Articles by BoingBoing from June 2014

The UK Government has banned the practice of teaching Creationism as science in all UK schools, including the less-regulated, semi-privatised Free Schools and Academies. Previously, all state schools ...

A popular birthday gift among Korean schoolgirls is a rucksack made by taping together packaged junkfood -- cookies, chocolates and chips -- with strips of wrapped junkfood for straps (the packs are a...

In an homage to one of televisions finest leaders, I humbly introduce Sherman T. Botter. Periodically spitting out a quote from the the 4077th M*A*S*H's veteran leader, this twitter bot is what happen...

The editors of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager, a compact phone recharger, snap-on earpod clips, an a...

Shapeways has a great model of a three-sided die available for printing. Neat design, I didn't know you could make such a thing!...

Mega Dead Pixel is an endless runner game where you have to avoid colliding with retro-shaped obstacles while collecting coins and special pixels. This episode is brought to you by Care.com, offering...

A recent study at the University of Amsterdam shows that some aspects of synaesthesia can be acquired, temporarily anyways. Read the rest...

The editors of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager, a compact phone recharger, snap-on earpod clips, an a...

Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal this week admitted he was the author of a series of pseudonymous blog posts describing people who receive welfare as "lazy pigs." He also...

The Presbyterian Church, a religious body in the USA, has voted 3 to 1 to allow pastors to marry couples of the same gender in states where gay marriage is legal. 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...

Calling themselves Los Ferronautas (or "railanauts"), Ivan Puig and Andrs Padilla Domene documented the impacts of the privatization — and subsequent immediate closure — of Mexico's passen...

I was given this beautiful Autopoint mechanical pencil as a gift. I'm thrilled with the build quality, how the pencil feels in my hand, and the $5.00 price point. Read the rest...

Steve Lodefink shows you how to fly this little tree-smacker and become a skilled FPV pilot. Read the rest...

"It appears that on upload, Twitter is converting the GIF to an MP4 and embedding the video instead. Why would they do such a crazy thing? Well, size and control."—Sean, co-founder of embed.ly....

JC Herz and her five year old daughter, Eve, created A Dark and Dismal Flower, a beautifully-animated picture book. In this essay, Herz offers her advice on how to collaborate with your own kids. Re...

Steve Lodefink shows you how to fly this little tree-smacker and become a skilled FPV pilot. Read the rest...

Tomorrow is the shortest, darkest day of the year at the bottom of the world — an event that scientists living in Antarctica celebrate with a long-distance fun run, gift-giving, and messages fro...

The Foldscope is a pocket-sized 2,100x magnification microscope that you can make in minutes using paper and easily acquirable parts. ...

The editors of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager, a compact phone recharger, snap-on earpod clips, an a...

Calling themselves Los Ferronautas (or "railanauts"), Ivan Puig and Andrs Padilla Domene documented the impacts of the privatization — and subsequent immediate closure — of Mexico's passen...

From the Burning Man blog: "For its sesquicentennial celebration, the state of Nevada has recognized Burning Man as one of its official events. Its an honor to be a part of history, and were excited t...

The Federally recommended test often misses cases of Lyme in the early stages, writes Beth Daley at The New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Meanwhile, unregulated and unvalidated alternati...

New York governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders have come to an agreement on a pilot program that would provide access to medical marijuana for state residents, reports the Times. Read t...

In my latest Guardian column, "How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage," I discuss the petard that the French publishing giant Hachette is being hoisted upon by Amazon. Hachette insisted that Amazon se...

The editors of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager, a compact phone recharger, snap-on earpod clips, an a...

The so-silly-it's-not-worth-mocking app Yo was hacked by some college students. Caveat downloader. The texting app does nothing but ping your friends with the word "Yo." It has reportedly netted $1 mi...

Communal kitchens (in communal apartments that had once belonged to wealthy families) were a major feature of early Soviet life. NPR has a neat story about the role food and cooking played in everyday...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk recommend a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager,...

Flooding on Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis makes this statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic lovers Minnehaha and Hiawatha suddenly a little too on the nose. (Photo by Ben Garvin / St. Paul Pione...

The 1934 adaptation of Babes in Toyland with Laurel and Hardy featured a horrific, off-model, unauthorized Mickey fursuit that had to be seen to be believed. Read the rest...

We did it! The US House of Representatives, under pressure from a mass phone-in campaign, passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that prohibits the NSA from using its budget to sabotag...

One year ago today More NSA leaks: how the NSA bends the truth about spying on Americans while insisting it doesn't spy on Americans: They expose the "truth" behind NSA director James Clapper's assert...

Kate MacDowell's Entangled is a beautiful, tentacly porcelain sculpture depicting two hearts whose questing tentacles have entwined. (via JWZ) (more…)...

A new release of Snowden's leaked NSA docs detail RAMPART-A, through which the NSA gives foreign governments the ability to conduct mass surveillance against their own populations in exchange for NSA ...

Sculptor Long-Bin Chen creates art out of recycled books and magazines; his current show, at Charleston's Halsey, features a series of pieces that appear to be solid sculptures, but which are actually...

I came across this photo of a "fruit tramp" on Shorpy. I wasn't familiar with the term so I googled it. Read the rest...

I came across this photo of a "fruit tramp" on Shorpy. I wasn't familiar with the term so I googled it. Read the rest...

Man, that lawn will just have to be totally resodded after that enormous crowd leaves. [via, via]...

In Kansas, 9-year-old Spencer Collins has been told by authorities that he must stop sharing books with his neighbors, and close the little free library--honestly, it's just a bookshelf--in his yard. ...

Houston Retro Radio has MP3s of newscasts, shows, and airchecks from Houston radio stations from the 1960s - 1980s. Radio was much more fun back then. They've also got some good photos from Galveston...

Yesterday, Amazon announced the Fire Phone, its $200 answer to high-end Android models and the iPhone. The New York Times' Farhad Manjoo interviews Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. Read the rest...

Farhad Manjoo interviews Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. Our product development process always starts the same way.We dont start out by saying,If we were going to build an X, how would it be different? Rea...

Obstruction of justice. Intentional interference in interstate commerce. Securities fraud. And more. Read the rest...

Photo of Shishaldin taken from an Alaska Airlines 737 enroute to Adak on 5/22/14. [avo.alaska.edu]A number of volcanic eruptions and moderate earthquakes have been observed in Alaska over the past few...

According to new research, mined for horrifying news by London tabloid Metro, fish-eating spiders have come to Britain....

[Video Link] After making a few jokes about the "e" in Maker Faire, President Obama asked MAKE and Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty (who put the "e" in Maker Faire) to stand up and be recognized at ...

Anthrax bacteria. (Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Up to 75 scientists who work at a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention biosecurity lab in Atlanta may have been exposed to...

After more than 7 hours of installation and experiment chores outside the Russian portion of the International Space Station, two spacewalking cosmonauts were able to call it a day. Read the rest...

Merlin and Rebecca have a recipe for making Potted Potatoes in Edible Dirt. Everything in the flowerpot is edible. Next, they should make an edible flowerpot to go along with it. Read the rest...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk recommend a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager,...

This undated photo provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.A group of lawmakers this week voiced their concern over the Obama administration's pla...

Remember this fabulous "Wet Dog" photo series we posted a while back? Here's a behind-the-scenes video with photographer Sophie Gamand. Read the rest...

Taxidermy works, assault weapon sculptures, and a graduation cake for Boko Haram: Master of Rapacity, an exhibition by artist Scott Hove. Read the rest...

Photo: niagarafallsreview.caThis is an actual news story. In Fort Erie, Canada, a raccoon became trapped at the top of a hydro transformer pole with a mostly empty jar of peanut butter stuck on its he...

Tin Foil Pigtail Wig: Because mom waited too long to buy you a Halloween costume. By Matt Maranian Read the rest...

Starting today, "The Internet's Own Boy," Brian Knappenberger's award-winning, acclaimed documentary about Aaron Swartz, is available to pre-order as a Creative Commons-licensed (CC-BY-NC-SA) video d...

As the California legislature moves to mandate "kill switches" that will allow owners of stolen phones to shut them down, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sounds an important alarm: if it's possible...

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Or, as a recent study put it: "Early adolescent pseudomature behavior predicted long-term difficulties in close relationships, as well as significant problems with alcohol and substance use, and eleva...

Kannapolis is the site of an ambitious plan to collect medical information on 50,000 people and use it to hunt for the molecular changes that signal or cause disease....

Hodor hodor hodor-hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor Hodor hodor hodor "hodor". ...

Mallory Ortberg interviews her little brother, a physicist, about the scientific documentary, The Core. ...

Adam Goldman/The Washington PostIn addition to drones, satellites, spies, snitches, and mobile tracking devices, the CIA devised a plot to wage war on al-Qaeda in Pakistan with... toys. And to do so, ...

Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. They're beautiful, meticulously-cr...

Wet and relatively warm, why isn't Seattle known for its hordes of mosquitoes? This NPR story explains how the details of local environment affect animal populations. ...

Wet and relatively warm, why isn't Seattle known for its hordes of mosquitoes? This NPR story explains how the details of local environment affect animal populations. ...

Tin Foil Pigtail Wig: Because mom waited too long to buy you a Halloween costume. By Matt Maranian Read the rest...

To this list of pseudoscience stories everybody's sick of reading about, I'll add "single dietary changes that are supposed to fix every ailment ever" and "one technology that can solve the energy cri...

In a stunning verdict, the Supreme Court has tossed out a patent because it is a software patent, ruling that "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea in...

Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. Read the rest...

In a stunning verdict, the Supreme Court has tossed out a patent because it is a software patent, ruling that "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea in...

Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. Read the rest...

The Romford Recorder reports:The five-year-old bunny butterball - ironically a dwarf lop - was badly malnourished when first spotted by the family-of-six in a pet store window. ... But too many treats...

My daughter and I are building this fantastic LEGO X-Wing Fighter. She has fallen in love with the Star Wars animated series and this is my excuse to get a toy I always wanted. The Porkins mini fig is...

Charles Platt shows you how to build a noise-detecting siren that stuns rude shouters into silence. Read the rest...

Mike Tyson's legend was secured when he KOd undefeated rival Michael Spinks in 90s. But less well known is that Tyson destroyed his opponents mind before the fight even began, by entering the arena to...

The world's most entitled and whiny gamer community started screwing itself for cash, then creator Notch took it away. What happened next was entirely predictable....

By Mario Wienerroither. Brilliant and sublime. [via Sploid]...

Makies, the 3D printed toy and game company, has launched FabLab, its inaugural game! FabLab is a free game for people eight and up, through which you create and customize a character and its accessor...

Evangelical leader Mike Bickle proposed the following indicators of a cult. Read the rest...

Before Hitler, who was the rhetorical human embodiment of evil? The Egyptian Pharaoh of Exodus. The Pharaoh has, of course, now been upgraded to embody the glowering rhetorical sexuality of Yul Brynne...

Starting today, "The Internet's Own Boy," Brian Knappenberger's award-winning, acclaimed documentary about Aaron Swartz, is available as a Creative Commons-licensed (CC-BY-NC-SA) video download. Rea...

The Kokuyo Roll Table is a clever alternative from Kobe Ishou Sourenjo is a very clever way to package and dispense rolls of kids' drawing paper. It seems like it would be tedious to re-fill, though -...

I'm doing a live Google Hangout today at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific/6PM UK to kick off the announcement of Banned Books Week, which will focus on comics and graphic novels this year. Read the rest...

As the California legislature moves to mandate "kill switches" that will allow owners of stolen phones to shut them down, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sounds an important alarm: if it's possible...

Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps has publicly excoriated Congress and the FCC for the state of Internet access in America, which he called "insanity," saying that America's political class "shoul...

Bars in Alaska have installed free pregnancy tests in their women's bathrooms in an effort to curb drinking among pregnant women. The tests are subsidized by the state of Alaska as part of a campaign ...

The UK Government has banned the practice of teaching Creationism as science in all UK schools, including the less-regulated, semi-privatised Free Schools and Academies. Previously, all state schools ...

Daniel Keyes, the MD who wrote the classic science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon, has died at 86, of complications from pneumonia. Read the rest...

Seth Goldstein's Why Not machine is a glorious Rube Goldberg device that can tie (and untie) a necktie. It's a kinetic sculpture, slow and beautiful and inefficient in a way that can only be called ar...

If you call your Congressional rep today, we can stop NSA mass surveillance in its tracks. Today, Congress will vote on a critical amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill: under this amendment, t...

The 1934 adaptation of Babes in Toyland with Laurel and Hardy featured a horrific, off-model, unauthorized Mickey fursuit that had to be seen to be believed. Read the rest...

A fluorescent statue of a urinating VI Lenin has been erected in Nowa Huta, a town built by the old Stalinist regime. The Soviet-era Lenin that stood in the spot was subjected to multiple unsuccessful...

For the next six hours, you can score one of these Pee-Wee Herman themed limited tees from Tee Fury, with glowing eyes!...

I hope his friend is a urologist. Via 13WMAZ: When he got to the friends house, he took off his pants and saw that he had shot himself in the penis and that the bullet exited out of his buttocks....

An eight-armed UAV designed by a South African firm to fire dye markers, pepper spray pellets, plastic bullets, and other "less-lethal" ammunition was shown off in London this week. Read the rest...

Robert Scoble is settling nicely into his new role as a vigorous critic of your privacy. That said, he's unhappy I quoted his remarks about being "so tired of privacy advocates", and is doing that thi...

Robert Scoble is settling nicely into his new role as a vigorous critic of your privacy. That said, he's unhappy I quoted his remarks about being "so tired of privacy advocates", and is doing that thi...

The great jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver died today "of natural causes" at his home in New Rochelle, New York. Read the rest...

Charles Platt shows you how to build a noise-detecting siren that stuns rude shouters into silence. Read the rest...

Centralia, Pennsylvania is Hell on Earth. It's the town where a 12-year old boy once fell into a pit that "suddenly appeared in his grandmothers backyard. Read the rest...

Centralia, Pennsylvania is Hell on Earth. It's the town where a 12-year old boy once fell into a pit that "suddenly appeared in his grandmothers backyard. Read the rest...

Our returning guest is Choose Yourself author James Altucher. Brought to you by Stamps.com. Click here for a special $110 offer! Read the rest...

Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. Read the rest...

Seven tricks you can do with empty rolls of toilet paper, written by the late Martin Gardner.5. A Mysterious Force: Two tubes are alongside each other on a table. Read the rest...

There are four known white humpback whales in the world. They are not albinos. Migaloo, who lives near Australia, was just spotted for the first time in a year. ...

The mayor of San Marino, California has resigned after being caught on surveillance video tossing a small bag of dog poop into a neighbor's yard. Read the rest...

Naked mole rats live six times as long as most other small rodents and they don't seem to develop cancer. At Vox, Joseph Stromberg explains what naked mole rats are teaching us about aging and disease...

Comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding is back with a second installment in his very funny 'If Gay Guys Said the Shit Straight People Say' video series....

Not as hot as it looks. Good on anything. Cures all that ails you. A recipe by Matt Maranian. Read the rest...

Image: Atmel CorporationDIY enthusiasts gathered at the White House today at President Obama's invitation, showing off their work at the first-ever White House Maker Faire. Read the rest...

"Hypertext Transfer Protocol response status codes. And dogs." Read the rest...

PetaPixel shares this fantastic 3D printed tilt-shift adaptor for Nikon F bayonet lenses. I'll likely fight with my Replicator 2 for a few hours and then give up....

Francis Galton is infamous for pioneering the field of eugenics. But he was also, apparently, interested in baked goods, as demonstrated by a 1906 letter to the journal Nature on the proper way to cut...

There's a gorgeous feature in this month's Vanity Fair on the "new jet age" opulence of Dubai International Airport, which has surpassed London's Heathrow as the world's busiest global hub. Read the r...

After a peaceful nap three decades long, Mauna Loa seems to be stirring. "While there are no signs of impending eruption, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has recorded an increased level of seismic ac...

Running Thursday thru Sunday, with the finale on June 29th, We Players' Macbeth at Fort Point has returned. I was fortunate enough to see it last year and will certainly be enjoying it again. Read th...

Using documents leaked by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel reports that the NSA has turned Germany into its most important base of operations in Europe. Read the re...

Husband-and-wife photography duo BJ and Richeille Formento's "Japan Diaries" series. Read the rest...

An eight-armed UAV designed by a South African firm to fire dye markers, pepper spray pellets, plastic bullets, and other "less-lethal" ammunition was shown off in London this week. Read the rest...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on how protecting endangered species has taught us something about eradicating invasive ones. Read the rest...

An eight-armed drone designed to fire dye markers, pepper spray pellets, plastic bullets, and other "less-lethal" ammunition was shown off in London this week. Read the rest...

After a peaceful nap three decades long, Mauna Loa seems to be stirring. "While there are no signs of impending eruption, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has recorded an increased level of seismic ac...

The refinery in Baiji, northwest of Baghdad, in 2009. [Reuters]The Iraqi government today asked the US to execute air strikes on Sunni insurgent strongholds. Read the rest...

The house is tiny, hidden on its lot by a profusion of untrimmed hedges. Vines creep over the windows and under eaves. Read the rest...

The house is tiny, hidden on its lot by a profusion of untrimmed hedges. Vines creep over the windows and under eaves. Read the rest...

Every single day people ask me how I keep Nemo, my Great Pyrenees, so white? Mostly a pyr handles it solo and just sheds dirt, but for the rare times he needs a bath I use Earthbath's all natural ligh...

Xe, xem, xyr are the new preferred pronouns for transgendered students in the Vancouver school system. Although the National Post is skeptical that this attempt to add a nongendered pronoun to English...

Word on the Internets is that some Estonian researchers found the tomb of Dracula in Naples and are petitioning to open it and inspect the occupant. (Insert jokes here.) But at Discovery News, Rossell...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on how protecting endangered species has taught us something about eradicating invasive ones. Read the rest...

Ruling that the term is "disparaging to Native Americans", the U.S. Patent office has canceled six federal trademarks registered by the Washington Redskins. Read the rest...

A cool graphic by Maki Naro explains the science of hyperaccumulators, plants that are capable of absorbing toxic levels of potentially dangerous minerals without harming themselves. ...

Ringwoodite is a silicate mineral that can be made up of as much as 2.6 percent water by weight. That water isn't stored as a liquid in the rock. Instead, it's present as molecules of hydrogen and oxy...

Written by John Stafford Smith, "To Anacreon in Heaven", it was the theme song for a gentlemen's society dedicated to love of wine, women, and song. You can listen to a recording of it at the Smithson...

It's like something from a Spielberg movie:Because he died in the winter and inside a dark closet, Brunton's body tissue dried out and was preserved. Read the rest...

The cover of Bloomberg Businessweek this week riffs on a classic Vietnam-era Esquire cover. Sometimes, words speak louder than pictures. ...

Barstow, California, once a shining oasis along the sweltering asphalt of Route 66, is now but a relic of times nearly forgotten. A photo gallery by Charles Platt. Read the rest...

They're not monsters, but they are a problem for native flora and fauna. Here are ten of the ecological troublemakers finding their way into American landscapes and waterways. Read the rest...

Maggie Koerth-Baker on how protecting endangered species has taught us something about eradicating invasive ones. Read the rest...

Dr. Oz acknowledges that the products he pushes can't pass scientific muster. But that's okay, he says. Because his job is really to be a "cheerleader for the audience" and encourage them to find hope...

The cover of Bloomberg Businessweek this week riffs on a classic Vietnam-era Esquire cover. Sometimes, words speak louder than pictures. ...

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One year ago today Lexicon: smart, sharp technothriller from Max "Jennifer Government" Barry: Max Barry's new technothriller Lexicon is a gripping conspiracy novel about a cabal of "poets" who have ma...

Tonight at Forbidden Planet NYC, a megasigning with Paul Pope, Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi and Chris Miskiewicz. Kicks off at 1830h -- what a lineup!...

Many congresscritters don't have public email addresses -- instead, they have hard-to-locate webforms that slow down activist email campaigns and make it harder for constituents to get in touch. EFF a...

From Adam R. Bowser's Nova Scotia-based Twitter feed, a timely retail sign: "Due to the rising summer temperatures...We will NOT accept any BOOB or SOCK money! Read the rest...

In Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance, a paper from U of Utah business-school professors, the relationship between executive perfor...

As Register Newspapers' high-profile paywall experiment implodes, Clay Shirky offers an acerbic obituary and a dire warning in Nostalgia and Newspapers, which discusses the futility of trying to "save...

After US marshalls raided a Florida police department to seize documents about to be revealed in an ACLU case over "stingray" mobile phone surveillance, we knew that the case was endangered. Now the w...

Barstow, California, once a shining oasis along the sweltering asphalt of Route 66, is now but a relic of times nearly forgotten. A photo gallery by Charles Platt. Read the rest...

A judge in San Diego, California has determined that prosecutors have enough evidence against an alleged revenge porn site operator for him to face trial on conspiracy, identity theft and extortion ch...

A 1-cent British Guiana stamp from 1856, once owned by a du Pont heir convicted of shooting an Olympic wrestler, may sell for $20 million at an auction taking place today. "Its first owner was a 12-ye...

A teenager in South Carolina was refused his driver's license because he "did not look the way a boy should." Chase Culpepper, 16, ultimately removed his makeup in order to get the photograph taken. ...

Robert Scoble is not fond of "How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online", an article published today at Wired. Read the rest...

Reacting to Jill Lepore's critique of American business's "gospel of disruption" comes this striking thought from Marc Andreessen: Read the rest...

Robert Short, 64, is accused of cooking meth in his apartment at a senior citizen village in Fresno, California. Cops say he sold and distributed drugs from this clever location. Action News is on it....

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Reacting to Jill Lepore's critique of American business's "gospel of disruption" comes this striking thought from Marc Andreessen:The startup-news end of the tech press seems in a state of perpetual o...

Source.Can't we all agree to leave the cats out of this conflict? More here. #catsofjihad may or may not be a real thing, and this looks to be the work of fans rather than actual fightersbut there yo...

This iOttie dashboard mount phone holder stays stuck! Unlike other stands, iOttie has kept my phone tumble free for months! Read the rest...

I think that geometry is the best language to describe the pulse of natures depths, says artist Javier Riera. Read the rest...

Robert Scoble is not fond of "How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online", an article published today at Wired. Read the rest...

Diagram: energy usage in a number of animal groups, including birds, mammals, dinosaurs and modern reptiles. Dinosaurs were "mesotherms," neither warm- nor cold-blooded, a new study finds. (John Grady...

We're used to thinking of sea lampreys as a bad thing, an invasive species. But that's in the Great Lakes. In New England streams, the lampreys are native and necessary to ecosystem health. Read the r...

The 700th Undead Ted horror-toy was a face-removing, talking animatronic that sold for £420 on Ebay. I love that it can do more than one line; I like to think of it as the reincarnation of good ...

Zena Holloway is best known for elegant underwater photography, and her work was recently featured in this fashion shoot for the Financial Times' lifestyle magazine, How to Spend It. Read the rest...

Our friends at the Treasure Island Music Festival have announced the stellar line-up of artists who will descend on the San Francisco Bay Area on October 18-19, 2014. Read the rest...

New York to London Milky Way, by Alessandro Merga, recently featured as NASA's Astronomy photo of the day. Read the rest...

Not all celebrities oppose vaccines and the good sense of science. At CNN.com, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has an op-ed as a spokesperson for an anti-pertussis awareness campaign organized by Sanofi...

Two Long Island residents, a married couple, were cleaning a recently vacated basement apartment when one removed a couch cushion and discovered a Ball Python, shown here. Read the rest...

Attorneys representing a Guantanamo detainee who was force-fed in a brutal, abusive manner have entered into evidence, as part of a lawsuit filed on the man's behalf, three videos shot by military gua...

The $185M Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas has a lot of positive info on the wonders of fracking, but a tiny panel explaining climate change in the original plans never made it into the jo...

The UK spy agency GCHQ says it doesn't need a warrant to intercept and store all UK social media traffic, search history and webmail because it is headed offshore, so it's "foreign communications". It...

Muckrock filed a FOI request for the FBI's list of Twitter slang and "leetspeak" and got back an insane, 83-page glossary of terms that the Feebs use to spy on the kids (think "AYFKMWTS") (via Sean Bo...

Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the term "Net Neutrality," is running for Lieutenant Governor of New York State on a leftist, reform platform that starts with blocking the Comcast/Time-W...

Our friends at the Treasure Island Music Festival have announced the stellar line-up of artists who will descend on the San Francisco Bay Area on October 18-19, 2014. Read the rest...

Textile artist Erin M Riley weaves internet-native images of women in various states of undress, presenting themselves in sexualized display, and in the context of drug and alcohol use. Read the rest...

Several studies are shedding light on how alcohol impairs the cells that make your immune system function — which could help explain some long-term health problems in alcoholics. ...

This scene always makes me cry. [via d0gbl0g.tumblr.com]...

What killed the hundreds of people buried in a single catacomb known as "the X Tombs"? Scientists are finding answers with the help of DNA analysis....

The death of clinical trial subject Dan Markingson is just the tip of the iceberg in a tale of corruption, mismanagement, and deaths....

A teenager in South Carolina was refused his driver's license because he "did not look the way a boy should." Chase Culpepper, 16, ultimately removed his makeup in order to get the photograph taken. ...

We're used to thinking of sea lampreys as a bad thing, an invasive species. But that's in the Great Lakes. In New England streams, the lampreys are native and necessary to ecosystem health. Read the r...

Introduced in 1964, the PicturePhone was a fascinating, ahead-of-its-time technology that ultimately failed miserably — costing Bell half a billion dollars. Read the rest...

Czech artist Monika Horicov makes beautiful, haunting sculptures comprised of repeated, 3D-printed human bones. They remind me of the Capela dos Ossos in Portugal, whose walls and vaults are lined wi...

Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded? That's a debate that's been going on since 1968, when Yale scientists first proposed that dinos could have been active, agile, and fast. Read the rest...

The Skunk, a drone from South African company Desert Wolf, is billed as the first riot-control drone -- it fires dye-balls, pepper spray and rubber bullets at protesters, blinds them with strobes, bro...

When the anonymous authors of the Truecrypt security tool mysteriously yanked their software last month, there was widespread suspicion that they had been ordered by the NSA to secretly compromise the...

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It will drop labels that do not join its new subscription music service, reports The Guardian. [via]...

It will drop labels that do not join its new subscription music service, reports The Guardian. [via]...

Surrounded by a vast sea of duck, this motorist and his passenger are left with no option but to incredulously film the invasion. Watch and fear, mangy simian, your time is up!...

Judge Randall Rader, the top US patent judge, has resigned from the bench after he sent a letter to a patent attorney praising his courtroom appearance, inviting him to share the letter publicly. Rada...

I gave a talk last month in Cambridge at the Tedxoxbridge event called How to break the Internet, about how urgent it is that the Internet is fundamentally broken, and why we should be hopeful that we...

Pencil is a new stylus designed to overcome the iPad's lack of touch sensitivity, taking care of pressure, angle, erasing and palm rejection. Read the rest...

Apple has agreed to settle with consumers who accused it of illegally conspiring with publishers to stop Amazon selling titles at a loss. [BBC]...

One of Pablo Picasso's most famous works, The Blue Room, was painted over an earlier work now revealed by infrared imaging. Read the rest...

Two tornadoes touched down yesterday and devastated the Nebraska town of Pilger, killing a 5-year-old and injuring 19 others. StormChasingVideo.com published this incredible footage of the two funnels...

My latest Guardian column is an interview with Leila Johnston about her Hack Circus project, which includes a conference, a podcast and a print magazine, all with a nearly indefinable ethic of indepen...

Anita Sarkeesian has posted Women as Background Decoration: Part 1, the latest installment in her Feminist Frequency Tropes vs Women in Video Games critical video series. Read the rest...

One year ago today Making sense of the confusing Supreme Court DNA patent ruling: If you can't patent a gene, but you can patent the laboratory copy of the gene, what's that mean? Read the rest...

Starting in August, you'll be able to buy these Star Wars X-Wing knife blocks for £70, with five knives (of unknown quality). Read the rest...

The Awl has the last word on Lavazza sending an espresso pod machine into space: "actual garbage that has been toasted, ground up, dehydrated and put into a non-biodegradable plastic coffin...a good r...

Thomas Kuntz made this clever, Haunted Mansion-inspired organist automata with its own tiny Pepper's ghost illusion, as well as a music-box and multiple animated figures. (Thanks, Dan!) (more…)...

The 700th Undead Ted horror-toy was a face-removing, talking animatronic that sold for £420 on Ebay. I love that it can do more than one line; I like to think of it as the reincarnation of good ...

Now that evidence has surfaced suggesting that Guardaley, a disgraced firm of German copyright trolls, is secretly behind the legal actions of notorious US trolls like Malibu Media, the US plaintiffs ...

Annalee Newitz rounds up scientists' ten least-favorite misused scientific concepts, from "proof" and "theory" to "natural" and "learned versus innate." The thing that most of these misconceptions hav...

When John Oliver smote the FCC over its pro-cable-company-fuckery policy, he compared hiring Tom Wheeler away from his job as top cable lobbyist to run the FCC to hiring a dingo to babysit your kids. ...

Financial Times economist Tim Harford writes about how "three sensible propositions from economics have somehow been crumpled into a mess of public relations and politics" -- how the misleading precis...

Baroness Jenny Jones, a Green Party councillor, writes in the Guardian about the bizarre smears and tittle-tattle she found about herself in the Metropolitan London Police's secret database of "domest...

The City of Seattle paid $17,500 to Brand.com to enhance the "online reputation" of City Light, its public utility, and Chief Executive Officer Jorge Carrasco, asking them to "lessen the prevalence o...

The Skunk, a drone from South African company Desert Wolf, is billed as the first riot-control drone -- it fires dye-balls, pepper spray and rubber bullets at protesters, blinds them with strobes, bro...

"For various reasons, including my wife Claudia is slightly worried I could get killed, I am changing all of the names. All of the other details are intact." A true story by James Altucher Read the ...

The Children, Season 4, Episode 10, of HBOs Game of Thrones packs a lot of paternal angst into the season finale of the fourth season. Ivan and Red are joined by Oakland based comedian O.J. Patterson...

A selfie by the artist.Artist Nastya Nudnik's Emoji-nation series adds elements of computer user interface to great, historic works of art. Read the rest...

ISIL militants take over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (USA Today)President Obama today notified Congress that 275 US military personnel will be deployed to Iraq to "provide support and security for U.S. pe...

Alex Wild: "Brood III periodical cicadas during the 2014 emergence. Panther Creek State Conservation Area, Illinois, USA."Photographer Alex Wild captured the lovely image of a periodical cicada above,...

Photo: "Budapest Light Tram" by Krisztian Biriny. [mymodernmet]...

"A 6-week-old cheetah cub at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park named Ruuxa was rejected by its mother and has no siblings. But keepers have given her a companion, a 7-week-old Rhodesian ridgeback puppy na...

Note the logo painted on the window of this rabbit head eatery in Chengdu, Sichuan. Olivia Geng/The Wall Street Journal.And the Wall Street Journal is on it. Read the rest...

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A selfie by the artist.Artist Nastya Nudnik's Emoji-nation series adds elements of computer user interface to great, historic works of art. Read the rest...

250 new emojis will be added in July 2014's update to the unicode specification. Say hello to the Chipmunk, the Hole, and the "Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended."...

Nikai is 8 weeks old. Nikai has hiccups. [Wolf Conservation Center via Laughing Squid]...

In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used digital imaging machine to play back the oldest known recordings of the human voice. Now, the machine is being used by The Library...

Ronen V pulls off yet another crazy internet video stunt: ordering pizza from every known pizza joint in New York City, more than 400 of them, to mark the 125th anniversary of the invention of pizza. ...

Video of a teen being grabbed by the neck and punched by a cop has sparked outrage in Pittsburgh--not least because she was apparently arrested while arguing with an anti-gay activist protesting the c...

Davide Vannoni injects children with stem cells, reports The Verge, but his treatments and results aren't supported by studies. Just fat checks from the Italian government....

Amazon just added a million or so songs to Prime; like the movies, you can stream them free of charge. Unfortunately, the selection isn't up the standards set by Spotify and Rdio. Read the rest...

Descendants is a Disney Channel original movie directed by Kenny Ortega that will feature the teenage progeny of Disneys classic characters most notably its villains. The film will premiere on the Di...

It's an ad for Stabilo pens, but what a wonderful ad! [via Reddit, HT: Dean Putney]...

Stewardess Violet Jessop was both cursed and blessed -- during the 1910s she met disaster on all three of the White Star Line's Olympic class of gigantic ocean liners, but she managed to escape each ...

Here's an exclusive excerpt from Marcus Sakey's A Better World, the second book in the Brilliance saga. Read the rest...

Ronen V pulls off yet another crazy internet video stunt: ordering pizza from every known pizza joint in New York City, more than 400 of them, to mark the 125th anniversary of the invention of pizza. ...

"The Prime Directive is paramount, the Prime Director is sacrosanct, the... wait, these blissed-out primitives worship a computer inside of a big stone head? Fuck the Prime Directive, it must be destr...

A snowflake, an army of pandas, a gang of galaxies, a hot dog, a fashionable gentleman, a giant head, an eyeball, a folk death-saint, and a sleepy puppy. Read the rest...

Amtraks Coast Starlight, which it bills as A Grand West Coast Train Adventure, is its last remaining full-service sleeper train. The Coast Starlight is home to what would have previously been standar...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "Due to inaction by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Congress, Public.Resource.Org has been forced to terminate access to 7,634,050 filings of nonprofit o...

This represents perfectly how I feel about sports. "I want to go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird's all I've got. That and my sweet style." Man, I love the IT Crowd. This clip is from Se...

Fresh from the always-great Nobrow Press and comics creator Andrew Rae is Moonhead and the Music Machine, a surreal all-ages graphic novel that tells the coming-of-age story of Joey Moonhead, whose h...

We have no clue whats causing this, says one marine biologist....

Sound it Out # 71Buddy is an evolving collection of Los Angeles musicians, the singer & songwriter of which is a man named Buddy. Read the rest...

I'm honoured and delighted to learn that my novel Homeland has been shortlisted for Canada's Sunburst Award, a juried prize for excellence in speculative fiction. Read the rest...

This represents perfectly how I feel about sports. "I want to go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird's all I've got. That and my sweet style." Man, I love the IT Crowd. This clip is from Se...

Man loses class ring down the toilet. A year later, sewer workers return it. Bonus: Behind-the-scenes descriptions of sewer system maintenance....

Moths with wingspans as big as six inches are swarming in Malaysia and Singapore. ...

Clayton Lockett died in April, following a botched execution that authorities blamed on a chance collapse of Lockett's vein. Autopsy results suggest that wasn't the case, pinning blame instead on the ...

Erosion will no longer impact the neat and tidy lines of grave markers at the San Francisco National Cemetery. They've designed subterranean planter boxes with sockets for the headstones, to eliminate...

Andy writes, "For eight years, Jules' IKEAHackers site has published ways people have hacked their IKEA products. Hundreds of people have combined IKEA products in creative ways to create everything f...

Male fireflies of the species Photinus carolinis light up the night in search of mates. But someone is watching. And I don't mean humans or female P. carolinis. Read the rest...

Marlon's spot on review of the Triumph Bonnie pretty much keeps me laughing the entire time. (more…)...

In Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod Karl-Johan Karlsson and William Bradley Glisson present a version of the Cyanogenmod alternate operating system for Android devices, modified so that ...

"Little is known about what leads consumers to perceive brands as cool." [The Awl]...

"I'm an ex-athlete myself." Previously....

Here's a reading (MP3) of a short story I wrote for the July, 2014 issue of Wired UK in the form of a news dispatch from the year 2024 -- specifically, a parliamentary sketch from a raucous Prime Mini...

Seriously, you guys. Check out this electron microscope image that won an honorable mention in the 2008 Best Science Images contest. (Thanks, P.F. Anderson>!)...

Seriously, you guys. Check out this electron microscope image that won an honorable mention in the 2008 Best Science Images contest. (Thanks P.F. Andersonhttps://twitter.com/pfanderson!)...

In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used digital imaging machine to play back the oldest known recordings of the human voice. Now, the machine is being used by The Library...

After Lotus F1 deleted and apologized for a tweet in support of gay athletes at the Sochi games, the team's former brand director says he was fired for it. [Jalopnik]...

Screw the string section! [via]...

Explore OpenGeofiction, a "collaborative platform for the creation of fictional maps." Based on Openstreetmap, the public is invited to edit the oddly-familiar lands within....

Kevin McFarland reviews the medieval fantasy drama's extra-brutal season closer. Read the rest...

A snowflake, an army of pandas, a gang of galaxies, a hot dog, a fashionable gentleman, a giant head, an eyeball, a folk death-saint, and a sleepy puppy. Read the rest...

Let's name the types of rock: Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic ... and plastiglomerate. ...

Amtraks Coast Starlight, which it bills as A Grand West Coast Train Adventure, is its last remaining full-service sleeper train. The Coast Starlight is home to what would have previously been standar...

Kevin McFarland reviews the medieval fantasy drama's extra-brutal season closer. Read the rest...

Stephen sez, "Around 13 years ago, I wrote a GPL video game called Project: Starfighter. It is a multi-directional shoot 'em up, with an intricate plot and a diverse cast of characters. Since its rele...

The Walking Dead -- both the TV show and especially the comic -- is a triumph of visual storytelling; the infamous "Don't open/Dead Inside" panel with its chained-shut doors and grasping, bloody finge...

A brilliant, enraging op-ed in the Washington Post from analysts from the New America Foundation and the American Antitrust Institute shows how the Reagan-era policy of encouraging monopolistic corpo...

My latest Guardian column is an interview with Leila Johnston about her Hack Circus project, which includes a conference, a podcast and a print magazine, all with a nearly indefinable ethic of indepen...

Starbucks is offering to pay some or all tuition at Arizona State University for any 20+ hour/week employees, with no requirement that these employees remain with the company after attaining their deg...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient...

Amtraks Coast Starlight, which it bills as A Grand West Coast Train Adventure, is its last remaining full-service sleeper train. The Coast Starlight is home to what would have previously been standar...

Self-presentation style in job interviews: the role of personality and culture, a UBC study presented in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology found that job interviews were optimized for self-aggr...

Kate Rowland's $13.06 Twin Peaks Sheriff Badge is just one of many laser-etched birch Twin Peaks wearables in her store, including log lady earrings, an owl cave necklace and the She's filled with se...

I'm about to hit the road again, starting in Salt Lake City, where I'll be a Guest of Honor at Westercon (Jul 3-6), and will follow it up with an appearance at the SLC library (Jul 7); then I'm doing...

Tetrix writes, "Tetrix 13 is our 13th release in as many years, so we made a slasher film based parody album and called it 'Tetrix the 13th'. The album is more like a radio play, with songs and storyl...

Printeer is a kids 3D printer that runs on an iPad and "doesn't require any intermediate steps between design and 3D printing." This is a good idea because 3D printer software is still clunky and fini...

Would you like to be in a George R. R. Martin Book? Got $20K? Don't mind being killed? Good. You can help wolves. Also we give our first impressions of Brian McClellan's The Promise of Blood and talk...

"I wasnt entirely sure what I was getting myself into when I walked backstage to meet Hubbard, the 67-year-old outlaw country survivor," says Brian Heater. "An elder statesman of the same scene that...

"I wasnt entirely sure what I was getting myself into when I walked backstage to meet Hubbard, the 67-year-old outlaw country survivor," says Brian Heater. "An elder statesman of the same scene that...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient...

One year ago today Brutal crackdown on Turkish protests: People are gassed here non stop, in all central Istanbul areas. Tens of thousands of people are out in the streets. Read the rest...

Tetrix writes, "Textrix 13 is our 13th release in as many years, so we made a slasher film based parody album and called it 'Tetrix the 13th'. The album is more like a radio play, with songs and story...

Andy writes, "For eight years, Jules' IKEAHackers site has published ways people have hacked their IKEA products. Hundreds of people have combined IKEA products in creative ways to create everything f...

Timberland -- whose boots are the sole option for many prisoners in US correctional institutions, thanks to sweetheart deals with prison commissaries -- has a new set of kafkaesque warranty conditions...

Andy writes, "For eight years, Jules' IKEAHackers site has published ways people have hacked their IKEA products. Hundreds of people have combined IKEA products in creative ways to create everything f...

The Privacy Gift Shop's Stealth Wear line is comprised of garments that stop you from being thermally imaged by drones. It comes in burqa ($2500), hijab ($550), and hoodie ($350). Stealth Wear (Than...

Caroline Siede reviews the latest episode of BBC Americas clone dramaMy enjoyment of Orphan Blacks twisty plotting is based on the assumption that the showrunners have a plan. Plenty of shows have bui...

Once again, my favorite Father's Day anthem: Groucho Marx sings Father's Day....

One year ago today Why you should care about surveillance: We're bad at privacy because the consequences of privacy disclosures are separated by a lot of time and space from the disclosures themselve...

Neil Gaiman's 2013 young adult novel Fortunately, the Milk was a fabulous tribute to dads and their ability to troll their kids with bald-faced, outlandish lies. It's narrated by a boy whose mother is...

Pop Chart Lab's Whiskey Glasses Set is comprised of four tumblers, each of which traces the lineage of different branches of the whiskey tree (rye is a notable omission). Read the rest...

In honor of Father's Day, here's one of the great, classic animation celebrations of the pater familias: Warner Bros' Three Bears celebrate in "A Bear for Punishment."...

Zack writes, "From the horse's mouth, so to speak (read: author Peter S. Beagle): A line of clothes based on Beagle's classic fantasy novel, memorably adapted as a 1982 animated film and an IDW graphi...

The Privacy Gift Shop's Stealth Wear line is comprised of garments that stop you from being thermally imaged by drones. It comes in burqa ($2500), hijab ($550), and hoodie ($350). Stealth Wear (Than...

The inimitable Liz McGrath created "Minerva," a recycled toy robot, for the "World's Greatest ONE of ONE Custom Toy Show" curated by KMNDZ opening tonight at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, Cali...

I'm thrilled to be speaking about the intersection of science, art, and magic on Saturday, June 21, at the WebVisions Barcelona conference taking place 6/19 - 6/21! Read the rest...

Susan Brennan won the $10,000 first prize in a toilet paper wedding dress contest where the entire garment had to be constructed only from toilet paper, glue, and tape (or it can be sewn)....

The inimitable Liz McGrath created "Minerva," a recycled toy robot, for the "World's Greatest ONE of ONE Custom Toy Show" curated by KMNDZ opening tonight at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, Cali...

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

I'm thrilled to be speaking about the intersection of science, art, and magic on Saturday, June 21, at the WebVisions Barcelona conference taking place 6/19 - 6/21! Read the rest...

A Pew Study from last month found that atheism remain the most untrusted attribute in American politicians, although the degree of animosity has declined from 63% in 2007 to 53% in 2014. Read the rest...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient...

The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in R. v. Spencer sets an amazing precedent for privacy that not only reforms the worst practices of Canadian ISPs and telcos; it also annihilates the Tories' plans...

One year ago today Leaked memo details NSA talking points on Prism: It's almost as though the NSA has grown accustomed to getting its own way by sneaking around behind America's back and doing whateve...

Brady Marks exhibited his We Are with You, Mirror at the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire; it uses spinning light-up persistence-of-vision pixelboards to create a low-rez holo-tank mirror. (more…)...

Cable lobbyist turned FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has tried to "balance" his attempt to nuke Net Neutrality by promising to override state laws that prohibit cities from setting up their own broadband ne...

Robert, a Consumerist reader, called up T-Mobile to close his dead father's cellular account; the rep suggested that he should keep paying for it so he could listen to his dad's voice on the voicemail...

Mallory Ortberg (who created the excellent Squicked out alien describes human sex story) has done it again with Erotica Written By Someone With An Appropriate Sense of Privacy. Read the rest...

The Hathi Trust has won another important victory in its court battles against the Authors Guild over the right of academic libraries to scan books under the banner of fair use. Hathi creates full-tex...

If a creepy dude is insistently demanding your phone number and you want to get rid of him with style, why not give him feminist phone intervention number (+l-669-221-6251). Read the rest...

Dream Cars, an exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum, features the most amazing, doomed, gorgeous automotive designs of the automotive age. Streamlined or blobby, three-wheeled or magnificently finned,...

danah boyd points out that when kids conduct their social lives in commercial spaces, it's not because they don't care about selling out; it's because they have no other option: "In a world where they...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient...

Thinkgeek's Bombs Away Shot Glasses ($15/4) are perfect for boilermakers but would also make nice bar glass for general shots. The bases are weighted metal, while the tops are plastic. Bombs Away Shot...

[Video Link] Andy Ihnatko can come up with interesting things to say about anything you put in front of him. Read the rest...

Image: Robert Arn, for NASA.Friday the 13th, 2014: A rare "honey moon" in the sky. Junes full moon is known by that name because of all the full moons each year, it is most likely to give off an amber...

Home Target Range! What could possibly go wrong? asks Matt Maranian. Read the rest...

In MIT Technology review, a feature about how an infant delivered last week in California is believed to be the first healthy human born in the USA "with his entire genetic makeup deciphered in advanc...

Photo: Reuters.If you're planning to fly on American, Delta, or United, and carry a piece of luggage on board, better check the size. All three airlines have announced plans to reduce the acceptable m...

As the New York Times recently reported, the Supreme Court has a habit of silently altering its rulings on its websites. Now, the @SCOTUS_servo feed will alert you when this happens, with links to the...

The Economist interviewed cognitive scientist professor Gerd Gigerenzer of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, author of a new book called Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions, about how...

Cognitive scientist professor Gerd Gigerenzer of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development is the author of a new book called Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions, about how we frequently make ...

Officials at an Army base in Colorado are investigating white supremacist flyers found on the base and posted to Reddit. Read the rest...

Home Target Range! What could possibly go wrong? asks Matt Maranian. Read the rest...

I found this puzzle on Miss Cellania's website. (more…)...

These young folks have a lot of fun throwing a big hunk of sodium into a pond. If you're impatient, forward to the boom at :53....

is a new game where "you get to do all of the things that a mountain does, which Im sure appeals to all of your darkest and most disgusting fantasies." Previously: Goat Simulator....

"Fake band t-shirts for history's greatest minds." (more…)...

The Hairpin's Nadia Connor on women's attire in the seven kingdoms: "As in all regimes which deny civic and personal agency to women, costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register unava...

Boing Boing reader Miguel Jaramillo sends word of a crowdfunding campaign with which I am fully on board: A Breaking Bad fan-fest. Read the rest...

The work of Ben Frost. If you're in Los Angeles, check out more of his paintings on packages in his show at Sozer Gallery through June 27, 2014. I seriously want to buy every single piece. Read the ...

AJ Jacobs is getting ready to host the world's largest family reunion. He has invited Barack Obama, who is his aunt's fifth great aunt's husband's father's wife's 7th great nephew. And since you are A...

AP: "The president did not specify what options he was considering, but he ruled out sending American troops back into combat in Iraq. Suggestion: just dip a trillion dollars in napalm and let the fla...

Ryan Heshka announces his first solo art installation project, presented by the Wieden + Kennedy Gallery in Portland, Oregon. "For this show, Heshka resurrects his Mean Girls characters: a band of vic...

2014 works from Agostino Arrivabene, an artist who lives and works in Gradella di Pandino, Italy. The images in this series are oil paintings; some on wood, some on brass, many of them with gold. Read...

The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum in Cazenovia, New York is the world's largest publicly-viewable private collection of models made as part of patent applications. The museum's new book, Inv...

A sample of the amazing images created by Martn De Pasquale, digital retouching genius based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read the rest...

A Tumblog of Greatness: "Use Sparingly." "jargon: a business dialect spoken by many but understood by few."...

When Carla Sinclair was offered a free hypnotism session, she jumped at the chance. "I wanted to see if a hypnotherapist could actually put me in an altered state of some kind. I wasnt sure what to e...

(via Imaginary Foundation)...

I found this puzzle on Miss Cellania's website. (more…)...

Carla Sinclair falls under the spell of a hypnotist. Read the rest...

Look magazine's 1968 mini-documentary about 2001: A Space Odyssey, titled "A Look Behind The Future." (via Laughing Squid)...

Actress and gamer Aisha Tyler hosted game developer Ubisoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The company was recently criticized for not animating female assassi...

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Thinkgeek's Ghost Pepper Super Hot Candy Balls ($10 for about 44 balls) are red-hot candy balls dusted and infused with powdered Bhut Jolokia (ghost pepper) and Trinidad Scorpion Pepper, coming in at ...

Last weekend, the very first Science Hack Day in Colombia was held inMedelln. I had the privilege of attending the event and was struck byhow incredibly dedicated all of the attendees were. Read the ...

From the YouTube description: "Manka Faith's Christian pop superstars Tween Jesus & Me have struck gold yet again with "Pagan Atheists." [Video link. Thanks, Jill!]...

Scientists are studying the sites of seasonal religious celebrations, like Rishikesh in India, to understand how human travel helps spread antibiotic resistance around the globe. ...

Zika virus — a mosquito-borne illness that we discovered in lab samples almost 20 years before we identified a case in humans. ...

The game Alan Turing actually proposed: A man and a computer compete to see who is better at pretending to be a woman. As judged by men. In 1950. Hilarity ensues. ...

Paleontologists are not the people who dig up dinosaur bones. That's oryctologists. Some paleontologists are also oryctologists. But not all. And plenty of oryctologists don't do paleontology. ...

Every so often, somebody comes up with a plan for finding and removing the particles of plastic that litter our oceans and accumulate in "garbage patch" gyres. These plans meet with great acclaim ......

Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl kids' comics are a huge favorite around these parts. In The Return of Zita the Space Girl, Hatke wraps up his first story arc in a way that can only be called an absolu...

Paleontologists are not the people who dig up dinosaur bones. That's oryctologists. Some paleontologists are also oryctologists. But not all. And plenty of oryctologists don't do paleontology....

The game Alan Turing actually proposed: A man and a computer compete to see who is better at pretending to be a woman. As judged by men. In 1950. Hilarity ensues....

Zika virus — a mosquito-borne illness that we discovered in lab samples almost 20 years before we identified a case in humans....

Scientists are studying the sites of seasonal religious celebrations, like Rishikesh in India, to understand how human travel helps spread antibiotic resistance around the globe....

The answer to that question was not exactly what I was expecting. Time has a couple interactive charts that visualize the changes. Here's some interesting things I learned ... Read the rest...

In 2009 a Philadelphia high school remotely spied on students through laptop webcams, wrongfully accusing one teenager of taking drugs. 50,000 photos later, the hammer finally came down on the peepin...

Carla Sinclair falls under the spell of a hypnotist. Read the rest...

The editorial board of the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation has threatened to resign because the academic journal's corporate owners, Taylor and Francis, have ordered them not to pu...

One year ago today By His Things Will You Know Him: A sad story about the Internet of Things, written for the Institute for the Future's "Coming Age of Networked Matter" (podcast, too! Read the rest...

Michael sez, "One of my all-time favourite composers was a blind street musician, Louis T Hardin, who went by the stage name Moondog and who performed on the streets of Manhattan from the 1940s throug...

Thinkgeek's Bombs Away Shot Glasses ($15/4) are perfect for boilermakers but would also make nice bar glass for general shots. The bases are weighted metal, while the tops are plastic. Bombs Away Shot...

As the New York Times recently reported, the Supreme Court has a habit of silently altering its rulings on its websites. Now, the @SCOTUS_servo feed will alert you when this happens, with links to the...

From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Tau Zero's Tesseract Crossing, a street-sign from the parallel universe of awesome. (more…)...

Carla Sinclair falls under the spell of a hypnotist. Read the rest...

Apple has announced that it will spoof the MAC addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti-tracking measure, a change that, while welcome, is "an umbrella in a hurricane" according to a good ...

In January of 1942, as the U.S was entering World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist (and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt) named Lytle Adams submitted the design of a new weapon to the White House, suggesting...

Mr. Hunt speaking at an earlier public meeting. Photo: Los Angeles Times.The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $215,000 to settle a free-speech lawsuit brought by a Venice boardwalk vendor who was...

In January of 1942, as the U.S was entering World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist (and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt) named Lytle Adams submitted the design of a new weapon to the White House, suggesting...

Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former Romanian taxi driver, has been indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges that he is responsible for the crimes of the hacker "Guccifer." Read the rest...

"Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off ...

(via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival)...

(via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival)...

The images were created for an ad campaign promoting Sony's new 4K televisions. Read the rest...

Tic Tac Tome is a book thats smart enough to play tic-tac-toe with you no batteries required. You start on the first page by deciding which of the 9 spots to place your X. Read the rest...

Joris writes, "I did an interview with Scott Summit who designs beautiful 3D printed fairings and back braces. 3D printing lets the customer customize them and makes the orthopedic implant become much...

John Edgar Park, director of digital production & technology at DisneyToon Studios, photographed the contents of his travel bag for Cool Tools. It's filled with great and useful items: a sleep ma...

Spanish artist Nuria Riaza creates magical ballpoint portraits. (via Hi-Fructose) Read the rest...

Spanish artist Nuria Riaza creates magical ballpoint portraits. (via Hi-Fructose) Read the rest...

Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics for Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." (via Dangerous Minds)...

Trailer for "Better Out Than In."...

Tumblr's Zombie Disney Princess tag is a rich seam of transgressive, gruesome, wonderful (and thoroughly unauthorized) creativity (above: Leimanaang). The stylistic variation is what (metaphorically) ...

While on assignment in the Philippines, reporter Miles OBrien had an accident and lost his left arm. In the weeks that followed, he learned that every movement, no matter how small, requires rethinkin...

Lund University engineering student Fredrik Leifland is testing a prototype biometric payment system based on vein matching, scanning and analyzing the blood vessels in the surface of the hand. (Lund ...

Is that a goat or is it the Ayahuasca? John Wilcock reports from Mexico. A comic by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall. Read the rest...

Intimate scenes of daily life observed via a high angle shot. Read the rest...

RIP, Poppy.Poppy, the worlds oldest cat, has died at the ripe old cat age of 24. Read the rest...

In Canada, researchers have discovered one of the most lethal forms of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for the first time in a food product: raw squid. Read the rest...

The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys play a rousing old-timey jazz rendition of The Game Of Thrones Theme....

RIP, Poppy.Poppy, the worlds oldest cat, has died at the ripe old cat age of 24. More at the Guinness Book of World Records....

At Southern Fried Science, David Shiffman helpfully corrects recent news headlines to remove anti-shark rhetoric and hysteria....

Here's something strange and beautiful from the archives of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, whose researchers demonstrated that the peculiar appearance of deep-sea fish Macropinna "barre...

Jasmina Tesanovic ventures into the "Palace of Corruption" where deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych partied and gloried in graft while the #Euromaidan raged on his doorstep. Tesanovic was ...

"I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that," Republican Texas governor Rick Perry said in remarks yesterday broadcast on a local televisi...

From Shorpy: Washington, D.C., circa 1929. "No caption [radio set]." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. (more…)...

"Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advance...

Leif Podhajsky: Ascension, Mixed Media, 2011Above and below, some of the fantastic work you'll find on Leif Podhajsky's website. His work "explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and...

A still from a 2011 video posted online that showed Marines urinating on dead bodies. [Reuters]"In an apparent expansion of the governments secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the classific...

My ZOMGTERRISTSGONNAKILLUSALLRUNHIDE TSA tee-shirt (of Poop Strong fame) is available in tote-bag form, a fact I had somehow missed!...

My ZOMGTERRISTSGONNA KILLUSALLRUNHIDE TSA tee-shirt (of Poop Strong fame) is available in tote-bag form, a fact I had somehow missed!...

Big news in the fight for security and privacy in the US: the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals this week ruled that a warrant is required for cell phone location tracking. Read the rest...

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation says, "We just helped the Project of Government Oversight (POGO) install SecureDrop. As you may have seen, they were just subpoe...

An interesting look at how computing and the computing industry changes when processors no longer double in power every 18 months....

Looking at chimpanzees and bonobos demonstrates that the behavior of boys and girls is highly variable, depending on both nature and nurture....

Buried in a press release, an awesome fact: Since 2000, prevention and control measures have reduced global malaria mortality rates by 42%. Go team human!...

At Southern Fried Science, David Shiffman helpfully corrects recent news headlines to remove anti-shark rhetoric and hysteria....

From his work with the Tribune. I'm a proud member of the same union. (more…)...

Pyroclastic flows are the infamous deadly avalanches of superheated gas and debris that killed thousands at Pompeii and in the 1902 Mount Pele eruption on Martinique. Read the rest...

Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledg...

We tortured these mechanical pencils. You can probably imagine what happened next. Reviewed by William Gurstelle. Read the rest...

An interesting look at how computing and the computing industry changes when processors no longer double in power every 18 months....

Love these photos of astronauts practicing maneuvers for an asteroid mission off the coast of Key Largo....

This is a thermonuclear weapon, lodged in a field in North Carolina where it landed after falling from crashing B-52 on January 24, 1961. Read the rest...

National treasure and genius artist Dale Chihuly fights crime in this skit from Seattle's late, lamented sketch show "Almost Live!" (which, incidentally, also launched the career of Bill Nye the Scien...

Last night a delivery person showed up wearing this amazing Big Lebowski Medina Sod bowling jersey. Quality and finish were real bowling shirt-esque and not cheap costume. You could, and he does, wear...

Automata builder Dug North sez, "I combined my love of clocks with my affinity for wooden monsters to create this monster clock with moving eyes. Read the rest...

Tumblr's Zombie Disney Princess tag is a rich seam of transgressive, gruesome, wonderful (and thoroughly unauthorized) creativity (above: Leimanaang). The stylistic variation is what (metaphorically) ...

Here's "the world's biggest" list of how animal noises are written in the world's languages, from bees to woodcocks, from Danish to Urdu. Read the rest...

Though he's been dead for more than 20 years, Friedrich Hayek is the darling of the free market, practically a saint. But as Bill Black explains, Hayek's predictions -- used to justify and glorify un...

Alan sez, "The Center for Investigative Reporting's 'FOIA Machine' is hosting an Open Beta launch event Wednesday, June 25 at Mother Jones's San Francisco office. This was one of the stretch goals fro...

Edward Snowden routinely hangs around at the New York ACLU offices by means of a BEAM telepresence robot, through which he can meet with journalists for "face-to-face" interviews. During a recent inte...

Apple has announced that it will spoof the MAC addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti-tracking measure, a change that, while welcome, is "an umbrella in a hurricane" according to a good ...

In today's What If?, Randall "XKCD" Munroe tries to answer the question: "Did WWII last longer than the total length of movies about WWII? For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war tim...

The Dutch homelessness charity Badt dressed mannequins as homeless people, sawed coin-slots in their foreheads, and seeded them around Amsterdam with signs soliciting donations. It's a clever campaign...

In Egypt, a court today convicted the prominent activist and blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah on charges that he organized an unauthorized protest and "assaulted a policeman." He was sentenced to 15 years i...

MuckRock, a transparency journalism site that helps people submit public information requests to US government agencies, today revealed it is suing the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act. Read t...

From Shorpy: Washington, D.C., circa 1929. "No caption [radio set]." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. (more…)...

Shardcore, who gave us the programatically generated Hipsterbait tees, had advanced the art of autonomous, self-perpetuating Internet memes. Read the rest...

Looks like there was some creative editing applied to this Army sexual harassment prevention video produced for employees of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It's a thing of beauty. Read the rest...

Matt McClain/The Washington PostIn the Washington Post, a look at what the diary of recently-freed Taliban hostage Bowe Bergdahl, an Army soldier captured in Afghanistan, might tell us about his stat...

In Egypt, a court today convicted activist and blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah for organizing an unauthorized protest and assaulting a policeman, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Read the rest...

"You'll consume about 2 liters (just over a half gallon) of oxygen in the time it takes you to read this post. About 20 percent of that oxygen comes from photosynthesis by marine diatoms the most imp...

This chart from a 1949 issue of LIFE will help you determine if you are high-brow, upper middle-brow, lower middle-brow, or low-brow. I like wedge iceberg lettuce salad so I am lower middle-brow. (via...

Above, 'Little Apple,' a short music/comedy short by Beijing's 'Chopstick Brothers,' Xiao Yang and Wang Taili. Read the rest...

Above, 'Little Apple,' a short music/comedy short by Beijing's 'Chopstick Brothers,' Xiao Yang and Wang Taili. Read the rest...

Scio is a keyfob-sized spectrometer that can analyze food, plants, drugs, and other stuff around you. If it works as advertised I want one!...

It's great to see people making the projects in my book, Maker Dad! Thomas Beckett and his daughter did the giant bubbles project and posted this photo to Twitter....

[Video Link] The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, a PBS/NOVA web series, has a profile of astronomer and former director of SETI, Jill Tarter. She was Carl Sagan's inspiration for the main cha...

UPDATE: Police call bullshit on this widely-repeated story!A serial tickler, suspected of multiple home invasions in Boston last night, remains on the loose. Read the rest...

Scio is a keyfob-sized spectrometer that can analyze food, plants, drugs, and other stuff around you. If it works as advertised I want one!...

Camila Carlow's "Eye Heart Spleen" photo series depicts flower and plant arrangements in the form of human organs. Above: lungs; below: uterus and breasts. Read the rest...

It's great to see people making the projects in my book, Maker Dad! Thomas Beckett and his daughter did the giant bubbles project and posted this photo to Twitter....

Richard Dunn was bumped from a flight out of Las Vegas so he spent the night in the airport, and made this fun iPhone video to kill time....

Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledg...

Bobby Causey makes incredibly realistic sculptures of movie characters, some life-size, and some thumb-size. More below. (via Laughing Squid) Read the rest...

Howard Rheingold joined the Cool Tools podcast this week to discuss how his budding interest in woodworking has enriched his creative projects and led him to amass a whole new arsenal of cool tools. ...

Howard Rheingold joined the Cool Tools podcast this week to discuss how his budding interest in woodworking has enriched his creative projects and led him to amass a whole new arsenal of cool tools. ...

Ruben Bolling provides the advice that all good Americans need. Read the rest...

Contemporary psych-folk group Rose Windows from Seattle follow up last year's lovely Sun Dogs debut LP with gorgeous new 7" and digital single with two songs along with additional tour dates; listen t...

Contemporary psych-folk group Rose Windows from Seattle follow up last year's lovely Sun Dogs debut LP with gorgeous new 7" and digital single along with additional tour dates; listen to the track "Th...

Ruben Bolling provides the advice that all good Americans need. Read the rest...

A serial tickler, suspected of multiple home invasions in Boston last night, remains on the loose. One man said his roommate "felt something on his foot and thought it was the cat. He woke up to see a...

We tortured these mechanical pencils. You can probably imagine what happened next. Reviewed by William Gurstelle. Read the rest...

Howard Rheingold joined the Cool Tools podcast this week to discuss how his budding interest in woodworking has enriched his creative projects and led him to amass a whole new arsenal of cool tools. ...

Australian scientists are seeking a "mystery sea monster" that likely swallowed a 9-foot great white shark. Most likely, it was an even bigger great white shark, specifically a 2-ton "colossal canniba...

What happens when somebody pours molten gold down your throat>? Scientists replicated the results using cow parts ... because curiosity....

The fish swarm you like feeding time at the petting zoo....

This bed was not designed for cats. It's not a cat bed. They've just made use of an object that was already there. Turns out, evolutionary biology is chock full of this kind of thing. Read the rest...

One year ago today Rep. Peter King calls for prosecution of journalists covering NSA whistleblower story: Reporters who publish stories that reference leaked classified information should be prosecute...

In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences found that the common tools of forensics — bite mark analysis to ballistics — were so flawed as to be almost useless. Courts still trust them like...

MERS is Middle East respiratory syndrome — a coronavirus similar to SARS. The disease can deadly, but the disease itself isn't the only problem here. Read the rest...

The new Humble Audiobook Bundle is up, where you can name your price for audiobooks including my Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, as well as David Byrne's brilliant How Music Works (review); Chuck P...

Andrea Mears, a 24-year-old Connecticut woman, has been charged with third-degree assault and breach of peace after a teenager used his cell phone to record her assaulting him. She's heard on the vide...

Comic artist Maki Naro explains why this news story will be first against the wall when the robot revolution comes....

Australian scientists are seeking a "mystery sea monster" that likely swallowed a 9-foot great white shark. Most likely, it was an even bigger great white shark, specifically a 2-ton "colossal canniba...

The Izolyatsia makerspace in Donetsk, Ukraine, has been seized by armed, masked Russian separatists from the Donetsk People's Republic, who denounced it as "decadent" and accused it of being "an Ameri...

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JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE! You'll not only get the comic emailed to you, before publication, every week, you'll get much, MUCH, MUCH more! It's CHEAP and E-Z! AND: join Ruben Bolling o...

Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a co-operative game about firefighting for 1-6 players. Both its difficulty and its complexity are hugely adjustable, such that it's suitable for anyone from families with...

Whereas the increasingly wide grin of the Lucky Charms Leprechaun is cause for concern, the Trix rabbit's sanity seems already at breaking point. Read the rest...

An unsigned editorial in the Pensacola News Journal decries the decision of a local high-school teacher to cancel the school's One School/One Book summer reading program to stop students from reading ...

One year ago today Snowden smearing begins: David Brooks' piece is particularly grotesque, and not simply because going to it means having to look at one of his weird Zoolanderesque mugshots. Read th...

Before the modern Internet, lots of media was "rare" -- bootleg recordings, strange videos, obscure bands -- but today, nothing is rare. As a consequence, Rex Sorgatz argues, the social capital that c...

A blockbuster investigative report in The Guardian reveals that the Thai shrimp/prawn fishing industry is powered by a brutal system of slavery through which trafficked workers are bought and sold by ...

Brian says, "Jason Alexander (of stage, screen & Seinfeld) has decided to endorse the Mayday PAC." Mayday.US is the super PAC that Lawrence Lessig founded to fight campaign finance corruption by ...

In an echo of the massive breach of credit-card numbers from Target, credit-card numbers from thousands of PF Chang's customers who used their cards at the restaurant between March and May 2014 are be...

Broadband For America is an anti-Net Neutrality group entirely funded by the National Cable and Telecom Association -- Big Cable's lobbying front, that has represented itself to the FCC as a broad-ba...

As the FCC sleazes its way towards a world of cable company fuckery, Bittorrent's Join the Fastlane provides a preview of a world where your ability to get reliable access to parts of the Internet you...

That's some candy-winning costumes (moar). (via Kadrey)...

Joel Micah Harris's spectacular Super Manatee series (also available in t-shirt form) reveals a deep hidden truth about sea-cows and superheroes. Read the rest...

Following on Neko Case's latest solo album, the excellent "The Worse Things Get...," she's reunited with her supergroup bandmates in The New Pornographers to record Brill Bruisers, coming out August 2...

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I attribute the biggest gains in the quality of my home-brewing to the immersion wort chiller. Read the rest...

USA Today: "The demise of the Tea Party has been greatly exaggerated."...

USA Today: "The demise of the Tea Partyhas been greatly exaggerated."...

Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a co-operative game about firefighting for 1-6 players. Both its difficulty and its complexity are hugely adjustable, such that it's suitable for anyone from families with...

I feel that the current trends in cereal box art--the wildly distorted faces and poses, the lurid digital-airbrush modeling--have surely reached some kind of maximum....

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I attribute the biggest gains in the quality of my home-brewing to the immersion wort chiller. Read the rest...

Following on Neko Case's latest solo album, the excellent "The Worse Things Get...," she's reunited with her supergroup bandmates in The New Pornographers to record Brill Bruisers, coming out August 2...

A real-life mock Mars mission created by NASA and the European Space Agency to test the psychological stresses of long-distance space travel has inspired an action movie starring comedian-turned-serio...

$4,306 raised of $12,500 goal on Indiegogo....

I feel that the current trends in cereal box art--the wildly distorted faces and poses, the lurid digital-airbrish modeling--have surely reached some kind of maximum....

The National Security Agency is using a new argument for not retaining the data it gathers about users' online activity: The NSA is just too complex. Read the rest...

JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE! You'll not only get the comic emailed to you, before publication, every week, you'll get much, MUCH, MUCH more! It's CHEAP and E-Z! AND: join Ruben Bolling o...

Following on Neko Case's latest solo album, the excellent "The Worse Things Get...," she's reunited with her supergroup bandmates in The New Pornographers to record Brill Bruisers, coming out August 2...

Volkswagen and ad agency Ogilvy Beijing created this powerful and sneaky PSA for moviegoers in China, to warn of the dangers of being distracted by your smartphone while driving. We don't know that th...

Jason Mecier, an artist best known for his candy portraits of pop culture figures, has a show of new works at SWEET! in Hollywood, June 25 through Sept 25, 2014. Read the rest...

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"Sifting through puddles from the firehose of last weeks American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting brought to my attention some promising news from the world of ovarian cancer," writes Davi...

Ocean scientist Andrew David Thaler reveals his new DIY science education project: "Bad Gas." (more…)...

The work of Birgit R. Deubner: "Chorus / in vain I will away," part of a series. Read the rest...

Kevin McFarland reviews an unusual, action-packed episode that takes place almost entirely in and around a single location. Read the rest...

Video: "The Secrets of Strangers," directed by Rocsi Diaz (106th + Park, Entertainment Tonight). Read the rest...

In 1964, Margaret Howe Lovatt, working with psychedelic dolphin researcher John Lilly, began to live with one of the animals full-time as part of a NASA-funded study about interspecies communication; ...

Medicine starts with cells in a petri dish. But, increasingly, scientists are realizing they've been studying the wrong cells, writes Maggie Koerth-Baker. Read the rest...

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before th...

Harvard University librarian John Overholt made an animated GIF from a 1722 geometrical treatise "that attempts to explore every arrangement of square tiles bisected diagonally with black and white sh...

The T-249 switch used to arm nuclear bombs on Strategic Air Command bomber aircraft. Photo courtesy of Glenn's Computer Museum.A recently declassified Sandia National Lab report published by the Natio...

Ford and Heinz are teaming up to turn leftover tomato bits into a plant-based plastic for auto parts. (UPI)...

Asylum Art has a gallery of work by Ayaka Ito and Randy Church. Gorgeous. Read the rest...

In 1964, Margaret Howe Lovatt, working with psychedelic dolphin researcher John Lilly, began to live with one of the animals full-time as part of a NASA-funded study about interspecies communication; ...

Beautiful clips of lightning in slow motion. (via Devour)...

In addition to being quirky, depressed, and bottomless vessels for alcohol, writers are also especially attuned to loss, says writer Rory Flynn. To prove his theory, Flynn conducted some high-level r...

Tonky (previously) has created a line of "Rydesafe" arty safety buttons made from an engineering-grade reflective film that he's Kickstarting. $5 gets you a button, $14 gets you a kit of four. I'm gu...

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[Video Link] If you need more information about sharpening pencils, refer to Mr. Rees' How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for W...

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before th...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "After scouring American police departments (via public records requests) for drone usage, MuckRock is setting its sights a little lower with a crowdfunding campaign hoping ...

Thinkgeek's Ewok Ladies Hooded Tank Top ($35) is all cotton and tumble-dry. And adorable. (more…)...

"What's this day of rest shit? What's this bullshit? I don't fuckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus." -- Jesus QunitanaHe also tells you not to "fuck with the Jesus." I have Water and the Dude from se...

[Via] "Jackie Brown told Polk County Sheriff's deputies his brother uprooted several cannabis plants in varying lengths up to three feet and starting hitting him in the face with them."...

Derek Keenan's AT-AT made from old skateboards is part of the Deathstar Blues show at Denver's Black Book Gallery. It sells for $2,000. Deathstar Blues (via Super Punch)...

Welcome to ClickHole. I wonder how long it'll take The Onion to realize that clickbait parody is good for maybe three joke stories a year. [via]...

Robopocalypse was one of the best science fiction reads of 2011; now roboticist/science fiction writer Daniel H Wilson is back with a terrifying and technologically rigorous sequel, Robogenesis, whos...

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before th...

In addition to being quirky, depressed, and bottomless vessels for alcohol, writers are also especially attuned to loss, says writer Rory Flynn. To prove his theory, Flynn conducted some high-level r...

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago...

BBC presenter Kate Russell's first science fiction novel is Elite: Mostly Harmless, a novelization of the classic video game Elite, whose production was successfully kickstarted last year. One of the ...

Oh Joy Sex Toy, our favorite webcomic for perverts, is Kickstarting a book collecting its first year's worth of comics! $10 gets you a PDF, $35 gets you the printed book. Read the rest...

Tim Harford investigates the field of "happynomics" through which economists attempt to devise policies that make people happier, and does an excellent job of sorting the evidence-based approaches fro...

In Chimpanzee choice rates in competitive games match equilibrium game theory predictions, a paper in Nature by Colin Camerer and colleagues, researchers document the astounding performance of chimpan...

Excellent advice!A PSA...

Bruce Sterling's in Kiev, where he toured deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's lavish, notorious palace, camera in hand: he's posted his photoset capturing everything from the gardens to th...

Tim Bray's Trusting Browser Code explores the political and technical problems with trusting your browser, especially when you're using it to do sensitive things like encrypt and decrypt your email. I...

Kawasaki's Warehouse arcade, near Yokohama, is a fantastically detailed, gritty recreation of the old walled city of Kowloon, near Hong Kong. The Tokyo Times photos depict a place that's like a fever...

Last week's news that the principal of Pensacola, FL's Booker T Washington High School had cancelled its One School/One Book summer reading program rather than have his students read my novel Little B...

Thomas Piketty's much-discussed economics bestseller Capital in the Twenty First Century prophesies a future where inherited wealth dominates the world, because the rate of return on capital outstrips...

Clickbait Dissertations builds on the excellent work of Lolomythesis, but this time, rather than distilling their doctoral work to a single line of snark, grad students are asked to compress their sc...

In the runup to WWII (and during it) Dadaist photographer John Heartfield and his collaborator George Grosz produced a startling series of anti-Nazi collages that echo through to today's practice of...

A review in the New Republic of volume two of the authorized biography of Robert A Heinlein takes the biographer, William H Patterson, to task for his uncritical approach to Heinlein's famously all-ov...

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has told the Obama administration that its leaders will go to jail rather than respond to an extrajudicial administrative subpoena seeking the identity of wh...

"The email attachment looked like a brochure for a yoga studio in Toulouse, France, the center of the European aerospace industry. But once it was opened, it allowed hackers to sidestep their victims ...

"I had my headphones on," said Wyatt Schrepfer, 18. Read the rest...

The Coyote.In the WSJ, a feature about a specialized drone that could help scientists better predict the intensity of tornados and hurricanes. Read the rest...

Photo: "Depressed woman covering her face by the hands over dark wall," Shutterstock.A new Gallup poll says Americans who are unemployed are about twice as likely as Americans who have jobs to be depr...

Arthur Zilberstein. (Facebook)Washington state health officials have suspended the license of anesthesiologist and surgeon Arthur Zilberstein for sexting during surgeries, and accessing medical images...

"Eleven-week old Landseer pup Dethan encounters the denizens of an aquarium." (more…)...

Over at 50 Watts, a must-follow tumblr (and everything else), a splendid collection of 30 Japanese movie posters from the 1930s to the 1970s. Read the rest...

In rural Indiana, police agencies with smaller budgets are buying military surplus equipment, including tanks. By and large, these counties have no formal policy about when or how they can be used aga...

Evelyn Bencicova: Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram. Read the rest...

I just found my copy of Richard Z. Chesnoff's Pack of Thieves: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History. This is one of the most chilling books I've ever re...

Dumpster diving in Antarctica. Photo: Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun.At the Antarctic Sun, a publication about US research bases on the southernmost continent, a feature on "Skua," the culture of reuse a...

Dumpster diving in Antarctica. Photo: Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun.At the Antarctic Sun, a publication about US research bases on the southernmost continent, a feature on "Skua," the culture of reuse a...

Georgia slaves Ellen and William Craft made a daring bid for freedom in 1848: Ellen dressed as a white man and, attended by William as her servant, undertook a perilous 1,000-mile journey by carriage...

HEADLINE CORRECTED BASED ON NEW INFORMATION, SEE UPDATE BELOW:A man dressed as a gorilla at a Tenerife, Spain zoo who was participating in a drill was mistakenly shot with a dart containing a massive ...

Eugene Goostman, a program simulating a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, has attained a 33% success rate at the annual RSA Turing Test competition, meaning that a third of the judges were fooled into thinki...

My wife says she always thought of Chewbacca as a space sasquatch; I just spotted this delightful "Bigfoot of Endor" t-shirt on Neatorama! Read the rest...

My wife says she always thought of Chewbacca as a space sasquatch; I just spotted this "Bigfoot of Endor" t-shirt on Neatorama! Read the rest...

My friend Jonathan Koshi created a series of striking graphite drawings of tagged doorways he encountered in Brussels, Rome, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, and Copenhagan. Read the rest...

The only thing missing from this Instructable is how to harvest curare for the dart tip....

"For the Bedouin Arab shepherds tending their flocks in Israel's Negev desert last week, it was almost as if aliens had landed from outer space." The AP reports from Midburn, Israel's first Burning M...

Visitors on a bus tour from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center make a stop at the historic Redstone test site, a National Historic Landmark at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, on Wednesday, Apr...

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before th...

Writing at TIME, my friend and fellow breast cancer survivor Lani Horn (aka Chemobabe) says whether we view cancer films like "The Fault in our Stars" as outsiders or insiders, the best movies in the...

The famously useful-but-distorting Mercator Projection, projected from anywhere in the world thanks to Drew Roos. Watching it reproject when you change origin is trippy! [via]...

California state park archaeologists excavated the burned and buried record collection of The Chosen Family, a former 1960s commune in Marin County, and were surprised that the musical tastes of the h...

Hayley Campbell (who, at age seven, worked side-by-side with her father Eddie Campbell on the graphic novel classic "From Hell") has recently published a gorgeous, authoritative book on the myriad ar...

California state park archaeologists excavated the burned and buried record collection of The Chosen Family, a former 1960s commune in Marin County, and were surprised that the musical tastes of the h...

LowRezJam challenged game developers to create games in tiny playfields of 32x32 pixels or less. As the creator of 9x9 pixel RPG TinyHack, this is a microgenre dear to my heart. Read the rest...

Simon Owens writes, "I got a chance to interview Jay Lake extensively not long before his death and wrote a long profile on him and his cancer blogging that explores the impact he's had, both on the c...

One year ago today Edward Snowden checks out of hotel, whereabouts unknown: Edward Snowden has reportedly checked out of the hotel in Hong Kong where he had holed up to leak a series of NSA documents ...

The Watchers on the Wall, Season 4, Episode 9, of HBOs Game of Thrones is all about Gore and Swords (and Giants) which makes this podcast the perfect vehicle for discussion. Read the rest...

News of the Weird's Chuck Shepherd, celebrating 25 years yesterday of his wonderful column's weekly distribution deal, posted a few of his favorite stories from the archives:(1989) In the mid 1980s, c...

Harvard engineers created a self-assembling lamp whose components are printed, including some of the electronics. Read the rest...

Here's a reading (MP3) of a recent Guardian column, 'Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance, in which I suggest that the reason to oppose mass surveillance is independent of whether it...

Rik Mayall, best known for portraying anarchist Rick in the fantastic 1980s British sitcom The Young Ones, has died. He was 56. (BBC News)...

A man dressed as a gorilla at a Tenerife, Spain zoo who was participating in a drill was mistakenly shot with a dart containing a massive dose of tranquilizer. Read the rest...

Simon Owens writes, "I got a chance to interview Jay Lake extensively not long before his death and wrote a long profile on him and his cancer blogging that explores the impact he's had, both on the c...

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Karen Hallion has turned her brilliant Princess Leia as Haunted Mansion stretch-gallery character illustration into a limited-edition t-shirt from Teefury. You can only buy it today! (There's also a p...

Last week the CIA joined Twitter with an aren't-we-cute tweet. The New York Review of Books wasn't amused. It released a barrage of tweets detailing the spy agency's criminally inhumane acts. Read th...

Kim Dotcom, proprietor of the defunct Megaupload, is convinced that the raid on his company was crooked, and he's put up a $5M bounty on information that will help him prove misdeeds on the part of th...

An anti-mass-surveillance music video by Shahid Buttar, director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Download the extended dance floor mix. Read the lyrics (annotated with hyperlinks to help you ...

Frank Wu writes, "Brianna Wu gave this awesome talk at AltConf a couple days ago about sexism in the gaming industry. No punches pulled. Discussions of all the %$#@ girls have to put up with just to...

Someone dug up the North American continent and transported it to Jupiter to create this awe-inspiring image. (Via Reality Carnival)...

Hayley Campbell (who, at age seven, worked side-by-side with her father Eddie Campbell on the graphic novel classic "From Hell") has recently published a gorgeous, authoritative book on the myriad ar...

Another find from the Contemporary Craft Festival: the beautiful and eerie everyday objects turned into wireframes by Louise Wilson, whose pieces were as much fun to look at and handle in person as y...

Karen Hallion has turned her brilliant Princess Leia as Haunted Mansion stretch-gallery character illustration into a limited-edition t-shirt from Teefury. You can only buy it today! (via Wil Wheaton)...

Retronaut rounds up a series of "exaggeration postcards" from 1907-1967, representing a golden era of visual-comedy-by-mail. Hard to characterize the Texas Jackalope card as an "exaggeration," though ...

Lidia Zuradzka, 52, of Wheeling, Illinois, was charged with burglary after entering a stranger's home and taking a can of beer. Subsequently challenged by a resident, she reportedly responded "I want ...

The famously useful-but-distorting Mercator Projection, projected from anywhere in the world thanks to Drew Roos. Watching it reproject when you change origin is trippy! [via]...

Please, Sir, calm yourself. I can tell you're angry....

Rob Beschizza gets a sneak peak at Warpo's new imemmorial-abysms-of-madness-based line of toys. Read the rest...

Hayley Campbell (who, at age seven, worked side-by-side with her father Eddie Campbell on the graphic novel classic "From Hell") has recently published a gorgeous, authoritative book on the myriad ar...

The theory of Big Data is that the numbers have an objective property that makes their revealed truth especially valuable; but as Kate Crawford points out, Big Data has inherent, lurking bias, because...

A parent in San Antonio, TX is upset that her ten year old got sunburned on a school trip because the school district forbade bringing sunscreen to school, on the grounds that a child might drink the ...

Jonathan Zittrain writes, "I published an op-ed in the Boston Globe today musing on the prospects for 'time capsule encryption,' one of several ways of storing information that renders it inaccessible...

Rural counties across Indiana have been purchasing Afghanistan-surplus tanks with gunner turrets and heavy armour; most recently, it was Johnson County, whose Sheriff, Doug Cox, justified the purchase...

Food artist Tisha Cherry transforms everyday edibles into tributes to iconic works of art; as she explains, her motivations are a combination of an affinity for bad puns and a desire to turn "the mund...

Boing Boing suggests that you buy these things for your father, paternal figure, manly individual, or person of ironically inappropriate gender or familial status for Father's Day. Read the rest...

Boing Boing suggests that you buy these things for your father, paternal figure, manly individual, or person of ironically inappropriate gender or familial status for Father's Day. Read the rest...

Boing Boing suggests that you buy these things for your father, paternal figure, manly individual, or person of ironically inappropriate gender or familial status for Father's Day. Read the rest...

John Biggs presents a vignette from the world of Mytro, his new young-adult novel about a secret train system that can take you anywhere in the world. [5m read time] Read the rest...

Serbia has been battered by two storms: first there were mass floods; then a wave of terrifying Internet censorship, which has included denial-of-service attacks, arrests over Facebook discussions of...

David Weinberger's Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many? explores many philosophical conundra regarding self-driving cars, including the possibility that the rich and powerful mig...

Serbia has been battered by two storms: first there were mass floods; then a wave of terrifying Internet censorship, which has included denial-of-service attacks, arrests over Facebook discussions of...

One year ago today NSA whistleblower goes public: Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old NSA contractor and ex-CIA employee, has revealed that he is behind the series of leaks that have appeared in the Guardi...

Thinkgeek sells a line of Star Wars loungers (Boba Fett, Stormtrooper, Darth Vader, $70 each) made of 60% cotton/40% polyester blend -- they're basically Star Wars kigurumis, with two front pockets an...

"You can ring my bell."Video Link...

Spotted at the Contemporary Craft Fair, the amazing teapots of Rylatt of Wales: improbably shaped ceramics with metallic, dark glazes. I wheedled my wife into getting me one for my upcoming birthday, ...

Solidwool is a company from Devon, England that mixes traditional Devon wool with bioresins to make a wool-based, fiberglass-like composite that can be use in furniture construction. Read the rest...

Serbia has been battered by two storms: first there were mass floods; then a wave of terrifying Internet censorship, which has included denial-of-service attacks, arrests over Facebook discussions of...

John Biggs presents a vignette from the world of Mytro, his new young-adult novel about a secret train system that can take you anywhere in the world. [5m read time] Read the rest...

Caroline Siede reviews the latest episode of the BBCs clone drama Read the rest...

Serbia has been battered by two storms: first there were mass floods; then wave of terrifying Internet censorship, which has included denial-of-service attacks, arrests over Facebook discussions of t...

Caroline Siede reviews the latest episode of the BBCs clone drama Read the rest...

Carl Malamud sez, "This 1966 military film on good style in sending Morse Code is a real hoot. 38k views on YouTube and another 3.6k on the Internet Archive. Read the rest...

London's property bubble has got people energetically expanding their property, digging out sub-basements -- and the insane bubblenomics of London housebuilding are such that it's cheaper to just bur...

Dystopia Tracker collects the "predictions"* of science fictional dystopias and examines the ways in which they've come true. You can add your own, or suggest ways in which they've come to pass. Read...

One year ago today Another Top Secret leak: Obama's cyber-war hit-list: Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian have published details of another Top Secret US surveillance/security document. Read the rest...

More than 90% of Americans believe that the US government is unduly influenced by money, and the Mayday.US super PAC is raising $5M to fund the election campaigns of politicians who'll pledge to disma...

Caroleine Siede reviews the latest episode of the BBCs clone drama Read the rest...

Via AZ Central: "Barker, 65, has received a letter from an attorney for the Maricopa Association of Governments demanding that she "immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings." She has b...

Via AZ Central: "Barker, 65, has received a letter from an attorney for the Maricopa Association of Governments demanding that she "immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings." She has b...

Thanks to all of you and our sponsors at Ford who enabled us to create the Happy Mutant Mobile, a heavily-mutated 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon into what we (and you) imagined for a Boing Boing road...

He lost the manual! This weekend I am watching the Greatest American Hero! Read the rest...

Via AZ Central: "Barker, 65, has received a letter from an attorney for the Maricopa Association of Governments demanding that she "immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings." She has be...

More than 90% of Americans believe that the US government is unduly influenced by money, and the Mayday.US super PAC is raising $5M to fund the election campaigns of politicians who'll pledge to disma...

I loved The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance, a collection of weird laws from around the world by Kevin Underhill of Lowering the Bar [review|excerpt]. Now I bring the glad tidings that it's available in...

This melting paraffin man is is an untitled piece by Urs Fischer, who does a lot of amazing life-sized paraffin pieces. (via Crazy Abalone)...

One year ago today Leaked NSA slide-deck claims that NSA has "direct access" to servers at Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, and many others: The Guardian and The Washington Post have both been l...

British telecom Vodafone released a report today revealing that a number of governments around the world can tap directly into its network to spy on users. Read the rest...

From Micah F. Lee: "Our universe is built out of mathematics. Humans have been learning, discovering, and using mathematics for thousands of years because its the only thing that can accurately descri...

Video Link, via d0gbl0g.tumblr.com.cows: look at this tiny cow is he okay?dog: these big dogs are pretty cool...

A moving truck is struck by lightning in Alberta, Canada. The couple inside were rescued by police, according to ABC News....

Naomi Horn, 14, reviews the film adaptation of John Green's best-selling book about young adults with cancer who find love. Naomi is no stranger to cancer: her mom is a survivor, and others in her f...

[Video Link] I love this power-pop ditty from Recess Monkey. It's called "Wired," which is also the name of their new album. Read the rest...

Astronaut Steve Swanson, who is currently serving as commander of the ISS, designed original artwork for the Expedition 40 crew patch which pays homage to Star Trek. Read the rest...

At the end of a week that marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Boing Boing reader Joe Gordon shares photos of a wonderful book in his personal collection, in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the re...

The @Savedyouaclick Twitter account decodes linkbaity headlines so you don't have to click on things that aren't likely interesting to you. Read the rest...

Sexism. RT @Slate: What we found while lurking on an anonymous college message board for two years will disgust you:— Saved You A Click (@SavedYouAClick) June 5, 2014The @Savedyouaclick Twitter ...

[Video Link] "A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere." You took the words right out of my mouth, Burt....

A San Francisco woman with the moniker "Rat Girl" engages in an unusual pastime: "breeding hundreds of rats in her home and then releasing them into public parks." Authorities say they are powerless ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency this week expanded its operations online by launching Twitter and Facebook accounts. Read the rest...

[Video Link] I hope no one was seriously injured....

Felt artist Hin Mizushima shares "Giant Squid Takes His Pet Slug Camping" in the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Read the rest...

One of my favorite exhibits at San Francisco's Exploratorium is the huge tornado generator. Now, a similar desktop model is available for $225: American Educational's Teaching Tornado (via Laughing Sq...

This week, NASA beamed a high-def video from the International Space Station to Earth, a distance of 260 miles, using a new laser communications instrument. Read the rest...

Thanks to all of you and our sponsors at Ford who enabled us to create the Happy Mutant Mobile, a heavily-mutated 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon into what we (and you) imagined for a Boing Boing road...

One of my favorite exhibits at San Francisco's Exploratorium is the huge Tornado generator. Now, a similar desktop model is available for $225: American Educational's Teaching Tornado (via Laughing Sq...

A moving truck is struck by lightning in Alberta, Canada. The couple inside were rescued by police, according to ABC News....

I just picked up a vinyl copy of Psych-Out, the phenomenal soundtrack to the classic 1968 hippie exploitation flick starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, and Susan Strasberg! To celebrate, let's have a...

When you work from home, do you produce better results in pajamas or professional attire? Do casual Fridays damage productivity? Does a jeans-and-T-shirt startup have an edge over its business-casual...

(click image to embiggen) This wonderfully cute yet sophisticated cookbook for children reminds me of when I took my picky 3-year-old to Paris. 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...

(click image to embiggen) This wonderfully cute yet sophisticated cookbook for children reminds me of when I took my picky 3-year-old to Paris. Read the rest...

Toronto's Parkdale Hookers International Inc, "a business conglomerate, hedge fund and punk rock group" have released Multi Media World, a great punk-anthem single from their new album Echo Bubble Ove...

Here's my jam today: the Comedian Harmonists' "Mein Kleiner Grner Kaktus," in a modern arrangement performed with a choir and orchestra at a concert hall in Maastricht. If this doesn't put you in a go...

Starting at 11:20 Central, you can listen Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Weber and me talk about how human experimentation has created medicine as we know it — for good and for ill....

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...

I'm fascinated by conspiracy theories and their origins. I'm also fascinated by the real people behind click-bait and spam email scams. Read the rest...

One year ago today Picture Day: wry, superb coming-of-age movie: Picture Day is one of the best movies I saw last year. Read the rest...

In this fake letter produced by Steve Cox for this very funny Films That Almost Got Made That Time Forgot piece, Stanley Kubrick writes to James T. Read the rest...

"When Maracan opened in 1950, in the heart of Rio, it was the worlds largest stadium And things started well enough" [NYT]...

Malise Ruthven on why Hitler failed to see the monumental Atlantic Wall would not stop the Allied invasion on D-Day....

Forbidden Island is a board game (and iOS game) where you and the other players work together to collect treasure from a rapidly sinking island. Read the rest...

Here's a CBC science piece quoting several obesity experts argues that long-term weight loss is almost impossible, saying that (uncited) meta-analyses of weight-loss intervention found that in the 5- ...

"Over the course of four hours, he phoned 911 seven times." Like you do....

Starting at 11:20 Central, you can listen Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Weber and me talk about how human experimentation has created medicine as we know it &mdash for good and for ill....

Thinkgeek's Rocket Fuel Pour-Over Coffee Drip ($10) is a great, science-fictional way to make your single-cup pour-overs. Why flange when you can fin? It's made by the fine folks at Gama-Go....

Vince Dorse, creator of Untold Tales of Bigfoot, made this wonderful comic about the Haunted Mansion as a birthday card for his mother (click through below for the whole strip).Haunted Man/Son...

"Over the course of four hours, he phoned 911 seven times." Like you do....

I have been working on this trick by Robert E. Neale. A slightly shortened version of it is detailed in his book Life, Death and Other Card Tricks...

"Funkin' is a thing that all of us release."Video Link...

The principal of Booker T Washington High in Pensacola FL cancelled the school's One School/One Book summer reading program rather than letting all the kids go through with the previously approved as...

The principal of Booker T Washington High in Pensacola FL cancelled the school's One School/One Book summer reading program rather than letting all the kids go through with the previously approved as...

Robbo writes, "My friend, SF author J.M. Frey, posted this curious thing she found where a detail in Hieronymus Bosch's painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' features musical notation inscribed on...

Here's a CBC science piece quoting several obesity experts argues that long-term weight loss is almost impossible, saying that (uncited) meta-analyses of weight-loss intervention found that in the 5- ...

Using special books full of pieces of paper that instruct banks to begin the arduous process of moving numbers from one computer to another, or whatever, is a thing of the past....

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about superior shoelace replacements, a rubber band loom...

A preview of the painter's June 14, 2014 gallery show. Read the rest...

The principal of Booker T Washington High in Pensacola FL cancelled the school's One School/One Book summer reading program rather than letting all the kids go through with the previously approved as...

2600's Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "This summer's HOPE X conference has added another major whistleblower to its schedule: Thomas Drake, who was charged under the Espionage Act in 2010 after revealing ...

Wallethub compared the direct and indirect federal subsidy to all 50 states and DC by comparing federal taxes remitted; federal funding as a fraction of state revenue; and number of federal jobs per c...

Romanian Legoist Mihai Marius Mihu's Nine Circles of Hell creations are the perfect companion to the Dante for Fun picture books that retell the Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio for children. Read th...

Let the People Draw the Lines Act, a bill introduced by Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), would appoint panels of independent experts to adjust electoral district boundaries in an attempt to remove the "safe sea...

Jennifer Urban sez, "I'm happy to say that the Samuelson Clinic at Berkeley has just released a handbook to help folks research whether older items (pre-1978) are still under copyright in the U.S., or...

Shardcore sez, "Today I directed some robot actors in a production of the first five minutes of Waiting for Godot. Get ready theatre nerds, this is the future..."Waiting for Godot(Thanks, Shardcore!)...

A CBC science piece quoting several obesity experts argues that long-term weight loss is almost impossible, saying that (uncited) meta-analyses of weight-loss intervention found that in the 5- to 10-y...

Dhondup Wangchen after his release from prison, Qinghai province, China, June 5, 2014. [VOA]Tibetan documentary filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen has been freed from prison. In 2008, he was jailed in China ...

As more of us use mobile services like Yelp, Kayak, and Shazam to find what we need when we're out and about, Google is losing its edge in mobile search. That's the gist of a new report from analytics...

Michael Egan III, a former aspiring model/actor, has withdrawn a lawsuit that charged David Neuman with sexually abusing him during trips to Hawaii in 1999. Read the rest...

EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Free Software Foundation and The Tor Project have launched The Tor Challenge, a campaign to encourage people to run Tor nodes. "Tor is a powerful tool that helps...

In 1961, John Wilcock wrote a travel guide for visiting Mexico on a budget, resulting in a bestselling book that became a significant part of 1960s vagabond culture. Part one of a two-part appreciati...

Every year, thousands of shipping containers are lost to the briny deep. Maggie Koerth-Baker on the strange new homes they create for marine creatures. Read the rest...

Today is the day we Reset the Net! It's been one year since the Edward Snowden disclosures hit the news and the whole world woke up to the scale of mass, indiscriminate Internet surveillance -- a spy...

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about superior shoelace replacements, a rubber band loom...

TV Land's Celebrate Alice marathon airs Saturday, June 7th, 6am-6pm ET/PT.blockquoteJoin TV Land this Saturday, June 7th, in celebrating Ann B. Read the rest...

TV Land's Celebrate Alice marathon airs Saturday, June 7th, 6am-6pm ET/PTblockquoteJoin TV Land this Saturday, June 7th, in celebrating Ann B. Read the rest...

Lisa Butterworth of Etsy interviewed me about my new book, Maker Dad.As a dad whos done these projects with your daughters, what would you tell other dads about what they might get out of making thin...

Condi, not satisfied with just reading your documents, buys secret chat company; NSA backdoor to follow....

"Julieta," a photo by Boing Boing reader Marcello Horta, shared in our Flickr Pool....

Sarah Jeong has the absolute funniest mockery of NYT columnist Maureen Dowd's silly "I ate 16 times too much marijuana while alone in a hotel room therefore drugs are bad" column. Read the rest...

Most interesting infographic of the day, via the Washington Post, which also published an even more detailed breakdown by county. Read the rest...

The ISP warned the movie service to stop after it began telling users that Verizon's network was too congested to provide high-quality streams....

The Atlantic's Steven Heller's feature about the Jewish designers at the forefront of mid-century modernism, from George Nelson to Saul Bass to Alvin Lustig is pegged on a new exhibition titled Design...

A hacking incident may have affected the personal data of thousands of South Koreans employed by the US military. "Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, commander of U.S. Forces in South Korea, apologized Thurs...

Sarah Jeong has the absolute funniest mockery of NYT columnist Maureen Dowd's silly "I ate 16 times too much marijuana while alone in a hotel room therefore drugs are bad" column. Read the rest...

"The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference." Read the rest...

An actor and dancer who performed as a hip hop hamster in viral Kia car ads has been charged with fraud. (more…)...

Our guest Maria Konnikova is a New Yorker contributing writer. She covers science and psychology for The Atlantic, and The New York Times. We spoke to her about her book, Mastermind: How to Think L...

In 1961, John Wilcock wrote a travel guide for visiting Mexico on a budget, resulting in a bestselling book that became a significant part of 1960s vagabond culture. Part one of a two-part appreciati...

Joseph E. Baker's "Witch No. 1" (1892) is a stunning lithograph illustrating the imagined events that are part of the mythology of the horrific Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. Read the r...

Hubble Ultra Deep Field Cat. So many galaxies! Read the rest...

Artist Diemut Strebe and scientist collaborators have "regrown" Vincent van Gogh's missing ear using cells from one of the painter's distant living relatives. Read the rest...

The Mothership made famous in George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic golden years will soon be available for viewing at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC....

Legal is a new bottled cold brew coffee drink augmented with cannabis extract, brewed in Washington state where marijuana is legal. (via Laughing Squid)...

Artist Mike Gong creates detailed, psychedlic designs inside hand-formed glass marbles. Shown here, his 'Acid Eaters' series. Read the rest...

Libby writes, "Today the Free Software Foundation is releasing Email Self-Defense, a guide to personal email encryption to help everyone, including beginners, make the NSA's job a little harder. Read...

The Nimbus e-car is a concept hybrid bus, designed by Eduardo Galvani. It must be inspired by the classic VW!...

Nothing captured the spirit of 1964-era optimism better than General Electrics Carousel of Progress, perhaps the World Fairs most popular exhibit.But the life of leisure it promised was a big con, s...

Every year, thousands of shipping containers are lost to the briny deep. Maggie Koerth-Baker on the strange new homes they create for marine creatures. Read the rest...

When Stephen Harper's petrotories yanked funding from the Experimental Lakes Area -- Canada's answer to the Large Hadron Collider, a captive ecosystem where some of the world's most important environm...

Shopjustwish has a great line of Library Due Date Card tees: there's a women's tee ($20), a men's tee ($20), and even kid sizes ($15). Read the rest...

Every year, thousands of shipping containers are lost to the briny deep. Maggie Koerth-Baker on the strange new homes they create for marine creatures. Read the rest...

Every year, thousands of shipping containers are lost to the briny deep. Maggie Koerth-Baker on the strange new homes they create for marine creatures. Read the rest...

Today is the day we Reset the Net! It's been one year since the Edward Snowden disclosures hit the news and the whole world woke up to the scale of mass, indiscriminate Internet surveillance -- a spy...

Its been one year.Technology has been a liberating force in our lives. It allows us to create and share the experiences that make us human, effortlessly. But in secret, our very own governmentone boun...

UK government proposal: "cyber" attacks with "catastrophic" but otherwise ill-defined outcomes deserve life in jail....

Today is the day we Reset the Net! It's been one year since the Edward Snowden disclosures hit the news and the whole world woke up to the scale of mass, indiscriminate Internet surveillance -- a spy...

Today is the day we Reset the Net! It's been one year since the Edward Snowden disclosures hit the news and the whole world woke up to the scale of mass, indiscriminate Internet surveillance -- a spy...

Wil Wheaton writes, "Today's Fresh Air (MP3) is just heartbreaking. It's an interview about the juvenile'justice' system in America with Nell Bernstein, author of Burning Down the House: The End of Ju...

Just look at them.(Thanks, Mister Eppyjanice!)...

The Skeletons in Space Suits is a fabulous collection from a very diverse set of sources. I'm sure they could use your contributions -- do you have anything that'd work? Read the rest...

Sumana writes, "I gave the opening keynote address at Wiki Conference USA last weekend, and told Wikipedians what needs to change to make the site friendlier and more hospitable. I mixed in wisdom fro...

One year ago today Leaked top-secret court order shows that NSA engages in bulk, sustained, warrantless surveillance of Americans: In an explosive investigative piece published in the Guardian, Glenn ...

Haley Mlotek on the author of the SCUM Manifesto, 45 years on....

"The last of 29 Navajo Americans who developed an unbreakable code that helped Allied forces win World War Two died in New Mexico on Wednesday of kidney failure at the age of 93," Reuters reports. "Ch...

"Dedication," a photo by Boing Boing reader JayRaz, shared in our Flickr Pool. "Seen somewhere along South Congress in Austin, TX." The photo was taken in 2013, so it probably looks very different on ...

Washington Post: "A sweeping review of NASAs human spaceflight program has concluded that the agency has an unsustainable and unsafe strategy that will prevent the United States from achieving a human...

Cincinnati band Wussy's magnificent latest album Attica! embodies a newer, weirder America where drone-folk is wrapped in psychedelic Appalachian twang from the muddy banks of the Ohio river; listen b...

A preview of the painter's June 14, 2014 gallery show. Read the rest...

Did 6 soldiers die searching for Bowe Bergdahl when he went missing in Afghanistan? What little we know so far, we owe in part to Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning. Read the rest...

Nothing captured the spirit of 1964-era optimism better than General Electrics Carousel of Progress, perhaps the World Fairs most popular exhibit.But the life of leisure it promised was a big con, s...

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Stop motion animated animals, by Yuki Ariga, produced for Japanese paper manufacturer Nepia. Read the rest...

Stop motion animated animals, by Yuki Ariga, produced for Japanese paper manufacturer Nepia. Read the rest...

In addition to being quirky, depressed, and bottomless vessels for alcohol, writers are also especially attuned to loss, says writer Rory Flynn. To prove his theory, Flynn conducted some high-level r...

Esther Inglis-Arkell on the "Thermal Grill Illusion" [io9]...

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book is hands down the best guide I've found for making ice cream at home. Read the rest...

The Mountain and the Viper, Season 4, Episode 8 of HBOs Game of Thrones, is both the end for some cherished characters as well as a new beginning for others. Read the rest...

Man, I love this guy's work--particularly the cats. Eldar Zakirov is on DeviantArt, and you can support his high weirdness by purchasing prints. He is based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Website here. Read...

Man, I love this guy's work--particularly the cats. Eldar Zakirov is on DeviantArt, and you can support his high weirdness by purchasing prints. He is based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Website here. Read...

Not all of us can agree to disagree on these important matters. [via]...

"It is not a human being," says Matthew J.X. Malady. "And we probably shouldnt talk about it as though it were."...

The latest Humble Ebook Bundle has added four new titles: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, the From Hell Companion (review), Too Cool to Be Forgotten (review); and my audiobook for Lawful In...

It was RoboCop Day in Detroit yesterday and the man-machine threw the ceremonial first pitch at last night's Detroit Tigers game, although sadly it wasn't Peter Weller in the suit (nor Joel Kinnaman);...

Technology executive and publisher Richard Gingras also creates beautiful driftwood sculptures. He then sets them on fire! His wife made this fantastic video of his Memorial day tribute to Andrew Gold...

Beautiful assemblages of fruit and veggies to paint a picture on a plate. culinarycanvas.tumblr.com. A few of our faves below. Read the rest...

Beautiful assemblages of fruit and veggies to paint a picture on a plate. culinarycanvas.tumblr.com. [HT: @legalnomads] Read the rest...

I was moved to tears by Save the Children's video, which is powerful and beautifully made. I donate to Syrian relief through the UN High Commission on Refugees....

Cincinnati band Wussy's magnificent latest album Attica! embodies a newer, weirder America where drone-folk is wrapped in psychedelic Appalachian twang from the muddy banks of the Ohio river; listen b...

Andreas Antonopoulos explains what bitcoin is, and how you can start using it. Read the rest...

[Video Link] Amanda Wozniak hosts the latest Circuit Playground video, which is about the diode, a common and useful electronic component. Read the rest...

Workers who are black are accusing a cotton gin supervisor who is white of grotesque racist harassment that's hard to believe is happening in 21st century America. One of the workers used his phone to...

Technology executive and publisher Richard Gingras also creates beautiful driftwood sculptures. He then sets them on fire! His wife made this fantastic video of his Memorial day tribute to Andrew Gold...

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques, is planning to spend 31 days underwater, beating his grandfather's record by one day while also celebrating Jacques Cousteau's research. Read the rest...

In a follow up to yesterday's analysis from Nerdist, The Washington Post has a more-detailed analysis that suggests it's impossible. (Again, TV SHOW SPOILERS) Thanks GeekMan!...

[Video Link] Amanda Wozniak hosts the latest Circuit Playground video, which is about the diode, a common an useful electronic component. Read the rest...

Legendary jazz drummer Buddy Rich hawks Mattel Synsonic Drums, circa 1981 (via Dangerous Minds)....

Julie Rovner explains why some people still won't have coverage for pre-existing conditions until the end of this year. Bonus: A delightful peek into Cigna's IT department....

Ed Yong has a great critique of the recent paper that suggests it's because latent sexism leaves us assuming lady hurricanes will be kinder and gentler. Read the rest...

From Grand Cayman reef in the Caribbean (pictured) to pandas in Ya'an, from a puppy enrichment center in Maryland to elephants at a watering hole in central Kenya — Explore.org's collection of l...

Vertu and Hasselblad have partnered to release a ridiculously expensive smartphone. PetaPixel doubts the $11k buys you anything more than branding. Read the rest...

Matt Maranian finds that theres a lot to learn about the history of pin-up magazines, more than youd ever imagine, and this set leaves no stone unturned and no skirt unlifted. Read the rest...

Differences in how brain cells are connected to one another could explain why stress is no big deal for some people, and sinks others into depression....

"It's good, innit? Oh, it's gone." Drone ablaze? [via]...

Matt Maranian finds that theres a lot to learn about the history of pin-up magazines, more than youd ever imagine, and this set leaves no stone unturned and no skirt unlifted. Read the rest...

It was RoboCop Day in Detroit yesterday and the man-machine threw the ceremonial first pitch at last night's Detroit Tigers game, although sadly it wasn't Peter Weller in the suit (nor Joel Kinnaman);...

And all this time, you thought it was unicorns....

Jack White's "Lazaretto" from his forthcoming album Lazaretto; video directed by Jonas & Francois....

When Stephen Harper's petrotories yanked funding from the Experimental Lakes Area -- Canada's answer to the Large Hadron Collider, a captive ecosystem where some of the world's most important environm...

Jonathan writes, "The Drinkable Book is a water filter and an instruction manual for how and why to clean drinking water. Read the rest...

US Marshals swept into the offices of police in Sarasota, Florida to whisk away records related to operation of "stingray" surveillance tools that the ACLU had requested. The records detailed the farc...

Masaru Emoto has convinced a lot of gullible people that human intention can change how molecules of water behave and affect how rice ferments. Read the rest...

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ALTER THE COURSE OF YOUR CORNER OF THE MULTIVERSE by joining the elite and prestigious INNER HIVE! Join right now and enjoy the bounties of the glorious new Universe your choice creates! AND: join ...

Rightscorp, a company that went public last year, has an idea: they'll issue millions of legal threats to alleged music file-sharers, threaten them with millions in fines, and demand nuisance sums ($2...

bOING bOING zine illustrator Paul Pope directed and wrote "7x6x2," a science fiction short. We are proud to premiere it! Watch 7x6x2 here. Read the rest...

Rob Beschizza found a copy of one of his favorite childhood books about computers. And now you can enjoy it too! Read the rest...

Andreas Antonopoulos explains what bitcoin is, and how you can start using it. Read the rest...

Horror movie trailer mashups have become something of a fine art these days, but even by the high standards of our time, Bobby Burns's Frozen horror trailer is awfully good. It's scary, and I'd go see...

One year ago today Public Resource liberates "Life in the UK" book, building codes: If you would like to be a citizen of the United Kingdom, you need to study a book called Life in the UK. Read the ...

Hunter Loftis, who created the fractal terrain generation in 130 lines of Javascript engine, has done it again: a a full-blown first-person shooter engine in 265 lines (demo, source). He used a techni...

Tom Murphy sorted the whole script of Star Wars alphabetically, located the timecode for each spoken word in the film (using the Han Shot first print), and edited the film into alphabetical order. Re...

A reader writes, "Just after sunrise on June 5, the NK Projekt in Berlin is leading a massive whistle-blowing session to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Edward Snowden's own whistle blowing ac...

Jeff writes, "I learned this week that it's possible to run up a $750 international data roaming bill in one minute on AT&T. I managed to convince AT&T to forgive the charges after two days ...

A student named Chloe Britt was disciplined for violating her school's dress-code by wearing leggings; she was required to fill in a Cultural Revolution-style confessional called a "think sheet" expla...

Google has announced support for end-to-end encryption with Gmail, a major step for privacy and a major blow against mass surveillance. Gmail users who install free and open Chrome plugin will be able...

In Stephen Colbert's Civics Lesson: How Colbert Super PAC Taught Viewers About Campaign Finance in Mass Communication and Society [paywalled], a study by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Cen...

The FCC's website has fallen over, and many blame John Oliver's incandescent exhortation to Internet trolls to flood the Commission with comments about its assault on Net Neutrality (or support of "Ca...

The Department of Homeland Security has put out a request for proposals for a Computer Based Annual Social Media Analytics Subscription that can detect sarcasm (and run on Internet Explorer 8) (this i...

The Disney Parks blog has a preview of the reference art being used to develop merchandise for the 45th anniversary of the Haunted Mansion. There's 100 new items coming, and based on this reference ma...

Ben Mark's of Collectors Weekly says:Lisa Hix has just written a wonderful ode to "Jem and the Holograms," which was the number-one cartoon on Sunday mornings in 1986, and whose fashion dolls gave Bar...

bOING bOING zine illustrator Paul Pope directed and wrote "7x6x2," a science fiction short. We are proud to premiere it! Watch 7x6x2 here. Read the rest...

Rob Beschizza found a copy of one of his favorite childhood books about computers. And now you can enjoy it too! Read the rest...

ALTER THE COURSE OF YOUR CORNER OF THE MULTIVERSE by joining the elite and prestigious INNER HIVE! Join right now and enjoy the bounties of the glorious new Universe your choice creates! AND: join ...

Brian Heater interviews the record producer, music critic, DJ, and blogger Sarah Ultragrrrl Lewitinn Read the rest...

[Video Link] Here are a few of the 24 projects in my brand new book, Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects....

17 years later China has forgotten Brad Pitt's role in 1997's Seven Years in Tibet. Read the rest...

17 years later China has forgotten Brad Pitt's role in 1997's Seven Years in Tibet. Read the rest...

Breathtaking work by Philippines-born, New Jersey-based artist Gregory Halili. Read the rest...

Now that's inspiring. (more…)...

Stunning cephalopod tresses, crafted by hand. Read the rest...

Kevin Kelly and I launched a new podcast at Cool Tools. In this entertaining second installment of the Cool Tools podcast, Clive Thompson, author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing ...

A new report from the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute says the population of cancer survivors in the US will expand by 30% in the next ten years. Read the rest...

Stunning cephalopod tresses, crafted by hand. Read the rest...

Breathtaking work by Philippines-born, New Jersey-based artist Gregory Halili. Read the rest...

Signs, from liartownusa.tumblr.com, the best Tumblr ever. I consistently laugh until I am in pain when I look at Sean Tejaratchi's work. He's a genius....

Bangkok Post.Thailand's military National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has decided that protesters who flash the anti-coup three-finger sign, which they've adopted en masse from 'The Hunger Game...

Following on yesterday's spy shots of Star Wars: Episode 7, TMZ posted photos today that appear to be an under-construction Millennium Falcon and another ship, possibly an X-wing starfighter. Read th...

Rev. Terence McAlinden, with an alleged child victim, via NJ Star-LedgerThat's the argument made in the supreme court of Delaware by the attorney representing Rev. Terence McAlinden, a priest accused ...

Dave Ng sez, "The Canadian government is poised to once again abhor evidence-based decision making. 300 scientists have looked over the Joint Review Panel Report that is being used to push forward the...

Noah Scalin writes "At long last I'm finally publishing all 365 of my original Skull-A-Day creations in a single book! I've partnered with Chop Suey Books, an amazing local independent bookseller her...

At ProPublica, the story of a young woman who had a mental health crisis -- a psychotic episode -- and as a result, lost custody of her infant daughter. Read the rest...

Dave Ng sez, "The Canadian government is poised to once again abhor evidence-based decision making. 300 scientists have looked over the Joint Review Panel Report that is being used to push forward the...

Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the USA, and is widely referred to as "cruise ship virus" for its reputation of mass outbreaks on sea vessels. Read the rest...

[Video Link] "The Cat Says The Lid Stays Closed," an animated ditty from the Album "Animals" by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann. Give him some dough if you like his work....

Bradley Hall writes, "I am trying to get funding via Indiegogo so that I can spend more time translating old public domain German sci-fi books. So far I have translated Robert Heymann's 'Der Rote Kome...

At the subscription-only Beautiful Agony site, people submit videos of themselves having an orgasm, shot from the shoulders up; Vice interviewed the founders. Read the rest...

Astoundingly, the answer is ... possibly. Doing so would require a particularly strong crusher and would be more likely to crack, rather than grape-like pop, the skull of the crushee. (Also: SPOILERS ...

The trouble with tackling a global crisis nation-by-nation and sector-by-sector is that each change, while important, doesn't contribute much to solving the big problem. ...

Zach Weinersmith, creator of the wonderful Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the Kickstarter-record-busting Trial of the Clone choose-your-own-adventure is unstoppable: he's kickstarting Augie ...

Usaga Jima was once the headquarters of Japan's WWII poison gas research and production facilities. Today, it's home to 1000s of rabbits, who rely on the kindness/gullibility of tourists for sustenanc...

At the subscription-only Beautiful Agony site, people submit videos of themselves having an orgasm, shot from the shoulders up; Vice interviewed the founders. Read the rest...

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of G.R.R. Martin's merciless fantasy epic. For Tyrion and his champion, the squeeze is on. Read the rest...

Andy Warhol's film of The Velvet Underground live in Boston, 1967....

Molly Ringwald's ten-year-old daughter wanted to watch The Breakfast Club (1985) with her mom; This American Life sent them a tape recorder and the resulting story is funny, nostalgic, and quite touch...

Hugh Howey's Wool is now a graphic novel. Installment one in a Kindle Series, offering updates every two weeks is now available. Read the rest...

Plastic surgeons are seeing an increase in "hand lifts," a trend some doctors think is fueled by the desire to post a good engagement ring photo on social media, according to Elle magazine and WFSB....

I've used Underwater Audio's iFloatie in both the pool and ocean, for $10 it is cheap insurance against losing your waterproof iPod. Read the rest...

National treasure John "Pink Flamingos" Waters just published Carsick, a book about his adventures hitchhiking from Baltimore to San Francisco (readers will remember that he got picked up by an indie ...

Greg Greene writes, "Since directing The End of Suburbia in 2004 I've been exploring ways to popularize sustainable and resilient cities. Playing with notions of urban apocalypse, we're crowdfunding ...

Attorney Robert Rotstein explains why the First Amendment protects anonymous speech, and why the value of anonymity apps like Yik Yak shouldnt be dismissed. Read the rest...

Matt Maranian's latest installment of Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-to History looks at converting ham cans into toys Read the rest...

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, maverick chemist, psychedelic pioneer, and inspiring human being, died yesterday at 88 years old. Sasha is best known for popularizing MDMA (Ecstasy) and introducing it to t...

The New York Times proposed an outrageous undertaking in 1908: An automobile race westward from New York to Paris, a journey of 22,000 miles across all of North America and Asia in an era when the mo...

The Interstitial Arts Foundation has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its journal Interfictions, devoted to "the weird, the interstitial, and the uncategorizable." Read the rest...

At ~2s a try, the robot recorded by John Adams would crack a PIN in about 6 hours. Turn on your "erase data after x failed attempts" option! [via]...

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, maverick chemist, psychedelic pioneer, and inspiring human being, died yesterday at 88 years old. Sasha is best known for popularizing MDMA (Ecstasy) and introducing it to t...

The Interstitial Arts Foundation has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its journal Interfictions, devoted to "the weird, the interstitial, and the uncategorizable." The campaign features rewards fr...

"The address bar truncates URLs," reports David Yanofsky. Why don't they want you to know where you are? Google is doing the same thing in Chrome....

Art student Raffael depicts a male Tomb Raider in the poses and attire customarily adopted by Lara Croft. In other news, Robert Pattinson is allegedly going to be the new Indiana Jones....

Tokyoflash's Kisai Night Vision Wood LED Watch builds on their earlier work with beautiful, carved-wood bracelets, adding a wooden face backed with powerful LEDs whose glow can be seen through the smo...

Suresh Naidu analyzes Thomas Piketty's groundbreaking economics book Capital in the 21st Century (previously), disagreeing with one of Piketty's core assumptions: that the rate of profit is a given, n...

Attorney Robert Rotstein explains why the First Amendment protects anonymous speech, and why the value of anonymity apps like Yik Yak shouldnt be dismissed. Read the rest...

Michael Shaughnessy reports the untold story of Frieda Thiersch—and the mysteries of her life, her motives and her books Read the rest...

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of G.R.R. Martin's merciless fantasy epic. For Tyrion and his champion, the squeeze is on. Read the rest...

A set of documents leaked by a group identifying itself as Russian hackers purports to be training materials for Russian psyops agents who were paid to make favorable comments about Russia's position ...

Jenise sez, "When I worked for a robotics company, I complained bitterly about the lack of robotic toys for my daughter to my boss, Mitch Rosenberg. Yesterday, he sent me an email with the answer to ...

One year ago today Deluxe hardcover of Watchmen: The new Deluxe Edition of Watchmen landed in my post-box today. It's a very well-made hardcover edition of one of the canonical modern graphic novels. ...

The fully-funded Automatic Rubber Band Blaster Kit will sell you a AK-3DP that fires much-less-lethal rounds: rubber bands, which can be fitted to snap-in cartridges for no-time reloads. $5 gets you...

A set of documents leaked by a group identifying itself as Russian hackers purports to be training materials for Russian psyops agents who were paid to make favorable comments about Russia's position ...

Here's a scarf woven from data representing the genome of talented sf writer and good guy Jay Lake, who died of cancer this week. Last summer, Jay's friends raised funds to sequence his genome in the ...

Deviantart's Deeed documents the construction and unveiling of her amazing Octopus hairpiece, created and worn for a steampunk ball. Octopus Hairpiece (via Crazy Abalone)(Photo: Gillian B Dragancaor)...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has rounded up the five most discredited arguments advanced by apologists for NSA spying, including "The NSA has Stopped 54 Terrorist Attacks with Mass Spying"; Just...

Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones (previously) has purged the membership of Rain City Superheroes, dissolving and reforming the superhero group with new, stringent membership requirements, including the...

The full text and images of Jacob Riis's 1890 classic How The Other Half Lives is online (previously), featuring striking photos of the dire state of NYC poverty during the "gilded age," when wealth d...

In this spectacular, long interview with Salon, David "Debt" Graeber builds on his bullshit jobs hypothesis and points out the horror of modern American work: if your job does some good, you are paid ...

Singularity and Co is the wonderful, Brooklyn-based used science fiction bookstore launched with a 2012 Kickstarter campaign that raised funds to buy the rights to beloved, out-of-print sf novels and ...

In an attempt to befriend Charles Darwin, zoologist Alfred Newton sent the author of Origin of Species a diseased partridge foot. It worked. (Thanks, Missy Covington!)...

Gregory Halili carves stunning skulls into shells collected in the Philippines. Gallery over at Colossal and video below (thanks, Jean Hagan!)....

Available in a range of sizes and styles. Historically accurate. Gold price available upon request. Iron price not mentioned....

We know now that homosexuality is connected to genetics — and there's probably more than one gene involved. But why would that trait have been selected for strongly enough to make it present in ...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Judge John Murphy. Do you want to fuck with Judge John Murphy? Public defender Andrew Weinstock did, and look what happened to him. Read the rest...

Also called petrichor, it's made up of a combination of plant oils, bacterial chemicals, and ozone. The Compound Interest blog (which is about chemistry, not economics) has a really nice graphic and p...

These pants are between 3300 and 3000 years old, but they look like they could have been purchased in a parking lot outside a String Cheese Incident concert. Read the rest...

Honoring a long career in comedy, Ft. Lee, New Jersey named timeless actor Larry Storch mayor for a day. F-Troop is one of my favorites. Read the rest...

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

I've found these Etymotic ER20 ear plugs to greatly reduce wind noise when riding my motorcycle, under a full face helmet. Read the rest...

Artist Miriam Carother's is showing her series of string theorist portraits in NYC this month. Above is Alexander Polyakov. You can see intricately written equations transformed into the author at gal...

Gregory Halili paints stunning skulls on shells collected in the Philippines. Gallery over at Colossal and video below (thanks, Jean Hagan!)....

Attorney Robert Rotstein explains why the First Amendment protects anonymous speech, and why the value of anonymity apps like Yik Yak shouldnt be dismissed. Read the rest...

John Oliver was incandescent on the subject of Net Neutrality, Time Warner and Comcast on Saturday, and he has a new, less-boring term for Net Neutrality: "Cable Company Fuckery." This is not only bri...

[Video Link] This Korean toilet unclogger looks neat, but looks risky. I would be nervous about it bursting. Maybe the plastic film is too strong for that to happen. You also have to make sure the sea...

Instagram deleted Scout Willis's account after she posted a photo of a jacket she made that had a picture of "two close friends topless." Instagram called the photo an instance of abuse. She decided ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA astronauts spent time training in the moon-like volcanic landscape of Hawaii's Big Island; the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems dug out fantastic...

[Video Link] Wikipedia: "Caudal luring is the use of tail movements employed by a predator to attract prey animals." (Via Arbroath)...

Kevin Kelly told me about this trick a couple of years ago and it has helped me tremendously: "Anytime anyone invites you to do anything, ask yourself this question before you accept: Would I do it to...

In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA astronauts spent time training in the moon-like volcanic landscape of Hawaii's Big Island; the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems dug out fantastic...

It has been a long time since I've run across this instrumental great.Video Link...

Banksy pieces redone in LEGO by Jeff Friessen of The Brick Fantastic (via Laughing Squid)....

Here's a reading (MP3) of a my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance, in which I describe the way that I've explained the Snowden affair to my six-year-old: Read th...

MIT researchers have demonstrated a kind of Shrinky Dink robot, laser-cut 2-D plastic forms that when baked fold themselves up into 3-D robotic components, including electrical circuits and "muscles."...

Josh from the ACLU writes, "To mark this Thursday's one-year anniversary of the first NSA revelation from Edward Snowden, we've made a very cool video showing what's happened so far (and yes that is S...

...and for their partners, adds Maggie Koerth-Baker, who has read the lot Read the rest...

A fun compilation of auditory illusions, some of which we've covered on BB previously but are even more compelling when experienced one after another!...

TMZ has a set of leaked photos from the Tunisia et of Star Wars Episode 7 that in short reveal that the JJ Abrams flick will feature life-size creatures and vehicles not just digital FX. Read the res...

There's more than one right way to have a baby. What Maggie Koerth-Baker learned about evidence-based pregnancy, risk, and the choices we make about healthcare. Read the rest...

Steve Hoefer explains how to use your teeth to... wait, that's what he says not to do. Read the rest...

This video contains massive super duper spoilers! Continue at your own risk. Joe Sabia created this with illustrator Dan Meth for Vanity Fair. Read the rest...

Flowing Data created maps for other countries, too.The more bars, the darker the brown and the more grocery stores, the darker the green. Read the rest...

Discovered by Kjell Marius Mathisen while taking a walk by the river Mesna, near Lillehammer in Norway. Fant Skrik i en stubbe [translation]...

Police had to be summoned to the Grand Theatre in Swansea, Wales, to remove a ranting audience mender who refused to leave. Comedian Celia Pacquola remained unruffled, say sources....

Dwarf Fortress isn't just a game about a colony of little industrious fellas. It's an entire world simulation whose primitive appearance belies staggering complexit—and it's about to get its fir...

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...

...and for their partners, adds Maggie Koerth-Baker, who has read the lot Read the rest...

More on what's wrong with Maleficent: "These new retellings simply swap the characters around…Evilactual, absolute evilis always obliterated. Good women remain feminine and kind…and the vi...

The $1bn fleet would "extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe," reports the Wall Street Journal. [via]...

Steve Hoefer explains how to use your teeth to... wait, that's what he says not to do. Read the rest...

It's been nearly a year since the publication of volume two of Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' spectacular Saga comic; but at last, volume three is at hand. As Cory Doctorow discovered, it was wel...

...and for their partners, adds Maggie Koerth-Baker, who has read the lot Read the rest...

It's been nearly a year since the publication of volume two of Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' spectacular Saga comic; but at last, volume three is at hand. As Cory Doctorow discovered, it was wel...

Piratebox, a great project for making standalone wireless fileservers, has gone 1.0. The 1.0 has a slick 4chan-style message board, a responsive UI, and does UPnP discovery for your file-sharing needs...

Here's Randall Munroe's TED talk about his What If? series, in which he answers big, weird questions about baseballs travelling at the speed of light and such, which is also the subject of a hotly ant...

Monica Tsang's 2011 Skull Knife Stand sculpture appears to be a one-off, and not an object of commerce, and that is a silvery, skull-shaped shame.(via Kadrey)...

Alex Gorischek's Pulley Logic Gates is a brilliant and delightful demonstration of attaining a set of logic gates with pulleys, weights and string, using materials you can buy cheaply so you can try ...

Do you have a home-made, high-powered laser that you fear demonstrating because you might hurt someone? Here's the solution: fit it to a pen-holder/plotter derived from Evil Mad Scientist Labs's Water...

Brooke Powers assigned her middle-school math class a probability exercise with no single correct answer and was monumentally frustrated by her kids' inability to accept the idea of a problem without ...

I've been writing about Thomas Piketty's magisterial economics bestseller Capital in the Twenty First Century for some time now (previously), and have been taking a close interest in criticisms of hi...

Prooffreader graphed the distribution of letters towards the beginning, middle and end of English words, using a variety of corpora, finding both some obvious truths and some surprising ones. As soon ...

We've featured the lovely knitted dissections of Aknitomy before (previously), but its proprietor, Emily Stoneking, keeps on turning out whimisico-scientific knitted fancies that please the eye and ti...

Chimericgarnish's Doctor Who TARDIS Sound Wave Necklace ($17.22) encodes the vworp vworp sound effect in laser-etched acrylic or mahogany (you choose). Read the rest...

Satsuki Ohata's Fondue Slipper takes a page from the liquid latex set, but uses higher-temp, harder-wearing PVC to produce extremely custom-fit slippers. Right now, they're a work of art; soon, appare...

Michael Shaughnessy reports the untold story of Frieda Thiersch, and the unsolved mystery of what happened to her books Read the rest...

Different humans perceive the same color differently. Other animals can see colors humans can't. Watch as a panel of scientists at The World Science Festival discusses the science of the brain and co...

Best known for her role as Alice on The Brady Bunch, actress Ann B. Davis has passed away at age 88....

Join Maggie to watch a livestream and chat about a panel from The World Science Festival, starting at 3:00 Central/4:00 Eastern....

Our best wishes and deep respect to psychedelic pioneer and maverick chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin who is preparing for his final trip on Earth; he is "surrounded by love and a lot of laughter," h...

Every week, a new delight from Pancake Master Nathan "Saipancakes" Shields: this week, An assortment of Pacific coast nudibranchs. (previously)...

Now you can own the Simpsons home, in LEGO. I'm more interested in the minifigs, however. Read the rest...

"If you don't like it, don't knock it. Somebody else might want to rock it."Video Link...

Pink Floyd misrepresented Soviet foreign policy? Donna Summer evinced an unacceptable level of eroticism? Pffft. But I think we can all agree on the inherent Nazi tendencies of To All the Girls I've L...

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...

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

Different humans perceive the same color differently. Other animals can see colors humans can't. Watch as a panel of scientists at The World Science Festival discusses the science of the brain and co...

One year ago today Protester kicking away teargas cannister: Uncredited photo of a woman in at the Turkish anti-government/pro-democracy protests kicking away a tear-gas cannister. Read the rest...

The first time I had a proper conversation with Jay Lake, it was after the 2006 Los Angeles World Science Fiction convention; I was invited to a dinner with a bunch of other Campbell Award winners fro...

Now you can own the Simpson's home, in LEGO. I'm more interested in the minifigs, however. Read the rest...

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

I don't really know what I expected. [Video Link, via Seth Porges]...

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

Join Maggie to watch a livestream and chat about a panel from The World Science Festival, starting at 3:00 Central/4:00 Eastern....

At 3:00 Central/4:00 Eastern Alan Alda will be moderating a panel at The World Science Festival that explores how the brain sees and experiences color. You can watch the livestream and participate in ...

One year ago today Turkish Spring: Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul: Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul is alive with protest at this moment. Read the rest...

Peter "brokep" Sunde, the Pirate Bay co-founder who also started Flattr and made a bid for the European Parliament on behalf of the Finnish Pirate Party, has been arrested in Sweden. Sunde -- who is a...

A newly released set of slides from the Snowden leaks reveals that the NSA is harvesting millions of facial images from the Web for use in facial recognition algorithms through a program called "Ident...

Jud Turner's latest sculpture is the haunting "Blind Eye Sees All (No Secrets Anymore)" (above); he's produced 50 miniatures (right) based on it whose sale benefits the Electronic Frontier Foundation....

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...

Via the Tampa Bay Times: "Spanning nearly the width of the field was a prankster's rendition of the male anatomy." Shocking! I am sure a graduation has never been 'ruined' by this before....

More at the Tampa Bay Times: "Spanning nearly the width of the field was a prankster's rendition of the male anatomy." Shocking! I am sure a graduation has never been 'ruined' by this before....

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...

When foggy nights and frequent power outages make things pitch black, I reach for one of these low-cost, wind up flashlights. Read the rest...

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

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

One year ago today Bomber enraged by spelling error can't blow up sign because his bomb instructions were riddled with typos: A 50-year-old man was upset that the sign in front of the Oregon Teacher ...

Women who'd never seen their vulvas were offered a modesty screen and a hand mirror and given the chance to have a peek. They liked what they saw, and were sweetly affirmed by it. (via Dan Hon)...

Smri "Mailpile" McCarthy's lecture Engineering Our Way Out of Fascism sets out a set of technical, legal and social interventions we can undertake to make mass surveillance impossible, starting with t...