Articles by BoingBoing from April 2015

Got some extra .40 cal casings kicking around and want to cosplay the scene in the Dark Tower books where the gunslingers stick bullets in their ears to block out the siren call of the "thinny?" Read ...

This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip introduces arguably the biggest superstar Hip Hop ever created. Read the rest...

Neuroscientists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet used a head-mounted display to give people the perceptual illusion of invisibility when they looked down at their body. Then they pretended to stab th...

This is as unsettling as a scopolamine overdose.[via]...

Nick Courage was lucky enough to score a blurb from literature-hero Daniel Pinkwater for his debut novel The Loudness: Read the rest...

They sold out fast. A designer at Apple who worked on the device's homescreen UI even bought one. Read the rest...

US Defense Secretary: Snowden Caused Tensions With Techies...

Practical quantum computers are a step closer, with IBM scientists announcing "two critical advances" in the journal Nature. Read the rest...

Writing in the Guardian, Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman analyses the last five years of British austerity, using other developed nations in the EU and elsewhere as a benchmark for the growth we ...

As tensions rise in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, yet another black victim of police brutality, Ive noticed that some well-meaning (usually white) people have a tendency to quote Martin Lu...

Author Michael Pollan talks about discovering the healing powers of magic mushrooms. Read the rest...

Boing Boing has 2720 posts with "penis," and 1080 posts with "vagina," putting us between Vox.com and Wired.com. [via]...

15-year-old Muslim girl in French town banned from class--twice!--for wearing a skirt that was "provocative" because it was too long. Yep. Too long. Read the rest...

A monkey interpreted a human's hand gesture as a threat, and retaliated with explosive violence.[via]...

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum recently acquired a mass of personal archives that belonged to science fiction pioneer, futurist, and inventor Arthur C Clarke, co-writer of 2001: A Spac...

This "Limited-Edition Mother's Day Premium Starbucks Card" looks like something you'd come across at a garage sale in a mildewy cardboard box filled with loose hot curlers, a broken epilator, and a ho...

This is as unsettling as a scopolamine overdose.[via]...

Patent troll extraordinaire Nathan Myhrvold is a poor choice for a commencement speaker, writes Ara Shirinian for the Daily Bruin. Read the rest...

Dying in a mysterious cavern deep below the streets of Los Angeles was the most fun we've had in a long time Read the rest...

An inexplicably-soothing audiovisual phenomenon is making fascinating inroads toward interactivity, futurism and VR Read the rest...

The power of disclosure can reduce prejudice, shift attitudes, and change minds forever Read the rest...

US Defense Secretary: Snowden Caused Tensions With Techies...

They jokingly called themselves Cecil B. DeMille Warriors. To others, they were the Ghost Army. To the Army itself, they were the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. Read the rest...

The guitarist births an avant-garde masterpiece, and a new musical instrument to play it Read the rest...

As tensions rise in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, yet another black victim of police brutality, Ive noticed that some well-meaning (usually white) people have a tendency to quote Martin Lu...

My friend and colleague Pilot Viruet published a wonderful essay on Medium called Black Exhaustion. Read the rest...

This simple cartoon speaks volumes about the medias tendency to demonize black people and sympathize with white people. Read the rest...

Cut Video has been releasing these awesome 100 Years Of Beauty videos for a while now Read the rest...

Twitter's stock dropped $8bn in a single day, all thanks to a tweet. Investors were rattled by the early disclosure of unexpectedly low revenues, exposed before the close of trading by Selerity, a ser...

"Friendly tag-based Javascript animators" JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, also known as the best Zelda. Read the rest...

The works of Mason Lindroth have a distinctive look and texture—clay-like blobs and gradients, cranked through a 1990s Macintosh computer screen. The play-doh colors, visual flecks and alien sou...

The works of Mason Lindroth have a distinctive look and texture—clay-like blobs and gradients, cranked through a 1990s Macintosh computer screen. The play-doh colors, visual flecks and alien sou...

Dying in a mysterious cavern deep below the streets of Los Angeles was the most fun we've had in a long time Read the rest...

An inexplicably-soothing audiovisual phenomenon is making fascinating inroads toward interactivity, futurism and VR Read the rest...

In this Boing Boing exclusive, a supremely overconfident barbarian boy is schooled in the arts of hunting, gathering, and fleeingby his own prey. Read the rest...

I might have a Thing about games featuring the frequent deaths of cute marine life, but here is another one: Jelly Reef, a game about guiding baby jellyfish by creating swirling currents in the sea wi...

An inexplicably-soothing audiovisual phenomenon is making fascinating inroads toward interactivity, futurism and VR Read the rest...

The FBI wants backdoors in all your crypto, and UK Prime Minister David Cameron made backdoors an election promise, but as Stanford lawyer/computer scientist Jonathan Mayer writes, there's no way to e...

Well-known security researcher Samy Kamkar has discovered a simple method for cracking the popular Master Lock padlock in eight or fewer tries, meaning that most gym lockers can be popped in less than...

It's one thing to ask fighting couples to cooperate on assembling semi-disposable flat-pack furniture from a bullying, tax-dodging mega-corp, but the bedrawered, empanelled Liatorp is a bridge too fa...

David Cameron tweeted it and the Telegraph published the letter on the front page, listing 5,000 businesses who endorsed the Conservative Party in the General Election, many of which weren't business...

Rhizome pairs artists with technologists to create original works so Appelbaum, an exiled American Tor/Wikileaks hacker travelled to Beijing to work with Ai, whose government won't let him leave, wit...

Heather B. Armstrong says she will still blog a bit for fun, but will focus on consulting for brands. Read the rest...

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum recently acquired a mass of personal archives that belonged to science fiction pioneer, futurist, and inventor Arthur C. Clarke, co-writer of 2001: A Spa...

Dying in a mysterious cavern deep below the streets of Los Angeles was the most fun we've had in a long time Read the rest...

Suzanne Crough, who played Tracy on TV's The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, died on Monday. She was 52 years old. (more…)...

Are you convinced that you are dead? If so, you may suffer from a very rare and deeply bizarre mental illness called Cotard's syndrome. Matter's Erika Hayasaki visited Mexico's National Institute of N...

From French film composer, bandleader, and analog synth experimentalist Roger Roger's 1971 LP "Musique Idiote," newly reissued on vinyl....

In 1982, Mark Hamill's wife Marilou and young son Nathan visited the set of Return of the Jedi. Here are a few of their personal photos. (more…)...

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury interviewed in 1972 by two college students driving him to a speaking gig. Read the rest...

I buy a lot of Lightning-to-USB cables because my kids lose theirs and then steal mine. At first, I bought the cheapest replacement cables I could find (Amazon sells them for as little as $2 each, wit...

The Russian space agency is scrambling to regain control of a robotic Progress 59 cargo ship that appears to have suffered a serious malfunction shortly after launching into orbit. Read the rest...

More than half of the households in Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood earned less than $25,000 a year, and more than one in five adults in that neighborhood are unemployed. Read the rest...

Because Petraeus served as a high-ranking government official, and pleaded guilty to a charge involving the mishandling of classified information, the public has an especially strong interest in obtai...

U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) (C), flanked by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (L) and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) (R). [Reuters]The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch on Monday condem...

During a movie-promotion press junket, interviewer Krishnan Guru Murthy asked Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. questions about his "dark past." Read the rest...

On "rough rides"-and what is documented of the Baltimore Police Department's history of physical abuse against people in police custody. Read the rest...

Well, at least one person will be punished over CIA's crimes detailed in the Senate Torture Report. Wait, it's the person who helped expose them? Read the rest...

The lenient sentence he received for leaking classified info to his biographer-lover reveals how extreme the double standard of U.S. justice is for the handling of classified information. Read the re...

New homeowners in the U.S. often discover that accurate information from Internet providers is hard to come by. Read the rest...

Heather B. Armstrong says she will still blog a bit for fun, but will focus on consulting for brands. Read the rest...

Baltimore members of the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips talk to a Baltimore TV news reporter, and say they did not make a truce so that they could unite and harm police officers. (mo...

A speech jammer makes it hard for you to speak normally because it creates a delay in the auditory feedback of your own voice, confusing your brain. Read the rest...

Why is Freddie Gray dead? The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions. Read the rest...

Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan signed on with TNA Wrestling as senior producer, creative and talent development. At least he's not getting into the ring. Read the rest...

Maurice Kane Carter: I am all for fucking shit up if it gets us closer to a solution. [via] (more…)...

One of Elon Musks Tesla electric cars will be made available to hacker attendees, so they can tinker with any piece of the vehicle they like. Read the rest...

In the tortoises's defense, the expedition guy is being kind of a dick. (more…)...

Transformers Generation, six months in the making. Directed by Harris Loureiro who says, "Finally it is done!"...

The movie hits theaters this Friday. Read the rest...

Sesame Street always kills it when it comes to movie parodies Read the rest...

If the video above is blocked, you can view it here.Commercial video games often show Middle Eastern people as the villains -- if they can tell the difference between different countries and languages...

In MIT neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher's latest BrainTalk, she shaves her head and explains neuroanatomy as graduate student Rosa Lafer-Sousa draws in the detail. (more…)...

Pennsylvania high school student Collin Burns broke the Rubik's Cube world record on Saturday when he solved the puzzle in 5.25 seconds. (more…)...

You can do a lot of things in Photoshop, but rarely do you use its tools to defeat flaming skulls in an alternate dimension. Read the rest...

A persistent drought in the American Southwest forced the Anasazi to abandon their settlements a thousand years ago. Eventually the precipitation returned. Hoover Dam in Nevada was built in 1931, "dur...

Tragic magic! Executive realness! Here's a new game for 3-6 players, about drawing fashions for witches, that you can print out and play with your friends. All you really need is some tokens, a tip cu...

This 2540mm f/8 Jonel 100 lens is your for $33,500 plus shipping. The owner says the original cost of the lens was "a family home." Read the rest...

Inflammation of the digestive system could have a role in Parkinsons disease and ALS says David Perlmutter, MD a board-certified neurologist and author of Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Hea...

New policies at Twitter for reporting, automatic message muting, and enforcement could turn the noise way down for users subject to harassment. Read the rest...

Wink Fun celebrates stuff that is fun, and we mean the kind of fun that's made from atoms not bits. Read the rest...

OXO Architects created this experimental design for a vertical city within a tower in the Sahara desert. Read the rest...

Street "artist" Wanksy called attention to potholes in Manchester, England by drawing penises around them in non-permanent paint. Within a few days, they were repaired. Now that's a real pubic service...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "Scientology-linked Narcanon (not to be confused with Narcotics Anonymous) has a murky history of putting vitamins and exercise over science and medical detox practices." Re...

Dewalt's bifocal safety goggles come in strengths from 1.0 to 3.0 and at $10/pair, you can't go wrong, especially if you, like me, are losing your vision as you hurdle towards senescence -- better Mot...

New policies at twitter for reporting, automatic message muting, and enforcement could turn the noise way down for users subject to harassment. Read the rest...

The latest tee from our pals at Monochrom: Zardoz is Pleased, based on an original 2015 oil painting....

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Doonesbury gang denounces the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and draws the line for appropriate, non-murderworthy satire. Read the rest...

This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip travels away from NYC to West Philadelphia. Read the rest...

Stephen Hawking appeared via hologram at the Sydney Opera House this weekend and he offered some surprisingly sweet words of comfort to Directioners. Read the rest...

Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is the creative force behind fantastic animated films like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. (more…)...

Sesame Street always kills it when it comes to movie parodies (more…)...

Todrick Hall and Shoshana Bean prove 90s hip-hop and 90s Disney films pair perfectly together in this fabulous mash-up video....

Why are there are so few female directors working in Hollywood? Could it be the raging sexism that occurs at every level of production? Read the rest...

Commercial video games often show Middle Eastern people as the villains -- if they can tell the difference between different countries and languages at all. Prince Fahad Al Saud is aiming to help chan...

Tragic magic! Executive realness! Here's a new game for 3-6 players, about drawing fashions for witches, that you can print out and play with your friends. All you really need is some tokens, a tip cu...

Rhizome pairs artists with technologists to create original works so Appelbaum, an exiled American Tor/Wikileaks hacker travelled to Beijing to work with Ai, whose government won't let him leave, wit...

Street "artist" Wanksy called attention to potholes in Manchester, England by drawing penises around them in non-permanent paint. Within a few days, they were repaired. Now that's a real pubic service...

High winds blew train cars and shipping containers off an Elmwood, Louisiana bridge yesterday. (more…)...

OXO Architectes created this experimental design for a vertical city within a tower in the Sahara desert. Read the rest...

Designer Mark Sturkenboom's "21 Grams" is a glass dildo containing the ashes of a dead person. It's storied in an exquisitely-crafted box integrating a perfume diffuser and iPhone amplifier to trigger...

As Boing Boing's "king of typos," I can appreciate this howler from The Vocabulary of East Anglia, Vol. 1 of 2....

Wink Fun celebrates stuff that is fun, and we mean the kind of fun that's made from atoms not bits. Read the rest...

Between this OXO Good Grips scrub brush ($4) and my pan scraper, I can quickly clean up even the crustiest of cookware. Read the rest...

Transformers Generation, six months in the making. Directed by Harris Loureiro who says, "Finally it is done!"...

Eduardo Lopez is 22-years-old. Last week, after he clocked out of his a minimum-wage graveyard-shift job loading pallets near LAX, he was rushing to catch a bus so he could make it to his class at Gle...

Seven police officers were injured in street violence today when people at a protest threw bricks, broke windows, looted businesses and burned cop cars after Gray's funeral. Read the rest...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Next week is the anniversary of the Piano Drop, in which a perfectly good piano was dropped from a helicopter, just to hear what the impact would sound like. Rea...

A week or two ago, I took part in my first Ludum Dare—Latin for "to give a game"—a recurring event that picks a theme and asks participants to make a game around it within 48 hours. Read t...

The similarities are pretty hard to ignore. Read the rest...

The move undercuts statements Obama's formal declarations that "the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion." Read the rest...

In the 80s, Zilog Inc. made the Z80 chip used in the ZX81 home computer. These days, they also make "Captain Zilog" -- a delightfully bonkers comic to promote their "system on a chip solutions". Read ...

In California's wealthy Cowan Heights, they used 572.4 gallons per person from July to September 2014. In Compton? 63.6 gallons. (Story in the New York Times.) (more…)...

Using organized teams of locals, Motor City Mapping has created an amazing map of blight in Detroit -- letting neighbors and city officials see the precise condition of 400,000 houses. Read the rest...

German photographer Kevin McElvaney shot portraits of the itinerant pickers who work on Agbogbloshie, the toxic e-waste dump outside of Accra, Ghana. Read the rest...

If your child commits vandalism, the Farmer City, IL council want to cut off electrical power to your house. Read the rest...

Ding. dingding. Ding, ding ding. DINGDINGDINGDING! Read the rest...

On The Intercept, Micah Lee follows up on his great primer on NSA-proof passwords with a soup-to-nuts tutorial on encrypting your laptop. Read the rest...

If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes. Over at Vantage, an interview with Ryan Allen and Siddharth Chander, creators of the fantastic Blade Runner Reality account on Instagram. Read the...

After visiting Jinjuu, restaurant reviewer Jay Rayner wanted to confirm some basic facts, such as the proprietor having worked in the Gordon Ramsay restaurant empire. Read the rest...

A short film on gender roles, Trans, and what it is like to have an identity that deviates from the status quo. Read the rest...

Super cute or kind of creepy? You decide! (more…)...

Zack Snyders Man Of Steel was a rather somber-looking film Read the rest...

Most jeans outfit for motorcycling look bad and fit worse. I tried two popular options, Hood Motorcycle Jean's G8 Evo and Bohn's Adventure Pants. Seriously: Adventure Pants. Read the rest...

Acoustic Guitar Magazine is a wonderful resource for anyone enthusiastic about guitar. This collection of 24 private lessons from their archive is fantastic for everyone, from beginner to master. Read...

The Thermarest LuxuryMap air mattress makes camping a whole lot more comfortable. Read the rest...

As Boing Boing's "king of typos," I can appreciate this....

Sylvain Viau photographed a fine fleet of flying cars. Sure, they're nice speeders, but ever since the XP-38 came out, they just aren't in demand. Read the rest...

My Medium colleague Jason Stirman received a letter from his son's middle school principal asking parents to prohibit fifth and sixth graders from participating in social media, and uses Instagram's t...

An Australian farmer was ordered to remove a silly hay bale sculpture of copulating cattle after a concerned citizen reported it to police. Read the rest...

They're 30 and provide results in 15m. 30m home tests have been available in the U.S since 2012, reports AFP. Read the rest...

If a bug in a slot machine says you've won $41.8m, can you claim it? Not in the case of Pauline McKee, 90, denied the payout after Iowa's supreme court sided with the house. Read the rest...

The Somerville Tool Library is where the real sharing economy is happening Read the rest...

There are very few parts of Batmans print legacy that arent readily available to the public. The various runs of newspaper comic strips are finally collected in hardcover form for the hardcore fan in ...

The NYT reports that some of U.S. president's email was "swept up by Russian hackers last year". Though it was only unclassified messages, Pando Daily points out the attack was unsophisticated, and pr...

What happened to nine student hikers on a winter's night in 1959? Read the rest...

Chicago artist Ashley A. Woods created these portraits as a submission for an upcoming comic book anthology called APB: Artists Against Police Brutality. Read the rest...

By melting chocolate into LEGO brick molds, Japanese illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi creates food you can play with.Check out more of his amazing work over at SPAREBUTTON. Read the rest...

Two Italian artists are using CDs to create beautiful pieces of art and comment on music theft. Read the rest...

Via Hacker News, a 10m documentary about using an orchestra of inexpensive personal computers from 1981each equipped with a single-channel beeper!to play Mahler's first....

Not since Colbert's roast of GWB in 2006 has a comedian's Nerd Prom monologue been so outrageously funny. Obama's bit was pretty awesome, too....

German photographer Kevin McElvaney shot portraits of the itinerant pickers who work on Agbogbloshie, the toxic e-waste dump outside of Lagos, Ghana. Read the rest...

In the wake of John Deere's claims that the software in its engines means that its farm equipment is "licensed," not "sold," I talked to the Globe and Mail about what digital locks mean for the idea o...

Dick Mulder of Corfu, Greece was surprised when he examined a four-lined snake that his pet cat had just killed and watched a small Dahl's whip snake emerge from the bigger snake's mouth. (more&hellip...

Incredible Battle of Hoth gaming table created by the fine gaming enthusiasts at Beasts of War. Video below. Read the rest...

More mind-blowing makeup jobs by Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho. (more…)...

The True Wetsuit is designed by Quiksilver and available in Japan. (more…)...

Raul Oaida is a maker of many great contraptions, including a LEGO car powered by compressed air. (The Adaptors)...

Someone gets his head chopped off, it's pretty cool. Read the rest...

Small Machines are snap-fit, laser-cut simple hydraulic machines that use standard syringes and plastic tubing filled with tap-water for motion-control. (more…)...

Commandline writes, "Dr. Pamela Gay is the principal investigator on a fantastic citizen scienceproject, Cosmoquest, that sadly has been a casualty of reduced funding forNASA and for space science gen...

The "Trolley Problem" is a highly problematic thought-experiment about utilitarianism and morals -- ripe for skewering in the pages of McSweeney's. Read the rest...

Jeff writes, "I received my diagnosis late on Friday afternoon of what would be a very long weekend. I had really hoped to avoid brain surgery in my life." Read the rest...

The "Puppies" are a coalition of right-wing and white-supremacist groups who pushed a slate of ideologically pure nominees onto the Hugo Award ballot, complaining that you could no longer judge books ...

The 11-year-old son of medical marijuana advocate Shona Banda spoke out in his Kansas classroom to correct his teacher's misinformation about pot; then the state of Kansas raided his house and took hi...

Almost as edgy as the goth-themed Minecraft toys in Hot Topic. Those are pretty edgy, you should check them out. (more…)...

I think the ice cream scoop we'd been using for years wasn't really an ice cream scoop. It was a disher, and was more suited for scooping mashed potatoes than ice cream. Read the rest...

Broken phones are a constant topic of discussion at Boing Boing. When I saw that Tech21 made iPhone cases out of D30, a non-Newtonian an impact armor, I had to try one immediately. Read the rest...

This compact, foil wand conceals easily in your hand. A simple twist and it magically appears! Read the rest...

The Apple Watch is difficult to take apart, and any repairs -- other than replacing the battery, band, and display -- are pretty much impossible. Read the rest...

This compact, foil wand conceals easily in your hand. A simple twist and it magically appears!This is a great trick if your are going to be entertaining kids. Read the rest...

Sabeen Mahmoud.The progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan's first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead today b...

Ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong created a very creepy Earth Day campaign for the Hong Kong CleanUp Initiative. Read the rest...

Katie sez, "This is an article by a friend of mine about a teacher who passed this week from our high school in Ontario, Canada. This history teacher had the students dig trenches, sleep in cold, wet ...

Misled into thinking an Adam Sandler movie would not be offensive, a dozen Native actors and their cultural advisor quit the scene when things went as they do with an Adam Sandler movie. Read the res...

World of Warcraft is full of forgotten corners--beautifully-rendered but abandoned places no longer on the game's questing trail. Atlas Obscura heads out on a nostalgic tour. (more…)...

Following the acclaimed Persepolis, Embroideries is a graphic novel that tells stories from an ultraconservative Iran in the early 1990s with irony and wit. Read the rest...

The Apple Watch is difficult to take apart, and any repairs -- other than replacing the battery -- are pretty much impossible. Read the rest...

The shooting for which he was convicted was an attempt to win the heart of actress Jodie Foster. Apparently he didn't need to kill anyone this time. Read the rest...

A psychiatrist treating the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 says John Hinckley wants to start a band, and that he should be allowed to publish his music anonymously. Read the rest...

Misled into thinking an Adam Sandler movie would not be offensive, a dozen Native actors and their cultural advisor quit the scene when things went as they do with an Adam Sandler movie. Read the rest...

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It would be comical, were it not such big business for bad people.The vendor wasn't named by the researchers, David Byrne and Charles Henderson, but they did disclose the password: 166816. Read the r...

Here I am, willing to give M. Night Shyamalan another chance against my better judgment. His latest is a microbudget thriller called The Visit, and concerns the sinister goings-on at grandma and grand...

A possibly inebriated gentleman went to a service station, spit on the floor, raised his middle finger to the security camera and looked straight into it for a few seconds, wiped his gob on his T-shir...

Smoke rings are really a lost art....

The story goes that in 1978, the Cramps made a video, filmed by Alex de Laszlo, for their song Human Fly, that featured singer Lux Interior (RIP 2009) in a classic movie-monster transformation scenebu...

Mikolaj Birek created an opening title sequence for an imaginary 1980s version of HBO's Game of Thrones, presenting it as if it had been recorded on a crappy VHS system. (more…)...

A U.S. aid worker and another innocent man held hostage by Al Qaeda were killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan in January, American officials disclosed this week. Read the rest...

I am baffled as to why CycleWorld published this video. With what I know of motorcycles and marijuana, this gentleman should a) not be on that bike and b) look at the other camera. Read the rest...

Remember when Dr. Creflo Dollar asked his flock to buy him a new $65 million private jet to replace existing private jet? Read the rest...

Stunning: a tourist hiking in the mountains of Chile just happened to be recording with his video camera the exact moment that Volcn Calbuco erupted. (more…)...

You know those cartoon magic battles where the fire wizard and the water wizard have a kind of mid-stream wrestling match? Like that. (via JWZ)...

When Google pulled the plug on Google Reader, I looked around for a replacement. I found Feedly and thought it was almost as good as Google Reader. Read the rest...

I always say I feel as if I was raised by the adventure game creators of the 1980s: Wry, obtuse guys and gals who built impossible caves, surreal worlds and kingly empires for me to play in. They feel...

I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the caller. If the caller ID shows a phone number only, I look it up using whocalld.com, a free reverse number lookup service. Read the rest...

Broken phones are a constant topic of discussion at Boing Boing. When I saw that Tech21 made iPhone cases out of D30, a non-Newtonian an impact armor, I had to try one immediately. Read the rest...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "On May 1 (Friday) at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, I'm going to be running a 'PACER Polling Place' from 8am-5pm. I hope you'll stop by and give me a hand." ...

Ed says, "After the twitter-sphere recently exploded with accusations about the UK Green Party's copyright policies, here is a reasoned response by Tom Chance, the former IP spokesperson for the Green...

You'd think the kilometer-wide phase "Google review policy is crap", cut into the greenery of Takht Pari Forest near Rawalpindi, Pakistan, alongside a gigantic sad face, would be visible from space. ...

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All countries have quirky traditions that probably look a little odd from the outside Read the rest...

There are few things I love more than articles defending teenage girls Read the rest...

The other day Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner sat down for one of the many, many interviews theyve done on the mammoth press tour for The Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Read the rest...

The school bus driver in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec told 8 year old Sarah Auger she wasn't allowed to read on the way to and from school because she might poke herself in the eye with a corner of ...

If you or someone you love has been hijacked by Coinvault ransomware -- malware that encrypts your data and won't decrypt it unless you transfer Bitcoin to criminals -- Kaspersky may be able to help y...

Senators Mark Kirk [R-IL] and Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY] announced a bill that increases the maximum jail time for "obtaining information from a protected computer without authorization" -- which cover...

All of 2000AD's comics, including their flagship Judge Dredd comic, are now DRM-free in all apps and forms! Read the rest...

At the same time as David Petraeus got off with probation and a fine, the Justice Department has been pushing for extreme jail time for other leakers who talk to journalistsoften over leaks of far les...

I like the Kenu Airframe smartphone car mount ($20) so much that I gave the one I had to my father so he could use it on a road trip. Read the rest...

When Google pulled the plug on Google Reader, I looked around for a replacement. I found Feedly and thought it was almost as good as Google Reader. Read the rest...

I am baffled as to why CycleWorld published this video. With what I know of motorcycles and marijuana, this gentleman should a) not be on that bike and b) look at the other camera. Read the rest...

My driveway is gravel and this $7 ABS support saves me a lot of trouble. Read the rest...

South African artist Gavin Rain says his work is influenced by Seurat, Russian avant garde art of the 1900s and a whole host of architects, as well as modern pixel-based digital images. He encourages ...

The top West Point grad who led U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming the head of the CIA pled guilty to sharing classified information with his biographer/lover. Read the rest...

When a passenger passed out on a SkyWest flight, the pilot wisely went into a dive, descending 20,000 feet in under three minutes to make an emergency landing in Buffalo, NY. Read the rest...

Stratolys of Sweden posts this video, and explains: On the 9 April 2015 we sent a Donut to the edge of space (32km up) with a weather balloon, from Askim Norway. We spent many months planning this, an...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that the Constitution prohibits police from holding a suspect without probable cause, not even for less than 10 extra minutes--which is about the time it might tak...

This dark, fast-paced space thriller was a fantastic read. The Galapagos Incident is wonderful first installment from author Felix R. Savage, and it is free! Read the rest...

In Southern China, 43 dinosaur eggs were discovered by construction workers as a road was being upgraded, state media reported. Read the rest...

After enjoying the random startup company website generator, I remembered that I'd made something similar for Wired 8 years ago. Please enjoy, once again, the random startup announcement generator. Re...

BMW's horizontally opposed boxer twin is a motorcycling platform nonpareil. RideApart shares BMWs 1970s innovations that helped change motorcycling. Read the rest...

I call dibs on "Rubify, The Motivated Way To Rub." Generate....

"Everybody needs some good lovin'"...

Trans and genderqueer people in South Carolina will now be allowed to take license photos that reflect their everyday appearance. Read the rest...

Authorities are trying to find out who flew a small, four-propeller drone that reportedly contained traces of radiation over the roof of the prime ministers office. Read the rest...

MuckRock requested the FBI's files on Pete and Toshi Seeger, the folk musician and the filmmaker, after Pete's death on January 27, 2014. Read the rest...

Louis Theroux, a documentary maker known for his engrossing profiles of unusual groups, cults, and outcasts, announced on Twitter today that Scientology is making a documentary about him. Read the re...

Escambia Country Sheriff Thelbert "David" Morgan shares his theories about "black culture." tldr; "Some black people have been elected to office, therefore racism is a fantasy and black people need to...

"How to Write" was a memo from ad man David Ogilvy, which he sent to everyone who worked for him in 1981. Read the rest...

"...last year, the state had three times as many earthquakes as in the entire seismically active state of California."(via NPR)...

Adorbs. (more…)...

Well, that's what it looks like. (more…)...

A happiest of birthdays to one of Boing Boing BBS's resident game creators, OtherMichael! (more…)...

Trevor Timm writes a brilliant takedown of the ridiculous warning letter Sony's lawyer is sending news organizations, claiming it may be against the law for journalists to even look at them. Read th...

Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy has concluded with a huge, thrilling, globe-spanning book called Apex that nailed it. Read the rest...

Why would a CEO be so tone-deaf as to call a mass-firing a "remix?" Because the only audience that matters today are shareholders, not the public. Read the rest...

What if the green-capped adventurer of the Zelda games was a little girl who lived in a mysterious floating city? Read the rest...

The group connects airplane pilots willing to volunteer their services to fly dogs and cats otherwise headed "to sleep" to homes ready to adopt the pets in nearby areas. Read the rest...

Using water to refract things, I made a font. Read the rest...

Facebook on Wednesday launched a new caller ID and phone call dialer app for Android. iPhone users, this isn't for you: iOS won't give up the needed phone permissions. And maybe that's a good thing. ...

Heritage Auction is holding a huge auction of 20th century illustration by noted artists such as Gil Elvgren, Patrick Nagel, Charles Addams, and Alberto Vargas on May 14th. Read the rest...

I don't know how long this deal will last, but Amazon is currently selling this Fiskars Composite Trowel for $0.84 with free Prime shipping. That's 92% off the standard price of $10....

As a photography fanatic and lover of the humble Polaroid, I knew The Polaroid Book by Barbara Hitchcock and Steve Crist would be a hit. Read the rest...

What if the green-capped adventurer of the Zelda games was a little girl who lived in a mysterious floating city? Read the rest...

Heritage Auction is holding a huge auction of 20th century illustration by noted artists such as Gil Elvgren, Patrick Nagel, Charles Addams, and Alberto Vargas on May 14th. Read the rest...

Do amputee cats experience phantom limb syndrome? (more…)...

Their grip is no joke, as anyone who has encountered them while under water can attest. Read the rest...

"Our daughter, Bailey, had complete paralysis from the waist down for 11 days with no explanation as to why. This video is of one of her favorite nurses coming onto her shift and not knowing that Bail...

I didn't know that watered-down gospel music could be so toe-tappingly delightful. The music is peppy, and the talented musicians are clearly enjoying themselves. Read the rest...

The amazing thing about the families profiled: they love and accept their kids exactly as they are. Read the rest...

I spent my 20s in the service industry, overworked and underpaid. Why, now, do these games help me relax? Read the rest...

This where-are-they-now piece on Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers made me smile. I loved watching him. I'm glad to hear he is up to great stuff. Read the rest...

As disgusting as that may be, she's not the only one who should be ashamed: the enablers who promote this crap deserve condemnation, too. Read the rest...

Swoon....

The Disneyland Book of Lists is a fantastically fun, incredibly dense collection of Disneyland trivia! Read the rest...

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It's very long. It's very funny. Read the rest...

A 40 meter lump of wet wipes and fat was so heavy that it broke a sewer in West London. Stephen Hunt, a repair and maintenance supervisor at Thames Water, who is overseeing the fatbergs removal, said ...

"Traveling crews have been exploiting young workers and scamming customers for decades and neither law enforcement nor Congress has been able to do anything about it." The Atlantic reports on the sad...

Phillip Kremer knows how to have fun with faces. I sent him my photo to see if he'd give me this special treatment. Read the rest...

Forthcoming from Fantagraphics, a slipcased, two-volume set collecting Daniel Clowes's seminal Eight Ball, whence came Art School Confidential and Ghost World. Read the rest...

Fenwick writes, "I had the tremendous opportunity to have a public talk with William Gibson when my university asked if I'd would to do a public talk with a public figure. I had no idea I'd be so luc...

But Uber knocked $15 off Jaime Hessel's bill because it agreed that the driver had taken an "inefficient route."Gothamist:Hessel told us by phone that she e-mailed Uber at 12:30 today to ask them for ...

The giggling child makes it even cuter. ...

I spent my 20s in the service industry, overworked and underpaid. Why, now, do these games help me relax? Read the rest...

A "childhood friend" of the popular actress claims the beloved pet was taken when they were at school together in Ukraine. (more…)...

Michael Geist writes, "Randy Bachman found himself embroiled in a public fight with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year when Harper used his song 'Takin' Care of Business' as a theme song for a ma...

My latest Guardian column, Can anything curb the dominance of the internet's big guns? points out that everything governments do to tame the online giants has no effect on them -- but makes it nearly...

Chaos grips The Today Show this morning, where Bob is back from vacation and we gotta lot goin' on....

I never loved pen and paper games like Dungeons & Dragons as a kid. That kind of play felt like it took everything I liked about fantasy and pretend—being a character, drama and romance, sur...

Yep, he got thrashed by Judit Polgar again....

Apocalyptic landscapes are beloved to video games, lonesome, evocative worlds that ask players to make much of little—to scour the earth in search of survival, resources and heroism. Something a...

I spent my 20s in the service industry, overworked and underpaid. Why, now, do these games help me relax? Read the rest...

Wikipedia says that Grant Shapps, the bullying, untruthful millionaire spam kingpin who chairs the UK Conservative Party is behind an account that vandalised the entries for senior party officials and...

Rick Kleffel sez, "I spoke with Kazuo Ishiguro about his new book, The Buried Giant, and his means of using the literary toolkit of the fantastic to excavate the human psyche. It proved to be great f...

Real rayon! $50 from Thinkgeek: droids, tie-fighters, and the plans for the Death Star (naturally)....

Who says bipartisanship is dead? Read the rest...

♬ Nailed it ♬ (via Techdirt)...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Great Meritocracy Race is kept strictly fair; after all, the future of America is at stake. Read the rest...

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Our kitchen is a Wifi deadspot. I've tried using wireless extenders, but I think my walls have chicken wire in them, turning every room into a Faraday cage. Read the rest...

Alice Barker was a chorus line dancer during the Harlem Renaissance of the the 1930s and 40s. She danced at clubs such as The Apollo, Cotton Club, and Zanzibar Club, with legends including Frank Sinat...

Ryan Chatfield of Ryan Chatfield Images: Classic catch to save my drone from certain death. (more…)...

Congress is expected to vote on two 'cybersecurity' bills sometime in the next week that are essentially surveillance bills in disguise. Trevor Timm writes in this editorial, cross-posted on the Free...

The Mickey Mouse Treasures is literally a treasure trove of Mickey artifacts. Contained within the hard-cover books 63 pages are pockets, pouches, and fold-outs containing removable replicas of select...

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that it is unconstitutional to hold a suspect without probable cause, even if it's for less than 10 minutes. Read the rest...

Graeme Finlay, 53, is being tried in court for severely beating a senior couple who snubbed him at the dinner table on a Canary Islands cruise ship. Read the rest...

The most high. (more…)...

Right now, two planets dominate the sky after sunset: Venus in the west, and Jupiter high to the south. Read the rest...

Michele Leonhart, who has reigned over an out-of-control Drug Enforcement Administration since 2007, is expected to resign as administrator soon. Read the rest...

Marvel's character, one of the original X-Men, is to be outed....

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Dr. Tim Byers, who is the director for cancer prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, conducted a meta-analysis of 12 trials involving more than 300,000 people, over 12 yea...

Music legend and noted marijuana aficionado Willie Nelson plans to launch a personal brand of cannabis that he intends to make "the best on the market." Read the rest...

In the run-up to 4/20 day, CBS News released a poll that shows 53% of Americans support marijuana legalization. Read the rest...

A lawyer retained by Sony has sent threat-letters to media outlets hinting at repercussions if they report on material in the huge dump of internal Sony docs from the North Korea hack that Wikileaks p...

A woman was removed from a plane after she repeatedly poked a man with a pen to stop him from snoring. Read the rest...

AP: A five-legged lamb was born at a Welsh farm last week, becoming an internet sensation. (more…)...

Graphic designer Maya Eilam has created a print of her infographic on The Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut. You can buy one in her Etsy shop. Read the rest...

Photo: courtesy of ShypFrom private rides to hamburgers to marijuana, there is perhaps no better time in history to get anything delivered with little more than a tap of a smartphone button. Read the ...

HBO's lawyers defended its intellectual property law by figuratively dropping Wildfire on the Brooklyn bar Videology. The owner tweeted that the Wildfire was "very polite but official." Read the rest...

The new virtual reality company is producing lightweight headsets with a large field of view and minimal latency, for an immersive experience. Their Kickstarter is already halfway to its goal, with ju...

Want to know your destiny? Then get ready to physically fight with your closest pals. Read the rest...

Do you like forklift trucks and saving money for minor industrial groups of the midcentury midwest? We have the game for you! Read the rest...

"Based on the historical GitHub Archive and GitHut data starting in 2012, we analyzed the most common developer actions within GitHub and turned it into [these] infographics"Interesting factoid: four ...

Messages identified as abusive will not appear on notification timelines, thanks to a new filtering system designed to prevent harassment from being seen by its targets. Read the rest...

Available for Windows, Linux and (soon) OS X....

If your brand of libertarian fantasy involves living on land adjacent to Serbia, but which Serbia doesn't want, your dream has come true!...

The NYT: "Things like salt and fat arent the enemy. They are often necessary in the preparation of tasty, satisfying food."...

UK sex-toy retailer Lovehoney allowed researcher Jon Millward to data-mine its huge database of over 1,000,000 sex-toy purchases and 45,000 reviews, in order to see what he could infer about Britons' ...

James Bridle writes: "There's huge debate in the UK about the deaths of people in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe, but we rarely see or hear the people themselves." Read the rest...

My 12-year-old and her pals like making thing with Perler beads. They go through them quickly, so I bought a tub of 22,000 Perler beads for $15. Read the rest...

Nocturne: Creatures of the Night is not a book about sleep-deprived college students, club-hopping hipsters or even long haul truck drivers. Read the rest...

Dogs may have tapped into a uniquely human bonding mechanism, ensuring our love and care for man's best friend: eye contact. Read the rest...

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute engraved the Hebrew Bible on a chip the size of a grain of sugar....

Make way for the deluge, people. Read the rest...

The two brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images on April 14 an...

My friend Andreas Ekberg, who made this great Boing Boing deck for me, made a Happy Cloud cruiser for his pal Steve Guyer. Read the rest...

Of course, some of us have been ready for a female president since we were born. Read the rest...

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

Jason Little's comic about a downtrodden urban Candide whose misfortunes pile up at an alarming rate Read the rest...

Eva Darrows's debut novel The Awesome features the most sarcastic, raunchiest, bad-ass-est heroine in recent YA history -- monster hunting has never been so outrageous. Read the rest...