically a catalogue of the categories into which they divide sufferin...

Zack sez, "Is there another holiday movie more underrated than the Harvey Kurtzman-scripted 1967 Rankin-Bass stop-motion classic MAD MONSTER PARTY?    ...

On Metafilter, Filthy Light Thief provides excellent context for Mickey Mouse in Ghoul Friend , a delightful horror-themed seasonal Mickey cartoon that's one of 19 new toons.    ...

Dolly Parton raps. (Thanks, UPSO!)    ...

Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, aka "El Peln" (the baldie), eldest brother in Mexico's once-dominant Tijuana drug cartel, was shot to death by gunmen disguised as clowns at a children's party on Frid...

A Snowden leak, discussed in detail in Der Spiegel, shows how the NSA broke into the email servers of the Mexican president Felipe Calderon's public account, and used that access to wiretap the presid...

One year ago today Shocking, vicious attack-ads from the dirty presidential race: Redditor Aspirin742 and his six-year-old daughter Elissa are both contenders in a hard-fought election for President o...

Make room in your fall garden for delicious kale by removing pumpkins to scoop out their viscera for your ritual carving of satanic images— Kale (@daily_kale) October 7, 2013 You guys, people li...

Authorities in Utah are considering whether to press charges against a leader in the Boy Scouts who deliberately toppled an ancient rock formation in the Utah desert.    ...

"For the December issue of mental_floss magazine, Jake Rossen managed to do something we thought was impossiblehe snagged an interview with the legendary Bill Watterson!," report our friends at Mental...

Former vice president Dick Cheney asked his doctors to disable the wireless feature of his implanted heart defibrillator device because he feared that terrorists might try to assassinate him by hackin...

My lawyers and I plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take my case.— James Risen (@JRisen) October 19, 2013 "A federal appeals court will not reconsider a decision compelling a journalist to id...

With more and more cinemas in Russia losing out to multiplexes, photographer Sergey Novikov sought to capture the old buildings in their new incarnations sometimes abandoned, sometimes used for dis...

As someone who gets off on material culture (but struggles with space constraints, financial reality and environmental concerns), I was struck by Bruce Sterling's Venn diagram depicting "anticonventio...

A cat roaming the "Little India" neighborhood of Singapore. Photograph by Jon Siegel. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

One year ago today Identity thief's amazing disguise fails to fool bank, toddlers: Joshua K. Pinney is charged with attempting to defraud a Bank of America branch in Des Moines into issuing him a bank...

In an interview with the NYT's James Risen, Edward Snowden explains what was really going on back in his CIA days, when he was allegedly reprimanded for accessing systems he wasn't supposed to see.&nb...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Boing Boing 25th Anniversary interview at XOXO Festival • A miracle cure for everything!   ...

Boing Boing reader Jay Parker shot this fabulous 'shroom photo and shared it in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

Toronto artist Allyson Mitchell has erected a "Lesbian Feminist Haunted House" called Kill Joy's Kastle. It's a response to the evangelical "Hell Houses," put up to scare people away from "sin" (espec...

I watched the video i Xeni's post about the miracle cure woman and thought of Shelley Duvall. An uncanny resemblance!    ...

One year ago today The crowd psychology of Grand Central Station: The rapid reconfiguration of Grand Central had a lot to do with crowd control figuring out how to use architecture to make the unruly...

This is a lifetime piece of kitchen equipment, made in Finland of quality stainless steel. With almost no mess or work, it turns quantities of fresh fruit into clear, sterile, hot juice which you can ...

In September I wrote about the Hobonichi Techo, a cult-favorite Japanese day planner that will soon be made in an English version.    ...

Miss Cakehead sez, "The Kraken Rum Edible Autopsy saw guests feast on the (rum cake) corpse of a recently captured Kraken in the shadow of the now derelict Redsand Forts found nine miles off the UK co...

Check out this one weird trick. No, seriously, this is a video by Gemma Arrowsmith, "Sketches in my Flat," mocking pseudoscience and health quackery on the internet.    ...

Here's another storming article from John Brownlee, this time about Cody Foster & Co, a purveyor of cheap accessories that's becoming infamous for freakishly shameless swipes of other people's wo...

This is a photo of telephone electricians learning to climb poles in 1914. There's a WWI pole/Pole joke to be made here, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader.    ...

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Boing Boing reader Sean Feeney shared some fantastic photographs of works created for last night's 3rd on Third event in Bayview, San Francisco.    ...

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Boing Boing reader Sean Feeney shared some fantastic photographs of works he carved for last night's 3rd on Third event in Bayview, San Francisco.   &nbs...

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Boing Boing reader Shawn Feeney shared some fantastic photographs of works he carved for last night's 3rd on Third event in Bayview, San Francisco.   &nb...

A wonderful photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader Nan Palmero.    ...

Jeremy Wheeler has a new comic for Esquire on the A-Z's of Stephen King Cinema. Click through for the entire alphabet of exquisite terror.    ...

Matthew says: "Here's a YouTube video of three men destroying a rock formation in Goblin Valley, Utah. Geologists estimate the rock formation was approximately 200 million years old, formed during th...

Britain continues its slide into official xenophobia: a government contractor sent nearly 40,000 texts reading "Message from the UK Border Agency.    ...

Ted Balaker says: "It's the drug war's little cousin: Laws create a black market in cigarettes, so smugglers step in to make money.    ...

Panasonic's Lumix GX7, released last month, stuffed high-end features (including in-body stabilization, WiFi and 24fps video, a rarity in Micro Four Thirds models) into a body rather lighter than oth...

Jayne Rand, of Swindon, England, was sentenced this week to an 18 month jail sentence after shoplifting $200,000 worth of handbags.    ...

Fast Company's spectacular gallery of Joseph McNabb tiny (yet unspeakably vast) wooden metropolis looks like a mad, pre-computer age game of Sim City.    ...

"The current moment in politics came about slowly, not suddenly," writes Jon Lovett in The Atlantic, charting how the GOP went crazy, "but it doesn't make it any less of a national emergency." The pro...

In what Nicole Perlroth describes as "the online equivalent of a riot", Yahoo Mail users are revolting against recent updates to the service.    ...

For Wes Anderson's latest movie. Now, that man really knows how to put together an ensemble cast. [via Kottke]    ...

The collapse of the GOP-engineered shutdown has the Tea Party in a fury, and they're showing their wrath with a series of vicious posts to John Boehner's Facebook.    ...

An accidentally published, unredacted document from a lawsuit against the TSA reveals that the Taking Shoes Away people believe that "terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to b...

Jellyfish born in space have "massive vertigo" when they are brought to Earth, and apparently lack the gravity-sensing capabilities that their terrestrial cousins develop early on.   &n...

In The Morning News, Rosecrans Baldwin interviews photographer Hannah Price on her stunning series, "City of Brother Love," portraits of men in Philadelphia captured just moments after they harassed h...

In The Morning News, Rosecrans Baldwin interviews photographer Hannah Price on her stunning series, "City of Brother Love," portraits of men in Philadelphia captured just moments after they catcalled ...

The U.S. government has never publicly acknowledged killing Hassan Ghul, identified as an Al Qaeda operative amd close associate of Osama Bin Laden.    ...

College Humor really knocked it out of the park with this gallery of great book covers remade as clickbaity blog post titles.    ...

Reuters today reported that Keith Alexander, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, is expected to step down in the next few months along with his second-in-command.    ...

Japan's beloved Garigari-kun popsicles have a delicious new flavor: vegetable chowder. It follows on from its earlier success with corn potage, whose sales outstripped the company's ability to keep up...

Luiz Romero tells Boing Boing, I just finished a documentary about Bruno, who for the last forty years single-handedly built an amusement park in the middle of an Italian forest.   &nb...

Escape Artists, the nonprofit that runs excellent sf/f/h podcasts like Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Podcastle, is in financial trouble. You can help!    ...

Joly sez, "Experts, activists, and makers from all over the world gathered last weekend for the first ever Drone and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) happened last weekend in NYC.   &...

The New Disruptors is new to Boing Boing! It's a podcast about people who make art, things, or connections finding new ways to reach an audience and build a community.    ...

Noah Swartz writes, "In January, after nearly two years of government prosecution and harassment, my brother Aaron Swartz died. Aaron was eclectic and prolific in his activism.    ...

Ios jailbreaker and security researcher Cyril Cattiaux presented his work on Apple's Imessage software at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur.    ...

Here's a great clip of Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards (the voice of Jiminy Cricket!) singing; as Dooley sez, "Ike does what he does best, singing and wailing on the ukulele, while lady magician pulls li...

The NPR Show Studio 360 has released a great episode in its "American Icons" series, this one dealing with the Disney themeparks (MP3).    ...

The PRI Show Studio 360 has released a great episode in its "American Icons" series, this one dealing with the Disney themeparks (MP3).    ...

Is the yeti actually some hybrid of ancient polar bear and brown bear? University of Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes has analyzed DNA from what's purported to be yeti hair samples.   &nbs...

Is the yeti actually some hybrid of ancient polar bear and brown bear? University of Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes has analyzed DNA from what's purported to be yeti hair samples.   &nbs...

The Oakland Police Department, notorious for its violent, out-of-control response to Occupy and its racist violence against the people of Oakland, is building a giant, NSA-style spy-center, using $7M ...

My friend and fellow woman-with-breast-cancer Lani Horn share the following by email, and I asked her permission to post it to Boing Boing because I about died of teh cute.    ...

Waterbury, Connecticut police were responding to a call about a fight when they encountered this gentleman, Luis Santana, 32, running from the scene.    ...

Tight, tight, tight, yeah! [via Aaron Paul's Instagram, HT: Lani]    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Boing Boing 25th Anniversary interview at XOXO Festival • 8-bit The Shining • Sneaky cats stealing ...

Cartoonist Peter Steiner created The New Yorker's most popular gag panel. What happened after that?    ...

"Being Around Predators Changes the Shape of This Fishs Penis", by The Smithsonian Magazine's Rose Eveleth.    ...

"Being Around Predators Changes the Shape of This Fishs Penis", by The Smithsonian Magazine's Rose Eveleth.    ...

We like to let our dogs take us outside for both our benefits and theirs. But keeping them hydrated without letting them resort to slurping up who-knows-what from puddles has been a sort of a problem....

Last month our friend Andy Baio, co-organizer of the incredible XOXO Festival in Portland, invited Xeni, David, Cory and me to be interviewed on stage by Glenn Fleishman.    ...

Great design at a relatively palatable price, Timbre's 20W desktop speakers are 5"x8"x1.6" and will be offered in various fancy woods such as bubinga, wenge and teak.    ...

Black Angel is a 25-minute Arthurian film from 1979 directed by Roger Christian, the Oscar-winning set decorator on Star Wars. George Lucas blessed Black Angel as the opening film to play before The ...

One year ago today Horrifying face/throat zombie makeup: Redditor Specialxk's zombie walk face-and-throat trompe l'oeil makeup job is awesomely horrifying. Five years ago today The Atlantic's Jeffrey ...

Nyan Nyan Nouveau is wine for cats. It contains no alcohol. Following is the product description, automatically translated from Japanese. [via Arbroath] [Ingredient] fructose glucose liquid sugar, oli...

I'm a bit burned out on 8-bit everything but I do love The Shining and this is a fun 3 minutes.    ...

YANSS: RSS | iTunes | Download this episode | Stitcher If a world archery champion fell madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, who she considered to be a female, married the monument, a...

Buzzfeed's Alex Naidus advises you on how to avoid the easy pitfalls of perceived arrogance, smugness and sanctimony. I'm a frequent dropper of "I read this really interesting article", sad to say!&nb...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to punish the Guardian for publishing leaks about the campaigns of lawless, reckless spying by GCHQ and the NSA.    ...

To readers of a certain sort of fiction, there are fifty. But it's not so much the count or the color that matters as the semiotics: a suggestion of moral ambiguity explored in great detail. &nbs...

Eric Bradley says: "I saw this eBay listing for a wingtip shoe some guy’s dog chewed up. He positioned it with a very well-written description as a ‘work of modern art’ from his dog,...

At a dig near Stonehenge in England, archaeologists have found the remains of roasted frogs, suggesting the creature may have been a popular meal at the end of the last ice age.    ...

A driver "who can see for a distance of only a few feet" embarked on an 85 MPH sprint through Sheffield, England, after cops tried to pull him over on suspicion of driving drunk.   &nbs...

I am a dog person, mostly, but that does not mean I can't acknowledge that they are an easy mark. [Video Link.    ...

Barely days after Scientific American was embroiled in one sexism scandal, another one lights up. Hamilton Nolan reports on allegations of harassment leveled at a SciAm editor by several writers. ...

Deyrolle's natural-history wallpapers are amazing, even if their site is an unbrowsable, unlinkable mess. These designs would make great additions to any home, presuming you can actually find them and...

Here's John E. Hill's translation of "The Peoples of the West," Yu Huan's third century account of ancient Rome. Of significant interest is the list of items the Roman Emperor has in plenty, which inc...

I blogged the GOP clown college (WMxdesign's Flickr set of Republican politicians, leaders, and mouthpieces in clown makeup), but it's worth revisiting today, given all the shenanigans.  &nb...

Behold, the Craven A tin that saved the life of Royal Flying Corpsman Arthur Mann, who was shot down by the Red Baron himself.    ...

In this mini-episode, Comedy Bang Bang co-host Reggie Watts discusses not practicing, live experimentation and the most serious song he's ever written.    ...

CSPAN Video: "During House vote a stenographer, seated in House well, goes to microphone on dais, yells, and is removed from the floor."    ...

CSPAN Video: "During House vote a stenographer, seated in House well, goes to microphone on dais, yells, and is removed from the floor." The stenographer was chanting "God Bless America" and ranting ...

A 15-foot-long rare whale with "saber-like" teeth that normally lives in frigid subarctic waters washed up on Venice Beach last night.    ...

Michael from Public Knowledge sez, "As part of her Public Knowledge/Eyebeam residency exploring remix video, fair use, and takedowns, video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger is asking the remix community ...

One year ago today Thoughts from a Japanese Media Pirate: This isn't to oppose copyright. I agree that we need copyright law, but also that we should have access to everything.    ...

Winston Smith's 1979 Alternative Tentacles record label logo is one of my favorites. I bought an Alternative Tentacles T-shirt in the early 1980s and wore it until it fell apart in 2011 (my 16-year-ol...

Timothy from Creative Commons writes in about CC's contribution to the Copyright Office's copyright reform effort: "Creative Commons has always been slightly reticent about its role in the copyright d...

Lisa Hix of Collectors Weekly says: "I just did a deep dive on dark rides, and I thought you'd get a kick out of it.    ...

A rep for Omidyar replies to the early Washington Post scoop I blogged yesterday, and corrects the record: "The new venture will be backed by Pierre Omidyar, personally, not Omidyar Network. &nbs...

Boing Boing reader Michael Matise shot some wonderful photographs of miniatures and models at New York Comic-Con 2013, and shared them in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

This week, San Francisco's science fictional SF in SF reading series presents Litquake Superheroes, a book-launch for Super Stories of Heroes & Villains, an anthology in the vein of George RR Mar...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a challenge with the patent office against the notorious "podcasting" patent of patent troll Personal Audio, which has been shaking down podcasters for mon...

I had the best gelato of my life when I was in Rome the week before last. I bought it at Caffè Tomeucci on Viale Europa.    ...

The Justice & Police Museum of Sydney, Australia has a collection of "special photographs" of criminals from the 1920s. Curator Peter Doyle explains: These ‘special photographs’ were ...

In a crowded field of talented practitioners, MPAA piracy figures are standout examples of misleading, silly, outright BS. No wonder then, that the MPAA has asked a judge to exclude any data on losses...

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"A Seattle Jack In The Box customer flew into a rage and pushed an elderly man to the ground this week after being told that his third serving of ranch dipping sauce would cost an extra 25 cents." [Ti...

Tiffiniy from Fight for the Future sez, "If the energy from last night is any indication, the NSA has an onslaught of discontent to contend with.    ...

Bot and Dolly's "Box" is an absolutely mind-blowing demonstration of "blended reality," combining live performance, video projection-mapping, and robotics. (Thanks, Sean Ness's brother!)  &...

Computer scientist Katia Vega has developed conductive eye shadow and false eyelashes that can be used to control wearable computers. For example, an extended blink could trigger your phone's camera....

Michael Paul Smith's photos of a fictional mid-20th century town, Egin Park, are accomplished using his detailed scale models shot against real backgrounds.    ...

"Theme park manager Eddie Stark has one week to whip his lackluster group of employees into shape before the park's grand opening." The folks at Bad Lip Reading have outdone themselves.  &n...

Kazuhiko Kakuta made a terrific flying ornithopter model of a Flaptter from Hayao Miyazaki's "Laputa: The Castle in the Sky" (1986).    ...

Brian Doherty of Hit & Run: "As I've written before, even law-and-order types should be concerned with reckless and murderous police tactics that lead to innocent citizens' deaths, because they c...

In an absolutely stirring, smashing speech delivered as the Reading Agency annual lecture, Neil Gaiman explains why libraries matter, and what duty we as writers and readers and citizens owe to readin...

Some TED talks have the feeling of a stoned college conversation. Seem that CollegeHumor agrees. Please enjoy "High TED Talks."    ...

Square Cash, released today in the United States, lets you send cash to anyone with an email address, simply CC the message to "[email protected]," and the recipient will receive the money in two busine...

San Francisco drone-dub-desert rock experimentalists Barn Owl entranced the audience at our recent Boing Boing: Ingenuity theatrical experience. In a similar vein as that performance is the new solo r...

"A fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy. The sculpture will visit the sidewalk outside a different McDonalds every lunchtime for the next week.  &...

"Four in the morning" appears with strange frequency in movies, TV, art, and culture. The Museum of Four In The Morning collects such references.    ...

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"Videographic shamanism" from Lasse A. Gjertsen. It is a story about a persons life and death told in 8-bits video game graphics.    ...

Here's a selection of sculptural recreations of common household objects made from polyester fabric. They're part of Do-Ho Suh's "Specimen Series," which is showing at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Ho...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a law is so monstrously immoral, it is the duty of good people to resist it in open revolt.    ...

Stephen Fry interviews Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Nicolosi's beliefs are so flatly pseudoscientific and Victorian (Homosexuality cau...

Stephen Fry interviews Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Nicolosi's beliefs are so flatly pseudoscientific and Victorian (Homosexuality cau...

Hot on the heels of FitBit's new app-connected wristwatch pedometer, here's Nike's new $150 Fuelband SE. Features include an ambient light sensor, Bluetooth 4 pairing to a new iOS smartphone app, and ...

The evil clown stalking Northampton, England, was revealed as student and filmmaker Alex Powell. Photos of the sinister figure at the National Lift Tower, posing on Elm Street, next to a town statue a...

Handbag and leather goods sales down 9% so far this year, according to the world's biggest luxury goods firm. [BBC]    ...

Sony's built a reputation for making small camera with great image quality, with large-sensor models like the RX1 and RX100 leaving the competitionand our walletsin pain.    ...

This American Life's director of operations takes us behind the scenes at the radio show to talk NPR, podcasting and working down to the wire.    ...

On the always-amazing Passport to Dreams Old and New, a fantastic piece of detective work about the evolution of the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion.    ...

Blogger and journalist Glenn Greenwald, who along with Laura Poitras broke the story of Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, announced today that he is departing the Guardian newspaper to join a "new news vent...

Hans Riegel, the man behind German candy company Haribo, maker of Gummi Bears, has died of heart failure. He was 90 years old.    ...

A hotelier in Paris called the cops on a pair of Chinese guests who were paying their bills nightly with Euro coins and who had 3,700 more in their rooms.    ...

Crazy 4 Cult 2 is a brand new collection of cult movie-themed artwork from Gallery 1988's annual show. This book features amazing art inspired by movies such as A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Ghostb...

Here is a great catalog of counterintuitive truths, collected in a Reddit thread called "What fact do you accept intellectually, but still feels 'wrong' to you?" For example: "How automatic transmissi...

Lil sez, "Some doctors decided that it would help kids describe their poop accurately if they turned the verbal Bristol Stool Scale ('type 1 as 'rabbit droppings', type 2 as 'bunch of grapes', type 3 ...

An "Academy School" (like US charter schools) in south London has banned "slang" from its student body, under the mistaken apprehension that English has a language academy that determines what is and ...

"You, Fozzmo, are the most brilliant scientist and inventor of the century! The whole world has acclaimed your genius at creating amazing mechanical contrivances!…" A story from Weird Mysteries,...

Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute was snorkeling off the coast about 20 miles southwest of L.A. when she spotted an 18-foot-long oarfish.    ...

BB contributor Ben Marks tells us of a new documentary film in production about UCLA's Quidditch team that Ben's son founded in 2009: In May of 2011, when filmmaker Farzad Nikbakht Sangari was relativ...

Launched just hours ago on Kickstarter, the castAR virtual reality headset has already received over $300k and will reach its goal of $400k very soon.    ...

I saw British electronic music legend Gary Numan perform last week (it was a great show; I wrote about the show here).    ...

Sergio Jurez Correa teaches at Jos Urbina Lpez Primary School in Matamoros, Mexico -- a violent, terribly impoverished border town. His school is often referred to as "a place of punishment." But when...

"The baristas don’t tend to mind, especially if you tip generously." -- Ian Gonsher, MAKE    ...

At The Guardian, Nadja Popovich interviews Xeni on her experience of breast cancer, and how sharing it was both a life-saver and a crutch.    ...

Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an open-source whistleblower submission system originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz.  &nb...

At The Guardian, Nadja Popovich interviews Xeni on her experience of breast cancer, and how sharing it was both a life-saver and a crutch.    ...

Legend Toys of Japan is taking pre-orders for the Young Steve Jobs Action Figure. I like the 1/6th scale Apple I they are selling, too.    ...

With admirable clarity and brevity, Princeton's Ed Felten explains why Lavabit's owner was right to design his email service to be resistant to court orders.    ...

Kim Deitch has been drawing underground comics since the 1960s. His latest book is The Boulevard of Broken Dreams and he joined us to talk collections, aging and getting a late start.  &nb...

Eric Mittleman, the director/editor/producer with whom we've produced a number of Boing Boing Video projects for some years now, has an awesome feature film project in the works: "Mobbed Up," which i...

Wired posted a selection of photos from Simon Menner's new book, Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archives, and they're so very bizarre.    ...

Having tried to use motion-tracking fitness gadgets to help stay in shape, only to see forgetfulness and indiscipline relegate them to a drawer, I'm wary of my impulsive desire to buy the $130 Fitbit ...

This weekend, puttering around in Brooklyn in the wake of New York Comic-Con, Heather and I saw the strangest thing: a sinister-looking truck loaded with stuffed, loudly-squeaking animal toys, toolin...

Photo: REUTERS/Nir Elias The Times of India reports a police crackdown on sex toy sales in Delhi. [via Arbroath] After a tip-off, a team led by inspector Mukesh Walia raided Palika Bazaar on Tuesday a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45YOtbuy0 Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!     ...

Luminaries such as Sylvester Stallone and Signorney Weaver charge hundreds, but the thing that gets me are the nickel-and-dime (or, rather, $20) options you can have around it.    ...

Michel Pierre of New York received serious shrapnel wounds to his face, arms and legs when the toilet exploded in his Brooklyn apartment.    ...

Created by Flowing Data, this map reveals exactly what pizza chain dominates in any given 10-mile region of the U.S.    ...

The SpaceX Grasshopper's latest launch—and graceful descent!—captured by a drone-mounted camera. Grasshopper was most recently seen terrifying the cows.    ...

We're delighted to present Gene Luen Yang (oft mentioned here) introducing his forthcoming graphic novel The Shadow Hero in the video above, and, below the jump, the exclusive reveal of the cover of ...

Dave from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "What we don't want to see is massive tracking using RFID chips (or any other easily trackable or hackable technology) in badges, whether that's real-...

One year ago today Nicholson Baker on the joy of writing on rubber with a ballpoint pen: I read Nicholson Baker's book of essays, The Size of Thoughts, when it came out in 1997.    ...

Etsy seller CarvedCrayons (AKA Hoang Tran) makes amazing, miniature pop-culture carvings out of the ends of crayons. $25-$35. CarvedCrayons     ...

At the Washington Post, Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report on a new finding in the top secret documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden: The NSA is gatherin...

Writing in Wired, Richard Stallman -- founder of the Free Software Foundation, which puts the GNU in GNU/Linux -- writes about the relationship between software freedom and a free society.  ...

"When I was a junior in high school, I suffered from a condition that troubles many teenagers: not much money and no way to get booze." -- From Real Stuff #4 (Fantagraphics, November 1991).  ...

Swedish Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament Amelia Andersdotter sez, "I'm organising a panel in the European parliament on the topic of DRM in the HTML5 standards because it's clearly a pol...

Wired profiles Darrell Pugh, a formerly homeless man who teaches people who have no homes or are otherwise in economically precarious position how to use networks and computers, at the Tenderloin Tech...

Did you know that Boing Boing has a variety of wonderful products? For instance, here is our Skullcap Moleskine Pocket Journal, designed by Sarina Frauenfelder.    ...

KatieAlves has posted her amazing, UV-transforming Bride of Frankenstein makeup job to DeviantArt, along with a video tutorial for recreating the effect on your own.    ...

From Wikileaks' collection of videos from the whistleblowers' dinner in Moscow to give Edward Snowden the Integrity Award from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a bang-on clip e...

London-based photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz does interesting high-speed photography with beautiful women and... well, milk. His "Milky PinUps" series features models in retro poses "wearing" spl...

I converted from a toolbox to this Craftsman tool bag last year and I could not be happier. I live in an apartment in Singapore with no tool bench and limited space.    ...

Yong Chen and his team at USC Engineering have built a six-axis-of-freedom 3D printer that can rotate its build platform and heads to enable it to print on irregular, curved and slanted surfaces; sho...

I want to hire this little guy to check my kids' heads for lice. (Via Neatorama)    ...

Ryan Holiday is a media strategist who started his career as an assistant to Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and was the director of marketing at American Apparel for many years. &n...

Iceland is the readingest country in the world, where one in ten people will publish a book, and where glossy book catalogs come through the door every Christmas season.    ...

An excerpt from a letter Anthony Hopkins wrote to Bryan Cranston after binging on all six seasons of Breaking Bad in two weeks: I know there is so much smoke blowing and sickening bullshit in this bus...

An excerpt from a letter Anthony Hopkins wrote to Bryan Cranston after binging on all six seasons of Breaking Bad in two weeks: I know there is so much smoke blowing and sickening bullshit in this bus...

National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski explains how nature would deal with a zombie outbreak: brutally, and without quarter.    ...

It looks like Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the creative duo behind Black Magic, were inspired by Tod Browning's great 1932 movie Freaks.    ...

Oh Yeah Wow's video for The Paper Kites' "Young." Seven days to photograph more than 350 people. Ten days to cut together 4,000+ photos.    ...

Bob Slade, a 65-year-old retired British dockworker who's served for four years as a beloved crossing guard ("lollipop man") has quit because his bosses ordered him to stop high-fiving the kids. ...

Lonnie Holley, aka The Sand Man, is an incredible and inspiring outsider artist/musician who was born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama.    ...

Sarah writes, "Author Peter S. Beagle, most well-know for his immortal work The Last Unicorn, has joined forces with artist Sarah Allegra to create the most memorable photos in her Dreamworld series y...

Felix Loechner created a gorgeous photo series documenting the Philologische Bibliothek on the campus of the Freie Universitt Berlin. Designed by architect Norman Foster, the library's form was inspir...

The BBC's Alex Bellos travels to Gwalior, an Indian city that contains a temple with the oldest known use of the number "0".    ...

Early 20th century herpetologist Edward Taylor is known for identifying new species of frogs and lizards, for his curmudgeonly personality, and paranoid racism.    ...

On the East Coast of the US, electric demand is so high that utility companies can't take major transmission lines out of commission for maintenance and repair.    ...

Oldich Kulhnek (1940 - 2013) is a famed Czhech artist whose illustrations appear on Czech banknotes and postage stamps. In 1971, Kulhnek was arrested for "defamation of the allied socialist states" fo...

Bill Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh. In 1992 Shannon attended the The Art Institute of Chicago, earning a BFA in 1995.    ...

The Atlantic posted a slew of glorious photos of airships in history. Seen here, "The U.S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles, upended after a turbulent wind from the Atlantic flipped the 700-foot airship o...

Cody Wilmer has created a workstation-making kit out of sturdy metal parts. I got an early kit and am going to make a standing desk.    ...

On Saturday, my 7-year-old and I attended the Mythbusters: Behind The Myths live show in San Francisco and it was absolutely fantastic.    ...

Prankster street artist Banksy continued his New York City residency this weekend near Central Park by setting up an art stall, manned by someone else.    ...

Jeremy sez, "To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, celebrating women in science and technology (Tuesday, Oct 15th this year) I've put together a collection of t-shirts featuring women in science and technolo...

Apps for Kids is sponsored by HuluPlus. HuluPlus lets you binge on thousands of hit shows – anytime, anywhere on your TV, PC, smart phone or tablet.    ...

Apps for Kids is sponsored by HuluPlus. HuluPlus lets you binge on thousands of hit shows – anytime, anywhere on your TV, PC, smart phone or tablet.    ...

Lisa Hanawalt's comics are about horses and cats and genitals and things. Some of her less racy work has appeared in The New York Times.    ...

iPhone video tends toward brevity--think Vine and Instagram--and fancier movie apps are thin on the ground. Spark Camera, from IDEO, aims to make it easier to shoot atmospheric, attractive mini-movie...

The latest from Ethan and Scott; catch up on WILCOCK in the archives    ...

Rick Kleffel just posted his interview with Jonathan Lethem (MP3) about Lethem's new novel, Dissident Gardens, his latest New York City novel.    ...

AMC's The Walking Dead returns for a fourth season, and Kevin McFarland is ready to pick its brains.    ...

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, briefly followed an Iranian "sex feed" over the weekend. At the time, reports Ilan Ben Zion, @PersianHotBook had only 15 followers—and it soon lost i...

Beautiful, strange and sweet, Fabian Oefner's photography captures paint warped by sound waves, magnetic fields and heat. He recently illustrated his methods at a TED talk.    ...

The rear end of Tinu and the head of Uno, two Eurasiers, are seen from behind a tree during the launch of the Crufts dog show in Green Park, central London, February 24, 2004.    ...

Anand Lai Shimpi and Brian Klug trace the tricks used by electronics giants to bamboozle benchmarking apps--a practice widely associated with Samsung, but also used by at least some of its competitors...

"In Iceland," writes Rosie Goldsmith, "one in ten people will publish a book." [BBC]    ...

I. Dr. Danielle Lee, The Urban Scientist, a Ph.D.-holding contributor at Scientific American, was asked by one of the site's "partner" publications, Biology Online, if she would like to guest-post the...

Mary Ellen Macintyre, with the Chronicle Herald, reports that hunters inadvertently (but legally) killed an animal said to hold deep spiritual significance to the Mi'kmaq.    ...

A camera crew at New York Comic-Con, toting Sirius Satellite Radio business cards and conducting sleazy and racially-tinged interviews, was exposed in record time this weekend by conference-goers.&nbs...

A Democratic-led study of the GOP (PDF link) placed evangelical, Tea Party and moderate Republicans in focus groups to share their "passions, nuances and divisions." It's a fascinating, if obviously b...

A Democratic-led study of the GOP (PDF link) placed evangelical, Tea Party and moderate Republicans in focus groups to share their "passions, nuances and divisions." It's a fascinating, if obviously b...

Noelle Stevenson's "Nimona" is a great, lighthearted (but full-throated) serial fantasy webcomic about the complex relationship between heroes and villains.    ...

A clever researcher discovered a backdoor (cached) into some D-link routers: This is performing a strcmp [string comparison] between the string pointer at offset 0xD0 inside the http_request_t struct...

This weekend, we hopped into the car and made the 6-hour trip to New York to check out its fast-crowing Comic-Con.    ...

Campbell Whyte and his family, visiting San Francisco, had their luggage stolen. And it's not just luggage: with them were the tools of their livelihood, right down to paints and brushes.  &...

One year ago today Monster Mash: horrific composite of Universal Monsters' Big Four: Monster Mash" comes from an alternate universe where Doctor Frankenstein has gotten a little enthusiastic with the ...

Jason sez, "I am trying to raise money to buy better astrophotography gear, so I can take even better pictures, so I'm doing this by selling shirts I have designed." The Main Sequence (Thanks, Jason...

Afate is a Togolese hacker who uses the WoeLab makerspace in Lome, Togo (the first makerspace in west Africa). He's invented a 3D printer made out of the ewaste that is piled high in neighborhood-siz...

Craig sez, "This is an unofficial music video for 'The Darlings of Lumberland' by They Might Be Giants, from their 16th album 'Nanobots' (2013).    ...

"On Mary's Peak, Oregon, 150 foot tall Grand Fir trees tower over you as you ascend." A photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Ben Leshchinsky.    ...

May 1915. "Nine-year-old newsie and his 7-year-old brother 'Red.' Tough specimen of Los Angeles newsboys." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. -- Shorpy    ...

Ladies and gentlemen, General Keith Alexander, who insists that the NSA's only problem is a public misunderstanding about what information the agency does and does not collect, not the programs of mas...

It's tempting to go all, "Thanks, Captain Obvious!" on this Los Angeles Times investigative report, but seriously: If a big earthquake hits Los Angeles, many of the city's older concrete buildings wou...

This amazing Haunted Mansion wedding-cake (complete with Doom Buggie cake-topper) featured at the wedding of a redditor called TheSharkFromJaws. Got married in WDW today.    ...

The One More for the People author discusses fundamentalism, fears of the apocalypse, zine making and life with an incurable disease.(Note: we are catching up with RiYL podcasts that have been previ...

The Cute Girl Network, a hilarious and sweet rom-com graphic novel by Greg Means, MK Reed and Joe Flood hits stores today.    ...

One year ago today Tusken Raider kids' costume: Ward Jenkins dressed up little Ezra as a Tusken Raider for Hallowe'en. Five years ago today Plymouth Rock Monthly -- old magazine for chicken aficionado...

Young author and human rights advocate Malala Yousafzai had quite a tour of the United States this week. In the video above, she manages to flap the unflappable Jon Stewart, and it's a great segment....

A massive cyclone has made landfall in India, with wind speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour (about 125 mph).    ...

A massive cyclone has made landfall in India, with wind speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour (about 125 mph).    ...

In the Toronto Star, writer Raveena Aulakh gets hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop and meets an extraordinary 9-year-old girl whose life, deprived of education and many basic rights, is all too common.&n...

A photograph by Boing Boing reader Jos Ikeda.    ...

Charlie Stross really, really hates Microsoft Word. So much so that he's written a 1600-word essay laying out the case for Word as a great destroyer of creativity, an agent of anticompetitive economic...

The late Allen Collins's isolated guitar solo tracks from Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird (1973). (via Scott Ford)    ...

As one might expect from the original Gang of Four bass player turned interactive brand strategist, Dave Allen's got something fascinating to say about just about everything, from cars to music roya...

The Arizona Republic has found a large cohort of elderly and retired people who claim to have been abused by TSA staff at Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport.    ...

The New York Times speaks to experimental music composer Fred Ho about his Sweet Science Suite, which follows the life and work of boxer Muhammad Ali.    ...

Spocko sez, "It's nice to know that some companies understand that non-essential federal employees are people too, with needs and wants and not robots that can be shut off with a switch.  &n...

One year ago today Video-game tights: Etsy's eatmeclothing makes kick-ass video-game themed tights, including a Galaga set, Wonderboy, and Bubble Bobble.    ...

An excellent editorial by Simon St. Laurent on O'Reilly Programming asks what the open Web has gained from the World Wide Web Consortium's terrible decision to add DRM to Web-standards.  &nb...

This episode is brought to you by HostGator, offering premium web hosting at low costs, and 24x7x365 phone, chat, and email support.    ...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud is publishing the world's safety codes. Some governments disapprove. He writes, "Upon receipt of a Certified Letter of Takedown from the Special Assistant Attorney General...

MAKE: "Blokify's custom block-based 3D modeling software makes it easy for folks, especially kids, to build object models, which they can then send directly to a home 3D printer."   &nb...

Savvy East New Yorkers Now Charging $20 To See The Banksy    ...

The New Disruptors is new to Boing Boing! It's a podcast about people who make art, things, or connections finding new ways to reach an audience and build a community.    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Archer does Top Gun • If Owen Wilson was Loki • Comedian pranks TedX at Drexel University • P...

American teachers are widely assessed on the basis of "value added measures," a statistical tool for analyzing the outcomes of their teaching.    ...

This barbecue joint is located near my childhood home, in Richmond, Virginia. The home where I grew up was condemned, demolished, paved over, and replaced with a mall.    ...

Tom Hiddleston, the actor best known for his portrayal of Loki in the Avengers/Thor franchise, demonstrates some remarkable versatility in his metier as he performs Loki as the character would be por...

Watch comedian Sam Hyde take the piss out of TED talks at Drexel University's TEDxDrexelU. From Philadelphia Magazine: The event concluded with Sam Hyde, billed as a video documentary filmmaker and j...

On the always-fascinating Expanding Mind podcast, Erik Davis and Maja D'Aoust interviewed Earth and Fire, the founders and directors of Erowid.    ...

Dozens of cyclists attended a hearing on police hostility to cyclists at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week. They told stories of undercover cops threatening to beat them up after cuttin...

Something Awful celebrates the deathless prose of Thomas Friedman and the mountains of empty calories on offer at the International House of Pancakes -- Friedman's culinary equivalent -- by giving us ...

Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute, sent this email today to "NCI staff, grantees, advisors, reviewers and others," warning of increasingly damaging effects the ongoing federal g...

Below is GE_Pretzel's review of the 1963 film "Special Delivery," from Safety Enterprises Corporation. The film stars John Butler, then-police chief of Mansfield, Ohio, as the bus driver.  &...

"When farmers showed up from the Near East about 7,500 years ago, eager to grow their grains in the soil of Central Europe, they were met by indigenous hunters and gatherers.    ...

" Mass surveillance of the kind practiced by the NSA produces a chilling effect on journalism, because sources do not feel they can have a private conversation with a reporter." That's the takeaway fr...

In Newsweek, Jeff Stein profiles Frank Archibald, who was named head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service earlier this year. Stein describes him as "a nice guy in a killer job literally;" an "af...

"An Oregon man who lost his gay son to suicide and was walking across the country to raise awareness about bullying is dead after being hit by a truck in eastern Colorado." Joseph Bell of La Grande, O...

Kevin Poulsen, Wired News: "Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the ...

I bet the Vatican's commemorative coins celebrating Pope Francis's first year are suddenly much more valuable than expected. Why? They spelled Jesus wrong.    ...

A leaked Amazon ebook contract [PDF] shows that Amazon's default terms for ebook publishers is that they must use DRM, unless they can convince Amazon to leave it off.    ...

Judge Hugh B. Clarke, Jr. of Lansing District Court in Michigan fined himself $50 after his cellphone went off at a sentencing hearing.    ...

NPR's "All Things Considered" did a piece this week about what the shutdown means for thousands of lab mice used in medical research at government facilities.    ...

"Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, who worked with president George W. Bush to give more power to US intelligence agencies after the September 11 terrorist attacks, said the intelligence community had mi...

Our friends at Dangerous Minds talked to David Yow (Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard) about a new CD/DVD/book bundle, The Jesus Lizard: Book. It looks fantastic, a must-have for fans.    ...

I wasn't expecting to be blown away by Gary Numan last night. I'd been invited to see him perform to a crowd of 100 journalists and other members of the press at producer/mixer Bob Clearmountain’...

Reporting in the New York Times about the ever-expanding operations of undercover police in NYC, led in part by a former CIA agent, Jim Dwyer writes, The unrestrained surveillance in New York public l...

(Via Political Blindspot. Thanks, Matthew!)    ...

Real estate appraiser Randall Bell specializes in "stigmatized properties," homes and other buildings where bad things have happened or are thought to have occurred.    ...

At Foreign Policy, Shane Harris writes about leaders within the National Security Agency who "are angry and dispirited by what they see as the White House's failure to defend the spy agency against cr...

You saw how much I loved Paul Pope's new graphic novel Battling Boy. Now, Gina from FirstSecond sez, "The world introduced in Battling Boy is rife with monsters and short on heroes .   ...

Archer takes on the video for "Danger Zone," with music by Giorgio Morodo, lyrics by Tom Whitlock, and vocals by Kenny Loggins.    ...

My 16-year-old daughter came home yesterday and showed me an app called Lulu that all of her friends are using. It's purpose is to anonymously rate your male Facebook friends.    ...

Attendees at New York Comic-Con were required to register their new, RFID-bugged badges online, in a process that encouraged them to link them to their Twitter accounts.    ...

The Calling Dr. Laura author discusses tiny dogs, family crises and self-publishing. (Note: we are catching up with RiYL podcasts that have been previously published.) Your browser does not support ...

Bruce Schneier's written a long and in-depth guide to maintaining "air gaps" for sensitive computers. Air gaps -- computers that are never connected to the Internet or your local network -- are concep...

Janice writes, "A new documentary, 'The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations,' about the classic children's book is available to the public.    ...

Infinite Crypt, a Kickstarter project aiming to raise £6,000, is a system for building relatively cheap tabletop RPG terrain in quantity, using snap-together, laser-cut materials.  &nbs...

Charlie Stross considers the confluence of bookspam; Turing-complete, Javascript enabled ebooks, and auctorial disappointment and posits a hostile ecosystem of parasitic ebooks who go around devouring...

Katie Paterson's Fossil Necklace is a gorgeous piece whose each bead is a chronologically ordered artifact from a significant moment in our planetary history, signposting events like the cretaceous, t...

Today's Klockwerks newsletter brought Roger Wood's latest lunatic bell-jar timepiece. It's exceptional, even by his high standards.    ...

The Garmin Head-Up Display is a $150 gadget that connects to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and projects navigation information onto your windshield.    ...

Doctorinister made a cool Halloween mask out of a palm tree frond. Yard Waste = Free Halloween Costume: How to Make Creepy Masks from Fallen Palm Tree Fronds    ...

I love Jen's ukulele cover of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from Disney's Haunted Mansion -- she crushes the oft-neglected final chorus. Grim Grinning Ghosts    ...

Paul "DJ Spooky" Miller took time out of his insanely busy travel schedule to meet us at Union Square. Naturally, we talked traveling, staying busy and city living.    ...

International travelers, take heed: T-Mobile is now offering free texts and unlimited data in over 100 countries. Phone calls will be charged a reasonable 20 cents a minute.    ...

One year ago today D10 engagement ring: Dragonslorefury posted this wonderful D10 RPG-player's engagement ring to DeviantArt. Five years ago today Gaiman's Graveyard Book -- spooky, magical retelling ...

Fetal cardiology surgeons at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles operated on a 25-week old fetus with severe aortic stenosis "after practicing a few times with a model of jello an...

Over at Scientific American, Jason Goldman writes about a sure-fire way that biologists doing field work in the Amazon have found to lure big cats, like jaguars, to "camera traps" where they capture p...

"Brussels-based illustrator and art director Adrien Noterdaem loves to make Simpsons-ized versions of TV and movie characters," say our friends at Dangerous Minds blog.    ...

Last week I was in Italy for the first Maker Faire Rome. (You can see my photo galleries of the event here and here.) The Faire kicked off on Thursday with a series of presentations.   ...

The fourth US astronaut to fly in space, and the second to orbit Earth, has died. Scott Carpenter was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, and died in hospice care after a recent stroke. &nb...

Comic fans, exhibitors, artists and thousands of other visitors gather at the Javits Center for the New York Comic Con, which runs from October 10-13.    ...

October 15 is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science and engineering, centered around the lady who is credited with publishing the first computer programs ever written.   &...

James Gurney says: "Using colored pencils and markers, Marcello Barenghi draws a super-realistic potato chip bag. Here's his list of the art materials he uses for these videos."   &nbs...

You do, however, have MRSA. An adorable cartoon at the new blog BuzzHootRoar draws attention to something I'd never heard of before — a lot of the time, when your doctor thinks you've been bitte...

The Blocktronics ACiD Trip won the Freestyle ANSI/ASCII competition at last week's Demosplash 2013 event at Carengie Mellon University. Created by 22 artists, it's apparently the longest ANSI scrolle...

Research from UC Berkeley's Kater Murch and team has allowed fine observation of a quantum waveform collapse. Observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting quantum bit, published in Natur...

Premiering on PBS next Tuesday, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle is a three-part series about the history of comic book heroes and their impact on culture.    ...

Jim Mickle carves out a niche as an art-house horror upstart    ...

Here's one of three Cosplay Apocalypse scenes drawn by bOING bOING illustrator Danny Hellman. See the other two on Danny's blog.    ...

My friends Stacey Ransom and Jason Mitchell have a solo show of their phantasmagorphic photos hanging at Seattle's Roq La Rue gallery.    ...

My friends Stacey Ransom and Jason Mitchell have a solo show of their phantasmagoric photos hanging at Seattle's Roq La Rue gallery.    ...

Last year, Joshua Brady of Matoaca, Virgina convinced a man named Herson Torres to rob banks in the Washington, DC area.    ...

Here's some spectacular news: Ted Chiang's incredible science fiction story "Story of Your Life" (which won the Nebula and Sturgeon, and was reprinted in his fantastic collection Stories of Your Life ...

From Jimmy Kimmel Live, musicians read mean Tweets about themselves.    ...

I loved MALM's second album. IKEA or death    ...

[Video contains nothing but spoilers] Remember how people said Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon corresponded with scenes in The Wizard of Oz?    ...

Boulet's comic strip about his childhood experience of sleeping in the back of his parents car is beautifully enhanced by cycling animations.    ...

Full Screen Mario is Josh Goldberg's complete remake of the classic Super Mario Brothers in HTML5. You can play re-creations of the original levels, make your own in an HTML5-based level editor, or pl...

Josh Stearns says, The Committee to Protect Journalists just released their first ever report on press freedom in the US.    ...

Serious Eats might have been just a bit too serious in its efforts to taste-test for the ultimate preserved anchovy fillet.    ...

In The New Yorker, Ken Auletta profiles the Guardian's "unflappable editor" Alan Rusbridger, who says the government of the UK was "conflating terrorism and journalism" by detaining the husband of Gle...

"Mr. Snowden said that he did not expect his son to return to the United States, where the 30-year-old former intelligence contractor is wanted on espionage charges, and did not give any indication th...

In 1970 SF author Charles Platt (above, right) drove with Thomas M. Disch and Marilyn Hacker from New York to California.    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Iggy Pop performs "The Passenger" (1977) • Prankvertising • A bit of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" i...

Nick Papas from AirBnB says, "As you know, the New York State Attorney General demanded that Airbnb turn over three years worth of data on thousands of hosts in New York City.    ...

Michael Duncan, whose "History of Rome" podcast should be required listening for anybody who wants to better understand the foundations of European politics, culture, and mythology, has a new podcast ...

Michael Duncan, whose "History of Rome" podcast should be required listening for anybody who wants to better understand the foundations of European politics, culture, and mythology, has a new podcast ...

Described as a "a first-person post-disaster survival simulation set in the Northern wilderness", The Long Dark sounds like an intriguing and unnerving experience.    ...

Leandro Granato is an Argentine painter whose talented sinuses allow him to snort liquid into his nose and squirt it out of his tear-ducts.    ...

A worker walks past artwork 'Nice Tits' by British artist Sarah Lucas at the Whitechapel gallery in London September 30, 2013.    ...

The Verge's Dan Seifert on T-Mobile's growing divergence from the usual business of being a cellular carrier. T-Mobile's new plans are significantly different than the industry is accustomed to most ...

Damon Lavrinc asks the question: would you rather buy an autonomous car from Google or GM?The answer, for most, is Google.    ...

I understand that that mine is a sensationalist headline, both on the ELO front and the chiptune front. But I love Sexy Synthesizer's arcadey, bleepy cover of Olivia Newton-John's theme song from Xan...

The latest of The Oatmeal makes a pretty compelling case for hating Christopher Colombus, whose achievements ("discovering" America, sailing from Europe to America, proving the curvature of the Earth)...

The latest of The Oatmeal makes a pretty compelling case for hating Christopher Columbus, whose achievements ("discovering" America, sailing from Europe to America, proving the curvature of the Earth)...

Wired posted a gallery of the best Lego projects of all time, as collected by Mike Doyle in his new book, Beautiful LEGO.    ...

Olga Khazan writes about her experiences with the army of commenters who turn up whenever she covers Russia: "It's of course impossible to tell whose vitriol is genuine and whose is being bankrolled, ...

Ben sez, "My 9 year old wanted to make a lightsaber for his monthly science project and Hallowe'en costume so I designed a quick project at his level.    ...

Sssamanthaa created this wonderful "Pop Art Zombie" makeup job. Pop Art Zombie (via Wil Wheaton)    ...

Jeff VanderMeer sez, "Greg Bossert (who's actually also a World Fantasy Award finalist this year!) put together a cool animated video based on the instructional story fish in Wonderbook: The Illustra...

Perla Trevizo of the Arizona Daily Star took this photo of Tucson Police Department officers using pepper spray against people who were trying to prevent US Border Patrol agents from taking three peop...

Alan sez, "A 'sock puppet network' is a set of seemingly independent accounts on Wikipedia that act in concert because they are (or at least strongly appear to be) all controlled by the same entity.&n...

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"Pilgrims' Progress," which follows, appeared in today's issue of The Magazine, an independent subscriber-funded electronic periodical that commissions and publishes five or more medium-length article...

Author Lauren Beukes (who wrote the incredible time-travel/serial killer novel The Shining Girls) and her daughter Keitu both loved Neil Gaiman's novel Fortunately the Milk (I loved it too: my review...

As I previously posted, my favorite indie folk group The Head & The Heart have a new LP, titled "Let's Be Still," out next week on Sub Pop records.    ...

McDonald's threw a PR event in NYC whereby real chefs were invited to make palatable dishes out of the raw feedstock of the McD's supply-chain.    ...

The New York Times Magazine has a 6,000 word excerpt from Nick Bilton's upcoming book, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.    ...

An undercover cop from the Riverside Sheriff's Department pressured a teen with autism, Tourette Syndrome, and bipolar syndrome to buy a tiny amount of pot for him, then arrested him and got him expe...

A prisoner molded this soap mask as part of his escape plan. At least that's what this guy on Reddit says.    ...

From Tinneddesires's tumblr: a meticulously deconstructed, knolled Torpedo typewriter. My old Torpedo typewriter needed a cleaning (via Things Organized Neatly)    ...

Last night's Frontline documentary about how the National Football League denies and hides overwhelming evidence linking the sport with brain injuries among its players is available for free online.&...

Behold! Dudefood's oreo-breaded deep-fried ice-cream, produced by de-cremeing a bunch of oreo-style cookies, pulverizing their carapaces, mashing the creme in with cookies-and-cream ice-cream, emballi...

The inimitable Iggy Pop performs "The Passenger" live at The Apollo in Manchester, England, October 1977.    ...

Our friends at Adafruit are hosting a month-long program on Google+ "aimed at crowdsourcing the manufacturing and delivery of the Robohand prosthetic to people in need." The next hangout is this Frida...

Lisa Nilsson creates breathtaking anatomical cross-sections from paper. She has a new exhibition opening tomorrow at New York City's Pavel Zoubok Gallery.    ...

Uploaded by Ybeth Bruzual, a TV newscaster in Orlando, Florida, who writes: "5 year sobs on day 1 of federal shutdown.    ...

"At least some anti-Western comments appear to come from staffers the Russian government pays to sit in a room, surf the Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the cou...

Professor Yochai Benkler, writing an op-ed for the Guardian: Dragnet surveillance, or bulk collection, goes to the heart of what is wrong with the turn the NSA has taken since 2001.   &...

"Health officials urged tuberculosis testing for hundreds of babies, family members and staff who were at a Las Vegas neonatal intensive care unit this past summer, saying they want to take extra prec...

NBC News: "Survivors and family members of nearly 700,000 Haitians who have contracted cholera are suing the United Nations for billions of dollars, accusing the U.N.    ...

First released several years ago, Star Wars: Frames was a lavish $3,000 limited-edition box set of books compiling George Lucas's favorite 1,400 images from all six Star Wars films.   &...

Hard Case Crime publishes hardboiled crime fiction by Stephen King, Donald Westlake, James M. Cain, Michael Crichton, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, and other greats.    ...

In 1984, I spent much time at the local computer store playing with MacPaint, the graphics painting program developed by Bill Atkinson and released simultaneously with the Macintosh 128k.  &...

As the US government stretches out into its second week, with federal food-safety and disease outbreak personnel sent home and prohibited from returning to work--even if they wanted to without pay!--a...

Tajik soccer, hitherto unheralded in the annals of the sport, is home to an innovative new tactic: cutting off opposition players' domestic utilities.    ...

Your browser does not support the audio tag. In this episode of Gweek we talk about DIY book publishing vs traditional book publishing, music designed to trick your lizard brain, software that tur...

The original concept for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion was a walk-through "Museum of the Weird" featuring spooky exhibits (as always, the best place to read about this is Long Forgotten, far and away t...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Louis tries to do the right thing.    ...

Nobody knows what causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. There are a many factors linked by correlation and lots of things that, again, correlate to a reduced risk.    ...

Last week, NOVA polled a bunch of physicists, chemists, and physiologists about who they thought would win this year's Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology.    ...

We talk about computer modeling a lot in the context of climate science — powerful algorithms that help scientists get a better idea of how climate systems work, how they spin off into weather,...

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One year ago today Brightly colored Guy Fawkes mask-scarves: Hot Occu-Babe not included. Five years ago today Cool photoblog: elders with style: Documents street style and fashion of the mature and wi...

I still don't understand it, obviously, but "the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages" has some sweet fractals on it!    ...

Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications, will likely be looking into customizing his autocorrect settings today.    ...

You like free retro games, don't you? Ones with downloadable chiptune soundtracks, brutal difficulty curves and perfect NES aesthetics? Null Divide + should be good to ruin your productivity this fin...

Huang Mingbo, a Taiwanese food artist, made these lobstercycles out of discarded shells in 2011, for a cooking art show in Fuzhou, China.    ...

Wired's Steven Levy on a $130 talking smoke detector. Nest Protect also knows when a warning isnt necessary. By analyzing sensor data (things like smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide levels), the system...

Sold! I love it. A breath of fresh air in a sea of MacBook clones, from the company responsible for half of them.    ...

Holly Case on Joseph Stalin, editor. [via Kottke] Stalin always seemed to have a blue pencil on hand, and many of the ways he used it stand in direct contrast to common assumptions about his person an...

Alan sez, "EFF's Deeplinks blog brings us an update on what we know (so far) about how the NSA has been deploying malware onto servers and peoples' computers.    ...

Congress's private gym -- whose budget is a closely held secret for "security" reasons -- has remained open during the shutdown.    ...

Elizabeth Perez's concept design for an edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 features a strike-anywhere match set into the cover and a screen-printed striking surface on the spine, so you can use ...

Both are now safe after being pulled earlier today from the well in Shropshire, England, reports Shropshire Live.    ...

You've no doubt heard the horror stories from people who've brought their smartphones with them to another country and were surprised with a roaming bill for thousands of dollars.   &nb...

In the wake of the UK's "phone hacking" press misconduct scandal, the Leveson Report proposed statutory regulation of the media.    ...

A one-off to be sold at auction in November, the proceeds will go to AIDS, TB and malaria charities. Since the Leica M costs $7k in its normal incarnation, heaven knows what a special edition, cut by ...

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"Sometime during September, the Twitter account @tofu_product came online," writes Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic. "Its cryptic bio reads: Tofu absorbs flavor.    ...

"Authorities in Britain, Sweden, and the United States have arrested eight more people following last week's closure of Silk Road." More: AP.    ...

Starting with the Zip, in 1913. I'm always a sucker for a gallery of classic gadgets. [Mail]    ...

From Adrian Chen's Gawker long-read about that recent bust of the web's biggest online illegal drug marketplace: "The lesson of the Silk Road takedown isn't that Ulbricht was sloppy about security.&nb...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "The Wall Street Journal reported today that the National Security Agency's massive data storage center in Bluffdale, Utah has melted down at least 10 times in the past 13 m...

There's an excellent tick-tock of the Lavabit saga in the New Yorker, by Michael Phillips and Matt Buchanan. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison says he believes even if he hadnt hosted an email account for...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Allahu Akbar! • See World War II play out in 7 minutes • Fox News hires tiny humans to toil on gian...

A hidden camera video to promote the new motion picture remake of "Carrie" captures the reactions of "customers" at a NYC coffeeshop who think they're witnessing a telekinetic temper tantrum. &n...

Rainey Reitman says, "This Friday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation is hosting a panel discussion at Noisebridge on WikiLeaks and the movie The Fifth Estate.    ...

"Lego Thriller" by Annette Jung, Talking Animals Animation Studio.    ...

Vincent Broquaire's "Progressbar" is a short film illustrating the most significant aphorism of the Danny O'Brien canon: "Those progress-bars don't watch themselves." They certainly don't -- the hypn...

I can't remember where I read the rule of thumb that says the first 20% of any YouTube video can be skipped, but it is true in the case of this video of a man in kayak going down a drainage ditch at...

I don't remember how I found out about Munseys. It's a website with links to thousands of out-of-print books, with over 1,500 pulp era novels.    ...

When it latches on to the inside of his nose. Scientists! They're just like us!    ...

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He is married. He favors a clean-shaven face. He does not wear glasses.    ...

One year ago today Mathew Borrett's hypnagogic cities: Matthew Borrett's Escher-like sunken cityscapes invite exploration. Five years ago today How I learned to love my persimmon tree: When we moved i...

In 1910, Harry Houdini magically flew over a field near Melbourne, Australia. OK, he was in an airplane. But I hadn't known that the great magician was an aviation enthusiast.    ...

Michelle Langbehn has a rare form of cancer that affects about 1% of U.S. cancer patients. She was diagnosed in April 2012, shortly after giving birth to her daughter.    ...

"Allan Mednard gives us the details on two very popular styles of drumming, and what their rhythms are all about," says Joe Sabia.    ...

Popcorn really took off in North America in the mid-1880s, but it would take 50 years for it to become a favorite food at movie theaters.    ...

If you like what you read, hear, and watch here on Boing Boing the blog, you'll love us on your favorite social media services, too.    ...

Every year, The Scarehouse, 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh, puts on what many locals consider the best Halloween haunted house-type show in the region--with USA Today and Yahoo both ranking it am...

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The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics was announced this morning and it is probably the least surprising Nobel of the year.    ...

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Paul Pope is one of the great comic book creators working today, a major talent who keeps on surpassing himself. But even by those standards, Battling Boy, the first volume of a two-volume set, is a m...

Amnesty International's Kalaya'an Mendoza sends word of the Amnesty USA #GameOfDrones tour, "to mobilize students and youth around ending the US govt's use of drones in extrajudicial killings." Here's...

Artist Kate Lacour created a set of reflected anatomical drawings that are one part miracle-of-the-guts, one part split-and-matched veneer (with some NSFW for added awesome).    ...

(@History_Pics via John Curley)    ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told New York Magazine's Jennifer Senior that he believes in the devil. The hoofed one is, according to Scalia, "a real person." From New York: Have you seen evide...

Nebula Award winning writer/editor Eugie Foster has aggressive cancer in her sinuses, and while she's insured, her insurance sucks. She's asking her friends and colleagues to help her make ends meet.&...

Cincinnati police officer Darrell Beavers, 44, was indicted today for receiving nude photos from a teenage girl, theft of police equipment, tampering with evidence, and setting up a fake police substa...

A nine-year-old boy with "behavioral problems" snuck onto a plane in Minneapolis and flew all the way to Las Vegas, though he was taken away by Child Protective Services on landing (a flight attendant...

Johngineer from Adafruit takes beautiful macro-focus photos of electronic components. makrophoto (Thanks, Phil!)     ...

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area who would like to show support, here's a quick update on the case of imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, who made the documentary "Leaving Fe...

The front lines shift, not evenly or chaotically, but in punctuated surges: first one way, then the other. [via Kottke]    ...

Mrs and Mrs Webb, a couple in England, were mailed this curiously sinister portrait. No return address, cover letter or other information accompanied the plain but very strange painting, whose subject...

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Angela Watercutter, at Wired: "If Alien taught us anything besides that Sigourney Weaver is awesome its that in space, no one can hear you scream.    ...

Michael Morisy from Mucrock sez, "A veritable FOIA frenzy ensued in 2013 following a series of leaks about NSA surveillance programs, recently released documents show.    ...

Your attention please Happy birthday to my friends in the Afghan Whigs whose masterpiece album Gentlemen turns 20 this week!  Afghan Whigs reunite Sinkane, Usher and the Afghan Whigs New tunes ...

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If the cells that make up your body are little factories, then the shipping department just picked up a Nobel Prize this morning with the award for physiology or medicine going to researchers Randy S...

Joris sez, "I interviewed Marek Senick about his Filamaker today. The device is a grinder and filament extruder that recycles waste plastic and turns old unwanted 3D prints into new ones.  &...

Video: "Shepard Smith tours The Fox News Deck Inside the revolutionary new studio," which is apparently filled with miniaturized human beings toiling away on the previously-unreleased iPad Venti. ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Allahu Akbar! • Jellyfish-killing robots • Don't Lick My Toes: • Prison Profiteers • W...

In 1986 two girls, Bel and Jade, achieved international infamy at age eleven for murdering a four-year-old girl. Twenty five years later, the now-grown up and rehabilitated women are back in society, ...

Christopher Chabris, psychology professor and author, on the occasion of Malcom Gladwell's latest book: "I say good for you to everyone who doesn't take Gladwell seriously.    ...

As more states pass medical marijuana laws, or legalize it outright, the TSA is heading for a don't-ask/don't-tell police on weed at airports.    ...

"Elevated levels of chloride and bromide, combined with strontium, radium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopic compositions, are present in the Marcellus Shale wastewater," a new Duke University study has f...

The University of Toronto's School of Business has advised its faculty to avoid assigning articles from the Harvard Business Review to their students.    ...

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Dale Favier from Portland Home Massage has written a spectacular piece about the reality of the human body as seen from the point of view of a massage therapist who sees a lot of naked people. &n...

Another winner from Chris-Rachael Oseland: The Noshing Dead: Bloody Banana Guts. [Kitchen Overlord]    ...

Photos above and below from a Sunday protest of the government shutdown, now in its second week. Shared by outtacontext in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

Beloved artist, musician, and author David Byrne wrote a Guardian op-ed piece on the increasingly difficult cost of life in New York for pretty much everyone who isn't rich, and what that means for cr...

"The Ancients," by Ben Leshchinsky. "The center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, crowns the ancient statues of Easter Island." Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

Romenesko has the stats on that Breaking Bad fan groups Walter White obituary in the Albuquerque Journal. It's the most-read online story since the paper began tracking with Google Analytics in 2006.&...

Romenesko has the stats on that Breaking Bad fan groups Walter White ad in the Albuquerque Journal. It's the most-read online story since the paper began tracking with Google Analytics in 2006. &...

New York's Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has subpoenaed AirBnB for user data on all active hosts in New York City "as part of an investigation into the website stemming from a 2010 law that mak...

I mean, who knows. [lifenews.ru. HT: @adrianchen]    ...

What can Foursquare can tell us about urban design, complexity, and the future of smart cities? Anthony Townsend looks at the digital lattices of our concrete canyons in this excerpt from his new book...

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One year ago today Clothes made from vintage kids' sheets: BongaChopShop on Etsy, where you will find a wide variety of dresses, bags, etc, made from other brightly colored kids' sheets.  &n...

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Etsy seller Beadedmischka sells this death's head hawkmoth beaded brooch for $75. The beads are Japanese Toho and Miyuki Delica; the skull is glass.    ...

A video, purportedly from Banksy. [Video Link]    ...

Critics are blown away by Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, an orbital thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Kenneth Turan, with the LA Times, writes that "words can do little to convey the vi...

Halina Watts, with the Daily Mirror: "It was feared the BBC programmes from the 1960s featuring the first two doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton had vanished for all time after the Beeb ...

Halina Watts, with the Daily Mirror: "It was feared the BBC programmes from the 1960s featuring the first two doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton had vanished for all time after the Beeb ...

Jim Romenesko noticed that the New York Times ran another Daft Punk correction." Correction: October 5, 2013 An earlier version of this report ...    ...

I have used this for 2 years. It is very effective in narrow spaces such as IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) closets, where I have to add switches or UPS units to rack units.   &nb...

Jeros (Jellyfish Elimination RObotic Swarm) does what it says on the tin: sends robots out to kill the shit out of jellyfish.    ...

Perfect weather brought a huge crowd to the Palazzo Congressi in Rome for the second day of Rome Maker Faire: The European Edition (here are the Day 1 highlights).    ...

BBC current affairs shows have long been about their own adversarial tone, and there's something to be thankful in that: Britain's media culture forces politicians to subject themselves to grillings ...

Photo: Rob Beschizza (cc)    ...

One year ago today Brazil to roll out national radio-chip ID/surveillance/logging for all vehicles: which broadcast "vehicle year or fabrication, make, model, combustible, engine power and license pla...

Vancouver's Wet Spots perform the funniest, raunchiest cabaret I've heard -- side-splittingly so. Check out the video for "Don't Lick My Toes" above, or get their album Hello Kinky for nine bucks, ch...

These dinosauric knit mittens were made by Etsy seller HotScones, who ships from Australia. $43.61 (US) a pair, plus shipping. HotScones (via Laughing Squid)    ...

The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen in a cover in quite some time.    ...

Charles Platt wrote a funny account of the time he drove a 68 Olds 442 convertible from NY to CA for a car delivery service and careened off a mountain road in Colorado.    ...

Greetings from rainy Roma, where I'm at Maker Faire: The European Edition for a 4-day celebration of innovation, education, and unbridled enthusiasm for creativity.    ...

America imprisons more people than any other nation in the history of the Earth, and those prisoners' only lifeline to the outside world is the prison phone-system, from which they must make collect-...

Bongo is a nice-looking wireless speaker with a bamboo case. It's on Kickstarter. It reminds me just a little of Steve Lodefink's fantastic cocopunk guitar amplifier.    ...

Steve Hoefer is one of my favorite makers (check out his other projects for MAKE here). He writes: "I built this mini blind minder to open and close [my window blinds] automatically.   ...

Kevin Kelly says: "A photo story on the deliberately chaotic warehouse system that Amazon uses. Products are not stored by categories, rather they are put in the next available shelf space, and then p...

Glitch is the evil twin of all those old-film, toy-lens, Instagram-style apps. Pick a photo, then glitch it all to Hell with broken NTSC emulation, weird 3D pixelation and heightmap extrusion effects,...

Wildcat is a fast-sprinting, 16MPH Boston Dynamics robot whose gallop is a precision joy to behold. Boston Dynamics is often featured here for its amazing robots: the humanoid Petman; the zippy Cheet...

Yacht Club Games' Shovel Knight reminds me of so many different games I think I'll have to play them all through again before it comes out this winter.    ...

Teddy Wayne reports on a "postmodern art form"—the 160-character space that Twitter allow for biographies. The standard bio is a staccato string of statuses and interests separated by commas or ...

"La Serenissima," a photo by Stuart Watson shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

One year ago today Scenes from an LA mall: Today we found ourselves in a mall in Glendale, which featured pureed cupcake beverages and signs warning chihuahua owners about escalators.   ...

It is a "a 6-foot-tall robot built entirely from bionic body parts and implantable synthetic organs complete with a functioning circulatory system." It "contains more than a million sensors, two hun...

Tom Fassbender, an active member of Boing Boing's G+ community, hiked the John Muir Trail solo last year. It's over 200 miles long, and he's been writing entertaining and informative articles about hi...

Popehat's Ken White (a former federal prosecutor) uses the arrest of alleged Silk Road founder Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht to explain how the criminal justice system works, including the diff...

The woman who attempted to drive her vehicle through a White House gate, then led Capitol police on a high-speed chase before being shot dead, had a history of mental illness and "believed President O...

"I'm the original voice of Siri," says Susan Bennett, who lives in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. CNN has a report here, with video and audio.    ...

[Video Link] I think it's cruel to keep animals like this in captivity, but man, what an amazing video this is.    ...

In Tall Infographics, XKCD offers a dystopian prediction for the future of information, in which all crucial data is offered in stupidly tall infographics with lots of meaningless diagrams.  ...

Photo: Lincoln Memorial during the Government Shutdown, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from johnsonderman's photostream, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.  &n...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Case and Molly: a VR helmet game based on Neuromancer • Bruce Schneier: how to make the world freer with ...

The woman who attempted to drive her vehicle through a White House gate, then led Capitol police on a high-speed chase before being shot dead, had a history of mental illness and "believed President O...

Ben Marks of CollectorsWeekly says: As part of our modern obsession with artisan-everything, todays pickiest coffee drinkers insist upon a hand-brewed cup made right before their eyes.  &nbs...

I'm guest of honor this weekend at the Dallas's Fencon this weekend, and I've just learned that some of the other speakers won't be able to talk, thanks to the government shutdown.   &n...

Feral House has a book coming out about the European singers from the the 1960s known as Y-Y Girls. The were typically young, cute, short on vocal chops, and manipulated by Svengalis who were sleepin...

Case and Molly is a prototype game for the Oculus Rift based on William Gibson's classic 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer, by Greg Borenstein.    ...

As the Internet comes to grips with the news that the World Wide Web Consortium has decided to press ahead with DRM in HTML5, here's a timely strip from the Flea Snobbery webcomic (excerpted above).&n...

At Gawker, Neetzan Zimmerman reports on a truly wonderful thing: a punk band shooting a porn flick on a church lawn.    ...

Fujifulm's Instax cameras are among the modern inheritors of Polaroid's evaporated mantle: snap a photo, get a print right there on the spot.    ...

This map shows exactly which parts of Venice are falling into the water the fastest, and which ones are holding up--suggesting the who, what and where of blame and praise.    ...

The Vander-Ende Onderdonk House, on the border between Brooklyn and Queens, is the oldest surviving Dutch Colonial house in NYC. It is not just a museum.    ...

Yesterday, Miriam Carey died after being shot by police following a car chase between the White House and the US Capitol building.    ...

I'm the guest of honor this weekend at Fencon in Dallas, which is just getting started. One of the exhibitors is Cthulhu Wars, the Lovecraftian boardgame that raised over $1.4M on Kickstarter (they we...

I've been describing this Slate piece as the most awesome thing I really should not have read at 38 weeks pregnant.    ...

In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that gives journalists in the state "five days' notice before government agencies serve subpoenas on their records held by third parties, such ...

Yesterday, Miriam Carey died after being shot by police following a car chase between the White House and the US Capitol building.    ...

If you yell at your child, you either create somebody who yells back at you or somebody who is shamed and retreats.    ...

Chris Sherlock has filed a bug against Firefox in Mozilla's bugzilla bug-tracker, entitled "Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM." It's an interesting way of using the open/transparent development prot...

In October 2012, a British court ruled that the color purple was distinctive to Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bar wrappers, thereby preventing rival Nestl from marketing similar products in the same ...

Yesterday, Miriam Carey died after being shot by police following a car chase between the White House and the US Capitol building.    ...

Dangerous Minds interviews Rizzoli publishing house chief Charles Miers about a forthcoming new edition of "Codex Seraphinianus" and about Serafini himself.    ...

Maddie Major has leukemia. She's 8 years old, and she's had it recur four times. The clinical trial she now needs, having exhausted all other options for treatment, cannot be approved by the FDA becau...

One year ago today Maine GOP attack-flier condemns Democratic candidate for playing an orc rogue in online game: A flier distributed by the Maine GOP attacks Democratic state senate candidate Colleen ...

Ben Smith of CollectorsWeekly says: Our associate editor, Lisa Hix, has just written a terrific piece about why Americans are so in love with guns.    ...

Top-secret documents leaked to the Guardian by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal details of repeated attempts by the US and UK governments to crack Tor, the "onion router" that w...

Apps for Kids is sponsored by HuluPlus. HuluPlus lets you binge on thousands of hit shows anytime, anywhere on your TV, PC, smart phone or tablet.    ...

Bruce Schneier's TEDxCambridge talk "The Battle for Power on the Internet" is a fascinating analysis of how networks have magnified, in turn, the power of individuals, then companies, then government...

The BBC reports that the "row" between singers Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor "escalates." This means that they are still tweeting and blogging at each other.    ...

A presentation by Android Security chief Adrian Ludwig at Berlin's Virus Bulletin conference lays out a fascinating picture of the security dynamic in the open Android ecosystem, through which Android...

Over at Thought Catalog, Mark Dery looks back at the Manson Murders of 1968 and how Charlie's "love and terror cult" sliced open a seeping wound of fear whose scab is still being picked.  &n...

Rhys Johnson, 14., shaved his head to raise cash for medical research after three of his relatives were diagnosed with cancer.    ...

Rhys Johnson, 14, shaved his head to raise cash for medical research after three of his relatives were diagnosed with cancer.    ...

Mary Bates, for Wired: In 2010, researchers at the Dolphin Research Center (DRC) in Grassy Key, Florida, showed dolphins can imitate behaviors without using their eyesight.    ...

When the newly-replaced Oakland span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is demolished in the next few years, the scrap will be sent to China.    ...

German designer Dirk Loechel made an insanely-detailed size-comparison chart of hundreds of science fiction spacecraft. He says his next project will be to convert the image into a poster.  ...

Jim Killock from the UK Open Rights Group sez, "The Open Rights group, Big Brother Watch, Constanze Kurz and English PEN are challenging the legality of the mass data hoovering by the Uk government re...

Simone C. Niquille's REALFACE Glamoflage shirts are designed to confound Facebook's face-recognition software by covering you in famous faces when you venture into public.    ...

Copyright and Creation, a policy brief from a collection of respected scholars at the rock-ribbed London School of Economics, argues that the evidence shows that piracy isn't causing any grave harm to...

A U.S. Grand Jury today filed an indictment against 13 alleged members of Anonymous, for a series of internet denial-of-service attacks the collective launched in 2010 against anti-piracy groups and f...

Brendan Sasso of The Hill reports that during a Washington Post cybersecurity summit today, former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden made a joke about putting Edward Snowden on a kill l...

Here's the tweet. Here's the S-1. It plans to use ticker symbol TWTR. No stock exchange specified. The S-1 states a $1 billion fundraising target, which the NYT explains is "a pro forma number meant t...

A woman carrying a small child in her car attempted to drive through a White House security barricade Thursday, "then led authorities on a chase to the U.S.    ...

A woman carrying a small child in her car is said to have rammed a White House security barricade Thursday, then led Capitol police and Secret Service agents on a high-speed car chase to the U.S. ...

One year ago today Replica vintage sports jerseys made out of new-old vintage fabric: Ebbets Field Flannels makes replicas of vintage baseball jerseys from various leagues (including Cuban and Japanes...

Survey-based sociology research in Israel and the United States finds a correlation between fear of death and impulsive shopping. The researchers behind these studies think that the connection represe...

This snail's shell is not green. Instead, the shell is semi-transparent. It's the snail that's green. Thanks, Nick Crumpton!    ...

JOHN WILCOCK returns to Boing Boing for Chapter 5, with the history of NYC's doomed Lower Manhattan Expressway, Jane Jacobs, Ed Koch, and Jean Tinguely's self-destructing "Homage to New York". &n...

Sony Pictures Television has partnered with Colombian television production firm Teleset to produce the Breaking-Bad-in-Spanish remake 'Metastasis'.    ...

Science finally came up with solid evidence that animal behavior can be a predictor of weather events. But it's not exactly the behavior (or the animals) you might expect.    ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm look at the NSA's Bullrun program, through which the US and UK governments have spent $250M/year sabotaging computer security. &nbs...

Advertised as "the most complete charting of beer ever," Pop Chart Lab's 60" x 40" wall chart is printed on 100lb archival stock and is available for pre-order at $80.    ...

It's not just about making lemonade -- it's how you get the lemons. This is the best version of a the basic game I've played, and a perfect gateway drug to the real thing.    ...

Ever since Lavabit, the privacy-oriented email provider used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, shut down abruptly in August, we've been wondering what, exactly, the Feds had demanded of founder Ladar L...

Following in the wake of spooky games such as Dear Esther, IndieV8Team's Memories of a Fisherman aims to give players a more open-world experience of all that overcast gloom.    ...

From the BBC: A patent for a database that uses DNA testing to tell prospective parents which traits their future offspring may inherit has been criticised by experts.    ...

Ben Marks of CollectorsWeekly says, The first time I met Rick Synchef, I was anxious to see his legendary stash of political ephemera and protest posters from the 1960s, which eventually formed the ba...

"From a very young age, comic-book artist Ed Piskors life has been steeped in the culture of hip hopa passion unquenched by his inability to dance, rap or DJ." Catch up on Ed's work right here at Boi...

Clayton Cubitt, a native son of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, shares a cool-sounding art project on its way to being funded via Kickstarter.    ...

Lauren says: In one chart, "German graphic artist Dirk Loechel has assembled virtually every spaceship known (over 200) including vessels from video games including Halo, TV shows dating back to Galax...

Nice beat. [Video Link, via Arbroath]    ...

That's about three seconds longer than I usually brush my teeth, so this is a step backwards. The Blizzident custom 3D-printed toothbrush is a bizarre-looking toothbrush alternative that promises a 6...

In today's Sheldon comic, a Rube Goldberg diagram showing a preferred method for opening doors in hipster cafes, involving Boing Boing readers.    ...

Despite, or perhaps because of nasty on-cam stunts like Rep. Randy Neugebauer's (R-Koch), it won't work: according to a CBS poll, not only do more Americans understand that the GOP is to blame the s...

Neil Gaiman's illustrated children's novel Fortunately the Milk is a magnificent tribute to the fatherly art of trolling kids with straightfaced, outlandish tales.    ...

Walt Disney World is adding enough hours to its part time workers' rosters to allow them to qualify for Obamacare, helping their workers to get healthcare.    ...

Here's the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their owners and to keep secrets from t...

The Float Table uses a 3D matrix of wooden blocks with embedded strong magnets, tethered to one another, to made a piece of furniture that's awesomely wobbly, in an impractical, drinks-all-over-the-...

Blizzident is a custom-made, 3D printed, whole-mouth-at-once toothbrush that claims to be able to clean your teeth in six seconds. It uses a mold of your teeth, lined with "a dense field of tailored ...

Tony sez, "Hugo winning podcast StarShipSofa has the 1979 Hugo winning short story Cassandra by C.J. Cherryh (MP3, RSS) on this week's show." The story was also a Locus Poll Award (Place: 6), and 19...

"The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (BAH!) is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect evolutionary theory" — in other words, its a celebration of the a...

If you want to replicate the effects of weightlessness you could send various objects and animals into the sky aboard the Vomit Comet or you could just haul them to the top of a 475-foot-tall tower an...

From a National Geographic story by Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato, the quote of the week: I lift up the animals tail, said Joanne Crawford, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University, and Im l...

I was privileged to appear on Michael Krasny's Forum on KQED in San Francisco this morning as part of the San Francisco Public Library's One City/One Book celebrations for my novel Little Brother.&nbs...

TIL: There are studies that suggest new babies really do smell different, and seem to trigger special brain chemical pathways in women.    ...

I haven't written much about the new IPCC report here, largely because it doesn't say much you don't already know: The Earth is getting warmer and human activities are to blame for a good chunk of tha...

Perhaps you have recently heard about Tanzania's Lake Natron, a body of water that has become famous on the Internet over the last couple of days because of the work of artist Nick Brandt, who took s...

John Steele is one of the shadowy figures behind the notorious porno-copyright-trolls Prenda Law, about whom we've written rather a lot, as they are a colorful bunch of grifters.   &nbs...

As a new parent, I bought an expensive jogging stroller, thinking it would be all I needed. After trying to steer it around the mall and through crowded city sidewalks, I changed my mind.  &...

MJ writes, "I'm part of a group called Gaysi Family. Every couple of months we host an open-mic event called Dirty Talk for the queer community in Mumbai (India).    ...

Looks like the government shutdown didn't stop federal agents from shutting down the most popular "deep web" illegal drug market. In San Francisco, federal prosecutors have indicted Ross William Ulbri...

Constance Cooper sez, "My 8-year-old daughter spotted some incredibly sexist kids' books in a bookstore, and got them removed by the management.    ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a plucky little Bill becomes a Law, but explains the NEXT steps he has to take to survive the American legislative process.    ...

Johannes from Monochrom writes, "Hard to believe, but Arse Elektronika is in its 7th year! The annual festival about sex and technology will start Thursday in San Francisco - with talks, machines, gam...

One year ago today Time-traveling designer produces 1970s ads for MP3 player, laptop, mobile phone & gameboy: Alex Varanese's "ALT/1977" post on Behance is as sweet a piece of contrafactual histo...

Writer Christie Sims specializes in 'Dinosaur Beast Erotica,' and also writes sexy romance novels about gryphons, orcs, weretigers, wargs, centaurs, and other non-human fantasy entities, reveals Dange...

Your browser does not support the audio tag. This episode is brought to you by HostGator, offering premium web hosting at low costs, and 24x7x365 phone, chat and email support.   &n...

The ongoing federal government shutdown in the United States affects national health services in ways you may not realize, including cancer treatment activities at the National Institutes of Health, ...

Government transparency also takes a hit during the insane federal shutdown in the United States. "Several functions dedicated to providing information to the American public have been declared 'non-e...

Sandro Lisi is a fixer for Toronto Mayor Rob "Laughable Bumblefuck" Ford -- the crack-smoking, racist, homophobic, distracted-driving, publicly drunken, ass-grabbing embarrassment who rules Toronto wi...

Man oh man, Mr. Mann. I didn't know if it was possible to adore Jonathan "Song a Day" Mann any more, but yes, yes it is.    ...

"Together, we are learning the deepest lesson. Families are not about form but content. Humans are not ranked; we are linked." Writing in the Advocate, Gloria Steinem addresses and updates comments sh...

Polar is a pen made of 12 rare-earth magnets, which has blown way, way past its modest Kickstarter goal. It's the ultimate in fidget-gadgets, wildly reconfigurable, with the power to levitate magneti...

For as long as the federal government shutdown rocks on, the National Institutes of Health will turn away about 200 patients each week from its clinical research center, including children who have ca...

The ongoing federal government shutdown in the United States affects national health services in ways you may not realize, including cancer treatment activities at the National Institutes of Health, ...

Rob MacLean's Headlong is a gripping, timely novel about a middle-aged, washed-up Boston newspaperman who returns to his childhood home from a wasted existence in LA to care for his father after a bad...

"Fourteen Greenpeace activists, including at least four from the UK, have been charged with piracy by the Russian authorities. They were among a 30-strong crew on a Greenpeace ship that was protesting...

Dave Cirilli of Rally.org says, "Lavabit founder Ladar Levison recently launched an online fundraising campaign on Rally.org to help pay for legal expenses during his his Fourth Circuit Court of Appea...

"Spain, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases far beyond its borders, finds itself on the receiving end of such an inquest." A judge in Argentina is trying to extradite and b...

My kids' babysitter found this curious carrot in a bag of Bunny-Luv Organic Peeled Baby Carrots. I wonder what kind of machine malfunction produced this anomaly.    ...

What an utterly fantastic cover for the July 1967 issue of Front Page Detective magazine, up for auction on eBay.    ...

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Today on a very special Diesel Sweeties webcomic installment, an important dialog for coffee-drinkers to practice with their faithless peers. NO EXIT : diesel sweeties robot webcomic & geeky t-sh...

Beck may be a loser but Boing Boing reader Grant Ryan isn't! He won our annual Treasure Island Music Festival haiku contest!    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Documentary on fablabs around the world • Wonder Woman, live action (very) short film • Statistics ...

Jay Slater owned a San Diego restaurant called The Linkery where tipping was not allowed; instead, a flat 18 percent service-charge is added to each bill, and that charge is divided among the servers,...

The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007 The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007 Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon ...

ADVERTISEMENT This post is sponsored by the Ford Transit Connect. As regular Boing Boing readers know, we are all big library geeks.    ...

The USPS is planning a rare, above-inflation postage stamp price-hike on Jan 26, 2014; and they're also selling "forever-stamps" that can be used at any time.    ...

One year ago today Font designed for proofreading OCR'ed text: A page on the Distributed Proofreaders project advises people who are trying to find typos in scanned and OCR'ed texts to try DPCustomMon...

Jerry sez, "Jens Dyvik traveled the world over last 2 years, visiting fablabs and sharing the joy of making stuff... with lasers, CNC machines, etc.    ...

This 1863 image from the Wellcome Trust illustrates a distinctly vampiric set of "Syphilitic malformations of the permanent teeth" -- makes you wonder if the visual image of the vampire was inspired b...

"Wonder Woman," a live action short by Rainfall Films. "It's a scant two and half minutes, but in the end, it's one hundred and fifty seconds of pure fantasy, where I get to consider the two sides of...

Jason sez, "The first issue of my new literary journal, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, was just recently released by Singapore-based publisher Math Paper Press.  ...

Today at i09, geophysicist John Bellini will be answering your earthquake-related questions, starting at 12:30 Pacific time.    ...

ADVERTISEMENT This post is sponsored by the Ford Transit Connect. As regular Boing Boing readers know, we are all big library geeks.    ...

At NYTimes.com: "On Tuesday morning, people trying to shop for coverage at healthcare.gov, the federally run exchange that serves as the marketplace for residents of most states, met with messages ci...

If you're the type of person who really needs some good visuals to make a concept stick in your head, this series of YouTube videos made by the British Psychological Society Media Centre will help yo...

ADVERTISEMENT This post is sponsored by the Ford Transit Connect. As regular Boing Boing readers know, we are all big library geeks.    ...

The answer is yes — but only in certain circumstances and that "yes" comes with a whole bunch of caveats. At Discover, Emily Sohn has a nice basic primer on what we know now about intelligence t...

Niall from the SF webzine Strange Horizons sez, "This week Strange Horizons has a special issue focusing on Indian and Indian diaspora SF.    ...

Manatees would like to remind you that it's alright. You're a good person. You just need a hug.    ...

Can you properly distinguish between a male and female crocodile? This research paper, published in 2007, will help — pointing out the sometimes subtle differences between external genitalia.&n...

Photo: Courtesy of Pat Kysar Fast Company collects 15 beautiful photos of bizarrely-colored microscopic worlds.    ...

Earlier this week, Republican representative Devin Nunes referred to his colleagues in the US House of Representatives as "lemmings with suicide vests".    ...

The 14" high T. Rex replica head ($73 on Amazon) gets pretty good reviews from the people who've bought it -- sounds like just the thing if you want to create the illusion that you're a time-traveling...

ADVERTISEMENT This post is sponsored by the Ford Transit Connect. As regular Boing Boing readers know, we are all big library geeks.    ...

They're going to kill off an "iconic" character. Bets?    ...

I'm 38 weeks pregnant now. Two weeks ago, my husband and I both got Tdap vaccines — tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis.    ...

Lisa Rein sez "A first-ever Persian translation of any of Timothy Leary's writings is now available. The text, a 'Declaration of Evolution,' is a manifesto Leary wrote for the psychedelic generation, ...

The next 200+ exciting minutes hits theaters on December 13th, 2013! [Video Link via Laughing Squid]    ...

You're feeling tired and achy. Everything tastes strange, and something deep within warns you not to sample the chip dip in the staff room.    ...

Slate's Joshua Keating indulges in some clever speculative fiction: how would American media report on the shutdown if it were taking place in another nation?    ...

The Federal Airline Administration's quixotic prohobition on the use of gadgets during takeoff and landing is to come to an end, reports Jad Mouawad at The New York Times.    ...

Timothy Leary in 1961. (NYPL Manuscripts and Archives Division) At Wired, Greg Miller writes about Timothy Leary's journey from scientist to "psychedelic celebrity", revealed in new detail by the rele...

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

This NYT Graphic explains which agencies and which personnel at those agencies must stay home due to the bizarre shutdown of the federal government today.    ...

Is your life so complicated that you must strap a small machine to your wrist, learn a new interface, and wear this device during almost all waking hours to avoid missing appointments?  &nbs...

Holy. Smokes. Randall "XKCD" Munroe has had an asteroid named after him. Good old 4292 is big enough to wipe out life on Earth, but alas, its Mars/Jupiter orbit is boringly stable.   &n...

The New York Daily News. [slow clap]    ...

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

Back in May, I reviewed The Man Who Laughs, a wonderful graphic novel adapted from a little-regarded Victor Hugo novel best known for inspiring Batman's nemesis The Joker.    ...

Dylan Mitchell-Funk: "BACH x RiFF RAFF -- COFFEE iN THA MAYBACH." [Video Link]    ...

Illustrator Jim Rugg drew this cover in the EC Comics style to commemorate the end of "Breaking Bad," and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

"Time Stops for Nobody," by Boing Boing reader Ben Leshchinsky, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

[Video Link]. My friend Jeff Simmermon, in the video above, explains: I haven't had a really good cry since 2009 or so, until I got married this June.    ...

Weirdo was one of my favorite magazines of the 1980s. Started by Robert Crumb in 1981, it's where I learned about The Church of the SubGenius, Stanislav Szukalski, and lots of amazing artists. &n...

One year ago today A website for elaborately handmade barrister's wigs: The Hong Kong-based company claims their primary clientele are legal professionals, but Judicial cosplayers and barrister fetish...

English — along with a whole host of languages spoken in Europe, India, and the Middle East — can be traced back to an ancient language that scholars call Proto Indo-European.  &...

Andre Levy, a designer in Frankfurt, likes to paint coins. It looks like fun!    ...

The good news: There's a contingency plan for this sort of thing, involving the use an emergency jetpack that can (hopefully) stabilize you and help you maneuver back to the ISS.   &nbs...

The Nobel Conference is an annual event at Minnesota's Gustavus Adolphus College that brings in scientists from around the world to talk to the general public about a given theme.   &nb...

In this video, Mariano Tomatis shows how to create chocolate out of nothing. Here is his explanation of this wonderful phenomenon, known as a missing square or vanishing area puzzle.   ...

Research says "to-do" lists don't work, writes Daniel Markovitz at Harvard Business Review. That's not exactly what he means, though. Instead of condemning the very idea of "to-do" lists, Markovitz pi...

Want to read the first research published from NASA's Mars Curiosity expedition? That'll be $20, per paper, for a one-day pass.    ...

I have 8 episodes left to go before I get to the end of "Breaking Bad". In fact, until a couple of months ago, I'd not watched more than the first season.    ...

The stunning sound of Mazzy Star has returned with Seasons Of Your Day, the first LP from the duo of Hope Sandoval and David Roback in 17 years.    ...

Jeremy Bornstein proposes a party game/Prisoners' Dilemma variant called "I Eat Poo," in which the players pass their phones to their left and invite the player there to type (but not send) an embarra...

IKEA has now started selling solar panels in the UK. According the Associated Press, "a standard, all-black 3.36 kilowatt system for a semi-detached home will cost 5,700 British pounds ($9,200) and wi...

Kevin McFarland on the final, magnificent episode of Breaking Bad, which by any calculation was a 100% pure, crystal-blue cook. Spoilers.    ...

Some of the most recent video selections you can find on our video archive page: • Boing Boing's interview with Breaking Bad's Science advisor • A musical look at the 1950s, for Vanity Fai...

Satellite images and animations here. More about the geological events that led to its formation here.    ...

Why do we subject ourselves to movies and TV shows that can be excruciating to watch? The answer may lie "in the emotional intensity these types of shows make us feel," which can result in greater hap...

A study has found that the structure of ballet dancers' brains changes to allow them to perform pirouettes without feeling dizzy.    ...

My friend and Boing-Boing-Video-on-Virgin-America-planes collaborator Joe Sabia was selected by Vanity Fair as one of ten directors (Judd Apatow, Don Cheadle, and Brett Ratner were among the others) ...

An awesome fan-written epilogue for Breaking Bad by @pilotbacon over at TV Hangover. Spoilers. It's wonderful. [HT: Kevin McFarland]    ...

Kevin McFarland on the final, magnificent episode of Breaking Bad, which by any calculation was a 100% pure, crystal-blue cook. Spoilers.    ...

In Matot v. CH, et al, a high school assistant principal named Adam Matot asked a court to find that two students who'd set up parody social media accounts mocking him had violated the Computer Fraud ...

In Matot v. CH, et al, a middle school assistant principal named Adam Matot asked a court to find that two students who'd set up parody social media accounts mocking him had violated the Computer Frau...

Designer Cristina Vanko has been using her father's old calligraphy pen to hand-letter her text messages. Here's what's she's learned from the experiment.    ...

BBC Two just aired a great episode of its program The Culture Show about Northern Soul, the Mod music subculture that took off in northern England in the early 1970s around obscure American soul 7" r...

Johnny Cash died ten years ago this month. In honor of the man in black, my favorite portrait artist Drew Friedman has released this lovely, limited-edition fine art print.    ...

Chinese surgeons constructed a replacement nose on a patient's forehead to replace his own that was injured. It will eventually be moved to the center of the man's face.    ...

I want to thank Pencils.com for sponsoring Boing Boing. You might be aware that I love their Blackwing 602 pencil. Recently Pencils.com introduced a new Blackwing model: the Pearl.   &n...

Kevin McFarland on the final, magnificent episode of Breaking Bad, which by any calculation was a 100% pure, crystal-blue cook. Spoilers.    ...

Even as a culture of independent publishing explodes beneath it, the big business of video games is increasingly dominated by massively-capitalized blockbusters.    ...

Eric Holthaus reports on the aftermath of last week's climate change report, which found that anthropogenic causes are almost certainly behind global warming.    ...

I would totally live in Japan's 1972 Pod Hotel.    ...

Robert McMillan on Bitcoin "maverick" Jed McCaleb, who started Mt. Gox and now offers Ripple, an alternative to the digital currency.    ...

Glenn Fleishman heads to Portland for the second XOXO festival, where a maker's heart can leave the body, be shared among kindred spirits, and know that it will be cared for.    ...

Steven Brust and Skyler White's The Incrementalists is a spectacular new contemporary fantasy novel about an immortal cabal of dysfunctional do-gooders who use their subtle, near-wizardly powers of pe...

Steven Brust and Skyler White's The Incrementalists is a spectacular new contemporary fantasy novel about an immortal cabal of dysfunctional do-gooders who use their subtle, near-wizardly powers of pe...

An enormous inflatable duck floats on the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh on Sept 27, 2013. Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the 40 ft duck kicked off the Pittsburgh Arts Festival and will spe...

Kevin McFarland on the final, magnifienct episode of Breaking Bad, which by any calculation was a 100% pure, crystal-blue cook. Spoilers.    ...

John Biggs interviewed Jeff Bezos: "What were finding right now is that even our heaviest Kindle ebook customers are still buying physical books.    ...

Kevin McFarland looks back on Season 5 of "Breaking Bad," in advance of the final episode. All Bad things must come to an end, but what a good Bad thing this series has been. Spoilers.  &nbs...