Articles by BoingBoing from June 2015

Justice Antonin Scalia's intemperate dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court's landmark marriage equality case included some epic old dude grumpery, including the phrases "pure applesauce" and "jigger...

Jessamyn West is a freelancer, and that means that she has to talk on the phone to earn her crust. This sucks. Read the rest...

To quote Jerry Seinfeld, "It seems like such an... arbitrary, ridiculous thing to just pick a finger and you show it to the person. It's a finger, what does it mean? Someone shows me one of their fing...

A trailer loaded with millions of bees in 400 hives overturned in Coeue D'Alene, Idaho on Sunday. Read the rest...

Remember the hype about neuromarketing, the use of brain imaging and other technologies to directly measure consumer preference or the effect of advertisements on our unconscious? Read the rest...

Hecho en Mexico. Read the rest...

The presidential candidate and professional assclown called Mexican immigrants "rapists." Read the rest...

This is the best price I've seen on the RAVPower Luster 3000mAh Mini Portable Charger ($6). It has enough juice to give most phones a full charge....

For just under $4 million you can live in Frank Sinatra's Villa Maggio, a five acre home on a mountain above California's Palm Desert. Read the rest...

Sol Single-Speed Bike ($279)Sol brings the style you want, and the performance you need, to bicycles you can afford. Crafted by Sol Bicycle Company in Venice Beach, California, these high-quality bike...

General Motors is moving up the on-sale date for its Chevrolet Bolt electric car to 2017, or maybe even sooner than that. It'll cost $30,000 (after tax breaks) about $5,000 less $2.5k more than the up...

Enjoy this game about matching tiles so that monsters won't kill you, and tricking out your watercraft. Read the rest...

Illustrators Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin prepared a series of charts examining the data in the Sherlock Holmes canon. (more…)...

I've had an interesting run with this motorcycle. It is probably haunted, and really doesn't want to go to Los Angeles. Read the rest...

My family is moving to Los Angeles in two weeks. Many Londoners understand intuitively why we're going. Read the rest...

These fluffy panda infants are too cute for words! Born to mothers who weren't able to care for their babies (one had cancer, another wasn't able to properly care for them) Smithsonian Conservation Bi...

Rick Kleffel sends his latest Bookotron podcast: "Neal Stephenson discusses (MP3) the challenges of turning orbital dynamics into pulse-pounding fiction ... and his latest novel Seveneves." (Image: B...

YouTuber YJSubs stabilized this crazy video of an excavator operator using the bucket to descend an unstable sandy embankment. Read the rest...

Learn Python, Ruby & PHP w/ 8 Courses of 95 + Hours of Programming Bootcamp. See details....

Practice Makes Perfect: Build Real Apps with 30 Hours of Coding & Web Scraping Course Content Read the rest...

Take Your Pick from Among 5 of Today's Hottest Big-Screen Android Phones Read the rest...

Night photography specialist Jack Fusco has a special love for framing his images of the Milky Way using sea caves, like this one in Malibu. Read the rest...

Peas, celery, parsley, and a variety of lettuces are growing in an old London WWII bunker 100 feet underground. To enter the 2.5 acre farm you must first wind your way down a 129-step spiral staircase...

The split-tailed horned viper has the head of a snake but its tail looks like a spider. This adaptation allows it to attract birds to munch on. Nature sure is beautiful, but also as scary as fuck. ...

Beat Your Snooze Addiction with the Alarm That Runs Away Read the rest...

The BACtrack Vio Smartphone Breathalyzer ($42.99) is the smallest and simplest way to turn nearly any smartphone into a high-performance alcohol screening device. Read the rest...

A Top-Rated, Ultra-Precise Touch-Screen Stylus w/ a Retractable & Replaceable Tip. Read the rest...

Studies have shown that there is a strong link between having sex and being happy. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University asked 64 married heterosexual couples to double the frequency of their sex...

Jeb Bush is telling Americans about his business acumen. But he's leaving out the part where five of Bush's business associates have been convicted of crimes. Read the rest...

A 43-year-old Florida woman has been charged with making a false report about being raped to police after an analysis of her Fitbit data. Read the rest...

Is this the cover of an obscure James Chance and the Contortions LP? No. It's a photo of one of the Gareau brothers being pinned down by an Ohio restaurant manager after the duo allegedly consumed $16...

If The Onion For Her and Lady Clickhole sound like sites you'd enjoy, swing by Reductress, a site that mocks the new crop of craptacular content farms aimed at women ages 25-39 who are watching their ...

YouTuber Merfish creates lovingly detailed homages to film and TV in Grand Theft Auto, like this re-enactment of the Full House intro. Read the rest...

The Tower of London is a wonderful Disneyland-esque attraction, and tourists sometimes confuse the Queen's Guard as fun-loving cast members in costume. But this video, and many other like it in on You...

India's often-unsanitary public toilets are breeding grounds for disease, leading many women pay to access toilets in places like McDonald's and KFC. The new "pee-buddy" is providing local women with ...

After dropping his phone out the window while trying to take a photo of the car next to him, this irate gentleman did other dumb things....

Brian "DMZ" Wood's new comic from IMAGE is Starve, and issue one, which just hit shelves at your local comic shop is the strongest start since Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan. Read the rest...

"At that time when we rendered things, everything kind of looked plastic-y," Lasseter says. "Everything looks like plastic, so what if the characters were made of plastic? What if they were... toys?'"...

Thinkgeek's Brain Specimen Coasters come in a set of ten, stacking to form a 3D brain. (via Geeky Merch)...

As a volunteer, Brian Boyko developed the Mayday.US site that helped Lawrence Lessig's Mayday.US anti-PAC raise $11M to fight campaign finance corruption, and now he wants to go to code camp. Read the...

"I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions." Audio from interview conducted by Mike Wallace in 1959. (Blank on Blank)...

Earjax ($34.95) has extremely high standards for a proper listening experience, and you should too. Their precision-crafted design delivers every nuance of every note, so you are guaranteed to hear ...

Foods containing mixtures of salt, fat, sugar and starch are "hyperpalatable" and induce strong, habitual compulsions to consume; the most successful high-calorie dishes are engineered to deliver stag...

The largest-sized Aqua Lily Pad weighs 57lbs and unrolls to 20' long, and will support up to 1300lbs of sun-loungers, coolers, and people. Read the rest...

Gerber's GDC Zip Blade measures 1.7" when closed and is intended to be used as a zipper-pull (it has a quick-release) -- the 0.68" blade locks open for a total length of 1.7" (there's also a multidriv...

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A meditation on the problem of updating bureaucracies' databases that presently only support reciprocal "husband-wife" relationships, but not "husband-husband" or "wife-wife". Read the rest...

A CNN reporter filed an "exclusive" story about a person carrying an "ISIS flag" at yesterday's Pride Parade in London. Read the rest...

The winners from last night's Locus Awards Banquet in Seattle have been announced: Read the rest...

Over at Dangerous Minds, Tara McGinley shared photos of 70s "blowjob faces." Given the era's dietary standards, they could also pass for 70s poo faces. Read the rest...

Dumb as planks....

Josh from the Open Tech Institute writes, "Last week, researchers published the first results from the Internet Health Test, a public tool for consumers to measure their Internet speeds and gather dat...

The senator from Nevada scoffed at the Bureau of Land Management's demand that Burning Man build it a $1m VIP compound with showers and flush toilets, saying that the festival's ethic of radical self-...

"Those Who Are Jesus" is Steven Eastwood's fascinating 2001 documentary about three people who have true delusions of grandeur based on "profoundly religious or revalatory experiences." Read the rest...

"Internet access is not a necessity or human right" -Michael ORielly, Republican FCC Commissioner...

Foods containing mixtures of salt, fat, sugar and starch are "hyperpalatable" and induce strong, habitual compulsions to consume; the most successful high-calorie dishes are engineered to deliver stag...

The General Lee loses its Confederate Flag, and the truth about Bo and Luke comes out. (more…)...

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

The times they are a-changing, even at the venerable Japanese video game publisher. Read the rest...

My, my. Read the rest...

We salute you, happy gay people of Red Pegasus Comics in Dallas, Texas. (more…)...

Kind of a crazy day, right? (more…)...

Spotted first on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Facebook Page. (more…)...

My, my. Read the rest...

Also: Photobomb, crowdfund, totes, sext, and nearly 500 more. Read the rest...

Delivering a eulogy at the funeral for Reverend Clementa Pinckney, killed in the Charleston church massacre with 8 more by white supremacist Dylan Roof, President Obama sings Amazing Grace. Read the ...

Rod. His name is actually Rod. Read the rest...

A new study shows that people using a stationary bike to exercise pedal faster when they're also working on a mental task. The University of Florida researchers had actually expected that the multitas...

Over at Weird Universe, Alex posted his fun photos from the San Diego County Fair of "an exhibit of rocks that look like food." (more…)...

Winona Ryder signed on as star of a forthcoming Netflix drama about the high weirdness, conspiracy theories, and paranormal reports around the Montauk Project, alleged US government experiments on Lon...

Over at Weird Universe, Alex posted his fun photos from the San Diego County Fair of "an exhibit of rocks that look like food." (more…)...

History in Charleston. (more…)...

Charleston. (more…)...

The Camp Champ is a stately and elegant mobile kitchen with equipment and utensils for six that collapses into a compact wooden box. Its construction reminds me of a magician's stage illusion! Read th...

Because #lovewins. (more…)...

Have you ever neglected to sufficiently tighten the gas cap after refueling your car? If you have a car built after 1996, it's likely to have triggered the "Check Engine" dashboard idiot light, even t...

The U.S. Forest Service is blaming a hobby drone for grounding a fleet of planes delivering fire retardant to a blaze near Big Bear Lake on June 24th. Read the rest...

Designer Kermit Tesoro released images of this custom-designed POLYPODIS 2015 shoe. Read the rest...

Feathr produces digitally printed, on-demand wallpaper, and they even occasionally take submissions from interested artists through open calls and bespoke commissions. Read the rest...

"Why is it that men understand computers so easily, but women don't?" After being driven mad by her technophobia, a hapless woman is visited by the spirit of Ada Lovelace, who patiently guides the wom...

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Learned helplessness keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it may be to escape. Learn how to defeat this psychological trap, thanks to...

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In BooFlag, just switch on your computer mic and boo at the Confederate flag. As you do, it will slowly be lowered, and eventually it will catch on fire and burn to a little pile of ash. Read the res...

In BooFlag, just switch on your computer mic and boo at the Confederate flag. As you do, it will slowly be lowered, and eventually it will catch on fire and burn to a little pile of ash. Read the res...

This is a watershed moment for civil rights that finally brings the dream of living in an equitable society one tiny fraction of a step closer to reality, said civil rights lawyer Helene Najjar, addin...

This is a watershed moment for civil rights that finally brings the dream of living in an equitable society one tiny fraction of a step closer to reality, said civil rights lawyer Helene Najjar, addin...

James Stark's returned to LA from hell's gladiator pits and has been tearing things up ever since -- but what do you get for the monster who has everything? Killing Pretty has the answer. Read the re...

The Supreme Court of the United States of America has ruled that same-sex partners have a right to marry anywhere in the nation. Read the rest...

From Schnstaub, who make the amazing sized-to-order celestial rugs, comes the NYC from space beach-towel....

The lucky attendees at this year's meeting of the American Societe of Parasitologists got a gorgeous deck of parasite-themed playing cards into their conference bags. Read the rest...

Rev Dan Catt has been experimenting with “flip-flops” since 2012, taking a popular digital image, getting a physical thing made from it, turning that into a new popular digital image ̵...

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A U.K. realtor valued the subterranean residence at 8.5m (~$14m), on the assumption that it is situated in Worcestershire, the county J.R.R. Read the rest...

A U.K. realtor valued the subterranean residence at 8.5m (~$14m), on the assumption that it is situated in Worcestershire, the county J.R.R. Read the rest...

The myth of white neutrality persists in the world of gaming, where black characters in fantasy games can be deemed less "realistic" than dragons. Read the rest...

The myth of white neutrality persists in the world of gaming, where black characters in fantasy games can be deemed less "realistic" than dragons. Read the rest...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

WebQuake is doing the rounds, today, and to my horror I found we have never posted it. Consider this sad omission remedied. [details]...

WebQuake is doing the rounds, today, and to my horror I found we have never posted it. Consider this sad omission remedied. [details]...

I’m too dumb to understand what the article is about, but Walter Newton’s Street Fighter-style animations for “Paul Krugman Battles The Austerians” are fabulous....

In BooFlag, just switch on your computer mic and boo at the Confederate flag. As you do, it will slowly be lowered, and eventually it will catch on fire and burn to a little pile of ash. Read the res...

JScreenFix purports to repair pixels stuck on a certain color using nothing more than javascript and HTML. Read the rest...

JScreenFix purports to repair pixels stuck on a certain color using nothing more than javascript and HTML. Read the rest...

It’s from 2013, but Tim Ellis’s wrath at the insane, incomprehensible controls of modern ovens speaks for all of us. This Jenn-Air microwave sports 34 buttons. Read the rest...

AnalogNT is an 8-bit gaming console precision-crafted from a single block of aluminum, resulting in something beautiful but no more capable than thrift store tat. Read the rest...

In a heartfelt and frank interview (conducted by our own Caroline Siede!), Wil Wheaton discusses the moment he realized he needed help with his clinical depression, and the moment he realized that the...

Hana from Unplugged Studio upcycles new and vintage clothes mixed with comics-themed prints to make great, nerdy women’s wear: Wonder Woman lace thong, Captain America partially-lined tee, vinta...

Hana from Unplugged Studio upcycles new and vintage clothes mixed with comics-themed prints to make great, nerdy women's wear: Wonder Woman lace thong, Captain America partially-lined tee, vintage Lev...

This video from Golf Digest is oddly captivating. (more…)...

This video from Golf Digest is oddly captivating. (more…)...

This video from Golf Digest is oddly captivating. (more…)...

Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, has passed away. ...

Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, has passed away....

Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, has passed away....

The myth of white neutrality persists in the world of gaming, where black characters in fantasy games can be deemed less "realistic" than dragons. Read the rest...

I Watch You, a most nifty hack by Eirik Solheim. Read the rest...

I Watch You, a most nifty hack by Eirik Solheim. Read the rest...

Have you ever neglected to sufficiently tighten the gas cap after refueling your car? If you have a car built after 1996, it’s likely to have triggered the “Check Engine” dashboard i...

Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed the dapper John Steed in the 1960's vintage 'The Avengers,' has passed away. ...

Vintage Youtubeage from 2007. (more…)...

Vintage Youtubeage from 2007. (more…)...

Vintage Youtubeage from 2007. (more…)...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-tra...

Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-tra...

Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-tra...

I have one of these tiny inexpensive microscopes, and it is surprisingly good. But it didn't come with a clip to attach it to a phone camera, like this. Read the rest...

I have one of these tiny inexpensive microscopes, and it is surprisingly good. But it didn’t come with a clip to attach it to a phone camera, like this. Read the rest...

"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest...

Need a place to stay near Google X in Mountain View? John Potter is renting out a 9' x 7' Coleman tent in his backyard on Airbnb for $46/night. Read the rest...

Need a place to stay near Google X in Mountain View? John Potter is renting out a 9′ x 7′ Coleman tent in his backyard on Airbnb for $46/night. Read the rest...

Need a place to stay near Google X in Mountain View? John Potter is renting out a 9′ x 7′ Coleman tent in his backyard on Airbnb for $46/night. Read the rest...

A few years ago the most horrific insect I've ever seen chased my family while hiking in Los Angeles. Its dark bluish wasp-shaped body was gigantic, its stinger visible even from afar. Read the rest...

A few years ago the most horrific insect I’ve ever seen chased my family while hiking in Los Angeles. Its dark bluish wasp-shaped body was gigantic, its stinger visible even from afar. Read the...

For $25/month, you can soon have access to a network of guaranteed clean bathrooms in New York City through a new app called Looie. The service launches in July with seven bathrooms at cafes and resta...

For $25/month, you can soon have access to a network of guaranteed clean bathrooms in New York City through a new app called Looie. The service launches in July with seven bathrooms at cafes and resta...

Approximate translation: "It's the Family Computer's Dream Adventure Game, "Super Mario Bros."! With a mysterious power, he gains a great transformation! Explore the earth, underground, the sea, the s...

Approximate translation: “It’s the Family Computer’s Dream Adventure Game, “Super Mario Bros.”! With a mysterious power, he gains a great transformation! Explore the eart...

MinutePhysics created a simple explanation of the complicated task of detecting secret nuclear tests. There's a push underway to demand that the US and other countries legalize such inspections worldw...

MinutePhysics created a simple explanation of the complicated task of detecting secret nuclear tests. There’s a push underway to demand that the US and other countries legalize such inspections ...

Imgur user PapJ06 created these interesting Lichtenberg figures by electrocuting wood blocks with a modified microwave transformer, then applying glowing powder and resin. Read the rest...

Imgur user PapJ06 created these interesting Lichtenberg figures by electrocuting wood blocks with a modified microwave transformer, then applying glowing powder and resin. Read the rest...

On June 25, 1978, Gilbert Baker raised the first Rainbow Pride flag in San Francisco. Last week, MoMA acquired the flag for their collection, and they have a terrific interview with the designer. Rea...

On June 25, 1978, Gilbert Baker raised the first Rainbow Pride flag in San Francisco. Last week, MoMA acquired the flag for their collection, and they have a terrific interview with the designer. Rea...

Recent rulings at the Supreme Court of the United States have left some people confused at its ideological composition, traditionally held to be perfectly balanced between four liberals and four conse...

Recent rulings at the Supreme Court of the United States have left some people confused at its ideological composition, traditionally held to be perfectly balanced between four liberals and four conse...

Researchers demonstrated an early proof-of-concept system in which tiny robots inside your body, controlled by an MRI machine, could self-assemble into a Gauss gun and fire projectiles to clear blocka...

Researchers demonstrated an early proof-of-concept system in which tiny robots inside your body, controlled by an MRI machine, could self-assemble into a Gauss gun and fire projectiles to clear blocka...

Last Saturday a Cessna 303 plane crashed in a Columbian jungle. The pilot died, but when rescuers arrived at the scene, 18-year-old Maria Nelly Murillo and her baby son were missing. Read the rest...

Last Saturday a Cessna 303 plane crashed in a Columbian jungle. The pilot died, but when rescuers arrived at the scene, 18-year-old Maria Nelly Murillo and her baby son were missing. Read the rest...

For $5 this simple ring, with some elvish-style script, is a pretty strong magnet! Read the rest...

For $5 this simple ring, with some elvish-style script, is a pretty strong magnet! Read the rest...

Voice actor Susan Bennett was the original voice of the iPhone assistant Siri. It's fun to hear her use different voices in this video, made by Vox. Read the rest...

Voice actor Susan Bennett was the original voice of the iPhone assistant Siri. It’s fun to hear her use different voices in this video, made by Vox. Read the rest...

Extensive 12-Week Online Program to Learn to Code. Love Your Job, Work Flexible Hours, & Get a Raise.Become a job-ready developer by building a portfolio of real-world apps and interacting 1-on-1...

Teenage sleight-of-hand artist Moritz Mueller performs the One Coin Routine....

Teenage sleight-of-hand artist Moritz Mueller performs the One Coin Routine....

Teenage sleight-of-hand artist Moritz Mueller performs the One Coin Routine....

From our pal COOP and the fine artisans at Pressure Printing, this new "Devil Girl Odalisque" large-scale relief print. Read the rest...

From our pal COOP and the fine artisans at Pressure Printing, this new “Devil Girl Odalisque” large-scale relief print. Read the rest...

From our pal COOP and the fine artisans at Pressure Printing, this new “Devil Girl Odalisque” large-scale relief print. Read the rest...

Courtney Love was in the wrong place at the wrong time earlier today. Leaving Charles De Gaulle airport via Uber, thousands of taxi drivers protesting Uber held her car hostage for over an hour, break...

Courtney Love was in the wrong place at the wrong time earlier today. Leaving Charles De Gaulle airport via Uber, thousands of taxi drivers protesting Uber held her car hostage for over an hour, break...

Mamadou Barry, 47, racked up two parking tickets in New York while sitting in his car. He was dead at time. "Officials said they were investigating why wardens had failed to give Mr. Barry a third tic...

Mamadou Barry, 47, racked up two parking tickets in New York while sitting in his car. He was dead at time. “Officials said they were investigating why wardens had failed to give Mr. Barry a thi...

Mamadou Barry, 47, racked up two parking tickets in New York while sitting in his car. He was dead at time. “Officials said they were investigating why wardens had failed to give Mr. Barry a thi...

DC Comics recently released a comic about Furiosa by an all-male creative team, and boy does it get everything wrong. Read the rest...

Over at On-Demand, journalist and arts critic Kaite Welsh writes about how she uses Fivver to supplement her income by editing amateur erotica, and shares her most common editorial notes, starting wit...

Over at On-Demand, journalist and arts critic Kaite Welsh writes about how she uses Fivver to supplement her income by editing amateur erotica, and shares her most common editorial notes, starting wit...

This gent was madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory when he discovered that his car was heavily coated with Post-It notes after he illegally parked it in a disabled spot. A crowd jeered as he ...

This gent was madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory when he discovered that his car was heavily coated with Post-It notes after he illegally parked it in a disabled spot. A crowd jeered as he ...

Pomplamoose plays a delightful cover of "Walking on Sunshine," a 1983 classic by Katrina and the Waves. Pomplamoose's new album Besides is just out this week....

Pomplamoose plays a delightful cover of “Walking on Sunshine,” a 1983 classic by Katrina and the Waves. Pomplamoose’s new album Besides is just out this week....

Pomplamoose plays a delightful cover of “Walking on Sunshine,” a 1983 classic by Katrina and the Waves. Pomplamoose’s new album Besides is just out this week....

For those uninterested in Kandee Johnson's 13-minute Barbie makeover video, here's a 90-second timelapse. For those uninterested in the timelapse, look at the image here. For those uninterested in the...

84-year-old Joseph Cosgrove is suing Disneyland for canceling his membership in Club 33, the exclusive Disneyland restaurant that charges an $11,000 annual membership. A Disney spokesperson said Cosgr...

84-year-old Joseph Cosgrove is suing Disneyland for canceling his membership in Club 33, the exclusive Disneyland restaurant that charges an $11,000 annual membership. A Disney spokesperson said Cosgr...

Photographer Francisco Anzola posted some gorgeous photos of Azerbaijan, including the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku. Read the rest...

Sebastian Errazuriz's Wave Cabinet is made of connected movable slats that can be arranged by brushing your hand against them. Beautiful! I want a desktop sized model to fiddle with.[via]...

This year noted author and intellect Pico Iyer gave USC's commencement address. It's a great 17 minutesfor graduating college students and anyoneelse. Watch it here....

In 1910 Scotland Yard exploited a new invention, the wireless telegraph, to capture the main suspect in a gruesome murder. Read the rest...

A major challenge to the Affordable Care Act was dismissed Thursday in a 6-3 ruling. Read the rest...

Shepard Fairey is wanted by Detroit police for graffiti. The Detroit Free Press reports that he faces "two counts of malicious destruction of property, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in j...

"This is pure tabloid bait, combining some of the tabloids favorite things," writes Peter Yeh. "smart children, sex, and shaming people." Read the rest...

The Survival School Fire Piston is a gadget that uses a hand-pumped piston to compress air, creating enough heat to spark a bit of tinder. Read the rest...

The Survival School Fire Piston is a gadget that uses a hand-pumped piston to compress air, creating enough heat to spark a bit of tinder. Read the rest...

Scarce kindergarten places at magnet schools like the Fairview-Clifton German Language School are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to parents who camp out for weeks, clearing their tents eve...

Scarce kindergarten places at magnet schools like the Fairview-Clifton German Language School are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to parents who camp out for weeks, clearing their tents eve...

The Canadian Prime Minister said he'd only sign the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership if it had safeguards for Canada's farmers, but now that it's clear that he hasn't got a hope in hell of being re...

The Canadian Prime Minister said he’d only sign the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership if it had safeguards for Canada’s farmers, but now that it’s clear that he hasn’t got a ...

The best original attraction in Walt Disney World, an interactive theater that combined live actors, live-puppeteered animatronic elements, gag bar-stools, and booze, is finally being razed. Read the ...

It's only Android 1.6, but still, that's impressive! Naturally, the sourcefiles are on Github. Read the rest...

It's only Android 1.6, but still, that's impressive! Naturally, the sourcefiles are on Github. Read the rest...

I was too harried, when my classic BMW motorcycle died on the side of a busy highway, 150 miles from home, to visually test both the plugs. This simple tester would have saved me from my own laziness....

In 1961, new parents David and Doris Wagner had a baby and Doris went on the birth control pill, just approved by the FDA the year before. Quickly though, Doris and David realized that it was too easy...

There's much YouTube evidence of wild animals swimming in our man-made swimming pools, as more of our homes encroach on the land they once roamed. (more…)...

There's much YouTube evidence of wild animals swimming in our man-made swimming pools, as more of our homes encroach on the land they once roamed. (more…)...

What's the difference between RUSHING past a dangerous trap and it CRUSHING you to a pulp? Just a tiny sliver of alphabet. Read the rest...

What would a nature documentary be like if the animals were armed with our favorite weapons? (more…)...

Years of below average flows have exposed caches of sediment, and gold, that have been inaccessible for years. Read the rest...

The origin of this "large face" on the side of a cliff remains unknown. (more…)...

After his daughter complained her toy car was not fast enough, YouTuber ThatHPI GUY decided to mod it so it could pop wheelies. Read the rest...

Superhero movies are nothing new (Superman, Batman, Spiderman...) but they began to snowball in 2000, after the success of X-Men. Read the rest...

The city is nearing a settlement with several Muslim clerics who filed a 2013 federal discrimination lawsuit alleging illegal NYPD spying. Read the rest...

Another southern state tears down the popular symbol of racism and slavery. In this Reuters photo, state workers take down a Confederate national flag on the grounds of the state capitol on Wednesday ...

A man who was anesthetized for a colonoscopy in Reston, Virginia was surprised to hear a recording on his smartphone of the anesthesiologist and others on the medical team acting like total assholes a...

Luhu is a kitty whose naturally droopy eyes make her look like a sad cat from a 1960s Gig (Girard Goodenow) painting. Read the rest...

The so-called unlimited cash out operations used hacked debit cards with withdrawal limits removed to make ATMs spew money. Read the rest...

The fields of bioinspiration and biomimetics look at animal evolution to improve machine function. Chen Li at UC Berkeley's Poly-PEDAL Lab found that an oval cockroach shell atop a small robot helps i...

A 40th floor view of the crowd instantly filling NYC's Bryant Park on Sunday night for a free showing of Ghostbusters. (more…)...

This cute sampler box of Tea Forte's herbal collection makes a lovely gift. Read the rest...

The worlds 15 youngest countries are all in Africa. Read the rest...

Built with extreme attention to detail, right down to imported mud from the festival site. Read the rest...

This year, minimalist music pioneer Terry Riley celebrates his 80th birthday and in his honor, my favorite avant-garde classical group Kronos Quartet are honoring Riley with a three-day festival start...

LIFE photo editor Liz Ronk and writer Eliza Berman looked through their archives, writing with clear-eyed hindsight of LIFE's Truman-era collection of Confederate flag photos. Read the rest...

Brodudes in boat chase down a frightened moose and one of them jumps on the moose's back for a ride. They aren't very smart, as evidenced by the fact that they shared this inhumane stunt on video....

Primitive Technology's handyman starts with a stone axe and a fire-stick, then painstakingly builds up a 2m^2 hut with a bed, fireplace, chimney and thatched roof. Read the rest...

Architect Andres Jaque's Office for Political Innovation has installed Cosmo at MoMA. The whimsical water filtration sytem on wheels is designed to make people think about municipal water delivery sys...

Primitive Technology's handyman starts with a stone axe and a fire-stick, then painstakingly builds up a 2m^2 hut with a bed, fireplace, chimney and thatched roof. Read the rest...

Vivian Gabb, 59, of London, was in the middle of buying a house and somehow a criminal learned of the details, impersonated her solicitor, and emailed her with instructions to wire the money to the "b...

Christophe Szpajdel rebranded the hopefuls with more elaborate and distinctive imagery than is permitted by the blandly inoffensive standards of election campaigning....

The perception is that they finish last, but "jerk perks" are overrated, reports Olga Kazan: "other research shows that in many situations, it pays to be nice. Read the rest...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Chaos Butterfly, Marital Mirth and more! Read the rest...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Chaos Butterfly, Marital Mirth and more! Read the rest...

Even excluding the Charleston massacre, white supremacists and their like are way ahead of Muslim extremists, reports The New York Times. Read the rest...

Christopher Ferguson's Comcast bill was bullshit. When he complained, the company offered him alternatives that cost more. So he turned them in to the FCC and got relief. Read the rest...

Most people in the United States and the rest of the west have easy access to iodine, an essential chemical for our health. Read the rest...

The default behavior of hotword, a new, black-box module in Chrome (and its free/open cousin, Chromium) causes it to silently switch on your computer's microphone and send whatever it hears to Google....

Paul writes, "Pogues founder Jem Finer created Longplayer in the late 1990's, a one-thousand-year-long piece of transcendent music which started playing at the stroke of midnight as the year 2000 star...

A new release of top secret NSA docs by Wikileaks shows the US spy-agency has intercepted the phone conversations of the past three French presidents, the French ambassador to the USA, and others. Rea...

A 40th floor view of the crowd instantly filling NYC's Bryant Park on Sunday night for a free showing of Ghostbusters. (more…)...

This year, minimalist music pioneer Terry Riley celebrates his 80th birthday and in his honor, my favorite avant-garde classical group Kronos Quartet are honoring Riley with a three-day festival start...

The action starts around 25 seconds in. (more…)...

Over at Backchannel, Andy Warner's delightful comic about how a naval engineer invented The Slinky. Read the rest...

I would like to know Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's thoughts about this outsider musician's YouTube masterpiece: a cover of 'Stairway to Heaven,' played on this dude's hands. (more…)...

Okay, it's an intake vortex of water in an Oklahoma waterway, but it looks like a giant endless black hole of sludge, which is how human interaction on the Internet feels sometimes. Read the rest...

Dang, Jon Stewart sure has grown up over those many seasons. Read the rest...

Boils! Cow Plague! Frogs! (more…)...

What a terrible person this man is. I mean, we all know already. But come on. Read the rest...

A lot of games are about explosions, but rarely is it this joyful and whimsical to make people explode. Read the rest...

A cop in Karlsruhe, Germany was in no mood for playful art installations. None too pleased with artist Erwin Wurm's red Mercedes truck arching up against a building, he issued a ticket. And what's the...

Following the announced removal of the popular symbol of slavery and racism from state capitols, license plates and big box stores, online retail giants are following suit. Read the rest...

The records will be online by late next year, to coincide with the opening of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. Read the ...

I asked Lenore Edman, the founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, the open source hardware, hobby electronics, and robotics company, to write a Medium post about what it's like being a badass fema...

Dick Van Patten who famously played Tom Bradford on TV's "Eight Is Enough" (1977-1981) and also appeared in several Mel Brooks movies, Westworld, Soylent Green, I Remember Mama, and many other movies ...

One the world's worst invasive species is the New Guinea flatworm, a double-pointed 2-inch-long worm that causes serious damage to bio diversity. Read the rest...

Four of Amazon's ten top-selling flags are currently Confederate in the wake of proposed bans across the U.S. The trend echoes spikes in gun sales when 'Muricans fear the government is going to impose...

Texas governor Greg Abbott OK's ban on healthcare provider's non-abortion-related services for the poor. Read the rest...

One the world's worst invasive species is the New Guinea flatworm, a double-pointed 2-inch-long worm that causes serious damage to bio diversity. Read the rest...

Those grunts. (more…)...

Aeroacoustics expert Nigel Peake of Cambridge University leads a group of engineers mimicking owl wing feathers to reduce noise on wind turbines. Read the rest...

Longingfor a relaxing rainy day? Open a window with rainymood.comand feel your stress dissipate. Discover relaxing music by clicking the random song option to overlay on your rain....

The American Museum of Natural History sorted it out. (more…)...

Yeah, yeah, pareidolia, but damn that's amazing. (more…)...

These colorful shuriken (retractable ninja stars) by YouTuber ProudPaperOfficial are surprisingly easy to make. Read the rest...

Ruby was a brightly colored lamb with transparent skin. She carried jellyfish DNA and belonged to "Green Sheep," a research project in France studying the effects of implants on humans. Read the rest...

Ruby was a brightly colored lamb with transparent skin. She carried jellyfish DNA and belonged to "Green Sheep," a research project in France studying the effects of implants on humans. Read the rest...

I nearly falafel my chair when I read about the Israeli researchers who've designed a device that can derive crypto keys from the unintentional radio signals emitted by a computer's CPUand miniaturize...

Above, a map of the "Square and Stationary Earth" (1893) by a Professor Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Read the rest...

Longingfor a relaxing rainy day? Open a window with rainymood.comand feel your stress dissipate. Discover relaxing music by clicking the random song option to overlay on your rain....

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Aeroacoustics expert Nigel Peake of Cambridge University leads a group of engineers mimicking owl wing feathers to reduce noise on wind turbines. Read the rest...

Legislation sponsored by Los Angeles Assemblyman Mike Gatto is returning these iconic license plates to the street. LA Times shares the story. Read the rest...

Alternet reports that Farris "had no prior criminal record but had struggled with a history of mental illness." Read the rest...

"We'll call it the Horsing Around Club, and we'll just f***in' go to town on each other, just visceral disturbing sh*t, y'know?"The only thing that would be better than Chuck Palahniuk reading Fight C...

It's unlocked and it includes a year of Prime, which costs $99 a year. Read the rest...

Alex Boese has a great article on About Entertainment on the history of people who claimed ownership of stars, moons, and planets and then sold deeds to plots of land on the heavenly bodies. Read the...

Terry McAuliffe announced the decision today, citing the recent killing of nine people at a black church by a white supremacist. Read the rest...

Sharon Green is madder than a snail in a salt mine over a christening cake she purchased that has teddy bears with creases that remind her of female genitalia. Read the rest...

Sheriff's deputies in Island County, WA forgot to check 25-year-old Keaton Farris's cell every hour, and when they finally got around to looking, he was dead, starved of water and food. Read the rest...

Alex Bellos' Monday puzzle in The Guardian is the Three Switches Probem:Downstairs in a house are three identical on-off switches. Read the rest...

Designer Jyo John Mulloor created these custom motorcycle helmets to look like the bare heads of the riders underneath. Read the rest...

Good Art Hlywd remade the classic green army men toy figures in sterling silver. Read the rest...

Perhaps not the model you remember, but in Japan in 1983, this was where it started. YouTuber Satoshi Matrix has uploaded many many more like it. Read the rest...

"Protection? What the fuck are you talking about? You have guns because you like guns." [NSFW. video link]...

Are you occasionally confused by the sparkly, shrieking jubilation of political rallies? Easily put down to partisan ardor, it is like so much else, often plainly fake. Read the rest...

The IdeaCenter Stick 300 isn't much larger than a USB dongle, but claims to offer enough grunt to turn any monitor or TV into an "entertainment station." Read the rest...

America's largest retailer is to rid its shelves of flags and other tat sporting the popular symbol of slavery and racism. Read the rest...

Warning, wearers of close-fitting denim! A woman in Australia had to be "cut out" of her skinny jeans after suffering muscle and nerve damage. Read the rest...

In March 2015, Firstsecond books published its English translation of the first volume of Lastman, the spectacularly successful French martial arts comic; they're bringing out the rest of the books o...

A warning was issued to wearers of close-fitting denim after a woman in Australia had to be "cut out" of skinny jeans after suffering muscle and nerve damage. Read the rest...

The creator of legendary soundtracks to Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens and countless other famous movies died yesterday in a plane crash in California. Read the rest...

In last summer's Unlocking the Gates of Alexandria: DRM, Competition and Access to E-Books, Ana Carolina Bittar of the Fundao Getulio Vargas Law School at So Paulo does an outstanding, thorough, and e...

You have 10 seconds to read and respond to every text message you get behind the wheel. After all, you wouldn't want to be rude. Read the rest...

Despite getting some mixed reviews on its release, the new Netflix series Sense8 is really fascinating. Read the rest...

In the style of the 11th Doctor, $26 from Niquegeek, whom we've featured here for their 3D printed Weighted Companion Cube dice. (via Geeky Merch)...

Adam Lister's prints capture classic moments from fine art and popular culture, rendered in colored, overlapping rectangles. (more…)...

Heavy Metal is bringing a limited-edition set of black-light posters depicting Jack Kirby's gorgeous Lord of Light concept art, whose beauty is only outstripped by its incredibly strange origin-story....

This is microrobotic tentacle grabbing an ant. Iowa State University engineers developed the spiraling microrobotic pneumatic tentacles, just 8 millimeters long and less than a hundredth of an inch wi...

In 1986, Industrial Light and Magic artist John Bell designed what would become an icon of Hollywood futurism, Marty McFly's Hoverboard from Back To The Future 2. Read the rest...

The "Ukrainian lacing" method puts a pair of loops in both sets of top eyelets, cross-laces to the bottom, and anchors the laces with a pair of hidden knots, so that you can slip your foot into a "tie...

Star Trek: TNG's Jean-Luc Picard drops knowledge over Eclectic Method. (more…)...

The American Museum of Natural History sorted it out.Shelf Life Episode Eight: The Voyage of the Giant SquidAnd of course, don't miss Mark Dery's classic Boing Boing original feature: The Kraken Wakes...

The cat is doing well, she is still our mascot. Read the rest...

An amazing little video shot by a guy traveling in Norway. Read the rest...

I've been recording my golden retriever pups running to dinner from 11 weeks to 11 months, says Redditor disillusioned. Watch them grow! (more…)...

People do weird things for war. Read the rest...

People do weird things for war. Read the rest...

When it comes to cars, the faster the better. That’s why the Mpow 3-Port Intelligent Car Charger ($13.99) is an essential gadget for every car on the road. Read the rest...

Meet Cherokey 4WD, a versatile mobile platform compatible with most microcontrollers, and the heart and soul of your robotic vehicle. Read the rest...

Youre in your living room. Youre bored to tears. Youre dying to watch sick movies or play amazing games, but sadly you dont even have a tablet or a Chromecast. Read the rest...

I fortunately have not had to use Cyntur Pack Mini Lithium-Ion Jumpstarter to start my car, but it's nice to know I have it if I need it. Read the rest...

You have 10 seconds to read and respond to every text message you get behind the wheel. After all, you wouldn't want to be rude. Read the rest...

You have 10 seconds to read and respond to every text message you get behind the wheel. After all, you don't want to be rude. Read the rest...

For fans of beer honoring a sex-abuse enabler, this one's for you. Read the rest...

Here's an amazing YouTube video of a snake about to feast on a baby bunny when along comes mama rabbit to the rescue. She separates the snake from her baby, but doesn't stop there. She then proceeds t...

The reservation struggles with high unemployment and problems with substance abuse and gangs and is one of the poorest communities in the United States. Read the rest...

Native American communities continue to suffer heartbreaking teen suicide rates. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is committing funds to help a school on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Da...

A Pennsylvania brewery is naming a beer in honor of Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach fired for concealing Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse....

The agency used fake accounts to "deter," "promote distrust" and "discredit" in political discussions on social media, uploaded fake book/magazine articles with "incorrect information," hacked website...

84-year-old William Shatner is excited about his upcoming eight-day road trip, from Chicago to his home in Los Angeles. He'll do it astride a 3-wheeled vehicle called the Landjet. Read the rest...

Interested in creating virtual reality? Google is looking for people to test drive their Jump VR system that includes 16 cameras. Read the rest...

Tony Abbott, current Prime Minister of Australia, announced his new Internet censorship plan by warning Aussies, "Do not, my friends, become addicted to the Web." Read the rest...

Even though the price of an 1/8th ounce of recreational cannabis in Colorado has dropped from $50-$70 to $30-$45 in the last year, revenue is up, because the number of visitors to stores has greatly i...

There is one justifiable use of a privately owned gun to kill a criminal for every 34 murders committed with a firearm in America. Looking at the horrible gun death statistics recently shared by the V...

"And even if she asked me now Id let her go alone."...

Noel Lee says he invented the headphones that are marketed by Beats by Dr. Dre. In May 2014, Apple paid $3 billion to buy Beats by Dr. Read the rest...

A lot of exciting things happened at E3 that weren't big-budget sequels. Like yarn, robot dinosaurs, and a giant, awesome dog. Read the rest...

In Rodney Hartman's Wizard Defiant, space cadet boot camp meets elves and wizards. Read the rest...

Check out the trailer for a very sweet documentary about Curt Harper, a 50 year old competitive surfer whose glowing spirit helps define the sport! Read the rest...

Authors who self-publish through Amazons KDP Select Program will start getting paid based on the number of book pages that are read, as opposed to how many books are borrowed through two different Kin...

Marc Maron and President Obama had a relaxed and fascinating one-hour conversation in Maron's Pasadena, California garage, where Maron produces his popular WTF Podcast. Read the rest...

It took this guy over week a to make a stone axe from scratch. I can do it in much faster in Minecraft. Read the rest...

"Dripping with nectar, the pitcher plant attracts thousands of hungry termites. But as soon as the bugs start eating, they begin to slip on the sugary liquid and tumble inside the plant."...

The Flying Spaghetti monster crafted this wicked Dynastor darius darius pupa with its own tentacles. See Andreas Kay's photos here....

In the documentary Fury Road, we learned how Australia's controlled by a psychotic strongman who believes in traditional gender roles, strict limits on immigration, and social control through imposed ...

The once-secretive, now-notorious Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group ran its online propaganda and manipulation operations at home as well as abroad. Read the rest...

The British spy-agency targeted anti-virus software and other common applications in reverse-engineering projects aimed at discovering and weaponizing defects in the code. Read the rest...

Cigarettes are among the many fun things prohibited in the area controlled by Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq. The Associated Press interviews a smuggler daring to defy them. Read the rest...

Despite the opposition of mayor Hal Marx, the Petal Board of Aldermen recently voted unanimously on the measure, reports Yolanda Cruz of The Hattiesburg American, claiming they are "hazardous" and des...

The taxi-ish service has forbidden drivers and customers from carrying firearms. Read the rest...

The company will no longer allow sellers to offer magical incantations, sorcery or other metaphysical boons. Read the rest...

The company will honor requests to remove intimate photographs, posted online without the subject's consent, from search results. Read the rest...

This summer, some 125,000 attendees will overcrowd the supernaturally inadequate San Diego Convention Center. But at least you won't be walking into selfie sticks! Read the rest...

A lot of exciting things happened at E3 that weren't big-budget sequels. Like yarn, robot dinosaurs, and a giant, awesome dog. Read the rest...

Arrest warrants have been issued after the video was posted to YouTube, "racking up hundreds of views" and alarming locals in South Williamson, Kentucky. Read the rest...

A lot of exciting things happened at E3 that weren't big-budget sequels. Like yarn, robot dinosaurs, and a giant, awesome dog. Read the rest...

It's a nice place, if you have a white penis: "It doesn't just affect women in gaming."...

The Kalebo village in North Eastern Ghana isn't fertile enough for extensive agriculture. Instead, the Kalbeo Women's Trading Group create traditional cloth, pottery and other handicrafts such as this...

I am no longer the only pickled ginger in the house.Weck 760 Mini Jar, set of 12 [Amazon]...

Daisy Hirst's picture book about friendship, loneliness and self-reliance is shot through with delightful absurdity and illustrated with enormous wit. Read the rest...

7 Courses, 40+ hours of content for just $49. Build quality mobile games with Unity 3D. Check out all of the items in the Boing Boing store, including gadgets, software, apps, and online courses! Rea...

Both the UK and Australian governments have issued reports describing homeopathy as bunk, and now the US Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission are holding hearings on the regulatio...

I am no longer the only picked ginger in the house.Weck 760 Mini Jar, set of 12 [Amazon]...

Anthony Fera (above), president of Houstons MidStar Energy LP, was charged with assault for allegedly hitting Andy Smith, executive director of the Texas Instruments Foundation, so hard that he was k...

The celebrated and decorated anthologist and editor (that's him on the right, with me and Gene Wolfe) who served at Asimov's for decades is selling off his massive collection, which he hopes to keep i...

Besides being a woman (90% of people who live past 100 are women), and besides good genes, here are 6 other lifestyle choices that may have spurred Jones' longevity. Read the rest...

Video of this incident is making the rounds online, and is extremely graphic. Read the rest...

$20-26 from Offworld Designs. (via Diane Duane)...

The $25 Back to the Future Flux Capacitor car-charger has two USB ports and does a fantastically bright light-show (which, thankfully, you can switch off)....

The "Freedom of Panorama" is the right to take pictures in public spaces, even if you incidentally capture copyrighted works, from building facades to public sculptures to images on t-shirts and ads -...

Columbia University awarded a doctorate in education to Nick Sousanis for Unflattening, a graphic novel about the relationship between words and pictures in literature. Read the rest...

Imaginary Friends is a series of interactive books for kids that involves online and real-world puzzles that parents set up. I just got a sample from the creator, and the art and stories looks excelle...

Everyone in my family is devouring Trader Joe's Partially Popped Popcorn. They're kernels of popcorn that have "processed using a proprietary method to produce the little crunchies usually found in th...

Photographer Won Kim (Instagram) took these photos of people living in a "downscale version" of a Japanese capsule hotel. They are basically sleeping / privacy burrows for urban dwellers. I wonder how...

Only you can make the Imp Bottle lie on its side. When spectators try, they will discover that the bottle stubbornly refuses to stay down. Read the rest...

One of only two living people born in the 1800s, Susannah Mushatt Jones just became the oldest person in the world at age 115. Read the rest...

At 6:35PM last night a man with his hand wrapped in a towel flagged down the police, apparentlyseekinghelp. The police thought he hada gun under the towel onhis extended arm, and ordered him to drop i...

One of only two living people born in the 1800s, Susannah Mushatt Jones just became the oldest person in the world at age 115. Read the rest...

In "Inceptionism," scientists at Google Research describe their work training neural nets with sets of images, then tweaking the "layers" of neural net nodes to produce weird outcomes. Read the rest...

If you've been struggling to make sense of the stories about Stingrays (super-secretive cellular surveillance tech used by cops and governments) (previously) this week's Note to Self podcast does the ...

Bruce Schneier weighs in on last week's ridiculous UK government talking points memo that Murdoch's Sunday Times dutifully published as front-page news. Read the rest...

The Court interpreted the even loonier European Copyright Directive to say that the government couldn't legalise CD ripping without imposing a levy on the public. Read the rest...

Such a great deal, I should buy of them! (more…)...

"Your car battery is dead and you like a boost to jump start? Maybe you can use AA batteries to crank the engine..." (more…)...

La Colombe Coffee CEO Todd Carmichael came up with a cool idea, and made it real. Read the rest...

Google recently told Jacob Appelbaum, who has worked with WikiLeaks, that it was ordered to provide account data to federal investigators. Read the rest...

Big Kitten is watching you. (more…)...

Our Springer Spaniel Rocco loves squirrels, but when he can't chase after them because he's in the car, he gives us an earful. We like to call it 'the squirrel song.' (more…)...

Caught the moment when my dog realized he wasn't laying next to a rock, says Redditor Muffinlette. (more…)...

VHS, arcade games, rainbows, neon, and big fat beige computer workstations. Read the rest...

Welcome to the risk-averse, ersatz world of heroic characterization when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line. Read the rest...

One of the great GIF maestros of our time. Read the rest...

Isaac Cohen's interactive storybook follows the journey of a strange creature. Read the rest...

Isaac Cohen's interactive storybook follows the journey of a strange creature. Read the rest...

No, it's not science fiction. For the first time ever, scientists in Albany, NY were able to use a "brain-to-text" interface to read thoughts and translate them into text. Read the rest...

My daughter, her friend, and I had fun taking this non-scientific color brightness vision test. You have to identify the one square that has a different brightness level within a grid of similarly col...

The entertainment value of a President Trump, especially as seen through the truth-enchancing eye of Vic Berger, would greatly mitigate the unassailable fact that his policies would turn our planet in...

Photographer Won Kim took these photos of people living in a "downscale version" of a Japanese capsule hotel. They are basically sleeping / privacy burrows for urban dwellers. I wonder how much they p...

"In the bizarre clip, his political editor David Chesley can be seen standing incredibly close to the lens, and appears unhappy that the event is being filmed by American Bridge 21st Century, a left w...

No surprise that Cars 2a naked toy adis at the bottom. But placing Brave next to it ("textbook Idiot Plot movie dumb slapstick") seems a little rough. Up ("completely overshadowed by the heartbreakin...

Wellington and Blucher beat him around Braine-lAlleud and Plancenoit, writes Uri Friedman. Read the rest...

And just like that, all is well with the world. (more…)...

In just three days 10,000 dogs will be poisoned, beaten, killed and cooked as part of Yulin, China's annual dog-eating festival. Read the rest...

Most people, including the police and the FBI, are calling 21-year-old suspected terrorist Dylann Roof's message to black people ("You rape our women, and you're taking over the country. Read the res...

Thundercats depicted a race of catlike humanoids, not earthfolk. But we sense that Panthro is blackeven though he can't be in the continuity of the showbecause of how the character is coded. Read the...

A Federal Circuit Court judge in Sydney, Australia granted an injunction forbidding a 20-year-old woman from breastfeeding her son because she got a tattoo. Read the rest...

Legendary Sega game series Shenmue is to receive a third installment thanks to a $3m-and-rising Kickstarter campaign. But now we find out that Sony is a 'partner' in the game, investing an 'undisclose...

In just three days 10,000 dogs will be poisoned, beaten, killed and cooked as part of Yulin, China's annual dog-eating festival. Read the rest...

Welcome to the risk-averse, ersatz world of heroic characterization when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line. Read the rest...

In 2007 a 16-month-old toddler swallowed candy-colored Aqua Dots beads and lapsed into a coma. It turned out the beads were manufactured with a coating that dissolves into GHB, an illegal drug in many...

The company objected to being mentioned in a story about SteamVR, a virtual reality project by Valve. So it ordered them to take the post down. Read the rest...

The Snowflakes smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced an...

The battery-powered LED cloud is handmade in Australia and projects a moon and stars on the ceiling above. (more…)...

Saipancakes (previously) shows how far he's come in progressing the art of carbohydrate illustration with these amazing, unbelievable, eye-popping Harry Potter pancakes -- and the video documents his ...

Telecoms will be given wider latitude to block nuisance messages to their customers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Read the rest...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) was released 40 years ago Saturday. Enjoy this "best of" montage. "The score was clearly responsible for half of the success of that movie," Spielberg once said. (more&h...

The company objected to being mentioned in a story about StreamVR, a virtual reality project by Valve. So it ordered them to take the post down. Read the rest...

Finally, Nintendo's popular anthropomorphic town games will allow you to be something besides white—or tan. Read the rest...

Saipancakes (previously) shows how far he's come in progressing the art of carbohydrate illustration with these amazing, unbelievable, eye-popping Harry Potter pancakes -- and the video documents his ...

Heinz let a domain name expire, whereupon the URL fell into new ownership and the link printed on ketchup bottles began sending customers to porn. Read the rest...

This game's too easy! Who created it?...

In honor of the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary, NPR celebrates the iconic space craft with a little help from Iggy Azalea's Trouble. (more…)...

The Ryhthmicon was the world's first drum machine, built in the 1930s by Leon Theremin (of Theremin fame) for avant grade composer Henry Cowell. Read the rest...

NPRs Science Tumblr Skunk Bear created this cool data visualization based on a study of the rise of partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives: Read the rest...

Engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied gave an awesome TED Talk about the danger of unconscious bias. (more…)...

Having already mastered the world of YouTube, Hank and John Green (aka the Vlogbrothers) are now moving into the realm of podcasting as well. Read the rest...

"All I have is sadness, at the depravity of what we do to one another and the gaping wound of the racism we pretend does not exist. Read the rest...

The big surprise of Long Live the Queen is that chances are you won't live very long at all. Read the rest...

There's a lot to love in the Pope's new encyclical on climate, poverty and the environment, and even the terrible stuff is de-emphasized. Read the rest...

This fine Velociraptor Claw could really level up your wunderkammer. It's just $12,500. (more…)...

The Top 50 winners of Glassdoor's 2015 Employees Choice Awards for the Highest Rated CEOs at large companies are all men. So what about the Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs at Small & Medium Companies? ...

Legendary Japanese "superflat" artist Takashi Murakami designed a fantastic line of Vans sneakers for adults and kids to be released later this month. (more…)...

In 1966, only five years after the first human went to space, aviation lawyer William A. Hyman published the Magna Carta of Space, a serious text proposing a new kind of Space Law. Read the rest...

"Who knew feelings had feelings too." (more…)...

One of the events at our upcoming Weekend of Wonder event (September 18-20 in Southern California) is a recreational lock picking workshop! Read the rest...

This fine Velociraptor Claw could really level up your wunderkammer. It's just $12,500. (more…)...

Search "haunted" on eBay and you'll find a slew of junk that its owners claim is spooked in some way. Usually, that invisible something extra will significantly bump up the asking price. Read the rest...

The Delaware Senate approved a bill 12-9 that will eliminate criminal penalties and jail time for adult possession of a small amount of marijuana, reports the Marijuana Policy Project. Read the rest...

For the next 8 hours, Amazon is selling the Motorola Moto G (2nd generation) for $140, which is $40 off its regular price. It's got good battery life and a 5-inch HD display. It's only 8gb, so if you ...

OneMillionMoms, a hate group that defines media depictions of homosexuality as "filth" being "thrown at our children," is madder than an arsonist group at an asbestos factory. The reason? Because Chob...

Here's a gallery of fake tabloid covers in the vein of Weekly World News that use actual email spam headlines as coverlines. If this was a real newspaper, I'd buy it!...

"One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gen...

Fly through endless waves of abstract geometry in a VR game inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Xanadu. Read the rest...

A fellow sitting in the bleachers of a pro sports game of one kind or another attempts to put on a rain poncho, and the TV network decides its more fun to watch him than the highly-paid men running af...

"One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gen...

Devorise Dixon posted photos on his Facebook page of an unusually shaped piece of fried meat, which he claims he was served at a KFC in Compton, California. Read the rest...

Fly through endless waves of abstract geometry in a VR game inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Xanadu. Read the rest...

From entire rooms to pocket-sized items, anything can be hidden in plain sight. All it takes is some imagination and the right tools. Read the rest...

What Latin species designation do you give an orange-pink octopus that resembles a Pac-Man ghost or Pearl from Finding Nemo? Why, adorabilis of course! Read the rest...

A suspect is reportedly in custody after a gunman entered a church in Charleston, Carolina then shot dead nine worshippers. Read the rest...

Science is cool. But don't try this at home. Read the rest...

It's hard not to feel sorry for the poor little inebriated feller. (more…)...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is trying to work out the rules for facial recognition -- whether and when cameras can be put in public places that programatically ident...

A suspect is reportedly in custody after a gunman entered a church in Charleston, Carolina then shot dead nine worshippers. Read the rest...

Derek Khanna, who spearheaded the legislative initiative that made phone unlocking legal, has published a report on patent reform with the libertarian-leaning Lincoln Labs that sets out the case for p...

A Golden Age shipwreck, the rarest of finds, lay waiting in the deep to be found. But even after hundreds of years, time can run out Read the rest...

Wired's Brian Barrett reports on a new feature of Google Trends that lets us see "stories in real time, giving unfettered access to what the Internet wants to know in the moment." Looks like the big n...

Piled neatly by road markings in Eisenhower State Park, Texas, a vast number of gently writhing worms grace the asphalt. At first mistaken for spaghetti by rangers baffled at their regularity, it soo...

Amanda Taub and Johnny Harris analyze the bizarrely-staged photo ops in which the Russian president is seen to enjoy a "Walter Mitty-esque fantasy life" where he "subdues tigers, rides horses, and com...

After a houseboat sank in the English channel, its contents bobbed off into the waves, allowing rescuers to capture this remarkable shot of a floating bathtub. Read the rest...

When Neil Young objected to the bizarre use of his music during Donald Trump's presidential campaign announcement, it wasn't anyone's first rodeo. Read the rest...

Game Of Thrones is full of horrendous characters, but sadistic rapist and torturer Ramsay Bolton may be the worst of them all. (more…)...

When Baltimore's Julie Baker hung some rainbow-colored solar lights in her yard, a helpful neighbor slipped a charming note through her door chastising her for her "Relentlessly Gay" yard, threatening...

The aptly-named YouTube channel We Have A Dinosaur has a simple mission: Release "short films about the joys and perils of dinosaur ownership." Read the rest...

Patent reform, though limited, has been enough to hurt the market for certain types of patent, reports Ina Fried. Read the rest...

thatonekid100 captures the essence of the genre: "this is a typical sandwich format." [via r/videos]...

Bravo! Sysadmin Ricky Ramirez wrote that come June 29, all site traffic to be over HTTPS and HTTP will no longer be available. (We're working on it, too) [painting by linanddani]...

A Golden Age shipwreck, the rarest of finds, lay waiting in the deep to be found. But even after hundreds of years, time can run out Read the rest...

We talk with author Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger, about why healers are never the hero in genre fiction and how she decided to change that. Read the rest...

Vlogger Franchesca Ramsey weighs in on Rachel Dolezal in a new video for MTV News Decoded. (more…)...

Illustrator James Chapman decided to add -ing to movie titles and then draw an image to represent these new and improved films. Read the rest...

Game Of Thrones is full of horrendous characters, but sadistic rapist and torturer Ramsay Bolton may be the worst of them all. (more…)...

As highlighted in pretty much every trailer for the film, a big part of Jurassic World involves Chris Pratt training a "raptor squad." Now real-life zookeepers and trainers across the country are recr...

A yet-to-be-determined woman will replace Alexander Hamilton's mug on the US $10 bill, according to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. Read the rest...

Ogilvy & Mather HK's Pizza Hut Blockbuster Box converts into a low-powered projector for your phone. Read the rest...

The most common way of representing Africa on maps and globes dramatically understates the size of the continent. Read the rest...

The point of the public domain is that anyone can do anything with it, including sell it, so in a way, it makes sense that the Corbis image-library is full of high-priced Library of Congress images. R...

The company advertised an "unlimited data" plan on its 5-12Mbps LTE network, but customers who hit a cap were throttled to 1/60th of that. Read the rest...

"In the last 35 or 40 years, there has been an increasingly aggressive effort on the part of the top 1 percent to take it all. And that aggression has not been effectively countered by middle-class an...

When Baltimore's Julie Baker hung some rainbow-colored solar lights in her yard, a helpful neighbor slipped a charming note through her door chastising her for her "Relentlessly Gay" yard, threatening...

For three years, makers have hacked together some terrific and janky DIY Raspberry Pi cases (like these). Finally, Ebon Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have produced their own official Raspberry...

Worms have a specific antenna-shaped neuron that senses the Earth's magnetic field, enabling the transparent nematode to know up from down when it's in the ground. Read the rest...

This is a 3D printed heart made from CT scan data. Smithsonian talks to Brigham and Womens Hospital radiologists Beth Ripley and Tatiana Kelil whose 3D Print For Health effort to spur conversation and...

Seattle has America's fourth-largest homeless population and virtually everything homeless people do is illegal in Washington State, which has added 288 new offenses related to homelessness to its sta...

Two years ago, The Magic Circle Museum in London identified a tarot deck in its collection that was hand-painted around 1906 by occultist/artist Austin Osman Spare. Read the rest...

"In the last 35 or 40 years, there has been an increasingly aggressive effort on the part of the top 1 percent to take it all. And that aggression has not been effectively countered by middle-class an...

The $70 Nitecore MH2C outputs 800 lumens and gets outstanding reviews, and even though it uses those pain-in-the-ass CR123A batteries; you can also use 18650s which you can recharge over USB. Read th...

Our pals at Quantified Self are hosting a big expo in San Francisco on Saturday and they're offering BB readers a $10 discount off the $20 ticket price! Get hip to the self-tracking scene and see your...

Remember when Burger King introduced its black gothburger in Japan last year? Coming soon is the Aka ("red") Chicken or Samurai Beef Burger with red cheese and red bun colored with tomato powder, and ...

It's called the Booboo. Read the rest...

Bernard Noble of New Orleans was found guilty of drug possession when he was 12, and again when he was 24. Read the rest...

No VFX used, this is magical nature, says Alex Soloviev, who created this short film. It's like a live cosmos, unbelievable smooth moves, eternity and meditation. Read the rest...

Worms have a specific antenna-shaped neuron that senses the Earth's magnetic field, enabling the transparent nematode to know up from down when it's in the ground. Read the rest...

Europa is considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for signs of present-day life. Read the rest...

In "Documentary Now!" Fred Armisen and Bill Hader take the piss out of serious documentary films. (more…)...

This grid of rubberized woven elastic straps stores cables, batteries, pens, card decks, earbud sets, flashlights, and other small items. Things will not slip out because the straps are rubbery. It's ...

GQ looks at the last four centuries of fashion in men's hats. And yes, it includes the porkpie hat from Breaking Bad. (more…)...

This neat video from ChefSteps shows an interesting frozen dessert experiment for geek chefs.A simple technique for making amazing soft serve at home, no fancy gadgets required. Read the rest...

David M. King is pig-biting mad that Obama refers to the Affordable Care Act as "Obamacare," even though it was a term designed by his fellow Republicans to humiliate the President. King is one of the...

This bicyclist is saving lives in Hampton Court by exposing one illegal cereal eater at a time. (more…)...

The Japanese word "furoshiki" refers to wrapping something in cloth. In this case, it's your feet. Read the rest...

A search engine that doesn't track user data is growing like crazy, with three billion searches a year. Read the rest...

Shared with us by Brian Forham, via twitter, this cute video shows that given a chance and some video surveillance, people are wonderful!...

Helium is the second most abundant element in the entire Universe, but we are running out of helium here on Earth. Read the rest...

Tonight at the PianoFight theater in San Francisco, Imran G and Red Scott present their new monthly comedy show #PhotobombSF, which combines today's best comics, a theater with San Francisco's best ba...

Should your self-driving car be programmed to kill you in order to save others? Matt Windsor asked Ameen Bargh, a bioethicist at University of Alabama at Birmingham, this soon-to-be-real-life version ...

Jeremy Daw is a lawyer and author of Weed the People: From Founding Fiber to Forbidden Fruit. Recently his home was raided by the Berkeley Police Department Drug Task Force, after they'd received a ti...

"Heres the difference between fighting in hockey and heckling in stand-up comedy," writes Lary Wallace at Aeon, "the former is all about the players, while the latter is all about the fans trying to b...

This slow-motion video, explained in detail by creator Ben Krasnow, is literally groovy. [via @bradleyland and Kottke]...

Defendants hold themselves out as nothing more than a neutral technological platform, designed simply to enable drivers and passengers to transact the business of transportation, the ruling states. Th...

Amazon's upgraded the $119 Kindle Paperwhite to have the same screen resolution (300ppi) as the $199 Kindle Voyagea good deal if you've been waiting on a cheaper option for non-jaggy text. Read the r...

Humanity is nearly extinct, what few survivors that remain are enslaved to murderous aliens and used as cannon fodder. Can humanity possibly outwit the aliens and win its freedom? Duh. Read the rest...

Stephanie Pakrul created a flowchart for getting what you want delivered, like food, drink, clothes, drugs, and things that "cannot be categorized." (more…)...

Science fiction writer William Shunn is at long last releasing his memoir, The Accidental Terrorist, in book form. Revised and expanded from his popular podcast, it tells the story of how he was expel...

Seattle has America's fourth-largest homeless population and virtually everything homeless people do is illegal in Washington State, which has added 288 new offenses related to homelessness to its sta...

Starz has greenlit a TV series based on Neil Gaiman's outstanding contemporary fantasy novel American Gods, in which all the gods of antiquity must find their way in America, coping with modernity and...

The $70 Nitecore MH2C outputs 800 lumens and gets outstanding reviews, and even though it uses those pain-in-the-ass CR123A batteries, they recharge over USB. (via Canopy)...

Despite a hard-fought battle to publish the CIA Torture Report, very few people have read it, including some of the report's starring villains. Read the rest...

Last December, Dan Grover summarized the unique mobile app UI conventions he'd spotted since moving to China the summer before to work for Wechat, a Chinese mobile messaging app that also incorporates...

An unprecedented look at what it's like to live and work aboard the ISS. Read the rest...

Gaigai Wuwu the cat is a such a boss, he can balance things in his sleep.Our friends at Laughing Squid have many more photos of Gaigai Wuwu showing off....

Back in the day, every question mark block, goomba, and mushroom was sketched out by hand. Read the rest...

The Blackwing of chalks, Fulltouch is beloved of mathematicians who despair now that the manufacturer, Hagoromo, is out of business. Read the rest...

After a pig truck crashed in Xenia, Ohio last week, killing about half of the 2,200 piglets in the trailer, someone built three houses on the side of the road inspired by the Three Little Pigs. Read t...

Over at Backchannel, Andy Warner's comic about how in 1941 a Swiss electrical engineer returned from a hike with his dog in the Alps and came up with velcro. Read the rest...

I use the Stanley SortMaster Junior Organizer to keep my magic tricks organized. It has removable dividers so I can change the size of the compartments, and you can stack and carry up to three organiz...

If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so now. Read the rest...

Food manufacturers have until 2018 to remove all trans fat from their products. Read the rest...

Even though he is a fictional character and the actor who portrayed him is resting in peace, Jed Clampett has some opinions about the other candidates. Read the rest...

Back in the day, every question mark block, goomba, and mushroom was sketched out by hand. Read the rest...

After saying "What we need to make sure in Sacramento is were making decisions based on logic and sound data. Kristin Olsen then goes on to ignore the mountains of data proving California's highly edu...

Prosecutors say officials hacked into a rival's internal networks to steal valuable private data on players. Read the rest...

Pesco, Jason, Carla, and I loved Beverly Hills 90210 and remain fascinated by the show, which ran from 1990 to 2000 on Fox. We can't wait for Lifetime's upcoming Unauthorized Story treatment, which wi...

What a way to launch a 2016 presidential campaign! But then again, it's Donald Trump we're talking about. As bizarre as ever, Trump launched his presidential campaign today with hate speech that targe...

A strong dose of LSD is 500 micrograms. Some people are taking daily microdoses of 10 to 15 micrograms, which is not enough to feel trippy, but provides a sense of well-being and mental clarity. Read...

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Florence Priscilla, an English socialite and activist, received this Autoped as a birthday present from her husband. She used it to commute to her office in London. From Mashable's gallery of vintage ...

"Our findings, consistent with previous evidence, suggest that passage of state medical marijuana laws does not increase adolescent use of marijuana" says a study published this month in the medical p...

I was 15 when I noticed the popping and cracking coming from my joints. The stiffness, especially in my knees, followed not long after, and it's only gotten worse since. Read the rest...

Let's have a deep chat about the practical feasibility of getting our childhoods back. Read the rest...

"There was a whole line of women in my dating life who refused to date me because I was a magician." Read the rest...

"This is my first foray in the world of interactivity," says Grady Hillhouse. "It's an arcade-style puzzle box mini game. Read the rest...

25 easy-to-staple projects![via]...

"Despite" trailing behind all the other candidates and various Hollywood monsters in likability, Donald Trump has declared his intention to become the next president of the United States of America: "...

Worthless pocket clutter that it isoften thrown in the trash!America should likely do away with the one cent coin. Ah, but that would mean less profits for the zinc trade. Read the rest...

Our friends in Death Cab for Cutie lead a strange star tour of Hollywood in this new video for "The Ghosts of Beverly Drive," from their gorgeous eighth LP ...

Zimbabwe's crazy inflation is being put out of its misery with the country's official switch to using U.S. dollars. Only now can the old denominations--quadrillion dollar bills!--appreciate in value d...

The 800-year old Magna Carta, limiting the powers of the English monarchy, is hailed as a foundation stone of modern democracy and civil rights. But not only is it more limited in scope than commonly ...

A swarm containing tens of thousands of bees descended on a man in Arizona who disturbed their nest, but he survived despite sustaining more stings than can be counted. Read the rest...

Worth it for the eminently GIFable pyrotechnics. Previously....

The very talented Todrick Hall explores the history of Disney animation (and a few live-action films) through this epic medley. (more…)...

The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims wants the Mac put to death: "Ditching its most-refined brand will allow Apple to focus on products that represent the future." Read the rest...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the shower (more…)...

A charming game called Unravel stood out at E3 2015. But before that, there was the Nintendo Knitting Machine, and you've been missing out. Read the rest...

Despite celebrity endorsements from such luminaries as Kourtney Kardashian and Holly Madison, a new review of 10studies(4 human, 6 animal) shows no evidence for any benefit fromthepractice. Read the ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the shower (more…)...

Dane Grant and Dayna Porter met on-set. Read the rest...

Artist Noelle Stevenson (aka Gingerhazing) noticed something odd about this Spider-Man illustration (more…)...

Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox sat down with The Guardian to discuss her roles as an activist for the transgender community. Read the rest...

The very talented Todrick Hall explores the history of Disney animation (and a few live-action films) through this epic medley. (more…)...

"Dude" was the "hipster" of the 1880s. ...

This is a really clever little tie-in game, but it makes me feel really bad. Read the rest...

The 12oz mug is dishwasher/microwave-safe: $13 at Thinkgeek....

Tom Harper wrote the ridiculous cover story in the Sunday Times in which anonymous government sources claimed that the Russians and Chinese had somehow gained the power to decrypt copies of the files ...

Biotech startup Pembient devised a system for printing bioengineered synthetic rhino horns they hope will kill the big business of poaching. Read the rest...

Magnum photographer Alec Soth and writers Pico Iyer and Geoff Dyer, all Ping Pong fans, compiled a neat little book of vernacular photos related to ping pong. Read the rest...

Brilliant work by Lindsay Baker of NiteOwl Tattoo in Northmapton, Mass. (@lindsaybugbaker on Instagram)...

Police charged Glyn Stout, 77, and Lori Kay Stout, 53, owners of Lupin Lodge, a nudist resort in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with diverting water from a creek to keep their water tank and pool filled du...

From Ben Kingsley to brain stimulation, dream recorders to optogenetics... (more…)...

It's been tough for Craig Cobb since discovering on live TV that his DNA shows he's 14% Black Sub-Saharan African. Read the rest...

Amazing gameplay footage: Minecraft through the Hololens. The VR demo from Microsoft executive Sax Persson today at the annual E3 games convention completely transforms the experience of Minecraft. ...

Annual video game press conferences are often an assault on the senses, and on taste. We found the cool stuff for you. Read the rest...

My dog gets super excited at the food bin being opened, yet she's very well disciplined. Read the rest...

Cassini will get as close as 321 miles (516 kilometers) of Dione's surface if all goes as planned. Read the rest...

The folks at Winner sent me the Montar universal car mount to try out. I was already happy with my air vent mount, but I was willing to see how it compared. Read the rest...

Isaac Asimov wrote "The Last Question" in one sitting. It appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and Asimov said it was "by far my favorite story of all those I have written....

Annual video game press conferences are often an assault on the senses, and on taste. We found the cool stuff for you. Read the rest...

Out of thousands of photographs entered from all over the world, this year's top Photographer of the Year of the iPhone Photography Awards went to Michal Koralewski of Poland. Read the rest...

Out of thousands of photographs entered from all over the world, this year's top winner of the iPhone Photography Awards went to Michal Koralewski of Poland. Read the rest...

Moral scold/problem gambler William "Ram" Bennett co-wrote an op-ed for the LA Times complaining that people have come to the realization that legalizing marijuana isn't such a bad idea after all. Re...

He does not need a doctor....

Annual video game press conferences are often an assault on the senses, and on taste. We found the cool stuff for you. Read the rest...

Did Chris Ware sneak into our house to draw this? That's my daughter on the beanbag....

Mars Attacks! was a lurid, horrifcally gory series of Topps bubble gum cards produced in the 1960s. Makeup artist Marla Malone created this wonderful face painting tribute to the genius of artist Norm...

Although marijuana is legal to purchase both for medical and recreational use in Colorado under state law, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled today that marijuana users can be fired from their jobs fo...

"'I'm ambivalent about a remake,' said Carpenter, who is also known for directing Halloween and Escape From New York. 'On the other hand, it depends on how much they pay me.'" (via Hollywood Reporter)...

Jagendra Singh reported on corruption in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on his Facebook account, which allegedly prompted Ram Murti Singh Verma, a ruling party politician, to send police to his hou...

Slicing your pizza with scissors just makes sense -- better slices, cleaner topping-severance, and easier sharpening and handling than a wheel. (via Canopy)...

Clash of Clans is one of the most popular and financially-successful mobile games of all time—it might have earned $1.8bn in 2014 alone. But with stats showing few people actually make purchases...

"I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography." For Crafton Hills College student Tara Shultz who was expecting to bone up on Batman and Robin instead of being forced to read four award-winning graphi...

On Friday, the US House of Reps overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would have ensured the acceptance of the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership treaty without any chance to debate or amend its clause...

The delightfully expressive, quasi-macabre faces on Bicycle's Tragic Royalty deck also glow under blacklight. Read the rest...

The Intercept used a screenshot of the Sunday Times front page in a story that criticized the paper for its crappy, gullible, manipulative Snowden reporting. Read the rest...

Police responding to a report of a man abusing a guinea pig in Brookyln's Prospect Park were met by a friendly man from Ecuador who was roasting the animal for breakfast on a 4-foot skewer in a design...

The high-speed ground transport system was first described by Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper, and its first route would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with an expected journey time of 35 minut...

In 2013 Patience Paye called 911 to report a domestic violence incident that took place in her home. When police arrived, Payne stepped on her porch to talk to them, because she didn't want to disturb...

"Limbo Queen" Shemika Charles holds the Guinness World Record for the lowest female limbo, 8.5 inches. Here she goes under a car! (more…)...

Bloxels lets kids design playable spaces using physical blocks on a grid—that can then be captured by a tablet device and translated into a real digital game. The creator, Pixel Press, says it's...

Australian photographer Donna Stevens captured children's faces as they watch television. Read the rest...

By 2017, Dutch designer Joris Laarman plans to use his company's MX3D metal printing technology to 3D print a 24-foot-long steel pedestrian bridge over an Amsterdam canal. (more…)...

Motsie, who went through the trashcan, slides stealthily out of view as he is reprimanded. [via Arbroath.]...

This canine, whose crimes can only be imagined, slides stealthily out of view as he is reprimanded. [via Arbroath.]...

The top worldwide opening in history, Universal's $511.8m haul "obliterated expectations," reports Pamela McClintock. $204.6m of that was earned in the U.S. Read the rest...

New photos, released by North Korea, show the young dictator's funny sidelaughing during a trip to an orphanage, and while gazing at vegetation. Read the rest...

In December, Stellenbosch University Dr. Andre van der Merwe performed a penis transplant on a man whose own was amputated after a (majorly) botched circumcision led to gangrene. Van der Merwe says th...

Ehdrigor, a game created by a black, American Indian game designer, gently reflects the Native experience, and how that approach to storytelling differs from Western narratives. Read the rest...

Hilariously and horrifically corrupt, FIFA could at least look forward to new leadership following president Sepp Blatter's resignation. Or, maybe not....

Email wasn't always a source of fear and loathing, writes Stewart Butterfield, but that was inevitable because it is "the distillation of the other stuff that other people want you to do."...

"A dancing driver has been banned from the roads," report police in England, "after parking his car on a roundabout and claiming he was on his way to Stonehenge." Read the rest...

Kevin Sintumuang reports on efforts to elaborate upon the classic cocktailand offers some of his favorite elaborations. Read the rest...

Ralph Mirebs' gallery of the abandoned spaceship evokes scale, sadness, and what might be described as Soviet sound judgment. [via Ars Technica]...

Notepad++ is the latest popular app to leave increasingly-unpleasant code repository SourceForge. Read the rest...

On Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg but returned an hour later to finish the show. (more…)...

TechRax destroys gadgets. In this video, he destroys an Apple Watcha $10,000 model, apparently!with two gigantic magnets. [via The Next Web]...

Young people have stopped moving to coastal citiesthey'd rather live well in Riverside or Pittsburgh than be poor in New York or San Francisco. Read the rest...

Chris Pratt stopped by Conan to demonstrate the only three faces he makes in Jurassic World. (more…)...

In their new video, Craig Benzine and Matt Weber of the YouTube channel The Good Stuff take viewers through the surprisingly long history of robots (more…)...

Creativity and Doom have gone hand in hand for decades—the first user-created level appeared in 1994—and now the new game will come with fresh, easy-to-use mod tools. Read the rest...

The strange menu of Bompas & Parrsances, cooking with lava, and flaming fish murderreminds us that food is fashion in the age of Instagram Read the rest...

My latest Guardian column looks at the fiction and reality of "Internet Utopianism," and the effect that a belief in the transformative power of the Internet has had on movements, companies, and norms...

Mere moments after publications of an independent report condemning UK's mass surveillance programme, sources in the UK spy agencies -- who are pushing for massively expanded surveillance powers throu...

Mario Pipe Mugs: half-price at Thinkgeek: ($6.49). (via Geekymerch)...

Quinny -- a high-end stroller-maker -- has announced a limited run of strollers mounted on longboards, capable of supporting adults up to 100kg and kids up to 15kg. Read the rest...

We explore an odd custom: how, in the 1700s, English landowners would pay people to live in primitive isolation on their estates. Read the rest...

Sketch group Practical Folks give Jaqen Hghar his own ballad inspired by Titus Andromedon's iconic Peeno Noir. Read the rest...

I bet Anne Boleyn thinks this joke is to die for.[h/t George Takei]...

Unfortunately this floating fish dome is currently unavailable on Amazon. Read the rest...

From JJ Abrams's fantastic tribute to Dick Smith, the pioneering SFX make-up artist behind The Exorcist, Scanners, Little Big Man, and so many more: Read the rest...

Tweet by Astronaut Terry Virts, who returned to Earth a few days after 200 days on the International Space Station: "It took me until my last day in space to get a good picture of these!" (more&hellip...

David Achter de Molen of the band John Coffee at Saturday's Pinkpop Festival in Holland. Impressive. Most impressive. (more…)...

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, CA along with her parents and friends are protesting the inclusion of four award-winning graphic novels that are taught in an English class at Crafton Hills College becaus...

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, CA along with her parents and friends are protesting the inclusion of four award-winning graphic novels that are taught in an English class at Crafton Hills College becaus...

Space, we're told, is the final frontier. Yet we have a space of our own, right here on Earth enormous, barely fathomable, and almost entirely untouched by humans. Read the rest...

Homemade marshmallows are all the rage, and Shauna Severs whimsical cookbook is the ideal starting place for whipping up a batch in the home kitchen. Read the rest...

Would you do anything for love? More importantly, would you do anything for power? Are you willing to betray your friends and family for the chance? Read the rest...

While this charming laser cut pirate ship isnt technically a puzzle, it still provides enough of a challenge for puzzle lovers. Read the rest...

Can't You Stack Tama & Friends (or Tama and Friends Stackable Figurines) is a popular stacking and balance game in Japan. Read the rest...

A dark noir rendering of the classic Italian children's novel, this tripped-out reimagining of Pinocchio comes from the fevered mind and hand of Winshluss. Read the rest...

Hope Larson captures the heart and soul of Madeleine LEngles A Wrinkle in Time in this graphic novel adaptation. She remains true to the original story while at the same time giving it a new appeal. ...

They had me at Aurora. Nothing so perfectly captures the secret origin of my imagination than the Aurora line of snap-tite models from the 1970s, especially the Prehistoric Scenes and monster models, ...

I tried to take a photo of this book with its one long page unfolded on the floor, but I ran out of room. Read the rest...

NSD Power Ball NSD Power USAges 14 and up, no batteries required $25 Buy one on AmazonI received the NSD Power ball as a gift. Read the rest...

I had the earlier version of the Plugable USB Handheld Digital Microscope and liked it a lot. The second version just came out and I love it. Read the rest...

Chances are youve heard of many classic Wham-O toys such as the Frisbee, Silly String, and the Slip N Slide. The Super Balloon is another Wham-O invention, originally introduced in the 80s, that never...

The Snowflakes smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced an...

Just say no to cheap, non-MFi Lightning cables, and yes to supercharging your Apple devices with this premium braided cable. Covered in durable, nylon braiding, this cable is tangle-free, contains hig...

Say goodbye to all your online privacy worries, for life. VPN Unlimited is your one-stop shop for protecting your WiFi connection, securing your online activity, and bypassing web content restrictions...

The kamisama of manga. The Japanese Disney. The godfather of anime. Tezuka-san has had many labels bestowed upon him both before and after his untimely death, but very few do justice to his contributi...

This sleek battery is your ticket to avoiding a dead mobile device at the most inconvenient of times. The Intocircuit Power Castle ($34.99) features a brushed aluminum shell and LCD display, making it...

An elderly woman in Lynden, Wa., somehow got turned around on her 6 mph scooter and ended up on the highway. Read the rest...

Kate Milford made a name as a young adult writer able to tap into a rich Bradburian vein of lyricism with the Boneshaker -- now she shows us that she's an expect mystery writer as well, in Greenglass...

The Altec Lansing Life Jacket is $135 at Amazonjust don't get it wet....

This weekend, my short story "The Man Who Sold the Moon" won the The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried prize for the best science fiction story of the year. Read the rest...

A 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany was collecting bottles and cans on an early morning walk when he was attacked and killed by a circus elephant who had somehow escaped her enclosure. Read the rest...

Valery Spiridinov, a 30-year-old Russian man with the severely debilitating Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, intends to undergo the world's first human head transplant. Read the rest...

The Cthulhu Mythos is turned into a game of dice in Steve Jackson's Cthulhu Dice. The demonically beating heart of the game is a large, beautiful, and gem-like 12-sided die covered in Cthulhu-related ...

Dragon Dictate for Mac Version 4 ($99) merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work. Read the rest...

The fact that many Amazon reviewers were aghast to realize that this stainless steel double spoon holder resembled a scrotum was reason alone to buy it.Culina Stainless Steel Double Spoon Rest 7" ($10...

Exhibit A: Chimpanzees found to drink alcoholic plant sap in wild.Exhibit B: Chimpanzee smoking and acting like a gangster.Previously: Chimp fight at the LA Zoo. Chimp with a stick knocks drone out of...

Darryl Anka telepathically channels a space alien from the future named Bashar who lives on the planet Essassani; on this basis, he has claimed many copyright infringements in the creations of Tumblr'...

Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster. Read the rest...

Kate Milford made a name as a young adult writer able to tap into a rich Bradburian vein of lyricism with the Boneshaker -- now she shows us that she's an expect mystery writer as well, in Greenglass...

The first collection starring Phoebe and her unicorn friend Marigold Heavenly Nostrils was the strongest new syndicated strip I'd read in years; with Unicorn on a Roll, Dana Simpson demonstrates that...

If you liked the solar-powered spinning Mars globe, but wanted something more exotic, there's the spinning Titan globe, and for something closer to home, there's the Lunar edition. Read the rest...

Although Paypal's new take-it-or-leave-it terms-of-service give it the right to give robocallers your phone number for endless harassment, the FCC has warned the company that this idea isn't just stup...

Rhianna Pratchett's announced that The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel, because "They are sacred to dad." Read the rest...

A solicitation on FedBizOpps from the Navy asks security researchers to sell them their "vulnerability intelligence, exploit reports and operational exploit binaries affecting widely used and relied u...

The second attack is being blamed on Chinese state actors, and it netted the archives of Standard Form 86, which records applicants' mental illnesses, drug and alcohol use, past arrests and bankruptci...

Cross a judiciously edited briefing scene from Star Wars with the audio from the briefing scene in Ocean's Eleven, and what do you get? (more…)...

Apple.comApple today made available its new San Francisco system font, offered for developers who are working on next-generation apps for iOS 9, OS X El Capitan and watchOS 2. (more…)...

Time lapse, one second intervals. Canon 5dmII. Wide angle lenses. Read the rest...

The past, set into motion. Read the rest...

The GIF works of Nicolas Monterrat, who uses vintage photographs as a base for his unsettling, trippy, subtle little animations. Read the rest...

1943 U.S. Employment Service propaganda poster. (more…)...

The state is reaching back more than a century in the hierarchy of California water rights, reports the Los Angeles Times. Read the rest...

Director: Maxime Dardenne. Read the rest...

Time lapse, one second intervals. Canon 5dmII. Wide angle lenses. Read the rest...

"Born Like Stars" (2011) by Brent Hoff. (more…)...

Why do these little tableaus of neatness delight us so? Read the rest...

Columbia University paleontologist Paul Olsen: "Absolutely nothing about this... is even vaguely correct." (more…)...

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Boing Boing reader Drew Pion shot these wonderful images. Read the rest...

You can't fool us, Roscoe you rascal you. (more…)...

Inexpensive designs that you can use to make your own wonderfully weird low poly masks, with nothing more than paper and glue. Read the rest...

You may have heard that a lawsuit targeting Gawker, over its posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape, is going to trial, and that Gawker may have a long and unpleasant fight ahead of it. The Awl explains it ...

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Beautiful, with a simple, elegant design, but built to survive the apocalypse, I am in love with this Levenger L-Tech 3.0 Stealth fountain pen. Read the rest...

In The Little Mermaid, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of a young mermaid who has her tongue cut out with a knife, grows legs that cause excruciating pain with every step she tak...

They ordered customers on the ground, made fun of a disabled (amputee) worker, then gorged on edibles. Read the rest...

The star and producer of a timely new series have words of wisdom for those who want to create social change through the media. Read the rest...

For anyone planning a trip to the moon, MIT has just designed a pill-shaped inflatable moon tent that fills with oxygen and comfortably sleeps two. Read the rest...

20-year-old Ayan Zhademov of Kazakhstan wanted to help his 17-year-old girlfriend who was concerned that she would not do well on an upcoming exam. Read the rest...

Three fun facts about worms: 1. The largest worms in the world are 10 feet long (that's feet, not inches!). 2. Read the rest...

In May, police in riot gear stormed the Sky High Holistic medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Ana, California. Read the rest...

Simplism's Hibiki Acoustic iPhone Case is a curious-looking wooden iPhone case, crafted from white ash in Japan, designed to enhance the "acoustical capacity" of the device. Read the rest...

Indonesia has some of the most draconian drugs laws in the world. Smugglers and dealers face execution. (Earlier this year Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were put to death by firing squad for attemp...

Alas, there is no video, but we have something better: farmer Tom Hamilton's wonderful narrative of how border collie Don took off in the vehicle. Read the rest...

Japanese animation often specializes in presenting a distinctive and detailed future. Hopes and Fears rounds up some of their favorite visions....

Scientists have confirmed that Tom Wagg, now 17, discovered a new planet in a solar system 1000 light years away. Read the rest...

The first European Games are kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan. This tiny web browser game stands in protest, highlighting the unlawful detention of political prisoners in the country. Read the rest...

Reporter Katya Leick, 24, was accosted by cicadas while covering a story for KSNT....

Surviving family dinners can feel like a gauntlet at the best of times, especially when it's your potential in-laws. Read the rest...

If there's one thing every lab needs, it's appropriate warning signs. Read the rest...

Wikihow has five methods of determining if a mirror is actually one-way glass, the kind used by government snoops and perverts. (Is there a difference?) Read the rest...

A few days ago, Reddit began applying its new anti-harassment policy, shuttering subreddits (such as r/fatpeoplehate and r/shitniggerssay) found to be regular originators of personal attacks. Read th...

Residents in Iliff, CO have not had running water for 12 days so far, and it could be weeks before water returns to their pipes. This means no showers, no toilet flushing, no dish washing, no way to c...

If a person who snubbed you offers food to your dog, your dog will refuse to eat it. Or so say Japanese researchers who studied social cooperation in canines. Read the rest...

One year after the puzzling and provocative Threes cloning controversy—where free clones ultimately reached many more players than the premium original—the developers are offering a new fr...

This row, for rapini, is but one among many on The Contorni Matrix, a chart explaining what to do to (and with) unusual vegetables. [via Lifehacker]...

What with these leaping and dancing machines, you'd be forgiven for assuming the rule of the meat people nears its end. Read the rest...

People are getting poisoned from smoking dried plant matter sprayed with synthetic psychoactive chemicals, packaged as a legal alternative to marijuana, reports the LA Times. Read the rest...

Power up your iOS, Android, and USB-compatible devices over and over again with a massive 20,000mAh of portable juice. The high-quality Lithium Polymer SolarJuice ($49.99) is designed to charge at hom...

The Program is a docudrama about the rise and fall of unpleasant person Lance Armstrong, as seen through the eyes of investigative journalist David Walsh, author of Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of La...

Brad Merrill recounts the stories of three people who hunted down and confronted internet tormenters. The resulting conversations vary, but all are as pathetic as you might expect. Read the rest...

Once again we must salute the greatest computer of all time, civilians. Read the rest...

Amazing astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shows us how she cooks one of her favorite meals aboard the International Space Station, whole red rice with peas and turmeric chicken. Read the rest...

Spotted outside Fix Coffee on Whitecross Street in London....

The USA Freedom Act set the first legal limits on spying in a generation, and were immediately followed by 3 more surveillance-blocking amendments from the House, and now, a week later, there's 2 more...

Artist Kelsey Wailes (Etsy) modded a set of Mad Max: Fury Road My Little Ponies of outstanding glory. Read the rest...

14 bits of interesting trivia about Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the fact that he was under surveillance for his communist sympathies while he wrote it. Read the rest...

The Portland, OR conference celebrating indie tech and creativity is inspiring, invigorating, and utopian in the very best way, and they're open for registration for the Sept 10-13 event in their new ...

"Saying that staying in its current location was no longer feasible, sources across San Francisco confirmed Thursday that the popular Northern California city would be shutting its doors at the end of...

Violets, touch me nots, and squirting cucumbers employ an impressive ballistic seed dispersal mechanism. (Smithsonian)...

Chimpanzees in Guinea, West Africa drink naturally fermented palm wine from raffia palm trees, sometimes enough to exhibit "visible signs of inebriation," according to a new scientific study. Read th...

The Fisco "Big T" measuring tape resembles Mr T. "I pity the rule." (more…)...

From the Dr. Bronner school of illustration: Journey Into Unknown Worlds #36, September 1950. Artist: Russ Heath. Read the rest...

The South African man who successfully received a donor penis last year after losing his own from a botched circumcision three years is expecting a baby with his 21-year-old girlfriend. Read the rest...

In this splendid game, chess grandmaster Max Dlugy (Rating: 3130) is surprisedand intriguedby the wily play of the ominously and accurately-named player "TrickyMate" (Rating: 1400)....

If lemonade is outlawed, only outlaws will sell lemonade.From USA Today:Little Andria Green and her sister Zoey were breaking Texas law by operating a lemonade stand outside of their home without a pe...

Learn to code & design clean native apps with 71 hours of content in 10 courses! Beat the average price to get everything in the bundle with 10% of their purchase being donated to Creative Commo...

Civil asset forfeiture is way for police to confiscate people's property and share the bounty with prosecutors' offices, without the tiresome hassle of due process. Read the rest...

CTV News reports that just 12 hours of self-defense training reduced the statistical likelihood of rape and attempted rate by about half. Read the rest...

Julie Beck reports on the resignation of Tim Hunt, the Nobel-winning biochemist whose sexist conference remarks sparked an international outcry. Read the rest...

Shall we have a Boing Boing meetup at this bud and breakfast resort? Read the rest...

A Texas teacher is under investigation after posting racist remarks on her Facebook page. Read the rest...

They Powerpuff Girls are coming back to Cartoon Network in 2016. As you can see above, they look about the same as before. Read the rest...

Step into the shoes of Hamlet, Ophelia, or Hamlet Sr. in To Be or Not to Be, a laugh out loud funny interactive tale that you'll want to play again and again. Read the rest...

"And now you do what they told ya"...

Every few years, as I rummage through a drawer or back, I stumble across my Duncan Butterfly. Then the fun begins! Read the rest...

From famed LA artist Lalo Alcaraz and Pocho.com comes this perfect parody movie poster. Read the rest...

Prominent Christian author John Perry was accused of sexually abusing kids in two lawsuits. Read the rest...

In 2013 the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada proudly declared North Frontenac to be Canada's first "dark sky preserve." Now in 2015, NextEra Energy, a US based energy company, is about to turn thi...

The truth behind the slow loris pet trade isn't pretty. Read the rest...

The next version of iOS will include built-in ad-blocking features in Mobile Safari. This worries publishers, obviouslybut also the ad-blocking industry....

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, whose avant-garde jazz compositions birthed the free jazz movement of the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 85. Read the rest...

Sega's Department of Finding Ways to Further Demean and Degrade Sonic the Hedgehog might finally have found a way to outdo his tumblr fandom!Just look at the promotional box art. Even the Angry Bird ...

The media titan ran the company like a family business while enjoying access to titanic quantities of capital from investors who were denied access to the decision-making apparatus. Read the rest...

The UK has at least 20 operating Stingrays -- fake mobile phone towers that record the movements of whole populations -- used without any paper-trail, andconfigured to listen in on conversations. Read...

At this years Tony Awards, Kelli OHara had only 47 seconds to change from one elaborate costume to another during The King and Is musical montage. (more…)...

Sesame Street always nails its pop culture parodies, and this take on Jurassic Park is no exception. Read the rest...

These cool illustrations were created by Brazil-based production studio Manipula as part of an advertising campaign for the Tourism Bureau of Ecuador. Read the rest...

Ingrid Nilsen (aka Miss Glamorazzi) is a makeup guru who has racked up more than 3 million subscribers with her fun, upbeat YouTube videos that focus on beauty, style, and food. Her latest upload, how...

Lord Summerisle, Dracula, Sarumanall immortal. Alas, the legendary actor behind them, who created villains of imposing intelligence and dignity for generation after generation, is dead at 93. Read th...

Anti-transgender reparative therapy, deemed unethical by experts and banned by politicians, is based on unconfirmed evidence. Could it be the latest high-profile sexology scam? Read the rest...

https://vimeo.com/98228654I really like party card games that are not sniggering, low-hanging Cards Against Humanity type things. If you, too, like to use cards to create spontaneous fun conversation ...

A designer studies her favorite works of play and picture to explain what's missing from many modern video games Read the rest...

Tickets go on sale today for Boing Boing's favorite music extravaganza, the Treasure Island Music Festival, October 17-18 in the San Francisco Bay! Read the rest...

From Dilbert to Fight Club to Joe Versus the Volcano, the world of white-collar drones and managerial ineptitude has long been a goldmine for parody. Read the rest...

Dude. When there's a shark hanging out, humans like you are supposed to go inside, not on top of, the cage. (more…)...

I wish I got a free 7" when I bought a new pack of briefs. (more…)...

How is creativity related to schizophrenia and autism? Psychology professor Scott Barry Kaufman looks at a scientific paper suggesting that "creativity and psychosis share genetic roots" in the contex...

In my friend Ronni Thomas's latest short documentary, meet parapsychologist Dr. Stanley Krippner, who in the 1960s ran the sleep lab at Brooklyn's Maimonides Hospital where he tested whether sleeping ...

When electronics retailer Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, the chain proposed selling customers' personal data to raise cash and repay creditors. That's not gonna happen, and the news is seen as a w...

"Blue Shining" by Richard Vezina. In heaven, everything is fine. (more…)...

Remember this ad? Four former Columbia House employees reminisce about the best worst deal in music buying history. Read the rest...

Manly mindfulness for mellow macho muscle men. Read the rest...

This set of food-grade silicone skull molds can turn many moldable materials into mementos mori. It's a wonderful way to remind yourself while eating candy or getting drunk that you will die fairly so...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says,"Pyrex turns 100 this year, so Hunter Oatman-Stanford reached out to Glen Cook, chief scientist at the Corning Museum of Glass, and Regan Brumagen, one of the curat...

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has a library if free, open-license stock photos and B-roll footage for editorial use of people who don't look like Shaggy or Jeff Spicoli. Read the rest...

US Congressman from Colorado Jared Polis, show here wearing a Boing Boing T-shirt, is a champion of his state's right to use weed both recreationally and medicinally. Read the rest...

Build Your Own Gotcha Gadgets comes with a multifunction electronic circuit, wires, and sensors that kids can use to build a variety of pranksterish devices: A cookie jar that sounds an alarm when the...

A tumblog of greatness documenting low-budget and no-budget workarounds on film, television, and web video production sets. Read the rest...

Photographer Rmi Nol explores the archetypes of American mythology: motels and their neon signs, desert expanses and the highways that crisscross them" and Batman. Read the rest...

The software monitors students' communications looking for "extremist" language like "jihobbyist," "YODO" (you only die once), and "jihadi bride." Read the rest...

This fellow started out reviewing a camp stove and ended up accidentally creating an beautiful piece of art made from Coca Cola and molten lead. (more…)...

Sad to see it go! (Be sure to click "previously") [Thanks, Glenn!]...

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The Huffington Post recently asked 5,000 men how they felt about pubic hair. Among the questions were, "What do you find attractive when it comes to women's pubic hair?" Read the rest...

The beauty of women can hurt her and attract evil, it reads. Read the rest...

Artist Karen X. Cheng tilted her camera on San Francisco's hills to make some mindbending gravity illusions. I sometimes feel like this when waiting for the bus in SF. (more…)...

Think through trauma and anxiety in a therapy group of film "final girls." Read the rest...

If your "aww" reflexes don't fire after seeing these images, you should get your heart checked. Read the rest...

After a change to Chinese law that opened the door to frivolous lawsuits, a man has filed suit against actress Zhao Wei for staring too hard on TV, claiming it caused him "spiritual damage." Read the...

"Wearing a specially designed water suit, Oakland Athletics pitcher Pat Venditte threw warmup pitches with his right flipper then caught a fly ball with his 12-foot long tongue." -- East Oregonian new...

At The Paris Review, Dan Piepenbring looks at the Ouija board-style "Charlie Charlie" teen fad-cum-hoax and finds it lacking in artistic verve. In comparison, he points to the awesome Compendium rari...

Keurig coffee machines, with their clunking lever, digital menu and environmentally-hazardous pods, are already kind of creepy—and that's even before you're hooked on their precious, precious da...

The Elfoid mobile phone was designed at Japan's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR). The cellphone-sized package is covered in soft urethane gel which, according to chie...

Mike Smith's space opera, The Last Praetorian, is a rollicking space romance. Read the rest...

Nick Jensen and his wife Sarah, married for ten years, are very frightened of families like the one shown above. They have promised to get a divorce if same-sex marriage is legalized in Australia. Rea...

Kenlissia Jones, 23, of Georgia has been charged with murder after a hospital social worker reported her to the police for taking cytotec pills she purchased online to terminate her pregnancy. Read t...

Sigma's lineup of high-end and rather odd compact cameras continues to intrigue and disappoint. Wired's Josh Valcarcel loves the image quality, especially for portraitsand dislikes pretty much everyth...

14,700,000 is a huge number, and it also just so happens to be the number of pixels jam packed inside the glorious 27" display of the 5k Retina iMac. Read the rest...

After mocking female scientists ("girls") as too emotional and suggesting they be segregated in the lab, Nobel-winning biochemist Tim Hunt is now "sorry"but insists that he "just meant to be honest". ...

"The 'P' is for perfection and you know that we are freaks."...

Police responded Sunday to reports of a man throwing items out of a window in St. Petersburg, Russia. Upon their arrival, he began eating pieces of glass and other smashed-up components to "avoid dete...

The web is in rough shape and tech companies can smell its blood. Their territorial efforts to recentralize the online experience on private platforms may well fail, but watching them try is the fores...

BuzzFeed is back with another history video. (more…)...

This newly-discovered film footage of Amelia Earhart from 1937 was released in conjunction with an e-book titled "Amelia Earhart's Last Photo Shoot." Read the rest...

The desk's minimal, hidden design looks good, as opposed to the usual DIY gamer monstrosities. Here's the desk itself. [imgur]...

An epic thread at r/AskReddit invites mechanics to describe the dumbest things people do to their cars. As you can imagine, there is some pretty stiff competition. Read the rest...

The Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan is a massive abandoned sports stadium. Watch BMXer Tyler Fernengel shred the place....

Mark Cerny, the system architect behind Playstation 4, is said to have been put in charge of finishing Sony's all-but-legendary project, described by Leigh as the lost game of a microgeneration. Read...

Monsters, ferrets, aliens, foxes and more are all on display at freelance illustrator and designer, Lily McDonnell's website, MyBeautifulMonsters.com.Check out her etsy shop. Read the rest...

The martial arts star posted this uplifting message on his Facebook page. Thanks, Jackie! (more…)...

BuzzFeed is back with another history video. (more…)...

This new video series from the Asian Pride Project features parents from different cultures and countries expressing their support for their LGBT children. Read the rest...

Vlogger Akilah Hughes decided to document her week in a rather unusual way Read the rest...

Brit Bennett penned a great essay on the complicated history of black dolls in American culture. Read the rest...

The police will tell you that the reason they're arming up with surplus military gear and pursuing a shoot-first posture to their job is that being a cop is deadly business -- but as the saying goes, ...

Because irony is alive and well in the 21st century. I'm holding out for my Kill the Poor platinum Amex....

The legendary Clarion Writers' Workshop uses the funds from its annual Write-a-Thon to subsidize the tuition and expenses of the next generation of science fiction and fantasy writers. Read the rest...

Surgeon Xiaoping Ren at China's Harbin Medical University are planing to transplant the heads of long-tailed macaque monkeys. They've apparently tried it on hundreds of mice with at least some of the ...

No, it isn't real, but it is spectacular. The Cliff House is modular home company Modscape's theoretical design for "extreme parcels of coastal land in Australia." Read the rest...

This is detail of an 1896 United States $1 note from the Educational Series of silver certificates issued by the United States Treasury in 1896, and regarded as the most beautifully designed money in ...

Over at Cuepoint, a fascinating data analysis of the most popular cars in hip-hop, with lots of charts, graphs, and GIFs. Read the rest...

The coroner said Matthew's death was accidental, and that cinnamon can cause asphyxiation when inhaled. Read the rest...

Holy crap, this Reuters story by John Shiffman is bonkers. Trigger warning for sex, violence, animal abuse, sexual abuse, and surgery. And that should give you an idea of how insane it is. Read the ...

Some lower-quality eateries are actually passing off 'formed steaks' melded from lower-quality scraps as the real deal. Here's how they do it. Read the rest...

The saucer-shaped craft that may help NASA do more on Mars splashed down Monday in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. Read the rest...

A mother was unhappy with the $3 knit crop top her daughter purchased on Amazon, and put the garment on the family cat instead. Her verdict: "Do not buy this, even for your cat."...

It's the assembly language puzzle game that nobody asked for! Read the rest...

I had 12 officers on the scene and 11 of them performed according to their training, the local police chief said at a press conference today. Read the rest...

A mother was unhappy with the $3 knit crop top her daughter purchased on Amazon, and put the garment on the family cat instead. Her verdict: "Do not buy this, even for your cat."...

The power connections between the Duggar family and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee run deep. Read the rest...

It seems pretty clear the next battle in Congress will almost certainly be over encryption. Read the rest...

The rapper is hauling the beermaker into court following the sale of a subsidiary, claiming he's owed. Read the rest...

The Secret Box ($10) is a small metal canister with a lid. Hold it between your fingers and shake it. It will rattle. Read the rest...

The Secret Box ($10) is a small metal canister with a lid. Hold it between your fingers and shake it. It will rattle. Read the rest...

The city of Ahmedabad, India is encouraging people to use public toilets rather than relieve themselves in the open. They will receive 1 rupee (1/5th of a penny) each time they use the toilet. Read t...

The rapper is hauling the beermaker into court following the sale of a subsidiary, claiming he's owed. Read the rest...

For people who really want their Ballardian accessories cold and brutal. It's based on the classic Eames Molded Fiberglass Chair. [Gessato via Uncrate]...

The Mysterious Package Company will send you or a friend weird surprises that slowly form a story over time. Read the rest...

The assault on the power infrastructure interrupted regional transportation, and left 45,000 humans helpless. Only one rodent life was lost. Read the rest...

"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts by gun owners and the National Rifle Association on Monday to halt San Franciscos enforcement of a 2007 ordinance requiring residents to keep handguns locked w...

Paul Ford's story for Motherboard, "The Last Museum," concerns the obsolescence of a tech exec who's self worth was tied up in streaking past the Zucks and Jobses and Evs and Marissas of today, and is...

Monogrammed underwear supposedlybelonging to Eva Braun can be yours. (more…)...

The US Army took down its homepage on Monday following an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army. Other government sites, including US Strategic Command, were also down. Read the rest...

In 2002 a 25-year-old NASA intern named Thad Roberts stole 17 pounds of moon rocks so he could have sex on the moon with his girlfriend. Read the rest...

Here's a newly-released video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, that provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. Read t...

In a clandestine raid last night, squirrels shut down an El Cerrito, CA substation. Interrupting regional transport, and leaving 45,000 humans helpless, only one rodent life was lost. Read the rest...

Only one person came to a scheduled Rick Santorum campaign stop in Iowa - insurance agent Peggy Toft. Santorum spoke to Toft in a restaurant for 10 minutes. Read the rest...

"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts by gun owners and the National Rifle Association on Monday to halt San Franciscos enforcement of a 2007 ordinance requiring residents to keep handguns locked w...

Astaeria is a "first-person poetry visualizer" by Emma—select a poem, and an abstract world of colors and shapes blossoms around that poem, with procedurally-generated music. Read the rest...

Tune up your Mac with 9 exciting apps: Unibox, Noiseless, Hider 2, NoteBook 4, App Tamer 2, iStat Menus 5, Beamer 2, Chatology, and Jump Desktop. Regularly $204, just $19.99. See details....

I've become a fan of Noodler's Heart of Darkness. This ink is blacker than black. Read the rest...

WaPo: "The GOP field has become so large and unwieldy that Fox News is only allowing 10 candidates to participate in the first debate."...

This is a flexible mesh circuitry that Harvard nanotechnologists have injected via syringe into the heads of live mice to test a new way of monitoring brain signals from the inside. Read the rest...

The bespoke, designer Whaletone piano looks like the oceanic offspring of the 1969 Fender Rhodes Student Piano. (more…)...

This fall, Bantam will publish George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones Coloring Book (A Song of Ice and Fire), for adults. According to Bantam, it will feature black-and-white original "art by world ren...

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has extracted emails between corporate lobbyists and US Trade Rep officials working on the secretive, corrupt Trans Pacific Partnership treaty. Read the rest...

Paul Ford's story for Motherboard, "The Last Museum," concerns the obsolescence of a tech exec who's self worth was tied up in streaking pass the Zucks and Jobses and Evs and Marissas of today, and is...

Those medicinal chemists do go on. (more…)...

Over at Medium, Lawrence Lessig has launched "Equal Citizens, A conversation about (finally) achieving political equality." Go Lessig! Read the rest...

When I was younger, I had a friend who frequently expressed her hatred for the word "moist." It wasn't until the Internet that I understood this to be a commonly-despised word. Read the rest...

A perfectly-timed movie, presenting FIFA president Sepp Blatter as a valorous anticorruption crusader, has raked in $607six hundred and seven dollarsat theaters in America. Read the rest...

Marcela Telehanicova, of Ivybridge, England, woke last week to find an army of gnomes neatly arranged in formation in her front yard, thirty rows deep. Read the rest...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the unbridled powers of cartoonists are properly reined in. Read the rest...

A story about the biggest cocaine trafficker in Los Angeles, who also left a big impact on the developing Hip Hop culture of the region in the 1980s. Read the rest...

The artist may change, but the template remains the same Read the rest...

Last year Matt Bray of Project One Life filmed himself doing the same dance routine for 100 days in his bedroom. Now hes back with another dance video that spans across 100 different locations. (more...

In Ike Interviews God writer/director Eli Shapiro depicts a world where God requests a chat with an insurance clerk once voted Least Likely To Do Anything Important. (more…)...

[Photo: Top: The exterior of Ferguson Municipal Public Library; center: Director Scott Bonner, the librarys table at the farmers market; bottom: adult and teen patrons using the library Photos by Sid ...

Fun Home is new Broadway musical about cartoonist Alison Bechdel and her complicated relationship with her closeted gay father. Not only did the show take home the award for Best Musical at Sundays To...

You look like a piece of soap, get diarrhea. Read the rest...

Following the release of footage of a white cop assaulting young black teens at a neighborhood pool party in McKinney, Texas, activists took to Twitter to express their frustrations. Read the rest...

FIDLAR's "40oz. On Repeat" is a fantastically fun low budget tribute to more than a dozen familiar music videos, from Suicidal Tendencies, Devo, and Missy Elliot to Beastie Boys, George Michael, and B...

National Geographic shares the stories of children who seek relief from cancer and epilepsy through the use of cannabidiol (CBD) oil with little to none of marijuana's psychoactive component THC....

JIMEK's orchestral history of hip-hop, performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. 1. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools2. M.I.A. Read the rest...

Youve seen the movies, now see the book. Star Wars Frames collects selections of single frames from the entire Star Wars saga. Read the rest...

Film producer and real estate developer Nile Niami is building a massive Bel Air, California residence, containing a 74,000 square-foot main house and three smaller homes, that he will try to sell for...

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly wrote a piece on rare Lalique car mascots (aka, hood ornaments) from the 1920s and '30s. Read the rest...

Its own News app and updates to OS X and iOS filled an unusually-packed lineup of new software Read the rest...

Cotton Candy, Caramel Cocoa Cluster, Lemon Bar, Cinnamon Roll, Red Velvet Cake, Cupcake. These are the six new flavors of Starbucks Frappuccino that are sure to get your insulin busy transporting gluc...

The Button, the Reddit game that started (perhaps) as an April Fools' joke and became a social experiment, religion, and drug, has ended after 1,008,316 presses. Time's up. "The Button has ended" (Red...

Make editor Caleb Kraft shows you how to build an "incredibly dangerous" flame-shooting ukulele for your Mad Max Fury Road LARPing adventures, inspired by the Doof Warrior bungee-lashed flaming guitar...

I think Sunflower Farms could make a lot of money charging people to run with their baby goats. Read the rest...

In March, motorcyclist Samuel Ayres stopped at a red light and noticed a driver using a phone. He told the driver, "Put down your fucking phone. You're in your car." The driver apparently did not appr...

Streaming music, iOS improvements, and more are expected today from Apple Read the rest...

UCLA psychology professor Alan Castel ran an experiment where more than 100 students drew the Apple logo from memory, and the results were surprisingly terrible. Why? Read the rest...

Scarier than the original, because it recalls memories of accidentally stapling your finger.[via]...

Cotton Candy, Caramel Cocoa Cluster, Lemon Bar, Cinnamon Roll, Red Velvet Cake, Cupcake. These are the six new flavors of Starbucks Frappuccino that are sure to get your insulin busy transporting gluc...

National Geographic shares yet another story on California's mass sea lion starve off. Read the rest...

The Texas Police Pool Party will be known for the officer who pulled a gun on children. But this ninja roll deserves more infamy. Isn't it a good one? People will claim the officer stumbled, and merel...

This silicone skull is great for eggs or pancakes. Kids love breakfast at my house. Read the rest...

"Take your hand to your palm and slap your thigh, and watch the fun materialize!"...

According to a recently-released Government Accountability Office report, the "TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all te...

See video here.There's some kind of geopolitical lesson to be learned here....

Uwe Boll, a low-budget filmmaker who adapts videogames into movies, has a potty-mouthed message for everyone who didn't give him money on Kickstarter: "Fuck yourself... I have enough money to play gol...

This fellow made a 40W laser shotgun that is quite powerful and, yes, ridiculously dangerous. (more…)...

Electrical engineer David L. Jones explains why claims made on behalf of The Batteriser--a gadget promised to get up to 8x life out of alkaline batteries--are nonsense. Read the rest...

There's some kind of geopolitical lesson to be learned here....

Here's the trailer for The Martian, based on the excellent novel by Andy Weir about an astronaut stranded on Mars. Read the rest...

In an odd move, Eastern Michigan University, proudly claiming to be among the first universities to retire an offensive racist caricature, brought the same red faced mascot back as a "historic tribute...

Bookmark this page! We're headed over to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, and Xeni will be posting on anything cool that comes streaming in today. Read the rest...

National Geographic shares yet another story on California's mass sea lion starve off. Read the rest...

It's not a fair trade, and everyone knows it. Read the rest...

Mark writes, "ACLS Workbench encourages scholars to share their materials and even allow others to copy or clone them." Read the rest...

David Hunter (creator of the zombie currciulum units) has a new idea: teaching English, science, history and math through curriculum units that ask kids to pretend to be time-travellers. Read the rest...

Boing Boing's publisher has a set of vanity plates that provoke interesting responses from adults and kids alike. Read the rest...

Tasha Sturm, a lab tech, sampled her 8 year old son's hand when he came in from playing outside in an agar medium, then cultured the microbes that came off in the dish. Read the rest...

A Texas cop, filmed pulling a gun on children outside a pool party, has been named as Patrol Supervisor Cpl. Eric Casebolt. Read the rest...

Laralyn McWilliams has been in the video game business for half her life, and shares thoughtful insights on the invisible but implicit bill of cultural rules that still govern the industry. Read th...

Watching this makes me feel very uncomfortable, because it is the culture of most of the presidential candidates most likely to win in the next U.S. presidential election. (more…)...

I dont know whats better, the peppy beats of this Taylor Swift pop-punk medley or the delightfully deadpan performance of Brett Domino (aka comedian Rob J. Madin). (more…)...

Keep up to 10 keys organized in one slim, sleek place. Read the rest...

More people died in World War II than in any other conflict in history, yet it can be hard to conceptualize that massive loss of life. Read the rest...

The all-caps and the exclamation points are mandatory. Read the rest...

Prefer to appreciate fine art in bed? You are in luck: Carsten Hller's latest installation features two motorized beds that slowly travel through London's Hayward Gallery over the course of the night...

Researcher Billy Rios (previously) has extended his work on vulnerabilities in hospital drug pumps, discovering a means by which their firmware can be remotely overwritten with new code that can resul...

This adorable little drone is a potentially revolutionary camera whose creators claim can fly itself. Read the rest...

The companies that collect all our personal data, hold them forever, and shamelesslyuse them for their own profit want us to believe that we get something in return. Read the rest...

They'll figure it out soon enough, and then what! THEN WHAT!Meanwhile, South Korea's bipedal humanoid DRC-HUBOT (below), built by Team KAIST, won the US$2 million grand prize. (more…)...

Peter Orullian wears many hats. He is an author, musician, and has worked for many years at Microsoft on the XBox team. Read the rest...

Anti-vax Twitter consists of several thousand vaccine denialists whose present project is stopping California's mandatory vaccine bill, through campaigns of lockstep tweeting to lawmakers, workplace a...

"Breaking Sponge" (more…)...

"Mom left us at Best Buy :(" Read the rest...

You Are A Hoverboard, by Chris Wade, is a few loveable steps beyond your usual physics toy: It's a world where animal friends open their hearts to help you out, and everything is going to be okay. Rea...

Laralyn McWilliams has been in the video game business for half her life, and shares thoughtful insights on the invisible but implicit bill of cultural rules that still govern the industry. Read th...

World's Dawn is a charming tribute to a beloved genre. Read the rest...

Rhode Island School of Design is the alma mater of Talking Heads, the school that gave William Gibson an honorary PhD--and now, this. Read the rest...

The breathtaking, hyperreal sculptures of Ron Mueck are on display at Canada's Winnipeg Art Gallery until October 4, 2015. Read the rest...

I'm sick. One of the things that makes me feel better is to watch Bullitt, a movie starring a 1968 Ford Mustang GT, and Steve McQueen. Read the rest...

He's screaming. The frog is screaming. (more…)...

The Rhode Island School of design is the alma mater of Talking Heads, the school that gave William Gibson his honorary PhD -- and now it's the school where culture hero John Waters delivered his magni...

Like the $30 Fujian/Fotasy 35mm, the Helios 44-2 58mm f2 is a lens famed for soft, flat, dreamlike results, appealing to modern video shooters searching for that vaunted "filmed on 16mm in 1974 by dru...

During renovations, a high school discovered a series of old chalkboards whose writing had remained untouched since 1917. Read the rest...

I'm sick. One of the things that makes me feel better is to watch Bullitt, a movie starring a 1968 Ford Mustang GT, and Steve McQueen. Read the rest...

The tourists' naked selfies angered the ancestral spirits of Borneo, said the official, and we are inclined to agree. Read the rest...

At a pool party in Texas, an officer was filmed pointing his gun at youngsters, grabbing a bikini-clad girl by the neck, and screaming obscenities. Read the rest...

The most fun my 12-year-old daughter ever had shopping for a toy was last winter when she ordered a Makies doll (pictured above). Read the rest...

The Duggar sisters defend their brother Joshs molestation of them, but say he was very sly. Seriously: what the hell, America. Read the rest...

Just a little old-time religion. Read the rest...

Boing Boing reader Cary (crenquis on our BBS) informs us that the world finally makes some sense: a Great Pyrenees has been elected mayor of a Minnesota town. Read the rest...

By weird video humor expert Vic Berger. Read the rest...

In certain regions of Africa, where basic "feature phones" are ubiquitous but Internet connectivity is mostly non-existent, the only network for new music are physical markets where tlchargeurs (downl...

It's not that they buy politicians (there's some of that), it's that they order their workers donate to, write to, and vote for their preferred politicians, with reprisals for employees who don't toe ...

Lee Siegel defaulted on his student loans because it was "absurd that one could amass crippling debt as a result, not of drug addiction or reckless borrowing and spending, but of going to college" jus...

The LAT's editorial page calls for Snowden to return to the US to be put on trial because we live in a "society of laws," but this commitment to the rule of law only reaches to a single source, and no...

A beautiful list, including "[T]he innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'. Read th...

Best novel: Annihilation;, Jeff VanderMeer; Novella "Yesterdays Kin," Nancy Kress; Novelette A Guide to the Fruits of Hawaii, Alaya Dawn Johnson; Short story Jackalope Wives, Ursula Vernon; Movie Guar...

"After controlling for potential confounders, higher monthly ejaculation frequency was associated with a statistically significant decreased risk of total prostate cancer compared to the reference gro...

One of the world's leading experts in online education sings the praises of Minecraft as a tool for helping kids find and realize a passion for learning Read the rest...

About two thousand feet (598 meters) below the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, remotely operated vehicle Hercules encountered a magnificent sperm whale. Read the rest...

My name is Loca, and I can't feckin' run. She's Irish. Read the rest...

A tumblog of greatness. Read the rest...

Remember when people cared about looking sharp? See more photos here.[via]...

The poor little fellow! (more…)...

Some 41 superhero movies are in the works at various movie studios, and they're all due to be released over the next five years. Read the rest...

Nearly everyone in the US depends on food crops grown in California, so farmers must continue to pull what little water remains in underground aquifers. Read the rest...

Matthew Clarke created a long-runnning video series of actual conversations he had with his daughter, who was 2 when his web video project began. Read the rest...

One of the world's leading experts in online education sings the praises of Minecraft as a tool for helping kids find and realize a passion for learning Read the rest...

Last night I went to Meltdown comics in Hollywood to interview Daniel Clowes, the creator of Eightball, which is one of my favorite comic book series (check out the amazing new 25th anniversary slipca...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is suing the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China for failure to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Read the rest...

The brilliant, Portland-based festival is now a year-round phenomenon, housed in a 13,000 sqft refurbed WWII ship-building factory that will incubate and nurture independent art and technology and hou...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht filed an appeal to his life sentence on Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Read the rest...

Fountain pens have always been my favorite. This Huashilai reminds me an awful lot of my Parker Duofold, and writes just as nice! Read the rest...

 Anyone who has tried to take a good shot of their pet will understand how amazing these animal portraits are by Belgian photographer Vincent Legrange. Read the rest...

Message to drones: watch where you're going. Read the rest...

Based on data from the National UFO Reporting Center, the map displays over 90,000 reports of UFO sightings dating back to 1905. (more…)...

It works. Read the rest...

From an Illinois brewery's "panty dropper" label to Bud Light's #UpForWhatever campaign, many beer labels have caused controversy and lawsuits over the years. Read the rest...

John Hughes made his classic movie for a mere $5M, a kind of side project to recover from his runaway successes w with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles -- it had everything, even Ben Stein speak...

The new line of Barbie dolls include eight skin tones, 14 faces, 22 hairstyles, 23 hair colors and 18 eye colors. As stephen_schenck points out on the BB BBS, they are available in any body type as lo...

One of the world's leading experts in online education sings the praises of Minecraft as a tool for helping kids find and realize a passion for learning Read the rest...

Colin Furze made a nutty electrified knife that can toast as you cut the bread." And then the butter will go on...like butter. ...

The FBI has filled the skies of America's cities with covert aircraft, crisscrossing overhead, bristling with sensors and cloaked in mystery, from the shell companies that own them to the obfuscated t...

Yaskawa celebrated its 100th birthday by pitting one of its Motoman-MH24s against a samurai in a sword-swinging contest, proving once and for all that if you need to chop bamboo into small pieces with...

John Hughes made his classic movie for a mere $5M, a kind of side project to recover from his runaway successes w with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles -- it had everything, even Ben Stein speak...

She growls for reasons we cannot comprehend. [Stewart Benson]...

Colin Furze made a nutty electrified knife that can toast as you cut the bread." And then the butter will go on...like butter....

The new line of Barbie dolls include eight skin tones, 14 faces, 22 hairstyles, 23 hair colors and 18 eye colors. As stephen_schenck points out on the BB BBS, they are available in any body type as lo...

A Huntington Beach, CA man expressed his displeasure for a hovering multicopter by knocking it to the ground with his shirt. Read the rest...

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship writes, "During an AP class discussion about gratuitous language, a student asked a teacher to read an Allen Ginsberg poem. He did. He's not a teac...

A really interesting data project by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Read the rest...

Bruce Shapiro makes mesmerizing and impermanent sculptures with commercial motion-control gear, as used in robotics to less artistic ends. He's been doing it for 25 years, he writes, creating kinetic ...

Waxed cotton is beautiful and functional, but you've got to maintain it. Otter Wax is the brand I've relied on to keep my jacket happy. Read the rest...

I have my own titanium spork that I travel with. I recently added this $7 set of plastic not-sporks so my kids can enjoy yogurt and salads on planes and hotel rooms. Read the rest...

Six bucks is a great deal for this 2-Port USB wall charger. (I travel with a 5 Port USB charger and love the long AC cord on it, but it might be overkill for others.)...

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In the years since his death, John Lennon's whimsical artwork has appeared on baby bedding, greeting cards, T-shirts, prints, posters and even in a few slim books. Read the rest...

The Wall Street Journal has a juicy excerpt from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's new book, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry. Read...

At Target, a single lorazepam pill costs about 14 cents. The Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles sells them for $20, and doesn't tell you that until you get the bill. Read the rest...

"Officers and Troopers searched the car, after finding drugs in the vehicle, and slammed the trunk in fear when this little guy aggressively jumped at them! Oklahoma Game Warden Carlos Gomez (Tulsa Co...

This guy says he's doing a public service by showing women how easy it is to covertly drop pills into their drinks at a restaurant, but he comes off as being a creepy scold. ...

"Sparky's wheezy baritone voice is loud and grating," writes Esquire's Mike Sager. "He is at once funny and annoying, ingenious and stupid, insightful and insipid, friendly and backstabbing, attractiv...

The video for DJ Opiuo's Quack Fat was animated by Jonathan Chong. It involved dozens of floppies, hundreds of cassettes, and thousands of feet of tape. [Vimeo]...

A San Diego neighborhood is in an uproar because a man spread chocolate on his lawn to deter dog walkers from allowing their pets to evacuate their bowels on his property. Read the rest...

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The lucky candidate will be paid about $50 an hournot bad for government workbut literally endure a shit job. Read the rest...

Jordan Matson, A U.S. recruiter for Kurdish fighters against Syria, just posted a warning on Facebook that volunteer Michael Enright "is in danger of being killed" and needs to be retrieved "before it...

Nintendo's colorful, joyful new squid kid splatterfest is fresh as heck Read the rest...

I can't remember why I found myself on his Twitter page, but having gotten there I realized that his entire image is now built around looking confused about what's going on, here. I have captioned his...

Arrested for drugs, Lashon Stuckey, 33, chewed his way through a car seat belt so he could spend time with his son, who was celebrating his birthday. Stuckey was apprehended before he could be reunite...

Building on their Toy Like Me accessories, Makies has shipped 3D printed cochlear implants for your 3D printed custom doll, in white or pink. Read the rest...

On Memorial Day in Harrisburg PA, an army soldier spotted 75-year-old Robert Ford wearing a Marine uniform as he walked down the street. The soldier suspected the uniform was phony (the hat was wrinkl...

Writing in the NYT, Snowden celebrates the second anniversary of his disclosures by celebrating the "profound difference" in the surveillance debate since then. Read the rest...

Sound Kick ($49.99) trumps the competition with its robust sound, compact size, and sleek design all at a great price point. Read the rest...

Claw machines can be programmed to automatically reduce their grip strength to maximize profits, while allowing an infrequent full-strength grip to entice suckers. Read the rest...

"I play the saxophone different to anyone else." (YouTube)...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn't out for another six months but master maker James Bruton is already finishing up his impressive model of the BB-8 droid....

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Comedian and rapper Lilly Singh aka Superwoman is a YouTube vlogger whose videos tend to be funny and high-energy. But she recently uploaded a simple video about a complex topic: Makeup. Read the rest...

Artist Robot Hugs has created this brilliant comic that demonstrates the way well-meaning people can unintentionally derail conversations about gender identity and the transgender community. Read the...

Elaine and Jerry together again! (more…)...

Just in time for the Tony Awards on Sunday, the boys of Superfruit revamped some hip-hop songs into Broadway-ready duets, ballads, and dance numbers. (more…)...

Walmart announced at a company meeting several new strategies to increase morale for its store employees, notably eliminating the endless din of Celine Dion and Justin Bieber on the loudspeakers. Rea...

Jake Houvenagle and Brandon Voges created backstories for some of their favorite Garbage Pail Kids, then staged updated, 30-years-on images of them with costumed models and trick photos. Read the rest...

WARNING: The video above graphically depicts a murder, including scenes of a man bleeding to death after being shot by a police officer. Read the rest...

Etsy's Ohhio knits with crazily thick Merino wool yarn in 70 colors that runs 3"/stitch: the cuddliest blankets; lush scarves and giant cowls (via Crazy Abalone). Read the rest...

After at least four years of lying about its rubberstamp takedown process for prison authorities and omitting prison takedowns from its transparency reports, Facebook is finally bringing a crumb of du...

Four former CVS security employees in NYC have sued the company for making them enforce a "shopping while black" policy that had them tailing black and Latino customers around the store, watching them...

A Stormtrooper was arrested yesterday outside an elementary school in Lynn, Mass. George Cross, 40, said he "was walking through the neighborhood showing friends" his costume and blaster when the prin...

So far as I can tell, The Battle Cats is a deeply weird game about helping cats destroy the world. Read the rest...

The Associated Press is reporting that Sepp Blatter, the resigning president of splendidly corrupt soccer governing body FIFA, has "started work on reforming FIFA amid corruption crisis." (more&hellip...

Nichelle Nichols, 82, suffered a mild stroke last night. Read the rest...

Behold! All of the characters in The Peanuts Movie, coming November 6! I can't wait! (Click to see the poster larger.) Below, the trailer that came out late last year. (more…)...

David Greenwald, a Magic: The Gathering player in the 1990s who gave it up in high school before returning to the fold as an adult, wrote about playing with 11,000 other people at the world's biggest ...

"Coffee is for viral content creators."...

Still shooters have long raved about this weird little wonder, but how does it look on video? Read the rest...

Over at Make, Gareth Branwyn has written a terrific introduction to the "mutant urban marvel that is Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city thats become not only a global mass market electronics manufactur...

So far as I can tell, The Battle Cats is a deeply weird game about helping cats destroy the world. Read the rest...

Sound Kick ($49.99) trumps the competition with its robust sound, compact size, and sleek design all at a great price point. Read the rest...

PayPal is splitting away from eBay on July 1. When that happens, PayPal users will be pleased to know that they've agreed to allow PayPal to robotext and robocall the bejesus out of them. Read the re...

Fudo no Yu, a famous hot spring (or, onsen) was closed after it was discovered that patrons were "indulging in group sex acts, filming adult footage and taking voyeuristic photographs of other unsuspe...

I use my $10 kitchen shears to chop lettuce. I put lettuce in a salad bowl, stick in the shears, and make a bunch of random cuts until the volume of the lettuce drops to a reasonable level. Read the ...

Christopher Marley grew up with a freezer stuffed with dead birds. His father, a passionate bird breeder, couldnt part with the birds when they died, so he stored them alongside the familys frozen foo...

The USA Freedom Act was a very timid curb on surveillance powers, but it was also the first time since the 1970s that Congress limited spies' powers -- and it won't be the last. Read the rest...

Applied Hacking's Samy Kamkar (previously) has released Opensesame, an app for hacked IM-ME texting toys that can open millions of fixed-code garage doors in less than a minute. Read the rest...

Mexican weed production is no longer profitable. That's because US growers have greatly increased the quality and quantity of their product, now that there's less risk of getting busted by authorities...

Most materials cannot withstand the intensity of the red hot ball of nickel (RHNB). It has laid waste to a giant jawbreaker, a watermelon, a cube of ballistic gelatin, and a bundle of crayons. Read t...

Courtesy of Sunflower Farm Creamery, two Nigerian Dwarf goats named Winifred and Monty prance about in their pajamas....

Like dogs stepping right out of a Minecraft realm, these boxy canine cube cuts were the trend this year at a Tokyo dog show. Read the rest...

Fudo no Yu, a famous hot spring (or, onsen) was closed after it was discovered that patrons were "indulging in group sex acts, filming adult footage and taking voyeuristic photographs of other unsuspe...

Just 30 miles south of the Grand Canyon there's an even grander wonder of the world: Bedrock City. Established in 1972, this Flintstones-themed compound occupies 30 acres and has a gift shop, restaura...

Downpour has published a DRM-free audio edition of my essay collection Context (with an intro by Tim O'Reilly), the companion volume to my collection Content (introduced by John Perry Barlow). Read th...

Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer is on the rise, due in part to the increased popularity of indoor tanning beds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the rest...

The Associated Press is reporting that Sepp Blatter, the resigning president of splendidly corrupt soccer governing body FIFA, has "started work on reforming FIFA amid corruption crisis."BREAKING: Sep...

A 28-year-old Iranian artist and activist has been sentenced to 12 years and nine in prison for making monkeys out of Iranian leaders. Read the rest...

Following mom is generally a good idea, whether you're a ferret or not. (more…)...

The Colbeard. I'm looking forward to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (more…)...

Police in California are allowed to take your tablet or cell phone away from you and search it without a warrant. Read the rest...

Forget about the wasteland for a while. The best new games are set inside the places where you live. Read the rest...

"My beacon's been moved under moon and star. Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?"...

If you accidentally install Troldash (via spam email) on your computer, it will encrypt your hard drive and lock up your files. Read the rest...

People on Twitter are using the #GamesSoWhite hashtag to start conversations about whiteness as "default" in video games and fantasy in general. They're brave. Read the rest...

An easily spread strain of fungus is killing banana plants around the world. It's called Fusarium wilt and it attacks the top-selling banana breed, called the Cavendish. Read the rest...

The games targeted by the investigation have not been named, reports the BBC, but are three among many. Read the rest...

Wouldn't want anything dangerous to happen. (more…)...

Forget about the wasteland for a while. The best new games are set inside the places where you live. Read the rest...

If you live in New York, San Francisco, or Seattle, don't expect to see a cappuccino listed on the Starbucks menu. Read the rest...

Dylan Schenker, Rhett Jones and Loney Abrams present a collection of the best, from Alien and Blade Runner to eXisTenZ....

The Metro reports that a Spanish woman declared that she owns the Sun and is now suing eBay for refusing to let her auction plots of "land" on its surface. Read the rest...

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This 'unfortunate typo' became a headache for a supermarket in New Zealand. The sign advertising Griffins Krispie Toasted Coconut Biscuits misspelled the word coconut, turning it into an offensive exp...

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Actualchad writes, "An aura of foreboding permeates this community of foolish mortals, as their perils combine into a vexing misfortune of exaggerated proportions!" (more…)...

Many were shocked to hear that 37-year-old Maggie Gyllenhaal was deemed too old to romance a 55-year-old man on-screen. So Vulture decided to analyze the careers of three younger actresses to see what...

One of the weirder choices of the Broadway adaptation of The Little Mermaid was to simulate swimming by having the cast skate around on wheelie sneakers. For this Japanese production at the Shiki Thea...

One of my favorite YouTube vloggers, Franchesca Ramsey (a.k.a Chescaleigh), just started collaborating with MTV on a new online series called Decoded, where she discusses race, pop culture, and more. ...

Earlier this week, Orange Is The New Black star and trans activist Laverne Cox took to Tumblr to share her thoughts about Caitlyn Jenners Vanity Fair debut. Read the rest...

In my latest Guardian column, I talk about the real danger from the UK Tories' plan to ban effective cryptography: not the initial mandate forcing companies to help spy on their users, but all the thi...

Katitza from EFF writes, "Paraguay is at a vitally important digital civil liberties crossroads, and we're calling on all Paraguayans to help! " Read the rest...

There're just a couple days left to back LOUD on Planet X, a music game about fighting aliens that features the work of artists like Purity Ring, Tegan and Sara, Metric and others. Read the rest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AqYh38dy_AThere're just a couple days left to back LOUD on Planet X, a music game about fighting aliens that features the work of artists like Purity Ring, Tegan and S...

Early on in the exploration game Gardenarium, a woman informs you that "you are on a quest to win." This is a lie. Read the rest...

From the aptly named Crude Brothers. Read the rest...

The 33-year-old patient sang and played guitar while the doctors performed the surgery. It began with a song he composed for his son, born a few months ago, followed by "Yesterday" by the Beatles, and...

A federal judge is investigating charges that the United States government may have illegally destroyed possible evidence during the high-profile media leak investigation of National Security Agency w...

Xeni speaks with the stars of Love & Mercy about the music and magic inside Brian Wilson's mind. Directed by Bill Pohlad with a score by Atticus Ross, the film opens Friday, June 5, 2015. Read t...

Hopes&Fears surveys "analog control panels in sci-fi movies, beginning with the excellent X-wing targeting computer from Star Wars. Read the rest...

Rotate your shish-kabobs with the favorite tool of the eleventh and twelfth Doctor. Read the rest...

A snorkeler dragged in this 18-foot dead oarfish he found just off Catalina Island near Los Angeles on Sunday. Oarfish are rarely seen this large and usually found in deep open ocean waters. Read the...

No words are needed in this photo series, which tells the emotional story of an emaciated, badly infected dog, and the man who saved it. The photos at the beginning are intense, and the happy photos a...

NPR has set up a test online: can you distinguish between 128kbps and 320kbps MP3 files, and uncompressed WAV files? I got all but one of my answers right (on my cheap Urbanears Tanto headphones), but...

Mike from Muckrock sez, "'My name is Allen Ginsberg and I sleep with whoever I want.' So noted the FBI, in its 89 pages tracking the life, lovers, and political activism of the American poet, who was ...

With the sunsetting of Section 215 of the Patriot Act and the passage of the USA Freedom Act, Congress has, for the first time since the 1970s, put limits on the surveillance powers of America's spook...

After sharp criticism for "whitewashing" Aloha, Cameron Crowe has posted an apology on his website, The Uncool. Read the rest...

"Monsanto, let our farmers grow!"...

The US Senate voted 50-49 to reject "the scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change, days after NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2014 the hottest ...

As part of CNN's 35th anniversary, they released these fun videos of bloopers. Keep fucking that chicken, CNN!...

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Probably figuring a dead man wouldn't care about his credit card, NYPD Officer Ymmacula Pierre used it to buy a lovely diamond ring from Zales. Read the rest...

Too bad it wasn't carrying a clarinet so I could make a Squidward joke....

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra has a wonderful collection of many favorite science fiction movie standards. This is some of my favorite music to play while driving. Read the rest...

A number of our favorite artists have shared their vision of Kevin Segall's fantastic Collector's Shangri-La. Kevin would love to send you a set! Read the rest...

Here's a peek at a new eight-part E! documentary series about Caitlyn Jenner, "which will illustrate the star living her life as a transgender woman and telling her intimate story as she seeks out her...

A story from Drawn and Quarterly's new 800-page 25th Anniversary Anthology Read the rest...

Almost 30% of early adult depression can be traced teen bullying, according to a study published by The BMJ (British Medical Journal). Read the rest...

I used to have a bad attitude about Jackson Pollocks drip paintings. I thought they were junk. Then one day a friend asked me if Id ever looked at one of Pollocks paintings in a museum. Read the rest...

When I fly, I either fast or bring along some dark chocolate, macadamia nuts, and bacon jerky. I recently added a new item: Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt Kind bars. They are delicious and have j...

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A BBC reporter tweeted that "Queen Elizabrth [sic] has died" and all hell broke loose. However, when NBC News alerted Buckingham Palace to the tweets, a spokesman said that the queen was not only aliv...

An ingenious way to make a gourmet dessert at home. (more…)...

This is not the Transformers I know!...

"We are the company that doesn't want your data," said the Apple CEO, in a "blistering" speech interpreted as an attack on Google and Facebook. Read the rest...

The tourist who was mauled by a lioness at a South African safari park was 29-year-old Katherine Chappell, an American who worked as a special effects editor on Game of Thrones. Read the rest...

While the bill has many significant flaws, it is historic: its the first time since the 1970s Congress has indicated its intention to restrict the vast powers of intel agencies like the NSA, rather th...

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Neal Stephenson's no stranger to ambition, but his new novel Seveneves stretches to lengths (and heights) that beggar the imagination. Read the rest...

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Artist Paige Smith, aka A Common Name, takes to the streets of LA to create beautiful geodes in the cracks and crevices of the city. Read the rest...

What a happy little weirdo! (more…)...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.And, in celebration of HIVE DRIVE, get a FREE sample of an INNER HIVE mailing! More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)...

Tony from the Starship Sofa podcast writes, "Listen to George R R Martin's The Men of Greywater Station over at StarShipSofa. It is the first time this story has appeared anywhere online. It was writt...

"[A]rson, murder, assault, stalking, talking, home picketing, business loss, death threats, community protest, religious and racial attacks, hate mail, and targeted internet postings." Read the rest...

Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans jailbreaking devices, even for lawful purposes -- meaning that you can't jailbreak your tractor in order to take it to the service-center...

In the vein of Everything is a Remix, this short film catalogs a non-exhaustive list of Tarantino's easter eggs/film-nerd love-notes/homages in his films. Read the rest...

Joel Johnson's short sf story "Hello and Goodbye in Portuguese" is a series of letters between a brother and sister on either side of the post-work divide: the have, and the have-not. Read the rest...

Mitchel Resnick, founder of the amazing, kid-friendly programming project Scratch, writes, "Scratch community members from around the world joined together to create a collaborative project: 'I'...

Ludes, neocaine, amphetamines, stelazine, and the Bayer rainbow, which ends in a pot of heroin. Read the rest...

Many more at Masayoshi Matsumoto's site. Read the rest...

The $150 glowing LED-decorated peltier fridge can heat or cool your desktop comestibles while allowing you to role-play Jabba. (via Geeky Merch)...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to break ground on a section of Elon Musk's Hyperloop early next year. From National Geographic:This (five mile) stretch, near the new town of Quay Valley ...

As part of CNN's 35th anniversary, they released this fun videos of bloopers. Keep fucking that chicken, CNN!...

Mindbending camouflage artist/photographer Liu Bolin has a show hanging at Zurich's Galerie Edwynn Houk. The exhibition, titled "Hiding in the City," runs until August 1. ...

University of Tokyo researchers demonstrated how a robot could do whole-body pushing manipulation with contact posture planning. In less technical terms, shoving. (IEEE Spectrum)...

Musician/comedian Daniel Koren does his layered a cappella thing (augmented with strings)....

No file will be left behind with this unthrottled-bandwidth, 1TB backup plan ($54.99). Dont let a simple mistake or computer crash destroy your most precious files forever. Read the rest...

The MMOVE Stereo Bluetooth Earbuds deliver the latest in premium audio technology and superior comfort, at a price point that wows. Read the rest...

In this episode, Jane reviews Doubt, a manga for teens.Rabbit Doubt - a mobile phone game - has taken Japan by storm. Read the rest...

Mike Huckabee, Josh Duggar supporter and perennial GOP Presidential nominee hopeful, gave some very creepy closing remarks at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville this past...

Few video game series have managed to captivate audiences and garner loyalty in the way that Halo has since the first title was released back in 2001. Read the rest...

An inspiring video about educating girls in developing nations from Sesame Workshop's Global Education Initiative....

While the bill has many significant flaws, it is historic: its the first time since the 1970s Congress has indicated its intention to restrict the vast powers of intel agencies like the NSA, rather th...

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A story from Drawn and Quarterly's new 800-page 25th Anniversary Anthology Read the rest...

Titled We See What We Seek, the tale behind this work of art captures perfectly what was so special to me about this event. Read the rest...

The Apple Watch, Sport Edition.After over a month of pre-sales and online-only availability, the Apple Watch will finally be on the shelves in Apple stores later this month. Read the rest...

Its hard to imagine what contemporary culture would be like without the existence of the comic, graphic novel, and low-brow art publishers Last Gasp, Fantagraphics, and Canadas small press darling, Dr...

In 2012 American journalist Michael Scott Moore (who wrote a great history of surfing, Sweetness and Blood) was kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for $20 million ransom. Read the rest...

Not being able to forget anything, ever? A perfect photographic memory sounds like hell. Read the rest...

Who needs Alex Jones to feed your paranoid fantasies about the authoritarian panopticon when you have the FBI to do it for you? Read the rest...

Adam 12 takes us back to a time when Los Angeles, and America, loved the LAPD. Read the rest...

The IRS has incorporated an Indianapolis marijuana-smoking church as a tax-exempt religious organization. Donors to the church can now deduct contributions on their taxes."We got the approval back in ...

Famed YouTube trencherman Yuka Kinoshita is no fan of low carb diets....

The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2015 announced its winners Monday night in London, with El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain) landing the #1 spot. Read the rest...

In 2013 James Howells threw away a computer hard drive, forgetting that it had a a "digital wallet" with 7,500 bitcoins in it. By the time he remembered, the value of the bitcoins was over $6 million....

An outstanding expose of Internet Research Agency, a St Petersburg, Russia-based army of trolls for hire who post pro-Kremlin messages to comment forums all day. Read the rest...

I'll be at the NY Academy of Medicine from 1-3PM, explaining why "Information doesn't want to be free...but people do" -- tell your friends!...

"This practice of passing other vehicles traveling in the same direction by sharing their lane is called lane-splitting, and a new report by UC Berkeley transportation researchers finds that no matter...

Comedic brilliance. Laurel and Hardy couldn't have done it better.[via]...

In January, we shared the story of a monster who ruined a school field trip for a group of Native American students. Read the rest...

Toxoplasma gondii is a single celled organism that lives in the guts of cats and is spread to humans through contact with cat crap. Read the rest...

Survivor Zhang Hui, who doesn't know how to swim, only had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket and flee his cruise ship cabin before jumping into the dark choppy water of the Yangtze River in China. Rea...

After winning a fifth term as FIFA president last week, Sepp Blatter has nonetheless resigned amid mounting pressure on soccer's astoundingly corrupt governing body.Blatter has resigned. Can't qui...

Members of the species Homo aquaticus are unhappy about a recent ban on mermaid tails in public pools in Edmonton, Canada. Read the rest...

I've loved all three of their previous album, but this one's even better -- listen for yourself! Read the rest...

All of the ducky kisses. (more…)...

I've found a beautiful and mysterious Tumblr that combines (what look like) old, obscure video game screenshots with (what look like) snippets of original fiction. As is so often the case with Tumblr ...

I've found a beautiful and mysterious Tumblr that combines (what look like) old, obscure video game screenshots with (what look like) snippets of original fiction. As is so often the case with Tumblr ...

Music for driving fast....

It Betteridge! Jon Phillips reports on the Batteriser, a metal sleeve promising "up to" 8X more life from disposable batteries. Read the rest...

There happens to be a branch of mathematics that deals with this issue. Its called queuing theory, and it deals with the behavior of waiting lines. Read the rest...

Neal Stephenson's no stranger to ambition, but his new novel Seveneves stretches to lengths (and heights) that beggar the imagination. Read the rest...

Fredrik Neij, the the last of the founders to serve time after the Pirate Bay trial, was released yesterday from a Swedish lockup. Read the rest...

"Stepping into games is like arriving at a cheese-tasting party where most of the crowd is angrily murmuring that cheddar and swiss are always and objectively the best cheeses." Read the rest...

The former partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins was unable to convince a jury that it discriminated against her, but will try again. Read the rest...

This is a game about things on a table. I'm not even sure what I find so lovable about it—the time I went to put a cassette in its player and bluntly knocked the player clean out the window, may...

The latest episode recapped with a special eye on its screencraft. Read the rest...

The guys from 2 Live Crew were a California group made up of Air Force recruits. Who'd have guessed? Read the rest...

On the BBC show Incredible Journeys, Steve Leonard and Arctic expert Jason Roberts note that a glacier is ready to calve at any moment. Unwilling to be a poor host, the wall of ice obliges....

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The National Low-Income Housing Coalition has released a new report with a startling fact Read the rest...

As part of his mammoth press tour for Jurassic World, Chris Pratt stopped by The Graham Norton Show. (more…)...

The folks over at Morphsuits decided to break down the Marvel universe by a rather unusual metric: Murder. Read the rest...

Get your Baby Godzilla Lizards, Fieri Hamsters, and Judgemental Tree Frogs right here! Read the rest...

Some cities are just high-resolution in ways that defy rational description: possessed of a level of detail and complexity that defines them as that city and that city only, not one of those unroofed ...

The $150 glowing LED-decorated piezoelectric fridge can heat or cool your desktop comestibles while allowing you to role-play Jabba. (via Geeky Merch)...

Jon Stewart's on fire here, asking why the same Republican politicians who stuck up for the Patriot Act's invasive state surveillance to save hypothetical American lives were so violently opposed to s...

Within days of David Cameron's Queen's Speech promise to ban the use of effective crypto in the UK, David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur for Freedom of Expression effectively called this a plan to ma...

Boing Boing BBS mainstay Miasm informs us the Rock is set to star as Jack Burton in a remake of one of my favorite movies of all time. I have immense respect for Dwayne Johnson, but I feel Big Trouble...

Boing Boing BBS mainstay, Miasm, informs us the Rock is set to star as Jack Burton in a remake of one of my favorite movies of all time. I have immense respect for Dwayne Johnson, but I feel Big Troub...

The history of EVAs began with the first two space walks by Russian Alexey Leonov in March 1965 and American astronaut Edward White in June 1965. Read the rest...

A supercut of ten classic laser gun battles from favorite science fiction and action films. (more…)...

In 1916 an American circus elephant named Mary was hanged from a railroad crane before a crowd of 3,000 onlookers. Read the rest...

We used to leave my Marina Del Rey start-up to get cheap beer and hotdogs, while trying to decode the racing form at Hollywood Park.(Thanks, Erik!)...

This video about the world's largest whoopie cushion is all about the cat. (more…)...

Back when KFC used to be Kentucky Fried Chicken there were rumors floating around that some hungry customer bit into what they thought was a piece of chicken only to find a juicy fried rat underneath ...

Michael Jackson's storied Neverland Ranch, near Santa Barbara, California, is on the market for $100 million. (more…)...

The title track from the 22 year old Havana artist's debut album. Read the rest...

The title track from the 22 year old Havana artist's debut album. Read the rest...

There happens to be a branch of mathematics that deals with this issue. Its called queuing theory, and it deals with the behavior of waiting lines. Read the rest...

Making small talk on a first date isn't easy, but when you're dating a dog, at least it's adorable. Read the rest...

Carla is fond of her stainless steel Brew-in-Mug Extra-fine Tea Infuser ($15). Here's why:It fits the mugs we already have (It fits perfectly into mugs with a diameter greater than 2-7/8"). Read the ...

Back when KFC used to be Kentucky Fried Chicken there were rumors floating around that some hungry customer bit into what they thought was a piece of chicken only to find a juicy fried rat underneath ...

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Making small talk on a first date isn't easy, but when you're dating a dog, at least it's adorable. Read the rest...

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Having constructed a billion-dollar palace for himself to occupy, Tayyip Erdogan is yet angered by suggestions that he is a lavish spender. He "vowed to resign if the leader of the main opposition can...

The update allows users to post their public email encryption key on their Facebook profile, so others can encrypt future emails to that user. Read the rest...

Joe Veix made a Chrome extension called Name Swamp that automatically improves gag-inducing names by replacing them with something less repugnant. Read the rest...

For the time being, we can call our mom, our best friend, or a pizza delivery service without the NSA automatically keeping a record of who we called, when, and how long the conversation lasts. Read ...

"About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims..." (via)...

If the endless galaxy of Minecraft just isn't big enough, we've now got another virtual world to make our own (with bricks, of course): Lego Worlds. Read the rest...

It just works. Read the rest...

"It takes a great tolerance for pain," said the visibly insane British man. "But it's quite skillful. There are rules. You can only kick the shin." Read the rest...

The startup that will come to your house and put your trashcans out and bring them in again implies a dystopian world of entitled one percenters and vast, desperate piece-workers, but I never dreamed ...

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When a Michigan drug task force raided medical cannabis patient Ginnifer Hency's home, they took everything she owned, including her vibrator. Read the rest...

As has been the case since the agency's inception, its agents missed the overwhelming majority of "red team" attempts to smuggle weapons past its checkpoints: 67 out of 70 this time. Read the rest...

And other wild animals shown a mirror also appear to be concerned. French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre set up mirrors in Gabon to capture the local wildlife interacting with their reflections fo...

"When you flood the fourth largest city in the United States, somebody is going to pay for it, and its you and me. And so, the sooner we get to work on climate change, the better." (more…)...

Need a little inspiration to get things done? Listen to Shia LaBeouf scream at you about achieving your dreams for a solid minute. Read the rest...

Pierre Cerveau's charming concept design for a 1984 iPhone. ...

Need a little inspiration to get things done? Listen to Shia LaBeouf scream at you about achieving your dreams for a solid minute. Read the rest...

The legendary music producer follows up on his classic 20 year old rant about the music industry's awfulness with a modern, streaming-era wholesale dismissal of copyright and its business-models. Read...

When a Michigan drug task force raided medical cannabis patient Ginnifer Hency's home, they took everything she owned, including her vibrator. A judge dismissed the charges against Hency but law enfor...

Tired of Cthulu and zombies? Try some games about Dorian Gray, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and many other fruits of a jam themed around public domain works. Read the rest...

"It takes a great tolerance for pain," said the visibly insane British man. "But it's quite skillful. There are rules. You can only kick the shin."The Daily Mirror reports that it's part of an "age-ol...

Read these thoughtful guidelines from GLAAD, and just try not to be an asshole about it. Read the rest...

Well that's quite an entrance. Read the rest...

Police in Spain found 200 pounds of cocaine stashed in hollow pineapples that arrived on a ship from Central America. From a statement released by the interior ministry of Spain:"Among the thousands o...

Someone got mad at Mark Twain's complaints about the illustrations created for Huckleberry Finn, so they modified a drawing of Uncle Silas, showing him with an erection poking out out his pants fly. ...

Little by little we're seeing more believable women characters in some of our video games, but what about their romantic options? Read the rest...

John Erik Wagner, 52, appears in a campaign advertisement in his native Copenhagen. The Metro reports that "Penis-flashing Wagner" is well-known for his stunts. Read the rest...

7x7 magazine suggests you plunder Muir Beach for dinner. They offer instructions on harvesting wild seaweed and capturing elusive mussels. ...

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The Nerf N-Strike is one of those batteries not included toys, and it takes a screwdriver to get into the battery compartment, but fortunately it takes AA batteries, which are the easiest to find. Re...

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is!"...

Researchers at Washington State University found that Aka people of the Congo basin who smoke cannabis have "significantly lower rate" of parasitic worm infection compared to non-cannabis users. Read ...

A car containing an Energy Healer car rolled into a pond while the woman was trying to meditate behind the wheel. Read the rest...

The lonesome but spirited march of Western music and a stripe of desert sunset forms the backdrop of a creative new game called Rhythm Ranger, where you battle outlaw cowboys on a speeding train in ga...

No one has stepped forward to claim ownership of a $3,000 drone that was stuck in a Seattle residential power line for a week. That's probably because the owner doesn't want to get stuck with a bill f...

This is the Gibbs Humdinga, a truck that truly goes off-road, right into the water. (more…)...

Jelle Knikkers makes incredible "Marble Machines and Rolling Ball Sculptures" including this one containing 11,000 marbles rolling down four paths. Called the "Marble Tsunami," it's located in the ind...

"The lyrics contain only the thousand most common words in English. (more…)...

Honest Trailers usually points out the small inconsistencies of a film, but the Screen Junkies team decided to do something different with the Wachowskis' delightfully absurd Jupiter Ascending. (more&...

The key is to keep petting it until it collapses into a puddle of happiness. (more…)...

Poor dog. This had to be ruff. via...

Comedy legends Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are getting their own Saturday Night Live-themed action figures complete with a Weekend Update studio. Read the rest...

Food Republic celebrates the true diversity of the hot dog with this style guide to wieners around the world. (more…)...

I know what my kids will be making me after school today. Read the rest...

All for one, and one for all. (more…)...

Learn to develop games through seven courses, including 30+ hours of training for creating mobile & desktop games. The entire package is just $49....

No more midnight strolls along the beach for anyone in the Waikiki, Honolulu vicinity. Do so, and you'll receive a criminal citation, and a mark on your criminal record as well. Read the rest...

There's a chance the PATRIOT Act will end tonight at midnight. If that happens, the NSA will no longer enjoy the right to gather phone records of innocent Americans. And there's more. Here's a list of...

Caffeine and alcohol, once thought to be associated with some health risks, are now making headlines for their health benefits when consumed in moderation. Read the rest...