Articles by BoingBoing from May 2014

The House of Representatives today voted 225-183 to approve an appropriations bill amendment that bars the Justice Department from forcing reporters to testify about their confidential sources. Read...

The House of Representatives today voted 225-183 to approve an appropriations bill amendment that bars the Justice Department from forcing reporters to testify about their confidential sources. Read...

Above, a trailer for our exclusive Boing Boing video interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drops June 3; our...

Above, a trailer for our exclusive Boing Boing video interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drops June 3. Re...

Image: BloombergFrom Bloomberg's Edward Robinson, a feature on the nonprofit Seasteading Institute. Read the rest...

This Cosmos clip of Neil DeGrasse Tyson is going viral, and for good reason. It's a terrific explainer of the difference between weather and climate change, and the role we humans play in warming the ...

Amid the very serious military coup in Thailand, an even more serious piece of news: Police have nabbed this brazen chocolate thief. Read the rest...

The NASA Langley Research Center held a space art contest for kids K-23 in the Hampton Roads, VA region, and their Flickr Pool of entries provide me with endless happy web browsing. Read the rest...

A new Say Hi record is reason for celebration in my home, and a new (and free) song should make you happy as well. Read the rest...

An image released from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star shrouded in golden gas and dust. Read the rest...

Illo: Heather and Rob BeschizzaToday sees the release of Maleficent, Hollywood's latest stab at turning a traditional mythic archetype--pure fairytale evil--into one of its favorite stock characters: ...

This TIME cover story, the first to feature a transgender person, is a very big deal. Not just for trans folks, but for all of us. Read the rest...

Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla wants everyone to stay off Martins Beach, a lovely stretch of oceanfront south of Half Moon Bay. To that end,...

David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets performs "No New Tale To Tell" at a private house party in Springville, Utah, a Kickstarter reward tied to his new album release. (Thanks, Dave Gill!)...

[Video Link] This is an old internet gem, but it's still fabulous. More possum care tips: mepearl.com. Below, a delightful classic we've shared before, well worth watching: Possum Eating Strawberries....

The Korea Herald reports that a young man of European heritage from Brazil has had plastic surgery so that he might look Korean. Read the rest...

Dustin Adamson's wonderful short film of "Octupuses of the Night" with footage he shot in the Philippines (via Laughing Squid)....

Illo: Heather and Rob BeschizzaToday sees the release of Maleficent, Hollywood's latest stab at turning a traditional mythic archetype--pure fairytale evil--into one of its favorite stock characters: ...

Andrew Chifari of Dallas, Texas used the free drink earned with his Starbucks Rewards card to get a $54.75 frappuccino containing 60 shots of espresso. Read the rest...

The 3D printing world is all a-seethe with the story that Makerbot supposedly filed a patent on a design from its Thingiverse community. As Cory Doctorow discovered, the reality is a little more comp...

The Telegraph reports that popular Indian guru Shri Ashutosh Maharaj is either dead or, according to his followers, just meditating, very deeply, in a freezer; now, his wife and son want the courts to...

Illo: Heather and Rob BeschizzaToday sees the release of Maleficent, Hollywood's latest stab at turning a traditional mythic archetype--pure fairytale evil--into one of its favorite stock characters: ...

Mother Jones reporter Nina Liss-Schultz asked Anita Sarkeesian why she thinks she has been targeted by knuckle-dragging assholes on the internet--vicious threats, death, rape, and beatings by haters w...

"An elaborate, three-year cyberespionage campaign against United States military contractors, members of Congress, diplomats, lobbyists and Washington-based journalists has been linked to hackers in I...

Physicists in the Netherlands reported being able to reliably teleport information between two quantum bits about 3m (10ft) apart. Read the rest...

This multi-storey VW minibus comes from Berger Stadel Walsh of Zurich. I'm not clear on whether it's a shoop or a magnificent folly, but I prefer to imagine the latter....

Homogenized genetics makes sense for industrial food production, but it limits our ability to adapt to changing climate and other risks. In the first of a series on the science of agriculture, Maryn M...

Alejandro Tauber does the math AND pulls out the maps to trace where the parabolic arc would drop you were said carnival disaster to happen in Amsterdam....

Part of the reason why radium snake-oil products proliferated in the years after Marie Curie and her husband first isolated the element is that the Curies refused to patent the process and, in fact, s...

A 2013 Cornell study found the fake ones emphasize great activities and "family fun". Real reviews just talk about whether the hotel sucked or not....

Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take lots of photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why...

Once again, it's time for the Clarion Writers Workshop writeathon - we need writers and sponsors to help fund the Clarion Workshop, the respected, long-running science fiction writers' bootcamp. Read...

Below you'll find a short piece by Nat Hentoff on the late, great Eric Dolphy, musician and hero of avant-garde jazz movement. Read the rest...

One year ago today Linda Stone on attention, computers, and education: At one point, I interviewed a handful of Nobel laureates about their childhood play patterns. Read the rest...

The little hairs that cover a cannabis plant are the source of the chemicals that get you high, writes Anna Tiley at Science Says. Read the rest...

A Delaware man was arrested this week for allegedly stealing $357,000 worth of human skin from the Philadephia hospital where he worked. Read the rest...

Scientists proved it's possible to connect the Moon to a wireless Internet signal beamed from Earth — and the connection speed wasn't terrible....

A Delaware man was arrested this week for allegedly stealing $357,000 worth of human skin from the Philadephia hospital where he worked. Read the rest...

Russian-born comedian Ben Rosenfeld is kickstarting a book of gruesome, real Russian nursery rhymes, illustrated by Dov Smiley (example: "A little boy found a machine-gun, nothing lives in the woods ...

The species, Cyclosa, is known for other acts of subterfuge, like building decoy spiders out of plants and spent egg sacs....

Splendidly bad action thriller Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is to get a long-deserved reissue on Blu-Ray this July. The story of a former NYPD cop, operating outside the law and mentored by a m...

The 3D printing world is all a-seethe with the story that Makerbot supposedly filed a patent on a design from its Thingiverse community. As Cory Doctorow discovered, the reality is a little more comp...

Mark Frauenfelder presents a photo-tour of Hidden Treasures, a gem of a store in Los Angeles' rustic Topanga Canyon. Read the rest...

Splendidly bad action thriller Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is to get a long-deserved reissue on Blu-Ray this July. The story of a former NYPD cop, operating outside the law and mentored by a m...

The 3D printing world is all a-seethe with the story that Makerbot supposedly filed a patent on a design from its Thingiverse community. As Cory Doctorow discovered, the reality is a little more comp...

Alison Spiegel alleges that English eggs are way different to American eggs. (As someone who enjoys both, I find far more variation within each national eggdom than between them)...

Yesterday, the NSA released an email from Edward Snowden to his superiors asking about the legality of NSA spying, claiming it was the only evidence they had that he ever tried to go through channels ...

Tim Bray's taxonomy of privacy levels makes a compact and compelling argument that the existence of warrantless spying and security sabotage is what drives people to adopt cryptographic techniques tha...

This multi-storey VM minibus comes from Berger Stadel Walsh of Zurich. I'm not clear on whether it's a shoop or a magnificent folly, but I prefer to imagine the latter....

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...

Slice's $19 box-cutter is a clever design -- a combination of carabiner and a knife, with a long-lasting, replaceable ceramic blade. Read the rest...

Six dancers from the Washington Ballet were asked to demonstrate the most physically challenging dance-moves in their repertoires; the slow-motion video of the performances yields up an unworldly sort...

Carl Malamud writes, "On May 16, Boing Boing brought us the story of five years of intimidation on the Uniform System of Citaiton required in the United States, a system otherwise known as The Blueboo...

Super 7's $50 limited edition Tauntaun meat-cuts poster goes on sale tomorrow -- 16"x20". Tauntaun Cuts Print (via Super Punch)...

A forthcoming Yougov survey found that 55 percent of Americans believe Edward Snowden was right to leak the details of Prism (it's not clear whether they were surveyed on other leaks). Read the rest...

Firebox's £35 monkey brains bowl doesn't go in the microwave or dishwasher, but it is, technically, food-safe. I'm thinking expensive, Maharajah of Pankot-themed pen pot (though you'll have to f...

Brazil's 21-year military dictatorship was a torturing, brutal regime -- among their victims was the current president, Dilma Rousseff. At first, the generals tortured by flogging and shocks, but Brit...

Koala's $60 Super Mario dress looks lovely. It's screened on both sides. Hand-wash only.Super Mario Dress(via Geekymerch)...

Jonathan Lethem and Lars Eidinger star in Lars and Jonathan: A Berlin Friendship , a short, paranoid, quirky film made for Transmediale's Snowden-leak-commemorating Magical Secrecy Tour....

Described by its chief designer Elon Musk as "a true 21st-century spacecraft," the DragonV2 flight could achieve its first unmanned flight as soon as late 2015, and its first crewed flight as soon as ...

A package sent in 1960 from Albert Hoffmann of Sandoz Labs, containing one gram of powdered LSD, goes on to provide the first acid experiences for many in New York. A comic by Ethan Persoff and Scott...

Mark Frauenfelder presents a photo-tour of Hidden Treasures, a gem of a store in Los Angeles' rustic Topanga Canyon. Read the rest...

Below you'll find a short piece by Nat Hentoff on the late, great Eric Dolphy, musician and hero of avant-garde jazz movement. Read the rest...

"In a spectacle designed to show their resolve against terrorism, Chinese authorities held a public sentencing in a football stadium in the northwestern Xinjiang region of 55 people convicted of viole...

Derek Powazek"Combining contributions from hundreds of artists from 36 countries and 50 states into individual works of art, 17 boulders were covered on the Lizards Mouth trail in Santa Barbara, Calif...

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile delighted onlookers at its unveiling during the recent Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! As we've posted, our sponsors at Ford agreed to support the customization, modificat...

Jonathan Lethem and Lars Eidinger star in Lars and Jonathan: A Berlin Friendship , a short, paranoid, quirky film made for Transmediale's Snowden-leak-commemorating Magical Secrecy Tour....

Laia AbrilWorth checking out: this photojournalism project about people who identify as asexual. Read the rest...

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile delighted onlookers at its unveiling during the recent Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! As we've posted, our sponsors at Ford agreed to support the customization, modificat...

ShutterstockThe USA is the world's leader in obesity: we are home to 87 million of the world's 671 million obese people, according to a new report. But obesity is a growing global problem, and the pro...

One of the most distasteful objects at the 9/11 museum in New York City is no more. Now, victims' families will have a say on what items are sold in the gift shop. Honestly, though, a gift shop? Still...

At Slate.com, Ford Vox has an investigative piece on how Amazon.com will deliver steroids, muscle relaxants, and prescription antibiotics right to your door, despite the fact that the sale of various ...

Marijuana smokers, would you toke up on pot nuggets taped to a flyer on a telephone pole in the street? That's what one woman in Seattle did for tokers this past holiday weekend. Read the rest...

Here's a list generated by participants in a court-mandated intervention program in Minnesota for men who beat up women. Read the rest...

A package sent in 1960 from Albert Hoffmann of Sandoz Labs, containing one gram of powdered LSD, goes on to provide the first acid experiences for many in New York. A comic by Ethan Persoff and Scott...

A Russian spacecraft carrying three people docked successfully at the International Space Station today after a flawless launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Our guy in space, NASA's Rei...

Does YouTube stutter and buffer poorly when you try to stream a video? If you're in the USA, check out Google's new Video Quality Report, in which major internet service providers are ranked on the qu...

At Slate, Matthew Francis bemoans the way "quantum" has come to be pop culture shorthand for "mysterious mystery", applied liberally to any subject in order to increase the drama and/or gravitas....

Fifty years ago, ovens came with buttons and dials to control satellites overhead....

Without Cryptome.org, there would have been no Wikileaks, though the two organizations' history and methods of operation couldn't be more different. I'm pretty sure it's the oldest continuously-runnin...

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile delighted onlookers at its unveiling during the recent Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! As we've posted, our sponsors at Ford agreed to support the customization, modificat...

The snake caterpillar has a snake-like head. Scientists believed it evolved the head as a way to encourage people to share photos of it online. (Photo: Daniel Janzen)...

"Why is it very few of us know she was a sex worker? We can, once again, boil it down to respectability politics and stigma." Read the rest...

Colin Furze, who made the amazing DIY Wolverine claws, continues his X-Men experimentation with wristworn Pyro flamethrowers; demo above, how-to video below (via Laughing Squid)....

A taste-modifying molecule discovered 50 years ago, Miraculin is found in the berries of Synsepalum dulcificum. Why isn't it used as a sweetener? [The Atlantic]...

"Reactions to the proposal have been mixed," writes Matt Stroud....

Above: The seriously douchey PETA campaign.Just when you think PETA couldn't sink any lower with their outrageous publicity campaigns, they launch, then after protests, re-launch a campaign which ba...

Erin Biba posts for the last time at Medium, which pays her 2½ cents for each click she gets....

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Jason and Mark talk about the best chess timer for Scrabble players, a fantastic pi...

"The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday night to drop its declaration that the hot sauce plant was a public nuisance." More at the LA Times on the great Sriracha battle of 2014....

Seriously douchey, PETA.Just when you think PETA couldn't sink any lower with their outrageous publicity campaigns, they launch, then after protests, re-launch a campaign which basically says that d...

Fantastic UFO cult the Unarius Brotherhood will take over Los Angeles's Cinefamily this weekend for screenings of their 1970s-1980s psychotronic documentaries, costume exhibit, pop-up reading room, wo...

Fantastic UFO cult the Unarius Brotherhood will take over Los Angeles's Cinefamily this weekend for screenings of their 1970s-1980s psychotronic documentaries, costume exhibit, pop-up reading room, w...

If you want to make your dad a seriously cool Father's day gift this guide to making Toht's Coathanger can help.Video Link...

Students from Utah's Wasatch County are pissed that some of their yearbook photos were digitally edited to reveal less skin while other photos of students wearing similar clothes went untouched. Read...

A deer that seemingly fell from the sky smashed a woman's minivan as she drove along a Chicago highway; turns out, it actually leapt from an overpass, according to the Associated Press....

Gotta love a one-man band, especially when he plays a rollicking version of the Star Wars Theme while marching around. (via Devour)...

Yes, the cancer in a 49-year-old woman's body seems to have been successfully destroyed with the help of an experimental treatment involving the measles virus. Read the rest...

Maryn McKenna writes about the impact of war on culinary traditions and location-centric foods....

Not a Scandinavian Thunderdome. Instead, it's a geologic formation in Canada, made from gneiss — sedimentary rock shaped by intense heat and pressure. (Thanks, Alex Witze!)...

Yes, a 49-year-old woman seems to have beaten cancer with the help of an experimental treatment involving the measles virus. No, it wasn't a massive dose of measles vaccine, explains Cancer Research U...

I didn't feel threatened. It just probably made me a little bit more brave,' said Koba." More at KREM-TV....

[Video Link] You can start to see the movies (here's a list) when you zoom in twice.Fun fact: it took my computer over a month to render this 5 minute version. Read the rest...

In 1862, Darwin wrote to a gardening newspaper asking about peas and plant breeding. It's an interesting reminder of how fractured and isolated information and communication once were. (Thanks to Nath...

The new paintings weren't found in a secret room or beneath debris. In fact, they were right in front of everyones' faces this whole time, but faded enough that they couldn't be easily seen with the n...

NBC News has released an online version of its featured interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, a first for US TV. Read the rest...

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A Village Lost and Found is another of rock guitarist Brian May's fantastic stereograph collections. This collection of idyllic, pastoral 1850s life in England and the mystery of its subject town capt...

NBC News has released an online version of its featured interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, a first for US TV. (more…)...

A Village Lost and Found is another of rock guitarist Brian May's fantastic stereograph collections. This collection of idyllic, pastoral 1850s life in England and the mystery of its subject town capt...

The abrupt announcement that the widely used, anonymously authored disk-encryption tool Truecrypt is insecure and will no longer be maintained shocked the crypto world--after all, this was the tool E...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on meme culture's most human failure--and the surprisingly awful injuries the real thing inflicts Read the rest...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on meme culture's most human failure--and the surprisingly awful injuries the real thing inflicts Read the rest...

The abrupt announcement that the widely used, anonymously authored disk-encryption tool Truecrypt is insecure and will no longer be maintained shocked the crypto world, after all, this was the tool S...

"Not only have I watched the instructional VHS that came with the DragonStrike board game at least once a month since I was ten," says Don Jolly, "I've pulled this tape out at parties. I've inflictin...

This was real. All we were missing was widespread home or 'personal computer' adoption and a big fat global network. This is a viral video that would have been!Video Link...

Wagner James Au sez, "Created by virtual world/avatar pioneer Jeffrey Ventrella, Wiglets are self-animated, augmented reality creatures for mobile devices powered by an open source AI system, and have...

James Somers thinks you should switch to the Websters 1913 dictionary, and he cites John McPhee's composition method of looking up synonyms for problematic words as the key to his peerless prose style...

One year ago today RIP, Henry Morgentaler, Canadian abortion pioneer: Doctor Henry Morgentaler, who pioneered safe, legal abortion in Canada at great personal risk and cost, died today at 90. Read th...

Mark Shainblum writes, "The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) and the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa have collaborated to open Ottawa's first public makerspace, entitled Imagine Space -- an American corner."...

Steven Johnson -- a real favorite around here! -- has a new six-part PBS show coming this October called How We Got to Now, along with companion book. Read the rest...

Russian-born comedian Ben Rosenfeld is kickstarting a book of gruesome, real Russian nursery rhymes, illustrated by Dov Smiley (example: "A little boy found a machine-gun, nothing lives in the woods ...

Tor Books founder Tom Doherty's speech at Book Expo America yesterday didn't just explain the company's DRM-free strategy, it also announced a new imprint based on Tor.com, publishing DRM-free novella...

Two years ago, Tor Books, the largest sf publisher in the world (and publisher of my own books) went DRM-free; yesterday, Tor's founder and publisher Tom Doherty took to the stage to explain why he dr...

The Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino now holds the record for most expensive on-menu Starbucks beverage, coming in at a whopping $54; the 128 oz drink had 55 shots of espresso, with an esti...

The abrupt announcement that the widely used, anonymously authored disk-encryption tool Truecrypt is insecure and will no longer be maintained shocked the crypto world, after all, this was the tool S...

The fourth Humble Ebooks Bundle is up and running, and it's a name-your-own-price, DRM-free, comics-heavy doozy, including our own Ed Piskor's brilliant Wizzywig (review); graphic civil rights history...

For Air & Space Magazine, photographer James Hill visited Russia's "Rocket Town," the city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan, where, he says, "everything you see is related to space."...

The hour-long conversation with Brian Williams is the former NSA contractors first US television interview since leaking NSA documents to reporters. Read the rest...

The hour-long conversation with Brian Williams is the former NSA contractors first US television interview since leaking NSA documents to reporters. Read the rest...

China Radio International reports that this gentleman, a farmer from Hunan province, has spent the last ten years of his life developing a suitcase that also serves as a motorized personal transportat...

Three crew members from America, Germany, and Russia are on an express trip to the International Space Station. Read the rest...

Google has released a report on the gender and ethnic makeup of its employee population, and the data shows that the company overwhelmingly hires white males, surprising approximately nobody. Read th...

"Not only have I watched the instructional VHS that came with the DragonStrike board game at least once a month since I was ten," says Don Jolly, "I've pulled this tape out at parties. I've inflictin...

"Seawitch (1980 by Stern) at Logan Arcade," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by reader Bill. Share your photos with the pool, and we might share them here!...

Our guest Kent Barnes chatted with Dean and me about the magic of Brooks Brothers 346 non-iron shirts, a cooperative board game called Forbidden Island, crowdfunding for fun and swag, and lots more. ...

Recently in Montrose, Colorado, resident Cathy Hartt noticed snow falling off a slide had folded itself into a neat pile (7News)....

Google has released a report on the gender and ethnic makeup of its employee population, and the data shows that the company overwhelmingly hires white males, surprising approximately nobody. Read th...

To hook up some old KLH speakers to my computer, I needed a small amp. First up was the ultra-cheap Pyle PFA100, an allegedly 30-watt amp that's just $25. Read the rest...

A Marine Iraq vet was today arrested in Brooklyn after police found him toting a duffel bag containing "a shotgun, a cache of ammunition, a laser and a machete." Read the rest...

The hour-long conversation with Brian Williams is the former NSA contractors first US television interview since leaking NSA documents to reporters. Read the rest...

The hour-long interview is the former NSA contractors first US television interview since leaking NSA documents to reporters. Read the rest...

Three crew members from America, Germany, and Russia are on an express trip to the International Space Station. Read the rest...

Apple today confirmed plans to buy Beats Electronics, which makes headphones, and Beats Music, a streaming music service, for about $3 billion. Read the rest...

In Los Angeles, the theft of computers from a county contractor's office that contained personal data for over 342,000 patients has led to a call for tighter security. Read the rest...

China Radio International reports that this gentleman, a farmer from Hunan province, has spent the last ten years of his life developing a suitcase that also serves as a motorized personal transportat...

China Radio International reports that this gentleman, a farmer from Hunan province, has spent the last ten years of his life developing a suitcase that also serves as a motorized personal transportat...

Derek Powazek has a lovely photo-essay on his blog about meeting baby goats in Lompoc, California. "The Kids are Alright." [Photo: Derek Powazek]...

Our guest Kent Barnes chatted with Dean and me about the magic of Brooks Brothers 346 non-iron shirts, a cooperative board game called Forbidden Island, crowdfunding for fun and swag, and lots more. ...

Le Meurice hotel in Paris.Vogue Magazine is the latest high-profile name to join a boycott luxury hotels owned by the Dorchester Collection. Why? Dorchester properties include The Beverly Hills Hotel,...

Storm Delarverie, pioneering drag king who fought at Stonewall, died on Saturday at age 93....

This intriguing chunk of feldspar looks like ribbon confetti neatly arranged in resin. According to this site, Rainbow lattice sunstone "contains crystallographically oriented exsolutions of Illmenite...

In South Africa, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife used a Vietnam War-era Huey helicopter to relocate a rhino threatened by poachers, a process incredibly documented by Emma Gatland and featured on National Geogr...

In a few short weeks, Boing Boing Video will premier an exclusive interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drop...

This looks like a tornado but it's actually a swarm of insects, perhaps red locusts, that Ana Filipa Scarpa photographed in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal (EPOD)....

Photographer and filmmaker Gavin Heffernan shares some dazzling photographs, GIFs, and videos of a recent meteor shower that revealed itself best in the California desert, where the Milky Way is clear...

Photographer and filmmaker Gavin Heffernan shares some dazzling photographs, GIFs, and videos of a recent meteor shower that revealed itself best in the California desert, where the Milky Way is clear...

Gary Myrick has been a courtroom sketch artist for 40 years and his profession is dying; above, a New York Times video profile of Myrick....

The folks who claimed Procter & Gamble's old logo is a mark of Satan would enjoy the Cheese Curls of Instagram site. (Via @Pickover, via Neatorama)...

Cory Doctorow reviews Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. More than a summary of the Snowden leaks, it's a compelling narrative...

Maggie Koerth-Baker reviews Shaun Gallaghers guide to having scientific fun with your brand-new offspring Read the rest...

The city of Cincinnati has brought the world a remarkable collection of wonders. Carmen Electra. Cincinnati chili. Jerry Springer. The Filet O Fish sandwich. And perhaps most notably, the game calle...

In a few short weeks, Boing Boing Video will premier an exclusive interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drop...

A great photo gallery of 1960s Japanese pop-psychedelic bands. I wish there were more links to the music, though....

In a few short weeks, Boing Boing Video will premier an exclusive interview and solo performance from legendary musician Bob Mould of Hsker D and Sugar whose magnificent new album Beauty and Ruin drop...

The folks who claim Procter & Gamble's logo is a mark of Satan would enjoy the Cheese Curls of Instagram site. (Via @Pickover, via Neatorama)...

Maya Angelou receives a Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, February 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)The great American poet, author, activist, and ac...

Cory Doctorow reviews Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. More than a summary of the Snowden leaks, it's a compelling narrative...

William Dement, former dean of sleep studies at Stanford, a man with 50 years of research behind him, once told a reporter for National Geographic As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep ...

Twenty percent of the calories you eat each day go straight to that big, fat brain of yours. That's a huge fraction compared to other animals....

At Scientific American a congressman and an environmental health scientist make a case for why we could eliminate animal testing of cosmetics, and reduce the use of live animals in other kinds of safe...

Maya Angelou receives a Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, February 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)The great American poet, author, activist, and act...

This handy chart shows you how far our TV shows have traveled through space. The first televised baseball game is about to hit Regulus....

"Scientists have a new, promising material for solar panels!" At NOVANext, Tim De Chant explains why an announcement like that doesn't mean you get a new solar panel next year ... or even next decade....

Q: What does it mean for Lake Superior to have had its greatest ice coverage in 20 years? A: Memorial Day sunbathing on the beach, with icebergs. ...

I'm speaking on Saturday about human experimentation and its impact on the origins and future of medicine at Minnesota Public Radio's Top Coast Festival....

Maggie Koerth-Baker reviews Shaun Gallaghers guide to having scientific fun with your brand-new offspring Read the rest...

Tom writes, "We're a fledgling makerspace in London (60 members and growing), born from the notion that 'London Hackspace is fantastic but it's a pain to get to from South of the River.'We bootstrappe...

Cory Doctorow reviews Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. More than a summary of the Snowden leaks, it's a compelling narrative...

Bias your dielectrics with the Dielectric-Bias ethernet cable from AudioQuest: "When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-...

BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK to see Tom the Dancing Bug, by @RubenBolling, every week! Members of the elite and prestigious INNER HIVE get the comic emailed to their inboxes at least a day before publ...

I was on American Public Media’s Marketplace yesterday talking (MP3) about our posting of a rarer-than-rare Disney treasure, the never-before-seen original prospectus for Disneyland, scanned bef...

Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is more than a summary of the Snowden leaks: it's a compelling narrative that puts the most ...

Glenn Greenwald's long-awaited No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is more than a summary of the Snowden leaks: it's a compelling narrative that puts the most ...

The city of Cincinnati has brought the world a remarkable collection of wonders. Carmen Electra. Cincinnati chili. Jerry Springer. The Filet O Fish sandwich. And perhaps most notably, the game calle...

Maggie Koerth-Baker reviews Shaun Gallaghers guide to having scientific fun with your brand-new offspring Read the rest...

Jordan is taking orders for custom-made, fleece-and-felt squid body-pillows, in 8' ($75) and 4' ($40) sizes. He's offering a very wide-range of customization options, including firmness, fabric, color...

Zach sez, "We've launched a campaign for our musical series MUZZLED THE MUSICAL which takes place in in the Serenadia Kingdom, where singing is power. It feautres cast from 'The Lizzie Bennett Diari...

One year ago today Shambling Guide to New York City: The Shambling Guide to New York City is the first volume in a new series of books about Zoe Norris, a book editor who stumbles into a job editing ...

James Gill writes, "Cognitive Bias Parade is a site that takes a daily look at deviations in judgement and reconstructed realities. It is an illustrated review of the many ways the brain has evolved t...

Tony Zhou created this fantastic, 7-minute critique of the visual style of comedy in US films, as compared with UK films (especially the films of Edgar "Shaun of the Dead" Wright). Read the rest...

Yesterday, a federal judge in the DC circuit court of appeals handed Prenda law -- the most loathed and evil porno copyright trolls in the business -- its own ass on a plate, and struck a blow against...

Jen created this beautiful plush octopus backpack: want. Our kid has a plush octopus from Tokyo Disneysea that looks just like this, only smaller, that we call Doctor Octopustorow.(via Pipedream Drago...

Marta writes, "This is an open call for 10-minute presentations at the 3rd International CopyCamp Conference (November 6-7, 2014 in Warsaw, Poland), devoted to social impacts of copyright. This year, ...

Chris Burke writes, "Apparently in the future we are all Team Fortress 2 characters and Net Neutrality is dead.This video was a co-production of two machinima pioneers: myself and Frank Dellario of Pi...

Maciej Cegowski's latest talk, The Internet With A Human Face, is a perfect companion to both his Our Comrade the Electron and Peter Watts's Scorched Earth Society: A Suicide Bomber's Guide to Online ...

Jamie from Vodo writes, "We've launched the Really Creepy Bundle, a brand new collection of terrifying, chilling and downright disturbing indie creativity that includes four highly-rated games (Oknytt...

Look at this adorable tiny letter the folks at Leaf Cutter Designs sent me (it took a while for it to get forwarded from the Make offices to my home in LA). Read the rest...

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Since this seasons Breaker of Chains episode, Game of Thrones handling of women and sex has been under intense scrutiny, and with a break in the show over Memorial Day, we dedicate an entire episode...

The city of Cincinnati has brought the world a remarkable collection of wonders. Carmen Electra. Cincinnati chili. Jerry Springer. The Filet O Fish sandwich. And perhaps most notably, the game calle...

First of all, the whole thing is almost all dialogue.Further to our old friends at You Cant Please Everyone, a Tumblr devoted to reviews of classic books, culled from the internets think tank: One-Sta...

Here's a false-color image from the Landsat 8 satellite of the not-at-all funny Funny River Fire in Alaska, captured on May 20, 2014--just one day after it began. And below, an un-enhanced natural col...

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APP...

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APP...

Here's a false-color image from the Landsat 8 satellite of the not-at-all funny Funny River Fire in Alaska, captured on May 20, 2014. And below, an un-enhanced natural color image. . Read the rest...

Kevin Kelly and I launched a new podcast at Cool Tools. In our inaugural episode, we pick the brain of guest David Pogue, founder of Yahoo Tech, for some lesser-known tips, tools, and life hacks. We m...

Jamie from Vodo writes, "We've launched the Really Creepy Bundle, a brand new collection of terrifying, chilling and downright disturbing indie creativity that includes four highly-rated games (Oknytt...

Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the United States Customs and Border Protection agency for his own travel records, including the notoriously comprehensive ...

At Design Observer, a fascinating piece on how photographer Richard Drew's iconic, disturbing image of a man falling to his death from the World Trade Center on 911 has been erased from public view. R...

Tim Delger not only reveals the secrets of hipster logo design, he'll also sell you the necessary fonts...

A picture illustration shows a WeChat app icon in Beijing. [REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic]The popular messaging WeChat, whose Chinese name translates to "micromessage", is on the Chinese government's ban-li...

Photo: Dee MoormanJoe Massa said he was driving home Sunday morning around 2AM when his Buick was struck by something. And that something, he says, was a freakin' meteorite. Read the rest...

At Design Observer, a fascinating piece on how photographer Richard Drew's iconic, disturbing image of a man falling to his death from the World Trade Center on 911 has been erased from public view. ...

"The U.S. Army is quietly putting the word out to commands that it is replacing its current Universal Camouflage Pattern with a pattern the service has owned for more than a decade," reports military....

Image: KVIA TV, El Paso, Texas.More than 1,000 people within a half-mile of an explosive fire at a New Mexico biofuel production facility had to evacuate today, as hazmat teams arrived. The plant conv...

More than 1,000 people who live or work within a half mile of an explosive fire at a New Mexico biofuel production facility had to evacuate today. Read the rest...

Micah Lee. Photo: Mashable.Mashable has a nice profile of First Look's Micah Lee. Read the rest...

The sign in the front of the headquarters building at the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, DC. (Reuters)The Veterans Administration worker who leaked damning information about the federal ...

Tim Delger not only reveals the secrets of hipster logo design, he'll also sell you the necessary fonts...

As I discussed in our recent podcast, the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 wifi router has completely rejuvenated my home network. Transfers that were below 2 Mbit/s are now at my theoretical 7Mbit/s maximum. ...

Micah Lee. Photo: Mashable.Mashable has a nice profile of First Look's Micah Lee. Read the rest...

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APP...

As I discussed in our recent podcast, NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 wifi router has completely rejuvenated my home network. Transfers that were below 2 Mbit/s are now at my theoretical 7Mbit/s maximum. Rea...

"Cute Chick Faces," "Tyler Giving the Chicks a Pep Talk," and "Chicks Exploring the Grass," photographs shared by reader Nicholas Longtin of Minneapolis, in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the rest...

Soldiers take photos as U.S. President Barack Obama (C) shakes hands with troops after delivering remarks at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)The identity of the top CIA...

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APP...

Inspired by a brick cell phone he found at a thrift store, Portland photographer Jim Golden created a wonderful photo series (and several animated GIFS) of "Relics of Technology," from reel-to-reel ta...

From the January 2014 issue of the journal Case Reports in Emergency Medicine: "While report of animal bites contaminating wounds is reported commonly, direct wound contamination with squirrel flesh h...

Red Shoes is a welcome addition to Fantich & Young's Apex Predator sculptures (previously) in which shoe-soles are studded with false teeth in a wonderfully gross echo of hyperdontia (warning, a ...

Scientific American visits the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC which apparently isn't "boring, useless, too hard, irrelevant, stifling" or any of the other unpleasant things that museum co-found...

This is the winner of the "2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest;" below is a description and video of the second and third prize winners. Read the rest...

"Past steaming woks and chopping blocks and up a narrow, creaky staircase, Edsel Ford Fong -- the world's most insulting waiter -- greeted patrons with a 'sit down and shut up!' Routinely, he cussed ...

This is the winner of the "2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest;" below is a description and video of the second and third prize winners. Read the rest...

Respected cryptographer and security researcher Ross Anderson has a fascinating new paper, Privacy versus government surveillance:where network effects meet public choice [PDF], which explores the "pr...

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

In 1876, a fellow named Maybrook was killed by the hammer of a chiming automaton; Jeremy Clay, author of "The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press," tells Ma...

How overly-intensive farming and land mismanagement created a 40-acre desert in the middle of Maine....

Improved computer modeling is allowing scientists to experiment with fusion reactor designs abandoned generations ago....

In 1985, the virus that causes AIDS had two names (HTLV-III and LAV) and two teams of researchers vying for credit as its discoverers....

The US paperback of my novel Homeland comes out today, and I've written an open letter to teenagers for Tor.com to celebrate it: You Are Not a Digital Native. Read the rest...

A new paper estimates the risk of a laboratory-enhanced flu strain escaping said laboratory at between 5 and 60 percent. Maryn McKenna explains what that wide, wide spread actually means. ...

"Climate change" does a better job of describing what's happening to our planet than "global warming". But people seem to care more about global warming, according to a recent poll....

Glenn Fleishman conducts a postmortem examination of his recent Kickstarter campaign....

Speeding up the line and reducing regulatory oversight is an interesting combination to couple with a promise of safer food....

Glenn Fleishman conducts postmortem examination of his recent Kickstarter campaign....

Glenn Greenwald has pre-announced his next Snowden-doc publication: a list of US citizens the NSA has subjected to illegal surveillance. I keep hearing that there's a huge bang at the end of the Snowd...

What's it like to get sucked into a black hole and travel at hypersonic speeds through a wormhole? Alan Watts built this Arduino-based psychedelic spacetime visualizer to find out. Read the rest...

Hong King's visual culture museum M+ has a fantastic site devoted to the city's ubiquitous neon signs, a glowing landscape of pop advertising that was one of the inspirations behind Ridley Scott's vis...

Pioneering special makeup effects artist Rick Baker has Tweeted these amazing unseen creature designs from 1980 for Spielberg's never-made mean alien film Night Skies. Read the rest...

Photographer Steve Kenward's Literally is a series of portraits of booksellers in their native habitats (their bookstores). As a former member of the tribe myself, I recognize these for the fine speci...

Thinkgeek's Security Camera Birdfeeder ($15.99) is a bit of gallows humor for the post-Snowden age. Feed animals in your yard while they perch unwittingly into an icon of the corporate-government surv...

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[Video Link] Sean Michael Ragan and Mikal Hart of MAKE built this nifty gadget that draws Etch-a-Sketch style pictures with two servomotors....

[Video Link] Sean Michael Ragan and Mikal Hart of MAKE built this nifty gadget that draws Etch-a-Sketch style pictures with two servomotors....

What's it like to get sucked into a blackhole and travel at hypersonic speeds through a wormhole? Alan Watts built this Arduino-based psychedelic spacetime visualizer to find out. Read the rest...

"'I thought you were my ride,' Verite told the officer."...

Dan Nosowitz on the obsession with a mechanical toy invented 40 years ago--"simple in theory, it can be tremendously complex to conquer" -- and Google's obsession with it in particular....

Fernando Mendona and Anderson Mahanski do the honors for G.R.R. Martin's brutal fantasy series. via...

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"Comic book movies ... are becoming more and more like comic books themselves," writes Ryan Britt. "Serial adventures in which each installment leads to the next installment."...

What's it like to get sucked into a blackhole and travel at hypersonic speeds through a wormhole? Alan Watts built this Arduino-based psychedelic spacetime visualizer to find out. Read the rest...

In what he calls "an Experiment in Controlled Digression," Mark Dery touches on xenogastronomy, ortolan, Edible Dormouse, Victor Hugo's fondness for rat pt, rat-baiting as a betting sport in Victoria...

Snapped yesterday at the Mykonos, Greece airport: the UK Home Office's terrorist detection checklist for spotting existential threats to the human race before they can board. It's grimly fun to imagin...

One year ago today Help crowd-fund a court stenographer for the trial of accused Wikileaks source Bradley Manning: The trial of Bradley Manning begins on June 3, 2013 The Freedom of the Press Foundati...

Alan writes, "A group of nine women involved in the tech industry have posted a manifesto listing some of the awful sexist things that have happened in tech during the past few months. The women fram...

Chris Burke writes, "Apparently in the future we are all Team Fortress 2 characters and Net Neutrality is dead.This video was a co-production of two machinima pioneers: myself and Frank Dellario of Pi...

The background paintings on Scooby Doo were far and away the best thing on the show, as this 2007 post from Secret Fun Blog ably demonstrates. The mediocre dialog and plotting and indifferent animatio...

Glenn Greewald has pre-announced his next Snowden-doc publication: a list of US citizens the NSA has subjected to illegal surveillance. I keep hearing that there's a huge bang at the end of the Snowde...

Science fiction writer and biologist Peter Watts gave a spectacular talk to the Symposium of the International Association of Privacy Professional, called The Scorched Earth Society: A Suicide Bomber'...

Maciej Cegowski's latest talk, The Internet With A Human Face, is a perfect companion to both his Our Comrade the Electron and Peter Watts's ...

Here's a highlight reel of the adventures of a Moscow youth-group whose members physically place their bodies in the path of cars whose drivers insist on driving on sidewalks to beat Moscow's epic tra...

Thursday May 29th, in San Francisco, the Emperor's Bridge folks need help raising $50....

Ethan Gilsdorf interviews John Howe, Tolkien Illustrator and Conceptual Designer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogies Read the rest...

What's it like to get sucked into a blackhole and travel at hypersonic speeds through a wormhole? Alan Watts built this Arduino-based psychedelic spacetime visualizer to find out. Read the rest...

Ethan Gilsdorf interviews John Howe, Tolkien Illustrator and Conceptual Designer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogies Read the rest...

Irish practical joker Horace de Vere Cole orchestrated his masterpiece in 1910: He dressed four friends as Abyssinian princes and inveigled a tour of a British battleship. One of the friends, improba...

My first spin on Netflix Roulette landed on No Place on Earth: "This documentary sheds light on a long-untold story of World War II: the 18-month sanctuary of 38 Jewish refugees in a Ukrainian cave. F...

The Altair 8800 computer cost $621 when it was introduced in 1976. The Altair 8800 Clone is also $621, but it comes with 64k of static memory for free (in 1976, 1k of static memory for the Altair 8800...

William Dement, former dean of sleep studies at Stanford, a man with 50 years of research behind him, once told a reporter for National Geographic As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep ...

"I cut the head off the Devil and I throw it at you"...

Zack Arias shares tips on using Fujifilm's X-T1 for street photography.Video Link...

This episode is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio. For a free trial and 10% off, go to squ...

[Video Link] Sean Michael Ragan and Mikal Hart of MAKE built this nifty gadget that draws Etch-a-Sketch style pictures with two servomotors....

Making yogurt at home is fun, easy and satisfying, it doesn't require any specialist equipment or ingredients, and is healthier as it only contains the milk you choose to use. Joshua Naylor shows yo...

Jasmina Tesanovic on the recent floods drowning the Balkan region, in which, it seems the sorrow never stops. Read the rest...

A photograph shared by reader Renee Rendler-Kaplan in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool. "Have a crackin' good Memorial Day, but do nut forget why we are setting out those flags today."...

"Portrait of a Young Man with Down Syndrome" is a beautiful, compassionate, unsentimental feature over at Al Jazeera by Michael Berube, a father whose adult son, Jamie Berube, is different. Read the ...

Borderland Beat blog reports that police in El Paso are investigating vandalism of two billboards that left threatening messages and hanging mannequins consistent with drug gang messaging in Mexico. ...

"Man with a mug of beer, winking. Bear busy at work at his desk. Man on his knees, devastated. Bear bowing in apology." ASCII emoji gave way to pic emoji, and that in turn has given way to 'sticker' m...

Frienemies United States and China make up about half of the entire world's military expenditure, according to this infographic by SIPRI. The full report is here. [HT: @conradhackett ]...

Jasmina Tesanovic on the recent floods drowning the Balkan region, in which, it seems the sorrow never stops. Read the rest...

Jasmina Tesanovic on the recent floods drowning the Balkan region, in which, it seems the sorrow never stops. Read the rest...

From Modern Farmer, an interesting story about the 1987 test of the first GMO crops, and the changing perspective that's adding new nuance to the debate today....

Everybody is invited to the table in Hannibals bloody season-two finale. And Theresa DeLucci does mean everybody. She loves a good surprise--or five. Read the rest...

Making yogurt at home is fun, easy and satisfying, it doesn't require any specialist equipment or ingredients, and is healthier as it only contains the milk you choose to use. Joshua Naylor shows yo...

Ethan Gilsdorf interviews John Howe, Tolkien Illustrator and Conceptual Designer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogies Read the rest...

Everybody is invited to the table in Hannibals bloody season-two finale. And Theresa DeLucci does mean everybody. She loves a good surprise--or five. Read the rest...

Everybody is invited to the table in Hannibals bloody season two finale. And I do mean everybody. I love a good surprise. Read the rest...

Twenty-five music analysts "grade" 10,000 songs a month. It's a mountainous job, writes Rob Pegoraro, but the results will be serious business. Read the rest...

Making yogurt at home is fun, easy and satisfying, it doesn't require any specialist equipment or ingredients, and is healthier as it only contains the milk you choose to use. Joshua Naylor shows yo...

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Police block off an area of the rampage shooting crime scene in Santa Barbara. Image: Santa Barbara Independent.A series of drive-by shootings in the Isla Vista area near the University of California ...

Police block off an area of the rampage shooting crime scene in Santa Barbara. Image: Santa Barbara Independent.A series of drive-by shootings in the Isla Vista area near the University of California ...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Ippodo Matcha (both...

The US government may use visa restrictions to ban hackers from China from participating in the 2014 Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas. The move is part of a larger effort by the US to combat Chi...

Photo: Christopher Reeve for madamasr.com.A teenager from Egypt accused of illegally protesting the Egyptian government defected to the US after participating in an international high school science f...

Photo: Christopher Reeve for madamasr.com.A teenager from Egypt accused of illegally protesting the Egyptian government defected to the US after participating in an international high school science f...

Police block off an area of the rampage shooting crime scene in Santa Barbara. Image: Santa Barbara Independent.A series of drive-by shootings in the Isla Vista area near the University of California ...

The US government may use visa restrictions to ban hackers from China from participating in the 2014 Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas. The move is part of a larger effort by the US to combat Chi...

"The Senate approved a top federal judgeship on Thursday for an architect of the Obama administrations legal foundation for killing American terror suspects overseas with drones, as Democrats overcame...

Police block off an area of the rampage shooting crime scene in Santa Barbara. Image: Santa Barbara Independent.A series of drive-by shootings in the Isla Vista area near the University of California ...

When you break up with someone, do you think deleting any naked pix you have of each other is the right thing to do? In one German region, it's now the law. The Higher Regional Court of Koblenz issued...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Ippodo Matcha (both...

Chris Arkenberg visits an establishment where pop culture and history merge into a light show of singular magnificence. Read the rest...

The top 3 videos from the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest are really good! Read the rest...

Twenty-five music analysts "grade" 10,000 songs a month. It's a mountainous job, writes Rob Pegoraro, but the results will be serious business. Read the rest...

Chris Arkenberg visits an establishment where pop culture and history merge into a light show of singular magnificence. Read the rest...

Twenty-five music analysts "grade" 10,000 songs a month. It's a mountainous job, writes Rob Pegoraro, but the results will be serious business. Read the rest...

The top 3 videos from the 2104 Best Illusion of the Year Contest are really good!3rd Prize: A Turn in the Road, by Kimberley D. Read the rest...

Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take lots of photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why...

Caroleine Siede reviews the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama Read the rest...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Ippodo Matcha (both...

[Wikimedia Commons]There's a wonderful feature by Robert Barry over at the Quietus on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesizer. Moog turns 80 today. Read the r...

"Two macaque monkeys hug their baby at the Monkey Forest in Trentham, Staffordshire." They're captive, at a preserve where they're allowed to roam around in relative freedom. Read the rest...

"Two macaque monkeys hug their baby at the Monkey Forest in Trentham, Staffordshire." They're captive, at a zoo called the Trentham Monkey Forest. More photos by Ben Warburton at The Sentinel. [HT: @p...

[Wikimedia Commons]There's a wonderful feature by Robert Barry over at the Quietus on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesizer. Read the rest...

A Federal District Court judge has lifted an order barring the military from force-feeding a hunger-striking Guantnamo detainee. Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab, a 42-year-old Syrian citizen, has been hel...

Sean Bonner writing for Boing Boing, 2011: "I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome: a personal experiment." NYT, 2014: "My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment." ...

ISEE-3, artist's rendition.NASA is giving a group of citizen scientists permission to take over ISEE-3, a 36-year-old decommissioned robotic space probe that will fly by the Earth in August. Read the ...

[Wikimedia Commons]There's a wonderful feature by Robert Barry over at the Quietus on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesizer. Read the rest...

Dean Baquet.Mostly lost in the past week's media gossip around NYT executive editor Jill Abramson's ouster, and Dean Baquet's promotion to her role: Baquet is the former LA Times editor who killed the...

Starting late tonight and continuing on into the morning, the Camelopardalids meteor shower sounds like one to watch. "Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring o...

This week, as previously promised, a slew of HBO shows became available through Amazon Prime Instant Video. Every episode ever of classics like The Wire, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Flight of the Concho...

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KATU TV has a video interview with the driver of the BMW attacked by Portland's "high elf." As we blogged previously, a man high on LSD who donned chain-mail, helmet, shield, sword, and staff, ran int...

Over at Cool Tools, photographer Christopher Michel opened his travel case and described the contents -- noise canceling headphones, sleep mask, emergency meds, charging device, etc. I want everything...

Initially designed for off-road motorcyclists, Buff's headwear makes my life better. Helmets are easier to put on, the back of my neck not exposed to the sun! Read the rest...

Sideshow veteran/artist The Great Fredini 3D printed a sprawling 1:13 scale model of Coney Island's early 20th century Luna Park, and my friend Ronni Thomas made a short documentary about the project!...

What has six legs and is a totally delicious superfood? Crickets, if you can stomach the latest nerd cuisine trend. To meet new demand for edible bugs, an abandoned warehouse in Youngstown, Ohio has b...

[Video Link] Supercells are thunderstorms with a rotating updraft — a spinning, twirling column of rising air that can turn into a tornado....

What has six legs and is a totally delicious superfood? Crickets, if you believe the latest nerd cuisine trend. To meet new demand for edible bugs, an abandoned warehouse in Youngstown, Ohio has been ...

Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs is a Tumblr devoted to inexplicably bad property photographs."...

Some gross dude writing an online review of a West Virginia restaurant said its female servers need to "show some skin." The restaurant's very cool owner replied to the creep critique by adding potat...

KATU TV has a video interview with the driver of the BMW attacked by Portland's "high elf."...

Here's a photo gallery of "Fordite" -- fragments of old multi-layered car paint collected at auto factories, then polished and used like a decorative gem. (Via Limor Fried)...

Bryan M of Digg writes: "John All fell 70 feet down a crevasse, which left him seriously injured and unable to use his right arm." He recorded four videos about his ordeal as it was happening! Read ...

Glenn Greenwald, of The Intercept. [Reuters]The National Security Agency records the entire content of every phone call in Afghanistan, claims WikiLeaks. Read the rest...

Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs is a Tumblr devoted to inexplicably bad property photographs."...

A short documentary about Norman McLaren (1914-1987), a pioneering filmmaker who painted directly on the film print to create animations and drew on the film's optical sound strip to produce avant-gar...

Here are a couple of videos [one | two] that poke fun at parents who get irritated with activities that make kids happy, like making rude noises with a ketchup bottle and having a pillow fight. It's t...

MIT researchers have demonstrated an algorithm that analyzes photos of a real world scene and then generates an incredibly-effective camouflage pattern to wrap objects later placed in that location. ...

Glenn Greenwald. [Reuters]The National Security Agency records the entire content of every phone call in Afghanistan, claims WikiLeaks. Read the rest...

[Video Link] Supercells are thunderstorms with a rotating updraft — a spinning, twirling column of rising air that can turn into a tornado....

A non-profit search and rescue firm claims sonar data shows more than 127 automobiles at the bottom of the bayous in Houston, Texas, and that police told them to shut their traps about them, even if t...

I think I know how you're spending the coming long weekend....

The outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season is promising — there's a 50% probability of below normal activity. It's worth noting that still means 1-2 major storms. The point: Even a good year ...

PTSD was unrecognized by the medical community 40 years ago. Now, writes psychiatrist and aid worker Lynn Jones, it may be over-recognized. What happens when all suffering becomes a mental illness?...

Chinese police closed down Liaoning's private Lucheng Museum after discovering that more than 2,000 of the historical artifacts on display, one-third of the collection, were fakes, reports The Guardia...

"The global flow of people" is a beautifully designed exploration of new data on migration flows between and within world regions for five-year periods between 1990 and 2010. Read the rest...

... in his own nose....

Animation of David Bowie talking about Ziggy Stardust rock stardom, from PBS's Blank on Blank....

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A NASA spacecraft, launched in 1978 and retired in 1997, has a new life after being found drifting but operational in 2008...

Matt Maranian's latest installment of Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-to History examines the Car Seat Dog Leash project as a lesson in the laws of physics Read the rest...

Zac Bissonnette says even horrible people like Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, and Bernie Madoff are occasionally worth listening to. Read the rest...

Fantasy Authors Aidan Harte and Brian Staveley discuss what it means to build a world all your own. Read the rest...

99% of the world's scientists or a game show host?...

Mariah superfan Milo Yiannopoulos had to choose between buying a plane ticket to get her latest album the day it came out, or torrent it "Record companies are forever whining about piracy, at the sam...

One year ago today The Man Who Laughs: grotesque Victor Hugo potboiler was the basis for The Joker: The Man Who Laughs is a graphic novel adaptation of a 1869 Victor Hugo novel that is chiefly remembe...

A while back, we posted about Nick Criscuolo's fantastic intro to a non-existent 8-bit game version of classic Connery SF outing Zardoz. Read the rest...

Jeff writes, "Chinese historian Maggie Greene has recently written about one of the strangest treasures in her collection: a Chinese comic book version of Star Wars from 1980, which she aptly describe...

James Durand scratch-built his own Mold-A-Rama after we featured them here on Boing Boing. Here he is showing off the machine for the Hackaday folks at Maker Faire. Read the rest...

Jeff writes, "Chinese historian Maggie Greene has recently written about one of the strangest treasures in her collection: a Chinese comic book version of Star Wars from 1980, which she aptly describe...

Jeff sez, "The Journal of Asian Studies has two science fiction-related essays: a full-length study that focuses on North Korean sci-fi stories of the 1950s and 1960s, which were intended for children...

John Biggs reviews the tale of a literally heartless assassin and finds it a "solid, fun cyberpunk tale." Read the rest...

Science fiction writer Ellen Klages is a wonderful storyteller; as Toastmaster for the Nebula Awards, she held an audience spellbound with the delightful, terrifying story of her late father's prized ...

When Prime Minister David Cameron ordered two GCHQ spooks to go the the Guardian's offices and ritually exorcise two laptops that had held copies of the Snowden leaks, we assumed it was just spook-lun...

"The Oldest Living Things in the World is an amazing hybrid," says Carla Sinclair, "part traditional coffee table book displaying gorgeous photographs, and part memoir of Rachel Sussmans journey trek...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on the science of the snuffles of spring. Relief may not be at hand without drugs, but knowledge has its comforts. Read the rest...

Two remarkable stock photos by Evgeny Atamanenko for Shutterstock. Above, "diet concept. frightened girl in the stress and flying around the burgers on a red background." Read the rest...

Uber, the San Francisco-based smartphone app that links people with cars for hire, today launched in the Saudi capital Riyadh after three months of beta testing. In Saudi Arabia, there is effectivel...

The most tasteless thing inside the just-opened September 11 museum in New York City is probably this commemorative cheese plate. One of the most profound and moving objects may be this telephone, fro...

Normally technology migrates from prisons to schools to airports -- think CCTVs and Pre-Check -- but for the late and unlamented radioactive pornoscanners that the TSA had to give up on, the technolog...

Etsy seller Yourorgangrinder, from Brisbane, Australia, made this delightful felted anatomic heart-brooch, which sells for $25; she also does ovaries, teratoma tumors, and eyeballs. Read the rest...

Ethan Gilsdorf interviews John Howe, Tolkien Illustrator and Conceptual Designer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogies Read the rest...

Here are a couple of videos [one | two] that poke fun at parents who get irritated with activities that make kids happy, like making rude noises with a ketchup bottle and having a pillow fight. It's t...

A brick wall at the Penn Brewery, not far from where I work, collapsed today during an attempt to get to a beehive said to have occupied space behind it "for years." No-one was hurt, and the local new...

I cant count how many cheap watering implements weve gone through since we bought this house fifteen years ago. Big box store watering widgets seem to last just a few weeks before heading to the land...

It was on this date in 1931 that the Floridian Products Corporation made its first sale of canned rattlesnake. The companys founder and chief wrangler was George Kenneth End; a Columbia journalism gr...

A sad tale from NavalTechnology.com:It is an unspoken rule of military procurement that any IT or communications technology will invariably be years behind what is commercially available or technicall...

Fantasy Authors Aidan Harte and Brian Staveley discuss what it means to build a world all your own. Read the rest...

Matt Maranian's latest installment of Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-to History examines the Car Seat Dog Leash project as a lesson in the laws of physics Read the rest...

More than 100 Americans die each day from prescription drug overdoses, mostly painkillers. That's more daily deaths than from car accidents, gunshot wounds, or suicides. Read the rest...

A wonderful photo of Disneyland, without humans, shared in our Boing Boing Flickr pool by reader "Dreggs." Read the rest...

Zac Bissonnette says even horrible people like Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, and Bernie Madoff are occasionally worth listening to. Read the rest...

Man, I had no idea how rotten the contract language for professional sports cheerleaders could be. Check out this Mother Jones explainer, and the accompanying sample document. Read the rest...

Mistress of the dark (pop) arts Jessicka Addams, also of Jack Off Jill/Scarling fame, has a show of new work at NYC's Cotton Candy Machine, accompanied by fantastic merch like this delightful Pentacat...

The ruling junta in Thailand warns it will block social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook if any content distributed through the mediums opposes the military coup. "If we find any to be in vio...

These firearms enthusiasts can't eat fast-food disarmed. Read the rest...

The Darvaza gas crater, known to locals as "Door to Hell" or "Gates of Hell" is located in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan (about 150 miles from the nation's capital). Read the rest...

In Chile, this box of ashes is said to be what's left of USD $500 million worth of pagars, or student debt notes, burned by a performance artist known as Papas Fritas (french fries). Read the rest...

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

Lumo Lift is a wearable gadget that chides you when you slouch. It "brings out the best in you, to be the more attractive, more confident you." It's a miracle contained in a tiny chip of plastic!...

Incredibly neat models of vehicles and other stuff are offered in this attractive Topping, Inc. "sales miniatures" catalog. (Here's a history of Topping, which includes photos of its drab former headq...

Steven Frank recounts the sweetly obnoxious story of how he became a ringer at playing the classic, cutting-edge arcade game Dragon's Lair, and how, one day, he blossomed into the nerd rock-star he wa...

Steven Frank looks back on a triumphant 1980s childhood moment, when he beat the laserdisc arcade game Dragon's Lair to the astonishment of onlookers....

Kathryn Mills reports that discussion has become dominated by unconvincing 'experts' and scaremongering. The evidence is not in. Read the rest...

Dear Jim,Please paint a picture of David Attenborough sitting proudly atop a great white shark which has somehow evolved legs and is winning the mens 400 metre hurdles having eaten the other athletes....

Lumo Lift is a wearable gadget that chides you when you slouch. It "brings out the best in you, to be the more attractive, more confident you." It's a miracle contained in a tiny chip of plastic!...

Steven Frank looks back on a triumphant 1980s childhood moment, when he beat the laserdisc arcade game Dragon's Lair to the astonishment of onlookers....

Normally technology migrates from prisons to schools to airports -- think CCTVs and Pre-Check -- but for the late and unlamented radioactive pornoscanners that the TSA had to give up on, the technolog...

A quick tour of the Cost of Prisons in the United States map reveals that the prison industry is doing well, especially in California, which has 135,000 people caged at a taxpayer cost of nearly $8 bi...

Mistress of the dark (pop) arts Jessicka Addams, also of Jack Off Jill/Scarling fame, has a show of new work at NYC's Cotton Candy Machine, accompanied by fantastic merch like this delightful Pentacat...

We chat with Ann Leckie mere hours before she wins a Nebula award, about what it's like to get so many awards, and what's coming next for fans of her award-winning novel, Ancillary Justice. Read the...

Im sorry if I cant look you in the eyes during the interview, Keith Morris apologizes, taking the microphone from me. Im slightly baffled by the statement until he lays down on the couch, feet facing...

[Video Link] By comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding....

Here's a larger size, and a zoomable 3.2 gigapixel version, which you really have to see to appreciate the whole thing. Read the rest...

Everyday Tyson, a tumblr dedicated to the imaginary mundane musings of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a man better known for his musings on the profound. Read the rest...

Spoonbending "psychic" Uri Geller is the proud owner of a new 12-foot gorilla statue made of 40,000 spoons; BBC News video below. (more…)...

George Lucas approached David Lynch about directing Return of the Jedi; here's one fan's take of what could have been. (via Dangerous Minds)...

Or, alternately, DoD cuts funding for basic science research on the ionosphere. Whichever....

Via LA Weekly: "Our deal with San Francisco and the greater Bay Area was never about feeling inferior. Far from it."...

Kathryn Mills reports that discussion has become dominated by unconvincing 'experts' and scaremongering. The evidence is not in. Read the rest...

George Lucas approached David Lynch about directing Return of the Jedi; here's one fan's take of what could have been. (via Dangerous Minds)...

Chicago's legendary Annoyance Theater is re-opening on May 24th with a new show titled Invisible World and directed by Mick Napier....

I'll be speaking at WebVisions in Barcelona, June 19-21, about "Science, Art, and Magic"; please come if you're in the area! Read the rest...

Check out that ampersand! (Thanks, Gary!)...

In this test a Marushin Samara, approx $260USD, takes a hammer strike while a $40USD RZO does not.If your head is only worth $40 to you, go for it. I am a huge fan of my Bell Bullitt TT. Video Link(Th...

"Moving violations are easy to fix. Just tell the DJ to fix it in the mix."Times were simpler.Video Link...

One of America's top burn surgeons lied to lawmakers about the risks of furniture fires after accepting $240,000 from the manufacturers of (not actually effective and potentially health damaging) flam...

This image explains how Megalosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur that probably looked similar to a T. Rex, almost ended up with the deeply embarrassing taxonomic name of Scrotum humanum. Read the r...

Austin Grossman, a novelist and game developer who worked on Ultima Online, Tomb Raider, Thief and Dishonored, is a fan of imaginary games. They're at the center of his latest novel, YOU, just out in...

Kathryn Mills reports that discussion has become dominated by unconvincing 'experts' and scaremongering. The evidence is not in. Read the rest...

Austin Grossman's novel YOU, just out in paperback, tells the epic story of an imaginary videogame and the lives it consumed and created. Here he gives us a tour of his favorite imaginary games from ...

See the physics that make a ball bounce — slowed down so you can really watch it in real time — with the help of some holiday-friendly water balloons. ...

Gynandromorphs — animals that are half female and half male in a way that's very different from being intersex as humans typically think about it — can teach us about sex determination and...

Colorado's new "Right to Try" bill probably won't get dying people more access to experimental drugs, writes pharmacologist and blogger David Kroll. The new law's wording doesn't actually change much ...

Here's a riveting talk by Michael Geist on the state of Canadian surveillance. Geist broke the story that Canadian telcos hand over personal information to government agencies every 27 seconds, withou...

Dear Jim,Please paint a picture of David Attenborough sitting proudly atop a great white shark which has somehow evolved legs and is winning the mens 400 metre hurdles having eaten the other athletes....

Kevin writes, "With the Privacy is a right project I try to visualize the global privacy debate by using quotes on the subject and turn them into large (in real life) visuals. I started out with key f...

Imaginary epic video games have a long literary history. Austin Grossman offers a tour of his favorite form of art-within-art. Read the rest...

In 2013, a group of Lego masters unveiled Cyberpocalypse, a spectacularly detailed, moody, neon-lit cyberpunk city. It's a triumph of EL wire and science fiction aesthetics, a kind of bricky Burning M...

In the matter of Morland-Jones v. Taerk -- two rich Toronto families who've tormented one another for years, Ontario Superior Court judge E.M. Morgan suggested that the parties do not need a judge; th...

One year ago today Iain Banks doesn't write sf for the money: I think a lot of people have assumed that the SF was the trashy but high-selling stuff I had to churn out in order to keep a roof over my ...

Evil Mad Scientists have demonstrated a great application for their Watercolorbot -- a plotter that paints with water colors. By drawing on a Buddha Board (a board whose coating goes transparent when ...

The Hudson's Bay 6 Point Blanket is a centuries-old Canadian classic of comfort and wool and stylish stripes, and, as I discovered, it's kind of a pain in the ass to source from outside of Canada. Re...

Joey writes, "OpenEdJam is a 3-day international event that brings together activists, developers, educators, engineers, librarians, and makers from all fields. Read the rest...

Ellen Kushner writes, "The editors of Interfictions Online are happy to announce the birth of the journal's latest issue, the third in the past twelve months of the trailblazing journal of the weird, ...

Etsy seller Yourorgangrinder, from Brisbane, Australia, made this delightful felted anatomic heart-brooch, which sells for $25 and sports a superior vena cava (blue) the aorta (red), and the pulmonar...

Last week, in a coordinated attack by guerrilla artists across the UK, 365 outdoor ads were replaced by hand-printed works of art. It was a project of Brandalism, and they hit 10 cities, using hi-viz ...

Johntonta grew weary of the meaningless modern round of office slavery, so he created a kayak made from desk-lumber, a business-suit skin, computer-wire lashings. He documented the Post-bureaucratic j...

If you're a hacker interested in obtaining a cybersecurity job at the FBI, don't "smoke weed on the way to the interview." Director James Comey says he was only joking when he said he was cool with po...

Christopher Hemsworth's Dear Inner Demons -- Retro Video Game Edition is a series of prints (8"x8", $16) in which we learn about the deep insecurities of our favorite olde fashioned video-game charac...

Robbo sez, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just released almost 400,000 visual works in an online searchable database. The images are high rez (10 megapixels) and free to download. Read the rest...

A comb jelly (University of Florida).A scientist in Florida who studies simple sea animals known as comb jellies says he has discovered a path to a new form of brain development that may one day lead ...

"We woke up every morning glad we were alive, and went to sleep every night knowing we might not wake in the morning. There are so many ways to die in Syria now," a refugee named Yalda told author Nei...

Hard times for MeFi. Founder Matt Haughey explains how the popular 15-year-old online community ended up in a difficult financial situation that now threatens its existence. One factor in Metafilter's...

ITUCThe International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a trade group alliance that works to improve laborers' rights around the globe, released its Global Rights Index this week. Countries are ranked...

The US Transportation Department today proposed air travelers be given detailed information on the fees they're being charged for each checked bag, advance seat assignments, and carry-on luggage. Read...

ReutersSince its inception in 1908, the FBI has prohibited audio or visual recordings of statements made by criminal suspects, unless agents obtain special approval. "Now, after more than a century, t...

A comb jelly (University of Florida).A scientist in Florida who studies simple sea animals known as comb jellies says he has discovered a path to a new form of brain development that may one day lead ...

This 18-inch Clarion Nightsnake (Hypsiglena unaocularus), found on black lava rock habitat on the island of Clarion, is darker in color than its mainland relatives and has a distinctive pattern of spo...

ShutterstockA new study from Harvard [PDF] points to a class of agricultural pesticides called neonics as a primary cause of honeybee colony collapse disorder, or CCD. Read the rest...

If you're a hacker interested in obtaining a cybersecurity job at the FBI, don't "smoke weed on the way to the interview." Director James Comey says he was only joking when he said that just a few day...

If you're a hacker interested in obtaining a cybersecurity job at the FBI, don't be a pot-smoker. Director James Comey says he was only joking when he said just a few days ago that the FBI might loose...

Pot and Spoon, a true tale of Occupy Wall Street by Jerry Goralnick and illustrated by Ruthie Rosenfeld is available for free download on their site. Read the rest...

In some of the worlds largest economies, men outnumber women on the internet--and sometimes by a wide ratio. Check out this map produced by Berlin-based developer Ramiro Gmez for infographics site Vis...

If you're afraid of bees, don't click on this slideshow documenting what happened when a truck carrying some 20 million bees overturned on a Delaware highway. Read the rest...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

The government of China will forbid the use of Microsoft's Windows 8 OS in government computers, "to ensure computer security after the shutdown of Windows XP." All desktops, laptops and tablet PCs "p...

In Cambodia, millions of people have anemia because their diets don't provide enough iron--and women and children are at greatest risk. The Lucky Iron Fish project offers a clever solution: cook with ...

"Planta Macro," a photograph by Antonio Marin shared in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool....

"Bouncy Castle Mortgage," a comic by Darren Cullen shared in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool....

From the government-controlled China Daily on the recent US charges of hacking by China: "We should encourage organizations and individuals whose rights have been infringed to stand up and sue Washing...

From the sixth in a 6-part Washington Post series on war and disability: "The longest stretch of fighting in American history is producing disability claims at rates that surpass those of any of the c...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

Jim Roseman was diving off Florida's east coast when he ran into what looks like a great white shark. Luckily he had a GoPro and his speargun. Read the rest...

In Portland, Oregon, a high "High Elf" attacked a woman's car with a sword. Read the rest...

Robbo sez, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art had just released almost 400,000 visual works in an online searchable database. The images are high rez (10 mega pixels) and free to download. Read the res...

Jim Roseman was diving off Florida's east coast when he ran into what looks like a great white shark. Luckily he had a GoPro and his speargun. Read the rest...

Mockingbird, Season 4, Episode 7 of HBOs Game of Thrones, isnt just a table setting for the last three episodes, its loaded with surprises. Read the rest...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

Robbo sez, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art had just released almost 400,000 visual works in an online searchable database. The images are high rez (10 mega pixels) and free to download. Read the res...

Via ABC6: "...some members of the school community 'have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night.'"UPDATE: ...and its already back on!...

Mockingbird, Season 4, Episode 7 of HBOs Game of Thrones, isnt just a table setting for the last three episodes, its loaded with surprises. Read the rest...

Via ABC6: "...some members of the school community 'have long expressed concerns related to the exclusive nature of Honors Night.'"...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

Photo via: worldalldetails.comSmithsonian.com tells us Bran Castle, fabled home of Dracula, is up for sale. Read the rest...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

The Pew Research Centers 2013 Global Attitudes survey asked 40,117 respondents in 40 countries what they thought about eight topics often discussed as moral issues: extramarital affairs, gambling, hom...

"My attitude as an artist," says World Trade Center high-wire walker Philippe Petit, "grew out of the realization Id arrived at from an early age: that my intellectual engagement, my imaginative free...

Before Edward Snowden went on the run and effected the first-ever leak of documents from the NSA, he threw a cryptoparty in Hawai'i, coordinating with Runa Sandvik from the Tor Project and Asher Wolf ...

Jane from Sugru sends us an adorable stop-motion video showing ways to use the air-drying polymer to cut down on noisy annoyances: "Life is noisy. If a banging door, clattering plates or a squeaky bik...

Jon Seagull reviews a board game in which players must team up in a race against time to escape a cursed temple, grabbing as much treasure as they can along the way. Read the rest...

Ebay says that its corporate network and databases were compromised earlier this year, and will ask its users to change their passwords. Read the rest...

Apart from 1975-80, this is the greatest time to be a Haunted Mansion fan and collector, writes Cory Doctorow -- and it's all thanks to Etsy. Read the rest...

Apart from 1975-80, this is the greatest time to be a Haunted Mansion fan and collector, writes Cory Doctorow -- and it's all thanks to Etsy. Read the rest...

Here's a thrilling cut from the third part of MK Wren's science-fiction epic, available now as an ebook exclusively here at Boing Boing. Read the rest...

Jon Seagull reviews a board game in which players must team up in a race against time to escape a cursed temple, grabbing as much treasure as they can along the way. Read the rest...

"My attitude as an artist," says World Trade Center high-wire walker Philippe Petit, "grew out of the realization Id arrived at from an early age: that my intellectual engagement, my imaginative free...

Mat Ricardo writes, "After a sold-out London West End run of my one man show 'Showman,' earlier this year, I'm spending most of the rest of 2014 touring around the world; I've managed to squeeze in on...

Writing in the Atlantic, Bruce Schneier explains the NSA's insane program of creating, discovering and hoarding vulnerabilities in computer systems in order to weaponize them. These vulnerabilities al...

Christopher Hemsworth's Dear Inner Demons -- Retro Video Game Edition is a series of prints (8"x8", $16) by Christopher Hemsworth in which we learn about the deep insecurities of our favorite olde fas...

The NSA is supposed to be America's offshore spy agency, forbidden from spying on Americans. But as an important article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Nadia Kayyali points out, the FBI, DEA ...

Sulka sez, "Someone just released a beautiful work of art at YouTube. If you like Star Wars or are a movie aficionado in general, this is a must see:" In 1981 George Lucas approached David Lynch to di...

Dooley writes, "In 1957, Irwin Allen (The Towering Inferno) produced The Story Of Mankind featuring a star-studded cast showcasing centuries of history. Who better to play Sir Isaac Newton than Harpo ...

The Croatian Center for Civil Courage, a "feminist and free thinking organization," is kickstarting a kids' picture book called Humanism for Children, seeking funds to translate and publish it in Eng...

One year ago today Chronology of the Canadian Conservative government's war on science: No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as Stephen Harper's Conservatives. Read the re...

Bored Panda rounds up a gallery of street art that "interacts with its surroundings" -- a fancy way of saying that the artists incorporate found settings from cracks in cement to blooming trees into t...

If you love bourbon but are dismayed by the skyrocketing prices for the good stuff, Matt Buchanan suggests that you try "old-ass" rum, which has a lot of the same flavors that bourbon lovers cherish a...

The Snowden revelations kickstarted a national dialog on surveillance and a Congressional promise to rein in mass spying through a bill called the USA FREEDOM Act. But as the Electronic Frontier Found...

The latest update in the saga of Kleargear (previously) is downright bizarre. Having invoiced unhappy customers for complaining online about their crappy service and then ruined those customers' credi...

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?Visions of the Future of Copyright, Privacy, and the First Amendment in Science Fiction, a paper from Communicaton Law and Policy by Texas Christian Unive...

Here's something exciting: Autodesk's new computer-aided design software lets the designer specify the parameters of a solid (its volume, dimensions, physical strength, even the tools to be used in it...

Redditor CptQuestionMark posted this photo of a birthday clown from 1969. The clown is so frankly terrifying, it suggests some kind of profound aesthetic/cognitive shift in human perception in a scant...

Mockingbird, Season 4, Episode 7 of HBOs Game of Thrones, isnt just a table setting for the last three episodes, its loaded with surprises. Read the rest...

Our guest is Olga Khazan. She's an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she writes about health and health policy. Shes also covered global affairs, and technology. Read the rest...

Shot on the GoPro HD HERO3 camera. Video: "Nana Trongratanawong surrounded by millions of golden jellyfish during a freedive at Jellyfish Lake, Palau."[Video Link, via @moth]...

Action Figure highlights the fantastic career of Doonesbury's Uncle Duke. The comic character's life includes stellar roles as a journalist, governor, NFL sports medicine 'practitioner', a brief stint...

A saucer-shaped test vehicle holding equipment for landing large payloads on Mars is shown in the Missile Assembly Building at the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Photo: NAS...

Shot on the GoPro HD HERO3 camera. "Nana Trongratanawong surrounded by millions of golden jellyfish during a freedive at Jellyfish Lake, Palau."[Video Link, via @moth]...

Photo: ReutersFrom the Statue of Liberty in NYC to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, American landmarks are threatened by a likelihood of floods, rising sea levels and fires, said a group of scient...

Over 100 people were killed in a pair of bomb attacks today at a bus terminal and nearby market in the busy central Nigerian town of Jos....

Which American cities are the least and most safe for human beings on foot? Here are the stats, from Dangerous by Design 2014 [PDF], a study by the Smart Growth America and the National Complete Stree...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the target of a multi-subject investigation" by the FBI, US court documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request reveal....

"My attitude as an artist," says World Trade Center high-wire walker Philippe Petit, "grew out of the realization Id arrived at from an early age: that my intellectual engagement, my imaginative free...

Jon Seagull reviews a board game in which players must team up in a race against time to escape a cursed temple, grabbing as much treasure as they can along the way. Read the rest...

Look at how happy our friend Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries is with her SM482. She just got a SM481, too. I don't know what these machines do, but if they help Limor make more great electronics ki...

Echoes of Tyrion's past are about to collide in the present. Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Thrones, where the dwarf's uncertain doom approaches. Read the rest...

Use the plastic bag you brought the bottle home in. A cloth napkin works, too!...

[Video Link] Maker Faire Bay Area 2014 was a blast. On Saturday I interviewed author and biohacker Tim Ferriss, and on Saturday my daughter Jane and I demonstrated some of the projects we built that ...

Paris Gray, the 17-year-old class vice president of Mundys Mill High School in Georgia was suspended from school for a chemistry joke she ran in the yearbook: When the going gets tough just remember t...

Musical performer Hyon Song-wol was reported to be Kim Jong-un's girlfriend. Last August, news spread that she was shot dead on the North Korean leader's orders, after he spotted her in a sex tape. R...

Cary, NC is plagued by one or more persons who have painted the "mildly offending" words "snot" and "booger" on 20 or more places around town. Authorities have asked for anonymous tips about the graff...

Some 348 new synthetic drugs have popped up in over 90 countries around the world, according to a report released today by the United Nations' drug agency [PDF].. The report confirms that meth remains...

His interview is fascinating: The last time I did drugs, I turned into a freakin dragon, McKane says. This time, he says, he simply transformed into night elf rogue Jaypar Prakkari, the protagonist of...

"Three years after the CIA set up a phony hepatitis vaccination program in Pakistan as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration told a group of American health educators last wee...

Quirky is helping inventor Trisha Cleveland develop the dreams of everyone with a second floor into a foldable and practical product. The foam pieces fold up into a nice little chest when not in use, ...

The Justice Department this week indicted five hackers linked to Chinas Peoples Liberation Army. The hackers are accused of stealing data from six US companies, and represent a "cyberwar" escalation w...

A saucer-shaped test vehicle holding equipment for landing large payloads on Mars is shown in the Missile Assembly Building at the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Photo: NAS...

From Matthias De Hantsetter's badass YouTube collection of heavy metal marimba. (more…)...

The Kansas Board of Regents has enacted a strict new rule on what employees are allowed to say on Twitter and Facebook, which critics say violates the First Amendment and academic freedom. Read the r...

"The federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants the cooperation of California officials in searching residents' cellphone and computer records, under a bill making its way throug...

Here's something exciting: Autodesk's new computer-aided design software lets the designer specify the parameters of a solid (its volume, dimensions, physical strength, even the tools to be used in it...

The global temperatures last month tied with April 2010 as the warmest on record [NOAA]. I'm sure it's nothing....

Hard to believe that Todd Baxter is a photographer, not a photorealistic painter. What beautiful work. Juxtapoz has a feature on his "Owl Scouts" series; you can scroll through more work on the Chicag...

Hard to believe that Todd Baxter is a photographer, not a photorealistic painter. What beautiful work. Juxtapoz has a feature on his "Owl Scouts" series here; you can scroll through more work on the C...

During this week's blockbuster Indian election, @shubhragupta caught a great photo of the India Express for the day, which was rushed to press so quickly that its lead banner still read HEADLINE AWAIT...

"Experimental Aviation Association's B-17," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Tau Zero. Share your photos with us!...

Susan Messing is one of the funniest, greatest improvisers ever. I've been a fan since her start with legendary ensemble Blue Velveeta, in the early 90s.If you are in Chicago you can see her perform a...

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When five-year-old brain cancer patient Brayden Denton died, his family decided to honor him by appearing at his funeral dressed as the superheroes he loved: Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Thor, The Hu...

Maccabi Tel-Aviv beat Real Madrid in the Euroleague basketball championships, spawning thousands of violently anti-semitic tweets....

"Experimental Aviation Association's B-17," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Tau Zero. Share your photos with us!...

Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, Boing Boing is pleased to present the first-ever look at the original Disneyland prospectus. Read the rest...

A study on the shores of Lake Michigan has shown that using dogs to chase seagulls away helps lower the amount of E.coli present. Read the rest...

An ambitious and nuanced story that left Cory Doctorow in tears, the new novel from award-winner Jo Walton is about an elderly woman who remembers two lives. Read the rest...

Gary writes, "Episode 5 of the podcast Far-Fetched Fables features a great reading by Kenny Park of the short story 'Snowball's Chance' by Charles Stross. Far-Fetched Fables is the recent addition to ...

"A man was arrested at a Murfreesboro bar Friday night for attempting to have sex with an ATM and later a picnic table."...

A prank played on McSorley's Old Ale House in 1961, when it was legal in New York to ban women from entering a tavern. By Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall Read the rest...

Beschizza describes the technology he uses to make things....

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter. Further: JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's proud and mighty INNER HIVE and receive untold BENEFITS and PRIVILEGES! It's easy, fun and surprisingly arousing....

An ambitious and nuanced story that left Cory Doctorow in tears, the new novel from award-winner Jo Walton is about an elderly woman who remembers two lives. Read the rest...

Read the first seven chapters from Jo Walton's beautiful novel of forking lives (review), where a single change leads to radically different destinies. Read the rest...

My dad always told me not to be an artist," says Santa Cruz Skateboards artist Jimbo Phillips to Ben Marks. "He said, You should be a dentist and make some real money." Read the rest...

In Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews, (previously) veteran photographer Timothy Archibald explores the people who make, use, recommend and perform with homebrew sex-machines (NSFW, unless you W...

The sun's finally out in London, so it's time to repost last summer's cheap, easy, no-mess cold-brew coffee technique. This is the best cup of coffee you're likely to drink this summer. Read the rest...

Writing in the Guardian, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison recounts the events that led to his decision to shutter his company in August 2013. Lavabit provided secure, private email for over 400,000 peopl...

Here's a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart, a close analysis of the terrible news that Mozilla has opted to add closed source DRM to...

There was no such epoch as before the big bang, because time began with the big bang, says physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies. Read the rest...

My dad always told me not to be an artist," says Santa Cruz Skateboards artist Jimbo Phillips to Ben Marks. "He said, You should be a dentist and make some real money." Read the rest...

Vanessa German and "Americas Most Violent Neighborhood" Read the rest...

Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, Boing Boing is pleased to present the first-ever look at the original Disneyland prospectus. Read the rest...

Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, Boing Boing is pleased to present the first-ever look at the original Disneyland prospectus. Read the rest...

One year ago today Guatemala: Nation's highest court throws out Ros Montt genocide trial verdict and prison sentence: On May 10, Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, an...

In 2012, a winning combination of lobbying and street protests killed ACTA, a secretive, Internet-punishing copyright treaty. Now, protesters are being water cannoned in Brussels as they fight ACTA's ...

Writing in the Atlantic, Bruce Schneier explains the NSA's insane program of creating, discovering and hoarding vulnerabilities in computer systems in order to weaponize them. These vulnerabilities al...

Christian writes, "A day in the life of libraries in New York City. Three massive systems that still have a human touch and are doing more with less every year. Read the rest...

More than 100 people around the world have been arrested in a coordinated sweep of RATers (people who deploy "remote access trojans" that let them spy on people through their computers cameras and mic...

Redditor CptQuestionMark posted this photo of a birthday clown from 1969. The clown is so frankly terrifying, it suggests some kind of profound aesthetic/cognitive shift in human perception in a scant...

Alice Dreger works with intersex kids, and takes an admirably frank approach to talking about sex with her own kid. She's noticed lots of differences between her approach and that of other parents, bu...

F writes, "The third Hack Circus event will take place in Brighton on June 14th and the theme this time is Access All Areas. Read the rest...

Codemancer: A Fantasy Game that Teaches the Magic of Code is a fully funded kickstarter to produce an educational game to teach programming to kids, especially girls. Players solve programming chal...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobbylox/codemancer-a-fantasy-game-that-teaches-the-magic-o/ Codemancer: A Fantasy Game that Teaches the Magic of Code is a fully funded kickstarter to produce an...

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One of the most fantastic TV series ever filmed, The Wild Wild West, is now available for $29 on Amazon. Read the rest...

I picked up a copy of Roberto Giobbi's Card College, Volume 1 at a used bookstore a few weeks ago. It may be the best book on card magic I've found in a long time. Read the rest...

One of the most fantastic TV series ever filmed, The Wild Wild West, is now available for $29 on Amazon. Read the rest...

Vanessa German lives in a Pittsburgh neighborhood that The Rachel Maddow Show called, "One of Americas Most Violent Neighborhoods." In response to that violence, German began inviting children to mak...

I picked up a copy of Roberto Giobbi's Card College, Volume 1 at a used bookstore a few weeks ago. It may be the best book on card magic I've found in a long time. Read the rest...

"Is couchsurfing.org a brave social experiment spreading love and hospitality around the worldor a hedonistic haven for creeps seeking an easy lay?"...

My dad always told me not to be an artist," says Santa Cruz Skateboards artist Jimbo Phillips to Ben Marks. "He said, You should be a dentist and make some real money." Read the rest...

There was no such epoch as before the big bang, because time began with the big bang, says physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies. Read the rest...

"Time travel. Space Exploration. Violence. Drama. Love. Cats. Dreams." Starring cats Hank and Buster. Cinematography, Editing and VFX by Ryan Barger, Production design by Katie Akana. The song "Dr...

This is even better than Russian dashcam videos. The one unforgivable thing about this video isn't so much the cruelty, but the vertical smartphone orientation. [HT: Joe Sabia]...

The Public Domain Review offers this historic image as an on-demand print in their shop. Reminds me of this newly viral photo.A coloured engraving by William Heath from 1828, showing Monster Soup comm...

A wonderful photo by Boing Boing reader Erik Wilson shared in the BB Flickr Pool, captured at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend....

Video by Bill Hubick, who suggests you check out the Maryland Biodiversity Project here. (HT: @andyorin)...

The Lorain County Correctional Institution shows pirated movies to prisoners, "even as inmates serve time for illegally downloading movies." Richard Humphrey, 22, who was sentenced to the prison for s...

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Gay rights groups, ordinary citizens and celebrities are protesting the Beverly Hills Hotel because its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, has instituted a new Sharia-based criminal code in his home country...

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The NSA and US DEA trick contractors working for the Bahamian phone companies into letting them record the full audio of every call placed in the Bahamas, according to newly published Snowden leaks re...

A reader writes, "Robert Buckingham, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan since 2009, was fired last Wednesday for critical comments about the university's restructuri...

When Albert Marr joined the South African army in 1915, he received permission to bring along his pet baboon, Jackie. Read the rest...

When Albert Marr joined the South African army in 1915, he received permission to bring along his pet baboon, Jackie. Read the rest...

TIL: Changes in wind direction could help Australians predict dangerous jellyfish blooms AND Australian beaches have emergency vinegar jugs to treat jellyfish stings....

This photo does not show the amazing amount of life in a single drop of seawater. At Deep Sea News, Miriam Goldstein has an excellent debunking of this viral photo. Read the rest...

Via KATU.com: A man dressed in chain-mail with a helmet, shield and carrying a sword and staff ran into traffic and started attacking her car. Read the rest...

This July 12th and 13th in Santa Clara, California Extreme, a massive collection of pinball, arcade and video game machines will be set to free. For the price of admission you can play to your hearts ...

Why the outer layer is like cheesy lava while the center is still a block of ice. Finally explained....

In the 18th and 19th centuries, European collectors happily purchased (and, then, intentionally grew) poison ivy and poison sumac plants from North America....

The discovery of a new, massive species of dinosaur is all over the news. These two blog posts will give you some good perspective. First: The new dino isn't much bigger than the previous "biggest din...

An alarming report from the California Dietetic Association describes a kind of corporatist apocalyptic nightmare where junk-food companies pony up fat sponsorships in order to pervert the agenda an...

Stephanie Saulter's novel of politics, philosophy, science, corporate greed, and slavery will make you reconsider "human." Read the rest...

It's crunch time for the show's heroes, but Kevin McFarland finds that some of the humor in Silicon Valley lacks bite. Read the rest...

Called a "modern-day dystopian masterpiece," by The Guardian Liberty Voice, Stephanie Saulter adroitly weaves into her novel a mixture of politics, philosophy, science, corporate greed, and slavery. ...

"John Mulholland was a brilliant stage magician who revealed his best secrets shortly before he died in 1970," says Charles Platt. "His mind-reading trick has always been my favorite." Read the rest...

I'm delighted to announced that I'll be the guest of honor at Salt Lake City's Westercon 67 this July -- Westercon being the annual convention for science fiction fandom west of the Mississippi. There...

Writing in the NYT, Corey Robin highlights the frightening trend in state GOP labor laws to deny unemployment benefits to workers who are fired for breaking the "behavioral norms" demanded by employer...

In Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews, veteran photographer Timothy Archibald explores the people who make, use, recommend and perform with homebrew sex-machines (NSFW, unless you W somewhere th...

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, has published an open letter to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality; Woz explains his view of traditional American fairness and the role of good government, an...

Pancake virtuosos Nathan "Saipancakes" Shields (previously) showcases his latest carbo-parental masterpiece: a set of slugs produced with his kids in tribute to their garden invaders (there's also a b...

Codemancer: A Fantasy Game that Teaches the Magic of Code is a fully funded kickstarter to produce an educational game to teach programming to kids, especially girls. Players solve programming chal...

The brilliant found-object/assemblage sculptor Jud Turner (previously) has unveiled two new pieces: Bartholomew the Rhinoceros, a "half-life-size" rhino made from motorcycle and snowmobile parts; and ...

Just a reminder about the Novena crowdfunding project which closes tonight: this is Bunnie Huang's fully open and transparent laptop, the only computer whose internals can be modified and verified by ...

A classic moment from the Lecter legendarium hits the small screen. Theresa deLucci reviews the latest episode. Read the rest...

Godzilla, like our inner self run amok and gone berserk, just needs a warm mug of cocoa and a good hug. Ethan Gilsdorf on Hollywood's latest rendering of the kaiju classic. Read the rest...

Caroline Siede on the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama Read the rest...

Caroline Seide on the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama Read the rest...

Haruka Tsubota has undertaken a Japanese fan-translation of my novel Makers. It's available as Epub and Mobi, and licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. ...

One year ago today Patent lawyers: Help! The evil Makers won't let us apply for bullshit 3D printing patents!: These patent lawyers are upset because the evil Makers (capital-M and all!) are working ...

One year ago today Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation: Ronald Diebert's new book Black Code is an amazing account of how cops, spies and crooks all ...

Thinkgeek's $50 DIY Modern Mobile Kit has all the pieces you need to make your own reconfigurable mid-century modern mobile in the style of Alexander Calder. Read the rest...

The Congressmen who sent letters to the FCC condemning Net Neutrality received 2.3 times more campaign contributions from the cable industry than average. The analysis, conducted with Maplight's Congr...

As redditor Tomcruiseama points out, the $70 Ikea PS 2014 lamp is basically a Death Star: it's a Hoberman-sphere-like lampshade that can be mechanically expanded or contracted to control the amount o...

YouTubeCanadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's cover of Bowie's Space Oddity was a worldwide hit, and now it has been disappeared from the Internet, thanks to a copyright claim from David Bowie. Ironicall...

Kevin Gosztola: "Hundreds of videos of force-feedings of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been ordered to be preserved by a United States district court judge. The judge has also ordered, for the firs...

Dramatic Cat, a photograph shared by in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool....

BB contributor Mark Dery, who is busy penning a biography of Edward Gorey to be published by Little, Brown, points us to Christopher Seufert's Kickstarter for The Edward Gorey Documentary Project, a f...

Godzilla, like our inner self run amok and gone berserk, just needs a warm mug of cocoa and a good hug. Ethan Gilsdorf on Hollywood's latest rendering of the kaiju classic. Read the rest...

Godzilla, like our inner self run amok and gone berserk, just needs a warm mug of cocoa and a good hug. Ethan Gilsdorf on Hollywood's latest rendering of the kaiju classic. Read the rest...

Caroline Seide on the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama Read the rest...

One year ago today George Takei responds to "traditional" marriage fans: Star Trek star and noted homosexual George Takei responds to bigots who believe in restricting the right to love to straight pe...

From Creative Commons's Elliot Harman: "The idea of The Public Domain Jam is to encourage developers to create games based on public domain assets and stories, and optionally give the games themselves...

Gary Stewart, author of a new memoir The Most Dangerous Animal Of All, is the latest person to claim he has proof of the real, true identity of the infamous Zodiak Killer of 1960s northern California;...

James Losey writes, "After the defeat of SOPA and PIPA in the United States attention turned to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Europe. Like SOPA and PIPA, ACTA raised concerns that excessi...

Gary Stewart, author of a new memoir The Most Dangerous Animal Of All, is the latest person to claim he has proof of the real, true identity of the infamous Zodiak Killer of 1960s northern California;...

A 1973 snapshot from Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I grew up but unfortunately was too young to make the scene documented in the photos below and at Retronaut. Read the rest...

A new bit of footage showing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking, a rare sight after he was paralyzed by polio, was publicly shown for the first time; the clip was shot in 1937 at Washington, ...

A 1973 snapshot from Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I grew up but unfortunately was too young to make the scene documented in the photos below and at Retronaut. Read the rest...

The carved work of Tim Racer commemorates beloved dogs in the style of 19th-century carousel animals. Read the rest...

Artist Tim Racer is best known for his original carved sculptural works in the style of old-timey carousel critters. Read the rest...

Over at Collectors Weekly, our pal Ben Marks talks to the co-inventor of the wonderful classic toy Colorforms, simply a pack of die-cut vinyl shapes and a board to stick them on, invented in 1951 and ...

Over at Collectors Weekly, our pal Ben Marks talks to the co-inventor of the wonderful classic toy Colorforms, simply a pack of die-cut vinyl shapes and a board to stick them on, invented in 1951 and ...

The biggest falsehood spread by government advocates about Edward Snowden is that he took 1.7 million documents from the NSA. Read the rest...

Mitchell sez, "On May 14 the California Court of Appeal issued an opinion [PDF] in Digital Music News v. Superior Court, relating to copyright infringement litigation over Grooveshark. Read the rest...

A restaurant in Switzerland famous for its abundant buffet offerings has imposed a new rule: "No one is allowed to waste food; and if you do so, you will be charged five francs extra."...

Boing Boing reader Jethro Stamps shot some gorgeous macro images of an unidentified insect, and shared them in our BB Flickr pool. Read the rest...

Scientists still don't know what causes a mysterious disease responsible for widespread sea star die-offs, but they do know it has spread to a new area: the Oregon Coast. Read the rest...

Video of a magical architectural installation of an illuminated web of threads, titled "Line Segments Space" (2013), by Seoul design studio Kimchi and Chips....

The race for governor in Idaho is full of highly entertaining characters. My favorite is Walt Bayes, aka Apocalypse Santa, who said in his opening statement during the recent debates that he has "77 d...

If youre buying press-on fingernails and fake eyelashes and nylon wigs to glue onto human figures made of old queen-size support pantyhose, Matt Maranian has a warning for you... Read the rest...

Boing Boing reader Erin Clerico shares this image in our BB Flickr Pool and says, "This is the cake we had made for our Bakersfield HTML5 Meetup, where we celebrated all things JavaScript."...

The winners of Purdue University's Rube Goldberg Machine Contest show off their creations on Jimmy Kimmel Live....

Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why we love...

From the masterpiece by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....

Lisa Rein from the Timothy Leary archive sends us this wonderful photo of Leary with the late HR Giger. (Thanks, Lisa!)...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, we discuss the Satechi LED Desk Lamp, the Alvin Magn...

Interested in Time? Can never get enough? The Boing Boing Buyer's Guide to Time seeks to help, but may distract you even more! Read the rest...

Parker Higgins: "Every mention of the word 'cloud' from the hour-long Supreme Court oral arguments in ABC v. Aereo on April 22, 2014. Video is Cory Arcangel's "Super Mario Clouds" (2002)." More info. ...

With raspberries, blueberries and flowering plants in our wooded yard, we need all the friendly pollinators we can get. But Bob Knetzger's wife is extremely allergic to bee stings, so what to do? Bui...

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile is on its way to next weekend's Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! Here's a glimpse of the nearly-completed vehicle, created with support from our sponsors at Ford. Read th...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "For five years, Professor Frank Bennett, a distinguished legal scholar at Nagoya University School of Law, has been trying to add Bluebook Support to Zotero, the ope...

Victoria from Sense About Science writes, "International Clinical Trials Day is on Tuesday May 20th but half of all clinical trials have never been published and some have not even been registered. R...

With raspberries, blueberries and flowering plants in our wooded yard, we need all the friendly pollinators we can get. But Bob Knetzger's wife is extremely allergic to bee stings, so what to do? Bui...

A whack of (presumed) fat-fingered orders caused a massive, one-second drop in stock-trading yesterday; the trades fell through the cracks in the anti-flash-crash stuff that's supposed to keep the hig...

James Losey writes, "After the defeat of SOPA and PIPA in the United States attention turned to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Europe. Like SOPA and PIPA, ACTA raised concerns that excessi...

One of the Snowden documents published by Glenn Greenwald with the release of his new book is a photo showing an actual NSA Tailored Access Operations team sabotaging a Cisco router before it is expor...

Opals, a rainbow of fire locked in rock, are among the most wonderful of nature's gifts. Maggie Koerth-Baker returns with the light truth about weird silica. Read the rest...

If youve reached the point where youre buying press-on fingernails and fake eyelashes and full-sized adult nylon wigs to glue onto life-size human figures made of old queen-size support pantyhose, sa...

With raspberries, blueberries and flowering plants in our wooded yard, we need all the friendly pollinators we can get. But Bob Knetzger's wife is extremely allergic to bee stings, so what to do? Bui...

One year ago today Gawker reporter claims to have seen video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack: Gawker's John Cook was contacted by a tipster who offered to sell him a video of Toronto mayor Rob...

As Adobe Creative Suite struggles with its license-server outage, stranding creative professionals around the world without a way of earning their living, a timely reminder: a cloud computer is a comp...

As you know, Boing Boing hero Rudy Rucker is kickstarting new editions of four novels; he's just posted the cover-paintings he's executed for the volumes. They're gorgeous, and perfectly ruckerian: wh...

We didn't know it at the time, but 16 May 2013 was a pretty big day for the Internet: the Rob Ford/crack smoking story broke; adorable hatchet-wielding hitchhiker/Internet meme Kai was sought for murd...

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For the past ten years, Greg Mahle has driven 40,000 miles a year rescuing dogs from overpopulated "high volume kill shelters." He and fellow volunteers run Rescue Road Trips, LLC, based in Ohio. O...

For the past ten years, Greg Mahle has driven 40,000 miles a year rescuing dogs from overpopulated "high volume kill shelters." He and fellow volunteers run Rescue Road Trips, LLC, based in Ohio. R...

Colin Furze is extremely excited about these DIY pneumatic Wolverine claws.Video Link...

With several Star Trek themed rooms and a number of other incredible 'adult living as a child' features, this Florida mansion looks incredible! Read the rest...

Last night in Southern California, a journalist was in the wrong place. Wonder how the car's paint job will hold up? Video Link...

Drat! Random guesswork with other people's money is no longer a career! Appears the first fully automated board member of a venture fund now exists. Read the rest...

The Flash, starring Grant Gustin (Glee, 90210), premieres this fall on The CW....

Extended trailer for the new TV version of The Flash, starring Grant Gustin (Glee, 90210)....

Drat! Random guesswork with other peoples money is no longer a career! Appears the first fully automated board member of a venture fund now exists. Read the rest...

If you thought the rash of dismembered feet in sneakers turning up on Pacific Northwest beaches over the years was over, you're mistaken....

Climate Central shares my tiny hometown, do they show yours?...

Do you know where your child is? Watch out: they might be in an arcade! Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine on video gaming's juiciest moral panics. Read the rest...

Do you know where your child is? Watch out: they might be in an arcade! Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine on video gaming's juiciest moral panics. Read the rest...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, we discuss the Satechi LED Desk Lamp, the Alvin Magn...

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, we discuss the Satechi LED Desk Lamp, the Alvin Magn...

A reader suggested this fantastic Vivere double hammock as a permanent fixture on my deck. The platform is solid, the material long lasting, and the whole thing was a breeze to set up. Read the rest...

A group of Richard Feynmans friends and fans are working to restore the Nobel laureates most famous vehicle....

Public Domain Review has a gallery of "mysterious fragments of manuscript in the LACMA digital collections" from the 19th century, possibly from Turkestan. Read the rest...

Pioneering noise pop band The Jesus And Mary Chain will celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Psychocandy" with three UK concerts where they will play the phenomenal album in its entirety, reports the NM...

Do you know where you child is? Watch out: they might be in an arcade! Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine on video gaming's juiciest moral panics. Read the rest...

Mike Mechanic at Mother Jones says: "Check out Mark Follman's really well-reported and utterly appalling new piece on how women who speak out in favor of gun restrictions are being targeted, violently...

Jeff Simmermon, a fellow cancer survivor, did a beautiful monologue about his experience of the emotional and psychological pain and shock that follows a cancer diagnosis. I know them feels, bro. Jeff...

"This project was well under way before HR Giger died this week and is inspired by his art," Mark Day says, "The artists are now hoping to give him a symbolic 40-foot-pyre send off at Burning Man this...

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile is on its way to next weekend's Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! Here's a glimpse of the nearly-completed vehicle, created with support from our sponsors at Ford. Read th...

Remember Anton Purisma's lawsuit for 2 undecillion dollars? Randall "XKCD" Munroe has devoted this week's What If? to calculating exactly what $2,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 look...

Brain Heater interviews comedian podcaster Marc Maron on the launch of the second season of Maron, his self-titled sitcom about a self-obsessed comedian hosting a podcast out of his cat-filled Los An...

Pioneering noise pop band The Jesus And Mary Chain will celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Psychocandy" with three UK concerts where they will play the phenomenal album in its entirety, reports the NM...

This fantastic mask of Sasq'ets (Bigfoot), belonging to British Columbia's Sts'ailes First Nation and missing for 75 years, was recently returned after it was surprisingly easily located in the Vancou...

Brought to you by Loot Crate, the epic monthly subscription box for geeks and gamers for under $20. Use the code GWEEK to save 10%. Read the rest...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler just brought down the gavel on the latest moment in the Net Neutrality saga. Commissioners voted 3-2 to allow his "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" to go ahead, meaning we have ...

"Love Never Felt So Good," a posthumous track by Michael Jackson with Justin Timberlake, from MJ's new album XSCAPE....

This is what Vitamin C looks like, dissolved in water, crystallized, and photographed under a microscope by David Maitland. At Humans Invent, he talks about the art of photomicography....

This is what Vitamin C looks like, dissolved in water, crystallized, and photographed under a microscope by David Maitland. At Humans Invent, he talks about the art of photomicography....

Mayo Clinic doctors injected a woman with enough measles vaccine to inoculate 10 million people. Now her cancer is in remission. More research is needed, but, woah, is this fascinating....

Carl Zimmer tells a tale of parenting anxiety, science, and snapping turtles. Best part: Getting a herpetology lecture from a cop....

Brought to you by Loot Crate, the a epic monthly subscription box for geeks and gamers for under $20. Use the code GWEEK to save 10%. Read the rest...

As a former member of SEAL Teams 1, 2, and 6 and the author of six books, together with Ralph Pezzullo, about Navy SEALs, Don Mann says that one thing that makes Navy SEALs the most elite warriors on...

Following on from yesterday's brutal, awful news that Mozilla is going to add DRM to its Firefox browser, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Danny O'Brien has published an important editorial explai...

Do you know where you child is? Watch out: they might be in an arcade! Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine on video gaming's juciest moral panics. Read the rest...

Public Citizen analyzes the new Obama 2014 National Trade Estimate Report, in which the US Trade Rep demands that: Japan abolish its privacy rules and its requirement that food be labelled with its in...

Victoria from Sense About Science writes, "International Clinical Trials Day is on Tuesday May 20th but half of all clinical trials have never been published and some have not even been registered. R...

The Internet Engineering Task Force has published RFC 7258, which is a bombshell whose title is: "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack." It represents the outcome of a long argument about whether the In...

In the Toronto Star, Kevin Donovan reports a night in the life of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto, shortly after an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel: Ford drives drunk, says fantastically racist things, buys dru...

Juha writes, "Christopher Pyne, education minister for the ruling right-wing Coalition in Australia, calls the leader of the centre-left Labor, Bill Shorten, a "cunt."In Parliament.Pyne gets away with...

One year ago today Odd Duck: great picture book about eccentricity and ducks: Cecil Castellucci's Odd Duck is the story of Theodora, "a perfectly normal duck" who likes her routine -- swimming, stretc...

Dooley writes, "Introduced on national TV by Arthur Murray's wife... 'And now we have some young singers who are creating a great deal of excitement in the Paramount Theater here in New York... Read ...

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After a 101 year old woman offered to sit for a nude portrait session with photographer Anastasia Pottinger, Pottinger conceived of a project called Centenarians, through which she is photographing mo...

Bruce Schneier has announced the semifinalists in his seventh annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest, wherein contestants dream up implausible reasons to justify extreme surveillance and other lawless polic...

The cable lobby group NCTA claims the industry has been investing record amounts in network upgrades, which will dry up if they are forced to endure Net Neutrality. Techdirt points out that Big Cable'...

Elliot from Creative Commons sends us "An inspiring piece by our incoming CEO about why Creative Commons is important to him and how he plans to change the organization: "'In today's legal environment...

Brain Heater interviews comedian podcaster Marc Maron on the launch of the second season of Maron, his self-titled sitcom about a self-obsessed comedian hosting a podcast out of his cat-filled Los An...

As a former member of SEAL Teams 1, 2, and 6 and the author of six books, together with Ralph Pezzullo, about Navy SEALs, Don Mann says that one thing that makes Navy SEALs the most elite warriors on...

Brought to you by Loot Crate, the a epic monthly subscription box for geeks and gamers for under $20. Use the code GWEEK to save 10%. Read the rest...

Mysterious experimental musician Nash The Slash who played with the likes of Gary Numan, D.O.A., Iggy Pop, and The Who, has died at 66; obit at Billboard, videos below. Read the rest...

Artist Maskull Lasserre made hand grenades outfitted with music boxes. Pull the pin and they play a tune, "America the Beautiful" or "Beautiful Dreamer," but only once. Read the rest...

Brain Heater interviews comedian podcaster Marc Maron on the launch of the second season of Maron, his self-titled sitcom about a self-obsessed comedian hosting a podcast out of his cat-filled Los An...

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When you're finished, here's more car crash test porn from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. (via Laughing Squid)...

Video editor Jim Casey clipped together this wonderful accelerated look at The Evolution Of Visual Effects....

Which online service offers the best deals for hotel rooms: Expedia, Hotels.com, TravelPonyBooking, Hotwire, or Priceline? Nomadic Matt has the answer!...

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Mysterious experimental musician Nash The Slash who played with the likes of Gary Numan, D.O.A., Iggy Pop, and The Who, has died at 66. Read the rest...

Malik Bendjelloul, the 36-year-old director of the excellent Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," has died of an unspecified cause, according to CNN....

Peter Gibson is my new hero, not because he's questioning the existence of non-celiac gluten intolerance. But because he was so willing to repeat, and challenge, his own research. ...

When William E. Hoadley, 24, stepped out of a Butler County, Ohio jail, his mom Robin C. Kelley, 54, was waiting with a bag of heroin and syringe. Now both of them are locked up. Read the rest...

An op-ed on home birth vs. hospital birth demonstrates how the same data can be interpreted in wildly different ways, depending on what you already believe....

For months, I've been following the story that the Mozilla project was set to add closed source Digital Rights Management technology to its free/open browser Firefox, and today they've made the announ...

A new study on cell phones and cancer provides a great example of the flaws associated with almost all studies of cell phones and cancer — and with how media reports on them....

Robbo sez, "The WGA (Writers Guild of America West) has stepped into the fray over the FCC's proposed non-Net Neutrality rules with over 240 members (show runners, creators & writers alike) signi...

It is no surprise that critics and viewers alike agree thatThe Godfatheris the "best film" among the~2600 films considered onRotten Tomatoes, with a 100% score among professional reviewers and a 98% ...

There's an entire goddamned tumblr of this stuff and it's magnificent. It even includes the actual species of be-googlied sea critter, and source attribution. And it's not even photoshopped! Man, the ...

"She's red hot like pizza supper!" --Adventure Time's BMO Read the rest...

Philippe Decrauzat. Above, "Suzy II," 2005. Acrylic on Canvas. 85 x 87.75 inches (216 x 223 cm). More of his work here. Read the rest...

"'...as a police officer who has been called pig by arrestees, he thought it was both humorous and also a label that he wears with some degree of pride,'" via the Post-Tribune...

"its all about the butts."...

The name of the Boston FBI agent who shot and killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev's friend last year in Florida has been revealed. Read the rest...

"its all about the butts."...

Read last week's Part the First here. AND: Quickly join the INNER HIVE to get direct, early access to Tom the Dancing Bug comics before @RubenBolling is thrown off the Internet for writing about Net ...

A web-based hitchhiking platform has been successfully tested in the Lawrence, Kansas area. (Wooo, Lawrence!) Now, it's expanding to the rest of the country....

It's all about chemistry. An interesting look at how food scientists blend flavors and colors into carbonated water — and keep them blended. ...

I appreciate that the list includes "Coming of Age in Samoa", reminding us that the "noble savage" is every bit as problematic as the "savage"....

The radiant rock art illustrator exhibits his luscious silkscreen prints in a 17th-century church in the tiny coastal village of Tellaro, Italy. Ben Marks reports. Read the rest...

What nerd folk singer Nicole Dieker learned from putting her freelance music income online for a year Read the rest...

Jason Kitcat writes, "I'm currently in Tallinn, Estonia as part of a team of independent security and elections researchers sharing our findings that the Estonian online e-voting system has serious fl...

Public Citizen analyzes the new Obama 2014 National Trade Estimate Report, in which the US Trade Rep demands that: Japan abolish its privacy rules and its requirement that food be labelled with its in...

After a 101 year old woman offered to sit for a nude portrait session with photographer Anastasia Pottinger, Pottinger conceived of a project called Centenarians, through which she is photographing mo...

One year ago today US seeks internet's help in tracking child porn producer, rescuing victim of ongoing abuse: DHS solicits the public's help in tracking down a child pornography producer suspect [sho...

Hunter Loftis's Javascript-based fractal terrain generator produces absolutely gorgeous landscapes (reload for more) in just 130 lines. It's accompanied by a great explanation that reveals the sweet, ...

The major US writers' group, the Authors Guild, claims to represent all writers when it sues over library book-scanning and other fair uses; a new group, the Authors Alliance, has been launched by lea...

At 33 seconds things really go sideways! I am not sure if this is terrible or tremendous. YouTube Link(Thanks,Red!)...

Jason Kitcat writes, "I'm currently in Tallinn, Estonia as part of a team of independent security and elections researchers sharing our findings that the Estonian online e-voting system has serious fl...

Bren, a self-confessed "noodle fanatic," has written a guide to the delights of Singapore's Changi airport, which he calls "Disneyland for backpackers." It is certainly a nice airport, the best airpor...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Since Wednesday May 7th, net neutrality activists have been camped out on the FCC's doorstep in Washington, DC with tents, sleeping bags, signs, and a giant ban...

If you missed Thinkgeek's sold-out Han Solo in Carbonite rug, here's your chance: the Han Solo in Carbonite towel which is part of a Star Wars Towel set that also includes minimalist Vader/R2/Chewy op...

Anton Purisma has launched a civil rights suit against an airport Au Bon Pain restaurant; he's asking for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That would be two undecillion dollars....

Robbo sez, "Cable lobbyists are trying to get Congress Critters to sign off on a letter from the industry exhorting FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to NOT reclassify broadband Internet as a Title II common c...

via techdirt "It appears that the 'settlement' between the Beastie Boys and Goldieblox was somewhat more significant than people imagined. Goldieblox will be contributing 1% of its revenue to a charit...

The radiant rock art illustrator exhibits his luscious silkscreen prints in a 17th-century church in the tiny coastal village of Tellaro, Italy. Ben Marks reports. Read the rest...

What nerd folk singer Nicole Dieker learned from putting her freelance music income online for a year Read the rest...

I'm happy that Pencils.com is a Boing Boing sponsor because I love their Blackwing pencils. They have a unique ferrule, a removable eraser, and high-quality graphite. Read the rest...

I'm happy that Pencils.com is a Boing Boing sponsor because I love their Blackwing pencils. They have a unique ferrule, a removable eraser, and high-quality graphite. Read the rest...

Would you like to listen to Gweek podcasts live, as they are being recorded? Get a job at the FBI and plug into Skype, which Microsoft has handed over to US spy agencies as a kind of lovers' gift, and...

The act of forgiving someone for causing you harm makes forgetting the painful experience of that harm easier for us, according to a psychology study at University of St Andrews in Scotland. Read the...

"United States of Secrets," a new PBS Frontline airing tonight, explores 'the dramatic inside story of the U.S. governments massive and controversial secret surveillance programand the lengths they we...

Read last week's Part the First here. AND: Quickly join the INNER HIVE to get direct, early access to Tom the Dancing Bug comics before @RubenBolling is thrown off the Internet for writing about Net ...

Your favorite Doctor, and 10 more, presented by Underground Toy. Read the rest...

I'm happy that Pencils.com is a Boing Boing sponsor because I love their Blackwing pencils. They have a unique ferrule, a removable eraser, and high-quality graphite. Blackwings come in three models a...

A much touted safety feature of the Cirrus private plane, its emergency parachute, was used to great effect on a demo flight....

If you can disassemble and remove this fifty-foot-long, century-old barn from some dude's property, it's yours. Probably a great source of beautiful old wood, as well as a substantial pain in the butt...

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A sunken ship off Haiti may be Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria. The evidence so far is "very compelling," an Indiana University archaeologist told CNN....

My family and I have been continuing to enjoy Zombie Dice, a "press your luck" game in which you play a zombie who wants to eat as many human brains as possible without getting shot in the head. We re...

The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy is a modern retelling of J.M. Barrie's classic. Written by Shawn deLoache, the story transposes the tale to smalltown Ohio, but aims to keep the original's theatr...

The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy is a modern retelling of J.M. Barrie's classic. Written by Shawn deLoache, the story transposes the tale to smalltown Ohio, but aims to keep the original's theatr...

"Lower your eggs straight from the fridge into already-boiling water, or place them in a steamer insert in a covered pot steaming at full blast on the stovetop."...

"An inflatable bounce house flew 50 feet into the air in upstate New York yesterday, seriously injuring two children. Three kids were inside at the times, but fell out when the unstable structure was ...

The latest from Ed Piskor's epic retelling of modern music history. Read the rest...

A sunken ship off Haiti may be Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria The evidence so far is "very compelling," an Indiana University archaeologist told CNN....

In 2006, a gentleman started an alternative healthcare business by flying to an African country and walking barefoot in human poo, in hopes of catching himself a hookworm. ...

They look surprisingly like what landscapes look like out the window of an airplane. ...

Remember a couple months ago, when you spent the better part of a week trying to understand the Big Bang in order to appreciate a huge, new discovery in physics? Read the rest...

Renovation of a barn on Ozzy Osbourne's England estate can't begin until bats currently residing there are protected. There are owls there too, but of course Ozzy and bats have a history....

Lewis Carrolls beloved Alice is well known for her colorful adventures in Wonderland. But it wasnt until she graced the pages of comic books that her experiences became truly bizarre. Read the rest...

Remember a couple months ago, when you spent the better part of a week trying to understand the Big Bang in order to appreciate a huge, new discovery in physics? Now other physicists think that discov...

Do not get really drunk or really high and pass out in such a way that you put your hand or leg to sleep....

Here's a taste of Monster Skies, an essential compilation of 1960s-1980s outr synth sounds, punky funk, and far-out prog curated by Australian archival label Dual Planet and Finders Keepers's Andy...

They need $8k more. This is a great cast and crew....

In his weekly homily on Monday, the Pope explored the idea that extraterrestrial beings might want to join the Catholic church and determines that they should be accepted with open arms. Read the res...

"The program recently got funding to place the GPS transmitters and RFID tags in a number of inexpensive and high-end bicycles owned by the department." ...

Do you enjoy sex with ghosts? Apparently many people do, including Ke$ha and actress Natasha Blasick. One medium cautions: "My opinion is to avoid ghost sex in the same way one would avoid sex with an...

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The famous Swiss surrealist leaves behind some of the twentieth century's most impressive and startling artwork. Here are our favorite biomechanical wonders. Read the rest...

Half of U.S. malls will close in the next decade, says retail consultant Howard Davidowitz. It's because they don't offer anything the Internet can't deliver more conveniently and less expensively (ot...

Cory and Poesy Doctorow take a look at Luke Pearson's beautifully-illustrated "Miyazaki-meets-Moomin" book, where grown-up lessons are woven into a kid-pleasing tale. Read the rest...

XPogo presents "Cooligans," a montage of pogo stick insanity....

Maureen Herman interviews Nirvana's notorious engineer, Big Black guitarist, writer, food blogger, poker player, billiards enthusiast, and frenemies with a superstar internet kitten. Plus - learn how...

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Karen Kelley is one of about 10 million people who suffer from mental illness. The cost is staggering, and could never account for the emotional toll, since that could never be fully calculated. [USA ...

The famous swiss surrealist leaves behind some of the twentieth century's most impressive and startling artwork. Here are our favorite biomechanical wonders. Read the rest...

"More than half a million Americans with serious mental illness are falling through the cracks of a system in tatters," reports Liz Szabo and colleagues in an important USA TODAY special report. Absol...

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Photo: Coop."While I was in Zurich, Switzerland for my 2002 art show," says Coop, "We were invited to visit the home of the legendary artist HR Giger."...

Largely unchanged since the cold war, the triage tag could do with an upgrade....

Charles Stross, Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire) and Ann Leckie -- all nominees for this year's Hugo Awards -- have issued a joint statement blaming their publisher Orbit (a division of French giant Hachet...

Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Price wants to use his prescribed medicine in an Atlantic City casino. He takes medical marijuana to treat seizures and irritable bowel disease. Read the rest...

H.R. Giger in 1979 wearing sunglasses he designed. (Keystone/Photopress)Swiss public TV was first to report that surrealist science fiction illustrator H.R. Giger has died at 74. Giger created the des...

Swiss public TV reports that surrealist science fiction illustrator HR Giger has died at 74. Giger created the designs for the Alien movies, the notorious poster included with the Dead Kennedys' Fran...

Read Tananarive Due's's tale of a pregnant woman escaping slavery in 1830s Georgia. Introduced by Rose Fox and Daniel Jos Older, it's from The Long Hidden, a new anthology of historical fiction. Rea...

Tim Harford, my favourite skeptical and eminently readable economist, asks the question: Is London experiencing a housing bubble? He is hesitant to be definitive on this, but makes a very good case fo...

Cory and Poesy Doctorow take a look at Luke Pearson's beautifully-illustrated "Miyazaki-meets-Moomin" book, where grown-up lessons are woven into a kid-pleasing tale. Read the rest...

Charles Platt presents a science demonstration involving magnets that will interest juggalos and non-juggalos alike. Read the rest...

Maureen Herman interviews the notorious recording engineer, writer, food blogger, poker player, billiards enthusiast, and frenemies with a superstar internet kitten. Plus - learn how to make the pape...

Ben Ho is a behavioral economist who studies apologies. He presents an economic theory of apologies that predicts when apologies will change the outcome of disputes, and proposes policies to increase...

Back in March, I blogged the Afterlife with Archie comics, and suggested that you wait until the first collection of the series came out before digging into it (the singles were going for silly money)...

Writing in Wired, Kim Zetter reviews Glenn Greenwald's much-anticipated memoir, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State , which tells the inside story of his involve...

Swiss public TV reports that surrealist science fiction illustrator HR Giger has died at 74. Giger created the designs for the Alien movies, the notorious poster included with the Dead Kennedys' Fran...

Bitelabs wants you to tweet your favorite celeb and ask them to submit to a biopsy so that they can culture salami from their muscle tissue, allowing you to experience celebs in a way you never have b...

The $2250 Deluxe Apollo Astronaut Full Space Suit Replica from Spacetoys is made from nylon-denim twill, and features faithful recreations of the fittings and apparatus. However, unlike Kip's storied ...

Zack writes, "Here's a collection of PDFs of ALL the original scripts to Patrick McGoohan's surreal cult classic, along with several unmade scripts and several multiple drafts of episodes. It's the n...

The workhorse Nokia 100 phone is now a mere £5 without contract from Carphone Warehouse. Now, that's a cheap burner -- either manufacturing robots have come way down in price or there's some ver...

Juha writes, "When the rest of the world decides to scrutinise and dial down mass surveillance of Internet users, New Zealand does the opposite. From now on, network operators will have to register wi...

A 16-year-old Canadian male has been arrested for calling in over 30 "swattings," bomb threats and other hoax calls to emergency services in North America. The young man is alleged to be the operator ...

Michael Abberton, a Green Party activist in Cambridgeshire, was visited by two police officers on Saturday who had been sent by a local councilor from Ukip (a party that lets you express your xenophob...

Food industry inventor and entrepreneur Herb Lotman, who developed the mass-production system for making McDonald's frozen hamburgers, has died. He was 80. He "developed the first total distribution c...

New York Times media columnist David Carr on the FCC's upcoming vote on Net Neutrality: "A topic that generally begets narcolepsy is about to become, well, interesting. The government is contemplatin...

With the Federal Communications Commission set to gut Net Neutrality and allow ISPs to slow down traffic from services that don't pay them bribes, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a ti...

ODNI's no leak writing policy means I have to chose btwn assigning relevant material & not putting cleared students in untenable positions. Read the rest...

Dan Greding was installing a roadside parking sign warning motorists of a 75-minute parking limit when a Santa Barbara cop gave him a ticket for parking for more than 75 minutes. "I said, 'But I'm put...

Bas Bleu's book-spine lightswitch plate seems just the thing for your library or other bookish venue. $17, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, and Sherwood Anderson. Caveat: one reviewer complain...

Deviantart's Khallion (who has quite a line in Princess Leia remixes) has posted this Haunted Mansion stretch-gallery/Star Wars mashup that seems to have dropped in from an alternate universe in which...

What an amazing photo. "Sarah Thistlewaite's daughters, Jenna and Jillian, are a rare set of monoamniotic or 'mono mono' identical twins, which means they shared an amniotic sack and were in constant ...

In a Wired Magazine feature, Mat Honan argues that TV and smartphones have swapped positions of dominance: our mobiles are now our primary screen, not TV. Read the rest...

The president of Uruguay is a farmer, thinks marijuana is totally okay, has offered to take in prisoners from Gitmo, and lives modestly with his 3-legged dog. Read the rest...

On Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Star Talk Radio" this week, space/aviation/science journalist Miles O'Brien talks about reporting on science (or the lack thereof these days). Listen. Neil's co-host: Comedia...

On Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Star Talk Radio" this week, space/aviation/science journalist Miles O'Brien talks about reporting on science (or the lack thereof these days). Listen....

Chiptune musician Danimal Cannon carries this portable folding table on tour for his concert setup. Looks like it'd be perfect for road warriors of all types!...

Our study found that a childs role in bullying can serve as either a risk or a protective factor for low-grade inflammation, William E Copeland, one of the researchers and an associate professor of ps...

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More gorgeous pancakes from Nathan "Saipancakes" Shields: this week, it's cephalopod flapjacks. Dig that chambered nautilus!...

Recommended if You Like is Boing Boing's weekly podcast of Brian Heater's cafe conversations with musicians, cartoonists, writers, and other creative types.Out this week, Childhood Home is the first ...

Our study found that a childs role in bullying can serve as either a risk or a protective factor for low-grade inflammation, William E. Copeland, one of the researchers and an associate professor of p...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "Public.Resource.Org is pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 Official Summer of Code!We've selected 3 states -- Georgia, Idaho, and Mississippi -- and are r...

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Two groups of scientists report that large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica have started to collapse. Global warming is accelerating the pace, they said at a NASA press conference today. Rea...

[Video Link] Patti McGee shreds her way to a ringing phone for this TV commercial. She says, "Great that I got paid about $500 for a very full day's work to make this. Super fun to skateboard through ...

The Bletchley Park trust have erected a fence, nicknamed "The Berlin Wall," between their well-funded museum and its poorer on-site neighbour, the UK National Museum of Computing, which houses the han...

The NSA systematically sabotaged US-made network routers as they were exported, equipping them with secret backdoors, according to Edward Snowden leaks newly released by Glenn Greenward in the Guardia...

I love my Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator! This Kickstarted kitchen tool quickly turns a standard pot or bucket into a sous vide cooker. Read the rest...

I love my Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator! This Kickstarted kitchen tool quickly turns a standard pot or bucket into a sous vide cooker. Read the rest...

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A Utah judge fined an attorney $3,000 after he zapped a witness with a trick shock pen during a trial. The case is about about whether emissions from a power plant are harming nearby dairy cows. Read...

Check out this amazing photo essay of punk rock in Myanmar (Burma) by Olaf Schuelke for Roads & Kingdoms. [HT: Michelle Borok/Giant Robot]...

If you are a fan of the cheezy crispy-on-one side, light-n-fluffy on the other style bread served at restaurant chain Sizzler, this video will be helpful. Even if you're not, cooking host Greg is fun ...

Jeff VanderMeer writes, "I'm kind of in love with PoetryGenius, which allows for this incredibly easy annotating of texts, which I chose to go all image-heavy on in annotating my most recent novels. ...

Jason's post about his Great Pyrenees pup Nemo growing up reminded me of this wonderful image gallery of side-by-side photos of pets as babies, next to photos of those same pets in the same position a...

Filmmaker Gavin Heffernan, whose beautiful atmospheric time-lapses we've shared on Boing Boing many times, sends a dazzling timelapse from Navajo Country: Grand Canyon National Park and Monument Valle...

Anyone whos ever spent a weekend at the lake with a toddler knows that toddlers are terrible beach company, writes Matt Maranian. They never sit still, they never shut up, theyre too small to carry a...

Brian sez, "At the beginning of the month, Boing Boing reported on Mayday PAC, the super PAC started by Lawrence Lessig which intended to raise $1M in 30 days via a kickstarter-like crowdfunding, to f...

A beautiful bit of baroque psychedelia from The Soundcarriers, whose new album Entropicalia will be released May 20 from the Ghost Box label of imaginary library music, hauntology, and the sounds of p...

Peter Dinklage delivers the speech of the season as Tyrion Lannister, facing the false justice of the kingdom--and his family. Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Read the...

In Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild [PDF] a paper authored by researchers at CMU and Facebook, we learn that "a small but significant percentage" of HTTPS connections are made using forge...

By pancake artist Nathan Shields, whose other creations we've previously featured....

The metaphysical leaflet art of artist John Urho Kemp (1942-2010), aka "Crystal John," will expand your mind to the hidden magic and order of nature. Read the rest...

Over at Cool Tools I have a photo-feature describing the items I bring with me on a plane trip....

Here's a reading (MP3) of a my recent Guardian column, Why it is not possible to regulate robots, which discusses where and how robots can be regulated, and whether there is any sensible ground for "...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "Public.Resource.Org is pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 Official Summer of Code!We've selected 3 states -- Georgia, Idaho, and Mississippi -- and are r...

How can scientists deal with boredom, stress, and isolation of far-flung research sites. One possible solution is making music. This video features compositions and video made as part of a project to ...

One year ago today David LaFerriere's sandwich bag art: David LaFerriere has drawn a picture on almost every one of his kids' lunch bags since 2008. Read the rest...

Six diseases that are becoming resistant to antibiotics....

Thinkgeek's new Olde Book Pillow Classics are pillows that look like classic books: the Sherlock Holmes and Treasure Island are square, closed-book cushions; the Alice in Wonderland is a long, open-bo...

That blue glow in this photo from Oak Ridge National Laboratory is radiation, shimmering in a reactor that's used to produce man-made elements like the superheavy metal Ununseptium....

I'll admit, my first thought when I saw this piece by Sam Kean at Slate was, "Not another Phineas Gage story." But the piece is really worth a read, even if you've heard the story before. Read the re...

Watch the city of London and its network of roads grow from Roman times to today, in a video that also plots all the city's protected building and archaeological sites....

My 7 year old daughter and I are going prospecting for gold. This handy kit is enough for both of us to settle down by the side of a NorCal stream and try our hands at a '49ers dream. Read the rest...

The Nereus, an unmanned research sub operated by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, imploded on Saturday. The sub was pushing the limits of its design, exploring an area of the Ke...

Silicon Valley takes aim at the emotional insecurity behind superficial male genius, writes Kevin McFarland. But it also fails to escape stereotypes about women in the tech industry. Read the rest...

Peter Dinklage delivers the speech of the season as Tyrion Lannister, facing the false justice of the kingdom--and his family. Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Read the...

Man, these vintage Dutch safety posters from the early through late 20th century are scary and beautiful as hell. If you're squeamish, maybe don't click. The messages are also blunt, with no attempt a...

Theresa DeLucci reviews Ka No Mo, wherein our two favorite psychos' mutual obsession becomes too much for both of them. Read the rest...

Patent-generator is a Github-hosted python script that turns literary texts into patent applications, with descriptions of the accompanying diagrams (here's Kapital, AKA "A method and device for compr...

Silicon Valley's takes aim at the emotional insecurity behind superficial male genius, writes Kevin McFarland. But it also fails to escape stereotypes about women in the tech industry. Read the res...

Peter Dinklage delivers the speech of the season as Tyrion Lannister, facing the false justice of the kingdom--and his family. Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Read the...

Europe gathers again for its annual extravaganza of wonderfully bad music and simmering political resentments. Leigh Alexander reports on the not-so-unlikely victory of Austrian beauty Conchita Wurst...

One year ago today Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for Android devices: Apple apparently has the power to decrypt iPhone storage in response to law-enforcement...

Black Milk, Australia's leading purveyor of anatomical womenswear, has released its Dem Guts Swimsuit, which features a glorious rendering of its wearer's internal organs.Dem Guts Swimsuit - LIMITED(v...

With Calamityware, Don Moyer has turned his much-loved grotesque/horror designs for blue-print china plates into reality. The finished articles aren't cheap, but you can get the next one cheaper by s...

Phantom Manor is the local Haunted Mansion analogue at Disneyland Paris, and it's definitely the spookiest/most grotesque of the lost, with its apex in a gory graveyard scene that features rotting ani...

For years, Benjamin Mako Hill has paid to host his own mail, as a measure to enhance his privacy and independence from big companies. But a bit of clever analysis of his stored mail reveals that despi...

In Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild [PDF] a paper authored by researchers at CMU and Facebook, we learn that "a small but significant percentage" of HTTPS connections are made using forge...

In Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild [PDF] a paper authored by researchers at CMU and Facebook, we learn that "a small but significant percentage" of HTTPS connections are made using forge...

Cover Blubber is a reusable, elasticated, food-safe wrap that snaps around your leftovers with an airtight seal. It also works great for sealing paint cans and other crafty/makery use. Read the rest...

The Justice League Infant Socks 6-Pack ($15) is a pretty sweet new-baby gift, likely to be put to grateful use, and a delight when mix-and-matched (baby-socks being the sort of thing that disappear in...

I love all three of Gillian Flynn's suspense novels (here are my reviews of her work and my podcast interview with her). Read the rest...

I love all three of Gillian Flynn's suspense novels (here are my reviews of her work and my podcast interview with her). Read the rest...

"A few individuals have already signed up with more and more doing so each day."...

Matt Taibbi is touring the States with his new book, The Divide, which is on my must-read list right after I finish Capital in the 21st Century. Read the rest...

A Deputy Sheriff from De Leon Springs, FL, responded to a report of an upside-down coffee in a wooded area. He arrived on the scene, overturned the coffin, and discovered that it was full of replica m...

Remember the old lady who sued McDonald's for millions because she burned herself by spilling hot coffee in her lap? It never happened. What actually happened was much more sordid, and the deliberate ...

The Spurious Correlations engine helps you discover bizarre and delightful spurious correlations, and collects some of the most remarkable ones. For example, Per capita consumption of sour cream (US)...

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, the world's greatest Disney themepark critic Foxxfur traces the history of the Jungle Boat Cruise queue-loop, makes some shrewd guesses about where the Imagineers f...

Matt Taibbi is touring the States with his new book, The Divide, which is on my must-read list right after I finish Capital in the 21st Century. Read the rest...

My feet refuse to wear the red. Read the rest...

"It's a mature cheddar but it's completely black inside where it's mixed with the charcoal but it tastes really creamy." (Image: Manor Farm Shops)...

Europe gathers again for its annual extravaganza of wonderfully bad music and simmering political resentments. Leigh Alexander reports on the not-so-unlikely victory of Austrian beauty Conchita Wurst...

Yesterday lightning struck a tree a block away from my parents' house in Boulder, Colorado. My mother said tree shrapnel bombarded their house and the "whole house shook." She took the above photo of ...

Caroline Seide recaps the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama; the season's fourth outing heads into unsettling territory. Read the rest...

Yesterday lightning struck a tree a block away from my parents' house in Boulder, Colorado. My mother said tree shrapnel bombarded their house and the "whole house shook." She took the above photo of ...

Caroline Seide recaps the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama; the season's fourth outing heads into unsettling territory. Read the rest...

Caroline Seide recaps the latest episode of the BBC's clone drama; the season's fourth outing heads into unsettling territory. Read the rest...

Nintendo's forthcoming Tomodachi Life game lets players engage in romantic activities and get married--but not with characters of the same sex. "Nintendo never intended to make any form of social comm...

Boing Boing reader Marcello Horta shared this wonderful photograph in the Boing Boing Flickr pool....

On December 10, 23 police officers "converged on a blue Volvo that had crashed in the backyard of a townhouse," and fired a total of at least 377 rounds on the car and two unarmed men inside. The men ...

The 56 inhabitants of a small town in Spain whose name translates to "Little Hill Fort of Jew Killers" are not eager to "adopt a different name and finally eradicate a link to the persecution of Jews ...

Celebrity-driven Twitter campaign calling for help for kidnapped Nigerian girls used the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and appropriated photos of totally unrelated young women from a totally different A...

"Laughter the real kind, associated with genuine joy and mirth sets off brain wave patterns quite similar to those generated when experienced meditators ply their mindfulness skills, a new study fin...

Yesterday lightning struck a tree a block away from my parents' house in Boulder, Colorado. My mother said tree shrapnel bombarded their house and the "whole house shook." She took the above photo of ...

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Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shares this photo in our Flickr Pool. "Hannah relaxes with her bear friend."...

My feet refuse to wear the red. Read the rest...

My feet refuse to wear the red. Read the rest...

Steve Jurvetson, VC and space/aviation collector, shares this wonderful photo of a new acquisition that now resides at the Draper Fisher Jurvetson offices. He explains: Read the rest...

GIFs aplenty: omgcatsinspace.com....

"Risk for a small [drone] to be ingested into a passenger airline engine is very real," says FAA. Also: Yosemite bans drones....

James Clapper just prohibited all past and present US intelligence officials from publicly acknowledging reality. [HT: Trevor Timm]...

"We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth," says Neocities. [via Ars]...

The CIA helped polio return to Pakistan, where it had been eradicated. Why has US media forgotten the story? [fair.org]...

Some thoughtful internet person dumped a bunch of photos of exotic fruits on imgur. I suppose if you live in a tropical climate where there's a wide variety of such fruits, there's nothing weird about...

Sophie Gamand's Wet Dog is a series of portraits of dogs photographed during their least favorite activity: bath time. (2013) Read the rest...

Open Culture's online literature courses look good, especially the ones by Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen....

In the early 1970s, the death of an old, male chimpanzee called Leakey precipitated what researchers describe as the only known chimpanzee war — as Leakey's replacement, and his followers, battl...

[Video Link] Here's the circuit that started out as a lie detector but turned out to be more fun as a way to turn your friend into a music instrument. It can be packaged in a bracelet or other small c...

Zoo evaluator Kathayoon Khalil writes about the life of an orangutan named Kutai, who was born, lived, and died in zoos and whose life traces the evolution of those institutions for the better....

Rio isn't ready. It wouldn't be the first time London took over for other cities....

In his never-ending quest to legitimize cookies as a breakfast food, Matt Maranian has reimagined the dough from a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe into a nutritious breakfast biscuit. Read ...

Kelly Kittell's EnChroma CX Receptor colorblind-correcting sunglasses arrived with the following warning: When first trying on the lens, the unusual appearance of colors may be visually distracting....

Tomorrow is Identification Day at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Bring your anthropological relics, botanical specimens, fossils, and bugs and scientists can help you figure ...

Whiskey is a "slow food". Whiskey consumption is a fast trend. And, herein, lies a problem. (I will fight all y'all for the last bottle of Buffalo Trace.)...

Are there living dinosaurs in Cameroon or the Republic of Congo? This group thinks so, and they are headed back later this year to keep looking for the Mokl-mbmb, the legendary "one who stops the flow...

5 seasons and a movie?...

Our friends at Futility Closet (hosts of Boing Boing's wonderful Futility Closet podcast) have a short item about The Clown Egg Register. Apparently, a clown's face can't be copyrighted, but if you de...

Pat writes, "I took the set of Boing Boing zine cover images on Fraunfelder's Flickr album and did a mean/median blend of all the covers at once in imagemagick. Read the rest...

Eighteen-year-old Brazilian Elisany de Cruz Silva, 6'8", announced her engagement to her boyfriend of three years, Francinaldo da Silva, 5'4". My favorite part of the video is in the grocery store bec...

Three beautiful early 1970s oil paintings by legendary NASA artist Robert McCall are up for auction on eBay in the $40-$60,000 range. McCall is also known for his concept and promotional art for 2001:...

Lee Marshall, who was the voice of Tony the Tiger since 1999, died at 64 of esophageal cancer. He was the second voice of Tony, taking over from the late Thurl Ravenscroft, the cereal's pitchman from ...

China's air force has trained macaques to fight off birds nesting at an air base. The risk is that birds could interfere with the planes' engines. According to a CNN translation of a post on the Peopl...

Notice how most "free trials" require you to provide your credit card number? That's so the company can charge you a monthly fee once the trial is over. Read the rest...

Victor Caire's "Pinnipde," a delightful homage to elephant seals, is the director's first 3D animated film....

When mass murderer Ted Kaczynski was a 16-year-old undergraduate student at Harvard, he took part in a behavioral engineering project run by the CIA. Read the rest...

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In my latest Guardian column, 'Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance, I try to make sense of the argument against surveillance. Read the rest...

"A dark and glinting book set in Victorian London, a fat and aggressively readable novel about a secret society -- the Oversight -- charged with the policing of all the magical and supranatural (yes,...

Kelly Kittell's EnChroma CX Receptor colorblind-correcting sunglasses arrived with the following warning: When first trying on the lens, the unusual appearance of colors may be visually distracting....

In his never-ending quest to legitimize cookies as a breakfast food, Matt Maranian has reimagined the dough from a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe into a nutritious breakfast biscuit. Read ...

Etsy seller ArdoriaStudios created this Haunted Mansion Bat Wing mantel clock, which is handsome and glorious. Go Hatbox Ghost!Haunted Mansion Inspired Bat Wing Mantel Clock(via Haunted Mansion Disney...

Lee Beaumont of Leeds, England got sick of unsolicited calls to his home number, so he spent £10 registering a "premium rate" number that costs 7p/m to call, and started listing that as his hom...

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A murder of Congresscritters and Senators have told Internet ad-brokers that they expect them to behave as though SOPA passed into law (instead of suffering hideous, total defeat); they want the compa...

The annals of stupid, sloppy patents have a new world-beating entry: Amazon has received a patent on taking pictures of stuff on a white background. The patent's particulars specify a well-known light...

Many's the time I've featured the beautiful Tinkerbots of San Diego's Dan Jones. This time, my eye's been caught by his Hudson Skymaster convertible spaceship, which he added to the Boing Boing Flickr...

Japanese police arrested a 27 year old man called Yoshitomo Imura, alleging that he 3D printed several guns and posted videos to Youtube of himself firing it. They say they seized five guns from Imura...

One year ago today TSA hearing for "Naked American Hero" John Brennan: He was acquitted of a ridiculous indecent exposure charge, and now he is appealing an equally stupid fine from the Transportation...

Great idea - I can't stand reaching around my iMac to plug something in.Bluelounge Jimi - USB Port Extension for iMac...

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Greg Wohlwend co-created the popular game Threes. He talks with host Glenn Fleishman about the joy of success, the burden of being independent, and the problems with parasites. Read the rest...

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Two men sitting in the back of a police car in Oklahoma. Man 1 has three eightballs of meth in his mouth. Read the rest...

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When I dont know what to do, I do that! announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. It just ...

In our first episode, Jason and Mark talk about two of their favorite kitchen appliances: the Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, and the George Foreman Grill. Plus, two cool iPhone add-ons. Read...

"Cornelius Gurlitt, the 81-year-old German recluse accused of hoarding hundreds of artworks looted by the Nazis, has died." via the Telegraph...

Nemo has been with me for just over 1 year, look how he has grown! Thanks, Great Pyrenees Rescue of Northern California!...

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In our first episode, Jason and Mark talk about two of their favorite kitchen appliances: the Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, and the George Foreman Grill. Plus, two cool iPhone add-ons. Read...

Everybody on the Internet knows animal penises are widely studied by scientists. But vaginas? In 25 years of animal genital research, 49 percent of the studies looked at penises only. Eight percent fo...

That fantastic smell of fresh-mown grass is actually a million voices suddenly crying out in terror ... and being suddenly silenced....

Why do we use the drugs we use when we kill convicted felons in the name of the state? David Kroll, who has degrees in both pharmacology and toxicology, writes a fascinating, nuanced piece explaining ...

Not, like, modern misinformation on the Internet, but longstanding cultural myths, with characters and the gravitas that comes with being really, really old. Max Gladstone writes about his favorites a...

There have been 68 cases of polio worldwide this year. Three times the rate of last year. It's an extraordinary resurgence in a disease that we thought we were about to beat....

Oddity Central has a photo gallery of "Bat Predation by Spiders." Read the rest...

Artists use left brain/right brain dynamics to control the emotions their paintings express and what you feel when you look at them....

Oddity Central has a photo gallery of "Bat Predation by Spiders." Read the rest...

[Video Link] I love Gene Wilder's voice. Here's a cartoon based on an interview with him. If you like this, I highly recommend his autobiography, Kiss Me Like a Stranger....

Peter Sunde, founder of Flattr and co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has launched his campaign for election to the European Parliament. Sunde -- who is a friend of mine, and who has my endorsement -- is s...

In our first episode, Jason and Mark talk about two of their favorite kitchen appliances: the Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, and the George Foreman Grill. Plus, two cool iPhone add-ons. Read...

When I dont know what to do, I do that! announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. It just ...

Boing Boing Science Editor Maggie Koerth-Baker recaps the latest news from the far-flung probe, whose journey to the outer solar system yields more beautiful images. Read the rest...

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Maggie Koerth-Baker reports on the strange science of an experimental result decades in the making. Read the rest...

"The same security holes that the NSA relied on to gain access to your (or Osama bin Laden's) email allowed gangsters to steal passwords and login credentials and credit card numbers. And ultimately t...

Tattooing in slow motion by GueT.(via Wired)...

Yesterday, I posted about the publication of More Cute Stories, Volume 4: 1964/65 New York World's Fair, an audio memoir of Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump. I've been listening to it today, and enjoying...

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When I dont know what to do, I do that! announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. It just ...

Boing Boing Science Editor Maggie Koerth-Baker recaps the latest news from the far-flung probe, whose journey to the outer solar system yields more beautiful images. Read the rest...

Bridget Erickson, a freshman at St Paul, MN's Nova Classical Academy tried unsuccessfully to get the school board to create a student advisory seat on the board. Roundly ignored, she turned to the by-...

photo by Gregory KloehnOakland artist Gregory Kloehn builds these darling, tiny shelters and gives them away....

The clever blendings of history and imagination in Charlie Fletcher's new novel are satisfying enough to make resolution of its loose ends worth waiting for, writes Cory Doctorow Read the rest...

When I dont know what to do, I do that! announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. It just ...

When I dont know what to do, I do that! announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. It just ...

Alex sez, "Spacegambit is a hackerspace space program that funds cool space projects around the world. We're now working with NASA on the Asteroid Grand Challenge, with the aim of getting more makers ...

A massive consortium of technology companies ranging from Google, Facebook and Amazon to smaller publishers like Techdirt, have signed an open letter to the FCC opposing Chairman (and former cable lo...

One years ago today Mousetronaut: kids' picture book about mouse in space, written by a Shuttle pilot: Moustetronaut is a lovely picture book by Mark Kelly, a former Space Shuttle pilot and husband of...

This video does exactly what it says in the jar, and demonstrates, once again, the preternatural cleverness of our future octopus overlords.(via Kottke)...

The finalists for the 2014 Locus Awards have been announced and I'm incredibly honored to see that my novel Homeland made the final five in the Young Adult category. The competition in that category i...

Johannes writes, "Indie Box One is a personal server appliance that allows us to 'bring our data home' from the big Internet companies, and run indie Web applications at home. Many geeks have run thei...

Nobel-winning physicist Erwin Schrdinger had a complicated relationship with mornings. At times, his sorrow over WWI kept him from getting out of bed; other times he was too hungover. He even reorgani...

Fast-food workers in 33 countries are planning a walkout on May 15, demanding better pay and better working conditions. The action, coordinated by Fast Food Forward, will target McDonald's, Burger Kin...

For me, the most under-reported, under-appreciated element of the Snowden leaks is the BULLRUN/EDGEHILL program, through which the NSA and GCHQ spend $250,000,000/year sabotaging information security....

Frigidaire's commitment to modernism waned in the product-development phase, as can be seen from the wood-grain on this "space-age refrigerator."...

...and bags, and notebooks in the Boing Boing store!...

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"At a bar celebrating my friends birthday in midtown. You were wearing Google Glass. I tried to mouth, 'You look like a moron.' Did you record that?" (New Yorker)...

Author Mark Dery charts America's ecocidal obsession with nice grass Read the rest...

Maggie Koerth-Baker reports on the strange science of an experimental result decades in the making. Read the rest...

The Friendstrument is an electronic musical instrument that you play by touching your friend. Mark Frauenfelder describes an easy creative project that anyone can complete in a few hours. Read the r...

Over at House of Mirth, noted collectors of vernacular photographs share their favorite vintage selfies....

I love the black with white dials. These are beautiful, expensive watches.I enjoyed watching this short story on Shinola. Read the rest...

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There's something nasty in the water, but Maggie Koerth-Baker has you covered. Read the rest...

This Galileo robotic 360 deg panhead is a powerful tool that helps artists with iPhones create beautiful images. It's compact and pretty darn durable. I am still trying to master it. Read the rest...

Over at House of Mirth, noted collectors of vernacular photographs share their favorite vintage selfies....

Over at House of Mirth, noted collectors of vernacular photographs share their favorite vintage selfies....

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Here's to another twenty-five years of the world's greatest neurozine! Read the rest...

A new virtual depiction of the cosmos developed by scientists in the US, Germany and England shows detail never before achieved in a computer-generated simulation. Read the rest...

The Buy It Now price on this 1971 Mark IV red Walt Disney World monorail cab is a paltry $189K. So far, no takers. LOOK AT THAT CONTROL PANEL. The 1% is wasted on the 1%....

One in five people in the UK would be willing to screw a robot, according to a new survey cited in the Daily Beast. That's all? The question was part of a study, by Middlesex University (seriously), t...

The Friendstrument is an electronic musical instrument that you play by touching your friend. Mark Frauenfelder describes an easy creative project that anyone can complete in a few hours. Read the r...

Jack White's Lazaretto is a very special LP laden with hidden tracks, locked grooves, and various other curious features. Read the rest...

Jeff writes in with wonderful news: the release of Disney Legend Rolly Crump's More Cute Stories, Volume 4: 1964/65 New York World's Fair. This high-quality recording includes sixty minutes of all ne...

Was the Mona Lisa one of the earliest 3D artworks? Scientists studying the painting and a slightly different version possibly painted by Da Vinci or his students think the intent might have been to cr...

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Here's to another twenty-five years of the world's greatest neurozine! Read the rest...

Fast-talking mathematician Vi Hart weighed in on the Net Neutrality debate with a great video explaining the telcoms' extortion plan with an excellent metaphor about postal delivery.(Thanks, Alan!)...

Andy Baio created the best event site and then watched as Yahoo let it wither. But they've done the right thing and handed him back the domain--time to start over!...

This Galileo robotic 360 deg panhead is clearly a powerful tool that will help artists, with iPhones, create many beautiful images. Compact and pretty darn durable, I am still trying to master it. Rea...

Jesse Walker of Reason presents highlights from the history of game-driven moral panics - from pinball to porn to poker....

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Just like Boing Boing, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. To celebrate, I wrote an essay titled "World Wide Weird." It's part of the "The Webby 25 for 25," a series pieces pre...

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An excerpt from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's brilliant graphic novel. Read the rest...

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Guy Galer sez, "I created a game that was inspired by many of the stories found on Boing Boing. You play a FBI agent that is reassigned to the field because of the Snowden brouhaha. She then has t...

Czech artist Klra Pernicov has created a series of "unsettling" accessories, like human ear hair-clips, zit piercing jewelry and slug-and-snail headphones that are fabulously grody without being actua...

Michael from Beta Boston writes, "The privacy protections offered by tools like Tor aren't just for journalists and spies; they're important for everyone.Almost every modern abusive relationship has a...

An excerpt from Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's brilliant graphic novel. Read the rest...

There's something nasty in the water, but Maggie Koerth-Baker has you covered. Read the rest...

Author Mark Dery charts America's ecocidal obsession with nice grass Read the rest...

Here's to another twenty-five years of the world's greatest neurozine! Read the rest...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Help sustain Tom the Dancing Bug, by the knave @RubenBolling on these Inter-Nets by joining its INNER HIVE. Clicketh HERE and receive bounty beyond thine wildest imagination....

Cory Doctorow reviews Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's brilliant coming-of-age graphic novel for young adults. Read the rest...

Here's to another twenty-five years of the world's greatest neurozine! Read the rest...

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I like Glen Mullaly's photo of these 1950s-era rocket ship toothbrush holders....

French photographer Franck Bohbot's portfolio is filled with gorgeous, heartbreaking shots of ambitious movie palaces of yesteryear, as well as huge, vaulted swimming pools and other architectural mar...

A long and fascinating review of the 2013 book Branding Terror, which presents a detailed analysis of the visual identity of terrorist and non-state-actor insurgent groups around the world and over t...

ThisOne Summer is a beautiful, haunting young-adult graphic novel by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, cousins from Toronto whose work spans media from prose to film to comics.It's the story of Rose and Wind...

Jon says: "Corporate Avoidance is a free program we designed to unshackle you by taking advantage of the necessary evils of life as an editor. Read the rest...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "STFU: That's one of the license plates Virginia won't let its citizens register. In fact, ...

Florida state senator Dwight Bullard thought that a proposed bill to legalize carrying concealed firearms during disaster evacuations was an incredibly stupid idea. So he proposed an amendment to ren...

Anonymous in LA comes to terms with the disappearance of his profession. Read the rest...

The Friendstrument is an electronic musical instrument that you play by touching your friend. Mark Frauenfelder describes an easy creative project that anyone can complete in a few hours. Read the r...

The fans are grown up, but the spirit only grows. Liz Ohanesian on the imminent reboot of America's gateway drug to anime. Read the rest...

Just a reminder that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a colossal hypocrite and an apologist for war crimes: Read the rest...

Jill writes, "The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's 49th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend is May 15-18, 2014 at the San Jose Marriott. Read the rest...

Molly Crabapple and some of her associates have donated a wide selection of art to be auctioned off to benefit the Pen American Center, the US arm of a charitable organization that campaigns for free ...

One year ago today Onion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article: The Onion responded by putting up a post called Syrian Electronic Army Has A Little Fun Before Inevitable Up...

AND SO, TIME marches on. Joffrey Baratheon is no more, and Tommen, First Of His Name, owner of the cuddly Ser Pounce, rises to take his place on the throne. But hes just a boy, able to be pushed aroun...

French photographer Franck Bohbot's portfolio is filled with gorgeous, heartbreaking shots of ambitious movie palaces of yesteryear, as well as huge, vaulted swimming pools and other architectural mar...

Yesterday, I posted a review of Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's wonderful new young adult graphic novel This One Summer. Today, I'm proud to present an exclusive excerpt from the book, courtesy of the go...

A new mobile app called Monkeyparking allows people in San Francisco with good parking spots to auction them off when they're ready to leave, permitting circling rich people to engage in excitingly da...

The respected Crimes Against Children Research Center reports that one in seven children is sexually exploited online. This figure is both credible and alarming....

In what Mickey Spillane had planned to be the final Mike Hammer novel begun in the late 1990s and completed recently by Max Allan Collins the iconic tough guy has not dimmed with age. He is just as...

French photographer Franck Bohbot's portfolio is filled with gorgeous, heartbreaking shots of ambitious movie palaces of yesteryear, as well as huge, vaulted swimming pools and other architectural mar...

French photographer Franck Bohbot's portfolio is filled with gorgeous, heartbreaking shots of ambitious movie palaces of yesteryear, as well as huge, vaulted swimming pools and other architectural mar...

I like Glen Mullaly's photo of these 1950s-era rocket ship toothbrush holders....

Maggie Koerth-Baker reports on the strange science of an experimental result decades in the making. Read the rest...

Florida state senator Dwight Bullard thought that a proposed bill to legalize carrying concealed firearms during disaster evacuations was an incredibly stupid idea....

Back in March, I reviewed my Bell Bullitt TT. This incredible looking helmet is a lot of fun and now I have a couple hundred miles wearing it. My impression is still super positive, but I've learned a...

Sara from O'Reilly writes, "Can we stop DRM here, 'fight tooth and nail to keep DRM out of web browsers '[as] a quarantine measure?' as Jeremy Keith suggests? Read the rest...

Back in March, I reviewed my Bell Bullitt TT. This incredible looking helmet is a lot of fun and now I have a couple hundred miles wearing it....

Michael from Muckrock writes, "STFU: That's one of the license plates Virginia won't let its citizens register. In fact, ...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "STFU: That's one of the license plates Virginia won't let its citizens register. In fact,...

image: ReutersIts now been over a month since the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to force the Obama administration to declassify parts of the Committees landmark report on CIA torture, and the pu...

Its now been over a month since the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to force the Obama administration to declassify parts of the Committees landmark report on CIA torture, and the public still has...

Skillshare is a online learning community that costs $10 a month. Subscribers get access to hundreds of video classes on a wide variety of topics. I have two classes on Skillshare that were released ...

[Video Link] Jon says: Corporate Avoidance is a free program we designed to unshackle you by taking advantage of the necessary evils of life as an editor....

Obviously, many things are better now than they were in the 50s and 60s, but clearly science fiction movie posters have fallen from glory....

Sara from O'Reilly writes, "Can we stop DRM here, 'fight tooth and nail to keep DRM out of web browsers '[as] a quarantine measure?' as Jeremy Keith suggests?...

Sara from O'Reilly writes, "Can we stop DRM here, 'fight tooth and nail to keep DRM out of web browsers '[as] a quarantine measure?' as Jeremy Keith suggests?...

Introduction to Arduino: Creating Interactive Projects An Online Skillshare Class by Mark Frauenfelder Skillshare is a online learning community that costs $10 a month....

ThisOne Summer is a beautiful, haunting young-adult graphic novel byJillian and Mariko Tamaki, cousins from Toronto whose work spans mediafrom prose to film to comics.It's the story of Rose and Windy,...

How did a modern human skull and orangutan jawbone get successfully passed off as the ancient remains of a human ancestor?...

A great piece of anti-mammal propaganda, created by artist Benjamin Dewey. You can buy a copy of the print on Etsy....

Slate's Sarah Richardson has a really interesting post about a recent study of genes found on human sex chromosomes. The study concluded that these genes are very similar, whether you're looking at a ...

[Video Link] My new book came out today. It's called Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects....

One year ago today Stormtrooper on a unicycle: Something something a little short something something. Five years ago today Groundbreaking Kansas rep netroots candidate takes another run at election w...

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Pacific Ocean Park--or as it was commonly known in Los Angeles from the '50s through the '70s, P.O.P.--was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise and spectacular fall. As a family-oriented attracti...

Neil Gaiman's playing the big room: on 27 June, he'll read his story "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains" at Carnegie Hall, backed by the Fourplay String Quartet, with illustrations from Eddie...

This One Summer is a beautiful, haunting young-adult graphic novel by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, sisters from Toronto whose work spans media from prose to film to comics....

Neil Gaiman's playing the big room: on 27 June, he'll read his story "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains" at Carnegie Hall, backed by the Fourplay String Quartet, with illustrations from Eddie...

A new mobile app called Monkeyparking allows people in San Francisco with good parking spots to auction them off when they're ready to leave, permitting circling rich people to engage in excitingly da...

The respected Crimes Against Children Research Center reports that one in seven children is sexually exploited online. This figure is both credible and alarming. But the context is vital: as danah boy...

Pacific Ocean Park--or as it was commonly known in Los Angeles from the '50s through the '70s, P.O.P.--was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise and spectacular fall....

Florida state senator Dwight Bullard thought that a proposed bill to legalize carrying concealed firearms during disaster evacuations was an incredibly stupid idea. So he proposed an amendment to ren...

Obviously, many things are better now than they were in the 50s and 60s, but clearly science fiction movie posters have fallen from glory. Here's Dark Roasted Blend's gallery of amazing and gorgeous s...

On We Make Money, Not Art, Regine has posted a long and fascinating review of the 2013 book Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations , which pres...

  AND SO, TIME marches on. Joffrey Baratheon is no more, and Tommen, First Of His Name, owner of the cuddly Ser Pounce, rises to take his place on the throne....

The folks behind EHSM2, the upcoming maker/hacker conference in Hamburg, have released a video of comic strip that has been etched into a human hair using a focused ion beam....

One year ago today London cops catch and search a potential terrorist every three minutes: That's a lot of potential terrorists!...

Did you catch it? Its a moment Ive been waiting for Silicon Valley to address in some capacitythe divide between the tech corporations in Palo Alto and the blighted district to the south....

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

Ever since attending Moogfest a couple of weeks ago, I've been listening to synthesizer music. Donna Summer's 1977 "I Feel Love," is my standout so far, with its gorgeous electronic pulse....

These 2.5 gallon ball lock kegs have reinvigorated my homebrewing hobby. I now have 6 of them in rotation and bottling is no longer a giant, messy pain. Read the rest...

These 2.5 gallon ball lock kegs have reinvigorated my homebrewing hobby. I now have 6 of them in rotation and bottling is no longer a giant, messy pain....

Philipp sez, "Manyland.com is a shared universe right in the browser where we draw everything together. But how does it actually work?...

io9 shares some amazing trivia about Dino De Laurentiis' Flash Gordon....

"Once it invites prayer into the public sphere, government must permit a prayer giver to address his or her own God or gods as conscience dictates, unfettered by what an administrator or judge conside...

[Video Link] I missed this 2011 60 Minutes profile of Alex Honnold, who climbs very high sheer cliffs by himself and without ropes....

Spores of Mucor sp. fungus can cause a potentially deadly disease that causes human skin and tissue to rot. Thankfully, it's rare....

Laughing Squid has a gallery of images from the New Zealand-based anamorphic sand tweakers 3D Sand Drawing....

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TIL: A 55,000-ton, city-destroying lizard beast could pee 151,436,928 gallons per day. They never show you all the people who died, drowned in Godzilla's urine....

How do you produce enough hardened bird-spit structures to feed a growing demand for one of the most expensive dishes in the world?...

You can download a free copy of this new magazine as a PDF. Enjoy!...

The National Center for Science Education has a really interesting six-part series talking with historians about the impact WWI had on shaping rhetoric about creationism and evolution, and how the pub...

Scientists are experimenting with ways to reduce the impact of certain food allergies with the help of other foods. For instance, chemicals in cranberry juice might be able to mute the effects of pean...

My dogs love toys that pay out treats. The Tug-A-Jug by PetSafe is another winner for the small to medium sized dog....

The New Yorker says, "I thought you would be interested in Lizzie Widdicombe's piece in this week's issue of The New Yorker, in which she meets the founder of Soylent, a synthetic meal replacement, an...

Raising ten times as much as your whole company's needed in the last decade may be the only way to keep blogging alive....

I sometimes start my sentences with, "So, ..." (any episode of Gweek will be full of examples). But it irks me when other people do the same!...

Last week, I wrote about danah boyd's analysis of the White House's Big Data report [PDF]. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has added its analysis to the discussion....

The best local news video report you'll see this week: "Employees at a Waffle House fight back against man armed with a pitchfork." WSB-TV, Atlanta, GA....

Robbo sez, "Our silly little web series, The Rubber Chicken Players, has the honour of being an official selection at TO WebFest 2014....

"Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have shown that a protein (GDF11) they previously demonstrated can make the failing hearts in aging mice appear more like those of young health mice, si...

On We Make Money, Not Art, Regine has posted a long and fascinating review of the 2013 book Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations, which presen...

It's called Chadder, created by John McAfee. I'm sure it's about as secure as a Central American bunker filled with guns, cocaine, and hot underage broads....

The classic 'Dueling Banjos," played badly by dogs, but played by dogs. Sort of. Video Link. [Thanks, Dean!]...

One year ago today Stormtrooper on a unicycle: Something something a little short something something. Five years ago today Groundbreaking Kansas rep netroots candidate takes another run at election ...

The folks behind EHSM2, the upcoming maker/hacker conference in Hamburg, have released a video of comic strip that has been etched into a human hair using a focused ion beam. The comic, by Claudia Puh...

Gary sends us, "a library crowdfunding project I am involved with. It is aiming to creatively highlight the value of public libraries to those who believe they are outdated or irrelevant....

One year ago today London cops catch and search a potential terrorist every three minutes: That's a lot of potential terrorists! Read the rest...

Philipp sez, "Manyland.com is a shared universe right in the browser where we draw everything together. But how does it actually work? Here's an example: how to create a poisonous milkshake."...

One year ago today Dan Kaminsky on BitCoin: Bitcoins fundamental principle of fraud management is one of denial. Five years ago today Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students ...

Gerard Way -- former frontman for My Chemical Romance and creator of Dark Horse's brilliant comic Umbrella Academy -- sent me this funny and somewhat uncomfortable comic about the sociopathy of jerks ...

"So if the text is old, and it says 'arms', the OCR [optical character recognition] scanner will see it as 'anus.' OMG," Wendell tweeted....

In my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance, I tell the story of how I explained the Snowden leaks to my six-year-old, and the surprising interest and comprehension...

I can not help but root for Pirx the Pilot. Unfocused, day dreaming, and distracted at the drop of a hat, Stanislaw Lem's Pirx is a hero for all the wrong reasons....

I built the Imperial Melody Discharger, an articulated Stormtrooper helmet music box, for the Star Wars Day ("May the 4th be with you") vinyl Stormtrooper helmet art show ....

Toronto's great wealth of makerspaces continues to grow: now there's The Shop, an "all-inclusive makerspace with a focus on woodworking, metal and ceramics." They offer members access to well-stocked ...

This is pretty much what life with Nemo, my Great Pyrenees buddy, is like. Video Link Thanks, Great Pyr Rescue of Northern California!...

As previously noted, the wonderful blog Letters of Note (mentioned here numerous times!) has spawned a book, called Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audi...

"Boundaries will always be subject to negotiation," Alana tells Hannibal. It's almost like she's watching this show. This week's offering was another "palate cleanser" course in Japanese cuisine and t...

Goodbye Big Dick Paul, hello hopefully equally well-endowed Cal! Orphan Black introduces a new character this week and he adds a jolt of energy to an episode that otherwise slows things way down and e...

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has posted a brilliant, inflammatory set of "rules of the new aristocracy: "We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it....

I'm at Penguicon -- a science fiction and free software convention in Michigan -- this weekend, and my top dealer's room find were the wooden armaments of Ancient Artillery....

Every year, Canada's Munk debates feature high-level, high-profile debates on burning policy issues. This year, they debated surveillance, and the participants were Glenn Greendwald and Reddit co-foun...

State of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed suit against Altius, a company that raised $25k with kickstarter but never delivered....

Etsy seller EverydayMiniatures makes beautiful miniature replicas of classic TV show sets out of paper, foam, printed paper and glue. The Addams Family house is my favorite, selling for $345....

Circuit Playground is a cute and informative video series created to teach kids (and everyone else) about electronics. The videos are based on the A-Z coloring book that Adafruit Industries published...

Here's gallery of skeletons and skulls made from melted-down cassette tapes by Brian Dettmer. Memento mori for a dead medium. Brian Dettmer's Melted Casette Tape Skeletons and Skulls (via Neatorama)...

Randall Munroe's xkcd Phone has the greatest warning label of all time: "Presented in partnership with Qualcomm, Craigslist, Whirlpool, Hostess, LifeStyles, and the US Chamber of Commerce....

One year ago today Why "connecting the dots" is the wrong way to think about stopping terrorism: As Bruce points out, it's only in hindsight that there's a neat trail of dots to connect, a narrative w...

You'll remember Derek Khanna as the Republican House staffer who got fired for writing a paper that used careful objective research to argue for scaling back copyright....

[Video Link] I'm a big fan of Mike Maihack's artwork, and he's got a new graphic novel called Cleopatra in Space....

When Tom Merritt and I (Veronica Belmont) started producing Sword & Laser back in 2007, we really only meant it as a project to entertain ourselves....

Danah boyd, founder of the critical Big Data think/do tank Data and Society, writes about the work she did with the White House on Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values [PDF]....

Three days into its Kickstarter, the Nomad CNC Mill has received over three times its funding goal. This is more interesting to me than home-based 3D printing technology, because you can make things o...

Two things I did not realize: 1: The phrase "the Copernican Revolution" was coined by Immanuel Kant. 2: Copernicus' contemporaries didn't see his ideas as controversial....

Brooke Abbey writes, "The 2014 Prix Aurora Award nominees have been announced! [Ed: this is the Canadian popular science fiction prize]....

Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why we love...

"Oh look a king, lets break out the thermocycler," writes osteoarchaeologist Alison Atkin in a piece on the not exactly essential DNA analysis of the remains of Richard III....

This post on overselling the microbiome by microbiologist Jonathan Eisen is worth reading if, for no other reason, than that it serves as a nice reminder that we don't actually have this microbiome th...

In totally unsurprising news, Scientific American editor Michael Moyer was told he couldn't talk about climate change in a recent appearance on Fox News' morning show....

A new theory is adding to our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians might have built the pyramids. You'll recall that, today, most Egyptologists believe the pyramids were built by workers pulling...

Do you really have to start with rice cereal? Why do we only feed babies unseasoned food? Matt Shipman gets some interesting answers from a NC State nutrition professor....

As soon as I heard Mark Ernest Pothier's What will you miss most? was available, I had to read it. His stories grab my attention and his characters wrench my heart....

Rudy Rucker writes, "I'm running a new Kickstarter project: Transreal Trilogy + All the Visions. What's the new project? Four novels bound as two books....

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....

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!— Louis C.K. (@louisck) April 28, 2014 Louis CK is the latest high-profile voice to join the chorus ...

D'Morte, the Arch-Druid of Tinver Moor, created this Disney Major Arcana, "based on Golden Age Disney works from Snow White through to the Rescuers." Msr D'Morte notes that he was "influenced by the M...

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation writes, "Today, Sunlight Foundation and the Campaign Legal Center, represented by the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center, filed ...

Writing in The Believer, B. Alexandra Szerlip offers a fascinating profile of Norman Bel Geddes, the man who built the Futurama at the 1939 New York Worlds' Fair....

Michael Geist writes, "The recent revelations regarding massive telecom and Internet provider disclosures of subscriber information has generated a political firestorm with pointed questions yesterday...

Michael Geist writes, "The recent revelations regarding massive telecom and Internet provider disclosures of subscriber information has generated a political firestorm with pointed questions yesterday...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Last week, Wink published a review of Cat Food for Thought and Dog Food for Thought by Warren Dotz....

As you probably know, we board airplanes in just about the worst, most inefficient way possible (this is the best way)....

I'm halfway through Thomas Piketty's magisterial Capital in the Twenty First Century, a vital, incredibly influential, brilliantly researched history of wealth concentration stretching back through se...

Jonathan Smith of Vice snapped some photos of the Satanic monument being built for the Oklahoma State house. Hurray for the First Amendment!...

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The wonderful, funny Baman Piderman cartoon (previously) was shelved after two seasons. The creators, Lindsay and Alex Small-Butera, are kickstarting $50K (or more) to finish the series, which has a d...

I'm in Toronto for the Hot Docs screening of The Internet's Own Boy, a documentary about the life, persecution and death of Aaron Swartz, in which I appear....

Over the past year, there's been more and more coverage about the fact that European chemical companies are refusing to sell American states the ingredients to make execution drugs — and the fac...

Over the past year, there's been more and more coverage about the fact that European chemical companies are refusing to sell American states the ingredients to make execution drugs — and the fac...

Speed Weed is a marijuana delivery service chain in southern California. Amanda Lewis of LA Weekly rode along with a delivery driver and wrote about it....

Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had heard many people apologize for commercial online surveillance by saying that people who didn't want to give their data awa...

Probiotics have a ton of potential for improving health, but the marketing for them is getting out ahead of the science and creating some big misconceptions about the true benefits of good bacteria su...

Emily Sohn at Discovery News has a really interesting story about the meteorology and weather physics that explain why the Everest climbing season is so short and why, even in the "good" months, weath...

The American media has a terrible track record when it comes to covering drug use and the real risks of imbibing, writes Maia Szalavitz at Substance....

David likes to tease me about the many items in my iMac's menu bar (above). Today I came across Brett Terpstra's post about his menu bar items....

The majority of community acquired (i.e., not caught in a hospital) cases of antibiotic-resistant staph can be linked to a single strain of the bacteria....

The majority of community acquired (i.e., not caught in a hospital) cases of antibiotic-resistant staph can be linked to a single strain of the bacteria....

An eventful drug-year for John Wilcock, with mail-order mescaline, a friendly gesture from Seymour Krim, uninformed police officers, and Turkish cigars....

People in western countries gained roughly four inches in height between WW1 and today. The driving force behind this growth spurt: Sanitation and a reduction in early childhood illnesses, especially ...

Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom are the co-executive directors of CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) a non-profit organization that brings an open-source approach to music distribution ...

A tech startup has invented "The DropBox For Physical Storage", as TechCrunch describes it. This product looks suspiciously like the thing already known as a "Box", but it also strangely resembles the...

A donut shop employee posted this receipt on Reddit, stating: "I was given the ability to control what gets printed on the receipts at the doughnut shop where I work....

One year ago today High schooler blows stuff up for science ends up charged with a felony: It was a small explosion, and nobody was hurt....

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

Twitter has private messages and public tweets. It may soon have something in-between: a "whisper mode" that lets users choose who can see a conversation....

It all began down in Munichtown. Previously: Nazi-themed opera cancelled...

Meanwhile, down under... Queensland dogs are getting high by licking the poison off cane toads. Vets are warning some pooches may become addicted to the hallucinogenic and are risking their lives tryi...

Lawrence Lessig has announced the next step in his campaign against corruption in American politics with the launch of MAYDAY, a Superpac intended to raise enough money through small donations (and, ...

The recording of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack (again) isn't the only recording to emerge of the mayor; he was also recorded making drunken, racist, homophobic, misogynist remarks at a bar wher...

From the shrewd eye and camera of Regine Kelaita, an erotic car wash ad on a ruined mansion in Dresden (click through for full-size)....

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...

One year ago today SOPA's daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review: The new chair of the House of Representatives science committee has drafted a bill that, in ef...

Rob Ford has announced a "break" from his re-election campaign for mayor of Toronto, after a video of him smoking crack last weekend surfaced, being offered for sale by a drug-dealer for seven figures...

Austin Grossman's 2013 novel YOU was a brilliant, mystical science fiction novel about game development and simulation (two subjects that Grossman knows plenty about, being a somewhat legendary game d...

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

Cricket flour is made from slow roasted milled crickets, making a light brown flour that resembles brown sugar....

Remember the kickstarter for the sugar skull spoon? They not only completed successfully, but are now in full production, and are available retail through the Colossal store for $13....

Squa tront! Spa Fon! The great Al Feldstein, passed away today. Feldstein began working at EC comics, publishers of Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and The Hau...

[Video Link] I haven't tried Pixel Press Floors yet, but I like the idea that you design the game using pencil and paper!...

Shardcore writes, "I've built a new bot to troll/delight hipsters. It algorithmically creates post-post-ironic t-shirt designs, posts them on twitter and tumblr and offers them for sale....

Jason Erik Lundberg writes, "The ebook edition for the second issue of the world's only biannual literary journal focusing on southeast Asian speculative fiction has just been released!...

Artists from across The Walt Disney Company including Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, Marvel and Pixaras well as select street artists chosen by Neff and celebrity Star Wars fans all come toget...

This fantastic short film dramatically re-enacts an incredible court scene. Watch through to the end. It is worth it. Video Link...

Michael Geist writes, "These stunning disclosures, which were released by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, comes directly from the telecom industry after years of keeping their disclo...

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra will perform a series of concerts where attendees are encouraged to smoke weed. The bring-your-own-cannabis concerts, called "Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series...

A walkalong glider is a type of model plane that's kept aloft, theoretically indefinitely, by someone walking along with it as it flies, generating rising air using a piece of cardboard, paddle, or ev...

Were fascinated by the idea of superpowers; theyre the stuff of myth and legend, not to mention fantasy, science fiction, and comic books. But they also exist in our world, too. Here, Gemsigns author ...

How do you package a protein bar made from cricket flour? Here's how. Exo raised $54.9K on Kickstarter last summer, as a pair of Brown roommates took their senior year project to the next level, tryin...

The already-tiny village of Nagoro in eastern Iya on Shikoku, Japan is shrinking. Only a few dozen people still live there....

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Bob figures out invincibility....

Alice Coltrane -- the jazz pianist, organist and composer who was the second wife of John Coltrane -- was a devotee of Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba....

Maybe. Keep checking back....

A fisher on northern Brazil's remote Uriandeua river stumbled on a huge chunk of detritus dropped from a UK Space Agency satellite launch....

Back before Barack Obama appointed a Net Neutrality-destroying cable lobbyist to run the FCC, he was clear: "I will take a backseat to no one when it comes to Network Neutrality." President Obama and...

More than 100 people reportedly fell ill with food poisoning while attending a high-profile Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland. The 1,300 attendees included representatives from the Food and Dr...

Over at Wink, Carla Sinclair reviews Brad Meltzer's History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time, an illustrated book loaded with facsimiles of documents related to famous unsolved myster...

TAILS -- The Amnesiac Incognito Live System -- is a highly secure operating system intended to be booted from an external USB stick without leaving behind any trace of your activity on either your com...

Here's a 2008 video of NYC's legendary Union Square potato-peeler salesman, Manchester-born Joe Ades, the Gentleman Peeler, whose patter was as smooth as the carrot slices he produced with his sharp ...

Three weeks ago in the remote northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, over 200 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school dormitories in the middle of the night....

If you care about comics and/or literature, you have probably read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, a book of media theory on par with McLuhan's Understanding Media....

The latest Humble Bundle teams up with DRM-free indie comics leader Image Comics, offering nine digital titles from Image on a name-your-price basis....

In an editorial for Nature, Stephen J. Simpson (academic director of University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre) and David Raubenheimer (Leonard P....

Every year, Cards Against Humanity gives away a limited edition "PAX Pack" to attendees at PAX East, making the giveaway as surprisingly awesome as they can....

Korefe presents "The Real Cookbook," a book whose leaves are large lasagne noodles, impressed with a recipe for lasagne....