Articles by BoingBoing from February 2014

Great news for law enforcement, jailers, drug cartels, and the prison industry - the War on Drugs has been very profitable.    ...

As Boyd and Johnny Crowder sit outside of a Mexican cartel house south of the border, hands zip-tied behind their backs, Boyds silver tongue doesnt talk his way out of the predicament he set up, but ...

The "squared" in Pi(R)^2 means that the area of a pizza grows exponentially in relation to its diameter. As an interactive graph on Planet Money demonstrates, pizza places generally underprice their b...

Brian Lam, creator of The Wirecutter had a Google Hangout conversation with Kevin Kelly, creator of Cool Tools. David Hobby called the hangout a "masterclass on web/business models." (A day earlier, ...

Brian Lam, creator of The Wirecutter had a Google Hangout conversation with Kevin Kelly, creator of Cool Tools. David Hobby called the hangout a "masterclass on web/business models." (A day earlier, ...

Glenn Fleishman writes, "A responsible dealer of the radioactive element radium, a substance once pushed widely as a quack cure, tried to keep the genie in the bottle.    ...

Our friends at Fantagraphics have tweeted a call for help: We need an undamaged version of the 9-23-1950 Nancy daily for our long-awaited 3rd volume coming this fall.    ...

UC Berkeley has just appointed its first Wikipedian in Residence: Kevin Gorman, who has been a Wikipedia editor since he was a Berkeley undergraduate.    ...

Our friends at Fantagraphics have tweeted a request: "We need an undamaged version of the 9-23-1950 Nancy daily for our long-awaited 3rd volume coming this fall.    ...

Ginjer Buchanan, one of science fiction's longest-serving and most influential editors, is retiring from Ace/Roc, after a 30-year career. I've had many occasions to work with Ginjer over the years and...

Ginjer Buchanan, one of science fiction's longest-serving and most influential editors, is retiring from Ace/Roc, after a 30-year career. I've had many occasions to work with Ginjer over the years and...

The Exosuit allows humans to move like scuba divers at depths that would make scuba wildly impractical. It's got all the benefits of a small submarine, but with more flexibility and freedom of movemen...

One year ago today Conan and copyright, by Crom! Exhaustively researched article on the copyright status of the Conan stories. Five years ago today What were arcades like, Grandpa?   &n...

MySciCareer is a site that collects science career origin stories, including the tale of a man who started college at age 40, a woman whose CV includes both scientific publications and video game expe...

A number of friendly, charity-minded social clubs have sprung up in Disney fandom. They dress in disnefied versions of biker wear, gather together in Disneyland, help people out, and keep each other c...

Boeing has sought regulatory approval from the FCC for a tamper-resistant phone intended to self-destruct if its case is opened. The phone, called "Black," runs Android, and is intended for use under ...

A stunning new Snowden leak reveals that the UK spy agency GCHQ harvested images and text from millions of Yahoo video chats, including chats in which one or both of the participants was British or Am...

I love reading with my daughter, Poesy, who has just turned six. We agree on almost all of her favorites, and re-reading them is one of our best-loved activities, and how we pass the time on boring b...

Angela and Aubrey Webber are the musical group The Doubleclicks, bringing geeky music to nerdy folk. The sisters never intended to form a band, but when Aubrey joined her sister Angela in Portland a f...

Timeholes, a two-minute, CC-licensed science fiction movie by Ben Mallaby, explores the future of obnoxious behavior and drunkenness in a world where time-travel is a given.    ...

The Deadpool pencil cup is a delightfully silly and gross bit of office-candy, in which the wisecracking, unkillable merc from the pages of Marvel comics is presented for your gleeful brain-skewering ...

In 1979, William S Burroughs delivered a series of lectures on creative writing (though he insisted that he was teaching creative reading -- that is, analyzing the writing process by reading, because...

In this video, a young musician called Li-Jin Lee performs the Super Mario theme (complete with eerily accurate SFX on a Sheng, an ancient Chinese reed instrument) at the National Concert Hall in Tai...

I found this product over a year ago. It comes in yellow, green, pink, and white, on a dispenser similar to scotch tape.    ...

Order has been restored.— Naoki Hiroshima (@N) February 25, 2014 A long-overdue, happy ending to the saga of @N, the $50,000 username that was extorted out of Naoki Hiroshima by a hacker who tri...

In the 1950s, after Andy Warhol developed a solid commercial art reputation through his shoe advertisements, he was hired by RCA Records to do album art for LPs by the likes of Count Basie (above), Ar...

Cheyene Randall's Tumblr of "Shopped Tattoos." (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)    ...

The Sword and Laser (S&L) is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club podcast hosted by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.    ...

Jeremy Williams' Kickstarter for Game Frame, "a grid of 256 ultra-bright LED pixels, perfect for showcasing pixel art and old school video game graphics," is fully-funded.    ...

RU Sirius points us to an interview with himself about his Steal This Singularity satire/statement, an interview he conducted with Lynn Hershman over at the Steal Thing Singularity web site, a collect...

Marko Rakar writes, "Croatian journalist and editor Oleg Mastruko visited more then 47 countries in the past 10 years and made a number of postapocaliptic pictures in deserted places.  &nbs...

One year ago today Terrific new biography of Li'l Abner creator Al Capp: At the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers.    ...

Buckminster Fuller would be proud of NASA's new experimental robot design. It's based on the structural principle that Fuller called tensegrity (tensional integrity) where the structure comes from com...

Reuters: Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass, marking some of the first clashes over the nascent wea...

New stop motion wizardry from incredible animator PES! Designer Delfina Delettrez commissioned this short, titled "Black Gold," as a promotion for her insect-themed jewelry line.   &nb...

On Monday, Dayton, Ohio bus driver Ricky Wagoner, 49, was assaulted and shot by three men. One of the bullets hit him in the leg and the other two were apparently stopped by a bible in his shirt pocke...

This is Narcissus assoanus, a common flower found in France, Spain, and Portugal, and one of many snicker-worthy taxonomic names included on a list put together by journalist Joe Rojas-Burke. &nb...

The first time I got properly plastered, as a 12- or perhaps 13-year-old Briton, it was thanks to that exotic foreign import, Mad Dog.    ...

When a tree falls in a forest, it becomes an ecosystem — a source of food and habitation for a diverse array of animals.    ...

Sasha writes, "The MIT Civic Media Codesign Studio is organizing, hosting, participating in, and supporting several Countersurveillance DiscoTechs this weekend. A DiscoTech (Discovering Technology eve...

The Copyright Alert System -- a "voluntary" system of disconnection threats sent to alleged file-sharers, created by entertainment companies and the large US ISPs -- has just celebrated its first birt...

Scallops are pretty much the best. Definitely one of my all-time top favorite foods. Unfortunately, besides being delicious, scallops are also heavily impacted by ocean acidification.   ...

Productivity is very important. What distractions are you putting ahead of your productivity?     ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Junior learns a lesson about life on the Click Farm, growing and harvesting Facebook Likes.    ...

In Now, the latest XKCD cartoon, Randall Munroe provides a handy, continuously updated way to visualize the current time all over the world.    ...

Meg Favreau writes, "I thought you guys might be interested in this column I've been writing for the last year-ish -- I scour old cookbooks for once-popular recipes that have fallen out of favor, expl...

Rebecca J. Rosen recalls "the transformative decade between Stonewall and AIDS", an age of activism whose "improbable unveiling" began with a riot sparked by drag queens.    ...

Wired's Greg Miller takes a look at the huge risks involved in digging enormous, container-ship size canals. There are many lingering questions.    ...

David Weinberger's 2012 book Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room was one of the smartest...

David Weinberger's 2012 book Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room was one of the smartest...

Deepto Hajela with the AP: "Apple filed papers on Tuesday telling a federal appeals court in New York that a judge's finding it violated antitrust laws by manipulating electronic book prices 'is a rad...

Enjoying the crest of a wave, this crocodile shut down Cable Beach near Broome, Western Australia, one of the country's most popular tourist hotspots.    ...

Nerf's Rebelle Heartbreaker Bow (part of the wider Rebelle line of action toys marketed to girls) gets pretty high marks from its owners, and promises a dart-range of 75 feet.    ...

The Chicago Police Department has ramped up the use of its "predictive analysis" system to identify people it believes are likely to commit crimes.    ...

Stephanie writes, "PM Press has launched a Kickstarter fundraiser to publish a glorious, hardcover, full-color, 320-page anthology of the 35-year-running political comics magazine World War 3 Illustra...

Tim sez, "Our technological lives produce vast numbers of artifacts. Many of which become obsolete in a very short time. All of these relics, once vital to our daily lives, end up in drawers and landf...

Here's a late 1970s Vincent Price performance of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," featuring the dean of horror at his scenery-chewing best.    ...

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The 2013 Nebula Award nominees have been announced by the Science Fiction Writers of America; as always, it's a great roadmap for some of the best science fiction published in the past year. &nbs...

Jason writes with an update to the amazing, kickstarted Librarybox project: "The LibraryBox Project, as a part of its ongoing efforts to bring information to areas without communication infrastructure...

Sold at auction for $11,350. The finely crafted curiosa German silver ring revolver, the band engraved with herringbone borders and legend: Femme Fatale.    ...

Researchers in the Cybernorms group at Sweden's Lund University are conducting their annual linkup with The Pirate Bay, a project that 170,000+ Pirate Bay users have already voluntarily participated i...

One year ago today Libraries and Makerspaces: a match made in heaven: Every discussion of libraries in the age of austerity always includes at least one blowhard who opines, "What do we need libraries...

Daniel Kraus's 2013 horror novel Scowler was pure nightmare fuel, a book that literally made me shriek aloud on the bus one afternoon.    ...

Shot at 240 frames per second, Li Hongbi's statues seem at first look to be a bizarre computer-graphic effect. But they are in fact incredible paper sculptures, a concertina of countless layers stret...

As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon. Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a st...

Suddenly I want to buy a newspaper. Everybody crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed urchin. 11:00 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin.    ...

Cambridge science historian Simon Schaffer researched the history of quack science's most iconic device, the perpetual motion machine. Cabinet magazine's Christopher Turner recently interviewed Schaff...

Tokyo-based artist Mana Morimoto embroiders on found photos, ticket stubs, record sleeves, and other curious paper pieces. (via Hi-Fructose)     ...

"Penrose Stars" inspired by the famed impossible object, the Penrose stairs. (via Imaginary Foundation)    ...

Over at National Geographic, theoretical physicist Laurence Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing, gives his quick take on flying cars, space travel, and pessimism: I'...

John Frost writes, "I am the author of TheDisneyBlog.com, which Boing Boing has linked to many times over the years.    ...

It seems obvious that people would pay more for celebrity memorabilia from, say, JFK or Marilyn Monroe, if they think the star actually touched the item at some point.    ...

In a piece on the new Omidyar-funded news-site "The Intercept," Glenn Greenwald pulls together the recent Snowden leaks about the NSA's psyops programs, through which they sought to attack, undermine,...

In a piece on the new Omidyar-funded news-site "The Intercept," Glenn Greenwald pulls together the recent Snowden leaks about the NSA's psyops programs, through which they sought to attack, undermine,...

Last week, the FBI arrested Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his home in Coronado, CA. Azano was a rich, successful surveillance technology vendor who came to prominence by touting ubiquitous, intense sur...

My last year of journalism school, just weeks before graduation, one of my classmates came down with meningitis. Andy Marso nearly died.    ...

These images were taken yesterday at around 7:25 pm EST by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a satellite circling the Sun. What you're looking at are the first moments of a massive solar flare —...

Since 2007, Adam has been improving DICE, a free/open program that emulates video games from the very dawn of the industry.    ...

Performance artist Bettina Banayan has conducted a number of interventions on the NYC subway, but this one, in which she frosts, decorates, and shares a cake with her fellow commuters, is my favorite...

Not all of them are beautiful, or abstract, but all of the photos in Wired's gallery of beautiful abstract photos of mines are, indeed, of mines.    ...

Please hear all these quotes in the voice of Mugatu from Zoolander. "IS THIS A NAPOLEON DYNAMITE TALENT SHOW?"    ...

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

GigaOM: "The Bitcoin community is on edge as a leaked document (below) shows that the Mt. Gox exchange, a longtime pillar of the virtual currency, is missing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of c...

GigaOM: "The Bitcoin community is on edge as a leaked document (below) shows that the Mt. Gox exchange, a longtime pillar of the virtual currency, is missing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of c...

Enjoy minutes of fun with Holy Stomping, a free video game tribute to the Monty Python foot. [via RPS]    ...

Weird and wonderful, as it often was. Particlarly haunting: Picture Box. By "haunting," I mean "surprisingly creepy to see and hear that again decades later".    ...

This amusing picture, of an anti-drug propaganda pencil whose message is subverted simply by sharpening it, been doing the rounds. The truth is stranger than some of the fictions that accompany it: it...

Heavy storms on the coast of Wales stripped away the sand on the beaches of Cardigan Bay, revealing the stumps of an ancient forest that stopped growing 4,500 years ago.    ...

The last Great Auk was clubbed to death by fishermen for the crime of witchcraft. The Dusky Seaside Sparrow was done in by the combined forces of NASA and Disney World.    ...

A new study on the genetics of bottle gourds is interesting because it A) demonstrates how genetic studies can be totally misleading and B) offers a theory for how animals and plants migrate that has ...

Sociologist danah boyd's long-awaited first book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, hits shelves today. boyd is one of the preeminent scholars of the way young people -- especiall...

There's nothing wrong with using placeholder text. It's hard to imagine design without it. But it creates the unique danger that you forget your text and leave it behind.    ...

One year ago today Marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper: Her boyfriend of seven years submitted a marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper that tracks their relationship (with a gr...

I though making a banana slice and some raisins into a face was something. Pancake artiste Nathan Shields recreated nine of nature's most wondrous butterflies in batter, producing a carby, batterfly m...

I loved this 15-minute documentary about the Italian magician Silvan. He is very charismatic as he tells his story. His room is filled with beautiful magic memorabilia.    ...

During the last two years of his life, Charles Bukowski allowed me to create comics out of a few of his poems. I drew four or five of them, mostly for Big Mouth but also for Zero Zero. The deal was th...

Scratch is a free drag-and-drop programming language for kids, developed at MIT. My 10-year-old daughter Jane uses it to create puzzles, games, and interactive cartoons.    ...

(Via Bits and Pieces)    ...

"The mouth is made for eating and kissing, and gay oral sex will give you worms." President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda today gave a detailed explanation of why he believed homosexuals should be jailed ...

Mozilla's sub-$50 Firefox OS smartphones are aimed at countries like India and Indonesia, where devices costing hundreds of dollars are out of reach of hundreds of millions of people.   ...

Reuters: "Netflix has agreed to pay one of the largest broadband providers in the United States Comcast Corp for faster speeds, throwing open the possibility that more content companies will have to s...

I've been enjoying the HBO series "True Detective," which our reviewer Kevin McFarland has been recapping each Sunday night. But I also enjoyed Emily Nussbaum's essay in the New Yorker on the show's "...

"On Saturday, I drove three and a half hours with Firedoglake editor-in-chief Jane Hamsher from Washington, DC, to the federal correctional institution in Loretto, Pennsylvania, to visit former CIA of...

Matthew says: "[Here's} a video I put together featuring the opening titles for 20 different American game shows of the 1950s.    ...

Silicon Valley is a new comedy series premiering April 6th on HBO. It's created by Mike Judge (Beavis & Butt-Head, Office Space, Idiocracy).    ...

Rick Kleffel writes, "I sat down in my living room with Jeff VanderMeer to talk about his latest novel Annihilation, and the Southern Reach trilogy it begins.    ...

Posted to YouTube by Ben Bristow.    ...

I liked pint-sized commercial pitchman Mason Reese when I was a kid, and after seeing this old video of Mason interviewing Leonard Nimoy about Star Trek, I like him even more.    ...

You've likely seen pet shaming -- pictures of dogs with signs round their necks bearing Cultural Revolution-style admissions like "I eat my own poop." But you haven't lived until you've seen poultry s...

Pesco's post earlier today about a cleric who issued a fatwa against one-way trips to Mars got me wondering about how Muslim prayer works off-planet.    ...

One of my first posts to the Boing Boing blog, back in 2001, was about the incredible (and incredibly eccentric) boogie-woogie piano player James Booker (1939-1983).    ...

This Metafilter post by Madamjujujive has extensive links and background on The American Folk Blues Festival 1962 - 1966, annual festival that brought some of the greatest blues acts of the USA to Br...

Muslims aren't permitted to take a one-way trip to Mars, at least according to a Khaleej Times report about a fatwa they say was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the...

Modern zombie movies and TV shows often frame the creation of said zombies around the spread of a virus or some other kind of disease.    ...

Using TVTropes as a base of information, this incredible chart organizes story structure, archetypes, plot devices and more into a structure similar to the periodic table of elements.   ...

This film demonstrates a concept snow vehicle made in 1924 by Armstead Snow Motors in Michigan. "The concept is applied to a Fordson tractor and a Chevrolet automobile." Here's the patent!  ...

Meet Pseudomonas syringae, a bacterium that causes disease in plants and helps make snow machines work. It all has to do with ice nucleation — the process that forms ice crystals in the atmosph...

Jeff Highsmith made a fantastic "Mission Control Desk" for his young son who has just started school. It's hidden under a regular desktop.    ...

Regular BB readers know one of my favorite head trips is the idea that we're living in a simulation or control system of some kind.    ...

An anonymous NSA leaker revealed to the German magazine Bild am Sonntag that the agency has been spying on senior German government figures.    ...

In each episode of Not Playing, Lex Friedman and Dan Moren watch movies they've never seen but that everyone else has.    ...

An international team of scientists are spending the next few weeks off the coast of Antarctica, studying sediment and sea life at the outflow of the Totten Glacier system — a largely unexplored...

The action begins at 1:08.    ...

Robbo sez, "The first annual Toronto Web Fest is happening this May 9-11th and they are still taking submissions until March 9th - so if anyone has a Web series they'd like to enter - now is the time....

Spillover, by David Quammen, is one of the best books I've read recently — all about how diseases make the jump from animals to people.    ...

I'm living in a dorm for the first time in 14 years. All this week, I'll be in UIUC's Allen Hall, participating in their Unit One Artist-in-Residence program.    ...

Furniture megaretailer Ikea just screwed up a product relaunch. Its legendary LP-sized Expedit bookshelves got a blink-and-you'll-miss-it redesign and a new name, Kallax.    ...

You may now play the agonizingly addictive thing on the Atari 2600, the ZX81 (with 1 kilobyte of RAM!), your TI calculator, and the most-impressive Commodore 64, pictured here.    ...

Ukraine's new government has issued an arrest warrant for Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted president who fled Kiev after recent unrest.    ...

Global Forest Watch maintains a current map of worldwide tree loss and gain, based upon satellite and other mapping imagery provided by Google.    ...

Rachel Edidin asks: "Publishers Are Warming to Fan Fiction, But Can It Go Mainstream?" Literary publishings uneasy relationship with fan fiction has been complicated by the realization that fandom is ...

"Humans often stare at random inanimate objects for hours at a time. Your duty is the break that spell. ... The worst offender among these objects is the light box." Especially interesting in some ov...

As you may have noticed, I think Litographs are really cool: the company turns the text of various books into a piece of appropriately themed text-art and makes lithographs, tees and tote-bags out of ...

In Snowtime, Vyacheslav Ivanov captures the crystallization and growth of a single snowflake in macrofocus, timelapsed to a neat two minutes with musical accompaniment from Aphex Twin.  &n...

In the rapturous aftermath of the oner from the end of True Detectives fourth episode, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote the most astute pushback against all the hype.    ...

Sergei sez, "George Takei has written an open letter to Arizona legislators regarding a bill that would allow businesses, based on a 'sincerely held religious belief' to bar LGBT patrons from entering...

Bani Garu is Lea Hernandez's story of becoming the U.S. merchandising vice-president of notorious Japanese animation studio Gainax, "a year-long trip down a rabbit hole of reality." Start with page 1....

Nerdcore rapper Dan Bull earns a good living from his Youtube videos, but he is constantly being dragged away from the studio to fight fraudulent copyright claims from major labels, who are able to c...

Fdecomite has revisited his tessellated Escher cookie-cutters, with a new set of cutters and some new baking that he's posted to the Boing Boing Flickr pool.    ...

The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus is the only science-fiction themed krewe marching in Mardi Gras, with a 400-person team whose floats and gizmos are paeans to maker culture.   &...

An Adventurer is you! Paying homage to the many times Jake has shrunk down to ride in Finn's pocket, this Adventure Time tee is great gift for any fan!    ...

One year ago today Amp made out of old brass instruments: The Analog Tele-Phonographer is Christopher Locke's fantastic smartphone amplifier made from salvaged, chimeraed brass instruments.  ...

Elysium Woodworks's Etsy store is full of gorgeous, laser-etched, math- and science-themed cutting boards. They're about $35, made from bamboo, and take 5-6 weeks to fabricate.    ...

One day after a video of Pussy Riot being horsewhipped by cossacks in Sochi went viral, the band had released a new music video in which the footage is heavily featured, amid anti-Putin rhetoric.&nbs...

The outlaw Russian activist organization Pussy Riot reportedly chose their name as a clever troll: one of the group's members said she thought it'd be a way to provide English-speakers following their...

The outlaw Russian activist organization Pussy Riot reportedly chose their name as a clever troll: one of the group's members said she thought it'd be a way to provide a little fun for English-speaker...

Joe Menn at Reuters: "A major flaw in Apple Inc software for mobile devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, the company said on Friday, ...

"Ghosting," by Andrew OHagan, is a most interesting personal profile of the Wikileaks founder by a writer in the most interesting position of having ghostwritten Assange's autobiography.  &n...

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, BB reader Willis the Wonderer shares this photograph of a kitty cat outside Al Jazeera's offices in Doha, Qatr.    ...

Yanukovych: "I'm won't sign anything with bandits who are terrorising Ukraine". Guess he's been on the phone to Moscow since yesterday— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) February ...

One year ago today World's largest panorama: London: Jeffrey spent the last 4 months stitching 48 THOUSAND images together into a single panorama which lets you see things up to about 15 miles away.&n...

Members of Pussy Riot, including the recently freed women Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were brutally whipped, sprayed and beaten by cossacks representing Russian authorities at the Soc...

Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot says, "This Saturday, at Giant Robot 2 we are proud to have Nathan Ota in the house.    ...

Prior to Whatsapp's $19B acquisition by Facebook, the company sent a large number of spurious takedowns against projects on Github. In a DMCA notice served by Whatsapp's General Counsel to Github, a n...

Fixed is a web app designed to beat parking tickets. Take a photo of the ticket, choose your reason to contest the ticket, and click the button.    ...

My friend Bob Knetzger recently went to an exhibit of pop-up books from Prague at The Grolier Club. He says: This show of about a hundred great pieces focuses on the work of Vojtech Kubata.  ...

A nice infographic by Maya Eilam. She's going to offer this as an 11 x 17 print! (Via This isn't Happiness)    ...

The original art from Action Comics number 15 sold for the price of a house at auction this week.It's interesting that the earlier covers of Action Comics either do not exist, or are stashed away some...

Jonl sez, "Streets near the University of Texas at Austin today are safer, thanks to quick and effective action by the local police, who caught and arrested a jogger, observed wearing a pony tail, bl...

Jonl sez, "Streets near the University of Texas at Austin today are safer, thanks to quick and effective action by the local police, who caught and arrested a jogger, observed wearing a pony tail, bl...

The ACLU has produced a video based on its Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data slide presentation from 2013.    ...

"The democratic Venezuela that so often received exiles from neighboring countries and gave asylum to political refugees fleeing military governments is once again alone." Maruja Tarre, a Venezuelan j...

A first-person account of the current chaos in Venezuela from Guido Nez-Mujica, a Boing Boing reader and biotech entrepreneur who calls the South American country his homeland.    ...

Barry Belcher describes a simple way to make a Haunted Mansion Madame Leota-style video crystal ball, using an old flat panel display, a novelty brandy snifter, and a piece of reflective plastic.&nbs...

One year ago today X-ray tees reveal internal family workings: Etsy's BabyTalkDesigns sells these x-ray t-shirts showing the contents of various family members' tummies.    ...

Tell Me Something I Dont Know is Boing Boing's podcast featuring artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative people discussing their work, ideas, and the practical side of how they do what they d...

The Washington Post got their hands on a leaked copy of the USPS stamp plans for the next few years. Steve Jobs is getting his own stamp in 2015.    ...

Michael Geist writes, "The Canadian federal court has released its much anticipated decision in Voltage Pictures v. Does, a case involving demands that TekSavvy, a leading independent ISP, disclose th...

The 600-year-old, strangely-illustrated Voynich Manuscript (which resides at Yale University) has been called the most mysterious manuscript in the world. Not a single word of the secret language has...

Ukraine president President Viktor Yanukovych signed a deal with opposition leaders today committing to early elections and reducing some of the president's authority.    ...

On CNN, Bruce Schneier lays out the current organizational structure of the NSA, dividing its activities in to three categories: spying on specific people; spying on everyone; and breaking the Interne...

Join The Immortal Augustus Gladstone director Robyn Miller and producer Mischa Jakupcak for a live chat at the online screening February 24, 2014 at 7pm PT.    ...

San Francisco's influential Noise Pop Festival kicks off on Tuesday (2/25) with a week of amazing indie music, films, panels, and parties.    ...

With all the discussion of whether the #Euromaidan protesters are acting on their own behalf or because they've been put up to it by foreign agents, it's worth revisiting an important story from last ...

As you might expect, more Democrats than Republicans say they want to make energy efficient and renewable energy improvements to their houses over the next five years.    ...

Prankster Jack Vale reads the nametags of passersby at 2014 NAMM, then says their name on a fake phonecall so they can hear him.    ...

Boars, Gore, and Swords is hosted by stand-up comedians Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott. In each episode they break down HBO's Game of Thrones and George R.R.    ...

Last September, an elementary school student in North Carolina brought a pound of mercury on board a school bus. The kids played with it, as kids are wont to do, and then spilled it all over the bus f...

A powerful video starring an anonymous protester called "I am a Ukrainian" has been viewed some five million times. The video was directed by Ben Moses, a documentary filmmaker who is working on a fi...

Check out this series of photos from India's Hemis National Park, where photographer Adam Riley watch a snow leopard stalk and hunt a pack of sheep.    ...

With the consent of a patient known only as "Lou", Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital live tweeted a coronary artery bypass graft yesterday.    ...

John writes, "Wikimedia UK is looking for UK institutions eager to work with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects by hosting funded Wikimedian in Residence posts.    ...

Josip Saric from Croatian national television is in a Kiev hotel near Maidan, and has kindly provided us with some snapshots of the surreal and troubling scenes, which range from bodies under shrouds ...

Bios and trivia on all your favorite Muppets! The Muppet Character Encyclopedia appears the perfect guide to introduce young children to the entire cast and crew of the Muppets.   &nbs...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Newark is shutting down its schools due to lack of funding, but it still has a fortune it can use to build a small palace for its archbishop John J Myers, who is soon to re...

Despite strong opposition from the Chinese government, Barack Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama today at the White House.    ...

"What if Warrior Cats was a Southern American detective drama? This is a Warriors version of opening to the HBO series True Detective.    ...

Pomplamoose's mashup of Happy and Get Lucky isn't just a great song -- it's a fantastic video in which Nataly and Jack manipulate props so that loads of clever, playful video-elements are projection-...

Gail Finney, a Democratic Kansas lawmaker from Kansas, introduced a law that would expand Kansas's already broad protection for teachers who hit their students, making it legal to hit children hard en...

A group of steampunk cosplayers arranged to meet up at Westfield Plaza Camino Real near San Diego to ride the mall's Victorian carousel.    ...

Shouldn't we ask someone who had a CompuServe account? Matt Bors' World War G    ...

Recommended if You Like is Boing Boing's weekly podcast of Brian Heater's cafe conversations with musicians, cartoonists, writers, and other creative types.    ...

The Openknit project is a Reprap-inspired, open source hardware knitting machine that can produce an adult-sized garment from yarn and a digital file in about an hour.    ...

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Google today launched Global Forest Watch, a new website that lets you see how the forests of the world have been cut down over the past 14 years.    ...

Jesse Pesta has a wonderful, colorful piece in the Wall Street Journal about a form of transportation unique to Cambodia: bamboo trains, known locally as "norry." Snip: In Cambodia, real trains are al...

[Video Link] Crazyman Liam Lynch has a new funnyjam, and it's all about cookies. A question: when exactly does it start being "later"?    ...

The Humane Society of The United States has released a video [warning, graphic] shot secretly at Iron Maiden Hog Farm in Owensboro, Kentucky which shows evidence of humans doing something really gross...

Greg Knauss is an independent software developer who created Romantimatic, a reminder program for absent-minded sweethearts. You may know him from the early 2000s: from Suck.com and Metababy and Rainy...

Heather sez, "Schmancy is having their 10th annual Plush You show this year, and applications are now open. Plus You is one of the only (if not THE only) juried shows for plush artists, so this is kin...

The Woman Who Stopped Traffic by Daniel Pembrey is a Silicon Valley thriller about a wildly successful social networking startup that's on track to becoming a publicly-traded company.   ...

Yesterday, I delivered a keynote address for the 2014 Museums and the Web Conference in Florence, speaking in the audience chamber of the Palazzo Vecchio, which is pretty much the definition of worki...

Steve Wahrer of The Trashmen going all out on American Bandstand in 1964. From Wikipedia: The Trashmen's biggest hit was 1963's "Surfin' Bird",[1] which reached No.    ...

Learn the trick that drunken frat boys have known for years - tossing a shard of spark plug porcelain will easily shatter a car side window.    ...

Learn the trick that drunken frat boys have known for years - tossing a shard of spark plug porcelain will easily shatter a car side window.    ...

Very nice graphic design on this pyrex crack pipe vending machine! It's a project from the Portland Hotel Society, which also runs workshops to teache alcoholics how to make beer and wine.  ...

In a disturbing ruling for democracy, a lower court in United Kingdom announced today that the detainment of journalist Glenn Greenwalds partner David Miranda was lawful under the Terrorism Act, despi...

One year ago today Tattoo of the ARPAnet as it stood in 1971: Matt Senate has a tattoo of the ARPAnet as it stood in 1971.    ...

This has got to be the best lede of all time. And a great article, too. Caitlin Flanagan, writing about fraternities, law, liabilities, and corruption in the Atlantic magazine: One warm spring night i...

Stray chihuahuas have become a problem in the west Phoenix neighborhood of Maryvale, Arizona. "They are out here chasing kids or going yard to yard," says one terrified local.    ...

The top Obama administration officials working on the Trans-Pacific Partnership came to government from investment banks who will benefit immensely from its provisions, which severely curtail countrie...

Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck carefully coaxes bees into enmeshing tatty porcelain statuary with honeycomb, for a result that is both otherworldly and beautiful, like the remains of a long-fallen civi...

Timbuktu, Mali, has been a seat of culture and learning for hundreds of years. When jihadists moved in last year and threatened to destroy the city's collection of scholarly work dating back to the me...

What is the object on the right? And how did it just appear one day, on Mars, without anyone around to move it?    ...

As I wrote in my post when the news broke, it's all about growth. Read Parmy Olson's Forbes story out today, which she began reporting long before the acquisition announcement: "The Rags-To-Riches Tal...

Who discovered the genetic anomaly behind Down Syndrome? The history books say it's Jrme Lejeune, but pediatric cardiologist Marthe Gautier says Lejeune stole her work and published it as his own.&nbs...

Hollywood, legendary home of creative accounting, wants a new round of subsidies. David Sirota at Pando Daily: Now that California has a budget surplus, the question for the states lawmakers is pretty...

In this clip NPR's Robert Smith appears to feel Olympians should put their pants on one leg at a time.    ...

In The Philosophy of Furniture," an essay in the May 1840 issue of Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine, Edgar Allan Poe decries the interior design sense of the world (the Italians have "have but little sen...

Good news for aficionados of excellent cartoons: this weekend marks the return of Nickelodeon animated series Sanjay and Craig, beginning this Saturday, Feb.    ...

[Video Link]. Here are some clips from the upcoming third season of Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, starring John C.    ...

Trigger warning. A satirical film in which a woman tries to follow all of the completely serious tips offered to women by the likes of Cosmopolitan, WikiHow and University of Colorado on how to avoid...

Ask-a-Zebra has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which makes her joints and muscles prone to painful dislocation. In a great post, she documents her experience with Silver Ring Splints, custom-made jewel...

You are Not So Smart is hosted by David McRaney, a journalist and self-described psychology nerd. In each episode, David explores cognitive biases and delusions, and is often joined by a guest expert....

Blend one part Dr. Seuss, one part jazz scat, and one part Cornell Lab of Ornithology Sound Library and you get these delightful recordings, capturing the majestic calls of the Orange Flat-Tailed Barn...

I've been enjoying Derek's "Post-Psychedelic Freakout 45s" posts on Bedazzled. This time, he presents MP3s of three 45s from the late '60s-early '70s, including "Make Me Stay A Bit Longer," by The Sta...

Lori Dorn of Laughing Squid says: "According to a new study conducted by the University of Manitoba Psychology Department, Internet trolls generally manifest signs of sadism, psychopathy, narcissism, ...

The Well-Sorted Version of the King James Bible takes all the letters in the Bible, preserves the order of upper- and lower-case letters, sorts the letters into alphabetical order, and "pours" the sor...

The Meers fault in Southwestern Oklahoma. There were 179 earthquakes in Oklahoma in just the last 7 days. Which is crazy.    ...

Actor James Franco in the NYT: "Mr. LaBeouf has been acting since he was a child, and often an actors need to tear down the public creation that constrains him occurs during the transition from young ...

"For most kids in high school, the future promises better days. But for a certain group, there's no time like the past." It Doesn't Get Better, by Jason Headley.    ...

CBS Local: Police say he resisted arrest, so they were forced to use a Taser to take him into custody.    ...

Joseph "Rawr" Thai's Mario-themed doorbell makes a coin-chime every time its pressed, and increments an LCD counter showing how many coins have been racked up by visitors to the house.  &nb...

Amtrak might be starting up a writer's residency. Writer Jessica Gross wrote about her test run with the proposed program for The Paris Review.    ...

An aerial view shows Independence Square during clashes between anti-government protesters and Interior Ministry members and riot police in central Kiev February 19, 2014.    ...

Simple Misfits conducted a test. They had a white guy spend 30 minutes ostentatiously trying to break into a car.    ...

Our standards betray us, leading to action movies (particularly remakes of Paul Verhoeven's) which "trade subversive carnage for sanitized violence that asks fewer moral questions.   &n...

In the process of writing his just-released book Young Money, an investigative look at the bankers who've joined Wall Street since the crash of 2008, author Kevin Roose snuck into a meeting of the sec...

Jimmy Fallon's off to a good start as host of The Tonight Show. [Video Link]    ...

Hugh sez, "What's wrong with Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center? This new comic by Susie Cagle lays out the issues." The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance (Thanks, Hugh!   ...

Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shot and shared this terrific photograph in the Boing Boing Flickr pool, where you can also share your images.    ...

Rolling Stone's loss is Pierre Omidyar's gain. Matt Taibbi is joining First Look Media, the same organization where Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras are on the masthead at The Interc...

One year ago today Aaron Swartz's FBI File: Overall the files tell you more about the FBI than they do Swartz.    ...

The Sword and Laser (S&L) is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club podcast hosted by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.    ...

Mentalist Keith Barry works his powers of manipulation on used car dealers and customers in this video, like figuring out exactly how much people imagine they are willing to spend on a car. &nbs...

A fun video from the creative team making Star Wars Rebels, about Sabine, a character with a "love for blowing things up and tagging her work with graffiti." Star Wars Rebels is scheduled to premiere...

A fun video from the creative team making Star Wars Rebels, about Sabine, a character with a "love for blowing things up and tagging her work with graffiti." Star Wars Rebels is scheduled to premiere...

Your browser doesn't support the HTML audio tag. You can still download the show, though! var audioTag = document.createElement('audio'); /* Do we not support MP3 audio?    ...

Facebook will buy the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars in cash and stock. That's 19 billion. I first used the app in Central America, where friends turned me on to it. &n...

Facebook will buy the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars in cash and stock. Yep, that's 19 buh-buh-billion with a "b." The company launched in 2009, founded by former Yahoo emp...

Fantagraphics went all-out with this beautiful 4-volume anthology of 1950s EC comic book stories. A boxed set of our first four books in our acclaimed EC Comics Library, which collects the best comics...

Protesters in Kiev's #Euromaidan camp report that yesterday's horrific violence -- which saw at least 25 protesters killed by police -- has continued to escalate.    ...

The latest installment in Randall Munroe's XKCD "What If?" series is called Paint the Earth and it is amazing. One of Munroe's readers wanted to know "Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the e...

Next Tuesday (2/25) marks the start of San Francisco's long-running Noise Pop Festival, a weeklong smorgasbord of fantastic indie bands, arts, films, talks, panel discussions, and parties at venues a...

Top Shelf Comix, an extraordinary and daring independent press, has announced a DRM-free comics store, including the classic Moore/Campbell collaboration "From Hell" and the bestselling Nate Powell co...

Feel free to interpret your favorite rapper in whatever color scheme you like! Aye Jay's Gangsta Rap Coloring Book presents 48 icons of rap.    ...

Canonical, the company that publishers Ubuntu (a free/open operating system based on GNU/Linux) has announced that it will ship two Ubuntu OS phones this year, in partnership with two manufacturers, o...

[Trigger warning] A letter from the Department of Justice to the Missoula County Attorney's Office in Montana concludes that the state's police and prosecutors ignore and downplay rape complaints, int...

Mother Jones has published a heartbreaking story about the survivors of the Florida School for Boys; children who were, basically, kidnapped by southern cops and sent to a hellhole where backbreaking ...

Pecard leather dressing completely transformed my favorite, beat-into-the-ground motorcycling jacket. My old Triumph jacket went from well faded and dried-out to beautifully worn-in, in one treatment...

Armadillos collect leaf litter that they use to build nests in their burrows. Because carrying is difficult when you're shaped like an armadillo, the animals opt for bunching a pile of leaves up again...

Next Tuesday (2/25) marks the start of San Francisco's long-running Noise Pop Festival, a weeklong smorgasbord of fantastic indie bands, arts, films, talks, panel discussions, and parties at venues a...

FYI, Bay Area readers — if you rode BART between February 4 and February 7, you may have been exposed to measles by an unvaccinated student who picked up the disease on a trip to Asia. &nbs...

Since 2010, the lucky people of West Virginia have gotten their local phone/Internet service from Frontier Communications, who bought the business from noted shit-shovelers Verizon.   &...

Since 2010, the lucky people of West Virginia have gotten their local phone/Internet service from Frontier Communications, who bought the business from noted shit-shovelers Verizon.   &...

Scientists name a bacteria after Frank Zappa. The press release announcing this somehow manages to make Zappa sound insanely square.     ...

This is the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a ship that's as important to the history of engineering as it is to the history of insanely crazy Cold War CIA schemes.    ...

Spherical Harmonics dwells on the ineluctably CGI-like qualities of even the most realistic CGI imagery. It is a hermetically sealed fantasy, full of digitally created memories, counterfeit physics a...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Nate the Wonder Pundit definitively disproves Global Warming. Q.E.D.    ...

Next Tuesday (2/25) marks the start of San Francisco's long-running Noise Pop Festival, a weeklong smorgasbord of fantastic indie bands, arts, films, talks, panel discussions, and parties at venues a...

Sherwin from Public Knowledge writes, "The Copyright Office and the Library of Congress think that copyright law and the DMCA make it illegal to unlock your phone and take it to a new carrier. &n...

Buzzfeed's Tom Phillips has done a pretty nice job of creating a series of GIFs that explain, in a simplified way, why this winter has been particularly shitty in both North America and northern Europ...

"The username is a relic," writes Mat Honan. "Here's how to fix it." This has probably happened to you: You hear about some cool new app or game or service, rush to sign up, and discover that another ...

Yesterday, in the comments on my post about ways to use a breast pump more efficiently, a couple of people lamented the lack of a regular, science-heavy parenting blog.    ...

Ray Kurzweil guesses at when stuff from Spike Jonze's near-future Her will be available. [via Kottke] I would place some of the elements in Jonze's depiction at around 2020, give or take a couple of y...

Three months ago, Pakistani exchange student Muhammad Shahzaib Bajwa was injured in a car wreck. He's been in a coma ever since, in a hospital in Duluth, Minn.    ...

"Several people showed me the brilliant floppy drive rendition of Tainted Love by Gigawipf here on YouTube so I thought it might be fun to add the vocal!    ...

New Hampshire state representative J.R. Hoell has introduced state legislation that will require police departments to get approval from citizens at a town hall meeting before they buy military-style...

Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has banned women from visiting hospitals without male guardians, reports Arab News.    ...

The UK National Health Service has initiated a plan to take the nation's private health records and sell them off to private companies in a process overseen by notorious multinational bumblewads ATOS....

In Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Web Filtering in Syria [PDF], researchers from INRIA, NICTA and University College London parse through 600GB worth of leaked logfiles from seven Blue Coat SG-9000...

The Intercept today published documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden which show that the NSA and Britain's GCHQ targeted WikiLeaks with an array of surveillance tactics--and spied on its sup...

In Idaho, the dairy industry has successfully lobbied lawmakers to propose a new law that would make it a crime for animal rights advocates or journalists to lie about their backgrounds to application...

One year ago today My Little Pony Applejack automata: The figures, stand, tree and bushel are carved out of Philippine mahogany while the gears and apples are made out of Narra hardwood.  &n...

Get some perspective on days of Olympic coverage through GIFs of the wipeouts.    ...

There are too many awesome things about this to count. (Via Arcane Images)    ...

Joshua sez, "I've been nagging my wife (a jeweler; you posted her sci-fi wedding rings a few years ago) to make a squid ring for years.    ...

A dude on eBay is auctioning off Matthew McConaughey's--well, Rust Cohle's- cup. Excellent, Near-Flawless Condition. No Chips, Scratches or Stains.    ...

In 2012 I reviewed Economix, a terrific cartoon history of economics by Michael Goodwin and illustrated by Dan E. Burr.    ...

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool the fractal-obsessed Fdecomite posts the latest iteration in a series of experiments with tessellated, Escher cookie-cutters.    ...

Peter writes, "My niece has been an unflagging volunteer for as long as I can remember. Recently she's come to realize that maybe everything she might want to do isn't what's actually needed: 'I think...

Nine people died earlier today in mass protests over Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich's dictatorial rule and his decision to side with Russia instead of the European Union.    ...

8-Bitty does some extremely great pixel-art tees inspired by classic video-games. I like the two-sided, full-shirt screens the best, like the mummy wrappings and the skeleton (this one reminds me of t...

"The only judge is The Lord, and when I meet him I'll know how he feels." A rational society would kill George Zimmerman or give him a reality show.    ...

Horrifying. Among the 300 North Koreans who testified about regime abuses was Kim Kwang-Il, a 48-year-old defector who spent almost three years in a North Korean gulag for smuggling pine nuts across ...

A US citizen had government-grade spyware placed on his laptop by the Ethiopian government, who proceeded to monitor his Skype calls, instant messages, and his whole family's Internet use.  ...

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New odd and unsettling changes to Capital One's credit card terms of service include things described as a "personal visit." The L.A.    ...

An airline passenger with a medical condition requiring small amounts of food at regular intervals was stymied when the LHA TSA declared his peanut butter to be a "liquid." But he cleverly spread the ...

One man is believed dead and another was injured after a natural gas well near Bobtown, Pennsylvania exploded a week ago.    ...

This bird is known as the "white-necklaced tit". Thanks, Erik!    ...

If Leonardo da Vinci made the drawing using a recently deceased cadaver as a model, then the hernia could have very well been the reason said model was dead.    ...

Yes, this is a review of a nursing bra. No, this is not me getting all mommyblogger. If you are a woman with a new kid and you work, then milking yourself is a weird and frequent part of your work sch...

In Frequency, the latest XKCD cartoon, Randall Munroe has assembled a grid of animated GIFs representing various events in the universe, each keyed to blink in the frequency in which they occur in rea...

The Magic Mushroom is my Cavalier King Charles' latest obsession! Pretzel carries it from room to room, finding good spots to batter it around and get paid a treat.    ...

A study (pdf) from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Initiative tracks global driving fatalities. Drive in Britain, Japan and Sweden.    ...

Good boy! [via Arbroath]    ...

Great stuff from Jimmy Fallon and Will Smith on the former's first time in charge at The Tonight Show. The best line from the new king: "I'll be your host ...    ...

A hotly-awaited PlayStation 4 game won't even include playable female characters, "because of the plot," and it's reignited gaming's ever smoldering sexism problem.    ...

As I previously posted, in my April my friends in the Afghan Whigs will release their first new album in sixteen years, titled Do To The Beast.    ...

Ethan Gilsdorf watches RoboCop (2014) and remembers RoboCop (1987). The PG-13 remake isn't without its qualities, but has less to say than the original, and, worse, is not as funny.   &...

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

Noah sez, "My dear friend Sam Strick of Laboratory Labs and Scroll Down to Riker, is currently running a Kickstarter for an awesome board game that he designed, originally, to fit on the back of a bus...

Today, Phantogram releases its highly-anticipated second LP today, Voices, and it's a beaut. Voices is a lush, lovely cycle of spacey, psych, mid-tempo electronic pop infused with a contemporary soul...

As mentioned, I'm in Florence, Italy with my daughter for a speaking gig. We toured the Palazzo Vecchio on the first day, and happened on a bust of Dante, and I began to explain the story of Dante, hi...

As mentioned, I'm in Florence, Italy with my daughter for a speaking gig. We toured the Palazzo Vecchio on the first day, and happened on a bust of Dante, and I began to explain the story of Dante, hi...

I'm fine. Heathrow's Border Force was just trying to intimidate me. "Who is Edward Snowden?" "Do you know him?" "Where is Bradley Manning?"— Jesselyn Radack (@Jes...

In each episode of Not Playing, Lex Friedman and Dan Moren watch movies they've never seen but that everyone else has.    ...

Only $99! Maybe they'll make a supervillian action figure of James Clapper perjuring himself next. New Edward Snowden action figure to promote Freedom of the Press Foundation donations  &nbs...

Saritha Rai, reporting for the New York Times on Indias recent launch of a spacecraft to Mars: "It is the $75 million missions thrifty approach to time, money and materials that is getting attention.&...

Over the weekend, elevated levels of radioactive particles were measured at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico. A spokesman said the incident "looked like the first real alarm since the p...

Yep. HOTEL CASANUS. "On a small island nestled between Antwerp and Ghent in Flanders, Belgium lies what could be the most remarkable hotel ever. Shaped like a giant anus, Hotel CasAnus just screams, ...

Today I used an old reliable tweezer and realized that most people probably had little idea of what a good tweezer can be.    ...

Jennifer Mendelsohn recently reported a piece for Medium about a presumed online cancer hoax which received a great deal of attention at Buzzfeed, Jezebel, and other viral-hypey websites as a real st...

By POYKPAC Comedy. [Video Link, thanks Joe Sabia]    ...

Shubham Banerjee, a seventh grader in Santa Clara, California, invented a Lego Mindstorms-based Braille printer called the Braigo. He's declared his intention to release his printer -- which costs ab...

"What separates HBO's crime drama True Detective from other series that obsessively catalogue dead female bodies or attempt to find the human side of serial killers is the show's ambition in style and...

Nigel, a Scottish forensic artist, did this facial reconstruction job on a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka, yielding up a glimpse of how the grotesque crystalline monsters whose skulls are harvested by t...

"What separates HBO's crime drama True Detective from other series that obsessively catalogue dead female bodies or attempt to find the human side of serial killers is the show's ambition in style and...

A couple of weeks ago, on Twitter, a reader challenged my assumption that driving under the influence of marijuana would be dangerous.    ...

Fox Carolina: "According to warrants Kayla Michelle Finely rented Monster-In-Law from Dalton Video [in Pickens SC] , which is no longer in business, in 2005 and the tape was not returned within 72 hou...

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Italian Serie A team Lazio's new signing, Joseph Minala, is rumored to be much older than the age he claims to be.    ...

Flapthulhu is the first thing to have caught my eye since I promised myself I would never write another word about .    ...

The Netherlands sits atop the medal table in Sochi, remarkable enough given the country's relatively small size compared to rivals Russia and the USA.    ...

Makeup artist Psycho Sandra created an amazing, gross-out effect for her Hallowe'en costume last year: she created the illusion that she had made a domino mask of her own flayed skin.   ...

I asked BBS moderator Falcor, the Don't-Push-Your-Luck Dragon, to explain its origins. It refused to answer, but did point out that it was nothing like that of cousin Falkor the Luck Dragon, star of 1...

By artist Kathy Klein, who sells limited edition prints. To see the real thing, however, you'll have to locate an installation: "each piece is photographed," writes Christopher Jobson, "then left to ...

You already knew that Norway enjoys Slow TV—long, boring shows where nothing much happens—but now the videos and think pieces about it are (rapidly) accumulating!    ...

Hot on the heels of Goat Simulator, Tabletop Simulator lets you play all the classics—chess, cards, checkers, backgammon, go, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.—with the physics of pieces, paper, ...

The director of rowing at an elite private school in Australia was sacked for informing the students not to "twirl their wangas", an antipodean sexual innuendo.    ...

As usual with these things, it's really 16-bit style, but it's fantastic, so who cares? [YouTube]    ...

One year ago today Maryland landlord used tiny cameras to sexually spy on tenants: A landlord will go on trial in Montgomery County District Court, Maryland, over charges he secretly recording three f...

John Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died at 48 from a heart-attack. Henson, who had no history of heart problems, was a board member of the Jim Henson Company, and sometimes played Swe...

Kevin McFarland reviews episode 5 in season 1 of HBO's crime drama "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. If you're new to the show, start with our introduction here. This...

Artist Rachelliles352's Deviantart profile is full of gorgeous hand-painted shoes. Of course, my favorite set are these custom-painted Haunted Mansion high-tops -- there's a wonderful line there, and ...

Kevin McFarland reviews episode 5 in season 1 of HBO's crime drama "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. If you're new to the show, start with our introduction here. This...

I ran into    ...

One year ago today Slave Leo, A Genderbent Slave Leia Costume: Hobbyist armorsmith Ryan spent the winter creating a version of the iconic Slave Leia costume fit for a man.    ...

On Meet the Press, Bill Nye is forced to explain why word games don't disprove climate change. He implores GOP Rep.    ...

Keyan sez, "FOGcon is a literary speculative fiction convention in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now in its 4th year, it's big enough to be fun, still small enough not to overwhelm.   &nb...

A new Snowden leak, "SUSLOC (Special US Liaison Office Canberra) Facilitates Sensitive DSD Reporting on Trade Talks," details how the NSA mentored and oversaw Australian spies, and sanctioned their su...

To quote another journalist: "Well, that's going to be standing-room-only."    ...

NBC's Sochi headquarters includes a secret, prohibited Starbucks with a crew of 15 imported baristas that keeps the NBC crew fuelled and in good spirits.    ...

Myles Power, a debunker who goes after junk science and conspiracy theorists, has gone after AIDS denialists and a terrible, falsehood-ridden, dangerous documentary called "House of Numbers," which h...

One year ago today The flags really make this sign: USA USA USA Five years ago today European Commission demands a single, standard phone charger: The European Commission is getting ready to force all...

Mass-murderer Anders Breivik has issued a second letter of complaint about the conditions he's endured in a Norwegian prison since killing 77 teenagers attending a conference for the youth wing of a l...

Chris Locke writes, "Why should kids have all the fun? '99 Ways To Die: a Coloring Book for ADULTS' is for mature audiences who love to color, but are tired of childish subject matter.  &nbs...

Hug your meme. My friend Ryan's daughter saw one like this at the market and had to have it. Grumpy Cat plush doll Thanks, Ryan!    ...

Bani Garu is Lea Hernandez's story of becoming the U.S. merchandising vice-president of notorious Japanese animation studio Gainax, "a year-long trip down a rabbit hole of reality." Start with page 1....

Ryan sez, "This is the spiral skull that I created in Zbrush and got printed in strong, flexible nylon. It's being featuring at the 3D Printshow in NYC which wraps up Saturday." It's called "Mortal C...

Matt sez, "Probably the most complete hardware workshop ever, you'll design, fab and program a Bluetooth device in a single day." (Thanks, Matt!    ...

Jeff writes, "Featuring a brand new soundtrack from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Massive Attack and Elbow, and narrated by Dominic West (The Wire), journalist Marke Donne has put together a riveting docum...

Robert Sharp writes, "A group of readers have launched a legal challenge to Penguin, saying: 'You're not using your copyright responsibly - please turn it over to us'!    ...

Boars, Gore, and Swords is hosted by stand-up comedians Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott. In each episode they break down HBO's Game of Thrones and George R.R.    ...

A statement from the office of California state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announces the arrest of the accused owner and operator of a revenge porn website WinByState.com.  &nbs...

A statement from the office of California state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of the accused owner/operator of revenge porn website WinByState.com.   &nbs...

Rob Ives created this great laser-cut cupid automata and has supplied files and instructions for recreating it with your own laser-cutter (or that of your local makerspace).    ...

I first got turned on to the Paderno plastic veggie spiralizer four years ago, during a raw vegan experimentation phase. One such dish I was curious to try making at home was zucchini "noodles," which...

Earlier this week, it looked like China's malfunctioning lunar rover might be headed for the junk pile. But the week ends with great news: "Yutu has come back to life!" spokesperson Pei Zhaoyu told a ...

Joe Sabia's Collective Cadenza (CDZA) YouTube musical project has two Valentine's Day specials out this week: The History of Women Moving On, and The History of Men Moving On.    ...

PBS NewsHour has a double-header from science correspondent Miles O'Brien on what's new and interesting in 3D printing. Part one [transcript here] above explores how, with the push of a button, the e...

Arthur Buxton writes, "Here's a tribute to three classic children's books - The Snowman, Where the Wild Things Are and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.    ...

Via Public Domain Review: "The Open Country of Womans Heart, Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein (1830s), by D.W.    ...

A breaking story that could become a significant step toward a legal marijuana economy in the United States: Obama administration allows banks to do business with licensed marijuana companies: officia...

Psychologists: Internet trolls are horrible people. Trolls: Why, thank you, good sirs.    ...

Yes, there is big news out of nuclear fusion energy research this week. For the first time, scientists at the National Ignition Facility created more energy via fusion than they used to start the reac...

Sony's Playstation 4 is pulling away from the XBox One, according to sales figures released by the NPD Group and Sony's own numbers.    ...

Unfortunately, Nicholas Baker's Prism Nightlight is just a one-off. The goal of this project was to explore a personal light device and create an innovative product taking inspiration from a notable d...

Caity Weaver went on a Paula Deen cruise: "I wanted to see who was willing to spend, at minimum, roughly $3,000 to support a downtrodden millionaire." She found racism, death, despair, and friendship....

Wired's Alan Devenish on reporting in Putin's union: Writers have a good sense of what stories wont make it past their editors.    ...

Peretz Partensky and her friend had just had a dinner at a restaurant in San Francisco's SOMA district when they happened on an injured woman who had fallen off her bicycle.    ...

Currently Amazon's fourth best selling item in Kitchen tools. The reviews are worth reading. Herb Grinder for grinding herbs Thanks, Pamela!    ...

Inside this plain covered, weathered old paperback is something that I think might approach late sixties period poetry perfection. I was shocked into a state of joyful awe when I first read The Mason...

From the first section of the 1856 Guano Islands Act: Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any othe...

Here's a roundup of some exciting Canadian library/makerspace news: with makerspaces coming up or open in Edmonton, Hamilton, and Toronto.    ...

Photograph: Hemedia/Mark Sutherland West Dunbartonshire council has had quite enough of listening to that woman complain about her assigned public housing being inaccessible to her disabled child.&nbs...

The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum encourages the public to download and remix its 150,000 artistic masterworks. Now, it's sponsoring a contest. Use their art to create new art and you could win 1,500 and a...

Burnt bone charcoal was once used as a pigment by ancient cave painters. In 2017, the same material will go to space, as part of the heat shield on the European Space Agency's new solar orbiter. ...

Yesterday, I was delighted to discover that the Shedd Aquarium has a collection of Asian carp in their exhibit on fish of Great Lakes.    ...

Personalthreatlevel lets you create your own custom DHS-style threat-level that will serve you well as a means of frightening the people in your life with nebulous, ill-defined scariness.  &...

One of the RIAA's best friends in congress, Jerry Nadler, has been appointed to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet by Obama.    ...

One of the RIAA's best friends in congress, Jerry Nadler, has been appointed to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet by Obama Congressional Democrats.&nbs...

Recommended if You Like is Boing Boing's weekly podcast of Brian Heater's cafe conversations with musicians, cartoonists, writers, and other creative types.    ...

Boars, Gore, and Swords is hosted by stand-up comedians Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott. In each episode they break down HBO's Game of Thrones and George R.R.    ...

"Unused pieces of text, never intended to be seen during gameplay ... because developers have voices too." [tcrf.net]    ...

Rand Paul has launched a class-action suit against the US government over the NSA's warrantless bulk telephone metadata surveillance. Ars Technica has good analysis of the legal dimension of the suit:...

The Sword and Laser (S&L) is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club podcast hosted by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.    ...

NBC News reports that the status of two NSA workers is under review after the agency released a memo [PDF] implicating them in the Edward Snowden leaks.    ...

"February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of 'national security," writes Nadya Kayyali at an Electronic Frontier Fo...

"February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of 'national security," writes Nadya Kayyali at an Electronic Frontier Fo...

Marine Biologist, blogger, and science-tweeter David Shiffman sends word to Boing Boing readers of a wonderful opportunity to support shark research, and get the chance to have a close encounter of yo...

Lifehacker does a fun weekly feature sharing shortcuts, workspaces, and productivity tips of invited "experts and internet personalities." Boingers Mark Frauenfelder and Cory Doctorow have been featur...

Inside this plain covered, weathered old paperback is something that I think might approach period-poetry perfection. I was shocked into a state of over joyed awe when I first started to read The Mas...

At my first baby shower. Designing a onesie. pic.twitter.com/emSVnleKsg— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) February 9, 2014 This Alien chestburster onesie was drawn by comics creator Mike Dougher...

The Columbia Journalism Review has published an extensive op-ed from former Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps arguing that "Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the...

An anonymous Boing Boing reader says, "Here's an email that academic publishing company Elsevier is sending around to advertise to scientists.    ...

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools re-imagines the Whole Earth Catalog, of which he was an editor and publisher, for the Internet era: crowdsourced, crowdmade, crowdmanaged.    ...

This is the only footage from Sochi that you really need to watch: when the AT-ATs of Russia attacked the skiers, it was sheer, Olympian magic.    ...

William Cormier III was convicted this week of killing journalist Sean Dugas, burying his body in a concrete-covered pit in Georgia, then selling off his rare Magic: The Gathering playing cards, part ...

Laurie Penny writes, "What do you give your single friends and ex-partners on Valentine's day? Cult online journal The New Inquiry has released a product line to help them keep on paying their writers...

Buzzfeed has a piece on CNN's Headline News relaunch under new chief Albie Hecht. The revamped channel promises to be "cable news for the social media generation." That's interesting, but one thing I ...

Check out this series of photos from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park. Mr. Bones, the alligator, had to be fully restrained to keep him from moving in the scanner.   &nb...

Elisa Naranja Metlica Insua's Flickr stream is full of gorgeous, mosaiced assemblages that the Argentine artist makes in Beunos Aires.    ...

The fossil record contains evidence of dinosaur poop. But it also turns out that we've got evidence of dinosaur pee, as well.    ...

Arthur Hubbard, Sr., passed away at age 102. He led an amazing life and contributed greatly to his state and country.    ...

The last time this much of the lake was frozen was in 1994, when 91% of the surface area was ice.    ...

The Burgess Shale, discovered in 1909 in the Canadian Rockies, has long been considered one of the greatest fossil sites ever found.    ...

Kirsten From Edri writes, "European Digital Rights (EDRi) has launched WePromise.EU to put digital civil rights on the agenda of the European election.    ...

Hugh Howey, author of the bestselling, indie-original science fiction series Wool, has published an eye-popping, and important data-rich report on independent author earnings from ebooks sold on Amazo...

Zach Weissmueller says: A few years ago, I shared with you a video about the pattern of police raids on private property happening in California's Antelope Valley.    ...

Steven Erglanger reporting in the New York Times: "About a year and a half after finding King Richard IIIs corpse under a parking lot in Leicester, British scientists will proceed to grind up some of ...

While 'officials' have named the span for Willie Brown, efforts continue to recognize Emperor Norton's bridge as his own. This in from SF Weekly: Late Monday night, a group of unidentified artists ins...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "I just finished ripping 30 DVDs from the IRS. This is the monthly feed of nonprofit tax returns.    ...

A fantastic dog toy with a name only the eleventh Doctor could love! Meet the Nobbly Nubbly! This combination treat holder and dental stimulator entertains my Great Pyr Nemo for hours.  &nb...

A couple in England waged a "troubling and sinister" five-year campaign against a neighbor, reports the Express newspaper—all over a tiny 12-inch path by their properties in a delightful Kent vi...

Studio Diip made a car for a goldfish. When the fish goes an outing, it is transferred to a separate tank that is mounted on wheels.    ...

Coffee Stain Studios is developing Goat Simulator, a strong candidate for 2014 Game of the Year. It is available for pre-order.    ...

2013's House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey as a ruthless politician on his way to the top, was based upon 1990's House of Cards, starring Ian Richardson as a ruthless politician on his way to the t...

It's tough. By Adam Saltsman. Play.    ...

There are lots of 3,250,000 mansions around London's Crystal Palace, but there aren't many whose attics have been converted to spaceship control rooms.    ...

Elizabeth sez, "Nothing To Hide is an anti-stealth game, where you're forced to help in your own surveillance. It was released yesterday, in honor of The Day We Fight Back, and you can play the HTML5...

Our pal Jeff Simmermon says: I'm putting on a Very Special Valentine's Day version of the 'And I Am Not Lying' variety show at UCB East at midnight (11:59 PM on 2/14) on Valentine's day, featuring th...

Plucked from the photo comments on this Etsy item is this perfect description: "To boldly propose where no man has proposed before." If you need to be that person, make sure your shirt isn't red and ...

Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $159 a share in an all-stock deal that will combine America's two largest cable companies, reports Bloomberg.    ...

Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $159 a share in an all-stock deal that will combine America's two largest cable companies, reports CNBC.    ...

Your browser doesn't support the HTML audio tag. You can still download the show, though! var audioTag = document.createElement('audio'); /* Do we not support MP3 audio?    ...

Delaying the resolution of a cliffhanger can be tricky business. It risks rendering the previous chapter less enthralling, taking credit for a sometimes unexpected leap in the plot, and disappointing ...

One year ago today 3D-printed weighted companion cube dice: 3D printed stainless steel dice that resemble the beloved weighted companion cubes from the game Portal.    ...

Is your YT-1300 no longer making the Kessel Run in anything close to 12 parsecs? Maybe you need The Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual.    ...

Kevin Kelly is doing a Google Hangout with Lloyd Kahn today at 5pm PT. Lloyd is one of the coolest people I know.    ...

There's nothing quite so cuddly as a giant isopod plush toy. It has been encutified to make it even more adorable than the real-life version, with big, round, loving eyes.    ...

Freeweibo, an anti-censorship organization that works on free speech issues in China, has discovered that the Chinese version of Microsoft's Bing search-engine censors its US version to match the cens...

Endless Porno Kisses: Safe for work, but just barely.    ...

Kites are fun, and so is this new Boing Boing T-shirt, which we released into the wind today! (See all the items for sale in the Boing Boing Shop)    ...

Glacier archaeology. Researchers are finding all kinds of things in the beds left by retreating glaciers — both ancient artifacts and much more recent remains.    ...

The Winter Olympics. If emissions of carbon dioxide continue at current levels the resulting warming will quickly start to cut down on the number of places that can host the games — even with ex...

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Warren Chrismas improved the Team Russia logo (above) simply by adding two dots.    ...

Luna of Cairo is an excellent comic written by a woman who works as a belly dancer on a riverboat in Cairo.    ...

Tihk sells a tiny, easily concealed handcuff key for "everyday carry," and intended for "law enforcement, military, and security professionals...[to avoid] being restrained with their own cuffs, captu...

DuMont is the latest design from Jeffrey Stephenson: "Watch I Love Lucy reruns or use as a Pandora box. For me it locks together two devices that are bluetooth tethered and travel around together any...

Tibetans are physiologically adapted to living at high altitudes and those adaptations are probably 30,000 years old.    ...

Just a friendly reminder: Right now, you are spinning at a rate of 1,040 miles/hour. (At the equator. You spin a bit slower the closer you get to a pole.)    ...

The standard answer is that moths aren't attracted to bright lights, they're confused by them. Many species of moths migrate and they use the Moon as a navigational cue.    ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we learn that the TRUTH about numbers is in the Bible, not in a "theory" of mathematics    ...

When cop-killer Christopher Dorner went on the run, the LAPD went on the rampage. One of its victims was an elderly woman, hit twice when officers fired more than 100 shots at her (despite her truck l...

Will Oremus points out that the recent "Upworthy traffic collapse" stories rely on short-term traffic estimates from quantcast which everyone knows are questionable.    ...

Aled Lewis's "The Coruscant Tapestry" is a 30 foot long, 13" high tapestry depicting the tale of Star Wars in cross-stitch.    ...

The flap heard around the world! Mashable's Christina Warren, in "28 Days of Fame: The Strange True Story of Flappy Bird", traces the game's origins, development, and genuinely weird success story.&nb...

"Like an alligator giving birth: very rare." Naturally, there have been complaints.    ...

The commander of the Iraqi militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly blew up 21 suicide bombers in training when he made an error during a live explosives exercise.  &...

One year ago today Litterplugs: where the trash gets wedged: Even if theyre obviously in no way trashcans, and likely will never be emptied or cleaned by any human being on earth, and in most cases th...

In each episode of Not Playing, Lex Friedman and Dan Moren watch movies they've never seen but that everyone else has.    ...

In keeping with the theme of "The Day We Fight Back," MAKE has three privacy-enhancement projects you can make: an Onion Pi Tor proxy so you can browse the web anonymously anywhere you go, a mobile, a...

Nathan sez, "This is Episode 9 of Embracing Disruption Podcast (EDP). In this episode I interview April Glaser from the EFF.    ...

Researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, long-lived piece of espionage malware called Careto (Spanish for "Mask"). The software, which attacks Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux, has been runnin...

Have you ever wanted to be alone in the woods, drinking your own urine to survive? Probably not, that'd be weird. But you've wondered if you could do it, right? An exclusive essay by the author of the...

Phyrella mookiei is a sea cucumber that is covered in white, fluffy-looking protrusions. Mookie is a fluffy, white wheaten terrier. Together, they help redefine whole taxonomic genera.  &nbs...

In the 19th century, Charles Joseph Hullmandel illustrated a glorious series of landscapes shaped as the letters of the English alphabet.    ...

Shirley Temple Black, child movie star and adult diplomat, has died. She was 85. Above, Temple sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop" in the 1934 film Bright Eyes.    ...

Wired visited the home studio of Radiolab's Jad Abumrad. It's a minimal set-up, and I dig his appreciation for vintage synths like the Moog Sonic Six and Roland Juno-60.    ...

This gentleman is Steven Frank Steele, 19, of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, who was arrested for attempting to rob a gas station while wearing a flower pot on his head and wielding a chainsaw. ...

The Doge did what the Doge does! When I think of a Doge, I think of the Doge who did the dirt to the Duke with the Duchess.    ...

Patrick Farley, a wonderful comics creator whose work we've been covering for more than a decade, has taken to Twitter to show off his Zbrush recreations of the monsters from the original Dungeons and...

Patrick Farley, a wonderful comics creator whose work we've been covering for more than a decade, has taken to Twitter to show off his Zbrush recreations of the monsters from the original Dungeons and...

A hotel restaurant in Onitsha, Nigeria was reportedly shuttered after authorities confirmed it was selling dishes containing human meat. According to the Naija Zip, self-described as an er, "gossip ne...

Via TPM: The man was promoting the grand opening of the Golden Triangle Tactical gun shop, store owner Derek Poe told 12 News Now.    ...

This is Snuffles, a Glasgow dog with "two" noses who is apparently seeking a home. As of a few days ago, he was temporarily residing at the Scottish SPCA.    ...

Via @CaldwellOne comes this great timelapse by Reed Stoner of the R2 unit we shared over the weekend. LEGO Ultimate Collector Series R2D2    ...

Nicely done, Shutterstock.    ...

SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 is possibly one of the oldest stars ever identified. We don't know it's age, writes Invader Xan at the Supernova Condensate blog.    ...

Tough, chewy, melt-in-your-mouth tender, sort of like horse but better — all words used to describe the taste of giraffe meat.    ...

By now, you are probably aware that NBC Olympics anchor Bob Costas has pink eye, and it's getting worse. What I didn't realize: Pink eye is a symptom, not a diagnosis.    ...

The Open Notebook, a blog about science journalism and how it's done, interviewed me for their series "A Day In the Life".    ...

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

Suzy sez, "I'm continuing my mission to author feminist musical theatre -- over the last decade I've had my work performed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, L.A, and Seattle.    ...

After launching ApologyWatch, a blog dedicated to tracking corporate apologies, the New York Times has itself been asked to apologize—to the identical, well-established blog SorryWatch. &nb...

Excruciating. There's more than one black guy doing commercials. I'm the 'What's in your wallet' black guy. He's the car black guy.    ...

Sigma's dp2 Quattro has a fixed 30mm 2.8f lens, designed specifically for the latest version of its Foveon sensor, claimed to offer a "a 30% increase in resolution." Price and release date are to be a...

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Aled Lewis sells prints of his excellently-drawn pixel art. These ones, taken from game and TV show game tie-ins from a parallel dimension, are part of a show at Gallery1988 titled "Such Pixels." I al...

Dong Nyugen's Flappy Bird, the addictive and frustrating tapping 'n' timing game, is gone forever, he says. But here come the replacements!    ...

"February 10 moon," a photograph shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader Bryan Jones. Share your shots.    ...

Friends! Have you heard the good news? A prophet walks among us! He's The Digital Prophet. Video Link. Editor's note: Just so we're all clear here, I think Shingy's cool.    ...

Wow. Such linguistics. Many noun. Very adjectives. So many explanation.    ...

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Tired of all the rumors and brouhaha around Flappy Bird? Doge to the rescue... Play Flappy Doge here!    ...

This one was written back in the day by the great cartoonist Peter Kuper. I call it a slice of life story, about riding the subway in NYC, early 1990s. I drew this before I ever visited the city, but ...

Michael Botticelli, the deputy director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, tried to play coy with Rep.    ...

Wolf cats! We all are currently working very hard to establish this one-of-a-kind breed the Lykoi Cats. In 2013/2014 we hope to include other satellite breeders to help us in our effort to preserve t...

Dreams of Space is an excellent blog that focuses on a single subject: nonfiction kids books about space flight between the years 1945 and 1975.    ...

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada gives candy its "Health Check" seal of approval. This doesn't sit well with Yoni Freedhoff, MD, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University o...

Little Mom on the Prarie made game tokens that she gives her daughter to do chores. "I started using an alternate version of the reward system with my daughter, to balance out our struggles of getting...

This week, the city of Pensacola, FL will vote on an "anti-camping" ordinance that makes it a crime to protect yourself from the weather with a blanket or a newspaper.    ...

Chandre Oraon, of West Bengal, has a slew of worshippers because he reportedly was born with a tail. According to News.com.au, his followers think Oraon may be the Hindi god Hanuman, a monkey-like hum...

We've posted previously about artist Hugh Turvey's X is for X-ray digital book app for children. Turvey, artist in residence at the British Institute of Radiology, has continued his work to show the h...

The fan series Star Trek Continues, well, continues with episode 2, titled "Lolani." Lou Ferrigno guest stars! "A survivor from a distressed Tellarite vessel pulls Captain Kirk and his crew into a mo...

At the Myrmecos blog, Alex Wild explains why all the baby ants are saying "YOPO". (You Only Poop Once)    ...

The Random Frog Generator: For all your frog photo needs.    ...

McGruff the Crime Dog was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Monday for possession of 1,000 pot plants and more than two dozen weapons, including a grenade launcher.    ...

Made by Inuit and other people who live in the Arctic circle, snow goggles were probably first designed 2000 years ago.    ...

The latest episode of Michael Hearst's Songs for Unusual Creatures series features the Sea Pig and our friends in The Kronos Quartet!    ...

If you had orange juice with your breakfast this morning, it's probably because of this guy — Elmer McCollum, a biochemist and early advocate of nutrition science.    ...

A 28-year study of Magellanic penguins in Argentina suggest that climate change plays a direct role in reducing the number of baby penguins that survive to become adults, slowly leading towards the ex...

Happisburgh, England — on the coast of the North Sea — has been the site of several amazing archaeological discoveries in recent years, all of them pointing to human ancestors traveling mu...

The Intercept, the "fearless, adversarial journalism" venture launched by Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, launched with a big boom today. Lead story on the site right now, which is https by detault...

Photographer Trevor Paglen produced a series of images of US spy headquarters so bloggers like us can finally have some new images to top our posts about NSA leaks.    ...

Slate has a story about obesity and the availability of fresh food that both casts some serious doubt on the idea that food deserts are the cause of obesity in poverty stricken communities and should ...

Our friends at Hover are giving $1 to the EFF for each domain transfer until Feb. 11 for The Day We Fight Back! Thanks for sponsoring Gweek, Hover!    ...

Here's On the Road for 17,527 Miles, a 45 page ebook of driving directions for recreating the journey of Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac's 1957 classic On the Road.    ...

SciFest, a hopeful one act SciFi play festival set in LA is still running its Kickstarter. There is a $5000 matching challenge running now!    ...

SainSmart PLA works fantastically in my Makerbot Replicator 2. I tried ordering plastic from Makerbot directly but delays on every color I wanted led to me check for other sources.   &...

Explaining the Snowden leaks to people who don't understand technology crucial, but surely there's a better way than the NYT's terrible piece on the whistleblower's use of the common free software too...

The Intercept is a new news-site created byGlenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, through their Omidyar-funded startup First Look Media.    ...

London's Cryptofloricon encode one of several useful messages into floral code and send the resulting bouquet to your sweetheart. (Thanks, Ed!    ...

Gary Taubes on why nutrition is so confusing: the "research community has failed to establish reliable, unambiguous knowledge about the environmental triggers of obesity and diabetes."  &nbs...

After the Sandy Hook shootings, at presidential behest, $10 million was allocated to to explore links between gun violence and video games.    ...

Fox News claims that the Lego movie is "anti-business", despite the fact that it exists to sell toys. Sean O'Neal, at A.V.    ...

One year ago today Confessions of a fifth grade punk: Unquestionably the most punk fifth grader she knew, and possibly the most punk fifth grader in history.    ...

Kevin McFarland reviews the fourth episode of HBO's crime drama "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Contains spoilers.    ...

Brusspup's "rolling illusion toy" is simple to make, and produces an illusion while in motion that's just wonderful. As he demonstrates, the more rings you add to it, the cooler it looks.  ...

What separates HBO's crime drama True Detective from other series that obsessively catalogue dead female bodies or attempt to find the human side of serial killers is the show's ambition in style and ...

One year ago today DHS watchdog: DHS can search all your devices within 100 mi of US border: But they won't say why.    ...

Buy And Name Us.    ...

Archaeologist Henry Rothwell revisits his epic review of Prometheus: "a deliberate attempt to capture lighting in a bottle is an almost impossible trick to pull off."    ...

Jose Julio realized that the drive-train and parts in a Reprap printer could be repurposed, along with an Arduino-controlled vision-system to create a robot air-hockey opponent.   &nbs...

In two days, the Internet will erupt in a protest to rival the uprising against SOPA: in Aaron Swartz's memory, websites everywhere will add code from TheDayWeFightBack.org to their templates, helping...

Brandon Mayfield was a US Army veteran and an attorney in Portland, OR. After the 2004 Madrid train bombing, his fingerprint was partially matched to one belonging to one of the suspected bombers, but...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "Ralph Nader argues that the law must be free in a piece in the Huffington Post.    ...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "Ralph Nader argues that the law must be free in a piece in the Huffington Post.    ...

Klemens Torggler's designed a thoroughly wonderful and mind-melting door system based on rotating, interlocking squares. There are several variations on the theme on his site, but the one above is th...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford -- who has steadfastly refused to attend the city's massive, economically vital and glorious Pride parade -- has pitched a tantrum over the decision to fly a rainbow flag from t...

Thinkgeek's Star Trek TOS panties are steeped in the romance of a bygone era of space-exploration (there's also matching boxers).    ...

Thom writes, "When our Kickstarter for a kid-friendly steampunk comic was 'kicktrolled' last November, the Internet quickly came to our rescue.    ...

Black Craft offers this excellent Edgar Allan Poe hoodie with a quote from his poem "A Dream Within A Dream" on the back.    ...

One year ago today PACER capers: the sordid story of America's for-pay lawbooks: A gripping and thorough account of the work to tear down the PACER paywall, which requires that Americans pay $0.10 per...

I'm not usually one for novelty mugs, but the prescription coffee mug seems to reveal a deep and important truth about my relationship to coffee.    ...

Somehow I missed the announcement for this fantastic LEGO R2D2. This Ultimate Collector Series kit is just beautiful. Packed with several of R2s coolest tools, my favorite detail is the extendable ro...

John Scalzi's Hugo-winning, existentialist comedy space opera novel Redshirts is being adapted into a TV series by FX -- it's a natural!    ...

Remember Baybrook Remodelers, Ken Carney's Connecticut-based construction company who bully and sue disgruntled customers who leave negative reviews on Yelp and other sites?    ...

At least 16 fraudulent sites attributed to the National Republican Congressional Committee have been discovered. These sites, whose domains are the names of Democratic candidates, use large type and p...

Joly sez, "The good folks at Tom Tom Magazine captured Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina talk about the importance of Pussy Riot's collective structure, being influenced by punk...

Stephanie sez, "At the national radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge, we've joined with Mars Trilogy author Kim Stanley Robinson and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Gates McFadden for a nationa...

Dmitry Kozak, Russia's Olympian deputy prime minister warned a Wall Street Journal reporter that he would release hidden-camera footage of journalists in their hotel bathrooms if they continued to com...

Etsy seller Noadi sells some beautiful, deep-sea-themed polymer clay jewelry. Above, her Deep Space Squid Necklace; below the jump, a trilobite and a gilded steampunk cuttlefish.   &nbs...

Enter Boing Boing's giveaway to own a copy of the Starz Original mini-series, The White Queen, the riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history told uniquely t...

Recommended if You Like is Boing Boing's weekly podcast of Brian Heater's cafe conversations with musicians, cartoonists, writers, and other creative types.    ...

A friend recently turned me on to "Crime Jazz," the two-volume soundtrack collection from Rhino featuring ominous, jazzy theme music from 1950s TV shows and movies in which very bad people do very ba...

In case you missed it, were at the end of our semi-bi-yearly Free Music Week. Nine exceptional artists offered up a free download and I think they make a great playlist as a group.   &...

The so-called NATO 3 were convicted today of two counts of mob action, but not the more serious charges of terrorism," reports the Chicago Tribune.    ...

I reviewed Sailor Twain, Mark Siegel's amazing graphic novel about the mermaid of the Hudson River, back when it came out in 2012.    ...

Former State Department official Stephen Kim announced today he will plead guilty to leaking classified information to Fox News journalist James Rosen and will serve 13 months in jail.  &nbs...

Valerio Amaro, a student at Miami Ad School Berlin, created some very funny images at this tumblr. "I have two passions in life: advertising and The Lord of the Rings," she says.   &nbs...

The most fabulous thing so far at the Winter Olympics. Previously.    ...

Sound it Out # 69: The War on Drugs - Red Eyes (free MP3) Its a rare rainy day here in LA, and I cant imagine any song sounding better right now than Red Eyes, the new song from The War on Drugs.&nb...

Above, a gentleman who was unhappy with Apple's decision to remove the Blockchain bitcoin wallet from the iTunes App Store shot holes through his iPhone with a rifle.    ...

I was excited to read Mastering the Ride, David L. Hough's follow-up to the must-read Proficient Motorcycling. It is chock full of great tips and strategies to keep you upright.   &nbs...

YouTuber ktjaynexd combined "Crybaby Goes For A Swim" with footage of the desert rain frog "because I've been watching them over and over." The frog is now the seal's brutal, demanding swim coach.&nb...

"This is an animated gif of a chicken wearing a prosthetic tail to counterbalance its weight and make it walk like a dinosaur."    ...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford declared yesterday to be "Bob Marley Day." It's hard to read the tea-leaves on this one: is it a wink-wink reach-out to the stoner vote from a mayor who admitted to smoking crac...

I want to make this! The trick is squeezing as much water as possible out the ground up cauliflower. (Via Dooby Brain)    ...

The once-9-year-old girl with advice for a dad meeting Bill Nye is now an adult: Ms. Lauren Dyson. Her dad, none other than author George Dyson.    ...

Last night, The Flaming Lips and Sean Lennon performed "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" on the Late Show With David Letterman.    ...

It's, uh, pretty goddamn gross. My apologies for all the relationships that are accidentally ruined by knowing the truth.    ...

From a glittering silver heart pill container pendant (fits 6 small antipsychotic pills comfortably) to a $500 sex machine and a 55-gallon drum of lube, we've truly got you covered.   &...

Bani Garu is Lea Hernandez's story of becoming the U.S. merchandising vice-president of notorious Japanese animation studio Gainax, "a year-long trip down a rabbit hole of reality." Start with page 1....

Robbo sez, "Dave Raphael of Dave's Blog has an interesting post about a conversation he recently had with Verizon support and discovered some uncomfortable - yet wholly unsurprising - truths about how...

Later this year, an auction house in Austria is putting up a vintage Hasselblad 500 EL Data Camera, which it claims was used during an Apollo Moon mission and is the only such camera to be brought bac...

The New Yorker has a fascinating story about a scientist who has spent his career studying the link between the herbicide atrazine and hormonal changes in humans and animals.    ...

Photographer Jonathan Worth, a National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, describes his photography program and a new open course of learning from World Press Photo...

SIgA is an antibody found in breastmilk (and lots of other bodily fluids) that helps infants set up healthy colonies of gut bacteria.    ...

Aimee Mann in a fuzzy virus headdress, comedian David Wain as her ex/the man who discovered the cure for the common cold, and also Dave Foley, as another scientist who gets murdered.   ...

From preparing the bomb to dropping it—the explosion is a few seconds after 8:40. [Video Link] This silent film shows the final preparation and loading of the "Fat Man" bomb into "Bockscar," th...

One year ago today Hobbit producers to New Zealand: if you tell people how we got our sweet tax/labor deal, no one will want to make movies in your country: The production company that made the Hobbit...

Robbo writes, "Daniel Frohlocke has made a wonderful short film based on David Shiyang Lius' interview with Ira Glass, where the gap between one's taste and one's skills is observed and examined.&nbs...

King County deputy Patrick "KC" Saulet has been fired for ordering Dominic Holden, a reporter for the Seattle newspaper "The Stranger," to stop taking pictures of an arrest from a public street; for l...

The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative has a collection of glyphs and type elements that they'd like to see added to Unicode to make it simpler to represent medieval writing on the Web.   ...

The ACLU is representing Scott and Sharon Lane, the parents of a child known in the proceedings as "CC," in a case against the Sabine Parish, Louisiana School Board, where their child was ridiculed fo...

One year ago today Skele-Gore, now with fluorescent colors! Scarecrowoven has revisited his "Skele Gore" image. Five years ago today Prince Charles: Dharavi slum is a model for sustainable living: Pri...

The Great Language Game asks you to listen to brief samples of conversational speech and then correctly guess which language is being spoken, choosing from an ever-expanding multiple-choice selection....

Dave Ng writes, "The Science Creative Quarterly, a web publication that runs out of my science education lab, is working on producing a new scientific (sort of) journal which will be named 'The Annals...

Philip writes, "I'm developing a co-operative steampunk survival-adventure game called 39 Days to Mars, and it's just launched on Kickstarter!" 39 Days to Mars is a mix of puzzle-adventure and resou...

Sound it Out # 68: Drowners - "Luv, Hold Me Down" (free MP3) New wave music ruled my teenage world. The swirly guitars and romantic vocals of bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure and The Smith...

Kriana sez, "On Sci-Fi Saturday Night (the podcast) we find and interview cool people who are doing incredibly cool things. Last August we had the privilege of talking to Jason Chen, founder of StoryB...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just published an interview with Zack Coutroulis, who has an amazing collection of vintage magic posters.    ...

A great and endlessly entertaining Reddit thread asks for weird facts that sound made up, but aren't, like "The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Cubs won the World Series" and "When you ...

Woolzies are felt wool drier balls the size of a tennis ball. I have been using them for several months after purchasing them on Amazon, and trying for the first time, I just keep them in the drier ...

Sci-Fi-o-Rama interviewed artist Grant Louden, "who after a successful career in advertising and graphic design has been quietly working away on a series of amazing sculptures based on classic spacecr...

Sound it Out # 67: Off! - Void You Out (free MP3) The men ofOFF! have some harcore credentials...literally. Even though members Keith Morris (singer for Circle Jerks and Black Flag), Steven MacDonal...

Matt Conn wanted to organize a safe event for gaymers that's people who game and are part of the LGBTQ continuum.    ...

Government lawyers spent seven years claiming that a Stanford student belonged on the no-fly list, all to conceal a bureaucratic error that mistakenly put her there.    ...

Government lawyers spent seven years claiming that a Stanford student belonged on the no-fly list, all the while trying to conceal the bureaucratic error that mistakenly put her there.  &nbs...

Amazon posted its list of "100 Books To Read In A Lifetime." Of course, no such list could ever please everyone, but there are quite a few surprising and "unpopular" picks included.   &...

The proprietor of the "Hooked on Fishing" store in Rochester, MN hung a Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic by his store's door as a means of notifying him when new customers entered.   &n...

The wood in old pine stumps, especially above the taproot, is fat with pitch and extremely flammable. I've been buying it under the product name Fatwood for years, but evidently, if you live in an ar...

Lloyd Kaufman, cofounder of Troma Entertainment (the people who brought us such films as the Toxic Avenger) has a brilliant, profane, and stirring editorial in support of Net Neutrality on Techdirt.&n...

Turkey's brutal new Internet law grants the Turkish Telecommunications Directorate the power to arbitrarily censor Web-pages to the individual URL level, much like the Great Firewall of China -- meani...

Toronto's Metro Reference Library has unveiled its new makerspace, which sports 3D printer and scanners, Ardiuno and Raspberry Pi kits, and digital AV production gear.    ...

Opioid addicts enrolled in maintenance programs that replace drugs like heroin with drugs like methadone are 70 percent less likely to die than addicts who are not enrolled in those programs. &nb...

Bruce Yan has created some gorgeous anime-inflected remixes of traditional American logos, including the Girl Guides and Starbucks. Astro Boy/Atom Boy was really born to be Bob's Big Boy mascot. ...

I like this because it's not snide and because it makes a big deal out of a very important point: In science, "I don't know yet" is a perfectly acceptable answer.    ...

Via Bored Panda, photographs from Rocky Ridge Refuge in Arkansas, a facility that cares for abused and abandoned animals from some 60 domestic and wild species.    ...

Mark Day, the guy behind this wonderful video and many more like it, says, Here's the latest/annual Edwardian Ball after-movie, featuring San Francisco's alt-circus Vau de Vire Society, pagan-lounge ...

Just Ella is a new short film from Jim Munroe, creator of the awesome science fiction mockumentary Ghosts With Shit Jobs.    ...

Mat Honan, at Wired, quotes co-founder Steve Wozniak: The great products really come from secret development, he said. You put small teams of great people on them and they arent bothered by other peop...

From the American Intercity Bus Riders Association [pdf], via Flowing Data.    ...

Rock Paper Shotgun takes a look at the first multiplayer build of Elite:Dangerous. "You can be a pirate," Michael Brookes, the game's executive producer, assures us.    ...

Today in "You didn't see this coming?" news, Apple ejected "the world's most popular bitcoin app" from the walled garden. Robert McMillan: Some believe that Apple may be dumping bitcoin wallets becaus...

illustration: Dylan Roscover Tomorrow (Friday, 2/7), I'll be speaking at the Lift Conference, a digital tech and culture event taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.    ...

It's selling off the VAIO unit, responsible for desktop and laptop computers, and plans to spin off its TV division into a separate company this summer.    ...

The screen-printed Marty McFly/Back to the Future tee is $24-30 at Amazon. Back To The Future Marty McFly Vest Costume Adult Movie T-Shirt Tee (via Geekologie)    ...

Sid and Marty Krofft brought us some of the best television ever. While we can debate which of their fantastic, trippy, off-beat explosions of color should be regarded as 'best,' H.R.  &nbs...

Dead End Thrills is a site about the visual design of games. Dead End Thrills is a website celebrating the passion and talent behind the worlds most exciting videogames.    ...

El Terrible by El Terrible My friend Terry Ashkinos is a veteran of San Francisco's underground rock scene, having performed for years in bands like Elephone and, most recently, Fake Your Own Death.&n...

"Grand Canyon," a photo shared by reader Clovis Ravion in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Photographers, share your photos with us here if you'd like to submit them for consideration on Boing Boing! ...

Evidence of the widening wealth gap: Across America, brands that serve middle class customers are shutting down, while businesses that serve the rich are thriving.    ...

Yesterday, I mentioned the importance of remembering that creationist Ken Ham's theology doesn't actually represent official-everybody-believes-this Christian theology. Or even, necessarily, mainstrea...

Here's the season premiere of Reggie Watt's alternate-universe sitcom TEACH, in which the comedian/noisebox/musician/critic plays a fun-loving science teacher in an indeterminate point in the televis...

Peter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "Over at EFF, we just released a version of our HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox for Android.    ...

"The prettiest girl in China Town," a photo shared by reader Asgeir in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

A new Snowden leak, reported by NBC, documents the UK spy agency    ...

James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the architect of the Patriot Act, has repudiated his Frankenstein's monster -- though it took the NSA mass-spying scandal to do it (yo, James, where were you for the 10-ish...

"What Will You Leave Behind?", Nino Sarabutra's installation at the Ardel Gallery in Bangkok, includes of 100,000 tiny porcelain skulls that line the floor.    ...

There's more than one way to deal with invasive species. And, in some cases, "wipe them out" might not be the best option.    ...

Clarence Eckerson made a splash with a pair of videos that documented the latent traffic-calming measures lurking in New York's streets, revealed by heavy snowfall.    ...

Sound it Out # 66: Tokyo Police Club - Hot Tonight (free MP3) I must apologize in advance. This song is going to stick in your head, and its not going to leave you alone for a long time.  ...

XStat's Rapid Hemostasis System is a giant syringe filled with pellet-shaped sterile sponges doped with hemostatic agents for squiring directly into shotgun wounds.    ...

XStat's Rapid Hemostasis System is a giant syringe filled with pellet-shaped sterile sponges doped with hemostatic agents for squiring directly into shotgun gunshot wounds.    ...

One year ago today Cryptofloricon: say (whatever) with flowers! Inspired by traditional Victorian floriography, writer and artist Ed Saperia developed a series of over 200 "flower codes", allowing you...

Spocko sez, "The Electronic Frontier Frontier saved my bacon back in 2007 and they might save yours in the future, this is a simple, easy way to support them in addition to becoming a member. &nb...

This is the one hotel room @Sochi2014 have given us so far. Shambles. #cnnsochi pic.twitter.com/RTjEkmyan3— Harry Reekie (@HarryCNN) February 4, 2014 As journalists descend on Sochi for the most...

Really! Florida. "When asked for his I.D., the man handed the officers a taco. He then began trying to eat the taco.    ...

Really! Florida. "When asked for his I.D., the man handed the officers a taco. He then began trying to eat the taco.    ...

photo: Charles Gatewood Today is William S. Burroughs's 100th birthday. Happy birthday, Uncle Bill! Celebrate at the The William Burroughs Centenary, where you can find information about WSB events ha...

In my latest Guardian column, What happens with digital rights management in the real world?, I explain why the most important fact about DRM is how it relates to security and disclosure, and not how ...

Sound it Out # 65: Total Slacker - "Sometimes You Gotta Die" (free MP3) Its hard to take Total Slacker seriously.    ...

John Gruber on Microsoft's past and future: Windows 8 wasnt designed to adjust to the new world; it was designed to turn back the clock to the old one.    ...

An article in the Swedish newspaper Expressen documents the human rights abuses suffered by the woman flight attendants on Qatar Airways.    ...

Here's a great, simple Make project that teaches you how to make an intercom from a pair of old, corded phones, a 9V battery and a resistor.    ...

There are few shows that know how to tell an audience right off the bat they will not be messing around on a given night better than Justified.    ...

When we think about threats to America's energy infrastructure, we usually think about hackers. Hackers, or maybe, somebody taking a bomb to a nuclear power plant.    ...

Oh, the 1970s, when "Women's Lib" could be commodified by sugar-pushers with products like "BALLS" -- candy to give you courage.    ...

Kelly Manchester put together this brilliant video, suggesting designs for some of Rob "Laughable Bumblefuck" Ford's re-election posters for the next Toronto mayoral race.    ...

Boing Boing is proud to present its inaugural February Fuck Day gift guide    ...

Boing Boing is proud to present its inaugural February Fuck Day gift guide    ...

A frank, funny, and informative rejoinder to a hoary old question. (Even if said question really is usually meant to be rhetorical.    ...

The Sword and Laser (S&L) is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club podcast hosted by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.    ...

The science of addiction is scary, especially if you are somebody (or care about somebody) who is in recovery. At Slate, science journalist Seth Mnookin writes about Philip Seymour Hoffman, addiction,...

Sadly, says dino-science reporter Brian Switek, the reality of this church does not follow through on the potential promised by its signage.    ...

Sadly, says dino-science reporter Brian Switek, the reality of this church does not follow through on the potential promised by its signage.    ...

Dennis Murren has more Academy Awards than any other living person (eight). And for good reason. He has supervised the special effects for the movies of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, and George Lu...

GCSB, New Zealand's secret police force has admitted to illegally deleting key evidence related to the raid on Kim Dotcom over his Megaupload service.    ...

In The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, Betty Medsger reveals the long-secret details of the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, an activist group that raided the FBI's...

The 33-disc, nine-season box set of the complete run of Seinfeld is $59 on Amazon right now. (via Super Punch)    ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Vladimir Putin protects Russia's children from homosexual propaganda.    ...

John Gruber on Microsoft's past and future: Windows 8 wasnt designed to adjust to the new world; it was designed to turn back the clock to the old one.    ...

Back in 2011, I reviewed Dan Goldman's excellent indie comic Red Light Properties, which has now been picked up for mass publication by the good folks at IDW.    ...

The UK government's Health and Social Care Information Centre quietly announced plans to share all patient records held by the National Health Service with private companies, from insurers to pharmace...

The UK government's Health and Social Care Information Centre quietly announced plans to share all patient records held by the National Health Service with private companies, from insurers to pharmace...

Long Forgotten, the very best Haunted Mansion blog on the net, has a stellar piece on the influences that went into the Haunted Mansion's scary corridor of doors, and the delicate balance the corridor...

From the wonderful mind of Yeah-Disneygeek, a fine selection of Haunted Mansion Valentine's Day cards! To express my love for you all, I made these ridiculously cheesy Haunted Mansion Valentines Day ...

Liz writes, "I bet you never wished before that you had handmade soap with a glider from Conway's Game of Life, a doge, or the bitcoin logo on it.    ...

Jamie Casino (whose surname at birth was possibly "Biancosino") is a personal injury lawyer in Savannah, Georgia, who bought airtime during the Superbowl for this totally badass advertisement telling...

Your browser doesn't support the HTML audio tag. You can still download the show, though! var audioTag = document.createElement('audio'); /* Do we not support MP3 audio?    ...

Are you in San Francisco? Do you want to drink something that's on fire? Here are (purportedly) the best flaming drinks in the area.    ...

"Salvador Dalek" is a long-running t-shirt gag (here's another variant, one from Threadless, an old Ebay auction...    ...

Boing Boing reader Xavier J. Peg shares this wonderful photo he shot with us in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.    ...

Christian Nightmares turned up this classic video in which a young Satanist recounts how heavy metal and Dungeons and Dragons led him to a life in a cult where "breeders" made babies for sacrifice to...

Sound it Out # 64: Chaos of Birds - Rank and Ruin (free MP3) Nicole Thomas and Meghan Adkins are two friends with a supernatural musical connection.    ...

Tell Me Something I Dont Know is Boing Boing's podcast featuring artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative people discussing their work, ideas, and the practical side of how they do what they d...

Vivs Ngo snapped this wonderful shot of Los Angeles's Last Bookstore, an exuberant temple of the bookseller's faith.    ...

In 2010 I posted a photo of "pink goop," which Fooducate says is mechanically separated chicken. In the video above, McDonalds Canada visited the factory where Chicken McNuggets are made and showed t...

Freya Jobbins uses plastic doll parts and toys to "create remarkable humanoid assemblages of faces, heads and larger busts." Each piece of plastic is painstakingly carved, glued layer over layer, crea...

Artist Li Hongo produces gorgeous sculptures made from meticulously cut sheets of fan-folded paper, stacked tightly so that the pieces appear to be made of solid composite or stone.   &...

I work from home, and I work at a treadmill desk that also doubles as a standing desk. Whether your work-day body position involves motion, as mine does, or you sit in a chair most of the time, your b...

A lot of people are about to lose their ebooks. (Thanks, Florian!)    ...

In this interview with Boom Magazine, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses the relationship of California to the future. Robinson is a profound ecological thinker, and two of his books in particular, Pacifi...

There is (officially) no booze in (American) space. (Russians get to drink. Our astronauts, technically, do not.) But, for a brief moment in the 1970s, that rule was almost repealed and Paul Masson C...

Sound it Out # 64: Barzin - "All The While" (free MP3) It doesnt surprise me at all that Barzin has a book of poetry out in the world in addition to his records.    ...

Please enjoy this awesome GIF of an octopus oozing through a small hole.    ...

I started having ocular migraines — all the visual hallucinations, none of the pain — while I was pregnant. I had another one this morning and started talking about it on Facebook with my ...

Gen Xers like to complain about not having the flying cars they were promised. But it was the Boomers who were promised flying cars.    ...

I find this comparison of Mozart's ear with that of an "ordinary ear" to be interesting for a couple of reasons.    ...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "MuckRock user CJ Ciaramella stumbled upon some recently interesting documents with a recent FOIA request: The DEA's training materials regarding parallel construction, the ...

Quartz' Roberto A. Ferdman and Ritchie King tallies which countries drink the most hard liquor. Surprises: Russia comes in second place to the very hard-drinking Koreans, and the U.S.  &nbs...

"There's a special song in my family, a song we keep secret." Aeon Film presents Jamie Chambers' When the Song Dies, a 15-minute short film about Scottish folk songs and the decline of the old ways a...

Bruce Sterling's keynote at the Transmediale conference in Berlin is one of his best-ever outings (and I say that as a person who dropped out of university and totally upended his life after reading ...

Gideon Resnick meets members of the Satanic Temple, who designed a 7-foot monument of the goat-horned one for placement by the Ten Commandments on the Oklahoma statehouse lawn.    ...

It having been noted that North Korea's young premier is an Apple man, what surprise is it that the country's official operating system has lost its Windows-style skin in favor of an OS X-style makeov...

Satya Nadella is Microsoft's new CEO. Bill Gates is stepping down as chairman to become Satya's technology adviser. John Thompson replaces Gates as Chairman.    ...

One year ago today Humorless Washingtonian thinks GOES211 plate is about penis-length, not Spinal Tap: A man named Johnny Dixon complained to the Washington Personalized License Plate Committee about ...

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

In 2011, a man calling himself Kurt Mac began walking his Minecraft avatar to the end of the world — the place where the game's ability to create new land ahead of you starts to break down. ...

From Global Voices Online: "The Web We Want invites cartoonists, creatives and artists to join The Day We Fight Back on February 11, 2014 by creating an original cartoon about online surveillance and...

Here's a reading of a recent Guardian column, What does David Cameron's Great Firewall look like? which debunks the UK government's stupid arguments for its national anti-porn firewall: David Camero...

Cities spend millions to court the Superbowl, offering tax-exemptions for Superbowl employees, building fancy stadiums, paying cops and municipal workers to secure the site, and more.   ...

The Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode #446 has a long and informative interview with Andreas Antonopoulos, a bitcoin expert who does a good job of explaining how the bitcoin money platform works a...

The Time Benders recreated the classic science experiment in which a soda can with a little steaming water is plunged into a vessel of ice-water, causing the steam to rapidly condense, which leads to...

From the CCC: On Monday, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR), have filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Prosecutor Generals office.  &nb...

Remember back when tool use was one of the things that ostensibly separated humans from animals? Nowadays tool use doesn't even make us special in comparison to carp.    ...

One year ago today Zambia's fictional 1960s space programme: Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel's fictional documentation of a failed 1960s space programme in Zambia: The Afronauts.  &n...

BB pal Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation at the White House, sends word of the first White House Maker Faire taking place later this year.    ...

Sound it Out # 62: Sabina - Toujours (free MP3) You may know Sabinas voice from her former band Brazilian Girls, though this German-Italian artist is apparently not Brazilian at all.   ...

Loux the Vintage Guru's Tumblr is full of photos of snazzily dressed models clad in the vintage clothing Loux discovers in the markets of Namibia and the styles he creates based on them.  &n...

In 1969, French avant-garde chanteuse Brigitte Fontaine played a beautifully eccentric set at the Thtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris with the radically experimental Art Ensemble of Chicago.  ...

Great Pyrenees Rescue of Northern California (GPRNC) continues to perform heroic work for dogs. Each rescue story is heartbreaking, and the amount of effort this rescue group puts into the lives of th...

You are Not So Smart is hosted by David McRaney, a journalist and self-described psychology nerd. In each episode, David explores cognitive biases and delusions, and is often joined by a guest expert....

A.J. Jacobs, author of a number of excellent books about self-experimentation, is planning on hosting the world's largest family reunion.    ...

John Schwartz at the New York Times has a wonderful story up about a strange trend involving snowy owls: They seem to be showing up a whole lot in places very far from their normal habitat within the ...

Finding games that my 6 year old daughter and I both find entertaining can be kinda hard. Spot It! is a matching card game that we can both play for hours!    ...

Hey Los Angeles Boing Boing readers! You are invited to a free and exclusive screening for Boing Boing's feature film, The Immortal Augustus Gladstone.    ...

The Internets Celebrities are back with a new video and a new foodie adventure on New York City's 207th Street. "For this stop we went back to the beginning," says director Casimir Nozkowski, "The ve...

Video shot and Edited by Gavin Heffernan/SunchaserPictures.com. Music: Moby "STUDY WAR (Ambient)" MobyGratis.Com.    ...

So, apparently, some people think the snow that fell on Atlanta wasn't actually snow, but some kind of synthetic material dumped on the town by the government in order to cause chaos.  &nbs...

After not hearing much that inspired me in the last months of 2013, Ive recently been inundated with great music. And so Free Music Weekreturns!    ...

Sound it Out # 61: Rhye - Open (free MP3) Mike Milosh and Robin Hannibal never meant to form a band.    ...

In December, the Australian government approved a plan by India's Adani Group to expand a coal port, and now the government's given the go-ahead to dump the 3,000,000 cubic meters of muck that will be...

Immunotherapy — controlled, careful exposure to an allergen — has been shown to reduce the severity of allergic reactions. Sometimes, it can all-but-eliminate the allergy altogether. ...

Twenty years ago, Peter Molyneux's Dungeon Keeper became an instant classic, wedding a clever premise—you're the baddie fending off the heroes—to innovative strategy gameplay.  &...

Every two years, Minnesota artists build a temporary village on a frozen lake near Minneapolis, crafting colorful, creative parodies of traditional ice fishing shanties that are open to the public for...

If you don't already have a headache, this fine Monday morning, you can inflict one upon yourself with this!    ...

A couple from County Durham, England, will do jail time after decapitating a sheep and terrifying local children with the severed head.    ...

At a public meeting on the isle of Portland, England, town councillor Richard Denton-White had a succinct response to a difficult attendee: "Fuck off." Councillor Denton-White was responding to compla...

Amazon Prime, which gives free 2-day shipping on orders and free access to streaming movies and TV shows, is to increase in price by "$20 to $40", writes Marcus Wohlsen.    ...

Missouri officials were so confident that Herbert Smulls' last appeal would fail that they executed him before the Supreme Court's word was in.    ...

Mc Cool hooked up a MIDI-capable piano to the control inputs of classic fighting game Tekken, thereby synchronizing the on-screen action and musical performance.    ...

Remember, it's by Cyriak, so it doesn't stay cute for long. The chimps are from a short 1963 film called BflOggGX = STwWcfl x 2s4, which is probably chimpanzee for "stop dressing me in clothes and ma...

I am unquestionably late to the party on Amulet, Kazu Kibuishi's young adult graphic novel series that kicked off in 2008 and has so far been serialized in five fantastic books.    ...

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is a respected journalist who holds US citizenship. Every time he returns to his home in New York, he is detained for many hours by the DHS, subjected to humiliating questioning and...

Spoonful's Haunted Mansion Cupcake recipe comes with a set of printable tombstone templates that you can print to cardstock and use to garnish your carb-delivery-vehicles.    ...

Naomi Novik isn't just a talented author (she won the John W Campbell Award for best new writer in 2007 on the strength of her fabulous Temeraire novels, which retell the Napoleonic wars with dragons ...

A mysterious plague has manifested in the world's starfish population, quickly spreading to several regions in which starfish (also called "sea stars") are found.    ...

In Rolling Stone, Sean McElwee enumerates five of Marx's predictions for late-stage capitalism that have largely come true in the 21st century, from globalization to the boom in luxury goods (what Mar...

The University of Nottingham's Windows on War is one of the world's premier collections of WWII Soviet posters related to their war with the Nazis on the eastern front.    ...

photo: Kate Harmer/Hum Creative BB pal Nick Harmer, bassist for Death Cab for Cutie, made a portrait of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch out of Skittles.    ...

I was saddened to find out that the great actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead this morning at the age of 46.    ...

One year ago today Law and Little Brother: Law and the Multiverse (a blog that considers legal questions through the lens of comics, movies and fiction) had a look at the legal issues raised in Little...

You've only got two days left to take advantage of The Humble Audiobook Bundle, which lets you name your price for a stellar lineup of DRM-free audiobooks (this is practically the only way to get DRM-...

A reader sends us The 2014 Campbellian Anthology, a free and DRM-free ebook (.epub and .mobi) with 111 authors eligible for the John W.    ...

Charlotte, who is seven, wrote this devastating letter to the Lego company over the way that girl characters and boy characters are handled in its increasingly gendered toys: "All the girls did was si...

The Deregulation Bill is coming before the UK House of Commons on Monday, and among its many "red-tape-cutting" provisions is one that would allow the courts to grant the police secret hearings in whi...

Long have I heard tell of the Cockney Rhyming Slang ATM of Hackney Road, but na'er had I chanced upon it...until today!    ...

Marina sez, "Our names are Marina Andriji-Ojeda and Catarina Ferreira and we are the artists and co-founders of The Penitentiary, a collaborative site-specific art exhibition to take place in abandone...

Marina sez, "Our names are Marina Andriji-Ojeda and Catarina Ferreira and we are the artists and co-founders of The Penitentiary, a collaborative site-specific art exhibition to take place in abandone...

A farm in Ronchi di Termeno, Italy, was nearly squashed by titanic boulders that rumbled off nearby mountains in a landslide.    ...

Mrmcd sez, "Contained within the borders of Canada are: the world's largest island in a lake on an island; the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake; and the world's largest island i...

Neil Gaiman reads Dr Seuss's children's classic "Green Eggs and Ham" in this video, produced to celebrate $500,000 in donations to Patrick Rothfuss's Wordbuilders fundraiser, which is raising money f...

Locus Magazine has published its annual Recommended Reading list, which is my favorite annual guide to the best that science fiction and fantasy have to offer.    ...

More news of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's disastrous car-wreck of a life. After swearing off drugs and alcohol (and insisting that he didn't have a problem with either), he's not only been getting so load...

In each episode of Not Playing, Lex Friedman and Dan Moren watch movies they've never seen but that everyone else has.    ...

Here's this week's unidentified bit of net.clever seeking reidentification: a photoshopped Gilligan's Island image with Justin Beiber as Gilligan and Toronto's crack-smoking, Bieber-defending mayor Ro...

One year ago today Grotesque creature housewares and jewelry: Dogzillalives is makes jewelry and housewares studded with eyeballs, tentacles, yellowing fangs, stitched faux-skin, and more.  ...

Phil Torrone from Adafruit sez, "Collin's Lab: Multimeters! The multimeter is your greatest ally when working with electronics. Learn how to measure voltage, resistance, current, & continuity - ...

One of the weirdest white-elephants at Disneyland is the petrified tree-stump in Frontierland, which Walt Disney bought after spotting it in Colorado Springs, where resident Jack Baker bought and sold...

Dr. Amin Azzam who teaches at the UCSF school of medicine, has created an elective for his fourth year students in which they are assigned to improve the most-used medical Wikipedia entries. &nbs...

Dr. Amin Azzam who teaches at the UCSF school of medicine, has created an elective for his fourth year students in which they are assigned to improve the most-used medical Wikipedia entries. &nbs...

Martin Vargic has produced a gorgeous mashup of XKCD's Map of Online Communities and the classic National Geographic Maps, producing a work of art that is a wonder to behold.    ...

Jeff sez, "On episode 5 of the DoomBuggies Spook Show podcast (MP3), designer Rolly Crump gives a very candid interview in which he talks about his career working on Disneyland's Haunted Mansion with ...

Etsy seller Christopher Genovese made this $190 KRANG belt-buckle that recreates the experience of being a mecha-suit used by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.    ...

Following on this week's Snowden leak detailing how Canadian spy agency CSEC illegally intercepted free airport Wifi and used it to track Canadians as they moved around the country, Paul Calandra, pa...

Dave from the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "Seven years ago, the U.S. Army launched the SGT STAR program, which uses a virtual recruiter (an AI chatbot) to talk to potential soldiers. &...

Remember when UK Prime Minister David Cameron ordered government officials to go to the offices of the Guardian in London and demand the symbolic destruction of a laptop with the Edward Snowden leaks ...

Here's a tantalizing preview [PDF] of The Art and History of Globes, a massive, gorgeous art-book tracing the history of globes.    ...

One year ago today Snap-fit 3D printable airship can also form the base of a Saturn V rocket: A 3D-printable toy whose parts can interchangeably form part of a Saturn V rocket.    ...

This simple, effective "crystal ball" illusion is documented by Nikki on Ehow: basically, you put a video loop on your phone's screen, drape it in black cloth, and insert it into a crystal ball, and v...

The Cornaro Chapel at the Santa Maria della Vittoria church in Rome sports many beautiful works of art, but I'm especially taken by the skeletal figure set into the floor tiles, whose upraised arms se...

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My wife is a teacher and we do lots of printing on card stock and cutting on card stock. For many years I used a paper cutter with a blade that slides down a channel.    ...

Mel Li writes, "I made some candy D20's using a two-part silicone mold for my Magic: The Gathering playgroup. Colors indicate different flavors: Gold/multicolor: Butterscotch Black: Dark chocolate Gre...

Amanda writes, "Danger!awesome is an open-access laser cutting, laser engraving, and 3D printing workshop in the heart of Cambridge, tucked right between MIT and Harvard.    ...

"Obama often speaks as if he is an outside observer of his own administration condemning excessively long prison sentences while hardly ever using his clemency power to shorten them, sounding the ala...

This is the best thing on the internet today. Here's more about the project, and here's their Facebook page. Here's the source code on github.    ...

"In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agencyon Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new art of designing cyberweapons, but someo...

In Newport Beach, California, authorities have removed more than 400 ball pythons from the home of a grade school teacher who "bred snakes as a hobby." Some of the animals were alive, many of them wer...

In Jason Edward Harrington's Dear America, I Saw You Naked, he reveals that he was the anonymous TSA agent who wrote the Taking Sense Away tell-all/whistleblower blog.    ...

In America, a white supremacist methamphetamine addict with a felony had no problem amassing a large collection of assault rifles and ammo despite felonies.    ...

The latest fad in South Korea, reports Reuters: "Gastronomic Voyeurism." They have the best broadband, and some of the best food, what's not to love?    ...

Mr. and Mrs. Seay received a mailing sent by OfficeMax, on which, below Mike Seay's name, was printed "Daughter Killed In Car Crash." How'd that get on a junk mail envelope?    ...

When Kansas lawmakers tabled a bill outlawing municipal broadband network, there was no sponsor's name on it: rumor has it that's because it was written by a lobbyist called John Federico, who is pres...

When Kansas lawmakers introduced a bill outlawing municipal broadband network, there was no sponsor's name on it: rumor has it that's because it was written by a lobbyist called John Federico, who is ...

Jason Edward Harrington, the former TSA officer who revealed the uselessness of the Rapiscan body scanners the federal government squandered $40 million on, has written an article for Politico about h...

In Colorado, a scamming sonofabitch charged with collecting about $2 million through sales of breast-cancer-awareness merchandise, none of which helped breast cancer charities, has been sentenced to 1...

In Colorado, a scamming sonofabitch charged with collecting about $2 million through sales of breast-cancer-awareness merchandise, none of which helped breast cancer charities, has been sentenced to 1...

Laughing Squid: "84-year old Bill Standley of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, who recently died of lung cancer, was buried riding atop his 1967 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, attired in full riding gear, encased in...

From Shorpy, a photo taken in March 1936. "Low-cost housing. Saint Louis, Mo." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.    ...

  With Pierces essence preserved in an energon pod and Troy off circumnavigating the world in a sailboat with LeVar Burton, the cast of Community has thinned out.    ...

Personhood, Lauren Zuniga's 2012 performance at the Urbana Poetry Slam, is a powerful piece about choice, social justice, reproductive rights, and rape [TW].    ...

This Faber-Castell two hole pencil sharpener has quickly become one of my most used desktop tools. I originally purchased it for my daughter, but I've taken to using it myself.    ...

I started using Charlie's Soap laundry powder about a year ago. After my cancer diagnosis, I started looking at the chemical contents of my household products, and wanted to reduce the amount of unnec...

Mel Li sends us "Images of the DIY DNA bread (and accompanying build process) I made for a labmate's qualifying exam referring to her research on DNA migration through paper for applications in small,...

This week, I was fortunate to catch a gorgeous acoustic set by Andy Cabic of Vetiver and Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats.    ...

Ethan Gilsdorf looks back on four decades of pen-and-paper role-playing tradition.    ...

Her Universe's "I Love You/I Know" nightshirt recreates Leia and Han's romantic moment with a glow-in-the-dark gag. Nice typography, too! I Love You I Know Sleep Shirt (via The Mary Sue)  ...

Remember last year when the family of a four-year-old boy ordered him a Burger King Kids Meal and found a pot pipe packed with weed?    ...

Ron Miller posts a gallery of stunning, if rather small images at io9: "In the beginning there were sketches...thousands of sketches.    ...

Cement is an energy-intensive product. Making it means heating limestone to 2642 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, 5 percent of the entire world's carbon dioxide emissions come from cement production.&...

Here's another bit of evidence supporting today's Boing Boing special feature about why "At 40 Years Old, Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters": The excellent Numero Group record label is issuing a ...

Graeme McMillan has 10 of the best ads featuring famous musicians who should have known worse. Here is David Bowie and Tina Turner, selling Pepsi.    ...

Over at Collectors Weekly, BB pal Ben Marks interviews Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools, but not about his music. Turns out, Schools is an avid collector of Hot Wheels, Wacky Packs, and vinyl rec...

National Geographic has a nice video (as well as a long story by Carl Zimmer) about scientists who are trying to learn more about the way the brain works by slicing mice brains into incredibly thin s...

Atrubetskoy created this fascinating "snow endurance map" of America's school administrators, and is answering questions about it at Reddit.    ...

Someone, please throw George a ball. [Video Link via Arbroath]    ...

A local council in the UK has decided not to prosecute an accused park pooper's owner, which seems just as well, since she claimed there was no poo in the first place and the poo inspector could not ...

While animal-specific medications, like heart-worm pills, have been tested and proven to be effective and safe for your pets, many of the drugs and supplements we give animals have not.  &nb...

Above: The Wire creator David Simon suggested that Tom Perkins sell his $300,000 wristwatch and use the proceeds to open a couple of drug rehab centers in Baltimore.    ...

In January 2012, I reviewed a new book from Observer business/tech columnist John Naughton, called From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet.   &nb...

"Sophie seeing snow for the first time." [Video Link via Gawker and Tastefully Offensive]    ...

Plastic Infinite is a 7" picture disk by Sculpture that reveals a wild psychedelic animation when played. It is five pounds sterling and ships out within 7 days; you can listen to the song and its B-s...

Illustration: Laris Karklis/Washington Post Ukraine is sharply divided between Ukranian and Russian populations, an ethnic barrier mirrored almost exactly in election results.    ...

Clive Thompson, 45, marvels at the sudden attacks on Gen Y, also called the Millenials -- roughly speaking, people born since the late 1970s.    ...

Clive Thompson, 45, marvels at the sudden attacks on Millennials -- roughly speaking, people born since the late 1970s. As a Gen Xer, he remembers how things were exactly the same for his lot, until, ...

Andy Forest from Makerkids, a Toronto makerspace for kids, writes, "Together, Kids Learning Code, MakerKids, TIFF and the Toronto Public Library have just finished developing 7 comprehensive maker cur...

Bani Garu is Lea Hernandez's story of becoming the U.S. merchandising vice-president of notorious Japanese animation studio Gainax, "a year-long trip down a rabbit hole of reality." Start with page 1....

The Library of Congress has acquired The Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive, and has begun to catalog and digitize the materials in it, posting them to the library's w...

Ethan Gilsdorf looks back on four decades of pen-and-paper role-playing tradition.    ...

A new Snowden leak reported on the CBC reveals that secretive Canadian spy-agency CSEC was illegally spying on Canadians by collecting information from the free Wifi service in major airports and cros...

Omaha police officer Bradley D Canterbury was fired after he beat up a suspect and then participated in a brutal, illegal retaliatory raid on the home of a citizen who'd video-recorded the incident.&...

UK Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron says that ISPs and phone companies should be required to store records of every click you make, every conversation you have, and every place you physically...

Personal Audio is a patent troll that claims to own the process of sending audio around because they bought a patent from a guy who read Scientific American articles onto cassette tapes and sent them ...

One year ago today New York Times: we were hacked by China for last 4 months: They obtained reporters' passwords, presumably to ID sources and gather intel on stories related to the family of Chinas p...

Maxwell Salzberg of BackerKit knows what it's like to have a lot of people giving him money who want something in return: he and three colleagues credited the Diaspora project, one of Kickstarter's ea...