Articles by BoingBoing from August 2015

A group of Fargo, North Dakota police officers confronted two men they thought were mounting a rifle on a tripod behind a garage at night. Read the rest...

Yesterday, I went to a terrific parking lot record swap in San Rafael, California and I regret not purchasing "Bigfoot: (Northwest's Abominable Snowman)," an album of country tunes about my favorite ...

The Crudlabs Crudman is a new tape-based instrument consisting of a hacked cassette Walkman controlled by pressing notes on a keyboard. Read the rest...

Line Square Dot (LSD) is a wonderfully minimalist and quite addictive collision JavaScript game by Franz Enzenhofer. (more…)...

Well, 234 times to be exact. (more…)...

In Russia, a religious group called the Cossacks of Saint Petersburg tore down this excellent century-old bas relief of Mephistopheles, claiming it promoted the "open worship of Satan." Read the rest...

Convert occasional visitors to repeat users (and profit) by mastering the latest and greatest digital marketing techniques. This four week live course is instructed by experts in the field, and will t...

Tired of wasting space on piles of paperwork, old photos, and mementos? Doxie Go Wi-Fi makes it super easy to digitize all your paper, and create organized, easy-to-navigate catalogues. Read the rest...

Too long? Too short? Try the perfect charging cord length. This keychain cable is long enough to extend to your power source, but short enough to fold in half and attach to your keychain or belt loop...

The Code Black is our top-selling drone of all time—and for good reason. This powerful, palm-size drone is not only insanely fun to fly, but can capture some serious video footage from up above....

It’s thin, light, powerful, packs a battery that lasts 12 hours straight, and makes your current machine look like a computing dinosaur. Read the rest...

This ultra-slim, hard-shell, crystal-clear case is just what you need to keep your iPhone 6 safe, and sporting its design as Apple intended. Read the rest...

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game that takes place in a haunted mansion. You and your friends must explore the mansion to discover its dark secrets. Read the rest...

The neurologist and author explored the mysteries of the brain in 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,' and died after an earlier form of cancer in his eye returned and spread throughout his body....

The neurologist and author explored the mysteries of the brain in 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,' and died after an earlier form of cancer in his eye returned and spread throughout his body....

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

Like any epic fictional world, the setting of George RR Martin’s massively successful A Song of Ice and Fire series is rife with a labyrinthine backstory and complex history that drives the stor...

Nutella on everything. (more…)...

I love this $80 device and use it daily. The problem it solved for me: get produce in my mouth. Read the rest...

Situation no win....

Spoiler: Native Americans. Read the rest...

They are sentenced to three years in prison, on charges widely believed to be politically motivated and otherwise baseless. Read the rest...

I used to reuse grocery bags for picking up after my dogs, and cleaning the cat box. Now that grocery bags are evil, I'm buying these bags in bulk. Read the rest...

A hot tech intrigue story from Joe Menn at Reuters on alleged dirty-doings between Kaspersky and its rivals. Read the rest...

Sometimes these things just happen and no one is sure why. (more…)...

Just two dudes (actually probably bishops?) playing Pong. (more…)...

Nope. Not one bit surprised that this happened in San Francisco. (more…)...

Amazon has been offering great deals on ebooks lately. Here are some books I've read and recommend, priced at $1.99. Read the rest...

Just two popes playing tennis. (more…)...

I love this $80 device and use it daily. The problem it solved for me: get produce in my mouth. Read the rest...

I can't understand a single thing Sarah Palin wrote in the Facebook post below, but Mother Jones has interpreted it to mean that Palin is going to interview Donald Trump on One America News. Read the...

Amazon has been offering great deals on ebooks lately. Here are some books I've read and recommend, priced at $1.99:Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn (Listen to my interview with Gillian)Ready Player One,...

A bride and groom who had a wedding in Portland, Oregon had a weed bar at their reception. They stayed within the eight-ounce legal limit and offered 13 different cannabis strains to appreciative gues...

This happy dog doesn't mind wearing a zebra mask, but its feline friend dislikes it so much that her head has become astonishingly flat....

Wonderful literary GIFs by Javier Jensen of Santiago, Chile. Read the rest...

Wonderful literary GIFs by Javier Jensen of Santiago, Chile. Read the rest...

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Alan Bishop, bassist/vocalist of Sun City Girls and global music collector, wrote an excellent post about his favorite film scores by legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Read the rest...

A bride and groom who had a wedding in Portland, Oregon had a weed bar at their reception. They stayed within the eight-ounce legal limit and offered 13 different cannabis strains to appreciative gues...

I love this $80 device and use it daily. The problem it solved for me: get produce in my mouth. Read the rest...

A young man with a VR headset does not want to part with an inflatable torso dressed up as an anime character. I interviewed Robert Anton Wilson for bOING bOING (the zine) in 1988 and he told me he wa...

I found these matchbox size wood puzzles at a general store in Colorado and bought three of them. There are a bunch of different ones in the series and I plan to get them all because they are almost l...

The Royal Institution posted this demonstration of an explosively unstable substance called nitrogen triiodide. I love the purple smoke it makes. Read the rest...

Start a fire with a water bottle. Use glycerine to make a bottle disappear. Create weird dancing blobs with cornstarch and water. Marvel at water droplets sizzling in a hot pan. Poke pencils through a...

This van, complete with blacked-out windows and lacking a license plate, was freaking out parents (and kids) in a Sacramento, California suburb this week. Turns out the van was headed to Burning Man. ...

An all-male council in India has ordered that two sisters, ages 15 and 23, be raped and paraded in public with blackened faces because their brother eloped with a married woman. Read the rest...

In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, then 63, was the first person to make it over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She designed her own barrel, containing a harness and mattress, and sent her cat over the falls fi...

I had a hard time selecting a blockquote from Douglas Coupland's essay on retail shopping because every paragraph is a gem. Read the rest...

Kern Saxton recut the Straight Outta Compton trailer to Ben Fold's cover of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit."...

Withers was inspired by the film "Days of Wine and Roses," starring Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon. Read the rest...

The headset that came with my Xbox One was chewed by a dog. This Skullcandy SLYR is a fantastic step up! Read the rest...

The New York Daily News reports on a campaign rally where the real estate mogul and TV star spoke in the broken English often used to mock, as Trump puts it, "those people." Read the rest...

"Do you ever see a super-old guywith a super-young girland wonder, how the hell did that happen?" Here's what we're calling it now. Read the rest...

The ancient neolithic tomb pictured above was destroyed and replaced by the monolothic concrete park bench pictured below. Read the rest...

Described as "suitable for affairs or murders" before it was removed from eBay, this grotty little trailer home is loathed by its present owner. Read the rest...

Hungarian police have arrested four people on suspicion of human trafficking after the bodies, thought to be Syrian refugees, were found locked in an abandoned, airtight container truck in Austria....

"There are many unspoken postulates in literary criticism," writes the legendary author, "one being that the more one writes, the less remarkable ones work is apt to be." And yet Read the rest...

David Adier missed two mortgage payments on his home in Morris Township, NJ, so Wells Fargo, his mortgage lender, sent contractors who illegally broke in and "trashed-out" his home as though it was ab...

Redditor Mystharia terminated a pregnancy for medical reasons last week; her doctor gave her this consent form, mandated by -- and scathingly attacking -- the Texas legislature, which requires the doc...

Instagram is ditching its insistence on square photographs. Jenna Garret writes on the troubled history of the cool but unwieldy format and its inevitable, eternally-recurring defeat by rectangles. Te...

Jonathan Smith, 34, was charged with misdemeanor battery after "pelting his mother with grub," reports The Smoking Gun.Jonathan grabbed a hand full of potato salad and threw it, striking his mother in...

Autobiographical cartoonist Jonathan Baylis recalls a story involving the legendary R. Crumb. Excerpted from So Buttons: Man of, Like, a Dozen Faces. Read the rest...

Hungarian police have arrested four people on suspicion of human trafficking after the bodies, though to be Syrian refugees, were found locked in an abandoned, airtight container truck in Austria....

Thinkgeek's $60 Tesla Steampunk Watch has it all: clock-winding key, silvery vacuum tubes (they light with an elaborate switch), brass housing, steam-pressure dial second-hand, and a sturdy leather st...

Chris writes, "Indianapolis has just launched a great new series of art installations intended to promote both art and literacy." Read the rest...

The spear-phishing attempt appears to be part of "Pawn Storm," a massive attack that's been underway across the net for more than a month, and involved a rare zero-day (previously unknown) Java exploi...

Space sailor Buzz Aldrin and the Florida Institute of Technology are planning to colonize Mars within 25 years.More specifically, hes shooting for 2039, the 70th anniversary of his own Apollo 11 moon ...

Bipolar planetary nebulae occur when a twin star system lies at the center, forming beautiful wing-like symmetrical lobes. The Hubble team estimates this translucent beauty occurred only 1200 years ag...

John Poppleton demonstrates how he creates eye-popping body-painted landscapes using fluorescent paint and UV light. Below are a couple of examples: Read the rest...

Mars Curiosity Rover has spotted many interesting things on its mission, like this UFO, a tiny Millennium Falcon type star freighter, heavily modded for use on Mars. Read the rest...

PUMP, or Problematic Use of Mobile Phone, happens when users turn to their phones instead of in-person contact to alleviate depression, according to a new study in Computers in Human Behavior. Read th...

You are Jimi Hendrix, a detective. Officer Jimi Hendrix has called you to the scene of the crime. The victim? Jimi Hendrix. Read the rest...

I've heard VR users often say that inhabiting other bodies and other spaces is uniquely liberating, but my colleague Laura Kate Dale sheds light on the fact that embodiment may be complicated for some...

Home row on the raaaaange! I made that up myself. Here's a fun typing game about Western shootouts! Read the rest...

Papers, Please's Lucas Pope has us shuffling pen and paper again in the joyfully-bleak Unsolicited, a game about filling in and mailing form letters. Read the rest...

The Reykjavk City Council has approved a citizen-led effort to rename a street Svarthfi, translated as Blackhead, which is the Icelandic name for Darth Vader. Read the rest...

This gentleman is the Portland Pooper who has been dropping deuces outside of a Southeast Portland office throughout the month. A disgusted business owner caught him in the act with a surveillance cam...

Beatboxer Tom Thum has a turntable and mixer stuck in his throat. (more…)...

Part of the ongoing Disneyland/Muppet crossover video series: I'm away from home and blogging this so that my daughter sees it!...

I've never been to a monster truck rally, however I feel their commercials are a truly a specialized, and under-appreciated art form! Please join me in enjoying these few, fine examples. Read the rest...

If they can keep up with Usain Bolt, I guess Segways can go kind of fast after all. Read the rest...

Politely show the world that you don't have time for anyone's shit with this colorful and classy sticker. Read the rest...

During a home renovation project, a couple in Mesa, Arizona discovered a safe buried in the floor of their new home. Read the rest...

The author and longtime internet forward-thinker joins The Daily Show as their supervising producer for digital expansion. Read the rest...

Autobiographical cartoonist Jonathan Baylis recalls a story involving the legendary R. Crumb. Excerpted from So Buttons: Man of, Like, a Dozen Faces. Read the rest...

Dan Hamilton's astounding range of talent is ours for the takingif we can get him to stay still for a moment. Read the rest...

I've never been to a monster truck rally, however I feel their commercials are a truly a specialized, and under-appreciated art form! Read the rest...

I've never been to a monster truck rally, however I feel their commercials are a truly a specialized, and under-appreciated art form! Read the rest...

Just one of the many stunning images hitting social media today from the protests around Guatemala. An unprecedented number of Guatemalans of all economic, ethnic, and social backgrounds have united i...

Tomorrow, Eugene's scrappy Emerald City All-Stars face off against Chicago's Outfit Roller Derby team at the WFTDA playoff's in Detroit. Read the rest...

Protesters are seeking to arrest the sitting president for corruption. Read the rest...

Read a beautiful essay on city-building, and the appeal of the eminently-watchable Cities: Skylines. Read the rest...

Subway Adventure is a game where you might find yourself saying, "wait, I think I need to transfer to the green line in order to get to the moon." Read the rest...

Not sure if it's the scary-looking lasso or the ass-kicking red boots, but a school on Mainstreet, USA banned this dangerous Wonder Woman lunchbox from campus. Read the rest...

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV -- Germany's domestic spy agency) coveted access to Xkeyscore, the NSA's flagship tool for searching and analyzing mass-surveillance data...

Protesters are seeking to arrest the sitting president for corruption. Read the rest...

If you're heading to China, watch where you step. Last month it was escalatorspulling people underground in China, with three separate accidents, including one that killed a mother after she managed t...

Michael from Muckrock sez, "There's a lot of lessons that the federal government should have learned in the aftermath of Katrina. Increased domestic surveillance, however, appears to be the one the FB...

Kevin Miller was flying his camera-equipped drone around a wind turbine in Rhode Island and spotted a man sunbathing on top. The sunbather waved to the drone then probably wished the drone would buzz ...

Something about the name Sushi Go had me hesitant to take the game seriously. It landed in my game closet over a year ago and remained untouched. Read the rest...

Cyril Takayama is American-Japanese magician who started his career as a teenager busking on the streets of Shinjuku in Tokyo. Today he is regarded as one of the best magicians in the world. The entir...

A manhunt is on in Oxfordshire after an old wheelbarrow being used as a planter was upset by forces unknown, reports The Henley Standard. Read the rest...

From the entrancing Micro Universe Tumblr: a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod....

Today in Betteridge headlines: "Should Facebook Block Offensive Videos Before They Post?" Read the rest...

Avid Life Media is full of genuinely nasty people. Good luck with your next thing, gentlemen. Read the rest...

A new "tycoon"-style game offers a provocative look at the world of making people healthy for profit. Read the rest...

Two novels I enjoyed very much are on sale right now on Amazon for $1.99 each: The Martian by Andy Weir, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Both novels are thrilling survival stories about p...

Abby Moss of Broadly talked to her mother about what it was like to be a well-paid phone sex worker, and found out why many woman over 40 are so good at it. Read the rest...

Read a beautiful essay on city-building, and the appeal of the eminently-watchable Cities: Skylines. Read the rest...

Security blogger Brian Krebs is among those hot on the trail, and he "may have a new lead," according to the New York Times. Read the rest...

EverBlock's concept is simple: interlocking plastic bricks at a macro scale.It's quick and easy to build nearly anything, by stacking and organizing the universal blocks in nearly any shape, pattern, ...

Citizenlab details an "elaborate phishing campaign" against Iranian expats and activists, combining phone-calls from fake Reuters reporters, mostly convincing Google Docs login-screens, and a sophisti...

Pictured above are the lowest-category storms. Since 2005, the United States has been relatively lucky....

After failed smartphones and other gadgets, Amazon's laying off people who work on consumer electronics. Amazon.com Inc. flamed out with critics and consumers last year in its first attempt at a smart...

After failed smartphones and other gadgets, Amazon's laying off people who work on consumer electronics. Amazon.com Inc. flamed out with critics and consumers last year in its first attempt at a smart...

Citizenlab details an "elaborate phishing campaign" against Iranian expats and activists, combining phone-calls from fake Reuters reporters, mostly convincing Google Docs login-screens, and a sophisti...

The sold-out installation at Weston-super-Mare is a carnival of dark delights and clearly fun for the whole family. (via JWZ)...

Dan Hamilton's astounding range of talent is ours for the takingif we can get him to stay still for a moment. Read the rest...

Well, The Shephed's Crowd (a Tiffany Aching book) is out in the UK, anyway -- (idiotically) the US release will be Sept 1. Read the rest...

Were happy for the Hugos, sad for the last Terry Pratchett novel, and J.R.R. Tolkien has a new book. Plus, we wrap up Uprooted by Naomi Novik and make our peace with a trope. Read the rest...

The Found Footage Festival has unearthed a 1980s-era modeling instructional video so tubular "you'll probably watch it several times over before you understand it all completely." Read the rest...

Induced dissociative states are the best dissociative states, and one cheap and easy way to get there is to stare into someone's eyes for about ten minutes. More researchers are looking into the pheno...

Bjrk has become known for rocking some stunning embroidered masks. Hint published a nice overview of her longtime collaboration with maskmaker James Merry. Read the rest...

Judgey is a fun site that lets you rate a book's cover, then see if your rating matches up with its Goodreads rating. Great way to remind yourself of all the bad design in the world! Read the rest...

Bulletproof Coffee was invented by self-described bio-hacker Dave Asprey. He uses mold-free coffee blended with unsalted butter and MCT oil. I've had it and it is very tasty. Read the rest...

Annalee Newitz reports that very few of the female profiles at the hacked site appear to represent real people. The world of Ashley Madison was a far more dystopian place than anyone had realized. Re...

Tobias Strebel, 35, who famously spent $100,000 on cosmetic surgery to look like Justin Bieber, was found dead in a Motel 6 in Los Angeles County. Read the rest...

These kangaroos reminded me of meerkats when they saw this bicyclist approaching....

Abby Moss of Broadly talked to her mother what it was like to be a well-paid phone sex worker, and found out why many woman over 40 are so good at it. Read the rest...

I thought I was getting a good deal when I bought an unlocked Amazon Fire phone in July for $159, which includes a year of Prime (worth $99), a nice pair of headphones and a USB charger. Read the res...

This guy did not want a tow truck to take his car away, so he tried to drive away while his car was attached to the truck....

I just learned that Randy Stickrod died in late July, and I'm in shock. He was 71. Randy was one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever met, and he was a great friend to many people in the ...

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Rick Kleffel talks to William MacAskill, the core of Effective Altruism, discussing EA and his book about it. It's much more pragmatic and entirely reasonable, not about extreme statistics and specul...

Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra will be awarded the EFF's prestigious prize recognizing the leaders who are extend...

Sex, intrigue, and catnip, in this cat-themed soap opera YouTubed by Mark Douglas. (more…)...

A respected journalist in China who reported an important story about that nation's stock market fluctuations was held by police, who say he was spreading false information. Read the rest...

Annalee Newitz reports that very few of the female profiles at the hacked site appear to represent real people. The world of Ashley Madison was a far more dystopian place than anyone had realized. Re...

I duct-taped a Superman figure to my Phantom 3 and flew it over Victoria Park. Glorious! (more…)...

Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer's Association introduced an amendment to ND HB 1328 that allows cops to shoot at citizens with drone-borne rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, taser...

This little gadget, called the Zap-It ($13 on Amazon), delivers a small electrical shock to a mosquito bite, making the itch stop. Read the rest...

According to the uploader's description, these jolly Russian gentlemen here are opening what is identified as a 70-year-old package of Soviet fighter pilot war chow. Read the rest...

Peter writes, "Is a public library's board of trustees any place for a would-be book censor? The town of Downers Grove, Illinois is about to find out." Read the rest...

If you can manage to avoid smiling while you watch this video, you must be made of far stronger stuff than I am. (more…)...

Austin Grossman's first-person secret memoir of Richard Nixon sounds like a Lovecraftian gag, but Crooked is a brooding, bitter Cold War novel that gets deep into the psyche of "the funniest presiden...

"Sir, please lower the volume of your punk rock music when in the (elementary school) car line." -- Pesco (more…)...

Artist Thomas Kuntz constructs fantastic animatronic mechanisms that recreate scenes from the best nightmares you've ever had. Read the rest...

Imagine that one day a giant squid materialized in the sky over a city, singing the song that will end the world. Imagine that you are that squid. Read the rest...

It's a pity that IBM hasn't made this fabric since 1950 or so, because I would rock a pair of pajamas in this pattern (or hell, a big suit!). Textile, IBM, ca. 1950 [Angelo Testa/Cooper Hewitt]...

I tried a $9 instrument to USB adaptor, and a $50 Behringer unit. $41 extra dollars didn't help my experience. Read the rest...

Soon after American soldiers returned home from World War II, a new type of magazine was created for them – the man’s adventure magazine. Read the rest...

"Being a starving artist only works if you actually make art." This is just one of many excellent life tips offered by people ranging from 6-years-old to 93-years olds in a video made by CBC Radio Wir...

This Thursday, August 27th, at the PianoFight theater in San Francisco, Imran G and Red Scott present their new monthly comedy show #PhotobombSF, a one-of-a-kind show that asks comedians to answer for...

Vitaly Petrukhin says: "In Taiwan in the downtown Keelung, from the terrace of his apartment, a man managed to catch a fish with a fishing pole while the animal is several tens of meters down in a sma...

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Molly Huddle was set to win the bronze medal in the 10,000 meter run at the IAAF Track and Field World Championships in Beijing on Monday, but as she approached the finish line she slowed down to savo...

In 1960 a Liverpool band called the Silver Beatles asked Pete Best to join them as drummer. Best was already in a band called the Blackjacks, but he took the gig and for the next two years he played w...

Here's what happens when the safety features on a pressure cooker fail. It also shows why pressure cookers are used by bad people to make bombs.[via]...

WDBJ-TV Reporter Alison Parker was interviewing Vicki Gardner, director of the local Chamber of Commerce, when gunshots rang out at Bridgewater Plaza near Moneta, Virginia. Parker and her cameraman, A...

Gareth Branwyn is blogging for Make, and I've been enjoying his posts. Take a look at this golf ball inside a cage that's hogged out of a single piece of wood. ...

Austin Grossman's first-person secret memoir of Richard Nixon sounds like a Lovecraftian gag, but Crooked is a brooding, bitter Cold War novel that gets deep into the psyche of "the funniest presiden...

WDBJ-TV Reporter Alison Parker was interviewing Vicki Gardner, director of the local Chamber of Commerce, when gunshots rang out at Bridgewater Plaza near Moneta, Virginia. Parker and her cameraman, A...

Rocky Anderson is suing the agency for spying on him (and everyone else in Salt Lake City) during the 2002 Olympics -- he's added his name to a mass lawsuit against the NSA, FBI, George W. Bush, Micha...

Residents and visitors to the Spanish capital can avail themselves of this useful map visualizing complaints about stops. No map is necessary for New York or London. [via]...

The Shiroko High Carbon Steel Kurouchi Kujira Whale Utility Chef's Knife is available in four models (the Type B has some clever handle-stuff going on -- and the charming, hand-forged kids' pencil sha...

Most hacker camps feature seminars, experimentation, and collaborative hands-on makingbut very few integrate their natural environment as well as PIFcamp did. Read the rest...

From John Wilcock, New York Years...

Mary Smith was looking for prescription medicine and cigarette filters in a neighbor's home when she noticed the stove was going, so she made the neighborly decision to report the fire hazard to 911. ...

No longer content with hoarding human-made buckets, elephant seals are now trying to take our boats. Here's a recently stabilized version of the classic Powerboat Training UK vid. Read the rest...

Smooth McGroove and his cat are back with a new set of lovely a capella versions of classic video game theme songs, including Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy X, and Kirby. R...

Philo the Cat got a new cat door, but he prefers the human way. (more…)...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH God-Man must do epic battle with Captain Blasphemy, while minor character God-Girl makes an appearance. Read the rest...

1: Every Noise at Once assembles all the genres of music into a star-chart of simple click-to-play examples. 2: The random musical genre generator....

In 1945, the Food and Nutrition board advised that most people needed 2.5l of water/day, noting that most of this would come from your prepared foods. Read the rest...

Jessica Curry's unforgettable compositions for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture would have topped the UK classical charts this week—but were removed for being an OST (Harry Potter music still all...

Every interaction with another human being is just another opportunity to make the people around you feel more like you do: absolutely miserable. Read the rest...

The opening screen of Capsule Force feels ripped from the intro to an anime series: a series of stars pinging out a catchy melody in the sky like a series of shining bells. Read the rest...

Eno performs his first solo single after leaving Roxy Music in 1974. (via Dangerous Minds) (more…)...

A few months back, Marianne Winkler found a bottle on a German beach with a message inside requesting its return to the Marine Biological Association (MBA) that had dropped more than 1,000 bottles int...

Scientists named this newly-identified species of Indonesian crayfish Cherax snowden, after Edward Snowden. Read the rest...

Over at Medium, Karen X. Cheng and Jerry Gabra look at the evolution of magazine covers. To paraphrase Mister Jalopy, I don't like the old ones because they're old, I like them because they're better....

Bear is a black Lab trained to sniff out electronic data storage devices like thumb drives and even micro SD cards. Read the rest...

Motorists behind the cyclist saw lightning strike his helmet. Dazed, the gentleman pulled over and then rode on to look for assistance. Read the rest...

Canadian historian turned webcomics god Kate Beaton is back with her second Hark! A Vagrant! collection: Step Aside, Pops. Never before has history been so bitterly funny. Read the rest...

The Exploratorium's Tinkering Studio has a nice tutorial on how to make tiaras/copper crowns with copper wire, solder, batteries, and LEDs.[via]...

Tim Walsh says: "As you may have heard, last October my friend Peggy Brown and I created a Crowdfunding campaign to help the inventor of Operation, John Spinello, pay for oral surgery he couldnt affor...

Juha sez, "The Law Society of NZ is alarmed at government proposals to introduce secret courts where defendants have no right to attend hearings and see all the evidence against them." Read the rest...

Several residents of Rapides Parish called the sherriff's office to report a "terror message" on a sign that actually said "Welcome home, Yamit," in Hebrew. Read the rest...

Nathan Schneider writes, "The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveil...

It is no secret that I absolutely love my Kindle Voyage. Upgrading to the much anticipated Bookerly font was a pain. Read the rest...

The LA Times reports that on Saturday "the husband of Jelly Bellys chief executive accidentally crushed a man to death with a World War II-era tank during a reunion on the familys property in Fairfiel...

While some 'fropheads swear by vaporizers to imbibe their sacramental habifropzipulops mariphasa lupina, I don't like them. I think they are inefficient, don't vaporize the full psychoactive spectrum ...

I'm half way through DJ Molle's recently released, final book in The Remaining series, Extinction. This post-zombie America adventure captures the genre perfectly! Read the rest...

Ted Nelson talks about coining the term "hypertext" in a 1965 paper, long before the rise of personal computing. Read the rest...

Even in freedom's cradle, China, airport security hates a good time. They don't tell us how large the bottle was, but the story is good. Read the rest...

Eames: Beautiful Details by Eames DemetriosAMMO Books2014, 408 pages, 12.5 x 9.2 x 2.2 inches$41 Buy one on AmazonOne of my favorite speakers at San Mateo Maker Faire this year was Llisa Demetrios, gr...

I use my beloved Aeropress coffee maker every day when I'm at home. Cory actually travels with his! Filmmaker and photographer David Friedman profiled the inventor of the Aeropress, Alan Adler. Read ...

The LA Times reports that on Saturday "the husband of Jelly Bellys chief executive accidentally crushed a man to death with a World War II-era tank during a reunion on the familys property in Fairfiel...

Developed by an 8-year-old maker named Omkar, the O Watch is a 3D printable, programmable, smart watch kit for kids. Omkar has launched a Kickstarter to scale up the O Watch so other kids can use the...

David, a 43-year-old Californian, told Kristen V. Brown of Fusion why he has been a happy Ashley Madison member for nearly a decade. He signed up, he says, because his wife wasn't interested in having...

Hopefully, hes going to sit there and say, When I become elected president, what were going to do is were going to make the border a vacation spot, its going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you...

When I was young, I had a clunky, inefficient dynamo attached to my bike that powered the headlight when I pedaled. The Siva Atom works the same way but it converts your pedaling into power to charge ...

The Sigma Nu fraternity at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia has been suspended in connection with these asinine signs displayed at a private residence where members of the frat live. The b...

"This coconut oil melted during a heat wave and later re-solidified. Why did it form this honeycomb structure?" asked pensive badger on the askscience subreddit. Many answers have been given, using sc...

Perhaps this will soothe you. [Lus Azevedo, via Kottke]Here are two more videos by the same creator, featuring father figures in Anderson's movies, and my favorite: books in Anderson's movies....

Two recent University of Miami research studies suggest that politicians with deep voices are more likely to win an election than candidates with higher-pitched voices. "With one exception: when runni...

MIT researchers built a 3D printer from just $7,000 in off-the-shelf parts that can print ten different materials at a time. Read the rest...

A 12-year-old boy visiting a Taipei art exhibition tripped, pushing his fist through a 350-year-old painting by Paolo Porpora. The exhibition organizers say they won't charge the boy's family for the ...

The LA Times reports that on Saturday "the husband of Jelly Bellys chief executive accidentally crushed a man to death with a World War II-era tank during a reunion on the familys property in Fairfiel...

The Atlantic profiles an artist who specializes in strange sandy monument, protruding like living things from shallow waters. Read the rest...

It was supposed to read "Bhid," meaning "bute", but was printed as "Bod" instead, meaning "penis." The error, present on a large sign for several years, was corrected last weekend. Read the rest...

It supposedly conquered the South, but Kudzu grows mostly in our imagination. Writing for The Smithsonian, Bill Finch reports that the damage and its spread is vastly overstated. Read the rest...

Jeb Bush, asked to explain his use of the term "anchor babies," dismissed suggestions of ethnic divisiveness and helpfully clarified that he's talking about asian people, not Mexicans. In trying to ou...

Perhaps this will soothe you. [via Kottke]...

You're a smuggler assessing asylum seekers who want to go to Europe. You'll be surprised at how quickly you become an arbiter of human life. Read the rest...

Raja Bhatia was the original CTO of Avid Media, Ashley Madison's parent company; in an email to Avid CEO Noel Biderman in the latest Ashley Madison dump, he hacked the back-end of Nerve, a competing d...

We are nearly a century into our quest to rid public bathrooms of towels. First patented in 1922, but not effectively implemented until the 1940s, the "electric towel" has been made more efficient ove...

Jan Mickelson hosts one of Iowa's top talk-radio shows and has entertained many of the GOP's nomination hopefuls who want his endorsement for the all-important Iowa primary. Read the rest...

Jeff Lemire -- creator of the epic apocalyptic graphic novel Sweet Tooth and the dreamy, Twilight-Zonish Underwater Welder -- returns with a new graphic novel, Descender, with Dustin Nguyen -- we're...

Denver Police Officers Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine maced four women without provocation and shoved them to the ground in 2009, then lied about it for years. Read the rest...

Ilana is an Israeli makeup artist who loves her Siberian Husky so much she decided to make herself look like her beloved animal companion. Read the rest...

Allison Meier reports on the progress in uncovering a gorgeous Max Spivak midcentury stained-glass mosaic that was found in March hidden behind an aluminum facade. Read the rest...

Would you like your skin to look youthful, even though you're pushing 100? A Captain America skincare face mask may be just the ticket. Part of Isshin Do's official Marvel-licensed beauty line. Read t...

Pyro-Trombonist Valentin Gurin performs Arthur Pryor's Fantastic Polka, accompanied on piano by Valrie Gurin-Descouturelle. Wonder how they lit the candelabra? Read the rest...

It's a complex story -- partly about the Beeb facing privatisation and being required to bid out its work; partly about the Met having made some spectacular recent blunders in providing the weather. R...

Researchers at Pen Test Partners took up the challenge to hack a smart fridge at Defcon's IoT Village, and discovered that they could man-in-the-middle your Google login credentials from Samsung fridg...

Leonie Mller's undergrad thesis will include an analysis of her months living on Germany's high-speed trains, washing her hair in the bathroom sinks and writing her papers at 100+ km/h. Read the rest...

Lavie Tidhar writes, "The Apex Book of World SF 4 is out today - this is the fourth volume of the series began in 2009, and features 28 stories from 25 countries, seven of which are translations, and ...

In our mobile game of the week, the perpetually hungry arcade hero races through an endless map with a lethal glitch at his heels. Read the rest...

The recently-released Death by Video Game is a a great read for serious fans of games, but also for people who don't really play them—it tackles all the fun questions about violence and obsessio...

The model who played the famous software typing tutor had "three-inch" fingernails in her real life, apparently. Read the rest...

You're a smuggler assessing asylum seeekers who want to go to Europe. You'll be surprised at how quickly you become an arbiter of human life. Read the rest...

New Zealand designer Jono Williams built his otherworldly Skysphere clubhouse in around 3,000 hours from $50,000 in materials. No bathroom, but it has plenty of great amenities: Read the rest...

Police are investigating strange photos turning up online of a cloaked individual reportedly placing raw meat near a playground in Gastonia, North Carolina. Read the rest...

Members of the Satanic Temple of Detroit celebrated the unveiling of a $100,000, one-ton bronze Baphomet statue on Joseph Campau Avenue, while protestors show their disapproval by standing in the rain...

3M showcased its products in a clever way by creating a chain reaction machine. The Post-It Note cascade at the end is wonderful....

I took as my source material a particularly lavish passage from Call of Cthulhu. Sorry about it being a screengrab. Read the rest...

I took as my source material a particularly lavish passage from Call of Cthulhu. Sorry about it being a screengrab. Allow me to atone by offering a BONUS passage from The Eye of Argon, with adjectives...

We taught Bluey the budgie how to do R2-D2 and now he drives us crazy! He has two other budgies in his cage, and I think he's driving them crazy too! (more…)...

Delicious melty internet-inspired fun by supreme diva GIF artiste @kyttenjanae. Read the rest...

Internets Celebrities, with hosts Dallas Penn, Rafi Kam, and director Casimir Nozkowski, have a fun new NYC street foodie episode out. Read the rest...

Here are the first 5 minutes of a full-length musical about Burning Man and life in Silicon Valley that these people are hoping you'll want to pitch in and fund. Read the rest...

Raja Bhatia was the original CTO of Avid Media, Ashley Madison's parenting site; in an email to Avid CEO Noel Biderman in the latest Ashley Madison dump, he hacked the back-end of Nerve, a competing d...

Not many people bought the first bOING bOING T-shirt when it came out in 1990. We charged $12 for it. Since you waited 25 years, you will have to pay $19.95. Read the rest...

"Drawn on my hand with markers and pen," writes Natalie Nakles. Read the rest...

My daughter Jane has been asking for a laminator so she can make bookmarks, club ID cards, and other projects. I just learned that Amazon is selling a Swingline thermal laminator for $15 (regularly $6...

Bookmark this page for your next bad acid trip, or perhaps an evening when you've bitten off more pot cookie than you could handle, or maybe the day after Donald Trump becomes president. Read the rest...

Jan Castellano purchased a tub of butter from Trader Joe's with a pattern on top that looks either like three sphincters or Donald Trump's resting bitch face. Read the rest...

All in the Family producer Norman Lear made this one-minute TV commercial to challenge the political ambitions of the well-financed Moral Majority organization of the Christian Right. The commercial o...

About two-thirds of the way through NK Guy’s enormous, gorgeous, and thoughtful new Taschen book, Art of Burning Man, the author/photographer makes a small confession: “For all the wonders...

The Hotspur was a boy's story newspaper from Britain that launched in 1933 and featured fantastical covers with giant monsters, robots, and extraterrestrials in conflict with stalwart humans. Read th...

"No matter what we at Ranger School say the non-believers will still be non-believers. We could have invited each of you to guest walk the entire course, and you would still not believe." Read the re...

"No matter what we at Ranger School say the non-believers will still be non-believers. We could have invited each of you to guest walk the entire course, and you would still not believe." Read the re...

Join a former flying tiger, his awesome dog and a Grumman G-21 Goose as he explores the south Pacific, fights Nazis, and has a broken relationship with a pretty singer/spy. This should have been my li...

Jim Fouts, mayor of Warren, Michigan, has proposed a ban on flamethrowers. Chris Byars, seen above, is CEO of Detroit-area flamethrower firm Ion Productions Team. He says that to automatically assume ...

If you are traveling through the San Francisco International Airport during the next four months, don't miss the exhibit Classic Monsters, featuring fantastic items from the collection of Metallica gu...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "The FBI followed Ray Bradbury's career very closely, in part because an informant warned them that his writing was not enjoyable fantasy, but rather tantamount to psycho...

An excellent video for Lil Grit, Nathan Cobb's Kickstarter project to fund the manufacture of a small grippy pad that sticks to the side of your phone so it doesn't slip out of your hand. There are qu...

Seems lawyers for national chain "AutoZone" have sent a nastygram to a Mom and Pop shop, named "CycleZone," claiming consumers will be confused by the similarity. Read the rest...

I use Yelp and Trip Advisor reviews to help me decide which restaurants and hotels to visit. I assumed many businesses purchase shill reviews to boost their ratings and try to take that into considera...

Magician Dan White performed a great trick on the Tonight Show on Friday. He gave Jimmy Fallon a quarter asked him to pocket the coin. Then White turned his back and told Fallon to put his hand back i...

Presidential candidate Chris Christie, who commands a 3% support rating among registered GOP voters, is trying hard to win over conservatives who are disgusted with him for hugging Obama during the Hu...

News reportage has focused on the propaganda messages, but this, relentlessly blasted across the border at such volume it can be heard 12 miles in, is surely what's really keeping DPRK leader Kim Jong...

Politiwoops, already dead in the U.S., now dies in 30 more countries. They rely on Twitter's API, after all, which the company has long made clear is not a public service. Read the rest...

Jason writes, "'The Bafflement Fires' is a digital recreation of a Freemason board game from the 1950s." (more…)...

If we learn anything from this video, it's that road rage is incredibly embarrassing, but also that the phrase "PUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT" should live forever. Read the rest...

Most people tie their shoes with the inefficient "bunny loop" shoelace knot. Let kindly Professor Shoelace show you the superior Ian Knot."Besides being faster, the Ian Knot is also more symmetrical, ...

I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction. Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction!...

Game-making apps tend to evolve into intimidating tools aimed at pros. Beginners need something useful to non-codersand Nintendo has the right idea. Read the rest...

Follow the desperate journey of 20 surviving seamen stranded a thousand miles from land. Read the rest...

Politiwoops, already dead in the U.S., now dies in 30 more countries. They rely on Twitter's API, after all, which the company has long made clear is not a public service. Read the rest...

Machines will "steal our jobs, but give us new ones," writes Cade Metz. Read the rest...

This grim little flat in Manhattan is practically uninhabitable, but someone's paying $1,100 for it. Read the rest...

Once again, with feeling: Body Mass Index doesn't tell us much about who is and is not overweight. Albert Sun weighs in for the NYT:The illustrations here were created from scans of six people, who we...

A simple methdology: compare the IMDB rating of the final episode vs the show's average. Dragonball Z and Dexter share bottom spot, but who wins?...

Granted, by "top" they mean "top 1000," but still: what on Earth are you thinking, parents? Read the rest...

Charlotte Shane reports on women-on-woman harassment cases and their relationship to the false intimacy of the internet. Read the rest...

It's Monday, which means an amusing and blistering John Oliver segment! Last night's subject: that it's legal to remove someone from their job or rented home on grounds of their sexuality....

Last week we pastiched some nightmare dinosaurs, learned some Chinese vocabulary, and had a serious chat about piracy and poverty. Make Monday less dreary with wonderful memories of last week. Read ...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "The FBI followed Ray Bradbury's career very closely, in part because an informant warned them that his writing was not enjoyable fantasy, but rather tantamount to psycho...

Perhaps this massive eagle thought the ball was a strange egg? Regardless, that's some impressive claw control. ...

This video is 100% accurate. My brother has two pit bulls. They're awesomebut he's an ass. ...

I hated this song, but it's growing on me now. [via]...

The Land Art movement was part of the anti-gallery uprising of iconoclastic artists in the 1960s and 1970s. This new film by James Crump is an excellent primer, and it features the movement's largely-...

SunCalc is a nifty site and app by Torsten Hoffman that allows visitors to enter any location and date and find out all the details of that day's local solar path: Read the rest...

It only takes 90 seconds to tell the story how we wish it had been told. Read the rest...

Kevin Norton and James Stumbo were arrested this weekend near the Pokmon World Championship after showing up with a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 they boasted about on social media. Read the rest...

Game-making apps tend to evolve into intimidating tools aimed at pros. Beginners need something useful to non-codersand Nintendo has the right idea. Read the rest...

They're designed by Beastpop and sell for $20 in the Neatoshop, which also has some other great Beastpop designs, such as the Flying Spaghoofy Monster and Mickthulhu Mouse (and the farting Bambi!). Re...

Sean Gallagher's long, comprehensive article on the state of automotive infosec is a must-read for people struggling to make sense of the summer's season of showstopper exploits for car automation, cu...

Last week we pastiched some nightmare dinosaurs, learned some Chinese vocabulary, and had a serious chat about piracy and poverty. Make Monday less dreary with wonderful memories of last week. Read ...

"You poop uncontrollably. Your purpose is to poop on things." Read the rest...

The homophobic, anti-semitic morons of Westboro Baptist Church were protesting outside the Foo Fighters' Kansas City concert on Friday, so the Foo Fighters drove by in a pickup truck and rickrolled th...

"Peculiar Bop" by Go Home Productions (aka Mark Vidler). Read the rest...

Atelier Van Lieshout constructed this delightful building, titled "Domestikator," as the centerpiece of their large festival installation, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," at the Ruhrtriennale music ...

"After local busybody, karate master and child-batterer Mr. Miyagi intervenes, Daniel convinces him that this is somehow all Johnny's fault." (more…)...

Neil Harbisson is totally color blind, so he "hears colors" via an antenna implanted in his skull that translates light frequencies into audible vibrations. (more…)...

Jim Fouts, mayor of Warren, Michigan, has proposed a ban on flamethrowers. Chris Byars, seen above, CEO of Detroit-area flamethrower firm Ion Productions Team, says that automatically assuming people ...

"Match Head Bomb at 2500fps." (more…)...

Sean Gallagher's long, comprehensive article on the state of automotive infosec is a must-read for people struggling to make sense of the summer's season of showstopper exploits for car automation, cu...

Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexist (Sad ...

Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexist (Sad ...

Sean Gallagher's long, comprehensive article on the state of automotive infosec is a must-read for people struggling to make sense of the summer's season of showstopper exploits for car automation, cu...

The ultimate UX to UI Pay What You Want bundle, curated specially for designers, has finally arrived! From mockups to vectors to webpage templates, this complete collection of assets is equal parts wi...

The best way to learn to code? Start coding, today. Whether you want to bring your epic game ideas to life or make some cash off of the gaming community, these courses will get 20 full game apps ($20)...

Bring your productivity to new heights with the 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub ($18). You can plug in up to 4 devices at once and avoid switching them out for lack of open USB ports. Read the rest...

Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexist (Sad ...

A beautiful and strangely haunting trip to a compilation of the Geocities-era web, made of carefully-rearranged bitmaps & bitrot. Read the rest...

Available in multiple designs!The Jorg Messenger Bag ($79.99) is a high-tech bag you can finally carry with pride. Its classic, casual design is made to look great and built to last, plus the built-in...

Face to face, out in the heat! Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry!...

The Snowflakes ($39.99) 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 ad...

There’s a better way to listen to your favorite jams…Oust the obnoxious wires and cumbersome buds, and opt for the Jarv Nmotion PRO earbuds ($29.99). Read the rest...

Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexist (Sad ...

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Already sold: most of Greece's airports -- for sale: gas transmission, oil refineries, power company, post office, national highways, water company. Read the rest...

The jet crash at the Shoreham airshow near Worthing, England, also left one person critically injured and 14 in hospital. The BBC has more. Read the rest...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "I got mugged by a bunch of Boston hooligans. Readers of Boing Boingmay be familiar with my FedFlix project which has resulted in 6,000 government videosgetting po...

Once I was a refugee, too. During the fall of former Yugoslavia, I visited many refugees camps all over the war-torn region. I edited a book of refugee stories. Read the rest...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "I got mugged by a bunch of Boston hooligans. Readers of Boing Boingmay be familiar with my FedFlix project which has resulted in 6,000 government videosgetting po...

If you're at the World Science Fiction Convention in Spokane today, swing by the SFWA booth (W5 in dealers' room) to bid on tuckerizations from Annie Bellet, Jenn Brozek, Cory Doctorow (!), Greg Bear,...

The classic Rider Back deck, recyclable with organic finish and inks! Read the rest...

Already sold: most of Greece's airports -- for sale: gas transmission, oil refineries, power company, post office, national highways, water company. Read the rest...

I'm doing a Q&A and signing at Reno's Grassroots Books -- a local, indie store with an emphasis on affordable reading for all -- this Friday, Aug 28 at 6:30PM -- just a quick stop on the way to T...

30" tall! By the always-great Roger Wood of Klockwerks, from today's newsletter....

The Slow Mo guys are back at it with an amazing, totally unsafe, possibly illegal homemade pyrotechnics display. (more…)...

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"We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything, Impact Team said. Read the rest...

Darren Dutton outdoes himself with a very funny pastoral pastiche, handmade from 100% recycled materials. (more…)...

Starting tomorrow the Oceanside Museum of Art plays host to Weekend of Wonder co-creator Baby Tattoo's Carnival of Astounding Art! Read the rest...

The image above, published in 2014 in this Herald.net story and credited to The Washington Post, showed the keying patterns for all of the TSA-complaint "Travel Sentry" luggage locks. Read the rest...

Naturally the DVD for this incredible, baffling movie is only $6.48! Read the rest...

In honor of the game's 30th anniversary, you can apply for a chance to clear 38,799 mines from a massive Minesweeper board that stretches across 24 screens—on expert mode. Read the rest...

I stopped using an inkjet printer a couple of years ago because I don't think the prints looked good and the cartridges needed replacing frequently. Read the rest...

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Even though it's a federal offense to shoot a drone out of the sky, Snake River sells shotgun shells marketed for that purpose. They admit it's really just "high end goose or turkey load," which doesn...

Jeff sez, "Tuts+ has made my six part introduction to PGP encryption, email and networking privacy available to readers for free." Read the rest...

These machines look like they are doing all the work....

Going to the movies is getting airportified: your knapsacks, bags and purses will be searched on the way in to stop you from carrying in guns that you don't stick in your waistband or in a shoulder-ho...

From West Coast Native News: "This is how big a grizzly bears paw is by the way, the bear is sedated and about to be tagged."...

Joseph Teixeira doesn't like Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, so he makes Youtube videos featuring City Council meeting footage. Read the rest...

A seventies country cock-rocker soft-bluesy ballad that you may know best from the soundtrack for the movies Boogie Nights, or Guardians of the Galaxy. Read the rest...

A seventies country cock-rocker soft-bluesy ballad that you may know best from the soundtrack for the movies Boogie Nights, or Guardians of the Galaxy. Read the rest...

Iconic punk poet Patti Smith composed a song to send off the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which concludes this Sunday after 13 seasons. Read the rest...

Record the world through a 1980s lens with Rarevision's VHS Camcorder app, currently available for iOS with Android coming soon. Don't forget to please be kind, rewind. Read the rest...

Apparently Blokus is a popular game that’s been around since 2000, introduced by the French company Sekkoia before being sold to Mattel in 2009. Read the rest...

Yartsa gunbu (summer grass-winter worm) is a fungus that parasitizes moth larvae by devouring them from the inside-out and sprouting from their exoskeleton. Read the rest...

The Secret Service raid on Austin's Steve Jackson Games started the fight over freedom and privacy online, and resulted in the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and EFF-Austin. Read the r...

A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. Read the rest...

Jordan sez, "Fourplay are a one-of-a-kind string quartet. Much more of a band than a classical ensemble. They jam out songs, they have vocals, they rock. We did a film clip!"...

Brian M. Cassidy snapped this photo of a cat peering through a window with a poster announcing that it was missing. Read the rest...

A child of the 80s, I recently rediscovered my love of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons and toys. Read the rest...

ZacWaffle says that what appears to be Bigfoot dropping a deuce in this photo taken in Columbus, Ohio turned out to be "sticks in the perfect formation." But we all know the truth. (more…)...

Heather Havrilesky explains that the moralizing and schadenfruede around the leak has obscured what it means for everyone, even those of us who don't sign up to cheat on our partners: everyone has som...

The "old, confusing tradition" is on its way to the history books, should the newspapers be believed.What was the source of all this anxiety? Read the rest...

The death of Princess Diana was a turning point in UK public life, an event met (contrary to the expected English sang-froid) by an outpouring of intense, irrational, somewhat deranged grief. Read th...

Jack Tuckwell is a UK sculptor who sells on Etsy as Alarm Eighteen, in a store that features silhouettes cut out of pages from fantasy novels like The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game...

Hailed as a flagship-killing bargain, the OnePlus 2 is just OK and not even that cheap. Read the rest...

In order to out-gross the Dude Wipes post earlier this week, which inflatable kid's slide is worse? Goatse Dog, or Pervi Luigi? Read the rest...

Sydney's Underbelly Arts Festival included this cool Mirrored Ziggurat by Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad.Inspired by the pyramidal structure of Ziggurat in ancient Mesopotamia, this installation of...

"Looking back on the presidency of Donald Trump" is fiction in the style of a steeple-fingered newsfeature, published, perfectly, at The Atlantic. Read the rest...

It's the historically-emergent standard for good reasons, because the quality of work simply goes to shit when people work too much. Read the rest...

A 31-year-old Aalborg resident was charged with vandalism after drawing "up to 30 penises" on the walls and fixtures of the Aalborg Ikea. Read the rest...

O'Reilly's debuted "Learning Paths," a promising new line of distance-ed programs for techy subjects, with the quality and range you'd expect from the company that brought us the camel book and Make: ...

Madness, reports Wired. we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files we may also collect information about your location based on, for example, yo...

Andrey Lyubchenko, reports The Siberian Times, encountered the creature on a trip to Yeti-infested Kemerovo. It posed for a sketch (above). Read the rest...

Released in 1987, We Shall Overcome is "pretty terrible", according to Dangerous Minds' Amber Frost, but "frankly it rules" according to Gawker's Andy Cush. Read the rest...

In honor of games' growing influence on contemporary Chinese vernacular, here are 5 translated phrases to Second Kill your English vocab. Read the rest...

Stonemasons Andreas Kunert and Naomi Zettl of Ancient Art of Stone elevate the art of stonemasonry with carefully designed and positioned decorative stone walls. Read the rest...

German tech pub c't magazin reports that Xerox is now requiring customers not only to use their toner cartridges, but they even have to be from a specific region to work. Read the rest...

World of Dance just held their World Finals in Los Angeles, and the breakout team in the Youth competition brought insane levels of energy and breakdancing precision to win their division. Read the re...

Hugo Arcier's Camgirl odalisque "aims to establish a connection between classical nude artworks, odalisque figures (such as Ingres or Manets), and the more contemporary vision that camgirls represent....

Over time hippie-inspired Rainbow Gatherings in the forest have become magnets for a new counterculture: homeless teens and young adults. Alice Stein's new film Dirty Kids explores the culture clash a...

Anatomically Incorrect Dinosaurs is a new, vitally-weird project from the brilliant Nathalie Lawhead, part software-driven narrative experience, part horrific dinosaur re-assembly simulation. Read ...

"Half racing game, half interactive fiction, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coast of Italy, the famous Via Aurelia." Read the rest...

A lively, accessible video lecture by Ashly Burch and Rosalyn Wiseman presents research into how games impact the social lives of young people, and how important representation is to boys versus girls...

Contributors like Terry Cavanagh, Devine Lu Linvega and Arnaud De Bock, as well as PICO-8 developer Zep, among others, have made the stylish, cute 48-page fanzine -- free digitally -- for users inter...

If only all computer interfaces were as gloriously sci-fi as this excellent "DIY Overhead Control Panel" hand-built by a maker called Smashcuts. It features a slew of LEDs and 100 programmable buttons...

It appears that someone put decals on this $10 bill to pass it off as a $50. I'm sure most marks wouldn't notice that Hamilton's face is on the bill when it should be Grant, especially in another coun...

According to an article in the Palestinian daily al-Quds, Israel has "recruited a watery pet, the dolphin, known for his friendship with humans, to use for operations to kill Qassam Brigade Naval Comm...

When you see someone yawn and then feel the urge to yawn yourself, it's a sign of social traits like empathy. Read the rest...

Buffalo Bill's home from Silence of the Lambs is for sale in Perryopolis, PA. The four-bedroom home is listed at $300k but sadly doesn't actually have a pit in the basement, so it will have to find s...

Self-proclaimed Ashley Madison hackers the Impact Team today released what looks like another 20 gigabytes of ill-gotten data. The just-dropped other shoe includes emails from the cheater-dating websi...

Strangely, the advice becomes more and more strange as this video unfolds. (more…)...

July was the planet's warmest month on record, smashing old marks, U.S. weather officials said. And it's almost a dead certain lock that this year will beat last year as the warmest year on record, th...

The homeless man was lying on the ground, shaking, when police arrived early Wednesday. His face was soaked, apparently with urine, his nose broken, his chest and arms battered. Read the rest...

The Weekend of Wonder will be held at Riverside, California's incredible Mission Inn. Often compared to the Winchester Mystery House, this amazing resort has everything a Happy Mutant could need, from...

Two of the new images show the surface of Dione at the best resolution ever. Read the rest...

The rash of high-profile journal retractions, revelations of systematic frauds in peer-review, and journals publishing deliberately bogus papers (e.g. "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List") -- are we...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "The federal government has a pretty good picture of where bees are dying across America, with two federal agencies collaborating on a systematic, scientifically-rigorous...

A team of scientists from the US Geological Survey, UC Berekeley and the National Parks Service seek to find out. Read the rest...

O'Reilly's debuted "Learning Paths," a promising new line of distance-ed programs for techy subjects, with the quality and range you'd expect from the company that brought us the camel book and Make: ...

-Bruce Sterling...

-Bruce Sterlingashley madison,opm,infosec,sex,security,china,...

The company emailed members of the Government Relations committee of the Indian ISP association, asking them to support Facebook's Internet.org program, which delivers "a poor Internet for poor people...

Like sideburns and overalls, the phrase is back in style and here to stay!...

Andrew writes, "I made Immortan Joe's mask from Mad Max: Fury Road!" Read the rest...

The company is shotgunning DMCA notices against journalists and others who reproduce even the tiniest fraction of the dump of users who signed up to find partners with whom to cheat on their spouses -...

John Frost writes, "Disneyland needed a 3D model of Sleeping Beauty Castle for its 60th Anniversary overlay, here's how one Disney fan was hired to do the job." Read the rest...

The Jefferson Grid is a deeply compelling Instagram stream of aerial images depicting "everything that fits in a square mile." The name refers to Thomas Jefferson's efforts around a Public Land Survey...

Japan is famous for its penis parades, where people carry around giant wooden dicks and buy penis candy and souvenirs. So why is manga artist Rokudenashiko likely to be imprisoned for making whimsical...

For some values of guilt-free, anyway: I ate practically nothing but lionfish when we went diving in the Caribbean, and every delicious forkful helped save the reef from a destructive, invasive specie...

Banksy installed a massive pisstake of Disneyland, called Dismaland, that includes his art and other, at a former swimming pool compound in Weston-super-Mare, England. More images below. Read the rest...

When you click through the Windows 10 "agreement," you agree to let Microsoft subject your games and hardware to authenticity tests and to shut down anything it doesn't like the looks of. Read the res...

Mr. Duggar, the "19 Kids and Counting" star, apparently needed 2 accounts to help him find "...someone who was interested in 'experimenting with sex toys' and 'one night stands.'" (via WGN)...

In Tell Me Who You Are, and I Will Tell You Your Lock Pattern, Marte Lge presented some of her Master's Thesis research on the guessability of Android lock-patterns -- and guess what? Read the rest...

Daytona Beach, Florida commissioners approved a combination 12-lane indoor gun range and restaurant, that serves alcohol, to open in the city. Read the rest...

"Joanna Lamparska, a historian who focuses on the Walbrzych area, told Radio Wroclaw the train was rumoured to have disappeared into a tunnel, and that it had gold and "hazardous materials" on board."...

The Dashcaster is a six-string electric guitar themed after My Little Pony's Rainbow Dash, up for auction on Ebay with 40% of funds to benefit Shriners Hospitals. (via Neatorama)...

It's a 3D printed D20 studded with questing tentacles, made to order in a wide spectrum of metals and plastics. (via Geeks Are Sexy) (more…)...

Growing wealth disparity has produced a new financial hyper-elite who make eight-figure donations to major universities, who hand that money back over to more finance titans in the form of special com...

Mr. Duggar, the "19 Kids and Counting" star, apparently needed 2 accounts to help him find "...someone who was interested in 'experimenting with sex toys' and 'one night stands.'" (via WGN)...

Takeshi Kamisato is a master of the spintop, accurately described by this book as a "universal toy, enduring pastime." Read the rest...

Dog logic! Good boy, Artie. ...

After this Bauhaus-inspired pattern from XYZ Workshop is downloaded and printed, each chess piece is designed as a mini-planter. Read the rest...

My pal John Curley, the multitalented bassist in the Afghan Whigs and Plastic Ants, took this incredible photo of Harapan the Sumatran rhinoceros at the excellent Cincinnati Zoo. Read the rest...

Hopes and Fears has the answer for nine major cities (Spoiler: do not be seen naked in Damascus.) Wikipedia has a more complete list (Spoiler: if you want to be naked in public, go to England, but hop...

The rash of high-profile journal retractions, revelations of systematic frauds in peer-review, and journals publishing deliberately bogus papers (e.g. "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List") -- are we...

One in sixty-eight children are now on the autism spectrum, according to the Centers for Disease Control. We argue over whether this is a diagnostic or epidemic phenomena, but either way, neurodiversi...

H.P. Lovecraft died obscure, but his cosmic nightmares are woven into the fabric of modern horror. Read the rest...

Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully. Read the rest...

As the world's governments exercise exciting new gag-order snooping warrants that companies can never, ever talk about, companies are trying out a variety of "Ulysses pacts" that automatically disclos...

Sony's game console comes in a box 19 inches long, 13 inches wide, and just over 4 inches thick. It does not fit in your pants, as Floridian Christopher Caldwell learned to his dismay. Read the rest...

With 150m monthly visitors, the image-hosting site "blows BuzzFeed, Reddit and even Tumblr out of the water," writes Jack Smith. But it's now at the tipping point from useful mess to "media empire," a...

"Aerosolized vomit-pudding sprays out of its mouth," writes Wired's Sarah Zhang, but this isn't a nasty toy or practical joke. It's part of a research project into how Norovirus spreads, and it'll hel...

The Norse Map is a Wargames-style visualization of ongoing attacks on servers around the world. Though it shows honeypots rather than actual private or government targets, the result is a live snapsho...

"Twine horror games can act as catharsis for both creators and players by claiming ownership of fictionalized terror and fear," writes Carli Velocci in Bitch Magazine. Read the rest...

"Bycatch" is a term used by fishermen to describe the marine life unintentionally caught in their nets. It's also the name of a card game that deals with a very different sort of collateral damage: ci...

Want to know how to join the latest Ludum Dare jam? There are plenty of resources that can help. Read the rest...

We often lavish upon "interactivity" as a defining quality of games, but from Progress Quest and Adventure Capitalist to Cookie Clicker and beyond, there are many games about idleness, games that play...

Aracnophobes can now play Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon as a tiny striped walrus. Find out how (it involves some candle rituals?) Read the rest...

In keeping with Offworld's recent fixation on gardening games, I've been playing Viridi, a mysteriously-soothing game about taking care of different varieties of succulent plants. Read the rest...

Nathan Pryor (HaHaBird) made this fantastic life-sized illuminated Minecraft block for his son's birthday. It's lit with RGB LEDs so the color can be changed via remote control. Read the rest...

Yvonne Craig, the first and best Batgirl on television who also played the green-skinned alien Marta on the original Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy," has died of breast cancer. Read the rest...

"Common across the services, autonomous vehicles are being seen as an effective projection of force, both above and below the waters surface," according to the US Naval Research Laboratory. Read the r...

This didgeridoo is made from PVC pipe that’s been heated, warped and stained to look like wood. It has a beeswax mouthpiece that gets soft when you press it against your mouth, forming a seal. ...

Japan is famous for its penis parades, where people carry around giant wooden dicks and buy penis candy and souvenirs. So why is manga artist Rokudenashiko likely to be imprisoned for making whimsical...

As she requested before her death, Elaine Fydrych of Gloucester Township, New Jersey had the following line included in her obituary: In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton." Read ...

The Contender is a political debate card game that combines the fun of Cards Against Humanity with the realism of fibs, bluster, pandering, grandstanding, bombast, and every logical fallacy you can th...

Police photograph and manually tag suspects' tattoos as part of the booking process, but the FBI says computers could classify them much better, leading to more "hits" when trying to identify criminal...

I loved this interview with 6th-grader cartoonist Sasha Matthews, creator of two historical comic books: Sitting Bull (which we ran on Boing Boing) and Pompeii: Lost and Found. You can buy copies of h...

Hip Hop Family Tree cartoonist Ed Piskor was interviewed by CBR when he was at Comicon earlier this summer. The comic started on Boing Boing as a weekly strip in 2011 and continues to run every week h...

A beautifully shot photo-essay in today's New York Times chronicles the careers of six Los Angeles artists whose livings would not exist, save for the Internet. Read the rest...

The Shark's Fin on Mount Meru is 21,000 feet above the Ganges River in Northern India. In this short video, climber-filmmaker Jimmy Chin gives a tour of his tent, which hangs on the side of a sheer cl...

Don't let your child out of the house without this stylish pink bullet-proof backpack. It has been "tested against 2 types of ammunition, yet weighs just a few more ounces than non-armed backpacks. R...

In 1983, Downtown NYC post-punk dance band Liquid Liquid released this Michael Sporn Animation Studios video for "Cavern," a killer track whose bassline became the foundation of Grandmaster Melle Mel'...

1972's Galaxy "light whiskey" was a low-point in American spirits. Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Hunter Oatman-Stanford just interviewed Noah Rothbaum about his new book, The Art of American W...

Our friend Jenny Hart illustrated the cover to Penguin's re-issue of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. It one of six books in the Penguin by Hand collection, "comprising six of Penguin's most popular w...

We love our silicone kitchen tools, so I couldn't resist getting these. Regularly $35, Amazon is selling heat-resistant silicone BBQ gloves for just $9 a pair. Read the rest...

My friend Alvin Buenaventura is the proprietor of Pigeon Press, which publishes excellent comic books and books. He has just released In the Garden of Evil, a book that combines the talents of Charles...

If you've ever wanted to experience the romance, gossip, and tragic social misunderstandings of an Austen heroine, Regency Love is a visual novel made just for you. Read the rest...

The story goes that William Blake worked until the very day he died. His final drawing was said to be a portrait of his wife sitting by his deathbed. Read the rest...

Subway has scrubbed its website of mentions of child sex suspect Jared Foglebut it has not yet deleted a promo game site where SUBWAY KIDSTM catch candy using Jared's discarded pants. Read the rest...

Cartoonist Tony Moore (co-creator of The Walking Dead comic book series) designed this very fun poster for the Cincy Comicon (September 12-13), which pays homages to the old comic book ads for novelti...

As she requested before her death, Elaine Fydrych of Gloucester Township, New Jersey had the following line included in her obituary: In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton." Read ...

MUSACK's goal is simple: get guitars and instruction into the hands of inner-city and at-risk youth. It's not about turning kids into rock stars. Read the rest...

From John Wilcock, New York Years....

An excerpt from Dennis' new book, Extra Good Stuff, published by Last Gasp. Illustrated by Tom Van Deusen Read the rest...

I have a fairly large and ever growing collection of kites. This is the easiest to fly, never fail to have a good time, anyone can fly it kite you've been looking for. Read the rest...

After making a mocking Facebook spoof and getting folks like us to link to it, thedatadrive.com is selling the "bespoke user data" gathered from visitsas a thumbdrive, on freakin' eBay. Read the rest...

This was the first song that came to mind for "Greatest love song of the 80s." She cries on every tune. Every tune....

Bruce Campbell is wearing a face prosthetic, posing next to Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness (1992) assistant camera operator James Fitzgerald....

The Hollywood studios always claim to be "pro-fair-use" but when the US Trade Representative made a move to put fair use into the Trans Pacific Partnership, the MPAA sent a scathing, furious letter to...

Sorry, but Taschen's $1000 four-part art book on the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey is already sold out. Console yourself with Wired's feature about the movie's most enduring and prescient imaginings...

The Idaho Transportation Department installed this sign on US Highway 95 instead of the frequently stolen 420 milepost. (more…)...

Historian Albrecht Classen got so tired of hearing people blithlely assert that chastity belts were ever a thing that he wrote The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process, explaining how a 15th ...

Subway has scrubbed its website of mentions of child sex suspect Jared Foglebut it has not yet deleted a promo game site where SUBWAY KIDSTM catch candy using Jared's discarded pants. Read the rest...

The documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed a division of British intelligence focused on the use of psychological science to influence, deceive, and infiltrate suspected terrorist cells, hostile ...

It's not just about child pornography found on his computer, possession of which he reportedly will admit to in court. Read the rest...

Historian Albrecht Classen got so tired of hearing people blithlely assert that chastity belts were ever a thing that he wrote The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process, explaining how a 15th ...

70 of the worst: "Men should be able to veto women's abortions", "Know your role and shut your mouth", "Women are victims of violence all the time-maybe they should make better decisions", etc....

Because "evildoers." Read the rest...

A new delight from Ukrainian steampunk leatherworker Bob Basset: Steampunk Art Leather Dive Helmet, $1100. (more…)...

Sorry, but Taschen's $1000 four-part art book on the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey is already sold out. Console yourself with Wired's feature about the movie's most enduring and prescient imaginings...

Flash: a bloated, unstable, battery-slurping fountain of security problems to wrap video in. So why do so many big sites still require it? Read the rest...

In honor of Britain's kooky decision to subject domestically-produced music videos (and only those) to its movie ratings system, Dazed picks its faves. Read the rest...

Each screen requires its own kind of meditative patience, but as you draw a mental map of the world in your mind you start to feel the slow burn of pride that comes with having swept each moonlit corn...

Themes & Variations, by Ziye Liu, is an animated short film, based upon the art of Yayoi Kusama and Ai Weiwei, which uses computer extrapolation techniques to create "new versions" of their work....

If you've ever wanted to experience the romance, gossip, and tragic social misunderstandings of an Austen heroine, Regency Love is a visual novel made just for you. Read the rest...

This awesome Game & Watch "demake" of Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon explores the pure essence of the vicious geometric game. If you're a slow-mo like me, you might actually have a chance of scor...

Baby Tasmanian devils are called imps. There's a big push underway to breed the ornery marsupials in captivity due to a facial tumor epidemic ravaging wild populations. Upside: lots of baby pictures. ...

This lifelike re-enactment of the Chicxulub impact event was meticulously researched prior to filming by Field Day and The Slow Mo Guys. Read the rest...

AnimalRobot always does great mashups, and this timely version of Fozzie Bear doing N.W.A's "Express Yourself" taps into the moment's zeitgeist. Read the rest...

Today in 1% villainy: UK property developer Kim Davies broke a bunch of laws when he used children's gravestones from a derelict church he owned to build an illegal patio at a historic home. Read the ...

Observe a 20-inch tongue in action. ...

These amazing guys look like living snowflakes! ...

From John Wilcock, New York Years....

A vast data dump, purportedly exposing millions of users of a hookup service for cheating spouses, has been confirmed.In a statement, Ashley Madison spokesman Anthony Macri (right) said the dump was a...

Blackphone 2, an upgraded version of the privacy-centered smartphone from Silent Circle, is available for pre-order. The Swiss handset, designed by PGP inventor Phil Zimmerman, uses an Android fork na...

Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North found himself stuck in a skateboarding pit with his dog, Chompsky, an umbrella, a leash, a t-shirt, and a pocket computer. To escape, he played Twitter like a text a...

It's exactly what it seems to be: a twister formed over a fire's intense heat, drawing the blaze hundreds of feet into their air. Read the rest...

Astronomical artist Bjrn Jnsson stitched together still images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past the dwarf planet Pluto last month. Read the rest...

That's the life. (more…)...

The Snowden Docs revealed a division of British intelligence focused on the use of psychological science to influence, deceive, and infiltrate suspected terrorist cells, hostile states, criminal gangs...

...for the moment anyway. Failed predation attempt off Monomoy, Cape Cod (8/17/15)- filmed by Dr. Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries working with Atlantic White Shark Conser...

Yamato Suzuki's adorable dog is yelping such a perfect imitation of the sound made by a passing ambulance. (more…)...

YouTube personality TheiBookGuy produced an easy-to-watch, easy-to-understand explainer piece on how computer graphics worked in the 1980s. In part one of a multi-part video series, he digs into the l...

Nothing makes me happier than friends coming over to sit on the deck and play chess. Read the rest...

Hugh writes, "The whisper is that Banksy is involved in the staging of some sort of pop-up show/exhibition/thing called Dismaland -- apparently a swipe at Disneyland. Read the rest...

The dating site for people wanting to cheat on their spouses was breached last month. Read the rest...

The case against Jae Shik Kim -- a South Korean exec caught selling weapons components to Iran -- has collapsed because the prosecutors abused the rule allowing them to search laptop hard-drives with...

It's not making software that can solve our problems: it's figuring out how to pose those problems so that the software doesn't bite us in the ass. Read the rest...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Dr. Seuss's new book, Which Pie Should I Buy, is based on a long-lost "manuscript"! Read the rest...

Nathaniel Buck Harrison of Oracle, Arizona sought vengeance against a foe by hitting him on the head with a board and then attempting to sic a rattlesnake on him. Apparently, the snake declined to par...

We say yes to this. We would ride it all the way to Valhalla. (more…)...

The Environmental Protection Agency was investigating an old mine near Silverton, Colo., earlier this month, when it accidentally released 3 million gallons of toxic waste water into the Animas River....

Atlas the robot recently walked in the woods for the first time. From the looks of that bot-wobble, it looks like he packed his forest flask. Read the rest...

The eagle-eyed aviation security humans at Dublin Airport prevented a desperate toddler from boarding a flight while in possession of a Despicable Me Fart Blaster: "We dont make the rules but we appl...

The legendary Love and Rockets cartoonist turns his gaze to Riverdale. Read the rest...

Corie writes, "We have a project Happy Mutants may be interested in -- an anthology of science fiction stories for middle grade readers, with a focus on diversity and representation. We have 22 great ...

Like most people, I enjoy using emoji. But until today, I could not actually be emoji. All that has changed. Read the rest...

Leonard Robinson, a Maryland man known for paying visits to hospitalized kids while dressed as the iconic superhero Batman, was killed last Sunday night in a traffic accident. Read the rest...

August 25th, on the roof of Chicago's Hotel Lincoln, we'll be presenting the next in our summer Good Measure Tour with Noise Pop and Joie de Vivre Hotels! Widowspeak, a Chicago-based indie rock duo, w...

The editors of Boing Boing have always wanted to create an event where people can enjoy a weekend of wonderful, magical, mindblowing, inspiring experiences. Guess what? We're doing it, and you're inv...

Stanford scientists made mice walk in circles via remote control of a wireless LED implanted in the rodents' brains. Switching the LED on and off controls neurons that have been previously genetically...

The Light My Fire spork isn't technically a spork, but rather a handle with a fork on one end and a spoon on the other. It's regularly priced at $15, but Amazon is selling it for $6.33 + $0.99 shippin...

David Dilcher of Indiana University writes that this 130 million year-old fossil may represent the first life on earth to flower and pollinate underwater. Read the rest...

Home Depot stores located in the area of Reno, Carson City, and Nevada's Black Rock Desert--where Burning Man takes place--create special Burning Man sections that cater to people who are headed to th...

Nathaniel Buck Harrison of Oracle, Arizona sought vengeance against a foe by hitting his victim on the head with a board and then attempting to sic a rattlesnake on him. Apparently, the snake declined...

Retractions of dodgy or poorly-designed studies have increased tenfold in the last few years. But "sham studies are rare," reports Katie Palmer, and "some recalls result from honest errors or irreprod...

Hollywood's geriatric action stars: a positive change in a culture obsessed with youth, or risk-averse creative decrepitude? Read the rest...

A pedestrian in an animal costume holds an umbrella while walking in a snowstorm in New York back on March 5, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson ...

At least twenty people are dead following an explosion in Bangkok, "reports the BBCbut footage from the scene already offers a suspect. Videos taken by nearby CCTV and tourists show how the blas...

Inventions are exciting, but the best ones are art. Read the rest...

The Light My Fire spork isn't really a spork, but rather handle with a fork on one end and a spoon on the other. It's regularly priced at $15, but Amazon is selling it for $6.33 + $0.99 shipping....

I never get tired of watching this brilliant 1990s take on the Wild Wild West, starring the always fantastic Bruce Campbell. Read the rest...

Nathaniel Buck Harrison of Oracle, Arizona sought vengeance by hitting his victim on the head with a board and then attempting to sic a rattlesnake on him. Apparently, the snake declined to participat...

Stand Firm Designs' website was taken down for unknown reasons (archive.org snapshot), but when the website was operational you would have learned that the self-described Christian Construction Busine...

August 25th, on the roof of Chicago's Hotel Lincoln, we'll be presenting the next in our summer Good Measure Tour with NoisePop and Joie de Vivre Hotels! Widowspeak, a Chicago-based indie rock duo, wi...

“Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man…” wrote Hemingway. It is precisely this Holmes-versus-Moriarty style rivalry that makes Scotland Yard worth an hour or more of ...

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in Carol, a new movie based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Price of Salt. Read the rest...

The new generation of millimeter-wave body scanners from the convicted war-criminals at L-3 were supposed to replace the useless, expensive backscatter radiation machines from Rapiscan with a more rob...

This year's San Diego Comic-Con masquerade featured a cosplayer team dressed as the "women of the Haunted Mansion" -- from a maid to a stretching portrait to a changing portrait to ballroom and gravey...

From the BBC's excellent "Addicted to Pleasure" documentary series, learn about how some of us became sugar freaks and opium fiends. (more…)...

"When would-be robbers armed with a sword storm a Pittsburgh convenience store, the cashier pulls a bigger sword of his own."[via]...

China's exuberant, weird, terrible and brilliant amusement parks sprang up like mushrooms after the Deng reforms, and now many of them have fallen on hard times -- even as Disney makes ready to open D...

The editors of Boing Boing have always wanted to create an event where people can enjoy a weekend of wonderful, magical, mindblowing, inspiring experiences. Guess what? We're doing it, and you're inv...

Perhaps I'm feeling soft today, but I felt sentimental and melancholic speaking to the fortune teller who said my life might have been different if I'd only met that neighbor who loves apricot jam. ...

This fantastic performance from Boing Boing BBSer milliefink! (more…)...

SF writer Nicola Griffith reports in from her Literary Prize Data, which is collating data on gender and genre awards (and showing a dismally predictable skew towards books by and about men and boys)....

The editors of Boing Boing have always wanted to create an event where people can enjoy a weekend of wonderful, magical, mindblowing, inspiring experiences. Guess what? We're doing it, and you're inv...

Locust Moon Press's Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream is a kickstarted tribute to Winsor McKay's seminal Jazz Age comic strip, with contributions from Peter Bagge, Paul Pope, Charles Vess, Carla Speed ...

Cooties are real. Apparently, "cootie" comes from the Malay word "kutu," meaning "dog tick." Fortunately, you can easily make a cootie catcher wit the added benefit that the device doubles as a fortun...

David Dilcher of Indiana University writes that this 130 million year-old fossil may represent the first life on earth to flower and pollenate underwater. Read the rest...

At least twenty people are dead following an explosion in Bangkok, "reports the BBCbut footage from the scene already offers a suspect. Read the rest...

Intel has released ACAT (assistive context-aware toolkit) under an Apache license in the hopes that people will improve it -- it only runs on Windows XP or better at the moment, and has a limited rang...

"The End of the Internet Dream," cyberlawyer Jennifer Granick's keynote at Black Hat, was all anyone could talk about at this year's Defcon -- Black Hat being the grown-up, buttoned-down, military-ind...

A pedestrian in an animal costume holds an umbrella while walking in a snowstorm in New York back on March 5, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson...

The movie studios continue to demand Lord High Internet Executioner status because "piracy is destroying the film industry," even as box office records are smashed anew: Straight Outta Compton put its...

Hollywood's geriatric action stars: a positive change in a culture obsessed with youth, or risk-averse creative decrepitude? Read the rest...

Retractions of dodgy or poorly-designed studies have increased tenfold in the last few years. But "sham studies are rare," reports Katie Palmer, and "some recalls result from honest errors or irreprod...

Having confirmed their own plans to publish an updated version of classic survival horror game Resident Evil 2, Capcom's asked a fan-led effort (nicely) to put theirs to bed. Read the rest...

Method of Action's game, Color, puts your ability to nail hue, saturation, complementaries, and so forth. Unlike similar online tests, it's well-designed and fun! [via Flowing Data]...

Lyudmila Savchuk was fired from St Petersburg's Internet Research -- the Kremlin's troll factory -- for talking to the media about her job posting messages rubbishing Putin's opponents to Internet for...

Chuck Wendig's new technothriller Zeroes is a hacker misfit tale in the lineage of War Games and Sneakers, true to the spirit (and often, the minutae) of security work, and exciting as hell to boot. ...

A little bit of information about one of the most recognizably sampled records in the history of rap music in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip. Read the rest...

Alas, cops don't escort you to the hospital at 100MPH: "The couple's baby was determined to beat medics to the scene," police said, adding that the officers witnessed the 'miracle of childbirth.'"...

Chartreuse is such a popular color in startup furnishing iconography that it may be described as "the color of disruption." But it has a distinguished history Read the rest...

Play yourself out, Keyboard Cat. Theremin Cat is on the scene, showing effortless natural theremin skills on the solo from the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations." Read the rest...

If you have room for a 3-meter diameter sphere on your property, you can escape without leaving your yard with the Podzook. Just close the gull-wing door behind you and work or relax. Read the rest...

Ian Wood created this aerial exploration of Los Angeles, capturing the feel of a day in the city. Perfectly accompanied by Boo Boo Davis. Read the rest...

New Zealand's Waitomo Glowworm Caves shimmer with a constellation of glow worms, and Jordan and Jenna from Stoked for Saturday got this gorgeous footage after a lot of trial and error. Read the rest...

Chuck Wendig's new technothriller Zeroes is a hacker misfit tale in the lineage of War Games and Sneakers, true to the spirit (and often, the minutae) of security work, and exciting as hell to boot. ...

A woman in Petrer, Spain posted a photo on Facebook of a police car illegally parked in a handicap spot. She was subsequently fined almost 800 (~US$886) under the Citizens Security Law, aka the "gaggi...

Home Depot stores near Reno, Carson City, and Black Rock Dessert create special Burning Man sections catering to people headed to the festival and report huge sales spikes for certain items. Read the ...

The Oregonian, Portland's daily newspaper, is seeking a professional marijuana critic. (more…)...

Rats can tread water for up to three days, and hold their breath under water for three minutes. (more…)...

Cooties are real. Apparently, "cootie" comes from the Malay word "kutu," meaning "dog tick." Fortunately, you can easily make a cootie catcher wit the added benefit that the device doubles as a fortun...

AnimalRobot takes NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" into Grand Theft Auto V with GTAV's Rockstar Editor and Adobe Premiere. "Damn, that shit was dope." (YouTube)...

Some of the artisanal rubber band guns in these crazy videos are faithful replicas of real guns. Read the rest...

Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. (more…)...

Photo: Neil deGrasse Tyson in graduate school in Texas, sometime in the 1980s. (more…)...

Just look at it. (more…)...

Um, holy shit. Read the rest...

Mr. Nash, a former Yeshiva student, who co-founded PCS Wireless in 2001 as a teen, has been outed as one of Ted Cruz's biggest and most publicity-averse donors. Read the rest...

A woman in Petrer, Spain posted a photo on Facebook of a police car illegally parked in a handicap spot. She was subsequently fined almost 800 (~US$886) under the Citizens Security Law, aka the "gaggi...

The military surveillance devices known as "Dirtboxes" have been in secret operation for more than a decade, tracking citizens' locations and intercepting their calls, breaking the encryption on hundr...

Last weekend's bombshell report on AT&T's enthusiastic cooperation with NSA mass surveillance revealed that the NSA categorized many of its most egregious spying programs as "Partner [AT&T] ...

Science fiction titan Ian McDonald's forthcoming novel Luna: New Moon is the subject of the latest installment of the always-great Coode Street podcast (MP3). Read the rest...

In an amazing set of photos from the Desilu studios set of the original Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols (" Lieutenant Uhura") epitomizes grace, athleticism and poise. Read the rest...

Before we had names for them or a science to study their impact, the people who could claim the most expertise on biases, fallacies, heuristics and all the other recently popularized quirks of human ...

During the heyday of Second Life, numerous universities set up their own online campuses in the virtual world, which have slowly become ghost towns—and artifacts of an earlier digital era. Read...

Our guest on the Cool Tools Show podcast is Jimmy DiResta. He is a maker, toy designer, and TV show host. Hes been the host of a number of DIY shows including Dirty Money, Trash to Cash, Against the G...

The business end of KOKUYO Beetle Tips highlighter looks a bit like a rhinoceros beetle's horns, hence the name. Three-way refers to the fun you'll have with the highlighter when you make three differ...

It started with a 2013 ruling that extended copyright to "applied arts," and it gives the force of law to "no photographs of your food allowed" signs in restaurants. Read the rest...

We've written about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) on Boing Boing several times in the past couple of years. (See "The brain-tingling world of ASMR collides with science fiction" and "The...

Earlier this month, Spencer Seabrooke broke the world record for the longest free solo slackline ever. He walked 209 feet, 1000 feet above a canyon in Canada. He slipped off the rope twice and had to ...

Dutch engineer and artist Theo Jansen has created the most amazing kinematic sculptures, which he refers to as life forms. The incredibly ingenious mechanical linkages are powered by compressed air, h...

Amazon is selling Dash Buttons for $5. They contain a Wi-Fi radio and a battery. You are supposed to stick them to your washing machine, inside a cabinet door, etc, and when you run out of Tide, Gator...

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Straight Outta Compton. A terrific read before listening to the original album or seeing the film. Read the rest...

I remember the Cola Wars, I lost so many friends. Nick Cole offers a fantastic look at the future of advertising. Read the rest...

KTVU-Oakland weatherman Steve Paulson was mid-forecast as a magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit Oakland early this morning. (Thanks, Matthew!)...

Fathers react to hidden video footage of their daughters being catcalled in in New York City....

"Pleezus more beezus," writes the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist. At his Los Angeles home, he's keeping three hives with 60,000 bees each. Read the rest...

Not everyone loves spiders, but these diligent, curious and graceful creatures just want to keep pests out of your mansion and solve mysteries. Give this one a shot. Read the rest...

Good morning! As shot, iPhone 6....

The opening monolog is a bit baffling. The promoter tries......

Perfect for getting anything I'm baking on my baking stone into or out of the oven, this aluminum pizza peel really comes in handy. Read the rest...

Over at AskReddit: What does a $300,000 house look like where you are from? Above, Dallas. Below, London (not really a house, but still)....

Who is that dark blue line shooting wildly upwards? To find out, you'll have to read Phil Edwards' explainer at Vox!...

They know who is weak and why they are weak, and they have a brand for them: "seed faith." ...

They're the largest-ever single-themed expansion of a Disney theme park in 60 years, but they're still a fundamentally conservative approach to the Star Wars franchise. Read the rest...

They're the largest-ever single-themed expansion of a Disney theme park in 60 years, but they're still a fundamentally conservative approach to the Star Wars franchise. Read the rest...

AVS Winvote machines are so insecure that if they weren't hacked in the last election, "it was only because no one tried." Read the rest...

Who is that dark blue line shooting wildly upwards? To find out, you'll have to read Phil Edwards' explainer at Vox>!...

The New York Times exposes a brutal, cultlike environment of midnight phone calls, mind-numbing jargon and sadistic management. Read the rest...

Peanuts was an often-mordant strip about childhood angst. Over the yearslike many other newspaper comics subjected to the relentless burden of productionit was sanded smooth and soft, and Kevin Wong b...

Even when money is shoveled at making their methods more scientifically serious and rigorous, police "rarely cooperate with outside researchers" whose work might expose their failures. Read the rest...

Another Indonesian passenger jet went down, this time with 54 people on board. Read the rest...

National Geographic reporter Bryan Christy commissioned two fake elephant tusks embedded with GPS, then planted them to track ivory smuggling routes from the Central African Republic into Sudan. Read ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory just released a video of their latest adhesion technologies designed for use in space. Read the rest...

Feeling left out because Donald Trump hasn't insulted you by name on Twitter yet? The Trump Generator lets anyone create a customized insult from the rich lexicon of Donald disses, then they'll post i...

You probably already have all the stuff you need to make this nifty paper cannon that fires at a surprisingly high muzzle velocity. Read the rest...

This week's reflection: Is it just us, or have we been virtually gardening, like, a lot? Also, our friends get up to some amazing things. Read the rest...

The Sisters of Mercy's classic 1987 beast of gothic bombast, Floodland, will be reissued next month as a 4-LP vinyl box from Rhino records featuring the original album along with three 12-inches from ...

"There's just no getting over you."...

Doug Harder who resides near Schweitzer Mountain, Idaho photographed this handsome bear attempting to come into his condo via the cat door last week. Read the rest...

Poverty traps its victims in intellectual dead zones. I don't pirate games anymore, but when I needed it, it gave me access to the literature and artistic inspiration of my generation. Read the rest...

From the bonus features on the Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet) due out next month. NSFW. (more…)...

This occurred yesterday in Saudi Arabia, according to YouTube poster Mohamed Quetteineh. (more…)...

The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show for the fourth and final time on August 14, 1965. Over 70 million people tuned in to watch. Read the rest...

Guards at the La Reforma jail near San Jose, Costa Rica caught this homing pigeon as it flew into the prison carrying a bag of cocaine and marijuana. Read the rest...

A fantastic working papercraft model of a V6 engine that runs on compressed air. Read the rest...

Poverty traps its victims in intellectual dead zones. I don't pirate games anymore, and I don't support piracy, but when I needed it, it gave me access to the literature and artistic inspiration of my...

I wanted to play like Dick Dale. These books help me pretend. They are quite good. Read the rest...

Easy to launch and fun to watch, these LED Helicopter Shooters are a surefire crowd pleaser. Simply flip on each helicopters light and slingshot your aircraft into the clouds using a rubber band laun...

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Prepare to perform daring aerial stunts with the Horizon RC Spy Drone ($89.95), a quadcopter like you’ve never flow before. Seamlessly enter flip stunt mode to execute complex maneuvers in mid-a...

Most cameras capture the position of light rays, producing your average static 2D image. The Lytro dares to be different. Its cutting-edge technology records the direction of these rays, generating im...

Over at AskReddit: What does a $300,000 house look like where you are from?. Above, Dallas. Below, London (not really a house, but still)....

I wanted to play like Dick Dale. These books help me pretend. They are quite good. Read the rest...

The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show for the forth and final time on August 14, 1965. Over 70 million people tuned in to watch. Read the rest...

If you’ve ever been to a Disney theme park, you’ve undoubtedly seen the large posters showcasing some of the popular rides and attractions. Read the rest...

Jargon for the XXIth C. [via Sarah Jeong]...

James Risner constructed a bi-directional spiral of track and crammed it full of HO-scale model train cars and engines, so it goes around and around in a metaphor for _________.(via Geeks Are Sexy)...

Poverty traps its victims in intellectual dead zones. I don't pirate games anymore, and I don't support piracy, but when I needed it, it gave me access to the literature and artistic inspiration of my...

In Matthew Mather's new novel, Nomad, an anomaly 100 times more dense than the sun is headed directly for the Earth. There is nothing we can do, no where to hide, humanity grasps at straws at the end ...

Poverty traps its victims in intellectual dead zones. I don't pirate games anymore, and I don't support piracy, but when I needed it, it gave me access to the literature and artistic inspiration of my...

The LithiumCard Wallet Battery ($29.99) is an engineering marvel, packing 1200mAh in a package no thicker than 5 credit cards. Beautifully crafted from a luxurious billet aluminum housing, it charges ...

Bear attacks on humans are rare, but the drought has driven wild animals closer to civilization as food and water in the wild dry up. Read the rest...

Andrew Mayne's Name of the Devil is available from Amazon.Andrew Mayne is a magician, author, and TV show host. He's also coming to our Weekend of Wonder (September 18-20) to teach us all how to escap...

Takenoko (which means bamboo shoots in Japanese) is a light, colorful board game in which players take on the role of Japanese court members to take care of a panda and gain points by completing tasks...

The largely aboriginal youth club -- historically called upon to fight forest fires and volunteer in parks -- is now part of the Canadian Prime Minister's "arctic soveriegnty" plan. Read the rest...

All the phone companies helped the NSA commit mass surveillance, but the agency singled out Ma Bell as "highly collaborative" with an "extreme willingness to help." Read the rest...

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In this video Julie Galef, host of the Rationally Speaking podcast (about philosophy, rationality, science) presents one of my favorite paradoxes - Newcomb's Problem (and the related and "Parfit's Hit...

There's a wonderful little corner of YouTube where stoic burly men wander deep into the woods and chop down tall trees with chainsaws. Read the rest...

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It's a ballroom blitz!...

In Matthew Mather's new novel, Nomad, an anomaly 100 times more dense than the sun is headed directly for the Earth. There is nothing we can do, no where to hide, humanity grasps at straws at the end ...

The largely aboriginal youth club -- historically called upon to fight forest fires and volunteer in parks -- is now part of the Canadian Prime Minister's "arctic soveriegnty" plan. Read the rest...

Nothing will be on fleek. (via Seanan) (more…)...

The woman recorded video of a Miami cop punching a suspect who had already been handcuffed and put in the back of a cruiser; the video was interrupted by another officer trying to seize her phone. Rea...

Beyond wolly mammoth ivory dice, a whole multiverse of polyhedra cast and carved from exotic woods, metals and stranger substances still, from Artisan Dice.There's carbon fiber dice, white marble, gat...

This is a million times better than oblique references to bloating and neat test-tubes of thin blue liquid. (via That Book Smell)...

White Rhino entertained his sister on a seven-hour road-trip with some damned fine lip-synching to tunes ranging from the Spice Girls to Enya to Daddy Yankee to Keyshia Cole. (more…)...

A DoJ filing in an ACLU lawsuit in Oregon admits that you can be put on a no-fly list based on "predictive assessments about potential threats," as opposed to threatening or dangerous things you've ac...

Name your price above $15 and get DRM-free ebooks by Cat Rambo, Nancy Kress, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Catherine Asaro, Jody Lynn Nye, Judith Tarr, Vonda McIntyre, and Janis Ian! Read the rest...

Why oh why did the "Erotic Mud Dance" not make the final cut? (more…)...

Flashback posted a terrific set of photos taken by official cruise ship photographers in the 1990s. Read the rest...

$10. Designs to reconsider. [h/t Karen!]...

HOWTO build an Endor Speeder Bike/rocking horseAKA, how to win parenting forever. Read the rest...

Just got a good ole look at these things at Burbank's spectacular Halloween Town; they're poseable, have a nice, grippy matte foam-rubber finish, and are so swell that I may just go back for the whole...

The FBI found no criminal wrongdoing, or evidence that any other officers were involved with the KKK. Read the rest...

Amazon is selling the GE remote wall switch for just $15 right now. It's a good solution for being able to turn on a floor lamp (including ones with LED or CFL bulbs) or other electric appliance from ...

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Mostly they come down to "pretend you don't know it's a queue"; have the old people in your group pitch a tantrum; have the kids in your group go to the front, then "catch up" and board -- from a 2010...

Last week on a particularly hot summer day my 12-year-old daughter and her friend decided to avoid the outdoors and spent the afternoon coloring the pages of Fantastic Cities. Read the rest...

"1940s Celluloid Caterpillar Thimble Holder. US$65.87, 7 bids starting at US$5.00." (Via Notes from a Thimble Psycho)...

In the late 1970s, Parisian poet, artist, and singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux made the downtown New York scene with peers Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Descloux's music melded no wave, disco, and minima...

Robert Jones's Die Antwoord/Teletubbies mashup turns a troubling childhood memory into an even more troubling one. This makes Teletubbies getting spattered with pink goo seem even more freeky. (more&h...

In the late 1970s, Parisian poet, artist, and singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux made the downtown New York scene with peers Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Descloux's music melded no wave, disco, and minima...

Getting harassed on Twitter? You know what to do. And so does this tank top. Read the rest...

For more than a century, physicians have used music to make patients feel better before, during, and after surgery. A new scientific meta-study looks at the evidence and confirms that yes, listening t...

Getting grime out of tight places on my bikes can be a real pain. This microfiber line lets me clean, and shine, even the toughest spots! Read the rest...

There's something appealing about putting a broken thing back together, a way of restoring order to the world—or affirming that damaged things are still worth saving. Read the rest...

Flashback posted a terrific set of photos taken by official cruise ship photographers in the 1990s. Read the rest...

Reddit user noveltysin put her Fitbit on after 20 minutes of foreplay to record her heart rate during a 8 minutes 59 seconds intercourse session. She added notes to the graph indicating when she chang...

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President Obama posted two Spotify summer playlists, one for day and another for night. Some nice soul and jazz cuts on there from Coltrane, The Temptations, Al Green Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and ...

Cory James Marriott is Kickstarting a cool $600 chemistry set. The examples on the video of glowing liquids, colored flames, color changing liquids, and weird crystals are the kinds of things kids hop...

Official Chinese Communist Party newspaper People's Daily claims that the Changying Precision Technology Company in the city of Dongguan replaced 600 people on its assembly lines with 60 robots, makin...

Designer Sean Adams takes us through the creation of a full-page color magazine advertisement as it was done in the Mad Men era. Read the rest...

Cyagen also makes stem cells and other bio-research materials: they'll pay academics $100 in vouchers per citation, multiplied by the impact factor of the journal in which the paper is published. -...

Pol Clarissou's Lil Ghost Garden, made for the virtual pet-themed PetJam, is a pleasant desktop companion. I love the design of his ghost character, a sympathetic looming moonface whose shadow body tr...

Why oh why did the "Erotic Mud Dance" not make the final cut? (more…)...

By default, Windows listens to you, gathers your keystrokes, watches your browser history and purchases and sends them to Microsoft and its partners -- but even if you turn off all the tickboxes in th...

The Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware sells ice cream flavored with ghost peppers, which are loaded with so much capsaicin that they make jalapeos seem like strawberries. Read the rest...

Why would someone wear a realistic bear costume and use it bother a mother grizzly and her two cubs trying to eat salmon in an Alaska river? Read the rest...

A show conceived to help low-income kids keep up with their affluent peers will now be "paywalled so that rich kids can watch it before poor kids can." Read the rest...

Magician Jose Ahonen performed some sleight-of-hand magic on dogs and they were totally fooled. First, he showed them a treat held between his fingers and thumb. The dog naturally expressed interest i...

Two allegations of sexual assault leveled against Julian Assange by Swedish police were dropped Thursday due to that nation's statute of limitations. Read the rest...

These 1.25" Fury Road badges are $11.36 for a set of 7 (also available as magnets!) (via Geeky Merch) (more…)...

Public Radio International aired this short audio piece on ska, the musical form that took off in the early 1960s, blending Jamaican jazz with American soul and rhythm and blues, and influenced numero...

His hilarious, bathetic op-ed in Glamour is full of sneaky, countersunk gender ha-ha-only-serious humor: "Women havesmart, resourceful role models -- Marissa Mayer, Michelle Obama, Sacajawea, and the ...

The studio behind "Dallas Buyers Club" will be able to demand that people caught downloading the movie without permission pay for the cost of a legit download, plus a small surcharge to cover the cost...

Rogers, MN honor student Reid Sagehorn was suspended after he tweeted two words, using his own device, on his own time, off school property. Read the rest...

Judges struck down the state's death penalty, commuting 11 doomed killers' sentences to life imprisonment, notwithstanding the fact the state hasn't actually executed anyone since 1960 except Michael ...

The White House has released the list. Read the rest...

London's Map Project studio created the bio-plastic Tritensil for notorious tax-dodging luxury department store Fortnum & Mason, where it is provided as a disposable all-purpose cutlery item in t...

It might not look like much as a GIFa couple of black pixels and a puff of pixelated smokebut Wired's Nick Stockton explains the powerful weather satellites that make it possible to see disasters from...

In INSIDE THE MACHINE: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age [W. W. Norton & Company], cultural historian Megan Prelinger guides readers through the history of electronics. Read the rest...

Pol Clarissou's Lil Ghost Garden, made for the virtual pet-themed PetJam, is a pleasant desktop companion. I love the design of his ghost character, a sympathetic looming moonface whose shadow body tr...

It's not unusual for political candidates to snap up all the variations of their name (and then again with "sucks" appended, too!) but Trump's collection gives the impression of The Donald himself sat...

Reminder: it's cheaper to get fined in Pennsylvania than it is to park in New York. Read the rest...

It's nearly impossible, writes fan Sean Hutchison, who is into Star Wars enough to know it's better, and hates not being able to see it: "I couldnt shake the question: Am I a Star Wars fraud for havin...

Chris Norris reports on how the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Controller, an unsuccessful drum machine, became the key musical instrument of a generation. Read the rest...

In INSIDE THE MACHINE: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age [W. W. Norton & Company], cultural historian Megan Prelinger guides readers through the history of electronics to show how a genera...

Four purported prototypes salvaged from a Dreamcast devkit pay tribute to the humor, the weirdness and darkness that surrounds mascot Sonic the Hedgehog these days. Read the rest...

Two allegations of sexual assault leveled against Julian Assange by Swedish police were dropped Thursday due to that nation's statute of limitations. Read the rest...

Deal with it. (more…)...

Filmmaker darwinfish105 created this lovely look at a day in the life of Japan's Haneda Airport. Read the rest...

Now you can accessorize with cruelty-free "leather" created from discarded fruit, thanks to Fruitleather Rotterdam. Read the rest...

French artist Thomas Blanchard mixed paint, oil, milk, honey and cinnamon to create these hypnotic swirlings of color and shape. The film is set to Lost in Space by Max Richter. Read the rest...

For a long time the needs of magic dragons everywhere have been overlooked by playing card manufacturers. Why spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds? Read the rest...

Pastor Troy Tucker is suing Ozark, Missouri's Lamberts Cafe, billed as the "Home of Throwed Rolls," after a flying roll allegedly hit her in the eye and lacerated her cornea. Read the rest...

Nate DiMeo, host of the always excellent Memory Palace podcast, points us to the new episode "about the history of the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument (and Confederate monuments in general) that the c...

My friends at Youth Radio interviewed a sports medicine physician, who used to dance with Cirque du Soleil, about the anatomy of "bone breaking," the incredible form of turf dancing where the performe...

Anita Pointer, vocalist for famed 1980s R&B group The Pointer Sisters, is also a major collector of black memorabilia, from racist caricature cookie jars and mechanical banks to slave shackles an...

My book, Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects is just $2 as a Kindle right now. Read the rest...

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

This acrylic shaving mirror ($10 on Amazon) is a bit larger than my iPhone 6. I feel like I'm taking a selfie when I shave. Read the rest...

Some Italian treasure hunters found a strange looking bullet in Tuscany. Inside was a dated, coded message. Read the rest...

Christian Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina was pleased to win $6,814 in an Atlantic City poker tournament. But he was sad when his attempt to get rid of $3.6 million of counterfeit casino ...

I wanted to make my own dancing cane. All you need is a drill, some magicians thread, and a far lighter cane than mine. Read the rest...

You begin Gathering Sky as a bird. Move your cursor, and it follows. But as you guide it through the sky, slowly adding other birds to your aerial coterie, the nature of your relationship quickly chan...

Mike Melgaard pretended to be Target on Facebook and teased people who are threatening to boycott Target for removing gender labeling from toy aisles (e.g., separate labeling for Building Sets and Gir...

Alan sez, "In its latest report, the American Library Association reviews thestate of Internet content filters and finds the state dismal." Read the rest...

I can barely ride a modern adventure bike, but do I ever love my Triumph Scrambler! Motorcyclist Online puts both Ducati and Triumph's modern reinventions of the simple Scrambler to the test, entering...

In 2013 the Break Club opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, "where members (predominately women) go to break shit with a stick, shatter bottles against the wall, kick stuff, and all around have the best...

This ad for Bic didn't go well, and Bic is very, very sorry."Look like a girl, Act like a lady, Think like a man, Work like a boss." Ridiculous. Everyone knows bosses are terrible workers....

Max Brook's The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead is a completely straight faced manual for survival in zombie-infested world. Read the rest...

Jim Bakker, the smarmy, sex-scandal embroiled, 1980s TV evangelist fraudster and ex-con who fleeced his followers for decades with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker, has a new gig: selling "creamy pota...

Talk about BRUTAL. Rip It Up tells the history of this awesome tribute band, and shares a link to some of their music! Read the rest...

A 700-pound pet pig has gotten its owners evicted from their home in Lea, Lincolnshire, England, reports the Gainsborough Standard. Read the rest...

"Sweep the leg, Johnny." For those of you who remember, this is a fantastic treat. (more…)...

Combining useful physics lessons, building cool machines, and LEGO is always win in my household. This book has my daughter back to building! Read the rest...

A 24-year-old woman broke her leg at Luna Park in Cap d'Agde, France, when one of the two cables attached to the reverse bungee ride she was riding in snapped. The other occupant was uninjured....

CNN Money investigates the crazed market for the video games of yore, fueled by the likes of RetroLiberty, a YouTube channel about finding vintage video games at swap meets or parking lot deals, and V...

Jim Bakker, the smarmy, sex-scandal embroiled, 1980s TV evangelist fraudster and ex-con who fleeced his followers for decades with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker, has a new gig: selling plastic pails...

Norwegian illustrator ThatNordicGuy mixes celebrities faces together to create alternate universe stars. Above, Angelina Fox. Below, Nikolaj Coster-Dinklage. Read the rest...

To think, he threatened not to make it at all! [Youtube, via]...

Imagine walking down a street in Paris one morning, stumbling upon a rubbish heap, plucking out a cardboard box from the debris, and finding pages of song lyrics, a war medal and a diary written 100 y...

Over at Display, Graphic designer Richard Danne tells the story of the fantastic "worm" logo he and partner Bruce Blackburn created for NASA in 1974. It was used for almost twenty years until the NASA...

Brooke Mackin of Signs & Marvels provides a slightly more affordable alternative to the Museum of Modern Art's golden mesh necklace. Read the rest...

We are thrilled to announce that our friend Coop, famous rock poster illustrator and fine artist, is joining us at our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza, September 18-20 in Riverside, California. Read t...

Banning the homeless from sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to sleep is unconstitutional, argues the United States Department of Justice in a statement of interest filed regarding a Boise, ...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Princeton University Press just published a special edition of Lewis Carroll's classic, illustrated with Salvador Dals incr...

If you find Elite: Dangerous a too-contemporary spin on the space-trading theme, try Oolite, inspired directly by the original 8-bit masterpiece. Read the rest...

In INSIDE THE MACHINE: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age [W. W. Norton & Company], cultural historian Megan Prelinger guides readers through the history of electronics to show how a genera...

The more I think about this, the more terrifying it gets. Here are more videos of tortoises opening doors. Read the rest...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "After George Carlin satirized FBI and J. Edgar Hoover in a bit "considered to be in very poor taste" (but which was incredibly tame by Carlin standards), the Bureau took...

Kyosho's $150 Bionic Bird is a smartphone-controlled ornithopter that is birdlike enough to fool a cat (or at least, the cat is pretending to be fooled). Read the rest...

Ferrolic is a clock in which magnets draw ferrofluid into ever-shifting shapes (and, occasionally numbers, so you can tell the time). Read the rest...

Or in Italian, "Arte greca, pietra tombale di donna con la sua schiavetta, databile al 100 a.C. circa." Read the rest...

A 700-pound pet pig has gotten its owners evicted from their home in Lea, Lincolnshire, England, reports the Gainsborough Standard. Read the rest...

I missed this set of 2009 comics by Dresden Codak (previously) the first time round: Caveman Science Fiction. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

We are thrilled to announce that our friend Coop, famous rock poster illustrator and fine artist, is joining us at our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza, September 18-20 in Riverside, California. Read ...

"I think your genie is hard of hearing." "No kidding, you think I asked for a 12" pianist?" So the guy processes this. And hes, like, Does that mean..." Read the rest...

To think, he threatened not to make it at all! [Youtube, via]...

Cheesemakers are so angry that Pornhub ran an ad comparing Parmigiano-Reggiano to premium smut, they're threatening to sue the porn company. Read the rest...

You could be lying around on this super-comfy mat of configurable balls if you have $8K lying around. Comes in blue, red, brown, and gray. Read the rest...

Documentary Now! is a hilarious sendup of the documentary genre by SNL alumni, and IFC has released the second episode DRONEZ: The Hunt for El Chingon, a parody of the always mockable VICE sensational...

This tiny motor is only a little bigger than a grain of cooked rice (4 x 12 mm), but it can generate speeds over 100,000 RPM. Read the rest...

Humpback whales with albinism are extremely rare, so it was a real treat when one appeared off the coast of Australia this week. Read the rest...

In the 90s, games grasped at maturity with "real" video and actors. It was a weird but cult-beloved wrong turn—and we found a game that's revived it beautifully. Read the rest...

You can own a D20 die carved from a 10,000-year-old wooly mammoth tusk for just $249. Read the rest...

In 1968, pioneering minimalist composer Terry Riley remixed The Harvey Averne Dozen's soul tune "You're No Good" into a 20-minute tape machine and Moog composition of sampled, looped, and cut-up sound...

Life is the forthcoming film about James Dean and Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock who was assigned to photograph Dean in 1955, the year of his death, and took the iconic photo of the actor in ...

We are thrilled to announce that our friend Coop, famous rock poster illustrator and fine artist, is joining us at our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza, September 18-20 in Riverside, California. Read ...

Those Taiwanese Animators are in top form here in their interpretation of the Internet furor surrounding #MilkSiblings hero Jessica Coletti, who committed the unforgivable sin of nursing a baby that d...

Hangnails bother me so much that when I get one, I can't think of anything else until I get rid of it. Read the rest...

The CIA accidentally released a document to me under FOIA and then asked that I refrain from posting it, says VICE reporter Jason Leopold. He declined their request. Read the rest...

The infractions she's charged with are so minor, it's hard to believe. Read the rest...

Computer scientists believing that computer science has all the answers, have apparently led Effective Altruism, a movement using science to better direct charitable efforts, to determine the coming A...

Why did the South fight? Why does this question remain controversial? (more…)...

The Pop Up Art book mixes street, comics and fine art with insane paper craft! Amazing artists works are re-imagined in 3D, and explode off the page! Read the rest...

Play as a student at the Retropolis Academy of Art learning to create pixel art—and actually learn to do it. Read the rest...

The driver of a yellow jeep was waiting patiently for a silver car to back out of a parking spot so he could park there, but a jerk driving a purple car swooped in and stole his spot. The driver of th...

The company abused the Windows installer's anti-theft mechanism, which reads the firmware for executables at install-time, embedding a ton of crappy, insecure shovelware that would be added to your co...

Designer Kath Tudball goes over the design and development of the hand-drawn logo for Mister Cooper, an adults-only ice cream brand (unusual, gourmet and alcoholic flavors). Read the rest...

"The goal is secretly to show you that every girl is unique, has her own opinions and definitely doesn't answer to gender stereotypes," writes creator Marion Esquian of this unique episodic work. Re...

Atlas Obscura, a website about unusual places around the world, has a great video series, too. In this episode of Atlas Obscura's 100 Wonders, Dylan Thuras tells the story of Baker-Miller pink (aka dr...

Why did the South fight? Why does this question remain controversial? (more…)...

In the 90s, games grasped at maturity with "real" video and actors. It was a weird but cult-beloved wrong turn—and we found a game that's revived it beautifully. Read the rest...

Star Wars Storyboards: The Original Trilogy gives you a peek behind the curtain into the making of three movies set long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Read the rest...

Vancouver's Eagle Energy Vapor sells a caffeine vaporizer. Similar to an e-cigarette, the slim electronic pen-shaped device delivers a dose of caffeine, taurine, and ginseng. Read the rest...

"Let's be bold -- let's join the rest of the world and go metric," said Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee when he announced his bid for the Oval Office. Read the rest...

These major key versions of theme music from The X-Files, Halloween, Saw, The Exorcist, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, are the outwardly sunny siblings of their sinister brothers and sisters, which ma...

Yosi Sergant says,This week marks the one year anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson. It is also the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots. Read the rest...

Just today, I endured a typical 2015 phone call. My caller's voice was a warbling digital mess that cut in and out. Read the rest...

Anne Rice, of The Vampire Chronicles fame, posted on Facebook her concern that novelists "are facing a new era of censorship, in the name of political correctness." Read the rest...

Confederate Flag wavers claim the the Civil War was all about "states' rights," not slavery. But in this video Colonel Ty Seidule, head of the history department at the US Military Academy at West Poi...

The Pop Up Art book mixes street, comics and fine art with insane paper craft! Amazing artists works are re-imagined in 3D, and explode off the page! Read the rest...

Professional singer Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne sang opera during neurosurgery for a brain tumor, at his physicians' request so they could monitor his singing ability and "avoid deficits after the procedure,...

The driver of a yellow jeep was waiting patiently for a silver car to back out of a parking spot so he could park there, but a jerk driving a purple car swooped in and stole his spot. The driver of th...

Thomas Blanchard created this deeply trip video, "The Colors of Feelings," using paint, oil, milk, honey, and cinnamon. (more…)...

The publicly traded company warned investors that its plan of sending "invoices" to people its sloppy piracy-bots fingered as pirates wasn't working out so well, so now they've found a law firm that'l...

A kind-hearted photoshopper soothed the nerves of finicky people by apply his shoop skills to photos of things that are wrong. I feel better now....

Pac-Man's creator Toru Iwatani shows his original notebook sketches from the iconic arcade game that turned 35 this year. Read the rest...

In Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security, a talk given at the Norwegian Deveopers' Conference, Microsoft Research's James Mickens gave the most acerbic, funny, terrifying security talk I can ...

The deadly infectious diseases that were eradicated in America during the 20th century are now roaring back, thanks to growing poverty, failing sanitation, and underinvestment in science and health re...

In the 90s, games grasped at maturity with "real" video and actors. It was a weird but cult-beloved wrong turn—and we found a game that's revived it beautifully. Read the rest...

A image from the Boing Boing Flickr pool by Flamenco Sun....

Chipzel's Super Hexagon soundtrack will be printed on hexagonal colored vinyl in custom clear sleeves designed by Cory Schmitz. There will only be 1600 made. Preorder quickly, I suspect. Read the res...

The publicly traded company warned investors that its plan of sending "invoices" to people its sloppy piracy-bots fingered as pirates wasn't working out so well, so now they've found a law firm that'l...

Archivist Rick Prelinger writes, "It's been a long wait, but Inside the Machine, my spouse Megan's visual history of electronics, technology and art is finally out and propagating throughout the world...

"The goal is secretly to show you that every girl is unique, has her own opinions and definitely doesn't answer to gender stereotypes," writes creator Marion Esquian of this unique episodic work. Re...

In the first six months of 2015, UK government agencies and police departments made 299 "requests for information" of Twitter, compared to 116 in the 6 months previous. Read the rest...

Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-To History, Part 18 Read the rest...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Nate the Neoconservative is the only Serious Thinker about policy and strategy! "Sigh!" Read the rest...

"First there is the pause, then the slight smirk or raised eyebrow and finally the stale joke Ha ha, youre fired! Such is the life of Dr. Donald L. Trump, an oncologist" (more…)...

LA Weekly compiled a wonderful list of ambient albums that will serve as a perfect primer for the uninitiated, or as a trip down memory lane for those who heard some of this performed live. Several ar...

Ever wonder how they make unsettling dissonant sounds in sci-fi and horror films? Some are made by waterphones or synths emulating them. Portland-based Robb Bockman demonstrates an analog waterphone, ...

Australian architect Max Pritchard's Tree Top Studio looks like the perfect place to work while surrounded by the sights and sounds of trees and water. Read the rest...

"The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, f...

Well, you hardly even need to watch Popular Mechanics' 10-second video now, do you?...

The Guardian followed The Autistix as it rehearses and heads off on tour: "We don't want people to feel bad or sorry about us. We want them to come to our gig and enjoy the music. You can also headban...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Nate the Neoconservative is the only Serious Thinker about policy and strategy! "Sigh!" Read the rest...

Jenn Fujikawa posted a recipe to make these fantastic-looking taunton cookies with candy guts spilling out. "I thought they smelled good, on the outside!" Read the rest...

The amazing Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Theodore Gray created a fantastic embroidered stop-motion animation of my favorite traditional Passover song "Chad Gadya." (more…)...

"Eagle was fine - she was massive, and used talons to 'punch' the drone out of the sky," writes the drone operator from Australia's Melbourne Aerial Video. (more…)...

Enjoy the absolutely wonderful work of Tatsuya Tanaka, a Kagoshima, Japan-based art director, designer, and photographer of miniatures. See more at Tanaka's Miniature Calendar project site and his Ins...

"Overshare: The links.net" is Justin Hall's biopic telling the story of how he became one of the earliest, most prolific, transparent humans of the net and one of the first real web-writers. Read the ...

Mice Novelties: The thrill of the hunt. Read the rest...

Eric writes, "Battle Blimps are: Small, open-source, RC blimps + hydrogen + red poker tips = SENDING YOUR FRIENDS DOWN IN FLAMES." Read the rest...

"Overshare: The links.net" is Justin Hall's biopic telling the story of how he became one of the earliest, most prolific, transparent humans of the net and web-writers. Read the rest...

Adventure Time meets Fury Road. CHROME. SHINY. WITNESS. (via Waxy)...

Cute pictures of cats are such a big part of what makes the internet great, to Boing Boing anyways, that we couldn't possibly put on the Weekend of Wonder with out "kittehs" being involved. Read the ...

"Like many other jocks in Moscow, Idaho, I did my drinking at Mort's Club." A true story from the 1970s. Originally published in Real Stuff #8, August 1992. Illustrated by Tony Fitzgerald Read the r...

The Gross Smoker's Prankster Mug ($7 on Amazon) is meant to be filled with coffee, tea, or milk, and then offered to a friend. It has a bunch of fake cigarette butts at the bottom to surprise them as ...

Jenn Fujikawa posted a recipe to make these fantastic-looking taunton cookies with candy guts spilling out. "I thought they smelled good, on the outside!" Read the rest...

Body soap that looks just like classic Nintendo 64 cartridges! "Soapy Mario Bathers" indeed. Available in Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong 64, and Super Smash Bros. ...

If you are breastfeeding your kid and your friend's kid is hungry, why not breastfeed them both? Jessica Anne Colletti of Pennsylvania does just that and it makes sense. Of course some people are fre...

An extraordinary scene took place on Saturday last at a small village within three miles of Middleton. A half-witted fellow named James Driscott had cruelly ill-used his donkey. Read the rest...

Earlier this morning David posted a photo of a woman on Mars. We now know why she's there. Her 4-wheeled pareidoliaopede broke down and she is walking home. Read the rest...

A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. Read the rest...

Tiny Hamster (previous/tiki bar - also in book form) visited Walt Disney World, but not the same one you and I visit -- this one was replete with tiny cardboard replicas of churro stands (with poucha...

Tummple! has been described as reverse Jenga. That seems pretty accurate. Both games share a similar wooden-block aesthetic, and in both games the object is to keep things from falling. Read the rest...

Caitlin Flanagan has written the funniest and most incisive glimpse into what it's like for today's road hacks whose livelihoods depend on navigating the treacherous waters of the college comedy circu...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is buying 80 million 4-inch black polyethylene balls to cover the surfaces of three Los Angeles reservoirs that serve 4 million residents. Read the rest...

In the video below, we gain a peek inside the mind of Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith, who runs the jail where Sandra Bland was found hanging from her cell in July. He is seen here asking United ...

A dark, distant planet is slowly coming to life with a colorful ecosystem of flora and fauna. Will you tend it? Read the rest...

National Geograph explores the magic and mystery. Read the rest...

Earlier this morning David posted a photo of a woman on Mars. We now know why she's there. Her 4-wheeled pareidoliaopede broke down and she is walking home. Read the rest...

In 2005 Xeni wrote about this Ashleigh Nankivell's Helping Johnny Remember, a "fabulously creepy remix short, sliced and diced from an old public domain social guidance PSA and re-animated with AfterE...

Bioengineers are developing methods to grow new arms for monkeys using human progenitor cells that can become blood cells, vessels, and other tissue. Read the rest...

A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. Read the rest...

It's called The End of All Things, and it's book six in the series (here's my review of book one); he's touring it all over the USA. Read the rest...

From John Wilcock: New York Years.CONTINUED NEXT WEEKView "The Mechanics of Love" on Youtube and Turner Classic Movies....

To appear young, use Emoji. We already knew that haha and hehe are indicators of age, but according to Facebook, lol is oldest of them all, spoken mostly by the truly decrepit: people over 25....

Within hours of Google announcing Sundar Pichai as CEO and reconfiguring itself into Alphabet (AKA abc.xyz), the proliferation of amusing abc.[TLD] domains begins. Read the rest...

Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson's deleted post on the company blog was called "No, You Really Can't," and it demanded that Oracle's customers respect the company's outlandish license-a...

Matthew "Gianteye" Borgatti, creator of the Guy Fawkes bandana and dangly lockpick earrings, has done it again with the $20 War Boy Bandana: "YOU WILL RIDE INTO VALHALLA SHINY AND CHROME!" Read the r...

I don't expect a $200 grill to last a lifetime. But it has to cook meats and veggies evenly, with good temperature control. And I found a pretty affordable grill that does that reliably. Read the re...

A judge has refused to dismiss ZeniMax Media's claim that Oculus VR stole code and expertise from it when it hired famous coder John Carmack from its iD Software subsidiary. Read the rest...

Oh Joy Sex Toy reviews Girl Sex 101, "an indispensable resource for EVERYone who wants to bone down with chicks, regardless of your gender/orientation." Read the rest...

A little bit of information about one of the most recognizably sampled records in the history of rap music in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip. Read the rest...

By kicking himself 134 times in the head in 60 seconds, Nepalese teen Puskar Nepal has booted the previous champion from the record books. Read the rest...

Deep in the Snowden leaks are a series of columns by the "Socrates of SIGINT," an NSA spy who answered an internal help-wanted ad to write about the philosophy of surveillance. Read the rest...

Facebook's privacy settings remain mysterious and ever-changing. The idea is to lead users into a state of pervasive self-exposure that's fit for aggregation, without us realizing we've lost control. ...

The best political commentator in America offers a terrifying, oh-god-I-can't-stop-laughing-but-it's-not-funny glimpse into the world of abstinence-based education, evidence-free sex-ed, and the cult...

Only a deviant would talk about ... her wherever. Previously....

UCSD computer scientist Stefan Savage and colleagues will present their work at Usenix Security: they were able to disable the brakes on a 2013 Corvette by breaking into a Mobile Devices/Metromile Pul...

"From Maori tattoos to the golden age of Hollywood, from David Bowie to being considered a "disruptive force" in schools, black lipstick has been around much longer than Hot Topic and the Kardashian K...

Jeffery Woods is a glassmaker who sells his custom-etched/painted glassware on Etsy, including these Cthulhu-inpsired tentacle pint glasses, $65 for four....

Wired's Brian Barrett reports on how the company became worth less to stockholders than the cash in its own pocket: "a smartphone market that simply doesnt have room for more than a handful of player...

Copyright only extends to creative works, not facts, meaning that clinical trial data (and other data sources) are in the public domain as soon as they're published -- unless governments create specia...

I don't expect a $200 grill to last a lifetime. But it has to cook meats and veggies evenly, with good temperature control. And I found a pretty affordable grill that does that reliably. Read the re...

If you've played Tom McHenry's Horse Master, share this cool piece of art with all your pals. If you have not played Horse Master I berate and entreat you. Read the rest...

VPRO backlight looks at the current state of androids in Japan, including an interesting segment on geminoids, or robot twins made in the likeness of a human counterpart: Read the rest...

ACPAD is a touch-activated MIDI controller that can be overlaid on an acoustic guitar face, allowing a range of effects and rhythms while playing. Read the rest...

There's about $60 trillion in public government debt worldwide, and the folks at Visual Capitalist created a chart to show proportions and debt-to-GDP ratio in one handy image. Read the rest...

Felicia Day's memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) starts off as a cute, snarky story about how a quirky upbringing turned Day into a nerd superhero; by the end, it's become an illumina...

Subterrarium, or as I like to think of it "Ms. Driller's Soda Saga", is a really fresh, challenging puzzle game about a girl with a soda-powered jet pack, growing flowers underground. Read the rest...

His parents must be very proud. (more…)...

This mysterious humanoid figure was photographed on the red planet by the Mars Curiosity Rover. Read the rest...

In Josh Millard's excellent "game" Ennuigi, you are invited to "spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontol...

I love Cynthia "Thea" Rodgers' fantastic contribution to a 2012 challenge to draw comic characters in post-apocalyptics scenarios. (more…)...

China, Russia, and the United Sates are developing new weapons to wage war in space. It starts by knocking out satellites using missiles, lasers, microwave interference, or spacecraft that "could simp...

He'll be a "referendum candidate": if elected, he'll immediately pass campaign-finance reform, then resign. Read the rest...

In honor of his new film, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, Ice Cube revisits the titular song by reacting to the lyric interpretations of Rap Genius. [YouTube, thanks Joe Sabia!]...

House of Mystery (No.130, Jan 1963)Cover art by George Roussos[via] [via]...

Seems the Stones bounced 100 paychecks to the stage hands who worked their Buffalo, N.Y. show. Read the rest...

The most recent guest on the Cool Tools Show (hosted by Kevin Kelly and me) is Ziya Tong, host and producer of the television program Daily Planet, Canada's daily science show, which airs on Discovery...

Google, the core search business that started it all, will have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai. Read the rest...

Toothbrushes might seem like a good idea for scrubbing small areas, but they are not angled properly for the job and they wear out fast. The OXO good grips deep clean brush set ($6 on Amazon) has two ...

Who is the best Donald Trump impersonator? Donald Trump, of course. But how about amongst people who aren't actually Donald Trump? Read the rest...

Google, the core search business that started it all, will have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai. Read the rest...

Dr. Justin Lehmiller reports on Foot Orgasm Syndrome (FOS), in which people experience orgasms originating in their feet. Read the rest...

When I was a teen, I really wanted to like Greek mythology, but the complexity of the pantheon and some of the absurdities of the stories lost me rather than sucked me in. Read the rest...

The forest is a dangerous, thorny place in Feist, where you play as a silent, furry character rustling its way through trees, mountains, and crumbling caves during the perpetual golden hour of sunset....

Maybe they should have just released this one instead. Trailer above; full film below.For the strange and sordid story of director Oley Sassone's unreleased movie, executive produced by Roger Corman, ...

Seems the Stones bounced 100 paychecks to the stage hands who worked their Buffalo, N.Y. show. Read the rest...

House of Mystery (No.130, Jan 1963)Cover art by George Roussos[via]...

Chris Hadfield, astronaut, author, and musician, will release the first album partially recorded in space. Read the rest...

Cornell computer scientist Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil analyzed messages sent between players of strategy game Diplomacy to tease out early signs of future betrayal. A computer algorithm then pre...

In July 2014 the St. Clair County Drug Task Force raided medical marijuana patient Ginnifer Hency's home and "took everything," including a car, TV sets, a ladder, her children's cellphones and iPads,...

Kirk writes, "This weekend we upgraded my 14-year-old son's laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Today I got a creepy-ass email from Microsoft titled 'Weekly activity report for [my kid]', including w...

A Houston deputy who pulled over Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old black woman on her way to the store to pick up medicine for her sick mother, thought he smelled weed in Corley's car. Read the rest...

One of the events I'm most looking forward to at our upcoming Weekend of Wonder event is Show and Tell! Bring something to share! Something you treasure! Something you've made! Or just something you t...

One of the events I'm most looking forward to, at our upcoming Weekend of Wonder, is Show and Tell! Bring something to share! Something you treasure! Something you've made! Or just something you think...

Several pipes excavated from William Shakespeare's garden contained cannabis, report scientists who used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the items. Read the rest...

Our latest special satellite transmission looks back on the highlights of last week, from women in pinball to color challenges for the eye, and scoops up our favorite conversations from elsewhere on t...

It's the work of Michael Warren, who gathered every scene from every extant edition and reorganized the resulting spice opera into a more complete narrative. Read the rest...

Internet law troublemaker James Grimmelmann (previously) has released the fifth edition of his $30 DRM-free casebook ($65 for print) of Internet law, "a fast-moving casebook for a fast-moving subject....

Foxconn is opening a $5B facility in Maharashtra; Huawei just got a green-light for a networking gear factory; Xiaomi already runs a phone assembly plant in Andhra Pradesh that will announcing new pro...

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Wichita State University's Beth Clarkson (who is also chief statistician of WSU's National Institute for Aviation Research) discovered "odd patterns" in Kansas electoral voting records, so she request...

Irresponsible Californians, continuing to push bad data, are looking to reverse their state's new vaccination laws for public school children. They've also set their sights on State Senator Richard Pa...

An NBC/Survey Monkey poll shows that extreme social conservative Rick Santorum's support among Republicans declined from a solid 1% to a less-enthusiastic 0% after his performance in last Thursday's p...

Irresponsible Californians, continuing to push bad data, are looking to reverse their state's new vaccination laws for public school children. They've also set their sights on State Senator Richard Pa...

The Bug-A-Salt 2.0 fires common table salt at house flies. It is much more fun, and effective, than a flyswatter. Read the rest...

Two are dead following the attack at an IKEA store in Vesteras, Sweden, an hour east of Stockholm.A third was seriously injured, according to Reuters. Read the rest...

"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa. Baa. Baa." I loved this show so much as a kid, the opening credits give me chills. Read the rest...

Sugar water company Coca Cola is funding scientists who "shift blame" for obesity away from diets, reports The New York Times. Read the rest...

The quirky, gentle logic puzzles of the classic Zoombinis are back with a tablet remake which feels not especially modern, but still very much worth loving. Read the rest...

Two are dead following the attack at an IKEA store in Vesteras, Swedem, an hour east of Stockholm.A third was seriously injured, according to Reuters. Read the rest...

I doubt it'll top the Yul Brynner original (and his performance most certainly made it), but I'm surprised by how good the reboot looks in this very short teaser, which injects a heavy dose of PKD int...

It's the work of Michael Warren, who gathered every scene from every extant edition and reorganized the resulting spice opera into a more complete narrative. Read the rest...

RollJam costs $32 to make and will get you in. Andy Greenberg profiles the cute wireless widget and its creator, Samy Kamkar, who announced it at this year's DefCon hacker conference. Read the rest...

Several pipes excavated from William Shakespeare's garden continued cannabis, report scientists who used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the items. Read the rest...

"Yes, Mr. President," the headline says. "We Remade Our Atlas to Reflect Shrinking Ice"In a speech about climate change, Barack Obama had noted that over the years, National Geographic maps of the arc...

Gilbert Phelps has the right attitude about his predicament....

Our latest special satellite transmission looks back on the highlights of last week, from women in pinball to color challenges for the eye, and scoops up our favorite conversations from elsewhere on t...

Marcus Bradley, a driver for hardware store Lowe's, was ordered to hand off a delivery to a racially-acceptable colleague following a customer complaint, reports WSET. Read the rest...

Here are four new lateral thinking puzzles to test your wits! Read the rest...

Jerboas, tiny desert rodents that move like kangaroos, are notoriously hard to film. BBC Earth was able to film a jerboa's escape from a fox, and its unique shape has not inspired a robot:Jerboas use ...

Walmart has fought against unionization at every step of the way, including producing videos to dissuade workers from organizing. Read the rest...

It's no secret that license plate data is big business. Here's a demo of how these companies gather data as they troll parking lots and public streets gathering indiscriminate license plate info, look...

Several Vimeo members whose videos had "pixels" in the title are victims of the latest overly broad DMCA takedown request by Entura International, working on behalf of Sony's summer schlockbuster Pixe...

My little sister just wants games to be for her exactly what they are for boys and men: easy to love. Why does that have to be so hard? Read the rest...

You've just been accepted to university on Earth; you say farewell to your family and start your comfortable, luxurious trip through space. Once you're on your way, though, you realize you might not b...

A 41-year-old woman was bike riding across a field in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany when she felt a sharp pain in her breast. Turns out, she had ridden through a boar hunt and a stray bullet bounced...

Maybe they should have just released this one instead. Trailer above; full film below.For the strange and sordid story of director Oley Sassone's unreleased movie, executive produced by Roger Corman, ...

It seems that kids, college students living in dorms, and anyone else who shares a room would appreciate the Privacy Pop Bed Tent. Read the rest...

The Wanamaker Organ, inside a Philadelphia, PA Macy's, is the world's largest working musical instrument.The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ at Macys is a 7-story-high contraption bigger than most peoples...

Allie Avital directed this wonderfully strange video for "World War Pt. 2," a new track by avant-R&B artist Autre Ne Veut (aka Arthur Ashin), starring Ashin, nude, and Macy Sullivan, nude, attach...

My little sister just wants games to be for her exactly what they are for boys and men: easy to love. Why does that have to be so hard? Read the rest...

6 Foolproof Training Courses: Ace the Globally-Recognized Project Management Professional Exam Read the rest...

The LithiumCard Wallet Battery ($29.99) is an engineering marvel, packing 1200mAh in a package no thicker than 5 credit cards. Beautifully crafted from a luxurious billet aluminum housing, it charges ...

On the hunt for a secondary private phone number? Hushed ($49) will provide that and much, much more by offering an unlimited amount of destroyable private phone numbers. Read the rest...

We live our lives online, and owe it to ourselves to back up our data in a secure and reliable manner. Read the rest...

Explore the skies and take the footage to prove it with the SKEYE Mini Drone ($64.99). From mastering smooth landings to pulling off impressive flips and rolls, you choose the adventure and the SKEYE ...

The iPad Air 2 may be light as a feather, but it packs more power than tablets quadruple its size. It’s fast, it’s vividly clear, it’s the ticket to surfing, shopping, writing, rea...

Thanks to the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV, great-quality HD television can be accessed without committing to a lengthy cable or satellite contract. Read the rest...

Trump says only a "deviant" would think that his remark about Fox News' Megyn Kelly You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.referred to menstruation. R...

His crude remarks about Megyn Kelly menstruating, made after Fox News' "Presidential" debate, were disturbingly popular on Twitter and rebuked only mildly by other candidates. Read the rest...

The GIF doesn't quite convey this one. (It's called a capirote, apparently!)...

The GIF doesn't quite convey this one. (It's called a capirote, apparently!)...

Jason Schreier writes about how review aggregator Metacriticand the publishers obsessed with ithave hurt games by making developers to live and die by its scores. Read the rest...

Enclaves appear when history contrives to put a piece of one country completely inside another. India and Bangladesh's border is a maze of them, but they've just fixed the craziest of them all: an enc...

Detroit's Cyberoptix make hundreds of beautiful, nerdy textiles: linen library due-date scarves (also available as silk ties); bandana print neckties; chemical warfare ties; civil defense med-kit scar...

Brian and Karl remember a form of English that's all arsey-varsey: "slang used in Britain by actors, circus and fairground showmen, merchant navy sailors, criminals, prostitutes, and the gay subcultur...

My little sister just wants games to be for her exactly what they are for boys and men: easy to love. Why does that have to be so hard? Read the rest...

His crude remarks about Megyn Kelly menstruating, made during Fox News' "Presidential" debate, were disturbingly popular on Twitter and rebuked only mildly by other candidates. Read the rest...

r/AngrySportingParents is a subreddit dedicated to people who live vicariouslyand in a haze of perpetual ragethrough their childrens' sporting activities. Read the rest...

A man sat in his parked car was struck with a garden gnome after it was used to smash his window by robbers, who then escaped with cash. A garden gnome and a toy black pistol were "secured for forensi...

Fans of DC Comics greats like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Flash will love this superhero recipe book full of more than 50 fun snacks, meals, desserts, etc. Read the rest...

People interested in learning what's really in the drugs they bought (or manufactured) can send a sample to Energy Control in Barcelona, Northern Spain. Read the rest...

The postings are generated by a markov bot from other reddit items, and only bots are permitted to comment. [via Waxy]...

The postings are generated my a markov bot from other reddit items, and only bots are permitted to comment. [via Waxy]...

We hope your weekend is going to be as nice as Veronica and Archie's. Image found by my friend Craig Yoe, editor of two new books: Milt Gross' New York and Weird Love: You Know You Want It Read the re...

Whispering Imps might be the most beautiful deck of cards I’ve seen. The Ace of Spades, the King of Diamonds, the two Jokers, and the backs of all the cards have drawings of imps (mischievous li...

Crew members on Expedition 44, including NASA's one-year astronaut Scott Kelly, harvested some "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce Monday, Aug. 10, from the Veggie plant growth system on the nations orb...

Calling all writers! Wink Fun is looking for reviewers. Reviews should be 1-3 paragraphs, and need to include 5-9 photos of the Fun item. Read the rest...

A police officer in the Northern California city of Rohnert Park was caught on video pulling his gun on a resident who was recording the cop on his cellphone. Read the rest...

Meth. Not even once. Read the rest...

"We Need Brain" is a quotation from Donald Trump at last night's GOP presidential primary debate, and it's the title of the songified version by the Gregory Brothers. Worth watching just for the GIF-a...

The Speedy Stitcher sewing awl ($10 on Amazon) is anything but speedy, but it is useful to have around when you need to repair canvas, leather, or other heavy fabric. Take a look at the video below to...

I've obtained the 1922 book that demonstrates this classic song should rest in the public domain. Read the rest...

You've just been accepted to university on Earth; you say farewell to your family and start your comfortable, luxurious trip through space. Once you're on your way, though, you realize you might not b...

How long can you hold onto something good? Is all pleasure fleeting? Is this a comic element of being alive, or a tragic one? Read the rest...

Wait for the grin at the end if you doubt our headline. (more…)...

Wait for the grin at the end if you doubt our headline. (more…)...

If you're using the loo at the Elephant Sand Lounge in Botswana, beware! Smart elephants in the area know where the clean water is, and you're sitting on it. Watch as a thirsty elephant uses the toile...

Country singer Kacey Musgraves just released her remake of Nancy Sinatra's 1966 classic "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Musgraves' version is fine, I guess, but why mess with perfection? Above, Nan...

The young winners of the Girls Make Games grand prize want to make their prototype a reality with the help of professional mentors, artists and programmers. Read the rest...

Whispering Imps might be the most beautiful deck of cards I’ve seen. The Ace of Spades, the King of Diamonds, the two Jokers, and the backs of all the cards have drawings of imps (mischievous li...

Designer Connor Sherlock's work can immerse you in atmospheric spaces in no time at all. These eerie, moody pieces are so enthralling you often forget about the video gamey bits. Read the rest...

John Kelly of the Washington Post spotted a pair of leopard slugs mating on his driveway. He called Megan Paustian, a research biologist who consults for Smithsonians National Museum of Natural Histor...

It's a powerful metaphor for something or other, from the good folks at woodgears.ca, with build notes for your own Slinky-torturing pleasure. (via JWZ)...

Apple spends nearly $700,000 to protect Tim Cook, Read the rest...

A strange phenomenon is happening in Dallas, TX. Drivers commuting through the neighborhood of Lakeside Park have spotted a massive canopy of webs that runs the length of a football field. Read the r...

Now someone is going to tell me that blowing bubbles near a chameleon is even worse than tickling a slow loris....

My little sister just wants games to be for her exactly what they are for boys and men: easy to love. Why does that have to be so hard? Read the rest...

People interested in learning what's really in the drugs they bought (or manufactured) can send a sample to Energy Control in Barcelona, Northern Spain. Read the rest...

Six-year-old Charlotte Campbell of Taupo, New Zealand says she likes her daddy's tattoo. So do I.[via](Image: Alistair Campbell)...

Lex is a drug-sniffing police dog. His owner trained Lex by giving him a treat every time he alerted, whether or not Lex was right. Read the rest...

Photographer Mark Carwardine got this lovely drone footage of a pod of gray whales frolicking off the coast of Baja California. Unfortunately, the boaters then approach and touch the whales. Read the ...

Fantastic Four is receiving the kind of blistering reviews usually reserved for an Adam Sandler movie. Rotten Tomatoes calls it "dull and downbeat... Read the rest...

I've obtained the 1922 book that demonstrates this classic song should rest in the public domain. Read the rest...

I've obtained the 1922 book that demonstrates this classic song should rest in the public domain. Read the rest...

Over at Vantage, Peter Schafer's beautiful and moving photo essay, "Diary of a Sex Tourist," pegged on Amnesty International's vote in the next few days on whether or not the group will advocate for t...

The Sunji Lee Quintet plays Nirvana. Far out! (more…)...

The antivirus entrepreneur, who went on the lam in Belize when wanted for questioning about a murder there, has finally found his way behind bars under less romantic circumstances. Read the rest...

"We are better people for having known you." (more…)...

For when you want to role-play stern schwa and sweet, submissive Whitley Streiber; comes in two models but the $120-130 Splorch is the clear winner. (via JWZ)...

It's a powerful metaphor for something or other, from the good folks at woodgears.ca, with build notes for your own Slinky-torturing pleasure. (via JWZ)...

It's Never to Late to Go Back to School: 8 Courses, 31+ Hours on Python, JavaScript, jQuery & More Read the rest...

Impress the person sitting next to you at the coffeehouse or on the airplane with your knowledge of European philosophy! Human, All Too Human is the BBC and RM Arts' fascinating three-part 1999 docume...

May we all contemplate the mysteries of dihydrogen monoxide with such joy. ...

A surprising survey by Teenwise Minnesota found that bisexual females were five times more likely to have been pregnant than straight females. Questioning and gay males were four times more likely tha...

Decades of dog and human pee have corroded the bases of some area light poles, and the city started a program to inspect them before more poles come crashing down. Read the rest...

Psychology studies are almost always about WEIRD people: Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic the kind of people who make up less than 15 percent of the world's population. Read the ...

It was a safe bet that Kate "Hark! A Vagrant! Beaton's first kids' picture book would be amazing, but The Princess and the Pony is incredible.Princess Pinecone is a the smallest warrior in a kingdom ...

Found at Walmart, according to The Today Show....

This horse showed great restraint and, hopefully, taught this child something about not punching horses. ...

Researchers led by Je-Sung Koh created a biomimetic robot that floats using surface tension and can jump from the surface of water like a water strider insect. Read the rest...

Photographer Mark Carwardine got this lovely drone footage of a pod of gray whales frolicking off the coast of Baha California. Unfortunately, the boaters then approach and touch the whales. Read the ...

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

Psychology studies are almost always about WEIRD people: Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic the kind of people who make up less than 15 percent of the world's population. Read the ...

It's Never to Late to Go Back to School: 8 Courses, 31+ Hours on Python, JavaScript, jQuery & More Read the rest...

There's a world of apps waiting to make your Mac a better, more productive place. We've packed together some of our favorites--everything from a file compressor to one of the web's top website builder...

Tom and Veronica talk to J-F Dubeau, author of 'The Life Engineered,' about why we should build more robots. Read the rest...

In a Reddit AMA, activists DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie and ACLUs Nus Choudhury talked policing and police reform in America, and surveillance of activists. Read the rest...

Moran Cerf (previously) writes, "Can someone else know what we want a little before we do? And if so - who is in charge of our decisions?" Read the rest...

This tennis ball-size orb knows what you are thinking. Most of the time it will guess what you have in mind after asking you twenty yes/no questions. Read the rest...

The Invisible Deck is one of my favorite trick decks because the effect is simple and stunning. It blows peoples minds. Read the rest...

Debris having washed ashore on Runion, tracing the tidesand the genetics of encrusted barnacles living on the flaperongives us new clues to the final resting place of the lost jet....

This autonomous charger is much better than the boring old unit that required collaboration with a human to charge the Tesla.[via]...

A lively brawl erupted in Times Square between a man dressed as Spider-Man and a man said to have been harassing other street performers who earn their keep posing for photos with tourists....

The Kings of India playing card deck looks fantastic. It has met its funding goal on Kickstarter, but they have not yet met the stretch goal that will enable the creators, Bhavesh and Reena Mistry, to...

Shot on a $25,000 budget and a 35-page script that called for lots of improvisation, 1999's The Blair Witch Project made an astounding $248 million in theaters. Mental Floss put together a fun list of...

Scientists at the University of Sussex have published a directory of horse facial expressions. The Equine Facial Action Coding System catalogs "17 discrete facial movements in horses that may indicate...

Even by the standards of 25-year-old security video, it's grainy and indistinct. But if someone can identify the man visiting Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, federal investigators could solve...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published photos of what they claim is their prophet's talking magical rock. Read the rest...

Ryan Calo writes, "I argue in a new paper that economists and privacy advocates don't need to hate one another... Here's the abstract:" Read the rest...

34-year-old Michael Migani was charged with second-degree breach of peace and second-degree reckless endangerment for inserting his saliva-covered finger into the ear of a 4-year-old boy in a Shelton,...

Noah from EFF writes, "Online tracking has become a pervasive invisible reality of the modern web. Most sites you load are likely to be full of ads, tracking pixels, social media share buttons, and ot...

Board game designer Robin David has made an Alphabear-inspired word game that uses printable playing cards. Read the rest...

Even by the standards of 25-year-old security video, it's grainy and indistinct. But if someone can identify the man visiting Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, federal investigators could solve...

Cornell Lab of Ornithology may have digitized nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings [via], amounting to 7,513 hours and 10 terabytes of data, but do they have the sound of this mouse that thinks it ...

Random Useful Websites is a useful website that takes you to another useful website, selected at random. It took me to TED. [via]...

This tennis ball-size orb knows what you are thinking. Most of the time it will guess what you have in mind after asking you twenty yes/no questions. Read the rest...

The baby might not be able to say "mama," but he knows when the family's Australian Shepherd says it.[via]...

Amara's Law states, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run" -- Robert Charles Wilson's gripping conspiracy novel The Affinit...

Giant hogweed was introduced to the United States from Asia in 1917 as an ornamental plant. Pretty as it may be, it is more dangerous than poison ivy and can cause blindness if its sap finds its way i...

Ted Rall, a journalist and cartoonist often critical of police misconduct, was fired by the LA Times after the LAPD claimed he lied about a 2001 encounter with an officer. But an audio recording of th...

We chat with J-F Dubeau, author of The Life Engineered about why we should keep calm and build more robots. Also the good news of more Game of Thrones coming to TV thrilled the live audience at Nerdta...

These guys fucking love milk. ...

I'm speaking at Defcon this weekend in Las Vegas: my talk, "Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers," is tomorrow (Friday) at 11AM in track 3, followed immediately by a signing at the No...

Saatchi & Saatchi Sao Paulo designed these grotesque ads for Universal Music, in which bloody gobbets of rock-n-roller are captioned with "Stop Destroying the Band You Like: Say No to Music Pirac...

Morten Grnning has been experimenting with gloves fitted with small motorized sanders, and it seems it has some potential for new ways to shape materials as it gets more refined. Read the rest...

After Engineer Isis Wenger at OneLogin appeared in a recruiting ad, sexist comments about her appearance (e.g., "you don't look like an engineer") inspired the hashtag #iLookLikeAnEngineer. Read the r...

Henson and Lee battle to a place of grudging respect till spoiler Walt Disney shows up and (literally) owns them both. Read the rest...

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. Married women, living alone, face a greater risk of being attacked when they go to collect remittances from their husbands who work abroad....

If you have feelings about HitchBOT too, this appropriately-threadbare, bite-sized (13kb) executable "poem about robots" from nickk might be a good way to process and share them. Read the rest...

Jim from Open Rights Group writes, "Should file-sharers be threatened with up to 10 years in prison? The UK's Intellectual Property Office are consulting on this idea." Read the rest...

It's a fact that the sky is blue. But is my blue the same as yours? This fantastic app gamifies the quest to find out more about the differences in how humans perceive color, and it's surprisingly cha...

Board game designer Robin David has made an Alphabear-inspired word game that uses printable playing cards. Read the rest...

In the anime and cosplay space, fandom and identity intersect for black fans in interesting ways, and a new interview series spotlights their experiences. Read the rest...

Listen to the beauty that is The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" combined with The Commodores' "Easy." (more…)...

A drone dropped a package of marijuana, heroin, and tobacco into the recreation yard at Ohio's Mansfield Correctional Institution igniting a big brawl over the contraband. Just wait until drone drug d...

The posh Pinnacle analog timepiece from Nico Gerard integrates an Apple Watch into the bracelet. Prices start at $9,300 for the basic stainless steel model, but the 18k gold Sunrise edition, at $112,0...

Warren Ellis: "We saw the best minds of our generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves after an Uber that isnt actually there because Uber fake most of those littl...

Please to enjoy Fecal Matter, featuring an 18-year-old Kurt Cobain, Greg Hokanson, and Dale Crover (later of The Melvins). This demo tape is titled "Illiteracy Will Prevail." Fecal Matter (Wikipedia)...

Deter hungry co-workers from swiping your sandwiches with these clever "Fake Mold Imprinted Food Safe Plastic Sandwich Bags." A pack of 20 is $6 from Amazon. (more…)...

How would movies like Gone Girl, Back to the Future, Juno, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Forrest Gump, Silence of the Lambs, and Superman have been different if the main characters had been black? Ryan Hu...

The epic fist fight between Captain Kirk and a man in a lizard suit was a low water mark for Star Trek. Mario Wienerroither made it even worse (and therefore much better) by removing the music and add...

Artists are taking home pennies for millions of plays and no one -- not the labels, not the distributors, and not the streaming companies -- will disclose the way that streaming music royalties are ca...

An idea that has been bandied about the Bay Area for years, building a wall to keep the homogenized "burners" out post "Bman," has been depicted in kickstarter parody form. Enjoy. Read the rest...

Splinter removal, painting, soldering, building models, inspecting your kids' heads for lice, jewelry repair. I've used my LED illuminated headmounted magnifier at least twice a month for several year...

Knuckle Sandwich is an upcoming RPG by Melbourne-based Andrew Brophy, and Tarantula is a sort of mini preview-episode that's full of chart and harm. Um, heart and charm! Read the rest...

Wanderment is like every other platform game you've ever played, except that you're a cat, and you're blind, and the world around you is comprised of shimmering fragments of sound. Read the rest...

People who use those forums are predictably upset. Read the rest...

Remember those militarized cops who raided a California medical marijuana dispensary, harassed a disabled patient in the store, and were recorded on a security camera gobbling what was almost certainl...

The shooter is reported to have died at the scene. America: What the fuck? Read the rest...

The PattersonGimlin film, shot in the late 1960s, purports to show a female Bigfoot taking a stroll through the woods near Orleans, California. (more…)...

I love bubble nails!From Cosmopolitan:The technique, also referred to as "curve nails" or "hump nails," is achieved by building up acrylic in the center of the nail and thinning it out around the edge...

Reporters and press freedom advocates from around the world have signed on to support Netzpolitik and condemn the German government's outrageous investigation. Read the rest...

A Gumby-style bendable cable mated to an iPhone grip, and a clip that can affix nearly anywhere, make this stand super useful! Read the rest...

I bought this crossbow pistol because my family’s favorite character on The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon, uses a crossbow to take out zombies, and we thought it would be fun for target practice. R...

Huntington Park is wisely taking volunteer labor and efforts from folks willing to give. Council member Jhonny Pineda made good on his promise to involve undocumented residents in the community, natur...

Perhaps the first effective strategy in America's decades long war on drugs, after 2 recent teen deaths, Los Angeles County is considering banning all EDM festivals. Read the rest...

"From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog." Mabel Louise Robinson...

Greenfire Farms is the premier breeder of Ayam Cemani, a chicken that is all-black. Even the inside of its mouth is black. Read the rest...

This Sunday, on NBC Bay Area, join Northern California television icon Doug McConnell, as he visits the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. Read the rest...

The British Library uploaded over one million scanned images to Flickr, designating them as public domain for all to share and use. Read the rest...

Knuckle Sandwich is an upcoming RPG by Melbourne-based Andrew Brophy, and Tarantula is a sort of mini preview-episode that's full of chart and harm. Um, heart and charm! Read the rest...

Akira Thompson's striking work challenges one of the biggest misconceptions about police violence against black people in America, and offers privileged players the chance to experience the truth. R...

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. I guess its just what I must do. Read the rest...

The western United States exists in a state of willful ignorance about water. Waking up won't be easy, and it will be expensive. Read the rest...

Weve all been there a million times: Flicking through Netflix or Amazon or Hulu with no idea what to commit to watching. Nothing immediately grabs your interest and the plot descriptions arent selling...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Wildlife Naming Fund takes the legacy of Cecil the Lion and protects animals by naming every single one. Read the rest...

Amazing video of dolphins that have learned how to dine in style. This hunting behavior, according to Discovery, hasn't been found in any other pod on Earth. ...

This cat really loves his boyor whatever he's listening to. (more…)...

Mallory Ortberg expertly skewers the weird de-cluttering dogma of Marie Kondo's bestselling Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: "Its important to be very rich but have almost no items in your home." Re...

I can barely watch, but anyone who has seen "Grizzly Man" will understand that bears are wild animals and should not be trifled with....

It's an age-old complaint about video games and films: bad graphics make them suck. But plenty of classic entertainment holds up even if the effects don't. RocketJump Film School examines the issue in...

Fifteen years after the Flash animation web stars first graced our screens, even Strong Bad and Homestar Runner are ready to throw the shroud over Flash. Read the rest...

Via Nuuskamuikkunen, this collection of things that look like Donald Trump hints at the many tantalizing possibilities for lookalikes. Read the rest...

As part of a state-funded anti-violence project, Germen Nuevo Muralismo Mexicano turned an entire neighborhood in Pachuca, Mexico into an artwork titled El Macro Mural Barrio de Palmitas. Read the res...

In a federal lawsuit (PDF) filed against four Shreveport police officers, a Houston man claims that he was sodomized with a nightstick after being forced into the back of a patrol car. Read the rest...

Elizabeth Warren for President. (via Seanan McGuire)...

Harald Range was due to retire this year, but he was fired first when he refused to end his ridiculous treason witch hunt against Netzpolitik, who published revelations from the Snowden docs. Read the...

Politicians learn the hard way that you can't get between the voters and their preferred recreational activity. Read the rest...

After ridicule on social media, the store has decided not to sell expensive bottles of water containing asparagus spears. Read the rest...

We've run a Tor exit-node for years. In June, we got the nightmare Tor operator scenario: a federal subpoena (don't worry, it ended surprisingly well!) Read the rest...

The western United States exists in a state of willful ignorance about water. Waking up won't be easy, and it will be expensive. Read the rest...

A routine review of bodycam footage revealed a Wayne County, Ohio, Sheriff's deputy dragging a screaming woman from her home by her feet. Read the rest...

In 1972, Frederic Ira Parke, while a grad student at the University of Utah, created the first computer graphics animation, above, of a human face, and with fellow student (and Pixar co-founder) Ed Ca...

My new Guardian column, What is missing from the kids internet? discusses three different approaches to teaching kids information literacy: firewall-based abstinence education; trust/relationship-base...

r/monkslookingatbeer is already my second-favorite subreddit....

The suspect worked at a local Naval base, but there's no talk of terrorism because he was also white. Read the rest...

The suspect worked at a local Naval base, but there's no talk of terrorism because he was also white. Read the rest...

The FBI is investigating how secure Hillary Rodham Clinton's email practices were when she was secretary of state and used a private email server, reports The Washington Post. Read the rest...

Not even kidding....

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Wildlife Naming Fund takes the legacy of Cecil the Lion and protects animals by naming every single one. Read the rest...

The greatest band ever to take the stage has now taken to twitter. Follow them here....

The first space colonies will have no coal power plants, says Rob Rhinehart. I am ready. Read the rest...

All profits go to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of University of Oxford in Oxford England. Read the rest...

A series that imagines what various things we treasure would look like if they were literally made out of gold. Read the rest...

Without music, the video for Lionel Richie's "Hello" is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. (more…)...

How one publisher turned a video game into a collaboration with an entire Alaska Native community. Read the rest...

Timur Bekbosunov is an incredible performer, his work with the Dime Museum is not to be missed. This video stretches the imagination....

Few things bring back the joy of childhood like the first few moments with a fresh ball of silly putty! Nothing reminds me I am an adult like cutting it out of my child or dog's hair. Read the rest...

We've run a Tor exit-node for years. In June, we got the nightmare Tor operator scenario: a federal subpoena (don't worry, it ended surprisingly well!) Read the rest...

We've run a Tor exit-node for years and years. On June 15 we got the nightmare Tor operator scenario a federal subpoena -- don't worry, it ended surprisingly well! Read the rest...

If you are bald, awesome, and need a hat, I heartily recommend the San Francisco Hat Company. I have several of their lovely fedoras. Read the rest...

Watch as fast-food employees shriek with terror (and laughter) while running for cover when a glowing blue robot rolls up to their drive-thru window. Read the rest...

"Chit chat chatter tryin', stuffy in the place. Thank you for the party but I could never stay!"...

At first glance, thedatadrive appears to be a charming cartoon version of Facebook. But it soon turns into a nightmare, distilled from the social network's brain-drilling efforts to force your attenti...

Preppers vs zombies is a genre sure to keep me laughing. Blue Plague: The Fall, by Thomas A. Watson, is ridiculous and brutal. Read the rest...

Mike from Muckrock sez, "Police departments are increasingly tracking your face, your fingerprints, your tattoos -- and even your DNA. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock are working to un...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Medium, Mixpanel, Adblock, and Duckduckgo have proposed a new Do Not Track standard aimed at stemming the tide of total ad-blocking by getting publishers, trackers ...

Hugohugo's Fury Road/Uncle Sam mashup art is available as a tee, shirt, poster -- there's also a Furiosa/We Can Do It mashup. (via Gameraboy)...

As close to seeing it in person as it gets, short of going thereand still astounding at standard HD. Read the rest...

Many agriculture-heavy states have passed laws criminalizing recording videos of animal cruelty and illegal workplace and food hygiene practices, but one judge in Idaho isn't having any of it. Read th...

You may already know that killing a lion is the most cowardly thing you can do, but The Searcher's essay on lion hunting, with accompanying illustration, makes the point with admirable force and eloqu...

The Washington Post's map shows type by color, and output by size; other maps drill down into the data. [via]...

The axonometric, not-to-scale diagrams are pretty sweet -- like the castings made of underground ant-colonies, cross with the insane arcology furutism of Paolo Soleri. Read the rest...

Atlas will not always emerge victorious. But today, victory is his. [Atlas the Aussie c/o Jukin Media, via]...

The Matchstick, a Firefox-OS-based Chromecast-style device, kickstarted on the promise of bringing open, user-rights-respecting video to our homes -- then they decided to add DRM. Read the rest...

"We have a name for locking people up and forcing them to do real work without wages. It's called slavery." Read the rest...

The western United States exists in a state of willful ignorance about water. Waking up won't be easy, and it will be expensive. Read the rest...

Owning vintage magic posters is lot like having tattoos. Once you have one, you only want more and there is no way to fill the void. Read the rest...

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Jobs that are more likely to be held by women are the same jobs that are least vulnerable to automation. Read the rest...

"Such is the state of online video," reports Wired, profiling Jukin Media, a 100-employee "viral video" farm. Read the rest...

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

Not even straight-laced Sam the Eagle can resist the funky riffs of Kool & the Gang when laid down by The Electric Mayhem. Read the rest...

'Ghost hunters claim to have captured one of the most "impressive" and "clear" photographs of an apparition ever,' reports UK newspaper The Daily Mirror. Read the rest...

The gameplay video preview starts out mildly unimpressive, showing soldiers in their dozens milling around, unable to even go diagonally. Then it starts zooming out. Read the rest...

News sites will soon be "wire services" competing in social networks' internal attention markets, writes Ezra Klein. Scary! Read the rest...

We talk a lot about women, work and emotional labor these days—how do women-focused career games like Diner Dash or Kim Kardashian: Hollywood factor into the conversation? Read the rest...

Be careful you don't get branded as overweight or a slow thinker; be ready for dating by age 11, and always answer the clarion call of the mall's command in some of the most unsettling old board games...

Not even straight-laced Same the Eagle can resist the funky riffs of Kool & the Gang when laid down by The Electric Mayhem. Read the rest...

Nobody likes the beach ball of death. Maybe something cuter would help. Here's alternate option if that does not strike Tim Cook's fancy: (more…)...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies has released a free PDF anthology of images of earth's protected wonders, like development right up to the edge of New Zealands Mount Egmont National ...

Goldshifteh Farahani and Morteza Esmaili played this beautiful live duet in Paris earlier this summer. The video is not great, so if you want to see Goldshifteh playing solo, here are a few other clip...

Interrogate video footage of an aging game developer owl and solve the mystery of whatever it is he's trying to say. Try the search terms "cocaine", "murder" and "ubisoft." Read the rest...

My friend, the artist Mitch O'Connell, wrote, "I decided to stop waiting for Sir Paul to give me a ring requesting that I design his tour poster, and just went ahead and whipped one up. Read the rest...

Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007. Read the rest...

"There's one person nobody can resist and that's a baby."...

The red hot nickel ball (RHNB) has been tested on a variety of materials. This video, which shows the RHNB causing a weird reaction in floral foam (which, incidentally, is a lot of fun to jab with you...

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." Aristotle...

Does it sound like fun to be stopped by police for doing a good deed so they can issue you a scary looking $10 off coupon for shitty pizza? And also be recorded on video? Then head over to Denver and ...

We stopped the automaton cold. Read the rest...

This beautiful, reversible Kirk/Spock tote reminds me of Delft china patterns (see below): it's $22 from April in Sacramento. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest...

In America, chicken has better health care than you. Read the rest...

By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history -- and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with "trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners." R...

This could be you.Lots of board games from the 20th century just plain suck. Monopoly and Risk are positive-feedback games where the first person to gain a slight advantage inevitably becomes the runa...

Twice now, Londoners have gone to the polls and, for a laugh, voted in "a supposed politician with comedy hair and the manners of a rapey clown." Read the rest...

A San Francisco Police Captain wanted cyclists to obey the law, so they did. Traffic was immediately snarled. Read the rest...

Rostam Notarki is being sentenced to seven years in prison for shoving a shabby-looking man out of his pub with an ironing board. Read the rest...

A point of American pride, our national park system, is sadly underfunded and lost. The Seattle Times shares one piece of the story, corporate sponsorship. Read the rest...

New leaked documents published by Wikileaks show that the US spy agency conducted surveillance operations against Japan's top government officials, prioritizing finance and trade ministers, as well as...

Rostam Notarki is being sentenced to seven years in prison for shoving a shabby-looking man out of his pub with an ironing board. Read the rest...

"Don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before."...

Monday returns with yet another a satellite transmission from Offworld, highlighting our favorite features and games from last week, as well as the stories throughout the galaxy that got us talking R...

Andy Kroll tried, and emerged with a darkly humorous account of its essential impossibility: beyond soundbites about Mexicans and business, there is virtually nothing to see. Read the rest...

After you've tired of croc-a-likes that look like topsiders, Converse, and Vans, you can switch to rubber shoes with monster toes that squeak when you walk (via Gameraboy)....

Gentlemen! Never let children wear your hats. Jamie Peck explores the history of the fedora, an excellent garment born in female empowerment that became "a widely recognized symbol of douchebaggery" t...

Legendary investigative journalist Duncan Campbell describes his life of being kidnapped by the London Metropolitan Police's Special Branch, being surveiled and harassed by UK spies and ministers, and...

Infrared photography (see Fortherock's hummingbird above) is beautiful. Read the rest...

Owning vintage magic posters is lot like having tattoos. Once you have one, you only want more and there is no way to fill the void. Read the rest...

What happens when female players slam tilt their way into the bright, loud world of pinball? Read the rest...

That's not what he saysall porn sites will have to gather and retain proof of customer identity. But everything leaks, so it's what he meant. Read the rest...

The latest anti-corruption mass-uprising symbol in Hong Kong is a bra: it protests the jailing of a female protester who was convicted of "assaulting a police officer" with her boob. Read the rest...

Legendary investigative journalist Duncan Campbell describes his life of being kidnapped by the London Metropolitan Police's Special Branch, being surveiled and harassed by UK spies and ministers, and...

Who isn't? Read the rest...

To make sure he couldn't be caught, Ely Sakhai bought the original firsta Rembrandt of enormous value. This "incredibly brazen" con almost worked, writes Anthony M. Read the rest...

That's not what he says, of course: he just says that all porn sites will have to gather and retain proof of identity (eg credit-card details) to ensure that their users are over 18 or they'll be bloc...

Cecily is a hen who was born with a bum leg due to a damaged tendon. The options were to put her down or make her a new leg. Read the rest...

It's like Bad USB, with extra Thunderbolt badness: Web-based attacks can insert undetectable malicious software into a Mac's UEFI/BIOS, which spreads to other machines by infecting Thunderbolt and USB...

Staedtler makes a highlighter called the Textsurfer Gel that somehow congeals finicky, dry-out-prone highlighter ink into an everwet, enduring crayon that you'll be handing down to your grandchildren....

I dont know about you, but despite my best efforts, my armpits stink to high heaven by the end of the day. Read the rest...

What happens when a Japanese fighter pilot crash-lands on a remote Hawaiian island after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Read the rest...

Im not much of a chef, but I really enjoy my newest culinary purchase. Its the Bitterman Himalayan Salt Block, and it sure is pretty. Read the rest...

I dont know about you, but despite my best efforts, my armpits stink to high heaven by the end of the day. Read the rest...

Lots of board games from the 20th century just plain suck. Monopoly and Risk are positive-feedback games where the first person to gain a slight advantage inevitably becomes the runaway winner a coupl...

Monday returns with yet another a satellite transmission from Offworld, highlighting our favorite features and games from last week, as well as the stories throughout the galaxy that got us talking R...

What happens when female players slam tilt their way into the bright, loud world of pinball? Read the rest...

Mrwhosetheboss made a down-and-dirty holographic projector for a smartphone using a plastic jewel case and special video files. Try it yourself! Read the rest...

The GOP front-runner said, "My sons love to hunt. [...] Eric is a hunter and I would say he puts it on a par with golf, if not ahead of golf. My other son, Don, is a hunter. They're great marksman, gr...

They Live stars Rowdy Roddy Piper, who died July 31. It's one of the greatest political sci-fi films of all time, and fittingly, it's the opening film analyzed by Slavoj iek in The Pervert's Guide to ...

Manipulating safe locks can be fun and profitable!It also takes practice. I recently bought a used safe combination dial lockand mounted it toa piece of reclaimed wood. Read the rest...

A little bit of information about one of the most recognizably sampled records in the history of rap music in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip. Read the rest...

Dots Impossible ($10) is another trick that fooled eagle-eyed, always suspicious Carla. I fanned a packet of six cards, face down, and told her to pick one and put it face down on the table. Read the...

This Vegan Black Metal Chef is Brutal....

Somewhere, nestled in the woods near Santa Rosa, California, Ryan Powers came across this relic from a time better left forgotten. This Apple /// serves as a dark reminder of the days when computer sc...

"Those good old lovely songs. Those sweet soul music songs."...

To address the obvious, strategy games are notorious for taking exhaustive amounts of time to play, but Eight Minute Empire: Legends ($20) streamlines traditional rules to such an extent that it is po...

I’m 18 and still have so much fun sitting at my kitchen table doing arts and crafts. One of my favorite craft kits I own is an awesome and simple pin-making kit called the Sukie Button Factory. ...

Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007. Read the rest...

In the 1980s a nine-year-old boy found an elaborate belt buckle on a Phoenix street. It had a chef's hat, a frying pan with eggs (painted yellow and white), a corkscrew, and a toaster with tiny pieces...

There’s nothing like a refreshing ice-cold drink on a hot day. With the SpinChill ($19.99), you can cool off no matter how far you’ve strayed from the fridge. Read the rest...

Are you born for adventure? Keep the world’s toughest battery pack by your side through it all, and you’ll be fully prepared to keep your phone, tablet, camera, and e-reader powered no mat...

Get ready for less folding and more flying. This is a paper airplane like you’ve never flown before: crash-resistant, ultra-responsive to quick maneuvers, and controlled right from your smartpho...

The Internet can be a scary place, packed full of hackers, government spies, identity thieves, and other degenerates. TigerVPN ($29 for Lifetime subscription) protects you from cyber crimes, and guara...

Grow Your YouTube Channel from the Ground Up with 5 Expert-Taught Courses Read the rest...

Electronic repairs are not always your average toolbox fix. The Pro Tech Screwdriver Set ($59.95)includes all the parts necessary to tackle any tricky repair or cleaning required to get your gadgets r...

Author/illustrator Gris Grimly has a launch event and art show for his own illustrated edition of Ray Bradburys Halloween Tree this Sunday at Creature Features in Burbank. Read the rest...

A fellow from East Texas didn't take kindly to an armadillo that entered his backyard at 3am on Thursday morning. He opened fire on the animal, but one bullet bounced of the critter's tough hide and h...

A fellow from East Texas didn't take kindly to an armadillo that entered his backyard at 3am on Thursday morning. He opened fire on the animal, but one bullet bounced of the critter's tough hide and h...

Jeff Baham writes, "On July 10, 2015, the Mousetalgia podcast invited Disney voice artists Mark Silverman ('Twilight Zone Tower of Terror'), Margaret Kerry (red-headed mermaid in 'Peter Pan') and Pete...

Bently is a rescued baby pot-bellied pig who lived at the EARTH Animal Sanctuary. On Feb 23 a seizure left him in a state of shock and he was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. Read the rest...

How sculptor and Dwarven Forge founder Stefan Pokorny raised $6.5 millionand gave you the dungeon of your dreams Read the rest...

Freedom of the Press Foundation this week filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department over their unpublished rules for using National Security Letters and so-calle...

What happens when female players slam tilt their way into the bright, loud world of pinball? Read the rest...

A "very aggressive" turkey has apparently been terrorizing people on the University of Michigan's North Campus."Do not try to approach the turkey," deputy police chief Melissa Overton said. Read the ...

The University of Maryland Robotics Center's new Robo Raven III V4 soars on larger flapping wings that "have flexible solar cells giving the vehicle an extra 10 Watts of power. This allows this roboti...

The University of Maryland Robotics Center's new Robo Raven III V4 soars on larger flapping wings that "have flexible solar cells giving the vehicle an extra 10 Watts of power. This allows this roboti...

Brian Sacks: "Tell your child that before he/she was born you too had a groundbreaking idea for a rainbow-powered washing machine. Let them know you were on the verge of getting a patent and becoming ...

My favorite: "You pretend the global warming fairy is real even as you live in a mansion. Maybe do cartwheels for voodoo." (Wut?) (more…)...

Fred Maldonado is suing In-N-Out for purportedly serving him a methamphetamine laced milkshake. In-N-Out denies the claims. Read the rest...

The classic Vacation movie series began as a 1979 short story about the Griswold family's disastrous trip to Disneyland that John Hughes published in National Lampoon magazine. At the time, Hughes was...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation always has a huge presence at Las Vegas's DEFCON, but this year, we're hosting our first-ever badge-hack contest! Read the rest...

Boing Boing pal and drone videographer Eddie Codel, creator of this stunner above of the Port of Oakland, launched the Flying Robot international Film Festival and is calling for entries! Read the re...

How sculptor and Dwarven Forge founder Stefan Pokorny raised $6.5 millionand gave you the dungeon of your dreams Read the rest...

Fans wanted the Foo Fighters to come to Cesena, Italy, so they made this amazing cover of 1000 musicians rocking out to "Learn to Fly." Read the rest...

I recently installed Sena's SMH10R bluetooth audio system in one of my motorcycle helmets. Now, it is hard to ride without it! Read the rest...

This small lantern has 30 LEDs, making it very bright for its size. It runs on 3 AA cells (not included). It's got a 4.7 star rating on Amazon with over 2,600 reviews. A good deal at $10!...

Pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity has never felt so rewarding. Read the rest...

Government authorities in Zimbabwe are beginning to clamor for Walter Palmer's extradition. Read the rest...

The video tackles Unilever's failure to clean up mercury contamination or compensate workers affected by its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal. Read the rest...

Roux the Pomeranian and his epic sneeze. (more…)...

The bi-monthly BDO Newsletter serves America's Phightin' Phrenologists as they decide whose lives to screw with based on a $1 billion junk-science boondoggle. Read the rest...

Freedom of the Press Foundation this week filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department over their unpublished rules for using National Security Letters and so-calle...

As seen in War Slang: American Fighting Words & Phrases Since the Civil War: "Royal Order of Whale Bangers. An 'exclusive' club open only to airmen who have mistakenly dropped depth charges on wh...

End your week right with a moment of clarity. Aaron Paradox dreamt this hypnotic animation accompanied by voices of Bear Vasquez and Alan Watts and set to The Way by Zack Hemsey. Read the rest...

Robert Downey wore it well as Tony Stark in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and you will, too. (more…)...

"The Computer Girls," a 1967 Cosmopolitan piece about a weird new field, programming, that was dominated by women. Previously: Miniskirts and Mainframes. [via Clive Thompson]...

Calgary-based aspiring game developer Farhan Qureshi has meticulously modeled and recreated P.T's hallway using the low-impact Unity tool. It's an amazing technical achievement, and a chance for some ...

The increasing popularity of room escape games brings with it some interesting design considerations. How do you lock all your friends in a room and force them to solve cryptoquotes and make sure ever...

My search for an easy way to generate strong passwords and passphrases led me to the "Diceware" method Cory wrote about on Boing Boing. This was no game. I needed serious dice. Read the rest...

Thank you -- as always and forever -- to Ken Snider, Boing Boing's astounding sysadmin. We celebrate you every day, but especially today: Sysadmin Appreciation Day....

Check out the amazing spare-time artwork of Aude Lising Read the rest...

This gorgeous vertical starscape taken near Death Valley by f1p4 is one of many examples of Reddit's landscape astrophotography group. Earthporn meets starporn! Read the rest...

The low-light footage above is about 400,000 ISO. Imagine 4 million ISO, and you'll have a good idea of the newly-announced Canon ME20F-SH that indie filmmakers, wildlife documentarians, and investiga...

FliteTest tracked down a father-son team who spent five years perfecting their remote-controlled box kite prototype, a plane/kite mashup. They demonstrate two of them below: Read the rest...

End your week right with a moment of clarity. Aaron Paradox dreamt this hypnotic animation accompanied by voices of Bear Vasquez and Alan Watts and set to The Way by Zack Hemsey. Read the rest...

The German prosecutors who dropped all action against the US and UK spy-agencies who trampled German law and put the whole nation, up to and including Chancellor Angela Merkel, under surveillance, hav...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation always has a huge presence at Las Vegas's DEFCON, but this year, we're hosting our first-ever badge-hack contest! Read the rest...

Former Google diversity officer Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe promised the Tower Hamlets council "the first womens museum in the UK" if they would approve a zoning change that let him add three storeys and an...

Out of everyone who ever existed, who has done the most good for humanity? It's a difficult question. Read the rest...

My search for an easy way to generate strong passwords and passphrases led me to the "Diceware" method Cory wrote about on Boing Boing. This was no game. I needed serious dice. Read the rest...